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MatildediShabran
Ridiculously Bad Melodrama
Kitchen-sink melodrama, like a hundred others with some of the most outlandish plot points and characters ever!
Some good things to say:
- The male leads were decent enough. Not anything particularly great. ML was an annoying little boy in a man's body, SML was the really good, but stoic guy, and for once, the best guy got the FL (hurray!).
- I liked the FL here. She was beautiful, smart, skilled, and her character became more mature with time, which was excellent character development. The only female character who wasn't easily manipulated and acted like an 8 year old. She did, however, need constant rescuing by the SML, which was unfortunate. She couldn't survive 5 min without him. I, unlike many, am very fond of love triangles where the FL has feelings for both MLs. It is more realistic that a FL would have feelings for one ML, and then start to have feelings for another ML, as she goes through character developement. It also keeps you guessing as to who she will end up choosing.
- A lot of money was spent on the cinematography. A lot of wasted aerial views, unfortunately, but a few nice ones of bamboo forests. Some nice angles and framework, and the colourization was decent too.
Why do I waste my time of these badly written Chinese costume dramas? To see hot guys in Hanfu, of course.
The negatives:
- The whole plot is crap. Sorry, not going to break down the plot, it was literally all the worst "revenge" drama plot ever. And the actual revenge wasn't even for something bad that happened to the antagonists!
- The antagonists are the weirdest bunch of psychos ever in a C drama, and that is saying quite a lot! They were also all so incredibly annoying.
- The acting of most of the protagonist characters, I'm sorry, but their acting was crap. Even the FL, who I liked, didn't act that great here. I'm going to blame this on the director. But points given for one of the only FLs in a Chinese melodrama that wasn't a bubbly, saccharine, 8 year old inside a woman's body.
Go ahead and watch this, if it is playing in the background, whilst you do something else.
I watched it for the hot and kind SML, the love triangle, and the expensive crane shots, but I skipped most of it for my own sanity.
I give this 2 out of 10 roosters.
Some good things to say:
- The male leads were decent enough. Not anything particularly great. ML was an annoying little boy in a man's body, SML was the really good, but stoic guy, and for once, the best guy got the FL (hurray!).
- I liked the FL here. She was beautiful, smart, skilled, and her character became more mature with time, which was excellent character development. The only female character who wasn't easily manipulated and acted like an 8 year old. She did, however, need constant rescuing by the SML, which was unfortunate. She couldn't survive 5 min without him. I, unlike many, am very fond of love triangles where the FL has feelings for both MLs. It is more realistic that a FL would have feelings for one ML, and then start to have feelings for another ML, as she goes through character developement. It also keeps you guessing as to who she will end up choosing.
- A lot of money was spent on the cinematography. A lot of wasted aerial views, unfortunately, but a few nice ones of bamboo forests. Some nice angles and framework, and the colourization was decent too.
Why do I waste my time of these badly written Chinese costume dramas? To see hot guys in Hanfu, of course.
The negatives:
- The whole plot is crap. Sorry, not going to break down the plot, it was literally all the worst "revenge" drama plot ever. And the actual revenge wasn't even for something bad that happened to the antagonists!
- The antagonists are the weirdest bunch of psychos ever in a C drama, and that is saying quite a lot! They were also all so incredibly annoying.
- The acting of most of the protagonist characters, I'm sorry, but their acting was crap. Even the FL, who I liked, didn't act that great here. I'm going to blame this on the director. But points given for one of the only FLs in a Chinese melodrama that wasn't a bubbly, saccharine, 8 year old inside a woman's body.
Go ahead and watch this, if it is playing in the background, whilst you do something else.
I watched it for the hot and kind SML, the love triangle, and the expensive crane shots, but I skipped most of it for my own sanity.
I give this 2 out of 10 roosters.
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