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Incomplete Disappointment
The only acting I liked was by the main leads and the girl pretending to be a boy in the group. The ML having a chip in his brain which has to be changed every ten years and when that happens his memories will be wiped. There wasn’t much backstory to his past except for very few flashbacks and a brief couple minutes explaining him and his father got in an accident and if the child version of ML didn’t have surgery he won’t have much mobility but with surgery would require a chip for him to function but will wipe his memories. We see tech beyond our times so there’s not much sense for it in story. Then you got an unfinished story since this premiered in 2018. No updates about finishing or scraping the drama. Being left on a 3 year cliffhanger is very irritating. Music is very mediocre in the drama and the story is disorganized. The only thing that would keep me going is to find out the managers involvement with the boy member who was hit by the car in the first episode, see the revenge and see what happens when the FL’s friend who is pretending to be the one the ML likes since his memory is wiped. We’re left with he made a tape attempting explain things. Will this drama ever be completed? I would recommend NOT to watch this until there is a confirmed part 3.Was this review helpful to you?
This drama is incomplete.
The most important thing to know about this drama:They never finished it. Midway through season 2 I had a feeling that there was going to need to be a season 3, but I checked MDL and it says 1 season with 24 episodes. So I carried on to S2E12 thinking this was going to be a garbage ending. I kept stopping to check the time remaining, thinking how much they were going to smush into the last 10, 8, 6 minutes...and then that was it. This was not just a dumb ending- it was clearly meant to be the cliffhanger between seasons, they just didn't make the last season. I cannot understand why iQIYI would offer a drama that was unfinished, but I think it is tasteless of them to do so.
The other things I have to say about this drama:
I started this as a filler between more...intense...dramas, and it definitly fit that category. The story was mediocre, and came with a sci-fi twist that I wasn't expecting. Most of the acting was generic, but there were two standouts- Liu Dong Qin and Wang Man Yu. Wang Man Yu's character is the ONLY girl-pretending-to-be-boy character I have seen that has had a grain of realism. Ithought she played her part masterfully (except for that one weird backstage scene). Liu Dong Qin really impressed me with his range, moving from arrogant to sweet to playful to serious and all that's in between. His emotional scenes felt very sincere, and pulled me in to a story I was otherwise just coasting with. I will definitly be looking up both of these actors. The only other actor that drew my attention was Zhou Yan Chen- and that was because the whole time I couldn't get over how much he reminded me of SHINee's Key.
For a story centered on dance, it was pretty polarized for me. Once again, Liu Dong Qin drew my attention, this time with his dance. He either has a gift, or has dedicated a lot of time to master his craft. I thought his dancing in the tunnel scene was very skilled(?) but also very natural. And the dance-off between his character and Yan Chen's was insane! Zhou Yan Chen also danced very well. But the rest provided some of my least favorite dancing to date. The trainees and the diva just looked like they were showing off their bodies, and the FL just looked awkward.
To sum up, I was surprised by this series offering more than I expected and disappointed to not have closure. I cannot recommend it to anyone because of the fatal flaw of fragmentation, which is a disservice to the effort put in by the two standout actors.
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