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Yawn, boring!
When I saw the trailers for this I was hyped for the series. It looked like Moses Chan was going to be a modern day Wong Fei Hung: martial arts mixed with TCM doing righteous stuff in modern Hong Kong. But nooooo. This is one boring throw away drama from TVB to fill a gap in their programming in 2025 and for Moses to meet his contractual obligations. This was so boring I only kept watching because I paid to watch it and I wasn’t going to waste my money.
So Moses late father started a TCM medicinal oil company and managed to make it successful. Moses, instead of taking it over and helping his mom played by Angelina Lo, decided to leave the company in the hands of his maternal uncle and his wife and son. Who does that? We see part of the reason why was because he wanted to create his own medicinal oil line. Now you gotta think, why could he not just use his dad’s company to promote and sell his new medicinal oil? It was a well established brand already, it makes marketing sense.
We also discover Moses gave up being a TCM practitioner because he could not save his sister, played by using Rosita Kwok, ending with her passing away. This was such a blow to him that he stopped practicing TCM. Luckily he later decided to practice again after his love interest, played by Kelly Cheung, persuaded him since he could save people. Now Rosita had cerebral palsy, which has no cure, so I don’t know why Moses was beating himself up over TCM not working. He already knew there was no cure and his sister was also receiving western treatment, there was nothing more he could have done.
The drama was very predictable and it went through the typical TVB company embezzlement and family fortune nonsense we expected. Karl Ting played Moses cousin, and he along with his mother, played by Elvina Kong, were absolutely hateful in this drama. They had no redeeming qualities as every time they were onscreen they were arrogant and vindictive and disrespected Moses and his mom constantly. The drama was already boring, but adding to the crap factor were these two characters that were both so one-dimensional it became a farce.
Talking of characters I hated, Moon Lau’s role as an insurance broker who would sleep with clients to get the sale made my stomach churn. Her character was despicable and the drama had her sleep with Karl Ting and his father played by Timothy Cheng. Oh my gosh, when I saw it happen - in the same episode no less - I felt sick to my stomach. In the drama Karl knew his dad had unloaded inside her and yet he thought yes I’ll add to that congee. No! What are doing?
Mark Ma also exists in this drama as Moses’ best friend and sidekick, but he really had no reason to exist. You could remove him completely and the drama would still unfold as expected. They added him in there almost as an afterthought.
The drama’a only redeeming factors were allowing Angelina Lo play a genuinely nice character for a change instead of the hateful angry old woman she usually portrays. This made for a nice change as I usually only see her in roles where she is this angry woman and I really despise her in those roles. The other is seeing Moses Chan doing some real cool poses during some of the fight scenes he gets to do. However, to counter that, he never does a lot of fighting nor does he explain how he learned to fight since flashbacks do not show his father teaching him anything. It was as if suddenly Moses was some kinda kung fu genius.
I am overall very disappointed in this drama. There was potential here completely wasted. If they made this a Moses Chan wandering Hong Kong helping people and healing them it would have been cooler. Maybe make him meet an opponent who was too strong so he had to visit his master to learn the final 3 techniques that combined kung fu and TCM to defeat opponent, which he then used to defeat his opponent in a tournament… man that would have been so cool! Instead we have this throwaway filler drama to fill a programming gap in 2025. Terrible ah.
So Moses late father started a TCM medicinal oil company and managed to make it successful. Moses, instead of taking it over and helping his mom played by Angelina Lo, decided to leave the company in the hands of his maternal uncle and his wife and son. Who does that? We see part of the reason why was because he wanted to create his own medicinal oil line. Now you gotta think, why could he not just use his dad’s company to promote and sell his new medicinal oil? It was a well established brand already, it makes marketing sense.
We also discover Moses gave up being a TCM practitioner because he could not save his sister, played by using Rosita Kwok, ending with her passing away. This was such a blow to him that he stopped practicing TCM. Luckily he later decided to practice again after his love interest, played by Kelly Cheung, persuaded him since he could save people. Now Rosita had cerebral palsy, which has no cure, so I don’t know why Moses was beating himself up over TCM not working. He already knew there was no cure and his sister was also receiving western treatment, there was nothing more he could have done.
The drama was very predictable and it went through the typical TVB company embezzlement and family fortune nonsense we expected. Karl Ting played Moses cousin, and he along with his mother, played by Elvina Kong, were absolutely hateful in this drama. They had no redeeming qualities as every time they were onscreen they were arrogant and vindictive and disrespected Moses and his mom constantly. The drama was already boring, but adding to the crap factor were these two characters that were both so one-dimensional it became a farce.
Talking of characters I hated, Moon Lau’s role as an insurance broker who would sleep with clients to get the sale made my stomach churn. Her character was despicable and the drama had her sleep with Karl Ting and his father played by Timothy Cheng. Oh my gosh, when I saw it happen - in the same episode no less - I felt sick to my stomach. In the drama Karl knew his dad had unloaded inside her and yet he thought yes I’ll add to that congee. No! What are doing?
Mark Ma also exists in this drama as Moses’ best friend and sidekick, but he really had no reason to exist. You could remove him completely and the drama would still unfold as expected. They added him in there almost as an afterthought.
The drama’a only redeeming factors were allowing Angelina Lo play a genuinely nice character for a change instead of the hateful angry old woman she usually portrays. This made for a nice change as I usually only see her in roles where she is this angry woman and I really despise her in those roles. The other is seeing Moses Chan doing some real cool poses during some of the fight scenes he gets to do. However, to counter that, he never does a lot of fighting nor does he explain how he learned to fight since flashbacks do not show his father teaching him anything. It was as if suddenly Moses was some kinda kung fu genius.
I am overall very disappointed in this drama. There was potential here completely wasted. If they made this a Moses Chan wandering Hong Kong helping people and healing them it would have been cooler. Maybe make him meet an opponent who was too strong so he had to visit his master to learn the final 3 techniques that combined kung fu and TCM to defeat opponent, which he then used to defeat his opponent in a tournament… man that would have been so cool! Instead we have this throwaway filler drama to fill a programming gap in 2025. Terrible ah.
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