Johanna Linnea Karlsson
England.
This review may contain spoilers
I often think about the end
10/10 Ending.
10/10 For writing the ending that way.
10/10 For the ML staying awkward until the last frame
I've seen hundreds of dramas, but this is the random little nobody, 'unknown' drama I keep thinking about when I'm alone and that funny mood takes over.
And trust me, nobody either 1. watched it or 2. finished it.
There are reasons for that, it was subbed horrifically initially, this was long before auto translate was half-OK as it is now in 2024. Another reason is because it came out during a stellar year for Chinese drama, so this flew under everybody's radar.
Had it been released today, it would be one of those 10min dramas, nobody ever does lower budget, 30-40min dramas anymore.
The dark and the aesthetics in this feel right, the acting seems likely, the characters seem as you'd expect people of their station to be.
He's impossibly awkward and lacks all social adequacy which is great.
She's clever, but also sheltered and a little dim, which is great and makes the story more plausible.
Let's ponder this young woman being real.
This was her serious attempt at living a life within a very short time frame, this is her last stumbling *hurrah* before real life sweeps her away in to the historical annuals for a far away future as another nations vessel.
She latches on to this man at this impossible time in her life, and there is so much great chemistry in the fact that there is barely any chemistry - It's so REALISTIC
Their love begins as they say goodbye.
We don't know if she died the very next year in childbirth.
We will never know if she lives to be a 90 year old matriarch, grandmother of 20.
Maybe when she closed her eyes for the final time, he was the one who greeted her.
See, this drama has me thinking at night... when that funny mood takes over.
Women's fates, my own fate.
Where does it all lead.
10/10 For writing the ending that way.
10/10 For the ML staying awkward until the last frame
I've seen hundreds of dramas, but this is the random little nobody, 'unknown' drama I keep thinking about when I'm alone and that funny mood takes over.
And trust me, nobody either 1. watched it or 2. finished it.
There are reasons for that, it was subbed horrifically initially, this was long before auto translate was half-OK as it is now in 2024. Another reason is because it came out during a stellar year for Chinese drama, so this flew under everybody's radar.
Had it been released today, it would be one of those 10min dramas, nobody ever does lower budget, 30-40min dramas anymore.
The dark and the aesthetics in this feel right, the acting seems likely, the characters seem as you'd expect people of their station to be.
He's impossibly awkward and lacks all social adequacy which is great.
She's clever, but also sheltered and a little dim, which is great and makes the story more plausible.
Let's ponder this young woman being real.
This was her serious attempt at living a life within a very short time frame, this is her last stumbling *hurrah* before real life sweeps her away in to the historical annuals for a far away future as another nations vessel.
She latches on to this man at this impossible time in her life, and there is so much great chemistry in the fact that there is barely any chemistry - It's so REALISTIC
Their love begins as they say goodbye.
We don't know if she died the very next year in childbirth.
We will never know if she lives to be a 90 year old matriarch, grandmother of 20.
Maybe when she closed her eyes for the final time, he was the one who greeted her.
See, this drama has me thinking at night... when that funny mood takes over.
Women's fates, my own fate.
Where does it all lead.
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