unsurpassable
I confess that I discovered this drama when I heard the story that would be adapted for the Korean version, I spent many days searching tirelessly for this drama and when I found it, It was the greatest joy in the world for me, I was already looking forward to learning about this exciting story.It's inexplicable how much I cried, I cried in practically every episode, the story kept me from start to finish, I had the OST's in my head for several weeks and it made me want to cry every time I remembered.
I was so enchanted by the story, the development, the relationship they developed, and I think I may never find anything like it again.
This original version deserved to be much better known, it's worth every second. I fell in love with the characters and their stories.
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Literally the best chinese drama ive ever watched and its no surprise when it is named as one of the best taiwanese drama for past few years. This drama is an artwork and heres why:
Story:
I've never seen a drama so well-balanced before - pacing, character development, and plot. For a 13 episodes drama which talks about time-travelling and mystery solving, I was expecting it to be rushed but I was wrong, every episode has its very own meaning, either to give us a background of the leads or bringing us to 1999/2019. Every episode seems well-paced, skip one part and you'll miss something essential. Furthermore, I absolutely love the character and relationship development in this drama. In Episode 1, you can fully understand how much the female lead is in love and later on in the drama, the writers also dedicate 1.5 episodes to show how much sacrifices the male lead made and how much he loves her, so it actually emotionally connects the audience with the relationship of the leads and its stunning how well this is done because its not boring at all. On top of the couple relationship, they also focus really well on conveying the strong friendship between the two male leads from the start to the end. (we can't help but envy their friendship)
The writers are also skillful in terms of tying the series of events in 1999 and 2019, so when the female lead travels through time and back, it all seems natural and not abrupt and is filmed very well. I like how unlike normal time-traveling drama where the lead gets stuck in the past, this drama brings the lead back and froth from past and present so it gets more intense, building up to the already exciting mystery plot.
Cast:
Acting is great no doubt, especially the female actor portraying both the female lead character. Both characters are polar opposite, yet she portrays the characters' personality really well . AND the male leads are super cute HAHHAH
Music:
THE MAIN THEME SONG IS MY FAVOURITE CHINESE SONG FKJQWRWLASL its so beautiful NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE HOW MUCH I LOVE THE SONG 想见你想见你想见你 i liked the song before watching the drama and after watching the drama, i love it more because the song will SPEAK to you becuase of the meaning behind the lyrics. The other OSTs such as Shi Shi's Someday or One day and Wu Bai's Last Dance are also very soothing to the ear and listening to these 3 songs at once makes me feel like im at heaven or something and makes me miss the drama more :(
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The worst ever made
This is the worst and the most overrated drama i've ever seen , they thought they combined your name and dark to make something good , but they made the worst drama of all time , watching this was a punishment and nightmare for me , the main character was the worst and the most annoying character i've ever seen both from 2019 and 1998 .and the writer just added a beautiful and innocent man just to be a victim between his best friend and the one he loved first , so he suffered the most , playing an annoying song about ten times in each epsiode made my cut my ears ,the cinematography was so bad .
and the gay kiss scene on episode was just a fan service since most of the taiwaneese drama watchers only watch bl .
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A true Masterpiece
Just wow , someday or oneday is a thriller , time travel and has a lot of secrets. I'm not gonna give spoilers so....1) you'll get a strong and independent FL
2) the love and angst is top notch
3) yep ! There's a creepy psychopath
4) you'll get to see dark theme like depression- suicide, murder, sexual assault and homosexuality
5) staring is a bit slow but,keep patience, from middle arc the real thrill stars and keep the quality till the end
Now the negetive things:
1) the concept is not simple, so It can be confusing but they kept the concept flawless
2) it's obviously not a fluffy romance time travel but based on dark concept so your mood can be negatively affected
3) it's not a happy ending but a angsty parting with open ending.
But still it's a well written and really good drama, 100% recommended for thriller suckers .....
