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Drama Mama Lambanana
UK
This review may contain spoilers
Came for Leo Yang (who isn't even on the poster), stayed for intriguing story and an interesting supporting characters.
I caught snippets in feeds/ytube so gave it a go and it exceeded my low expectations. Regarding the production, editing, laughable action scenes, I treated it as part of the comedy.
I see no writing credit, which supports my suspicions that there was a team at odds with each other because the writing was such a mixed bag. There was a reference in ep21 to the "writers of this story [being] too unprofessional" was that a dig at themselves?
POSITIVES
1. Decent plot and amount of intrigue.
2. Supporting characters each had something to offer. Strong family-like friendships.
3. Main couple was mostly cute
4. I liked the music
5. Light and humorous moments.
6. Spotlight on organ donation.
7. Pretty dresses!! (unlike Once we get married)
SPOILERS
POSITIVES continued
8. No unnecessary second couple.
9. Chill female character too busy to date.
10. Antagonist that isn't nice simply because they're not, although could've gone deeper.
COULD DO BETTER
1. The flow of the drama, well, it doesn't. Everything is a bit jarring and not in a stylistic way. Why does this scene follow the last, did they just film lots of stuff and mash them together? It starts off well, then a lull then it's like they remembered they had to hand in their homework and crammed everything in the last few episodes. I'm glad I didn't wait for this weekly.
2. There was an instant attraction between main couple but they just got together, like what, they were making a cake for unknown reasons. But they weren't official. But they were. But not. But broke up anyway. Blaaah.
3. All the action scenes. Comedic. The whole snowy mountain expedition was pointless. Let's blow stuff up.
4. The complete lack of attention to detail. Highly radioactive meteorite, let's wear thin PPE. Oh but it's ok, it stopped being radioactive now, you can run back in without PPE or any decontamination procedure. It's aaall good.
5. We love humans and organ donation is a great and noble thing to do. Yo. Let's kill animals and stigmatise mental health issues!!! >.<
I caught snippets in feeds/ytube so gave it a go and it exceeded my low expectations. Regarding the production, editing, laughable action scenes, I treated it as part of the comedy.
I see no writing credit, which supports my suspicions that there was a team at odds with each other because the writing was such a mixed bag. There was a reference in ep21 to the "writers of this story [being] too unprofessional" was that a dig at themselves?
POSITIVES
1. Decent plot and amount of intrigue.
2. Supporting characters each had something to offer. Strong family-like friendships.
3. Main couple was mostly cute
4. I liked the music
5. Light and humorous moments.
6. Spotlight on organ donation.
7. Pretty dresses!! (unlike Once we get married)
SPOILERS
POSITIVES continued
8. No unnecessary second couple.
9. Chill female character too busy to date.
10. Antagonist that isn't nice simply because they're not, although could've gone deeper.
COULD DO BETTER
1. The flow of the drama, well, it doesn't. Everything is a bit jarring and not in a stylistic way. Why does this scene follow the last, did they just film lots of stuff and mash them together? It starts off well, then a lull then it's like they remembered they had to hand in their homework and crammed everything in the last few episodes. I'm glad I didn't wait for this weekly.
2. There was an instant attraction between main couple but they just got together, like what, they were making a cake for unknown reasons. But they weren't official. But they were. But not. But broke up anyway. Blaaah.
3. All the action scenes. Comedic. The whole snowy mountain expedition was pointless. Let's blow stuff up.
4. The complete lack of attention to detail. Highly radioactive meteorite, let's wear thin PPE. Oh but it's ok, it stopped being radioactive now, you can run back in without PPE or any decontamination procedure. It's aaall good.
5. We love humans and organ donation is a great and noble thing to do. Yo. Let's kill animals and stigmatise mental health issues!!! >.<
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