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Potentially Sweet
I found this drama a bit on the dredging side and a bit on the “what the heck?” side.
First: the transition between many of the episodes was nonexistent. At the end of one ep you’d be left hanging and then it was completely forgotten about in the first half of the eps. Then they were added for the last half.
Second: Bad camera work in spots - there was a scene where there was a close-up of feet running on a dirt road in the mountain during the earthquake. When the feet got closer to the viewer on the screen, you could see the ground bouncing like they were running on a piece of plastic. That was a huge fault. the second problem in this area was the lack of sound control in many of the scenes you can hear background noise that is completely unrelated to the drama. For example, when the new chief was introduced to the crew at the firehouse, you could clearly hear, military, marching or some sort of police training or fireman training in the background it was very vocal and very loud.
a third thing I noticed was some bad CGI replacement of when one of Dayin was climbing the cliff to rescue the boy after the earthquake, when you could see his feet moving on the side of the mountain, but he was not moving at all up the mountain. It was like he was crawling on glass.
While you never know what parts of the episodes get cut during censoring, there was not really a whole lot of editing to replace that smoothly. The story seemed to jump a bit and events happened that caused things that you saw, but you had no idea how they occurred in the first place.
On the Upside:
Overall, the acting was not bad considering the material they had to work with. There were many scenes of shy faces from the female lead and angsty faces from the male lead (but let’s face it Gong Jun is not hard to look at so that was not too distracting 😍).
A lot of the character development in all of the character rolls was either left out or censored out, so it was hard to adjust, watching the sudden change in many of the characters. There was also problems with concluding issues that they brought up with some of the characters, but never addressed. Again, those could have been left on the cutting room floor.
well many people have complained about the druglord being busted in the ending of the drama, it was something that needed to be done to clear the past from the male and female leads. In order for their relationship to actually function properly the mail lead really needed to let go of what had happened to his father and his guilt associated with that. Even though he was not responsible. He still held onto the pain from that event, and it kept him back in being able to fully commit to the female eat.
He also needed to get past the issue with the villain/toxic drug manufacturer who had harassed and bullied him in school. The events that took place with that person left a lasting impression on a kind and gentle person‘s heart, and he needed to deal with the trauma and the pain that was associated with it in order to again be able to be happily married with his new girlfriend.
as for the female lead, I had not seen her before, and found her acting quite good. The only issue I had with her character was that she was almost a split personality, where she would be extremely strong and determined one moment and then the next completely helpless and leaning on anybody and everybody to fix her fragility. That is not anything against the actress herself, it was just a flaw of the character. She did what she could with the role and made it her own.
Another good part of the drama was the endearing and trusting relationship between the brothers of the station house and the medical staff. It was good to see that their cooperation during the earthquake helped all of them to mature in some ways and others to gain more experience and understand that not every job that is out there is something that they should take lightly or assume to be something heroic when it actually can be quite laborious and very tiring.
the villain played his part very well. He was easy to spot from the very beginning, and he was very oily his personality, oozed crook and deceiver.
I appreciated that the family members were not hysterical or bossy or overbearing for the most part and no one snuck into anyone’s apartment and dug through their belongings to find personal things that they as parents thought they needed to know about their adult child’s life. it was nice to see a drama, where most of the parents were supportive and communicated well with their children.
as for the main characters in the drama, the male and female leads both did a good job for train two people who fell hopelessly in love at the beginning of their meeting and got together too quickly, and they had to navigate through adjusting to having someone in their life outside of themselves. It was good to see that their communication for the most part was open, and that they were willing to work with each other to get through the problems and overcome them for their future.
well I may sound very critical of the drama. These are things that annoyed me, but they did not detract from the fact that this was a very sweet drama that explored relationships on many levels and the consequences of not dealing with things that have traumatized you or victimized you or caused pain in your life when you encounter someone else. Be that male or female friend or in a relationship it’s important to learn how to look past your own prejudice and filters on how you view people and see them for who they are and not for who you think they are.
I would definitely watch this drama again at some point, but it won’t become one of my favorite comfort dramas - strictly for the fact that the story transitions just jumped all over the place and that it seemed like a lot of things were cut out.
I would suggest if you were on the fence to go ahead and watch the drama draw your own conclusion about the storyline and the characters and just let yourself enjoy the sweetness and silliness that comes with life and the interactions of other people.
