Unlike Princess Silver which has much more depth, Deep In The Realm Of Conscience has a pretty shallow plot in comparison. Chui Wan even used her relationship with the Empress Dowager Cheng to anger Suet Ha. Besides the issues in the front court, there were also entanglements in the Imperial Household as politics rise between the Head of the Imperial Household Bureau and the other chiefs. "So this is the riot economy, " he reasons. There is no collective agenda, and thus no loyalty. You power hungry bitch! Is the novelist engaged in a project that puts "a tag of shame on the greedy bastards, " as Steinbeck demands? That sometimes people the you love can be cruel. A real person would DEFINITELY NOT immediately go "this woman is so evil she must be destroyed" with such a straight face. He was grateful for Hin Yeung's loyalty and treated him as a best friend, granting him good opportunities. If she really loved the girl as her own daughter, she should have just went on her own. Yiu Kam Ling (Tavia Yeung). General Ma so few army?
For what she did, she didn't deserve a grand death, no, she deserved to fall into the pond and drown, that sort of insignificant ungrand type of death. Same kid as in flashback, so that wasn't so off in terms of timeline but I suppose he is 13? Pity because her evil deeds aside, I am shocked at how little anyone inside the palace actually cared about her. He probably would have knifed General Ma from episode 1!! After some trials and tribulations, she ended up as a foster daughter of Emperor Ruizong and good friend of Concubine Cheng Shunhei. In the process, he struck up a close relationship with General Yam and Li Longji. So, unless you are a hardcore fan of any of the stars in Deep In The Realm Of Conscience, there is no need to waste your time sitting through the entire 36 episodes.
The only message Deep in the Realm of Conscience sends out is that it is okay to be a greedy, hypocritical and bloodthirsty asshole. When I first heard of the drama, I was looking forward to it and expected it to be another grand production on the palace and evil feuds among the women behind the palace walls. Reporting to the feuding sisters/leaders in the Imperial Household bureau, the innocent and kind little girls in the form of Sam Ho and Kam Ling also had a hard time choosing between the departments. Of course, it is to be expected since it is a story about palace and the royal family. It was obvious that he did not die and it seemed silly for princesses, servants of the ladies and such to burst into the 'court' where noblemen discussed political matters for that time period. The high and erect necklines of the Empress costumes were more harsh to us.
Generally, the characters were in considerable need of depth; we felt that we could describe most of the characters with one word adjectives. As General Ma, Kam Ling and guards rushed in and all were shocked as Michelle said "You betrayed us Fei Yin! " But I guess when you are a murderous psychotic shithead every reason is a good reason to kill another person). Mary Hon – Empress Dowager Cheng. I killed him, by the way" and Sam Hou somehow shocked at Kam Ling's brutality even towards someone like General Ma as Kam Ling said "I will die soon.
By letting your husband determine your life's worth. Nice try, they were really poorly done. Plus many felt sympathy towards her plight, being ganged up against again and again without mercy by Li Long Ji and gang). A few nights later, the police show up and drag Jivan into custody. You killed the Empress Dowager! If that isn't enough, the heads of the Imperial Household Bureau had very tedious lines with the rhyming and petty arguing that slowed down the pace even more, and those scenes can hardly be considered as comic relief. As Kara walked out and said "Lunch is ready! Of course, as a human being, he could not help being jealous of Sam Ho and Hin Yeung's relationship and also angered when his authority was being challenged.
You caused her death? " Your time is better spent watching something else. That will be her comeuppance, thinking of herself as one of the person she hated the most and yet innately wishes to be that person at the same time. On the contrary, he is merely responding to a society that incentivizes our most malignant human impulses: pettiness, greed, narcissism. Here is a list of "funny" situations our resident "Miss Funny" got into throughout the series: There are so many other things wrong with her, like her continuous claims that she wanted to stay in the palace to investigate her sister's whereabouts/death, yet poking her nose into every other issue except issues related to her sister.