A delightful and entertaining drama that still holds up in 2021
This surprising hit web drama from 2015 still holds up in 2021. Despite being a very low budget production, it got everything right with the actors, drama, humor, and its surprisingly poignant themes. (No wonder it has a cult following and also inspired a Korean adaptation 2021 drama Mr. Queen and launched the careers of many of its actors.) If you like parodies of costume romantic comedy dramas and want hilarious entertainment, this is a great one.PLOT: The playboy Zhang Peng, while escaping from ex-girlfriends, jumps into a pool to save a different girl. However, he gets kicked in the head and sinks further into the pool...and ends up back in time in the female body of Zhang Peng Peng, the consort of the Crown Prince Qi Sheng. Grappling with this new reality, Zhang Peng Peng tries to stay alive among palace politics and assassinations while also indulging in his desire of women around him and resisting his slowburn interest in Qi Sheng.
Things to know/think about:
First: this is a VERY low budget drama compared to "low budget" dramas from recent years (2017-21). A typical low budget drama nowadays would be the 24-episode dramas like "The Romance of Tiger and Rose" or the first season of "The Eternal Love." However, the production makes it work for them and makes it part of the comedy. The clothes are fairly plain (or has a modern-like style) yet so bright, several neon-like colors as the clothes or decoration on the pavilions and rooms. Literally, the "war" outfit that the princes wear are so strange and hilarious with its carved out abs.
Second: the actors are fantastic, especially Crystal as Zhang Peng Peng. She's flawless and acts so great in this comedic role of a man in a woman's body who's lustful after other women while also upholding his/her own morals and virtues. I never got pulled out of the acting and was laughing along or crying along with her. Absolutely fantastic and believable.
Third: the themes of love and gender are decent! Zhang Peng Peng has to go through a journey of acceptance since there was no sign of him returning to his modern times. At the same time, he/she was also falling for Qi Sheng, so it brings up some interesting point about love and body acceptance. I don't want to spoil anything too much but it felt well done for a 2015 drama and 2015 China c*nsorship. I suspect that this drama, if it had attempted to air now in 2021, wouldn't pass c*nsorship and wouldn't air at all. There are even very sexual and sexy scenes that aired!
Overall:
This is a silly and entertaining romantic comedy drama that is at times profound. It's definitely not meant to be taken very seriously but everything just came together and worked really together. The actors, the couple's chemistry, the female main character's steadfast goal in staying alive and her growth as a character is tremendous.
You might like this if you like time-travel dramas, soul-switching dramas with a twist of a man's soul in a female body, a cold male lead, a comedic and smart female lead, concubines who are supporting characters and not conniving but more like friends, slapstick humor.
You might not like this if you expect a very serious plot or a very serious political plot with war and fights and action. All of that is in the background and the production doesn't have the budget for a full scale fight.
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It was supposed to be fun and comedic historic drama.I was really enjoying it but at episode 6 the scene where they play soccer and subsequent scenes neither logical nor fun or rational.
I just couldn't surpass that nagging how come a man is ok with getting hit for someone else fault in public in front of empress especially when he is 21st century male in female body. That somehow irritates me unconditionally.
It was supposed to be fun and comedic historic drama.
I was really enjoying it but at episode 6 the scene where they play soccer and subsequent scenes neither logical nor fun or rational.
I just couldn't surpass that nagging how come a man is ok with getting hit for someone else fault in public in front of empress especially when he is 21st century male in female body. That somehow irritates me unconditionally.
It was supposed to be fun and comedic historic drama.
I was really enjoying it but at episode 6 the scene where they play soccer and subsequent scenes neither logical nor fun or rational.
I just couldn't surpass that nagging how come a man is ok with getting hit for someone else fault in public in front of empress especially when he is 21st century male in female body. That somehow irritates me unconditionally.
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Um "pastelão" Chinês
O C-drama Go Princess Go começa em um ritmo bem veloz e até o episódio 12 parece que todos estão ansiosos. Cheguei a imaginar que durante as gravações eles deveriam estar correndo de um local para outro, fazendo tudo ao mesmo tempo, por que está foi a sensação que tive assistindo, é como se estivesse tentando se encontrar e seguir um ritmo. Até passar do episódio 12, chega a ser uma tortura, parei e pensei até em não continuar, pois existiam cenas de humilhação e violência contra mulher, que me deixam irritada, especialmente quando vem com essa história de "romantizar", irrita-me profundamente, e nem me venham com essa história de diferença cultural, brutalidade é brutalidade e violência é violência, aqui, na China ou em qualquer parte do mundo.A produção é pobre, isto não tem como negar, os cenários e figurinos entregam tudo, é possivel em algumas cenas ver o cabo de aço que suspende atores e a edição assusta com cortes abruptos e extensos, a publicidade de um medicamento estimulante sexual masculino introduzida de forma aleatória no drama, por vezes torna algumas cenas forçadas e estranhas, mas depois de um tempo, você passa a entender com parte cômica do drama e consegue sorrir com isso.
