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There is a special place in my heart for 2K Taiwanese dramas...
In my personal rating system of "loved," "liked," "meh", and "nah", this rates a "liked".
This one took me awhile to get through, but to be fair, I generally have about 10 - 15 dramas on my "currently watching" list at any one time, so it can take me awhile to get through one--and also its rare that I actually get through one all the way, so that should say something about this drama at least.
I started this for Mark Chao since this was an early work of his and I liked him as an actor after TMPB. I also appreciated Vic Zhou's character. And while there is a comparison to Jack Sparrow, I think he pulled it off.
To me, this was a typical, 2K, telenovela-type drama which overly dramatic emotional scenes and plenty of places where logic did not apply--especially towards the end. There were so many times when I was shouting at the screen "Shoot them!" when a "hero" was having a dramatic moment with the enemy instead of just shooting them (a la Indiana Jones against the sword fighter). Or how none of the heroes seemed to be aware that security cameras existed and then were surprised when the enemies knew where they were all the time. I could go on.
Like many other reviewers and commentors, I could not get the romance portion. It was not even a love quadrangle. More like a love...pentangle? Octangle? Let's see if I can figure this one out: Wu Ying Xiong always liked Chen Lin (speaking of characters with zero logic...) but then sleeps with the fake Interpol Agent; Chen Lin liked WYX in the beginning then transferred to Chen Zai Tian (who seemed to return it at least in the beginning?); in the beginning Lan Xi Ying (one of my favorite characters) seemed to like WYX, but then seemed to transfer to CZT (who seemed to return it at times?) but then at the end they implied she now liked Cheng Nuo (the assassin)? And as to who CZT liked...Chen Lin? LXY? He Xiao Mei?...anything with XX chromosomes? And then they never resolved it. Oh & Ma Xiao Ming / Huang Shi Kai who like CL.
This was a good filler drama for when I was bored with the others I was watching or just wanted to turn my brain off for a bit. I don't regret watching it as both MLs were nice to look at, did decent work, and carried a decent (if periodically illogical) storyline. I won't rewatch it, though.
This one took me awhile to get through, but to be fair, I generally have about 10 - 15 dramas on my "currently watching" list at any one time, so it can take me awhile to get through one--and also its rare that I actually get through one all the way, so that should say something about this drama at least.
I started this for Mark Chao since this was an early work of his and I liked him as an actor after TMPB. I also appreciated Vic Zhou's character. And while there is a comparison to Jack Sparrow, I think he pulled it off.
To me, this was a typical, 2K, telenovela-type drama which overly dramatic emotional scenes and plenty of places where logic did not apply--especially towards the end. There were so many times when I was shouting at the screen "Shoot them!" when a "hero" was having a dramatic moment with the enemy instead of just shooting them (a la Indiana Jones against the sword fighter). Or how none of the heroes seemed to be aware that security cameras existed and then were surprised when the enemies knew where they were all the time. I could go on.
Like many other reviewers and commentors, I could not get the romance portion. It was not even a love quadrangle. More like a love...pentangle? Octangle? Let's see if I can figure this one out: Wu Ying Xiong always liked Chen Lin (speaking of characters with zero logic...) but then sleeps with the fake Interpol Agent; Chen Lin liked WYX in the beginning then transferred to Chen Zai Tian (who seemed to return it at least in the beginning?); in the beginning Lan Xi Ying (one of my favorite characters) seemed to like WYX, but then seemed to transfer to CZT (who seemed to return it at times?) but then at the end they implied she now liked Cheng Nuo (the assassin)? And as to who CZT liked...Chen Lin? LXY? He Xiao Mei?...anything with XX chromosomes? And then they never resolved it. Oh & Ma Xiao Ming / Huang Shi Kai who like CL.
This was a good filler drama for when I was bored with the others I was watching or just wanted to turn my brain off for a bit. I don't regret watching it as both MLs were nice to look at, did decent work, and carried a decent (if periodically illogical) storyline. I won't rewatch it, though.
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