I wasn't bored for a second! I'm so impressed by the pacing and overall quality, especially for a mini drama! And those kisses and stares, holy smoking chemistry!! The ending made me cry a bucket, but I think it was fitting and the most logical (or rather in ML's thinking the savest outcome) though I'm kinda annoyed that she didn't get to know the full truth.
There's only one thing that bugs me... did anyone else see that there was suddenly a male hand, when her arm was cut and she held the wound?? I thought my mind was playing tricks on me, but I replayed the scene and it still looked wrong and there was noone else helping her at that moment, so...?? 🤔
10 eps in and reading the bad comments, I don't know whether I should continue. I already wasted my time for 10 overly long eps and have finished 1/4 of this. But it's sooo slow, it feels like someone is driving with the handbrake on. If I understood Chinese, I could at least clean my apartment and do the laundry while watching and I wouldn't miss out on much... but I need to read the subs, so what to do?? 😭
Fan Zhi Xin is really something else. Third drama I've watched from him and his acting is just so captivating, whenever he appears I'm glued to the screen. Whether it's happy or sad scenes, his expressions and also the subtle microexpressions are on point and just feel so natural. After all of the dramas with him, I keep having flashbacks to memorable scenes of him - I'm speechless, just wow.
Can anyone tell me what ep that scene was from that the ML remembers as FL lets go of his hand and attempts to…
Okay, I'll take it back. Maybe the scene from his memory wasn't shown before after all. But if sb's curious, as well: I went back and realized their outfits are from ep. 7 + 8 from the wedding scene, but they never showed us how he had proven that he woud give his life for her by trying to throw himself of the same church tower, but I guess he did.. ?
Edit: I just saw a behind the scenes clip that they filmed ML+FL jumping/falling from the tower (and both looking like their dieing from anxiety having to film that scene) but they didn't even end up using that clip ? LOL
Can anyone tell me what ep that scene was from that the ML remembers as FL lets go of his hand and attempts to throw herself off the tower to trigger his memories returning in the last ep? Like for a second he sees himself in her position, so falling backwards letting go of her hand and smiling at her? I wanted to go back and rewatch it bcs it feels familiar, so it probably actually happened sometime but I don't want to skip through all 24 eps to find it :/
Did we really need the whole amnesia trope at the end. Just give us the actual going after her not the summary…
Right. The amnesia was really overkill. Not like they hadn't already used too many cliche tropes before that anyway, but this was really the straw that broke the camel's back. sigh..😔
Right.. what a bummer 😭 Still, thanks again for telling me on DGZ's page about this being released! I'm trying to find sth positive and seeing more of Dai is always good, right? 🥹
Did I still enjoy it overall? - Yes, but only because of DGZ. At least let you get to see DGZ's smile in the very…
Honorable mention for Luo Chu Fan - he did a great job playing the insufferable husband! When I saw him appear, I already had this bad feeling in my stomach, but I couldn't figure out why till I remembered that he played the bad guy in "Her Trajecting", as well. His acting definitely left an impression on me.
Did I still enjoy it overall? - Yes, but only because of DGZ. At least let you get to see DGZ's smile in the very last scene. So enduring all the ridiculousness was worth it for me, but I guess sb. who doesn't long to see more of DGZ as much wouldn't necessarily enjoy it because this felt like watching a train derail after ep 8. The ride was smooth until they decided they wanted to squeeze the plot of a full-length drama spanning across 2 seasons into this mini, while also using all tropes known to mankind. FL suddenly looses all her courage and wit (though she kinda regains it in later eps) and the ML also becomes so gullible and easily fooled by her "i don't love you anymore"-act, which also gets dragged out way too long. Instead of wasting the time with that, they could have developed the (imo more important "main") plot better which only really starts to unfold from ep 20 onwards. Idk how they thought this direction change, priority setting and pacing was a good choice. Also, some things just seemed so lackluster: Cutting kiss scenes because of poor choices kinda ruining the mood (e.g. bcs of a lipstick that just smears everywhere). Bad continuity between scenes, like getting stabbed in the left upper arm, but then bandaging the right forearm?? Btw who thought that giving DGZ's eyebrows a winged eyeliner shape was a good idea?? What is this weird tip at the end???
The ending itself would have been okay for me if Day had grown as a character and gotten over his self-pity beforehand…
[Sorry for the long rant. After reading many comments with similar opinions, I thought I wouldn't write that much myself but I guess I needed to get that off my chest.]
