The characters yes (which makes the story a fairy tale one, but don't we love those, bow in the hair and all),…
Yes, the Fish is not so wholesome as the shorter one, so sorry for even having mentioned it. Tried one episode and likewise, did not stay... But by midsummer, we shall be swamped again with exciting titles.
The Insomnia was a very pleasant modern fairy tale with fluffy dolls. We did not get to see their future adorable kids, but we did get to see a long kissing moment, and a cute kid's "ideal family" drawing.
This drama was so sweet that I could not help dropping lines of praise in review and rate it accordingly. Contrary to the disparaging review by someone who did not bother watching it through, criticizing the realism when it was so obviously a modern fairy tale, well done. I did not even mind the big "gift" bow that our doll Snow Kong proudly wore !
The characters yes (which makes the story a fairy tale one, but don't we love those, bow in the hair and all),…
That's definitely a quicker cookie : 18 x 9 or11 minutes episodes with already 10 posted to kiss ? Fun and mystery? Looks like nice dessert watching too . I still have an hour idle so might gobble up the 10 spoonfuls... - thanks for recom ;)
Since we're going trippin' to islands, have you cast a glance at Fish Show You ? 18 x 40 mins on Youku. 6 episodes out already on kiss. Might be nice too when caught in a heat wave and gasping for air or a fresh sea breeze!
The characters yes (which makes the story a fairy tale one, but don't we love those, bow in the hair and all),…
Yes, eagerly waiting for finale while tackling on a whim first episode of Dominator of Martial Gods because of the sensational title :)
I will check out the relevant MDL page later, after having viewed this first episode without other influence. That's how I watch dramas, usually. Now putting on hold some other ones that I find I am finally less involved about. I may come back to them after finale : they are not bad, or boring, just I heaped too many on my "watching" plate, so need to put some in the "virtual fridge" for later, esp since more fresh excitement is being forecast for after midsummer day ;)
the fact they're 20 and 22 respectively is so crazy to me like they're literal babies (oh god i'm so old)
The characters yes (which makes the story a fairy tale one, but don't we love those, bow in the hair and all), but the actors are quite seasoned and more in their 26-27 years old. This was a nice drama thanks to the cute pair of dolls (Tongtong and Yanxu). Love and forgiving, future oriented pragmatist mind will cure all past wrongs, the serious ones and the peccadilloes: to reform and to be faithful after having been exposed is what matters. How pleasant, not to insist on public apologies and losing-face humiliations for the money grubbers, liars and power seekers. And yes, reminding that trials and challenges are also opportunities, so a game that seems lost is not always a defeat, and No is not always a final answer. Other takeout : the threat of Go feed mosquitoes in Africa, how dire a curse! (Oh, I do hate tiger mosquitoes that are now everywhere, not only in China, causing very painful allergy reactions to some. But on the other hand, mosquitoes are really the worst creatures on this planet, with all the diseases they can bring; not only causing insomnia with their bzz around ears while out camping). Finale in 15+ hours... What shall we bet on : lovely colored flowers and fluffy grand wedding, glimpse of future with cute look alike twin kids ?
Do you. This is what Baidu explained about the OST : The ending theme song is called 《嘉宾》(Guest), written…
Well, I noticed it in longer dramas too. The Forbidden Flower (love that torrid romance!!) for instance recycled some songs too, one from a US movie that already got a Chinese adaptation in the webdrama Addicted Heroin, a famous HK song, and one haunting Korean OST one that got an English version for TFF. TFF carried me away enough so that I contributed to Discussion piece about the shooting locations. Perhaps I'm attracted more than others to possibly controversial shows. I also loved Lighter and Princess (OST is fire too) and Love Like The Galaxy in recent years.
"chaebol" is Korean. This is a C drama, Chinese. No chaebol ("A conglomerate of businesses, usually owned by a…
The child in the beginning, in the taxi, was ML young brother. The child in the end episode at the Public Affairs bureau is probably our FL+ML son since he rushes to FL to call her "mom", but you are right that this is suddenly dropped on us with no explanation on when, how, etc. Nor in which (perhaps imagined future) year since the story seemed to happen not later than 2019 overall.
