Hello, you're watching AvenueX
and today let's talk about the chinese drama.
Dian Ran Wo Wen Nuan Ni, lighter and princess.
This is a 36 episodes web drama
that's being aired on the platform Youku
This video is a first impression video on this drama of
its first ten episodes that I just finished watching.
Before I sat down making this video.
The drama is led by Chen Feiyu, Zhang jingyi,
it's based on a novel called Da Huo Ji Yu Gong Zhu Qun,
lighter and princess, which is the orginial chinese title of this drama as well
until two days before this drama went live, they changed it into
Dian Ran Wo Wen Nuan ni
This has become a chinese drama tradition these days
90% of dramas will change their titles
right before they go live
Can anybody explain to me
why that is the case?
oh and forgot to mention the original author is the lady
who's supposed to be called 29,
but then she made up an english word for it
that she can't even pronounce.
and She is also the author of the original novel of Falling into You
Chi Dao, which has just finished airing on youku.
The drama was shot from last year september to february this year
and it's mostly shot in the city shanghai and suzhou.
I haven't read the original novel.
I'm not planning to because I don't want to get spoiled.
The story starts at our female and male lead characters
mid to late 20s when they haven't met each other for a long time,
and they met again.
And their circumstances are very different
from when they first got to know each other.
And and then the story goes back in time,
starting from when they first met on campus in university
and telling you what has happened to create this
rather complicated relationship they have.
Both of them are computer science major students.
And the work they do is gonna come concern a lot about internet programs,
coding, websites, apps,
and entrepreneur, and all that.
Right now, it's sitting at 1.5 gold mine for me.
And this one I really cannot tell yet for myself
whether it's gonna go up or go down
till the end of this drama.
I think this actually makes it a little bit more interesting and engaging
as a drama for me to chase.
It would be very boring if you can literally
see to the end right from the beginning.
Now as usual,
let me talk about what I think is worth watching for your reference.
and then what I think is so far not yet working very well
on the positive end.
In comparison to the previous youku,
same author drama that just finished airing,
Chi Dao, falling into you.
This drama doesn't look as eye hurting
if you're worried about youku going crazy with its filter.
Glowing effect super highlight.
This drama is better
at certain places. It's still a little bit too bright.
But when the camera is very, very tight on the actors,
you can actually tell their skin texture very detailed.
There is definitely brightening going on,
but there's no insanity plasticky smoothing
as for its production style, quality.
It's not on the high end,
let's say of contemporary chinese drama
that you can find these days
and for this drama really
you probably are not looking for high production quality per se.
You're really looking for romantic storyline
and good looking young people couple.
So that goes to the second point and the biggest selling point of this drama.
And I think so far pretty satisfying is
the coupling of Chen Feiyu and Zhang Jingyi
They are really very eye pleasing.
That's all I can say
if you're looking for a young adult leading campus drama
with very good looking people,
from all angles and lighting conditions possible.
This is one of the best you can get this year from chinese dramaland.
I am personally not a fan of either of their looks per se
but I would still admit like the logical mind of me
can tell they are both very good looking people,
particularly when there is a two shot
where they're both in frame and
they're in profile or close to profile angle,
camera is on the side of them.
These two persons' profile lines match so nicely.
you know the goddess Nv Wa
which is in chinese mythology who create humans.
You think that goddess,
when she created these two,
she actually used a sculpting knife
and carefully cut their face out
instead of like us
splashes of mud spot.
That's the difference between super good looking human
and the rest of the species.
Most of the enjoyment of this drama comes from me staring
at the screen when the camera is staring at them.
It's a type of pleasure that your brain gets triggered and
then starts to create chemicals that makes you feel happy.
So really, the greatest thing of this drama is
to look at two very good looking people fall in love
in ways that are so far not offending.
So that's the third point
Whenever you come across super offending characters in their actions,
behaviors, or certain ideas,
you can feel from this production when they put the story out,
what is their sort of
value, that they're trying to advocate in a way
If it's really offensive,
it's very hard to watch.
And there are plenty of such dramas from chinese dramaland.
This one isn't
it's not masterpiece writing,
but it's unlikely to offend you in any significant way.
And if you wanna talk about the chemistry
between 2 leads since for this type of drama,
that's the most important thing.
I'd say it's a steady climb.
It hasn't gotten to the place by now yet to make me fully
completely fallen for their chemistry and relationship,
but it's slowly building up.
so I do hope for the later parts of the story,
since it will have more dramatic plot,
this relationship can get more dynamic and get more energized,
turn it on. Basically,
whether it's sugar or whether it's torture
right now. It's not yet exciting enough.
