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Would have benefitted from a better director!
The drama could have been better!
I read the book and enjoyed it but I had a hard time finishing the drama.
I had a hard time with the flow of the drama. The relationship did not flow for me. In parts, it was slow and in other parts too quick.
Instead of the filler episodes, I would have loved a more fleshed out development of their feelings for each other's as adults with their real personalities.
I also had a hard time with FL emotional acting (I think bubbly characters suit her more. The emotions of someone stalked and insulted online, whose father was taken hostage were not well shown in her acting). Miles Wei did better in the few moments where he had to show emotions especially during his scenes with the younger actress playing his baby sister when their family was insulted and shunned because his father was a defence lawyer. He is the more experienced actor but I really hope that he branches out of these roles and takes on more fleshed out characters. He is typecast into these roles but he is working well with the script he has. The FL I feel was a miscast, or she maybe would have done well if she had been given more direction in how to interpret her characters emotions. This is just my opinion.
Special mention to 2nd couple. I loved them but their story could have been more developed if the break up with their previous partners happened earlier in the story or if their interactions were more subtle from the beginning (directors know how to show connections or potential chemistry with very little). Their relationship was too quick, there was no getting to know each other. You don't even know why they like each other... but the chemistry was there. I would have loved to see them in another drama as a couple.
Overall an ok drama for me. Could have been better. 7/10.
I read the book and enjoyed it but I had a hard time finishing the drama.
I had a hard time with the flow of the drama. The relationship did not flow for me. In parts, it was slow and in other parts too quick.
Instead of the filler episodes, I would have loved a more fleshed out development of their feelings for each other's as adults with their real personalities.
I also had a hard time with FL emotional acting (I think bubbly characters suit her more. The emotions of someone stalked and insulted online, whose father was taken hostage were not well shown in her acting). Miles Wei did better in the few moments where he had to show emotions especially during his scenes with the younger actress playing his baby sister when their family was insulted and shunned because his father was a defence lawyer. He is the more experienced actor but I really hope that he branches out of these roles and takes on more fleshed out characters. He is typecast into these roles but he is working well with the script he has. The FL I feel was a miscast, or she maybe would have done well if she had been given more direction in how to interpret her characters emotions. This is just my opinion.
Special mention to 2nd couple. I loved them but their story could have been more developed if the break up with their previous partners happened earlier in the story or if their interactions were more subtle from the beginning (directors know how to show connections or potential chemistry with very little). Their relationship was too quick, there was no getting to know each other. You don't even know why they like each other... but the chemistry was there. I would have loved to see them in another drama as a couple.
Overall an ok drama for me. Could have been better. 7/10.
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