Do you. This is what Baidu explained about the OST : The ending theme song is called 《嘉宾》(Guest), written…
That one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPzkNvWOcGc Sharp-eared c-drama lover, thanks for the tip! 🥰 Maybe that's why it sounded pleasing like a forgotten memory to me, after all...
Yes. It was said in the drama that he was cured of it in the first episodes. Perhaps it was a mistake in presentation…
Really surprising 180° character change after Gu Yi realized he was losing the one he really cared to keep most. "Love cures all", hahaha! Was this a romance? To me it was 80pc a thriller.
Anyway, I can't say I was bored or hated this drama, so, since there are some who want to scare off possibly interested audience with harsh condemnation and pronouncements that they felt good about dropping it (they are free to do so, of course), I decided to do a piece of review about it. Usually, I am too lazy an audience to spend time with reviewing chore. Even the ones I like best are often not reviewed by me, but I may express my views when I feel the reviews are too one sided, or when I think I really have something to add to or rave with what others wrote first. Even then, when I contribute a pinned discussion about some background feature in a drama, I don't bother much about reviewing. Skip A Beat being a thriller romance not necessitating background, I did not put up a discussion here, just contributed (perhaps too much) to general conversation here, reaping a nice recom to watch one Korean drama (Goblin) that perhaps, I will look up in the future. And some nice links to check out related to drama stuff, although spending time looking up more about Luo Zheng, He Ruixian, and songs were already much from me. So this and my review will wrap my involvement with commenting here for Skip A Beat...
Anyone else find it weird how this drama hasn’t created it’s own OST? I’ve noticed that all the songs played…
Do you. This is what Baidu explained about the OST : The ending theme song is called 《嘉宾》(Guest), written and composed by Wang Zeyan 王泽言 and Zhang Yuan 张远 (who is the male singer, with a pleasant voice). Lyricist and composer Fu Hao 付毫 also sang the song《空气》(Air) during episode, and is the author of the song 《Tell me why》 sung by He Ruixian in an interlude (but I did not pay enough attention to remember exactly where these two songs featured). The instrumental intro was pleasant and I had not heard it before; the piano pieces are of course widely recognizable to classic music lovers. It is not unusual that C dramas recycle known music into their soundtracks. Here, I did not notice Chinese songs that were previously frequently played on Chinese radio, but then I do not listen much to Chinese radio, and there are so many of them... And my Chinese song taste is probably different. Do you have precise titles that I could check ? You made me curious.
Ok I just finished this and I’m so confused about the whole bipolar thing. It was completely forgotten after…
Yes. It was said in the drama that he was cured of it in the first episodes. Perhaps it was a mistake in presentation or diagnose, since I don't think bipolar disorder can be so effectively cured.
Watching the trailer, "BTS", and character presentation on WeTV which warns to stay tuned (but does not state a date)... Until then, interesting trivia such as "25°C : the residual temperature of the 3,800 outfits after ironing ; 48°C the boxed lunches that feed the crew in winter..." It looks impressive and cold ! Just what will be needed for the countries hit by midsummer heat waves ?
Yes, GY mom did explain to her son. GY was unconcerned about the matter before QJ raised it. Why she was misunderstanding…
No I didn't watch All Is Well. You seem to have enjoyed it a lot 🙂 If you did not skip and ff and watched closely, as I mostly did (there were a few times when I had to get busy with other stuff and had to go back a bit to keep up with the twists and turns), then perhaps this will be a plot hole unless we suddenly get that tied down neatly in the next (and last) couple episodes. But however she was convinced this was SJ heart in the first place happened before the story, and QJ chose to disregard that "bond" from ep 8 or before, looking at the future instead of the past, so: not that crucial for later events in the drama. And when SJ showed up in the flesh, all the past misunderstanding about the heart transplant fell down the drain anyway. What I find more puzzling is how the "smart cookie" did not suspect SJ who had been strangely silent, ghosting from sidelines when she was being "oppressed" during those 3 years (even if we subtract one for recovering from leg injuries: that part is also a bigger plot hole, if not explained, btw. How could all QJ searching not have uncovered his hospital stay and rehabilitation whereabouts?).
is this worth watching guys? the ratings are abysmal☉_☉
It is up to you if you watch dramas because of ratings. As I answered someone else : I am not in that pack of monkeys. So... even if I will not it rate it straight 10, it probably won't sink below 8 from me (and I have rated some dramas down to 4 before : incl a previous Luo Zheng one, sigh. This one is way better as far as I am concerned). MDL rating at 7.4,takes into account those who like and those who hate it from 86 users at time of writing. That's NOT ABYSMAL esp if you compare it to your own statement "*** 7.0-8.0: watchable."
