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Echo of a Letter chinese drama review
Ongoing 6/14
Echo of a Letter
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by Grizzly bear
9 days ago
6 of 14 episodes seen
Ongoing
Overall 8.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.5
This review may contain spoilers

Despite it's flaws. The drama is really heart fluttering.

I saw a lot of reviews about this being a AI slop. Guys please don't trust them. The drama has real actors although they did use a lot of AI in the ep 1 for the cars, backgrounds, flashbacks and background artists but after ep 1 it has drastically reduced.

Now coming to the drama. The drama on it's own is really cute. I loved the plot. I love the characters. I love the actors. Both the leads and the 2nd couple look surreal. Especially the leads they look like gods🤭🤭. Chen Wan especially looks like dunk, the styling, his looks, body language, pretty much everything. As for Sheng.. who can say no to a long haired god🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Ok that's like the pros now the drama isn't perfect. It has it's fault which I feel in most cases is the production team's laziness like
- use of AI when not necessary like when they show chen wan's house in a wide shot. The 1st shot is AI but when they're leaving u can see that it's a real house so they probably took a picture of a house and prompted it into a video. They do this again in ep 6 for the hotel and a couple of places. They're real places, they could have just rented a drone and shot the clip or something. Car chases are okay as AI cz i get they cost a lot but this just didn't feel right
- the characters entry in ep 1 without an proper intro. It took me a while to figure out who was who and what they did cz I've never read the novel
- they could give us more of the 2nd couple cz i feel they're more like existing in the background but then they show them enough to make us wanna know more but don't give us enough.
- The support characters casting - looks like the team just didn't wanna put any effort into casting except for the 2 main characters, 4 friends, and the girls. Cz in ep 5 we have this while guy who is introduced as sheng's friend and his character also seems to be something that should be young based on the dialogs but bro was old like they didn't find a young white man so they bought a random white man, same for sheng's grandpa they've turned a young man old and it was obvious
- The dubbing... sigh... why??
- Other than this we have Yu Song's acting, bro just has 0 expression throughout the series. Having to rely on the dubbed dialog's emotions to understand things kinda makes it hard to understand things at times which also makes him look like he is AI. But he does have this dreamy eyes that kinda saves him.

Despite all this, I totally think you should watch it. It is good. It was watchable and you will love it. It's just could be made better
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