To add some details to what bothered me: It's fine that they wanted to focus on Day's mental state and just leave Mhok's trauma mostly unaddressed bcs I think there wouldn't have been enough time to do both well. But then they should have addressed the elephant in the room: Why does it feel like Day is the one who pities himself the most even when you had thought he stopped and had already accepted his blindness. He wants to live a normal life and be treated like a normal person but is the first to accuse anyone of pitying him. E.g. when he wins the money for his dance he still says it's just bcs the hotel owner pities him - how I wished Mhok would have said sth, bcs at that point I thought Day was already over it and had stopped even worrying about people pitying him. Also, making Mhok apologize twice for sth he didn't do is just wrong and out of character. I never thought that he pitied Day and then he admits it himself? It was fine imo that Day wanted to break up bcs he feels like he is holding Mhok back, but it's definitely not okay to blame Mhok that he pitied him when he was just afraid to lose him, even more so because of his past trauma. I really wished that Day's family would have defended Mhok right in the moment of the break up because that was the point where I thought Day needs to hear that he himself is the one who keeps bringing that up as weapon against everyone when it's just not true.
Not everyone is pitying Day and he is always so convinced about it that I can't help but think that Day never grew as a character and stopped pitying himself. That's why I can't take that ending, not because they decided to give him his sight back but because it felt like Day never had accepted his blindness and truly believed one could live a happy life as a blind person.
The ending itself would have been okay for me if Day had grown as a character and gotten over his self-pity beforehand but the way he treated Mhok (and any person really) in the last eps makes me believe he never truly has and that is what makes this ending the wrong choice for me. Even when Day said sth along the line of "I learned that true blindness is losing hope", I thought that (even though he was devastated in that moment) he realized he had found his hope in the love that Mhok and his family showed him and therefore believed that one can live happily as a blind person, but his later actions just erased all that mental growth.
Am I the only one who liked the sad ending more? Not just because it flowed better and you could feel that it was the original, but just because I literally thought "finally Shu Nian is free, even if had come to this". No matter how much I love borderline-obsessive love stories if the overbearing partner does never learn and doesn't seem to start respecting the other a little bit more, it just doesn't sit right with me. I swear if he had said "you're mine" one more time, I'm gonna punch a hole in my screen.
As far as I remember, no. FL and ML are loyal to each other although there are times when they deny their feelings for the other in order to protect them and this causes misunderstandings. But for both there is someone who has a crush on them and makes advances on them, but they never accept those.
Wow, I haven't watched such a nice feel-good drama in a long while. And while being light-hearted, there were deeply emotional scenes too and so many little life lessons woven into this, I loved it! ❤️ The acting was really good, the chemistry of all the pairs was fire and all the kiss scenes felt genuinely comfortable, no awkwardness at all! (Honestly, hoping for a spin off for Feng Jie x Xin Jia. Rooting for them all the way! 😆) Some may say it's cringey (which it definitely is from time to time), but that's okay because it literally conveyed how the beginning stages of love feel imo - that warm fuzzy feeling that is hard to put into words, that grinning smile that won't leave your face and the giggles that unknowingly escape your mouth when you think about each other - borderline cringey in others' eyes, but such a sweet, deep and real feeling. 🥰 The only downside is that the whole story with the father and brother was brushed over a little too quickly and therefore felt kinda pointless, but for the limited eps they had and the rest being that good, I'll just happily ignore that. Sometimes you just need a drama mainly focusing on the good and the blossoming love of two individuals that doesn't make you too concerned about all the bad things happening and surrounding them. Like we know that they do anyway, can we ignore it for a second and bathe in the bliss that feeling in love is pls? 🥹
I came here thinking there wouldn't be any new dramas but still dropped by anyway because I miss DGZ so bad. If…
Ahh it looks so soo promising! 😍 Great to know that there's a new drama release so soon. Though I'm gonna wait a bit so that I can bingewatch at least half of it, having sth to look forward to now is already a win! 🥹 Thaank you~ 🙏
An advert drama for the brand Judydoll. Like how some of the more well known vertical actor/actresses have done…
I came here thinking there wouldn't be any new dramas but still dropped by anyway because I miss DGZ so bad. If it weren't for you I wouldn't have found this hilarious gem. So, thank you lots! 🙏
The ending made me cry a bucket, but I think it was fitting and the most logical (or rather in ML's thinking the savest outcome) though I'm kinda annoyed that she didn't get to know the full truth.
