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Infomercial for China's Photovoltaic Panel Industry Mixed w/ a Boring Romance
I'm perplexed thinking what did I just watch? It felt like a giant infomercial with so much tedious dialogue about photovoltaic panels, then layered in with a romance storyline that had zero foundation. I finished the series with lots of skipping and contemplation of dropping during each episode.
The Good (not much):
- Scenery is beautiful, especially the snowing scenes
- The parents, besides the FL's dad, the other parents and grandparents of the ML and FL were not controlling or toxic
The Bad (Oh so much):
- FL (Zhao Jin Mai) - I truly don't understand why she keeps getting lead roles. She's average looking with very mediocre acting abilities. Limited facial expressions and emotional range. In all her roles where she's supposed to be youthful, charismatic and feisty - it feels very contrived (this series, Our Generation, Amidst a Snowstorm).
- ML (Song Wei Long) - first time seeing this actor. His acting was so one-dimensional, almost robotic.
- SML - the worse character ever. Mopey, self-loathing pity party the entire series with no real validity in his claim to her love or devotion.
- The love triangle made absolutely no sense at all. They dragged on the first crush heartbreak way too long for a seemingly one-side crush. They were never in a relationship to justify the forlorn heartache.
- Support characters (the college friend group) and FL's co-workers...had no backstory, just props to discuss and add substance to the FL's relationships.
- Propaganda pushing how China excels in photovoltaic panels, neuroscience, etc was excessive
The Good (not much):
- Scenery is beautiful, especially the snowing scenes
- The parents, besides the FL's dad, the other parents and grandparents of the ML and FL were not controlling or toxic
The Bad (Oh so much):
- FL (Zhao Jin Mai) - I truly don't understand why she keeps getting lead roles. She's average looking with very mediocre acting abilities. Limited facial expressions and emotional range. In all her roles where she's supposed to be youthful, charismatic and feisty - it feels very contrived (this series, Our Generation, Amidst a Snowstorm).
- ML (Song Wei Long) - first time seeing this actor. His acting was so one-dimensional, almost robotic.
- SML - the worse character ever. Mopey, self-loathing pity party the entire series with no real validity in his claim to her love or devotion.
- The love triangle made absolutely no sense at all. They dragged on the first crush heartbreak way too long for a seemingly one-side crush. They were never in a relationship to justify the forlorn heartache.
- Support characters (the college friend group) and FL's co-workers...had no backstory, just props to discuss and add substance to the FL's relationships.
- Propaganda pushing how China excels in photovoltaic panels, neuroscience, etc was excessive
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