Except for the superb fighting scenes, the rest were a boring dupe of a crime investigative genre
It will always be a challenge for any writer and director in the production of the same genre to be favored by the eyes of the onscreen viewers. Very few succeeded in crossing the comparison and they truly are gifted in their crafts.Forgive me for saying this because this drama was a failure of those efforts. Among the elements I appreciated the less are the following:
1. The crime cases and the investigation process were predictable. It was not doing the effect of cracking my impression.
2. The funny scenes were not funny at all. Something was off with the timing and dialogue.
3. The characterization of the six main members of the Judicial Review Office was jeopardized by the poor story execution. It was a total waste for such a unique balanced composition of roles.
And so there, boredom strikes me here and dropped it all the way. Didn't bother myself anymore finding out the mystery of Li Bing's character turning into a white cat.
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A well-told story about the irreplaceable legacy of a sect leader after a selfless self-destruction
This was my very first watching a Chinese drama that was a non-romantic genre that hooked me all the way. A drama that has a substance in which the underlying conflicts, twists, and turns in the development of the story hardly made me stop watching it continuously. There were some predictable scenes at some point in the episodes however; it did not weaken the flow of the story.The selection of casts was great. Joseph Zeng was particularly outstanding here. His performance in this drama went beyond Cheng Yi’s acting as the main lead. His characterization stood out among the rest and was noticeable in the entire drama. I recently watched him in “Romance on the Farm” and he already captured my attention there with his baby face looks, not so much of the acting yet. But in this drama, he properly delivered the role and saw in him a promising actor to watch for.
The component of humor I think also brought this drama receptive to viewers. The shift of tone to make a certain dialogue or scene funny by adding background sound effects was amazingly done by the technical and editing team which indeed made me laugh. Well, the fighting scenes were given for the wuxia enthusiasts and I also enjoyed watching those sharp moves.
I was absolutely satisfied after relying on my choice to watch it from one of the many approving reviews I have read.
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Jeremy Tsui as the lead was not good enough to appreciate this show.
I thought it could measure up to "Autumn Ballad" where I first saw Jeremy Tsui and began adoring him, unfortunately, it failed to do so. I have watched a few dramas with the same slow storytelling pace and still, it pushed my interest to finish the show. With this one, each episode made me struggle with whether I should continue watching until the end.I believed it has a potential storyline. The screenwriter could have shortened those scenes in which the FL was acting up as a fragile and feeble woman. Those scenes in particular bored me a lot and made me decide to drop it.
I also did not feel the chemistry between Jeremy Tsui and the FL. Their early romantic interactions were especially dull and missed the heart-moving effect.
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Ruined my pleasure on the last 2 episodes
Although this drama let me down in the end, I still gave an eight rating because of its interesting storyline. The story follows an overly possessive older sister to her adopted younger sister who developed romantic feelings toward her which caused a drift in their relationships as siblings.I am always fond of female characters playing roles with resolute personalities like the four women in this drama. But each of them was not entirely fearless all the time when their weaknesses were thrown back at them. The same with the male actors here, a mature married man and a single young man who were both clever in protecting the female lead from her older sister.
Everything was going well until episodes 11 and 12 where the heights of the confrontations happened. it was overplayed with too many lines from the older sister justifying her evil actions rooted in her painful experiences with men in her life. It failed to attain the dramatic art in which the viewers, should be emotionally immersed along with the character. And then, some unrealistic scenes where no one ever noticed the older sister putting a piece of broken glass inside her pocket even with people surrounding her and how come the ex-husband would know the escape car used and chased her ex-wife when he was in the hospital during the caught scene.
Felt bad for this drama that it broke the chain of excitement due to the poor execution of the most important scenes.
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Thread of scenes and how the FL's character was made drive me off
Fair to say this drama indeed has an interesting storyline but watching it did not make me feel good. The following are my reasons why I ought to drop it.1. The mother of the young boy (this child at a young age already identified himself as a girl) embraced her son's true personality and let him show himself to everyone as a girl which naturally was disapproved by the people around them. She should have protected her son by keeping it secret in the meantime and should have known that he was too young to handle society's mockery.
2. This Uncle Chat (not blood-related to the young boy but bonded through family relations) was deeply attached to the young boy until his teenage years. His scenes of recalling their memories together were like he was missing his lover and preempting the story that they will be lovers in the future.
3. Nira (the adult female transformation of the young boy) kept on telling lies to those people who were sincerely helping her to start a new life as a woman just so she can indulge in a romantic relationship with her Uncle Chat who was still married without love to her Aunt and carry on her revenge plans. Her thoughtlessness, selfishness, and unmindfulness always create scandals that jeopardized the situations of those people whose after her welfare.
4. The object of Nira's revenge was to destroy her father and yet. he would allow him to touch and caress her maliciously when she could have instantly repelled it.
5. The onset of Nira and Uncle Chat's romance was displeasing because it was an illicit affair and Nira was deceiving him for not telling who she really was.
The above conflicts may appear agreeable to many but certainly not to my standards of how I gauge a prime drama to watch.
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