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Complex time travel
If you like super complex time travel dramas with unusual twists then this may be the one for you. It was difficult to get on board after first or two episodes and I had started and stopped multiple times mainly because of FL. But she gradually blossoms into a more likable and versatile character and you get pulled in an emotional spool. The ML is cute and adorable. As usual a mandatory second lead syndrome is there.The main theme is longing and love and what one can endure to get back the ones you love. Heart wrenching a few times but the plot gets overwhelming. It did make sense eventually but I watched it mainly for the emotional impact which was nicely developed. Not much skin ship but few heart fluttering touches.
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SO complicated but WORTH ABSOLUTELY EVERY MINUTE
If you're into a time traveling love story with thriller (murder mystery) & high teen (school) moments, WATCH THIS.I know, I know, I've been there, being recommended this drama for quite some time, and I finally gave it a go! You bet, each episode completely HOOKED me, like no other drama––please see my list of dramas, you'll understand when I give this a VERY HIGH rating, it's NOT out of nowhere. What can I say other than this drama has completely exceeded my expectations with astounding praise and lingering emotions. Just can't express it much more than to HIGHLY GREATLY RECOMMEND IT!
I have to admit, I'm not one to watch taiwanese dramas, therefore I may not be as well acclaimed with the taiwanese industry for television for the more recent years. But from my experience, you really can't get a more complicated storyline without having such a well written plot, and still keeping us hooked EVERY SINGLE EPISODE––I was on the edge of my seat/holding my breath towards the end of each episode, let alone almost EVERY SCENE. Just impeccable.
I'm sure everyone else has said the main parts about what this drama is about and who's in it, etc. Frankly I didn't know any of the actors coming into the drama, so I had no clue what to expect. But one thing I knew that felt like a REALLY good drama to me was the villain. If I absolutely abhor them and cannot get enough disgust from them, they did their part right, and that is A GOOD DRAMA.
This is not your typical romance. It's not even a typical storyline. All I've got to say is if you want something with you gripping yourself to your heart and your seat, and still having a perfectly well rounded ending and with nothing, absolutely NOTHING amiss, either character wise or storyline wise, cinematography, you have to give it a go.
At this point I might just be begging you. Trust me, trust all of us writing these reviews. You won't regret it!
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A gem
Wow. This drama is truly amazing, wonderful, beautiful. Perfection does not exist. But this drama is really one of the best. It's a must-watch.- Story
My god, this story was genuinely extraordinary. The two first episodes are a bit slow and sometimes confusing (by that I mean that the viewer still doesn't get the real point of the story). BUT THEN, everything changes and you just can't help to make numerous theories and continue watching the all show until you have all your answers. The time travel theme was so well-treated : even if it was sometimes confusing, everything makes sense at the end, and there are no mistakes. The romance was beautiful. This story really shows that true love doesn't care about time and space, and that people who are fated to each other will be together at the end (I loved the ending, it was perfect). I liked how the themes of friendship and family were treated. And also, very important, some social issues are also treated through the character of CYR (she is harassed, suffers from depression and has a strong lack of confidence that leads her to kill herself). I liked the fact that CHY isn't just a body for HYX, she is also a person who needs to be understood and saved.
- Acting
The acting was amazing. It was Greg Hsu's first leading role, but his performance ans superb! He was really in his character, the chemistry between him and Alice Ke was so beautiful. He manages to show the evolution of Li Zi Wei through time so well. On the other hand, Alice Ke managed to play two characters at the same time and she did that so well that we were never confused. Even when she played CYR who tries to be HYX she was great. Other actors were also very convincing in their role. With the great story it really helps the viewers to be immersed in the drama.
- Music
I needed to talk about the music. First, one of the song, "Last Dance" of Wu Bai, is not just a soundtracks but a part of the story itself! I thought I would be bothered to hear it so many times but surprisedly, I wasn't. But all the other songs were really awesome, the lyrics were very meaningful and just made each scenes better. I loved the song "想見你想見你想見你“ of 381 and "Someday or one day" of Shi Shi, but also "明天“ (Naiwen Yang)。
I apologise for any mistakes, English is not my first language.
