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LA_Drama Fan

Southern California, USA

LA_Drama Fan

Southern California, USA
Our Interpreter chinese drama review
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Our Interpreter
3 people found this review helpful
by LA_Drama Fan
Apr 11, 2024
36 of 36 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers

Who do you love more? Me or your company?

I found this series as it was being heavily pushed on my YouTube timeline. Which is funny as I really don't watch C-dramas that much. I was intrigued by the clips they showed and Ms. Song is quite striking.

After 36 episodes, these are the things I thought were interesting/odd:
I agree with those saying that ShaSha seems to have had a cloistered upbringing, especially considering her Mom's personality. However, she studied abroad for years, so how did THAT work out? Seems inconsistent? It was nice to see her grow up and stand up to her Mom prior to her leaving for Africa.

The fact that Huasheng agreed to help Yuyi to do its IPO was interesting. Huasheng had to realize that Yuyi's stated purpose was to create a product to directly compete with and ultimately replace Huasheng. Other than being a lucrative contract, what incentive would there have been for Huasheng to assist Yuyi? And letting one of your lead staff (FL) date and have a relationship with this rival's CEO is a headache I'd kick over to HR to figure out. Xixi was right to complain to her boss that she needed to be out of the loop to avoid conflict-of-interest.

I think they really dropped the ball with the last episode: After all this, Ms. Tong misses the wedding ceremony? And XiXi's mom bails on it too? When I first saw that, I thought, "Oh sheesh, they're back with the sisters dissing each other?" The excuse of her not attending due to a class trip was lame. Just pay the actress and write her in for that one last ep, for gosh sakes! And the end scene: Where were they? The UK? European continent? The fact that they did not marry was odd, and definitely against the cliche-mode for the rest of the show.

Did the ML love the FL? I think so, very much so. But he's the typical techie: arrogant, smart, and clueless all at the same time. So he loves his company and the possibility of AI too. I would have rather they forced the ML have to choose between his company and her. They both are trying to have it both ways. And the FL does love him, but she has too much baggage in her life that she's only started to deal with. Her loyalty to her company is undeserved in this day and age (at least here in the US) especially considering they demoted her TWICE. She should have bolted and went to Yuyi as a consultant in translation services.

It was gratifying to see them have the ML eat humble pie at the end of the expo: that machines cannot replace the human touch, AI be damned. He just couldn't seem to grasp the difference between 'translation' and 'interpretation'. The former can be done by a device. The latter? Not so much.
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