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Summit of Our Youth chinese drama review
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Summit of Our Youth
3 people found this review helpful
by IA-000
12 days ago
23 of 23 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.5
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

A distraction I regret not dropping earlier !

It's going to be a quick review.

The drama was boring as hell but the natural chemistry made my heart flutter, so of course I couldn't drop it...
The chemistry was nice but after ep14, not only it got insipid but also the cp got boring interactions with dull dialogues. The storytelling was mediocre, it feels like the writing was uninterestes by the story they choose to write LOL.
Their chemistry was, as I wrote earlier, natural (which is rare in cdramaland) but it did lack depth and intensity.
I like how the two leads carried a very natural tone in their interactions instead of forcing a fake intensity for the sake of gaining attention, but those kissing scenes felt like a very superficial fan services level type of stuff (as most cdramas have)...

The writing is dull and boring, no brain stimulation at all, the psychology around the characters has potential but of course the lazy writing ruined it, nothing was that entertaining to watch, and the directing was generic.
I had to skip most of the drama, especially all the scenes with that stupid selfish fl's brother who was evil enough to get romantically involved with his sister's bully ...
Nothing that interesting was happening, the stories aroud the 2nd characters was also boring, they turned the 2nd ml pure evil, which was cringe af.

The last 4 episodes weren't that boring but lowkey pathetic, what  was the purpose of all that nonsense, like what are we supposed to learn from this? Truly disappointing, you don't need your brain to watch this drama.
Tbh, it was simply a distraction for me. Blaming censorship isn't valid, the team behind the drama could've tried better and harder to finish the storyline with a better or even just a freaking decent ending.
The whole coma situation wasn't the problem, they should have been woken up much earlier and shown us how they would reconnect in real life, they were just too lazy to even try to give something decent... Basically, we saw two people dreaming of being able to change the past and that's that LOOOOL. No aftermath.
They also chose to close the drama with a scene with that pathetic brother and the psycho girl LMAOOO, THE DISRESPECT WAS REAL, a real clownerie ... ANYWAY.

The lack of efforts and intellectual abilities in the writing was disrespectful to the audience who watched the drama.
The acting was ok, but really nothing outstanding. I feel like often the fl lacked a lot of incarnation, she had a superficial embodiment of her character. The ml did ok but I feel like he could've display more range in his facial expressions (fl too, I mean lowkey the whole cast...).

I would recommand for the people who are considering watching this drama to just watch the scenes of the cp if you want something sweet to binge watch, it's the only good thing decent you'll get from it LOL.
I have zero interest in watching this drama ever again
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