the story is good from the start and later found boring due to a lot of characters. it should keep simple and…
I'm the opposite to you. I enjoy this one much more than the two you listed. Frankly I don't think it's that complex or hard to follow. So far it's fairly straightforward.
Now and again it's like watching the A-Team. Ancient drones, GPS tracking using butterflies. It's all fun and games. And I'm here for all of it. The first three episodes have possibly some of the best character introductions and set-ups I've seen in quite awhile. It's efficient, economical and even humorous. I'm particularly impressed with introduction of the main Liudao Tang team and their individual reactions to seeing Ning Yuanzhou after a time. You just know that you're among old friends/camarades.
Liu Shishi played a somewhat similar role in Vigilantes in Masks. But this character is older and more world weary. Definitely far more ruthless.
A second chance story with a Life on Mars reveal is not inherently bad but the problem is that all the investment…
The original Life on Mars is a famous BBC television series about a detective who after being left for dead in an altercation with a criminal seemingly goes back in time to his childhood in the 1970s. He's a detective in that period dealing with all kinds of policing issues and trying to solve crimes without all the modern advances and technology. He relives his childhood as an adult. He doesn't know what's going on half the time. Why he's in 1970? At times he thinks he's going mad. The title is based on a song by David Bowie. There's been several adaptation of it. The Korean one set in the late 1980s is really good. As good as the original. Haven't seen the others.
This is probably still my favourite C drama of the year thanks to the mesmerizing Xiang Liu. And on hindsight probably the best reverse harem since Love Like the Galaxy.
Can't wait to see Tan Jianci in Love Me Love My Voice, Under the Skin 2 and Part 2 of Lost You Forever.
The concept is good but this feels like a first or second draft script being hurried out for production. A lot more thought needed to be given to this. The police procedural side of things is very silly, trying to create obligatory conflict where none need exist. The lack of professionalism is cringe and them trying to make the male lead some kind of maverick just falls flat. The writing of the relationship between the leads is very clunky. He runs off stupidly and recklessly. She's there to hold him back and explain to him things so the audience gets some exposition and she can earn her keep.
I was curious about your take and I definitely agree about Zhang Zhe getting shortchanged. But I couldn't root for the leads. I felt so frustrated with ZZ's arc and wanted more so much that all the good will I had for the first half diminished. I was almost thinking that this show had a better reverse harem than Lost You Forever. The messaging of this show is all over the place.
I somewhat agree. I think overall it was a good drama with some interesting characters and the politics was interesting.…
I thought it was just me... but I felt the same. I don't think the show did a good job transitioning them from the student-teacher dynamic to lovers. I liked Xie Wei as the master strategist pining for someone he couldn't have rather than Xie Wei as the possessive lover.
I also think the fact that he gets everything he wants with no consequence is what's somewhat off putting.
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Ning: She's not my cousin
Qian: Then why don't you want to have a baby with her?
Ancient drones, GPS tracking using butterflies. It's all fun and games. And I'm here for all of it.
The first three episodes have possibly some of the best character introductions and set-ups I've seen in quite awhile. It's efficient, economical and even humorous. I'm particularly impressed with introduction of the main Liudao Tang team and their individual reactions to seeing Ning Yuanzhou after a time. You just know that you're among old friends/camarades.
Liu Shishi played a somewhat similar role in Vigilantes in Masks. But this character is older and more world weary. Definitely far more ruthless.
Yu Shisan (No. 13) is a hoot.
Both the leads are very cool. I like it already.
Can't wait to see Tan Jianci in Love Me Love My Voice, Under the Skin 2 and Part 2 of Lost You Forever.
The messaging of this show is all over the place.
I also think the fact that he gets everything he wants with no consequence is what's somewhat off putting.