Monalex
Mexico
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Lovely start, draggy anti-climatic ending!!
Let me start by saying, that I loved this drama so much until episode 25, when all the misunderstandings started. I could have dealt with it, if they had not lengthen the misunderstandings until the last episode.
Story:
The overall storyline is great, I really do believe that this story is way better constructed and more logical than the Taiwanese and Korean versions. The main complaint I have and the reason why I grade it so low is, as mentioned before the minimal time spent in the happy ending, because it did not resolve all my feelings of anger and felt too rushed. This left me with a very bitter taste, because the happy ending lasted at most 10 minutes. I feel the ending is too rushed and the misunderstandings kept for way too long, to the point where you question the great "love" the main female character has for the main male character.
The strength of this story lies on it being more real, and on us seeing the main male character falling in love, unlike the Taiwanese version, where I believe the main male character realizes his love when the main female character has the accident. But this version makes the main female character too prideful in her denial of her love. I mean in the last episode she already knew all that he went through the past 3 years and how much he loves her, he's been literally begging her for another chance, and she still keeps her intention of leaving?? WTH??
Acting/Cast:
This was so great, I've got no complains there. Xing Zhao Lin and Liang Jie have great chemistry with each other and literally shine when they are together. I love the rest of cast, especially the Grandma and Mom of the main characters. Anson was a surprise, I know his character is to provide comic relief and he did his job very well. This is the version where Anna, is the most obnoxious and terrible human being, with so little self-esteem that she wants to be with someone who patently does not love her, but that was the way the character was written, so the actress did a great job. Dylan in this version was lovely and not at all pushy in his love for Jia Xin, unlike the Taiwanese version.
Music:
It was the best!! I love the rhythm and the lyrics, so appropriate to the story and the characters. To this day, I still listen to them!!
Rewatch Value:
For me is close to non-existent, because of the lengthening of misunderstandings in this version and the very poor wrap up off the whole story at the end. I will not put myself up for that kind of torture again, I may watch some sweet and funny scenes again, but never the whole drama. Which is a shame because it started so well, grounded the drama in so much "reality", unlike the cartoonish Taiwanese version and the sometimes cringy Korean version, but this Chinese version left me feeling so much anger and hopelessness!! If they had at least added one more episode, to give the viewer sweetness overload after all the bitterness we swallowed, it would have been the greatest version of them all.
Story:
The overall storyline is great, I really do believe that this story is way better constructed and more logical than the Taiwanese and Korean versions. The main complaint I have and the reason why I grade it so low is, as mentioned before the minimal time spent in the happy ending, because it did not resolve all my feelings of anger and felt too rushed. This left me with a very bitter taste, because the happy ending lasted at most 10 minutes. I feel the ending is too rushed and the misunderstandings kept for way too long, to the point where you question the great "love" the main female character has for the main male character.
The strength of this story lies on it being more real, and on us seeing the main male character falling in love, unlike the Taiwanese version, where I believe the main male character realizes his love when the main female character has the accident. But this version makes the main female character too prideful in her denial of her love. I mean in the last episode she already knew all that he went through the past 3 years and how much he loves her, he's been literally begging her for another chance, and she still keeps her intention of leaving?? WTH??
Acting/Cast:
This was so great, I've got no complains there. Xing Zhao Lin and Liang Jie have great chemistry with each other and literally shine when they are together. I love the rest of cast, especially the Grandma and Mom of the main characters. Anson was a surprise, I know his character is to provide comic relief and he did his job very well. This is the version where Anna, is the most obnoxious and terrible human being, with so little self-esteem that she wants to be with someone who patently does not love her, but that was the way the character was written, so the actress did a great job. Dylan in this version was lovely and not at all pushy in his love for Jia Xin, unlike the Taiwanese version.
Music:
It was the best!! I love the rhythm and the lyrics, so appropriate to the story and the characters. To this day, I still listen to them!!
Rewatch Value:
For me is close to non-existent, because of the lengthening of misunderstandings in this version and the very poor wrap up off the whole story at the end. I will not put myself up for that kind of torture again, I may watch some sweet and funny scenes again, but never the whole drama. Which is a shame because it started so well, grounded the drama in so much "reality", unlike the cartoonish Taiwanese version and the sometimes cringy Korean version, but this Chinese version left me feeling so much anger and hopelessness!! If they had at least added one more episode, to give the viewer sweetness overload after all the bitterness we swallowed, it would have been the greatest version of them all.
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