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Bright Eyes in the Dark chinese drama review
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Bright Eyes in the Dark
3 people found this review helpful
by Ayona Dey
Oct 7, 2023
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 6.5
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 7.0
This review may contain spoilers

Take it as a ensemble cast drama and not ML-FL rom com

I have watched all the episodes and I quite liked it.
Many people are complaining about the ending. Even though I was not expecting this ending but its better than terrible endings like some other dramas. (For me terrible endings are when dramas end in cliff hanger and there's no further season). Or drama endings without closure ( not open ending).

If anyone wants to read the review before watching the drama, here's my suggestion: If you want a ML-FL over the top romance drama, this is not the one and might get seriously disappointed with the ending. If you want to watch a drama where there are very normal people, a bit of romance here and there, and somewhat relatable to reality, go for it.

This drama mainly focusses on 2 main person and their life and career, with two somewhat important person and other people related to them who are directly or indirectly related to fire fighting or emergency rescue. Lin luxiao is the fire fighter, Linqi, his brother is a musician, NanChu is a dancer/ actress and Jiang is an adventurous person who does many things and his main job is to support the other three characters whenever in need. JiangGe is the like NPC of the drama, while LinQi is the drama watcher within the drama.
There are many other supporting characters and their stories. Overall, most of the characters 3d (fleshed out)and not just there as background. I wish they provided a back story for Luomingzi (Wangziyi's role). His role was too flat.
This drama is more focussed on bonding between colleagues.

Except for the FL's fate or luck or bad luck of getting trapped in fire (I lost count how many times) and getting saved only by the ML, which I find is the only ridiculous thing, other events are pretty normal.

The characters are very much human and not omnipotent. The F. Fighters save people, make mistake, get injured and much more like any other normal person deals with life. They learn in the process. The main characters have their own careers and each pursue their goal in their own way. They too learn how to manage things gradually. Like real life people die and that's normal.
Mostly there are no negative characters, except two annoying ones, which can be easily ignored.
The actors did a decent job. I didn't expect anything outstanding from the actors, whether main or supporting, everyone performed well. Music is nice and fits well with the drama. No overuse of same music over and over, which I liked, unlike some other dramas, where they put the same music over and over every few minutes.


SPOILERS
In the end, it seems and I am pretty much sure that LLX sacrifices his life for the country as that was his motto all along and he said it multiple times. By the end of the drama I felt sad for the FL's mother (and also for the FL ) not being able to find the truth about her husband's life.
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