Here there are "already" 3 early reviews Including 2 "reviewers" (one of which posts 20 ep watched when ep 20 is not even out, and writes "dropped" it so : this review can be safely overlooked as rather dishonest) and another who states where stopped watching (ep 5). I am rather annoyed at such "influencers" who think it is their God given task to instruct audience in how to watch and think. The 3rd one wanted to show support to FL. Why not? I am not a fan of Luo Zheng, nor of any in the cast, but this outrageous drama was good fun for me. Nevertheless I will not spend more time fighting the flock of sheep who go all stampeding together at the tune of one size fits all thoughts and bias.
It's an OK drama if you watch it from black humor pov. Certainly not to the taste of everyone : pregnant women : avoid it. Looking only for kisses: probably not enough. Logic: adequate though some things are still unexplained at final -2 episodes. Thrills: quite a few. Counting spins on tropes : a festival. Acting and delivering dialogues: generally OK from my pov. Chemistry : not much worse than my fave Binbin and Wu Qian on your watch list (I liked that drama esp for Erbin, although disappointed by last couple episodes). So there. You are still watching 3 other dramas that I watch too, but given your profile and your above question, I'd say you will be too faint-hearted for this one. Stay with The Youth Memories and BOR : they are more comfortable for you (I much like them too, even contributed a Discussion piece to the first one, when I started watching it, weeks back).
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But by midsummer, we shall be swamped again with exciting titles.
The Insomnia was a very pleasant modern fairy tale with fluffy dolls. We did not get to see their future adorable kids, but we did get to see a long kissing moment, and a cute kid's "ideal family" drawing.
I did not even mind the big "gift" bow that our doll Snow Kong proudly wore !
Since we're going trippin' to islands, have you cast a glance at Fish Show You ? 18 x 40 mins on Youku. 6 episodes out already on kiss. Might be nice too when caught in a heat wave and gasping for air or a fresh sea breeze!
I will check out the relevant MDL page later, after having viewed this first episode without other influence. That's how I watch dramas, usually.
Now putting on hold some other ones that I find I am finally less involved about. I may come back to them after finale : they are not bad, or boring, just I heaped too many on my "watching" plate, so need to put some in the "virtual fridge" for later, esp since more fresh excitement is being forecast for after midsummer day ;)
Love and forgiving, future oriented pragmatist mind will cure all past wrongs, the serious ones and the peccadilloes: to reform and to be faithful after having been exposed is what matters. How pleasant, not to insist on public apologies and losing-face humiliations for the money grubbers, liars and power seekers. And yes, reminding that trials and challenges are also opportunities, so a game that seems lost is not always a defeat, and No is not always a final answer.
Other takeout : the threat of Go feed mosquitoes in Africa, how dire a curse! (Oh, I do hate tiger mosquitoes that are now everywhere, not only in China, causing very painful allergy reactions to some. But on the other hand, mosquitoes are really the worst creatures on this planet, with all the diseases they can bring; not only causing insomnia with their bzz around ears while out camping).
Finale in 15+ hours... What shall we bet on : lovely colored flowers and fluffy grand wedding, glimpse of future with cute look alike twin kids ?
The Forbidden Flower (love that torrid romance!!) for instance recycled some songs too, one from a US movie that already got a Chinese adaptation in the webdrama Addicted Heroin, a famous HK song, and one haunting Korean OST one that got an English version for TFF.
TFF carried me away enough so that I contributed to Discussion piece about the shooting locations.
Perhaps I'm attracted more than others to possibly controversial shows. I also loved Lighter and Princess (OST is fire too) and Love Like The Galaxy in recent years.
