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I want back my hours!! Does this plot even work today?!!
Cliche or age-old plots can also make great dramas i.e.Once We Get Married.
But not for this drama. The bad script makes the plot cringe-worthy and overused.
My intention was to explore the drama but went beyond 10 episodes mostly out of curiosity about the leads' initial divorce and if they would reconcile. Alas, it turns out nothing worthy of the time!
A recommended watch only if you really, really:-
(1) Enjoy such plots-love before marriage, break-up, reconciliation, angst, melodramatic situations, etc.
(2) Like the chemistry between the leads (forget about the second leads-very mediocre). I personally thought Wang Chu Ran looks great in this drama, a total eye-opener after watching her in Royal Feast (good but not outstanding).
(3) Wang Chu Ran & Peng Guan Ying are eye candy for sore eyes. They look good together and nail their part. For me, it's the only factor I managed to fast-forward the whole drama. That was the real pull for me in the beginning episodes but alas, the bad script really can't save the day.
(4) Want to release stress and tension by ranting and howling about the story
What was so wrong for me:-
(1) The length is too long. Shortening it to around 20-25 episodes would do the damage repair to the horrible script/storytelling.
(2) It should have stopped at episode 31 because all the episodes after that were unnecessary. It feels draggy, out-of-focus - simply "water injection" to forcefully add more episodes.
(3) Because of the length, they added in all the unrealistic/cliche/melodramatic/ridiculous plots all at once from episode 31 on-wards- come on, the female lead's father has cancer and died? The boy's (Ning Xiang) cancer recurrence? Amnesia? Go back to Africa again and re-meet? Gosh, it was unwatchable.
(4) The ending is also a rush after all that dramatic twists. So, does he remember her or not? So, do they start all over again or what?
But not for this drama. The bad script makes the plot cringe-worthy and overused.
My intention was to explore the drama but went beyond 10 episodes mostly out of curiosity about the leads' initial divorce and if they would reconcile. Alas, it turns out nothing worthy of the time!
A recommended watch only if you really, really:-
(1) Enjoy such plots-love before marriage, break-up, reconciliation, angst, melodramatic situations, etc.
(2) Like the chemistry between the leads (forget about the second leads-very mediocre). I personally thought Wang Chu Ran looks great in this drama, a total eye-opener after watching her in Royal Feast (good but not outstanding).
(3) Wang Chu Ran & Peng Guan Ying are eye candy for sore eyes. They look good together and nail their part. For me, it's the only factor I managed to fast-forward the whole drama. That was the real pull for me in the beginning episodes but alas, the bad script really can't save the day.
(4) Want to release stress and tension by ranting and howling about the story
What was so wrong for me:-
(1) The length is too long. Shortening it to around 20-25 episodes would do the damage repair to the horrible script/storytelling.
(2) It should have stopped at episode 31 because all the episodes after that were unnecessary. It feels draggy, out-of-focus - simply "water injection" to forcefully add more episodes.
(3) Because of the length, they added in all the unrealistic/cliche/melodramatic/ridiculous plots all at once from episode 31 on-wards- come on, the female lead's father has cancer and died? The boy's (Ning Xiang) cancer recurrence? Amnesia? Go back to Africa again and re-meet? Gosh, it was unwatchable.
(4) The ending is also a rush after all that dramatic twists. So, does he remember her or not? So, do they start all over again or what?
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