2008 TVB 82 episode mega-series.
Synopsis: It does deserve some praise, it is very well written and very well filmed. The overall story does deserve the mega-series title, it's very complicated but inside the complicatedness, there is drama, inside this drama there are feelings that we can understand, it's the core of every drama and also the string that each one hangs on.
if your average drama doesn't have it's own original core values, why film it in the first place? that's why i don't watch american dramas, they're just bad at it.
This 82 episode series provided the future mega productions with what you need to incorporate into a drama and also what you need to leave out.
In this series, around the mid 60s episodes, things started getting too complicated, up to the point that i didn't feel like watching it, but i knew as a drama-ist (new word? xD) i needed to finish a series, especially a mega-series. so i kept on watching, in the span of about 15 episodes, there are so many twists and turns that made the series un-enjoyable. Thankfully it did get better towards the end of the series.
I don't want to post any spoilers so i'm just explaining the blueprints of this series :p
In the end, the last episode is what i expected from TVB, gay and useless. don't get me wrong, i love TVB dramas and i watch them daily, but their series endings aren't the best ever. there are probably only abouy 3 or 4 endings that i truly enjoyed and that i thought went well with the story. but these endings have failed me so many times that i know that it will be crappy. and alas, it was pretty darn crappy -_-
I'll leave the rest for you to decide...
HakoneDayDreamer, i don't know if this type of reviewing works, i just wanted to try something that wouldn't give the story away but still try to criticize the drama in a "constructive" manner... for those of you who will eventually watch this, have fun. it's definately a good series.
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