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You Are My Hero chinese drama review
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You Are My Hero
1 people found this review helpful
by Mixity
May 6, 2021
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
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Honest opinion - You Are My Hero (2021)

This might be one of the best C-dramas of the first quarter of 2021. I'm leaving out any fantasy or crime or any other genre, but it was almost perfect in action-romance wise. Right now I'm waiting for subtitles for 'One boat, One world' because as much as of what I've seen and who the actors are, it will be one of my fav c-dramas, I trust my instincts.

First, I think this drama had a solid storyline, it wasn't overdramatized as so many Chinese modern romance dramas are these days. The storyline wasn't a surprise and I could guess almost every part of it, but it was still fun, intriguing, emotional, warm, logical, etc. For me, if there would have been a bit more romance, or more straight forward romance, that would have been great, but this only brought the score down a little bit. Side character stories were pretty good, but I would add that also, like the main couple, even though they were shown well, instead of making them have such a long time to get together, having so many misunderstandings, they should have made them a bit easier to understand each other and show the together time a bit more interesting and sweet. Misunderstandings and problems are reasonably understandable in dramas or stories, but if they take too much time out of the screen time, it makes it difficult to watch, or sometimes a bit boring and I would suggest instead concentrating on real problems and true love-relationship scenarios not only the way to get to them. But still, this drama was good enough to get a review from me, there are so many Chinese dramas I've finished lately, that though good, were never good enough to get it.

I agree that the music was good, but it wasn't impressive. I dislike so many sound effects they use in dramas, and I have to say this drama didn't have too many, but still enough to annoy me and even though the soundtrack was good, it was not balanced as I like and it was too sweet for the whole of this drama. I'm not saying the songs are not good, but they're not amazing either and to implement the mood, the scenes, etc, it wasn't good enough for me, it didn't impress me enough.

I am pretty satisfied with the action/dramatic scenes in this drama. First, they were good, sometimes really good, they implemented real-life actions, psychology, problems, troubles, emotions, etc. I think it was well thought out and it wasn't too excessive. I don't know Chinese, but I've seen medical dramas before, there were either flaws with translation or sad mistakes in medical language, but not many. I know almost nothing about military/police language, so I can't say anything about the structure about what is real, what isn't, but it felt convincing, which means it was really good.

Right now I might have pissed off many people who liked this drama a lot :D I don't really bother myself with it as everyone has their own opinions and feelings.

Actors. Side characters were pretty well selected, their parts were not as full as I wish them to be, but the comic relief to the drama was performed well. I would say for acting they could get a 6.5 score-wise.
The main two actors are familiar to me. From 'Ping pong life' and 'Love me if you dare'. Bai Jing Ting is a good actor. He has his nuances I would like to see more. I like his concentration, as an actor and the way he shows it as a character. He has a specific character nature, He's played in a lot of movies and dramas, I have no doubt he is a good and very specific actor. Right now I can't blame him for the missing essence of this drama, some deepness of romance, I still think it has a lot to do with the scriptwriters. For Ma Si Chun... I loved her with Wallace Huo, she impressed me a lot. Now in this drama, I saw that the same sweetness is apparent. She is sweet and almost as good and deep in her acting as I like. As I just wrote, almost. Though these two have great chemistry in 'You are my hero', I can't really say it's unforgettable. There is missing some romance aspects and I'm not talking about too bold and over the wall acting, I don't expect it to be a Western drama, but even though their sweet together and I can manage to understand them as a couple, and like them as one, I still feel like there is something missing. With great male-female leads in dramas, even if the script is somewhat lacking and I think it could/should be better if the chemistry between actors is good enough, I have no problem with it. But here I felt something missing from the beginning to the end. Someone recently told me that even if I can imagine writing a better plot, there would be new problems arising. I agree with him, I can imagine writing some of their scenes better, but I can't imagine changing the whole plot and having it come out perfectly and in a way others and myself would be happy. So I won't criticise this problem anymore. Like I said. I like both of these actors and they did a great job. I Will definitely watch other series from them and see if it was this drama that had a chemistry problem or is it seen more often and then will make up my mind, what and where exactly is the problem.

Overall, I'm still saying it's a really good drama. I do suggest it to people who like Chinese dramas, I think it has an overall good storyline, good actors and pretty well-developed romance aspects. Even though 40episodes is a pretty long time to take out of our daily lives, I don't think this drama is a waste of time and it was worth my time. Just my honest opinion. :)
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