I normally don't write reviews but i just felt like watching it was a waste of my time. I could've watched better ones. The characters are so basic - from the self-righteous unnecessarily stubborn damsel in distress FL, a brooding usual cold pretty boy ML whose world eventually just revolved around the FL. Like dude, they don't even have any charm. Their interactions and 'romance' are just plain meh. Mostly revolving around staring and being roughly held by the ML ugh.
And don't get me started with the issues they face. It's the same thing! With just different characters attempting to undermine her. And in the most obvious and ridiculous of ways working under the premise of 'jealousy' and nothing else. I swear, a lot of these characters are just driven by mad jealous thoughts (e.g. Jonas, Sammy, Bridget and that lady from Mr Kat's)
And the concept of confirming whether the sugar is theirs or not? Or if the work is another person's or not is just too light and with no concrete evidences, just word of mouth and 'witnesses' that, honestly, could've just been people making up stories (which actually does happen in Ep. 11). And really, in that heavily patriarchal society with no high regards of women, accepting words of a woman as witness in contrast to other males who hold more power and authority in the sugar apple artisan world, it's stupid. Really stupid. When they could've just argued their defences, presented Jonas as evidence of the assault and eventually play connect the dots and logically acknowledge that the sugar was made by Ann. And really, i could think of several more ways to deal with the issue better and that's why this frustrates me too much.
Also, their issues could've been resolved easier and could have shown the dirty works of that one artisan school have they only thought and strategised, which of course, they didn't do. And the FL already had bad history with those other artisan people so she should've done much better in terms of guarding her sugar and being on guard. She even has two fairies and other artisans who could help her out in that area. Literally could've kept a bottle of her sugar on a pouch of some sort as proof if they ever attempt anything bad. But noooooo. She had to be too trusting. And when it was too late, ML didn't even think, he just fought head on. And yeah, with the ML 'sacrificing his freedom' blah blah that could again, be handled better.
Overall, it's just bad. Art is great and the sugar made is pretty, but that's pretty much it. The rest is so subpar i got irritated and frustrated halfway through. I wanted to give it a chance cause the sugar looks yum, but meh should've just dropped it. Wasted my time finishing it.
And don't get me started with the issues they face. It's the same thing! With just different characters attempting to undermine her. And in the most obvious and ridiculous of ways working under the premise of 'jealousy' and nothing else. I swear, a lot of these characters are just driven by mad jealous thoughts (e.g. Jonas, Sammy, Bridget and that lady from Mr Kat's)
And the concept of confirming whether the sugar is theirs or not? Or if the work is another person's or not is just too light and with no concrete evidences, just word of mouth and 'witnesses' that, honestly, could've just been people making up stories (which actually does happen in Ep. 11). And really, in that heavily patriarchal society with no high regards of women, accepting words of a woman as witness in contrast to other males who hold more power and authority in the sugar apple artisan world, it's stupid. Really stupid. When they could've just argued their defences, presented Jonas as evidence of the assault and eventually play connect the dots and logically acknowledge that the sugar was made by Ann. And really, i could think of several more ways to deal with the issue better and that's why this frustrates me too much.
Also, their issues could've been resolved easier and could have shown the dirty works of that one artisan school have they only thought and strategised, which of course, they didn't do. And the FL already had bad history with those other artisan people so she should've done much better in terms of guarding her sugar and being on guard. She even has two fairies and other artisans who could help her out in that area. Literally could've kept a bottle of her sugar on a pouch of some sort as proof if they ever attempt anything bad. But noooooo. She had to be too trusting. And when it was too late, ML didn't even think, he just fought head on. And yeah, with the ML 'sacrificing his freedom' blah blah that could again, be handled better.
Overall, it's just bad. Art is great and the sugar made is pretty, but that's pretty much it. The rest is so subpar i got irritated and frustrated halfway through. I wanted to give it a chance cause the sugar looks yum, but meh should've just dropped it. Wasted my time finishing it.