When We Were Young (2017)

An Underrated Masterpiece

Please tell me where and why you agree and disagree with me after reading this review.
Suggestions are welcomed.

BE CAUTIOUS, SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Getting to the drama~
I just finished watching this drama, and I totally liked it. I have no idea why so less people have actually watched this. I came across this drama randomly and it's too good although if you start watching it you might want to drop it by episode 8 or 9, I would suggest you to keep watching it as it has a very meaningful and happy ending.

Story: 9.0
Till episode 10, this drama seemed to be going nowhere, that's why I rated this 9.0. Except for this fact, the story was quite nice, Xia'Er didn't have a good motive in the starting so I thought she would end up miserably but she went through many things and paid for it so I guess it's understandable she had a happy ending. This drama is basically a light hearted one with no kisses and all (something I don't like watching) but still I gave it a try and it went out pretty well.

The next is a MAJOR SPOILER for those who want to know how it ended (kindly skip it if you don't) :-
According to what the last scene was, soon Li Bai and Xia'Er would end up together and Chu Yin Yin and Xu Kong Lin have already confessed for each other indirectly and are kind of together. (just like many viewers wished it to end like).

It is very much like Who Are You: School 2015 except for its length and some story (I liked this one better to be truthful). The characters of Eun Bi, Eun Byeol and Chu Yin Yin, Xia'Er are also reversed and they don't come to find out about their childhood and all. That's the major difference but if you liked one of them, I'm sure you would like the other one as well.
This is the link to the drama I was talking about : https://mydramalist.com/13386-who-are-you-school-2015

Acting/Cast : 9.5
⨠Zhang Xue Ying as the twin sisters (Chu Yin Yin and Xia'Er), I would really appreciate her for the acting since both the sisters had totally opposite character. She was so good in the chemistry when it came to Chu Yin Yin with Xu Kong Lin or Xia'Er with Li Bai.
⨠Joseph Zheng as Xu Kong Lin, he played the shy and protective boy character really well and I loved him for it.
⨠Wang Bo Wen as Li Bai (I consider him a main cast), he did really well in all the scenes where he was naughty as well the one in which he told Xu Kong Lin about his mother.

I really loved the acting of all the support characters but two of them were too great:
⨠Wang Qui Zi as Teacher Lu, she totally rocked it !!
⨠Zhou Luo Ran as Li Ni Ke, absolutely nice!!

Music: 10.0
I totally loved the music, especially the song which went like ~ I love you love you love you (the english sub since I can't understand Chinese).

Rewatch Value: 9.0

Overall: 9.5

I totally recommend it.

Hope it wasn't boring.
Thanks for reading.
Lots of love <3

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It was really good

I wanna start by saying that I started this drama in late 2018 and finished in late February 2019 so it’s been a while since I’ve seen it. I still remember it though because I know that I really liked it. See, it’s supposed to be a remake of “Who Are You: School 2015,” which is my favorite School series season(?) so I was excited to see this. It was actually one of the first cdramas I’d ever seen and the first I’d ever finished. The story had similar elements to the original but the storyline was pretty different. I loved the this dramas take on the premise though. It was pretty lengthy but I didn’t mind it.

Also, I don’t remember any of the music except I vividly remember liking the theme song.

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It's not fair to compare this to kdrama School 2015

Except for this being an HS drama, and the poor twin being wrongly identified and so was able to have the life of the rich twin, this is nothing like School 2015.

In School 2015 Eunbi lost her memories and was wrongly identified as Eunbyol. She actually thought that the privileged life she returned to was hers. During this time, Eunbyol the rich twin, deliberately let Eunbi have her life. She did not lose her memories and was quietly investigating how to help Eunbi. This is really a case of mistaken identity. I liked it because it tackled the cause and effect of bullying.

Now in WWWY, Xia Er did not lose her memories, but because of money pretended to be Chu Yinyin. She accidentally picked up CYY's necklace and so was able to pretend. Meanwhile, CYY lost her memories and XE's friends wrongly identified her and took her home. To make the plot worse, XE saw CYY in her friend's Weibo live so she knew exactly where CYY was, she even visited her. She seemingly have a noble cause of investigating her sister's accident but this should have been handled by adults/police and not by teens who don't have any authority. In my opinion XE is just a swindler who wanted to experience her sister's Iife. She simply TOOK OVER and did not even feel guilty. The bullying shown in the drama was too superficial and its effect was glossed on over. Even after 15 episodes, I still couldn't relate to any of the characters and most acting were stiff, so I skipped to the last episode to see if there's any improvement but there's none. So please don't compare this to School 2015. Though I didn't like the end of the lovelines in School and the lovelines in WWWY had happier endings, School had a better plot, had more depth and had better acting.

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Obra maestra.

Definitivamente este es mi drama favorito.
Recuerdo que cuando la vi fue por Zhang Xueying, ya que desconocía sobre el trabajo de Joseph Zeng, la verdad iba con miedo de que él no diera la talla, pero oh sorpresa, la química entre ellos fue increíblemente buena.

Ame las dos facetas de Xueying y aunque ya era una de mis actrices favoritas, aquí rebasó mis expectativas, sobre todo por la dualidad que podia representar.

Ame el personaje de Xian Er y sufrí con ella, esperaba que Kong Lin se quedará con ella pero que al final eligiera a Chu Yin Yin hizo que el drama tuviera un mejor final, pues te das cuenta que aunque no era lo que se esperaba, era lo mejor y correcto, además ellos de verdad se amaban, por esta y mil razones más es el #1 en cuanto a los dramas que he visto.

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