#it is so historically inaccurate oml

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

So this is my review of Die Kaiserin season 1:

#it is so historically inaccurate oml #i would like to see an actual accurate portrayal one day #but it's fine to watch when you know the aim wasn't to be accurate #and it was written in such a way that made you wanna keep going so that's nice #did laugh at the angry sex scene tho 💀 sir what was that #somehow i enjoyed the series despite its faults #and will i watch the second season if it comes out? absolutely lmao #this is the only period drama made recently that i can stand #also certain moments were ABSOLUTELY mirroring/lifted from Marie Antoinette 2006 #anyway yeah i am on the fence #it is bad but it is also good if you just accept it wasn't trying to be accurate at all #would like to see a version where she doesn't madly love franz tho bc the girl was not nearly that interested in him if at all irl #die kaiserin #the empress #2022 #period drama #costume drama

[katacombzimmerman]

OML he’s even hallucinating his dead wife to see if she would approve of him choosing not to help the people and his younger brother (I can’t tell yet if he’s an actual younger brother by blood or if he’s just his bro younger brother. I’m thinking he’s just a younger bro cause if our ML’s family was all killed then in typical chinese historical fashion a younger brother by blood probs wouldn’t have survived the family annihilation or get such a high rank job.)

Despite the obvious wallowing in misery due to her death, I can already tell from this scene how much he loved her. 

And she seemed to be a lovely person too!!

But of course no one can ignore the world forever. Especially not a ML in a robin hood themed drama. But I like that they show us he can’t ignore it. He doesn’t just up and change his mind and run to his bro all righteous like. He’s still very much the broken man.

I couldn’t get good scene shots cause they passed so fast but we see him seeing the injustice around him. A girl and her seemingly disabled father forced to beg on the streets. A girl most likely sold into a brothel having to smile at the vile man she’s saying goodbye too. A man who’s family is most likely gonna get killed or sold into slavery cause the husband can’t pay back his gambling debts.

And finally an old woman who has her only source of food, some rice, stolen from her.

Finally we see our ML ready to step in and catch the thief. Only to find out that this thief is a refugee who hasn’t seen food in days.

It’s still a bad thing to steal from someone, let alone an old lady, but this man did it out of desperation. He’s not an evil intentioned person. Just trying to survive. So our ML ends up having to let him go.

And of course his bro is right there to hammer the point home that our ML has already figured out.

I like that he doesn’t come back to his senses. He’s still broken and miserable and would rather be dead but at the very least he’s taken back a little of himself and decided that while he’s here he might as well help the people he can. 

So often characters that suffer and fall into the depths of despair are portrayed as suddenly finding salvation and they revert back to some noble citizen who puts the past behind them and is suddenly healed from that trauma. (Which is so very inaccurate to how grief and being dragged down into misery actually works)

BUT, not here and I am loving that they’re keeping him this broken man.

In other news tho, this guy could rival WKX with his stalking habits. Twice in the first episode this guy manages to show up unannounced to wherever his bro is. You bet he’s been following him this whole time, waiting for LGX to change his mind.

#vigilantes in masks #wallace huo #li ge xiao