There's only one thing that bugs me... did anyone else see that there was suddenly a male hand, when her arm was cut and she held the wound?? I thought my mind was playing tricks on me, but I replayed the scene and it still looked wrong and there was noone else helping her at that moment, so...?? 🤔
I went back and realized their outfits are from ep. 7 + 8 from the wedding scene, but they never showed us how he had proven that he woud give his life for her by trying to throw himself of the same church tower, but I guess he did.. ?
Edit: I just saw a behind the scenes clip that they filmed ML+FL jumping/falling from the tower (and both looking like their dieing from anxiety having to film that scene) but they didn't even end up using that clip ? LOL
Like for a second he sees himself in her position, so falling backwards letting go of her hand and smiling at her?
I wanted to go back and rewatch it bcs it feels familiar, so it probably actually happened sometime but I don't want to skip through all 24 eps to find it :/
FL suddenly looses all her courage and wit (though she kinda regains it in later eps) and the ML also becomes so gullible and easily fooled by her "i don't love you anymore"-act, which also gets dragged out way too long. Instead of wasting the time with that, they could have developed the (imo more important "main") plot better which only really starts to unfold from ep 20 onwards. Idk how they thought this direction change, priority setting and pacing was a good choice.
Also, some things just seemed so lackluster:
Cutting kiss scenes because of poor choices kinda ruining the mood (e.g. bcs of a lipstick that just smears everywhere).
Bad continuity between scenes, like getting stabbed in the left upper arm, but then bandaging the right forearm??
Btw who thought that giving DGZ's eyebrows a winged eyeliner shape was a good idea?? What is this weird tip at the end???
To add some details to what bothered me:
It's fine that they wanted to focus on Day's mental state and just leave Mhok's trauma mostly unaddressed bcs I think there wouldn't have been enough time to do both well. But then they should have addressed the elephant in the room: Why does it feel like Day is the one who pities himself the most even when you had thought he stopped and had already accepted his blindness. He wants to live a normal life and be treated like a normal person but is the first to accuse anyone of pitying him.
E.g. when he wins the money for his dance he still says it's just bcs the hotel owner pities him - how I wished Mhok would have said sth, bcs at that point I thought Day was already over it and had stopped even worrying about people pitying him.
Also, making Mhok apologize twice for sth he didn't do is just wrong and out of character. I never thought that he pitied Day and then he admits it himself? It was fine imo that Day wanted to break up bcs he feels like he is holding Mhok back, but it's definitely not okay to blame Mhok that he pitied him when he was just afraid to lose him, even more so because of his past trauma. I really wished that Day's family would have defended Mhok right in the moment of the break up because that was the point where I thought Day needs to hear that he himself is the one who keeps bringing that up as weapon against everyone when it's just not true.
Not everyone is pitying Day and he is always so convinced about it that I can't help but think that Day never grew as a character and stopped pitying himself. That's why I can't take that ending, not because they decided to give him his sight back but because it felt like Day never had accepted his blindness and truly believed one could live a happy life as a blind person.
Even when Day said sth along the line of "I learned that true blindness is losing hope", I thought that (even though he was devastated in that moment) he realized he had found his hope in the love that Mhok and his family showed him and therefore believed that one can live happily as a blind person, but his later actions just erased all that mental growth.
No matter how much I love borderline-obsessive love stories if the overbearing partner does never learn and doesn't seem to start respecting the other a little bit more, it just doesn't sit right with me. I swear if he had said "you're mine" one more time, I'm gonna punch a hole in my screen.
The acting was really good, the chemistry of all the pairs was fire and all the kiss scenes felt genuinely comfortable, no awkwardness at all! (Honestly, hoping for a spin off for Feng Jie x Xin Jia. Rooting for them all the way! 😆)
Some may say it's cringey (which it definitely is from time to time), but that's okay because it literally conveyed how the beginning stages of love feel imo - that warm fuzzy feeling that is hard to put into words, that grinning smile that won't leave your face and the giggles that unknowingly escape your mouth when you think about each other - borderline cringey in others' eyes, but such a sweet, deep and real feeling. 🥰
The only downside is that the whole story with the father and brother was brushed over a little too quickly and therefore felt kinda pointless, but for the limited eps they had and the rest being that good, I'll just happily ignore that. Sometimes you just need a drama mainly focusing on the good and the blossoming love of two individuals that doesn't make you too concerned about all the bad things happening and surrounding them. Like we know that they do anyway, can we ignore it for a second and bathe in the bliss that feeling in love is pls? 🥹