First: the transition between many of the episodes was nonexistent. At the end of one ep you’d be left hanging and then it was completely forgotten about in the first half of the eps. Then they were added for the last half.
Second: Bad camera work in spots - there was a scene where there was a close-up of feet running on a dirt road in the mountain during the earthquake. When the feet got closer to the viewer on the screen, you could see the ground bouncing like they were running on a piece of plastic. That was a huge fault. the second problem in this area was the lack of sound control in many of the scenes you can hear background noise that is completely unrelated to the drama. For example, when the new chief was introduced to the crew at the firehouse, you could clearly hear, military, marching or some sort of police training or fireman training in the background it was very vocal and very loud.
a third thing I noticed was some bad CGI replacement of when one of Dayin was climbing the cliff to rescue the boy after the earthquake, when you could see his feet moving on the side of the mountain, but he was not moving at all up the mountain. It was like he was crawling on glass.
While you never know what parts of the episodes get cut during censoring, there was not really a whole lot of editing to replace that smoothly. The story seemed to jump a bit and events happened that caused things that you saw, but you had no idea how they occurred in the first place.
On the Upside:
Overall, the acting was not bad considering the material they had to work with. There were many scenes of shy faces from the female lead and angsty faces from the male lead (but let’s face it Gong Jun is not hard to look at so that was not too distracting 😍).
A lot of the character development in all of the character rolls was either left out or censored out, so it was hard to adjust, watching the sudden change in many of the characters. There was also problems with concluding issues that they brought up with some of the characters, but never addressed. Again, those could have been left on the cutting room floor.
well many people have complained about the druglord being busted in the ending of the drama, it was something that needed to be done to clear the past from the male and female leads. In order for their relationship to actually function properly the mail lead really needed to let go of what had happened to his father and his guilt associated with that. Even though he was not responsible. He still held onto the pain from that event, and it kept him back in being able to fully commit to the female eat.
He also needed to get past the issue with the villain/toxic drug manufacturer who had harassed and bullied him in school. The events that took place with that person left a lasting impression on a kind and gentle person‘s heart, and he needed to deal with the trauma and the pain that was associated with it in order to again be able to be happily married with his new girlfriend.
as for the female lead, I had not seen her before, and found her acting quite good. The only issue I had with her character was that she was almost a split personality, where she would be extremely strong and determined one moment and then the next completely helpless and leaning on anybody and everybody to fix her fragility. That is not anything against the actress herself, it was just a flaw of the character. She did what she could with the role and made it her own.
Another good part of the drama was the endearing and trusting relationship between the brothers of the station house and the medical staff. It was good to see that their cooperation during the earthquake helped all of them to mature in some ways and others to gain more experience and understand that not every job that is out there is something that they should take lightly or assume to be something heroic when it actually can be quite laborious and very tiring.
the villain played his part very well. He was easy to spot from the very beginning, and he was very oily his personality, oozed crook and deceiver.
I appreciated that the family members were not hysterical or bossy or overbearing for the most part and no one snuck into anyone’s apartment and dug through their belongings to find personal things that they as parents thought they needed to know about their adult child’s life. it was nice to see a drama, where most of the parents were supportive and communicated well with their children.
as for the main characters in the drama, the male and female leads both did a good job for train two people who fell hopelessly in love at the beginning of their meeting and got together too quickly, and they had to navigate through adjusting to having someone in their life outside of themselves. It was good to see that their communication for the most part was open, and that they were willing to work with each other to get through the problems and overcome them for their future.
well I may sound very critical of the drama. These are things that annoyed me, but they did not detract from the fact that this was a very sweet drama that explored relationships on many levels and the consequences of not dealing with things that have traumatized you or victimized you or caused pain in your life when you encounter someone else. Be that male or female friend or in a relationship it’s important to learn how to look past your own prejudice and filters on how you view people and see them for who they are and not for who you think they are.
I would definitely watch this drama again at some point, but it won’t become one of my favorite comfort dramas - strictly for the fact that the story transitions just jumped all over the place and that it seemed like a lot of things were cut out.
I would suggest if you were on the fence to go ahead and watch the drama draw your own conclusion about the storyline and the characters and just let yourself enjoy the sweetness and silliness that comes with life and the interactions of other people.
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