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overrated?
watched this back in early 2020 simply because i was feeling bored and i want to start new drama. i saw this drama has just finished airing, i watch this with zero expectation i was just simply passing time with new drama. into ep1, i cringe so hard at the office scene and thought this will be another drama that use cringe humour until the scene where huang yuxuan thought wang quan sheng was cheating on her only till discover smth else, i cried, got goosebump and immediately intrigued. the drama then keep on getting interesting and i keep on predicting but there is always a twist.all in all i love this drama. it immediately became my most favourite taiwanese drama and this was back when the drama wasnt receiving much hype yet so to ppl that say it is overrated, it is not. it is just not to your liking. the ost is so good and made the story much more beautiful. the drama do have some flaws but nevertheless i love it, a lot
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Explaining ‘Someday or One Day’, the Time Travel Chinese Drama.
At times, you get these dramas which throw you down a rabbit hole. It was 2 AM and I woke up still thinking about the Chinese Drama ‘Someday or One Day’, a week after finishing it. There was lots of internal head talk for this drama for me. You know the talk you have with yourself about the significance of what you saw. Writing about dramas can be a healing catharsis. While my explanation of the Chinese drama may make it less complicated to watch, I give away very little in the top section. The spoilers are separated below. The drama has only 13 episodes and is on DramaCool at present. The movie version of Someday or One Day is on VIKI at present, but this movie storyline is different from the drama. It is an alternative universe all together. I watched the Chinese version of this drama in anticipation of the Korean version ‘A Time Called You’, which will be dropping shortly in the latter half of 2023.
‘Someday or One Day’ is a heavily romantic drama. It is a complicated Time-Travel and Time-Loop Fantasy School Romance drama. This drama is a Time-Travel drama instead of a Time Slip, because there is a definite mode used for the Time-Travel. The viewer gets commentary on the action through important background information spoken by the characters throughout the drama. In addition, as with the Korean Time-Travel Fantasy Drama ‘My Perfect Stranger’, the big surprises are truly the big surprises. Someday or One Day received multiple post-production awards for writing.
One trick to understanding the 13 episode drama is to keep up with the two different names for the male and female leads. Taiwanese actor and singer Greg Hsu Han plays the modern day lover Wang Quan Sheng and the 1999 teenager Li Zi Wei. Taiwanese actress Alice Chia-yen Ko plays the modern day Huang Yu Xuan and the 1999 teenager Chen Yun Ru in whose body she inhabits during time travel. These are characters from different time universes. Taiwanese actor Patric Shih (1% World) plays Mo Jun Jie, who is the best friend of High Schooler Li Zi Wei. He is in love with the real Chen Yun Ru and can tell the difference between the two. While Huang Yu Xuan does take control over the body of Chen Yun Ru, Chen Yun Ru is forced to become a mere passive observer.
The main story pivots around Huang Yu Xuan, who is so in love with this wonderful guy who was her boyfriend (Wang Quan Sheng). He is missing and presumed deceased from a plane accident in the first time universe. She is distraught beyond existing. Mapped around this world is a second time universe which creates the opportunity for Time-Travel. Huang Yu Xuan has found out how to escape to this world while she sleeps listening to a particular song. In this alternative existence, Huang Yu Xuan lives her life through the body of her look-a-like, a High Schooler named Chen Yun Ru. In this universe, Chen Yun Ru loves Li Zi Wei, but she is loved by his best friend Mo Jun Jie. In the alternative existence, the deceased Wang Quan Sheng is a like-a-like for Li Zi Wei. Both worlds are mapped on top of each other and creates an inter-crossing of events as the Time Travel occurs, also creating time loops. Both worlds becomes connected because of the desperate need for Huang Yu Xuan to see again her deceased lover Wang Quan Sheng. There is a constant switching back and forth between each time period which is nearly 10-12 years apart.
