The original work - Go ahead (cdrama) vs this one

 unbeliebubble:

I totally understand your point. I also felt the teenage drama vibe. The couple's chemistry is not growing like in a slow burn romance. At episode 6 ( I think) Ju Won falls into  Sah Na's arms, like a big cliché . Almost out of nowhere, we understood that the romance was beginning. That's unfortunate, but it felt rushed to me.

I think it feels rushed because they took almost half of the drama in the teenage years "cooking" the romance and now they don't have much air time. The pacing is off and doesn't help the story.

To me it's not only the cliche in the romantic scenes. Even the father-son dialogue between Haejun and his dad feels a bit fake and unnatural. 

NGL, I really don't get the vibes from the dads as in Go ahead. And I absolutely loved Choi Moo Sung as Taek's father in Reply 1988, he killed it there. Choi Won Young was good in Sky castle as well. But every time I watch the emotional scenes in FBC it makes my eyes roll because the dialogue is so bad.

I just randomly watched C-Drama title Hidden Love, the main couple also have similar plot. Female lead is 14yo and have crush on male lead, but male lead always sees her as a kid, as his bestfriend's sister, or almost as sister. But years passed and female lead become young adult, and after some moment together male lead didn't see her as a kid nor sister anymore, he begin attracted to her. 

If Go Ahead take more time, and natural way to develop main couple's romantical feeling like in Hidden Love, i probably give Go Ahead's rating higher.

Those 20 episodes of adult timeline can be well spent if focus more on Ling Xiao and JianJian rather than expanded to the story of JianJian' best friend. Especially Tang Can's romance story, it's unnecessary.

I know those 3 bestfriends involved in love triangle to shake their friendship, but i just think it's unnecessary because there are still other issues.

 danny_ang:

I just randomly watched C-Drama title Hidden Love, if Go Ahead take more time, and natural way to develop main couple's romantical feeling, i probably rate Go Ahead higher.

Those 20 episodes of adult timeline can be well spent if focus more on Ling Xiao and JianJian rather than expanded to the story of JianJian' best friend. Especially Tang Can's romance story, it's unnecessary.

I know those 3 bestfriends involved in love triangle to shake their friendship, but i just think it's unnecessary because there are still other issues.

Agreed. I think the middle 1/3 of Go Ahead is pretty pointless and drags because of the romance, which I think overall is not written well for the leads or side characters (this could've been fixed in FBC...). I also think the FL's roommates screen time should've been given to Jian Jian's dad and He Zi's mom as they were much better characters and largely absent until the end.

 danny_ang:

As for the separation, it's the obvious way to compare, they're both covered in 2 episodes (1 episode plus some transisition story) but FbC didn't deliver the same emotion as Go Ahead.

I understood that right away. Apart from the first 2 episodes with the children. I did not empathize a lot with the characters. If the story was more about what a family is, and not how can you go out with you adoptive sister. The show would be more interesting and touching. Because a family concept it universal and speaks to every one. But this stereotypical romance drama doesn't cut it.  Hmmm that's a pity.

I never said the shorter version is deprived of emotion. I said longer version has more depth, and by that i mean have more story to it. Korean version almost end but hae jun never met her mother (maybe in ep 13  later), so in the rest 3 eps i doubt there will be any longer story about hae jun and his mother other than hae jun learn why his mother left. But in go ahead, zi qiu (hae jun counterpart) met her mother for few times, got some unpleasant meeting where ziqiu went to meet her mom in rage, etc etc before finally learning the truth. That just it. And thats one of the reason why kdrama change hae jun, where hae jun is rich while zi qiu still struggling with money (which also the reason for his rage at his mother).  So there's no way kdrama with 16 eps can follow every little detail in cdrama that have 40 eps, the amount of the eps already limit it. But again, doesnt mean kdrama version lack the emotion or any other stuff, just that they only focus on the main plot and cant deliver the side story

 unbeliebubble:

 That's a shame frankly.

Yes, there is no emotion in their portrayal. I am up to date with the drama while rewatching Go ahead and the remake can't be moved. 

 unbeliebubble:

I also prefere the movie "one smile is very alluring" because the actress is more like in the novel. ( more quirky and less skinny)

FL in the drama is my favorite Chinese actress and they both represent well the character, but the movie was better in portraying ML rather than the drama

 unbeliebubble:

I also like her acting in the drama. It is just that I could not stand how skinny she was. ( almost anorexic in my views) So this is why I preferred Angelababy in One Smile Is Very Alluring. Who looked more healthy to me. Those 40 kilos women. ugh I am afraid for them.

yes she has always been very skinny but i really liked her in the drama even being that skinny lol. I liked Angelababy a lot too though.

 unbeliebubble:

I understand you. I am just afraid for the very skinny actress. They usually weight 40 kilos whereas, if I am not mistaken, anorexia begins around 32 kilos depending on the height o_O

she was exactly 40kg  at that time if i remember it correctly, and she is 167cm tall. I remember it because she usually weights 43 or 45kg, but she lost some kilos for the drama. 
Her being skinny was something that caused her to be blacklisted, unfortunately, because she was afraid of pregnancy.