Script is the weakest link
This drama was so anticipated and so the letdown was major for me.Chen Zhe Yuan and Liang Jie’s acting was good. Their chemistry was on point. They carried and are still carrying the show as best as they can.
The cinematography is awesome, the stills for this drama are so great and they capture so much emotion.
The direction is ok. Nothing much to complain there. They did make the sets look as real as it possibly could. Making sets look like war torn areas definitely must not have been easy. Maybe they spent too much on sets and side roles because the script is so so bad.
Honestly I wanted so much to like it. I can tolerate a lot of lame dramas, but this one takes the cake. So why is it lame? Every role that is not the FL and the ML are simply tools existing to put the FL and ML together. Take for instance the 2FL, who is the team lead of the FL. her sole purpose in the drama is to one up the FL, she exists solely to take the ML away from the FL. She goes to a war torn country as a journalist to take the ML away from the FL. Let’s not talk about being unprofessional as a journalist or going to a war torn country as a journalist with personal reasons, she goes up to the FL in the first instance she gets and tell the FL that she is going to make sure she wins the ML over. Another instance is when they use some extras to push the FL to the ML for a critical moment for the ML to reach out and hold the FL closely. The moment seems so staged and so unnatural that if it wasn’t for CZY and LJ, it wouldn’t have been pulled off. Last instance is that being in a war torn country, CZY’s team mates are only concerned about the female journalists. It’s all they talk about. I mean the story and the script is so incredibly incredulously weak. Here they have a entire set of a war torn country and they have such a sad script to back it up. It’s honestly rubbish.
Another honorable mention -rant is the speed of their speech. It’s as if the director made them deliberately talk 0.5x the normal speed because all their dialog is so so so slow you really ought to watch the show in 1.5x speed.
Last honorable mention is the music. Granted there are a lot of songs, but please please please get the English right or at least make it sound normal. Most of the songs feature strange English lyrics. Yes, they are English words but the words don’t make sense. It takes you right out of the drama.
I guess I’m writing this because I really need to drop it but I needed some closure because I looked forward to this drama for a long time and I wanted so so much to love it.
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