Peppersqueak
Sitting on a star looking for the moon
My Review for Prince of tennis:
First of all, Im so glad it's over. I think over 25 episode dramas are not for me. I tend to binge watch all dramas in a few days but 40 episodes in 5 is a new record I do not want to repeat.
I've tried to watch long dramas on numerous occasions but got bored and stopped. With this one I was resolved to watch it to the end.
And guess what. It dragged..... Like unbelievably dragged. I expected this with 40 episodes but like this got so bad in the second half. The last episodes where absolutely ridiculous it felt like a whole different drama.
The drama made my hopes go high up by starting off really good with alot of funny scenes eccentric characters and a calm atmosphere. I still stand by my opinion that the actor of liu xia is truly talented. Jiangle was my second fave he was such a sweet sensitive sunshine.
Then in the second half it took a sudden dip.
Liu xia the main character was suddenly pushed into the background and the whole supporting cast seemed to be the main cast now.. like wath? I've never seen that in a drama before only the supporting characters getting less screentime. Then alotttttt of supporting characters where introduced. In the first half too but in the second it became more apparent. All the teams they played against seemed to need that extra attention. There were seriously so many supporting roles that I got overhelmned. I couldn't remember names anymore everyone seemed to have some kind of special ability and some seemed to have some kind of relation with the players of yu quing. Like the screenwriter being... "We need a backstory in the last 10 episodes with some unknown characters that didn't appear until the last minute. NOW."
The last match of the provincial finals was absolutely ridiculous like totally bad. I cannot describe how bad this drama got in the end. Yes of course every character has some special move etc.
But like it got to almost a kind of over cgi kung fu /wuxia level in the end? If you scroll down the cast list I can guarantee you that those are not all actors in the drama.
We also have alot of product placement in the second half wich was a little annoying but bearable.
Of course we also needed a comedic relief duo because they make everything funnier. *Rolls eyes. And of course they made one character conceited and smart mouthy and then other one chubby and hungry. Ohhh how original that is.
The female cast was very small, like only being 5 person big. I found the female reporter and qiao chens love interest kind of unnecessary? But who cares we already have so many unnecessary characters anyways.
The sets where.... Bland. One color palette, reuse 1 set multiple times bland..... The sets looked like those in a 15 sec commercial shoot only that they where used for more than 40 episodes.
The filming was.... Not that great. I didn't get alot of bird view filming even though that would have been very helpful since they were playing tennis. The cameras were also glued way to closely to the character's so that you almost didn't get any good perspective shots. The close ups were overused and almost obnoxious. They used a way too high resolution camera so that you could see every little pimple and every bear stubble.
I think some of the closer supporting cast could have been better chosen. There was not a lot of room for natural character development since the cast was so hugeeeee. I missed the funny scenes with liu xia from the first 15 episodes.
In the end I thought I think I wasted my time watching 40 episodes of this when 20 would have been enough and would have saved me from a very bad continuation.
( I almost forgot lu xias dad. I liked him for the most part he could have gotten more dad son moments. I found them to be very sweet.)
Im probably going to irritate some fans but keep in mind that this is my personal opinion.
First of all, Im so glad it's over. I think over 25 episode dramas are not for me. I tend to binge watch all dramas in a few days but 40 episodes in 5 is a new record I do not want to repeat.
I've tried to watch long dramas on numerous occasions but got bored and stopped. With this one I was resolved to watch it to the end.
And guess what. It dragged..... Like unbelievably dragged. I expected this with 40 episodes but like this got so bad in the second half. The last episodes where absolutely ridiculous it felt like a whole different drama.
The drama made my hopes go high up by starting off really good with alot of funny scenes eccentric characters and a calm atmosphere. I still stand by my opinion that the actor of liu xia is truly talented. Jiangle was my second fave he was such a sweet sensitive sunshine.
Then in the second half it took a sudden dip.
Liu xia the main character was suddenly pushed into the background and the whole supporting cast seemed to be the main cast now.. like wath? I've never seen that in a drama before only the supporting characters getting less screentime. Then alotttttt of supporting characters where introduced. In the first half too but in the second it became more apparent. All the teams they played against seemed to need that extra attention. There were seriously so many supporting roles that I got overhelmned. I couldn't remember names anymore everyone seemed to have some kind of special ability and some seemed to have some kind of relation with the players of yu quing. Like the screenwriter being... "We need a backstory in the last 10 episodes with some unknown characters that didn't appear until the last minute. NOW."
The last match of the provincial finals was absolutely ridiculous like totally bad. I cannot describe how bad this drama got in the end. Yes of course every character has some special move etc.
But like it got to almost a kind of over cgi kung fu /wuxia level in the end? If you scroll down the cast list I can guarantee you that those are not all actors in the drama.
We also have alot of product placement in the second half wich was a little annoying but bearable.
Of course we also needed a comedic relief duo because they make everything funnier. *Rolls eyes. And of course they made one character conceited and smart mouthy and then other one chubby and hungry. Ohhh how original that is.
The female cast was very small, like only being 5 person big. I found the female reporter and qiao chens love interest kind of unnecessary? But who cares we already have so many unnecessary characters anyways.
The sets where.... Bland. One color palette, reuse 1 set multiple times bland..... The sets looked like those in a 15 sec commercial shoot only that they where used for more than 40 episodes.
The filming was.... Not that great. I didn't get alot of bird view filming even though that would have been very helpful since they were playing tennis. The cameras were also glued way to closely to the character's so that you almost didn't get any good perspective shots. The close ups were overused and almost obnoxious. They used a way too high resolution camera so that you could see every little pimple and every bear stubble.
I think some of the closer supporting cast could have been better chosen. There was not a lot of room for natural character development since the cast was so hugeeeee. I missed the funny scenes with liu xia from the first 15 episodes.
In the end I thought I think I wasted my time watching 40 episodes of this when 20 would have been enough and would have saved me from a very bad continuation.
( I almost forgot lu xias dad. I liked him for the most part he could have gotten more dad son moments. I found them to be very sweet.)
Im probably going to irritate some fans but keep in mind that this is my personal opinion.
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