Sharp-eared c-drama lover, thanks for the tip! 🥰
Maybe that's why it sounded pleasing like a forgotten memory to me, after all...
Anyway, I can't say I was bored or hated this drama, so, since there are some who want to scare off possibly interested audience with harsh condemnation and pronouncements that they felt good about dropping it (they are free to do so, of course), I decided to do a piece of review about it. Usually, I am too lazy an audience to spend time with reviewing chore. Even the ones I like best are often not reviewed by me, but I may express my views when I feel the reviews are too one sided, or when I think I really have something to add to or rave with what others wrote first.
Even then, when I contribute a pinned discussion about some background feature in a drama, I don't bother much about reviewing. Skip A Beat being a thriller romance not necessitating background, I did not put up a discussion here, just contributed (perhaps too much) to general conversation here, reaping a nice recom to watch one Korean drama (Goblin) that perhaps, I will look up in the future. And some nice links to check out related to drama stuff, although spending time looking up more about Luo Zheng, He Ruixian, and songs were already much from me.
So this and my review will wrap my involvement with commenting here for Skip A Beat...
It is not unusual that C dramas recycle known music into their soundtracks.
Here, I did not notice Chinese songs that were previously frequently played on Chinese radio, but then I do not listen much to Chinese radio, and there are so many of them...
And my Chinese song taste is probably different.
Do you have precise titles that I could check ? You made me curious.
Perhaps it was a mistake in presentation or diagnose, since I don't think bipolar disorder can be so effectively cured.
If you did not skip and ff and watched closely, as I mostly did (there were a few times when I had to get busy with other stuff and had to go back a bit to keep up with the twists and turns), then perhaps this will be a plot hole unless we suddenly get that tied down neatly in the next (and last) couple episodes. But however she was convinced this was SJ heart in the first place happened before the story, and QJ chose to disregard that "bond" from ep 8 or before, looking at the future instead of the past, so: not that crucial for later events in the drama. And when SJ showed up in the flesh, all the past misunderstanding about the heart transplant fell down the drain anyway.
What I find more puzzling is how the "smart cookie" did not suspect SJ who had been strangely silent, ghosting from sidelines when she was being "oppressed" during those 3 years (even if we subtract one for recovering from leg injuries: that part is also a bigger plot hole, if not explained, btw. How could all QJ searching not have uncovered his hospital stay and rehabilitation whereabouts?).
As I answered someone else : I am not in that pack of monkeys. So... even if I will not it rate it straight 10, it probably won't sink below 8 from me (and I have rated some dramas down to 4 before : incl a previous Luo Zheng one, sigh. This one is way better as far as I am concerned).
MDL rating at 7.4,takes into account those who like and those who hate it from 86 users at time of writing.
That's NOT ABYSMAL esp if you compare it to your own statement "*** 7.0-8.0: watchable."
Here there are "already" 3 early reviews Including 2 "reviewers" (one of which posts 20 ep watched when ep 20 is not even out, and writes "dropped" it so : this review can be safely overlooked as rather dishonest) and another who states where stopped watching (ep 5). I am rather annoyed at such "influencers" who think it is their God given task to instruct audience in how to watch and think.
The 3rd one wanted to show support to FL. Why not?
I am not a fan of Luo Zheng, nor of any in the cast, but this outrageous drama was good fun for me. Nevertheless I will not spend more time fighting the flock of sheep who go all stampeding together at the tune of one size fits all thoughts and bias.
It's an OK drama if you watch it from black humor pov. Certainly not to the taste of everyone : pregnant women : avoid it. Looking only for kisses: probably not enough. Logic: adequate though some things are still unexplained at final -2 episodes. Thrills: quite a few. Counting spins on tropes : a festival. Acting and delivering dialogues: generally OK from my pov. Chemistry : not much worse than my fave Binbin and Wu Qian on your watch list (I liked that drama esp for Erbin, although disappointed by last couple episodes).
So there.
You are still watching 3 other dramas that I watch too, but given your profile and your above question, I'd say you will be too faint-hearted for this one. Stay with The Youth Memories and BOR : they are more comfortable for you (I much like them too, even contributed a Discussion piece to the first one, when I started watching it, weeks back).