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Fated to Love You taiwanese drama review
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Fated to Love You
2 people found this review helpful
by maymaymaymay
Mar 29, 2013
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
"Fated to Love You" starts out with your typical characters, but it also brings a fresh and encouraging love story. With its sweet and quirky characters, over-the-top jokes and realistic romance, it's worth the watch. Story: Chen Xin Yi is a "sticky note girl". She's the type of girl everyone walks over and uses. At the beginning, she irritated me because she just stood there and *took* everyone's treatment of her. She didn't have the courage to stand up for herself. Meanwhile, Ji Cun Xi started out as the type of male lead who doesn't really care about other peoples' feelings, but not in such a way that it makes him seem like the biggest-jerk-you-have-ever-met. He's likable, but not exactly to the point where you would consider him amazing. I liked how the main leads didn't change (mainly) because of each other, but because *they* wanted to. In Xin Yi's case, the second-lead helped her through it and gave her that courage. I thought it was a refreshing change where Xin Yi actually gave the second lead a chance to get her affections, but in the end the show stuck with the whole "the heart likes who it likes" thing. That irritated me a little, because I thought he was a better choice for Xin Yi, but by that point Cun Xi had changed enough for me to begin to root for him, too. And the second lead girl? I wanted to like her. I really did. And it wasn't like she was overly hateful either- I honestly thought I could root for her a little too- but the things she did and the way she treated the main characters was just too much. Acting: Everyone was sort of okay. It wasn't like they were stellar or anything, but they worked as well as they could in their roles. Music: The usage of the music wasn't that great- it popped up at random moments and sort of messed with the mood, but it was okay. Rewatch Value: This drama is the first one I've seen that made me *cry*- and i have the emotional capacity of a brick. I'll rewatch parts of it whenever I need to convince myself that I have a heart after all. In all seriousness though, I don't envision myself rewatching this in the near future. This is the sort of drama you like, but you don't love. Overall: The mood and tone was pretty standard as far as Taiwanese Dramas go. But this one just tugs at your heartstrings in a completely different way.
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