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Quality Drama with Insane Acting
Reset is about time travel, a very unique concept but not new. The unique aspect is that he gets reborn 20 years ago in 1999, and this affects the way things are filmed. Like many have pointed out there are most likely some setting discrepancies from actually 1999, but as all BL, budgets are not very big and I believe old antiques are pretty pricey or no longer in production. Considering this, I say the production did a pretty good job trying to set up the setting.
Story wise, it’s pretty generic, and there may be sometimes where you may be like why they doing it this way. Or you may already know what to expect, they also didn’t give us a very smart villian. Yet why did I rate so highly for story? It’s because of the unique concept, when we usually watch time travels, the question comes to what would you do when you travel in time. What would you change? For Armin, he may have time traveled, but before all the success he had nothing. He may have had the knowledge of certain stuff, but he had nothing to really be using those knowledge for. What he really did was using his years of acting experience to be able to fix certain mistakes he made during his journey to the top and avoid what caused his death. It didn’t really focus on time travel terms at all, as Armin most likely didn’t care or didn’t know. Most importantly I appreciate the extreme focus on Tada and Armin relationship. No side couples, just entire focus on these 2 characters and how they come to love each other.
Acting was top notch, I appreciate the usage of experienced actors and it shows. Intense and electrifying connection is what I would describe the two main lead. Right from the first scene, their eyes can speak, and we can tell what they are thinking. Props to Peterpan, he has extremely control of his facial expressions and you can really feel his emotions based on what expression he was showing. Pond I watched from fourever you the series and he didn’t really stand out, but here he does. He matches peterpan with micro expression, and his beautiful smile which we can tell tada be falling for every sec.
Now the villains, the step bro, he has like a cute face, but he really became a villian that made me not like him. There’s many different types of villains and they didn’t give us a smart one, but they gave us a rapid dog one/psycho. Quite a unique choice for villains I say, precisely because he’s psycho, while he’s not a very smart one, he’s very unpredictable. The hardest folks to tackle are not those are only smart but those who have nothing to lose. He really dug deep into that aspect and we can see how he slowly spirals down the psycho path, because losing his mind at the end.
Productions
I appreciate the change in style of recording, while it didn’t fully feel like they were in 1999. The usage of certain lightings made it unique. The rain scene where Tada catches Armin was my fav. Whoever was doing the BGM, needs to do so for a lot more dramas. The songs he used wasn’t exactly good, but they were very good at when to slow down/stop, which part of the song to use and it really set the mood when I was watching.
Overall:
It’s a high quality BL drama that stands on its own. It has its own unique qualities that differ from other dramas and I would be willing to rewatch from time to time. The intense chemistry between the two MLs had, makes it worth folks to give it a try. I was reading that some folks consider this as cheesy, but maybe it’s because I watched much more cheesier bl dramas before, I didn’t really think it was cheesy at all 😅.
Story wise, it’s pretty generic, and there may be sometimes where you may be like why they doing it this way. Or you may already know what to expect, they also didn’t give us a very smart villian. Yet why did I rate so highly for story? It’s because of the unique concept, when we usually watch time travels, the question comes to what would you do when you travel in time. What would you change? For Armin, he may have time traveled, but before all the success he had nothing. He may have had the knowledge of certain stuff, but he had nothing to really be using those knowledge for. What he really did was using his years of acting experience to be able to fix certain mistakes he made during his journey to the top and avoid what caused his death. It didn’t really focus on time travel terms at all, as Armin most likely didn’t care or didn’t know. Most importantly I appreciate the extreme focus on Tada and Armin relationship. No side couples, just entire focus on these 2 characters and how they come to love each other.
Acting was top notch, I appreciate the usage of experienced actors and it shows. Intense and electrifying connection is what I would describe the two main lead. Right from the first scene, their eyes can speak, and we can tell what they are thinking. Props to Peterpan, he has extremely control of his facial expressions and you can really feel his emotions based on what expression he was showing. Pond I watched from fourever you the series and he didn’t really stand out, but here he does. He matches peterpan with micro expression, and his beautiful smile which we can tell tada be falling for every sec.
Now the villains, the step bro, he has like a cute face, but he really became a villian that made me not like him. There’s many different types of villains and they didn’t give us a smart one, but they gave us a rapid dog one/psycho. Quite a unique choice for villains I say, precisely because he’s psycho, while he’s not a very smart one, he’s very unpredictable. The hardest folks to tackle are not those are only smart but those who have nothing to lose. He really dug deep into that aspect and we can see how he slowly spirals down the psycho path, because losing his mind at the end.
Productions
I appreciate the change in style of recording, while it didn’t fully feel like they were in 1999. The usage of certain lightings made it unique. The rain scene where Tada catches Armin was my fav. Whoever was doing the BGM, needs to do so for a lot more dramas. The songs he used wasn’t exactly good, but they were very good at when to slow down/stop, which part of the song to use and it really set the mood when I was watching.
Overall:
It’s a high quality BL drama that stands on its own. It has its own unique qualities that differ from other dramas and I would be willing to rewatch from time to time. The intense chemistry between the two MLs had, makes it worth folks to give it a try. I was reading that some folks consider this as cheesy, but maybe it’s because I watched much more cheesier bl dramas before, I didn’t really think it was cheesy at all 😅.
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