Em alguns momentos cheguei a me questionar como o drama tinha passado no comitê de avaliação para censura na China e conseguir ser lançado daquela forma, pois existem cenas explícitas de temas considerado impróprio pela censura chinesa e que existem no drama. Tudo bem que é um drama de 2015 e eu assisti 8 anos depois, porém mesmo assim achei estranho para agora e teria achado estranho na época também.
Das atuações gostei muito da Crystal, não que as outras não mereçam destaque, todas são boas, mas a dela, até porque é a personagem principal, mereceu ser mencionada, gostei da OST, na realidade vale mencionar que a produção sonora é boa, trazendo elementos importantes para entendimento e significado mas profundo em cenas, fazendo parte da história.
Vale esclarecer, que embora o drama diga ter 35 episódios, ele apresenta um outro episódio com final alternativo. Eu tive a oportunidade de assistir aos dois episódios finais, então para mim o drama acabou tendo 36 episódios, que valeram muito assistir, Go Princess Go foi o segundo drama que assisti, que tinham dois finais e eu com essa minha mente fértil, já construí uma teoria absurda mas possível, uma fanfic com a continuação e tudo ficou certo para mim. Assim, assisti ao 36 episódios do drama, sorri muito e chorei quase nada, eu não tinha muitas expetativas sobre o drama, que no geral foi bom, não me arrependi de ter assistido.
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ciekawe, śmieszne i intrygujące
podchodzę do napisania tej recenzji już drugi raz, dlaczego ? na moje nieszczęście wylałam na laptopa szklankę z wodą i żeby go ratować zaczęłam szybko działaś i wycierać wodę, i moja długa recenzja została usunięta T.TWięc zaczynam ponownie!
Jeśli nie masz ochoty na nic, nie wiesz co chcesz oglądnąć, czy jakąś komedie żeby się pośmiać czy może jakiś płomienny romans, a może kręcą cię dworskie intrygi? jeśli lubisz te główne 3 wątki znajdziesz je właśnie w tej dramie. Odcinki nie są długie, bo zaledwie po 30 minut - odejmując wstęp i zakończenie zostaje 25min.
Jak dla mnie ta drama jest taką wisienką na torcie, poprawiła mi humor jest też w niej lekki wątek fantasy (podróż w czasie/ zamiana ciał) Jeśli chodzi o zakończenie, niestety dla mnie jest średnio szczęśliwe, ale szczęśliwe hahahah :P
Co najbardziej może niektórych "razić" w tej dramie to te sceny płaczu... no....ja wiem ze to raczej zostało zrobione dla śmiechu ale jakim cudem na taki płacz postać w dramie mogła się nabierać hahahhaha uwielbiam to.
Jeśli chodzi o kostiumy, zastanawia mnie czy ona naprawdę takie były, czy zostały lekko podrasowane hahah może winą było tutaj brak środków na owe kostiumy tego nie wiem. Nie mnie oceniać czy produkcja jest bogato czy biednie zrealizowana, co prawda widziałam dużo lepszą scenografie w innych dramach jak i gorszą, ale mi się podobało, więc nie oceniam.
Co do samej fabuły... były momenty co miałam takie wtf... jak np zamach na główna bohaterkę, który zainicjował sam cesarz, jak to miało sens jak najbardziej bo jej nienawidził, to sensu dla mnie nie miała scena co rzucił się do wody, aby ją szukać/ ratować. Co nagle obudziły się w nim wielkie emocje i uczucia jak zobaczył jak ucieka podczas ataku?? Tak samo jak ja pocałował w tym lesie, po co by pokazać dziewiątemu księciu, ze to jego kobieta chyba tylko hahha
Jak zwykle to bywa w dramach szkoda mi tego 2 głównego bohatera aka dziewiąty książę (hmmm 9 książę, czy to coś mi nie mówi.. a no tak w innej dramie tez taki książę był poszkodowany hahahha) gdyby nie chodziło o miłość czy zdobył by się na odwagę żeby obalić swojego brata? Wiadomo walka o tron jest zawsze, ale czy gdyby nie ten zapalnik, który wywołała cesarzowa to miał by odwagę??
na co muszę zwrócić uwagę to na pewno na sceny łóżkowe, bo były serio HOT! jak dla starego wyjadacza dram (chyba mogę się tak nazwać, skoro od 2010 je oglądam) to bardzo rzadko widziałam, takich scen, fakt jeśli chodzi o chińskie produkcje oglądam je dopiero od niedawna ale nie kojarzę w nich tak gorących scen, może oglądałam jakieś lżejsze produkcie. W tej dramie mi się właśnie to podoba, że jest pokazane, iż do czegoś doszło, a nie domysły, bo może coś się tam wydarzyło, a może jednak nie hahha. Ogólnie nie było to przedstawione w jakiś bardzo wulgarny sposób, więc i dla młodszych oglądających moim zdaniem nie będzie to gorszące :)
podsumowując mój wywód, drama mi się bardzo podobała i bardzo gorąco ja polecam, może to nie jest produkcja wyższego szczebla ale jest warta zobaczenia :)
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