This wonderful Time-Travel Romance Fantasy School Drama is about how love can transverse Time and Space and how love can be patient and sacrificial. The vehicle for Time-Travel is listening to this tape recording of the song ‘Last Dance’ by Wu Bai and Chinese Blue. Most confusion created by the two time universes should be cleared up by episode 3.
SPOILERS ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️?
This is a story about loneliness and depression, an emptied heart torn by the death of a love one and hope in seeing that dead loved one again.
At age 27 in 2019 in her Time Universe, Huang Yu Xuan was born in 1992. The real Chen Yun Ru dies on New Years Eve 1999 or Y2K at age 18 in her own time universe. She was born in 1981. Chen Yun Ru was murdered. As stated in the drama, Chen Yun Ru passed away in 1991 in the first timeline, but this death year changes (or is corrected in translation) as action fluctuates around changing circumstances, created by the Time Travel. I believe that the year 1991 is a mistranslation, because the timing does not work. In 1991, Chen Yun Ru would not have been in High School. She would have been around 10 years old. I believe that the timeline of the first death of Chen Yun Ru was 1999 and not 1991 as translated. The translators are mixing up Huang Yu Xuan (who was 7 in 1999) with Chen Yun Ru (who was 18 in 1999).
In 1999 the female protagonist Huang Yu Xuan (Huang Yu-hsuan) was 7 years old in this original timeline in the past. However from the future, she comes back to this same timeline, not as herself but the older teenager Chen Yun-ru (Her doppelgänger). As a little girl, Huang Yu Xuan does meets the male protagonist Li Zi Wei (Wang Quan Sheng) in 1999. She is the little girl who is lost and he gives her a ride home. This is covered in the last episode of the series. In the time travel backwards, Huang Yu Xuan exists as the older Chen Yun Ru and as herself. Since both of her existences are in the same time slot during time travel, they should never meet and they did not.
Li Zi Wei is 18/19 in 1999 and Chen Yun Ru is 18 when she dies in 1999. Huang Yu Xuan is about 7 in 1999, as we see Li Zi Wei meet her as a lost child. He buys her ice cream to stop her from crying. Little Huang Yu Xuan tells Li Zi Wei that she will marry him someday or one day. Being 7 in 1999, this would make the birth year of Huang Yu Xuan roughly 1992. That would mean in 2019 or 20 years later (You must count the year 2000), Huang Yu Xuan would be roughly 27. In 2019, Li Zi Wei should be 37-39. There is a 10-12 year age difference between Li Zi Wei and Huang Yu Xuan in the real time universe. Li Zi Wei is the doppelgängers for Wang Quan Sheng and he does take the place of Wang Quan Sheng when Wang Quan Sheng dies.
The modern day lover Wang Quan Sheng and the 1999 teenager Li Zi Wei are really the same exact person. Li Zi Wei lives through time and catches up with now grown Huang Yu Xuan in time in the late 2000s. Also, some may have missed that Li Zi Wei initiates all time travel, as he desperately tries to regain his first love Huang Yu Xuan/Chen Yun Ru. Li Zi Wei take over the life of the real Wang Quan Sheng who is gay and died tragically. In addition, Li Zi Wei tries to stop Chen Yun Ru’s murder through his own time travel. Best friend Mo Jun Jie was falsely blamed for the murder of Chen Yun Ru.
There is an unexplainable 10 year time difference in the original timeline which may have been caused by a translation error.
At age 27, Huang Yu Xuan lives in 2019 in her Universe and Chen Yun Ru dies 1999 at age 18 in the other time universe. Huang Yu Xuan is happy to inhabit the body of this teen girl (Chen Yun Ru) who should have died in an accident a couple of years back, but continues on as Chen Yun Ru. She will die shortly in the future in this second timeline (or there is a translation error). Chen Yun Ru’s World has in it Wang Quan Sheng’s look-a-like Li Zi Wei. It eases Huang Yu Xuan’s extreme pain to see and be with Wang Quan Sheng | Li Zi Wei. These two worlds converge at the “death” of Chen Yun Ru. With this background infonpmation of this time travel drama, the action in the drama may become clearer. In one Universe Wang Quan Sheng dies and in the other Universe Chen Yun Ru dies. Everything, but the death of Chen Yun Ru is put back in place.