I do see the trend happening.
and this is still early stage before 1/3 of the drama.
These are the good things,
enjoyable things of this drama.
Now let's talk about a couple of things that I think
would basically limit the rooftop of this drama,
even if the later plots gets more interesting,
even if the acting gets better,
even if say the chemistry starts to work even better,
I feel it has a like hard ceiling that's unlikely to break through.
I haven't read the novel.
So I don't know if there's a significant difference
between the original novel and the drama version.
So far,
the version of campus life and particularly early parts of the
drama like first 6 episodes of all the conflicts between male lead
female lead or other people
to set up their characters, right
It's written very immaturely.
It's like all these people,
although they're already technically adults,
they all act like primary school kids
and good relationships and bad relationships
and what can turn people against each other or work together.
It's just like all very child play and honestly right now,
like in our day and age,
real primary school students probably act and behave
more maturely than this.
It almost put me off,
particularly the first six episodes.
So if you were watching it and maybe you need to just
like brave through that part and not giving up on it.
Until later, it starts to get more normal.
So what this signals me basically is the scriptwriter's ability
to control the narrative or creating dramatic plot is not so advanced
that they have to use very superficial tactics,
creating very forced conflicts to move the characters forward.
And to do that,
they sacrifice a level of believability, realistic, logical things,
their observation of the current time,
you know like for people who live in this century.
It's just when I was watching the first couple of episodes,
I really had to laugh at times Iwas like,
no no no college students are not like that.
it's just they're like kids,
they're like 5 year old just sitting in a room like from a kindergarten and
waiting for teacher to come in and then just tell them what to do or whatever.
It's weird.
It does get better later,
but it shows the script writing is mhm mhm
so that worries me basically about further down the line
whether the writing is gonna hold up.
Also 36 episodes is actually quite long for contemporary drama that
really just feature two main leads
you do have supporting roles,
but so far they are not major at all.
There's no clear sub plot line or second third lead couple
to fill in, it really is their stories.
So we have 26 episodes to go that's like in itself enough for rather major
romantic drama that features 2 people
and then adding on that,
it's not the drama is negative, right?
I was watching it.
And the other day I was thinking as the drama presents you,
this couple has its very adorable points
certain parts of it is quite lovely,
even though Arthur has a very bad luck in dramaland so far
he does have screen charisma,
but the thing is his character can only work in dramaland
this kind of guy who can get so many girls to like him.
But obviously, he's only gonna pick one because that's romantic story.
It's just so dramaland specific.
It will never happen in reality.
No matter how tall, good looking,
clever, you know the star of the school
and very strong personality,
bad guys that every girl likes.
It's a very drama and imagined, created story archetype.
Imagine this person exists in real life on campus,
and he treats other students in that way.
He acts in that way.
It would be very hard basically to control
your urge to slap across this guy's face most of the time.
Let alone become friends and fall in love with them.
When I was watching this drama,
I do willingly basically take out my brain's judgmental and
logical and rational part to enjoy the screen chemistry.
The love storyl, the good looking people.
I have to do that to an extent
if I don't I would just be looking at it,
yeah,but I don't believe you,
like if this guy lives in a real world,
and he's my classmate,
he's gonna be so hated by the entire class in school.
nobody's gonna get close to him
and he just not gonna have a lot of story.
And I think we fantasize about these type of characters.
It appeals to part of human psychology.
And it's really something you cannot have in real life.
Therefore, you create the story space to have the fantasy realized
by actors for you
don't bring that into real life,
okay.don't get convinced by it.
I think my audiences are old enough and
mature enough to see that if in reality,
you come across this kind of guy
just run away from them,
not worth it.
The major chunk of my audiences are aged between 25 and 40.
So, I know, you are more matured than the characters in this story
at the end of this first impression,
I would say this is a drama that for its
specific audiences and for the specific,
delicious things it offers is worth watching.
I am in it just to see how they're gonna play out this romantic love,
hate torture relationship and then
AvenueX's human animal part and say,
I like looking at good looking faces,
i'll keep watching.
and I do hope they at least in one way or another would
surprise me and give me something I didn't see coming.
As long as I have a little bit of that, i'd be happy
that should conclude my first impression video
on the drama lighter and princess,
I do hope the later part of the drama will get even better.
Meanwhile, if you are looking for similar things,
you can check out this video. I've recently made
on a very similar drama, same platform, same original author.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I"ll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.