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MatildediShabran
A Colourful Child's Diary In a Grey World
This was a very good drama. I originally dropped it at about ep 12, simply because I was getting bored, but that's not to say that it wasn't an excellent script idea. Possibly one of the best script story ideas I've come across in recent years. I've finally finished it now, and can say without a doubt that if the writers hadn't been forced to stretch 12 episodes into 24, and if the female leads hadn't been so annoyingly cliche, this could have easily been one of the best C Drama series I have seen.
A girl who has the imagination and confidence knocked out of her by the adult world, rediscovers her younger self as an adult. That's the main theme, and it's a very beautiful one.
As a girl who was wildly romantic, imaginative, and different, the themes of this drama heavily resonated with me.
However, there were a few things that I feel could have easily been changed for the better: The FL is annoying as heck, because she has turned into a mouse of a human being. I get that this is what happens to creative children in a harsh environment, but she was just too much like the usual Chinese drama doormat FL to not annoy the hell out of me. The stylist for this show gave her the most unflattering bowl-bob haircut, just to make sure she looked as plain and mousy as her character, and this really didn't help at all. Her adult character was made to look plain in contrast to her friend who she made up the story with. In childhood, the FL was the pretty child in contrast to her friend who had the unflattering bowl-bob haircut. This was indeed, an interesting juxtaposition, and it has deep meaning to the story, as the FL grows into her adult mouse persona out of the shame of childhood. The poor writers had to go back and forth in time to her childhood and then back to adulthood, just to fill in the 12 extra episodes they were forced to write, and I really sympathize with that.
Everything about her adult self suggested this human being never had an original or creative thought in her entire life. Certainly even as a child, she must have been too drab and boring to feel out of place and create such interesting characters.
The SFL was, for contrast, a trashy human being that we are supposed to care about. She is supposed to be a cultured human being, but her words and actions imply the opposite of this. Every single female character in this drama was incredibly annoying and unlikeable in their own way. They either were incapable of thinking for themselves, incapable of listening to someone else, or incapable of having their own convictions.
The fictional male characters were the only characters of any interest, and they were written by a little girl!
Of course, the episodes were stretched out because the poor writers had to create 24 episodes from the original 12. Next time, make the female characters less like cliche doormats or trashy divas, and more like rounded characters we can relate to, because that would have improved everything. The original idea of this drama is genius, which makes it even more sad that the execution wasn't what it could have been.
A girl who has the imagination and confidence knocked out of her by the adult world, rediscovers her younger self as an adult. That's the main theme, and it's a very beautiful one.
As a girl who was wildly romantic, imaginative, and different, the themes of this drama heavily resonated with me.
However, there were a few things that I feel could have easily been changed for the better: The FL is annoying as heck, because she has turned into a mouse of a human being. I get that this is what happens to creative children in a harsh environment, but she was just too much like the usual Chinese drama doormat FL to not annoy the hell out of me. The stylist for this show gave her the most unflattering bowl-bob haircut, just to make sure she looked as plain and mousy as her character, and this really didn't help at all. Her adult character was made to look plain in contrast to her friend who she made up the story with. In childhood, the FL was the pretty child in contrast to her friend who had the unflattering bowl-bob haircut. This was indeed, an interesting juxtaposition, and it has deep meaning to the story, as the FL grows into her adult mouse persona out of the shame of childhood. The poor writers had to go back and forth in time to her childhood and then back to adulthood, just to fill in the 12 extra episodes they were forced to write, and I really sympathize with that.
Everything about her adult self suggested this human being never had an original or creative thought in her entire life. Certainly even as a child, she must have been too drab and boring to feel out of place and create such interesting characters.
The SFL was, for contrast, a trashy human being that we are supposed to care about. She is supposed to be a cultured human being, but her words and actions imply the opposite of this. Every single female character in this drama was incredibly annoying and unlikeable in their own way. They either were incapable of thinking for themselves, incapable of listening to someone else, or incapable of having their own convictions.
The fictional male characters were the only characters of any interest, and they were written by a little girl!
Of course, the episodes were stretched out because the poor writers had to create 24 episodes from the original 12. Next time, make the female characters less like cliche doormats or trashy divas, and more like rounded characters we can relate to, because that would have improved everything. The original idea of this drama is genius, which makes it even more sad that the execution wasn't what it could have been.
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