Hae-sin

Acting level is too good and should be appreciable. Although all of the characters are very good, the end is unexpected. The storyline is lacking at many times. And the armymen are like puppets; any of the main characters easily beat them, even if they are in greater numbers.

Anyone can easily kill, kidnap, or release any of his/her opponent, which gives a sense of stretching the episodes unnecessarily. In every episode, they tighten the security, but everyone is easily visiting here and there even after they are declared the most wanted criminals by the government. I think 51 episodes are too much for this.

This series is most sad and depress series i ever watched. Very sad, very epic, very good acting, and very beautiful love story. In compare of jumong and kingdom of the winds i love this more. 3 last episode are so sad. No word can explain of beauty of this series. Also the thing i really enjoy of this series is the music. This series have very good soundtrack that are mix beetween sad and epic. My only problem in series is fight scenes. The fight scenes have lack of creation. Idont say they are bad but in compare of another series is weak and can be boring. The characters are also very good and intelligent that make series very enjoyable. I think this series absolutely worth to spend 51 hour on it.

I hate this drama. One of the worst stories to be ever told. Literally every single character died at the end. The entire cast died. No one lived except Jung Hwa. Such a bad ending. There's no point to it. Goong Bok died a cheap coward death, they might as well kill him off screen and it wouldn't matter. Poor performance from all characters. Not worth it wasting your time on 50 episodes where the drama constantly failed in every regard. There are much better ones than this drama. I regret every minute I wasted on this failure. I kept hoping that it might get better or we might get a decent ending but that never happened and I ended up regretting it.

We watch movies not only to learn from them, but also to get entertained. I am supper disappointed with the ending.

After watching, I feel like not to watch any other Korean serie. Very bad ending.

However, the movie is a lesson enough for someone to tightly know the following.

I) You must always know were to stop while being lenient towards an enemy.

II) Once a traitor, will always be.

III) Keep your enemy close, only in the mind but not with your body, any time he can penetrate through your defense line.

Many more lessons are in the movie story, although it lucks something passionate that can attract someone to have a desire to watch more.

What's up with the ending of episode 2 and onward? They straight up gave us random spoiler scenes and cuts from different points of future episodes. This was just a cheap tactic trying to hold the viewers hostage early on. Maybe because episode 1 wasn't well perceived? Kicked off to a bad start already. Song Il Gook and Chae Shi Ra were okay. Choi Soo Jong isn't appealing in historical dramas as always. Park Soo Ae was meh, she's better off in regular melos. The story and directing were equally problematic mainly regarding two insufferable themes that is love and rivalry, of which both were subjected to pathetic writing. If that wasn't enough, you got too many repeated montages of flashbacks to keep you annoyed. At the end, we got a "let's just wrap it up and end it" type of ending. Some characters were completely robbed off of a reasonable ending. It wasn't even a matter of historical accuracy, that's irrelevant. Emperor of the sea but they were 99.9% of the times on land.