Editorials Details
- Last Online: 3 days ago
- Gender: Female
- Location: Secret Forest
- Contribution Points: 0 LV0
- Birthday: February 22
- Roles:
- Join Date: August 1, 2017
- Awards Received:
2
4
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
5
Editorials
Editorials
Celebrity
2
4
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
5
When you said they died protecting the Wing kind, are you saying the Wind kind extinct in this series? Or they won the battle but both of them died?
But I utterly despise Yoon Nan Jong's Because This Is My First Life. It is a mess of a drama and the relationship between the leads are just toxic -- esp the FL and her passive aggressive behaviors towards the ML everytime he didnt behave according to her narrative. The message that the drama wants to send at the end is just wrong in all levels. FL was very manipulative and emotionally abusive -- she broke the ML to a point that he cant no longer stay in the house the he loved so much then comes back into his life after she think he had learned his 'lesson' that he cant live without her. I was so disgusted tbh. :(
This is why probably I would never talk about dramas to random people / friends since some just couldnt appreciate the nuance or brilliance storytelling when they do not paying attention when they watched the story. Like C-historical dramas has so much micro detailing that it will all lose in translation when people thought all characters either look the same or the story is just too complicated in general. So no matter how brilliant is the script, they just couldn't see it lol. So to save you from heartache, no need to recommend anything to people with no interest on the subject imo.
But once in a while, a truly magnificent dramas that is so awesome like Joy of Life/Nirvana in Fire for an example come around and I will shamelessly recommend it to anyone since it is just too awesome. Or dramas with brilliant ending like The Bad Kids so I can discuss on the ending on whether they managed to catch it or not. :D
I love the fact that they show us the outcome first before telling us the story on how it comes to that -- so every interactions, every development between the two leads put more depth and meaning which make the whole thing more heartbreaking -- since you know what will happen in the future or is it that way? This style of ambiguous writing totally blew me away so the revelation gives more impact and felt more emotional.
As usual, Zhu Ya Wen is just a fantastic actor. He made Yu Hai so broken yet at the same time so brilliant. Every pained smile, every helplessness that he felt, its just show on his face that you can literally feel whatever emotion he supposed to feel in each scene. You know he is missing something in his heart when you look at him or the games that he designed and the FL comes into the picture and give that one thing that he is missing that changes everything.
And the ending scene! I'm sure no one could ever predict that. It just made the whole drama more awesome that it already is. The whole thing was foreshadowed in the story Shen Yun told Yu Hai about the Lies & Princess story and how once he collected the true hearts and confesses to the Princess, she rejected it since the Princess herself is a 'lie' as well. It hits me at the end on how everything turned out exactly like the story she told. ;_;
I wonder why the ratings here are so low. This definitely deserved 8.5/10 and above since the script quality, directing and editing is just top level. This is how an excellent crime drama should be -- it tugs to your heart string and the impact will be bigger when you are not spoiled on anything and just watch where the truth being unrevealed one by one. At the end, it highlight on many thing such as desperation, guilt, redemption, sacrifices & the length one go through for the one they love -- whether it is love between lovers or father to daughter.
My comment regarding the censorship is when compared to the novel (source material). They dont have those and the drama writer only put the university student's fictional story to pass the CCP censorship.
But agreed on everything else that you said. The drama is brilliant in so many levels that I can go on and on on how layered, clever & masterpiece is the whole thing.