Geez you just sucked me into another flag waving drama with this review! I think it is very important to understand why China went down the path it did and I am pleasantly surprised to see some of the competing ideologies of the day being so vigorously presented and debated in this recent spate of dramas. And of course Yu Hewei is the icing on the cake. I will try to start this soon but I am waiting to watch it with my mom, she really loves this stuff.
Yes indeed I finished but I am still super grumpy that this kind of genre made me tear up so much. I can't be…
Ah, ok tyvm for explaining everything makes a lot more sense now :).
I am frustrated with Tong Yao bc her character was promising but flopped into damsel in distress and her acting just didn't move me at all. So the idea that she won over Rayzha is just a travesty. Underlying all of this is of course what is going on right now and I sense a backlash against the Rayzhas and Dilrabas of this world that wasn't there before. I hope China/Chinese can show we are better than that and I say this as someone who loved Dilraba in TLB but hated her in ELOD.
Nonetheless I think I forgot to thank you for pushing me to finish this. I will probably watch Awakening Age as well at some point but maybe not just right now.
You finished it! Hooray! There's actually a standard mandarin dubbed version, but I think you lose out on the…
Yes indeed I finished but I am still super grumpy that this kind of genre made me tear up so much. I can't be more impressed with Daylight but despite the initial struggle, I am so happy I didn't know about the standard mandarin version.
I liked Maimiao a lot too... geez in so many ways I am Maimiao. But she does get the fairytale (eyes roll) and the drama glosses over the difficulty of putting the genie back into the bottle, a departure from the drama's realism so the character lost me in the latter half. I also was felt the acting was good but didn't stand out among the many equally well acted roles.
Debao is a flawed character in an awesome way but Defu and Shuihua moved me more because from start to finish they were the less lucky couple that were meant to be together but never stood a chance. So they are both just enablers who try to make it happen for everyone else. Only towards the end of the show, the significance of the dam and what it meant to Defu and what it represented really dawned upon me. By comparison, Maimiao and Debao are much less complex and thus happier but less interesting characters. I wish I didn't know Maimiao got put forward ahead of Shui Hua because that's just plain wrong so I am glad the actress didn't win.
Btw, I think don't like Tong Yao - she has blank expression and dead duck stare all the time in The Rebel.
Tyvm my friend. I hope you enjoy her performance as much as I did Hope the shot went well and take it easy. Have…
We made fun of our youngest colleague for days because he literally couldn't move his arm while the rest of us barely had side effects. Until we learned that that it was bc we are older and thus our immune response is much weaker. Karma sucks. 😜 In any case, hope you have a good experience with it.
Are there two dramas with the same title? I thought you’d already finished this one a while ago 🤔
No it is the same drama I started long ago. Not a dialect I fully understand - I needed subs to watch it and my constant tearing up ☺️made it an even slower process...
Allen Ren's dramas are no kissing, because the respect he has to his girlfriend (he said it himself) , so yeah,…
I totally respect that but I think if that is the case, then he shouldn't accept one romance drama after another. I mean there are lots of other genres and roles where the audience doesn't expect that so he should go play those roles instead.
Anyway I caught the first episode. Its really meh. Even the prospect of kiss scenes can't tempt me to watch this.
From the cast list it looks like he won't be back. I am fine with it either way- his portrayal of his character…
I didn't read the novel by YBY was the only character that IMHO was not well acted to the same level as the rest of the cast. He was so obvious in his acting that it ruined the surprise twist ending for me I saw it coming a mile away. So I don't mind if he is replaced by someone of Liu Xueyi's calibre. Esp if his heart is not going to be in playing a support role given his current status.
Not sure what you mean about the 'nearly murdered him' thing. If you mean by how the end twist is resolved I have avoided spoilers on it so while I have my own theories of what happens next, your guess is as good as mine on that one.
Thank you, I quoted it from the show :DYup, he's great here. You could give this a try and learn some Spanish…
Sigh! Those were the good days. I am a huge tapas fan and Barcelona is chef's kiss in terms of how great it is for that. I was literally there during the 2010 World Cup final Spain vs Netherlands I think I watched it at a bar in the Olympics village. I feel like I am living in a Xianxia and that was my last incarnation or something.
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I am frustrated with Tong Yao bc her character was promising but flopped into damsel in distress and her acting just didn't move me at all. So the idea that she won over Rayzha is just a travesty. Underlying all of this is of course what is going on right now and I sense a backlash against the Rayzhas and Dilrabas of this world that wasn't there before. I hope China/Chinese can show we are better than that and I say this as someone who loved Dilraba in TLB but hated her in ELOD.
Nonetheless I think I forgot to thank you for pushing me to finish this. I will probably watch Awakening Age as well at some point but maybe not just right now.
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I liked Maimiao a lot too... geez in so many ways I am Maimiao. But she does get the fairytale (eyes roll) and the drama glosses over the difficulty of putting the genie back into the bottle, a departure from the drama's realism so the character lost me in the latter half. I also was felt the acting was good but didn't stand out among the many equally well acted roles.
Debao is a flawed character in an awesome way but Defu and Shuihua moved me more because from start to finish they were the less lucky couple that were meant to be together but never stood a chance. So they are both just enablers who try to make it happen for everyone else. Only towards the end of the show, the significance of the dam and what it meant to Defu and what it represented really dawned upon me. By comparison, Maimiao and Debao are much less complex and thus happier but less interesting characters. I wish I didn't know Maimiao got put forward ahead of Shui Hua because that's just plain wrong so I am glad the actress didn't win.
Btw, I think don't like Tong Yao - she has blank expression and dead duck stare all the time in The Rebel.
In any case, hope you have a good experience with it.
Hope the shot went well and take it easy. Have a peach!🍑
Anyway I caught the first episode. Its really meh. Even the prospect of kiss scenes can't tempt me to watch this.
Not sure what you mean about the 'nearly murdered him' thing. If you mean by how the end twist is resolved I have avoided spoilers on it so while I have my own theories of what happens next, your guess is as good as mine on that one.