All Is Corrected
To correct the havoc played on the timelines, because of the time travel interference (The Butterfly Effect—small changes here creates havoc with the whole time line there), drastic decisions are made. Time keeps looping as different life scenarios are realized and lost. In the end, time is corrected. Freed from the burden to love Wang Quan Sheng | Li Zi Wei, Chen Yun Ru allows herself to consider Mo Jun Jie. He waited patiently as the troubled and tortured triangle of Huang Yu Xuan, Chen Yun Ru, and Li Zi Wei played out. Through it all, Mo Jun Jie was willing to sacrifice his comfort and hopes to make sure that his love (Chen Yun Ru) was happy. It was the most endearing in the end for me to see his love realized.
Li Zi Wei had met 7 year old Huang Yu Xuan in the past. This meeting was fixed already historically. She promised to marry Li Zi Wei Someday or One day. In the natural undisturbed timeline their meeting in history would never change. Li Zi Wei should have and now must only accept how things play out in the future when Li Zi Wei and Huang Yu Xuan meet again.
My Timeline explanation of A Time Called You (The Korean remake of Someday or One Day) will help in understanding Someday or One Day.
Actors Corner
I would be remiss if I did not mention the excellent job that actress Alice Chia-yen Ko did with her two characters that she portrayed (Huang Yu Xuan | Chen Yun Ru). While Greg Hsu Han played both of his characters as the same likable person for a good reason. Alice Chia-yen Ko portrayed 17 year old Chen Yun Ru as a very timid, non confident unassuming teen and portrayed 27 year old Huang Yu Xuan as a very confident take no prisoners and take the lead 27 year old female. The two portrayals could not have been more different. Her performance won her many post production awards. Greg Hsu Han won a post production award as well. Both gave powerful performances.
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Epic journey
Someday or One Day was a surprise watch as I went in with little expectations or idea about the show other than it being really good. It exceeded my expectations.Time travel is more complicated than one might think because of the unpredictability of the travel and return as well as the outcome of interference. This makes it easy to mess up a good plot. Fortunately this Taiwanese drama manages to neatly take us on this journey and add a new dimension to the story telling through the concept of "body swap" or perhaps body inhabitation would be more accurate. Everything is connected and intricate.
I loved the complexity of the show but also the simplicity and unpredictability.
Though some might consider the show to have a slow start, I was hooked from the start and didn't feel that. Most of the questions that I had were answered or I figured them out as I watched. The sequence of events are fairly easy to follow despite time jumps because you are prepared for them.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the characters and each contributed to their own perception of the world which I loved. Getting a glimpse into each person's lived experience and being allowed to understand the characters is what attaches you to them and feel what they are feeling.
If you love time travel shows with mystery and romance and don't mind tearing up a bit then this show is ideal for you.
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IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THIS, BINGE THEM, SPARE YOUR TIME FOR 13 EPISODE STRAIGHT
I looooveeeeee sooo muuuuuuccchhhhhhh about Alice Ko and Greg Hsu ActingI tell you one by one
Alice Ko : How she is talking, How she is running, How she is looking its so brilliant i can distinguish the character so well (except the last episode :( but it show how well she is make me confuse at the end)
Greg Hsu : I love how the character that he showing after the time, i will divide 3 zone about his timeline. And i love how he display the burden and emotion from each character, the expression and the way he talking it's soooooo much good to see
Honestly at first i saw this drama, i dont think it's as good as people talking but after 30 minutes i slowly smiling through the episodes. I'm so in love about the character, all of the character have background story, they explain each character especially Mo Jun Jie i love his character so much, ican't explained but i think he is simple but complicated at the same time :)
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