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An absolute marvel until… last episodes
The first thing to say about GWTR is I’ve enjoyed it a lot, more than almost any other cdrama, of course, there are a lot of things to praise here. The initial approach of the plot is incredible and original, with an adorable FL (Tang Moxi) who is wonderful and her character is no the classic FL, so full of virtues that is boring. She is a little liar, troublemaker, jealous, and stubborn, but also funny, fearless and kind. It’s really cool that she is only an orphan raised in a brothel, and is not a princess or a noble lady undercover, or someone who ends up being the lost daughter of the Emperor, or some like that: she’s just a poor girl. I love the daydream scenes, really, they are very very funny to watch. The actresss, Zhang Nan, is radiant making endless expressions, gestures and funny faces, almost shamelessly, something that isn’t very common in doramaland. In fact, I can say that she is probably the most versatile FL y have seen in a cdrama, no doubt.
Very quickly, it’s clear her relation with her sister (Wang Yuwen) is something weird, but very kind and even heartwarming. They support each other, fight togheter, and with the vanish of the ML2 (Zhao Yingbo) the story turns into a full drama. Again, Zhang Nan made a display of sheer profesionalism, with heartwarming crying scenes, very credible, and everything works. The love between the sisters is incredible, very well depicted, and the two girls were fantastic in this episodes. The eerie school arc is superb, and here it is worth noting miss Liu Meitong, with her gender-bender character, it has surprised me for good, and the presence of the legend Kara Wai is a good surprise, too.
Everything was flowing smoothly until the ML Sean Sun starts to take the center stage. His participation in this dorama is an absolute disaster in all levels, really. His skills in acting are really very poor, always with the same buttface, trying to appear hard and with a fixing gaze that is disgusting and ridiculous, not credible. The man tried to perform, and fails in every scene. At least, I know I should avoid another dramas with this (old) guy. The characterization is not good, too. That kind of beard looks very fake, trying to perform “a very hard guy” that more seems the chinese brother of Freddy Mercury…
But then comes the worst of the worst; the demeanor of the character. The “male courtship festival” displayed by General Chen Wende is disgusting and more, nauseating. Stalking, making forced kisses, near rape scene when the wedding, invading personal space… And the man is a f**** octopus, my god, gropping the girl in every moment with stupid excuses, is really nasty. I know his character is a hard man, a General with a hard life, unscrupulous and with another kind of problems, the annoyance of the character it would be good if the girl would hate him. What I cannot understand and cannot swallow is the girl ending to fall in love with him. If we also think that guy is really older (about 40 years) and the character of Moxi is supposed to be only 17… The situation is inaceptable and it has become unbearable for me to watch. So, with a heavy heart (because I thought the drama was excelent), I have given up near episode 30. I made all the spoilers to myself (for not have the temptation to resume the drama), reading some rapid summarys of the last episodes, and watching some random scenes to see how it ends. But I can’t buy that someone like Moxi, so brave and decisive, ended up falling to the “charms” of a sexual harasser.
In summary; very very very funny and amusing plot until episode 26, when the forced wedding, and then everything goes downhill, with no brakes, hahaha. At the moment I detected that Moxi was receptive to the courtship of the gorilla, I have stopped. The change of Moxi, besides, is all of sudden. No previous inputs, not even a shadow of doubt in her thoughts… And about episode 30 the total disaster. The writers smoked something hard, or had been replaced, maybe, hahaha. In other words, how to deface a little work of art.
Anyway, despite the nonsense ending, I preferred to praise the drama after all and give excelent scores, rather than tear it apart, because for the most part, is really wonderful. Along 25 episodes, I have had a lot of fun, and all of this was, mostly, merit of that superb actress, miss Zhang Nan.
Very quickly, it’s clear her relation with her sister (Wang Yuwen) is something weird, but very kind and even heartwarming. They support each other, fight togheter, and with the vanish of the ML2 (Zhao Yingbo) the story turns into a full drama. Again, Zhang Nan made a display of sheer profesionalism, with heartwarming crying scenes, very credible, and everything works. The love between the sisters is incredible, very well depicted, and the two girls were fantastic in this episodes. The eerie school arc is superb, and here it is worth noting miss Liu Meitong, with her gender-bender character, it has surprised me for good, and the presence of the legend Kara Wai is a good surprise, too.
Everything was flowing smoothly until the ML Sean Sun starts to take the center stage. His participation in this dorama is an absolute disaster in all levels, really. His skills in acting are really very poor, always with the same buttface, trying to appear hard and with a fixing gaze that is disgusting and ridiculous, not credible. The man tried to perform, and fails in every scene. At least, I know I should avoid another dramas with this (old) guy. The characterization is not good, too. That kind of beard looks very fake, trying to perform “a very hard guy” that more seems the chinese brother of Freddy Mercury…
But then comes the worst of the worst; the demeanor of the character. The “male courtship festival” displayed by General Chen Wende is disgusting and more, nauseating. Stalking, making forced kisses, near rape scene when the wedding, invading personal space… And the man is a f**** octopus, my god, gropping the girl in every moment with stupid excuses, is really nasty. I know his character is a hard man, a General with a hard life, unscrupulous and with another kind of problems, the annoyance of the character it would be good if the girl would hate him. What I cannot understand and cannot swallow is the girl ending to fall in love with him. If we also think that guy is really older (about 40 years) and the character of Moxi is supposed to be only 17… The situation is inaceptable and it has become unbearable for me to watch. So, with a heavy heart (because I thought the drama was excelent), I have given up near episode 30. I made all the spoilers to myself (for not have the temptation to resume the drama), reading some rapid summarys of the last episodes, and watching some random scenes to see how it ends. But I can’t buy that someone like Moxi, so brave and decisive, ended up falling to the “charms” of a sexual harasser.
In summary; very very very funny and amusing plot until episode 26, when the forced wedding, and then everything goes downhill, with no brakes, hahaha. At the moment I detected that Moxi was receptive to the courtship of the gorilla, I have stopped. The change of Moxi, besides, is all of sudden. No previous inputs, not even a shadow of doubt in her thoughts… And about episode 30 the total disaster. The writers smoked something hard, or had been replaced, maybe, hahaha. In other words, how to deface a little work of art.
Anyway, despite the nonsense ending, I preferred to praise the drama after all and give excelent scores, rather than tear it apart, because for the most part, is really wonderful. Along 25 episodes, I have had a lot of fun, and all of this was, mostly, merit of that superb actress, miss Zhang Nan.
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