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Okay, so this is the first episode from the History series and I wanted to watch all of them so I gave this a try. It wasn't bad, but it left a lot to be desired. I think the story had a lot of potential, but because of the limited time they had to show the story and because one of the male leads was a little too wooden from me it fell flat in some ways. I think it was pretty funny and I was intrigued so definitely give it a watch, but I just think it could have been great given enough time and a little bit better acting from the taller male lead.*****Spoilers*****
The guy who has a girl inside of him was really great at acting and his partner was hella fine. Damn, he was good looking. There were however plenty scenes that he was staring off that I felt like he could have played better. Perhaps, he just need more experience with acting...That wouldn't have bothered me much except for the fact that the script had a major flaw. The major flaw was that the guy whose body the girl is inhabiting (yeah that probably makes no sense unless you watch the show) has barely any scenes with his partner. It felt like this story was more about the doomed relationship between a girl and guy. You feel bad about the girl but you watch a BL to see the BL characters fall in love and you do get snippets in the episode, but it is minimal compared to the girl who is in a male body and her boyfriend. The beginning of the episode is a bit hard to get into because of editing choices which could have been handled a little better. Overall, I enjoyed this episode but it has some aspects to it that left me feeling bereft.
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The series starts off a little cheesy however in a good way. I would not watch this if you are under the age of 13 because it does show something that is considered “sexual”. It may just be me when it comes to awkward moments, I just get second-hand embarrassment easily and it has those moments. There are 4 episodes that are about 20 minutes long. One of my favorite things is when Lan Xi possess Gu Si Ren, the thoughts are in Lan Xi’s voice. It is really humorous to watch. This series can make you open eyes to those you fall in love with. It has a good lesson to anyone about love. Would you watch again? Maybe, if I was bored and wanted to watch something. Was this review helpful to you?
There are both funny and sad moments that come from the girl forgetting that she is a boy now and not supposed to be the person she thinks she is.
I was very satisfied with the ending, but wish they had filmed it to be a little more immediately clear what was happening.
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Wish she went poof earlier
My first History show was actually History 3 Trapped. I loved it so much that I decided to see how the other ones were. This does contain spoilers. I really didn't like the female character who dominates the story until about the last 3 minutes. I wish they would have left that part of the story and moved away from her being in the man's body (and her just going away to the afterlife or something). I would have preferred if we could have seen the two guys relationship instead of the weird caricature of a girl in a dudes body. I wanted more of the actual love story and less having to deal with her character. For being a bl the flashbacks were mostly her and I swear their kiss laster longer than the actual bl characters. I just think she should have gone poof a little earlier so we could actually see SOME of the guys actual relationship.Was this review helpful to you?
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Interesting Study of Gender Roles
As others have noted, this drama is a bit confusing. At first I though putting a girl in a man's body was a way to get around any boys love hangups the audience or the actors may have had. In fact, when we get to the big kissing moment at the end, there's a cut from the two guys to the girl ghost who takes over the boy's body. But we do get a satisfying resolution in the end. Upon second viewing, there's a lot of subtext that comes to the surface about gender roles. One of the commonly noted benefits of close male friendships is guys are less inhibited about talking about their true feelings, as when Mai Ying Xiong reveals to Gu Si Ren what he really feels about his girlfriend, Lan Xi. The main problem with the plot is we're never quite sure who Gu Si Ren is supposed to be, himself in his previous life (having a man crush on Mai Ying Xiong) or the girlfriend as a ghost, inhabiting his body. The limbo scenes in heaven (?) are just time wasted. I would rather have spent more time with the man characters. But I give this drama high marks for the main two male leads who really sell the attraction of their characters. The mystery of the notebook is a nice touch.Was this review helpful to you?
I have been wanting to watch the History series for a while so I thought today, WHY NOT! I thought this story was interesting because it was boy love but not because one of the boys was actually a girl for most of the series. It was sweet and a fun story, a little cliché but I didn't mind.
The acting was good too. It had a small cast of 4 people so I thought as an audience, you really connected with the cast. Yes the acting was a little corny at times but not cringey corny, just cute. I thought the main couple had a lot of chemistry which made it fun too.
The music, I don't remember a lot about which is why I gave it a low score. Since I don't remember the music, it probably didn't lend itself to impact the story all that much.
I would definitely watch this again and I am definitely going to check out the rest of the History series and maybe some more BL down the line. I thought this was a short and sweet series that didn't disappoint.
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It's honestly underrated in my opinion, and I would love a more detailed series about Si Ren's relationship with Hero~
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Honestly, the story like this wasn’t special and have even existed in several BL films / series, but there is always an unique interest (to me) from the Taiwanese series when it comes to romance like this. ?
Throughout this series, I have no idea why but for some reason I always remembered some scenes on Thai series, and I just realized that some of those scenes were actually took (or the subtle language was inspired) from this series.
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The idea is promising, but the execution was very poor. As my friend pointed out, it's like body swapping, but with extra steps. Plus, I would consider this a "fake" BL because one of the male protagonists is, for intents and purposes, a woman who has taken over the body of a young man just to be with her boyfriend again. The boyfriend of the woman didn't even get to properly mourn her before she started using someone else's body to get back together with him, which is just a very shitty thing to do.Overall, this was really cringey to watch and, while I could have dropped it, there were literally 4 episodes to watch, so I just kept watching.
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Story: Really cute. I love the idea of the story. To disguise a BL by making the lead a female in a males body was genius and i am surprised i haven't seen much of it. Of course i wish it focused more on the BL aspect rather than making this about a girl in a man's body but for a series it was clever. while some things were cheesy i think it was held together by the chemistry the two had. It was also SUPER funny. i found myself laughing more than fan girling.Acting/cast: let me just say that a noticed Mai Ying Xiong was wearing the same underwear throughout the series. Of course only i would notice that... not that it matters or anything it was just a comment. Plus it was the color grey (my favorite) I do have to say that Gu Si Ren did very well at acting differently between his female character and his normal one. Even though sometimes he seemed to act more like a child than a woman i feel like it fit Lan Xi's personality. But besides that the acting wasn't anything special. i loved the character development. The way Ying Xiong slowly fell in love with Gu Si was cute. There was nothing about the way they portrayed the characters that i would find to be unique or amazing so for that it gets an average grade.
Music: The music i felt was not played at the right time during one or two parts of the series. None of the music in this series stood out to me the first time watching it. Sometimes i even forget there was music. After the second time i did enjoy it. I did recognize that some of the music was from the other HIStory series. It wasn't bad or anything it just wasn't special.
Re-watch value: as much as i hate to give any BL a low grade this one isn't THAT good. Of course its worth watching but its not one of the best things known to the BL universe. I wouldn't re-watch it unless i was looking to see certain parts again. I was also disappointed with certain scenes but spoilers prevent me from saying which one(s) and why.
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