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breaking cdrama stereotypes
i will put descriptions to why i put that as a title for this essay. please bare with this review's lenght.
storywise, its your average highschool storyline + that certain oddity, that twist(?) or the something special to the story. the oddity being a love polygon between 2 guy bestfriends and 2 non biological and yet sisters.
its rather simple, but the further it progressed, it's much more than a highschool love story , it approached the topic of family realistically and I think that's one of the things I loved most about it. It wasn't just about romance as other highschool dramas are about. ( tho to be fair i haven't exactly watched every highschool cdrama out there , but i have watched the most famous ones )
it's one of the few cdramas that actually broke that 'ML stereotype'. tho they did base the ML from the typical handsome and smart character, he did have a lot more of charms to show other than those basic qualities. he's probably the best character to come out in the whole drama. Ryan Ding did an exceptional performance with his role.
I could say the same to the other actors actually, they did well on portraying their characters. the FL's characteristics was also based from the usual dumb, unlucky and clumsy. kinda annoying sometimes but what makes her differ from other highschool cdrama FL's, is her character development. she may have acted questionably from most of the first parts, but later on she learns from her mistakes which makes her a great character design imo.
there's nothing much about the music , as it didn't exactly stick to me.
will i rewatch it if ever ? yes I can see myself watch some episodes again, mostly for Ryan Ding that is lol.
how much do I recommend it exactly? well ... I wouldn't recommend it entirely. you see, although I do loved this drama so much it did had a lot of shortcomings.
the thing I didn't like most was the ending. it was rushed, I would've been satisfied if it had more context to a lot of things that happened , if things had a proper closure to them.
like maybe give out a couple more context to what happened to the FL during ML's time overseas ? when and how exactly did the ML start to have feelings for the FL ? things like that. but then again it was still an enjoyable watch imo
storywise, its your average highschool storyline + that certain oddity, that twist(?) or the something special to the story. the oddity being a love polygon between 2 guy bestfriends and 2 non biological and yet sisters.
its rather simple, but the further it progressed, it's much more than a highschool love story , it approached the topic of family realistically and I think that's one of the things I loved most about it. It wasn't just about romance as other highschool dramas are about. ( tho to be fair i haven't exactly watched every highschool cdrama out there , but i have watched the most famous ones )
it's one of the few cdramas that actually broke that 'ML stereotype'. tho they did base the ML from the typical handsome and smart character, he did have a lot more of charms to show other than those basic qualities. he's probably the best character to come out in the whole drama. Ryan Ding did an exceptional performance with his role.
I could say the same to the other actors actually, they did well on portraying their characters. the FL's characteristics was also based from the usual dumb, unlucky and clumsy. kinda annoying sometimes but what makes her differ from other highschool cdrama FL's, is her character development. she may have acted questionably from most of the first parts, but later on she learns from her mistakes which makes her a great character design imo.
there's nothing much about the music , as it didn't exactly stick to me.
will i rewatch it if ever ? yes I can see myself watch some episodes again, mostly for Ryan Ding that is lol.
how much do I recommend it exactly? well ... I wouldn't recommend it entirely. you see, although I do loved this drama so much it did had a lot of shortcomings.
the thing I didn't like most was the ending. it was rushed, I would've been satisfied if it had more context to a lot of things that happened , if things had a proper closure to them.
like maybe give out a couple more context to what happened to the FL during ML's time overseas ? when and how exactly did the ML start to have feelings for the FL ? things like that. but then again it was still an enjoyable watch imo
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