If you can with stand that type of ... onslaught,
then there are parts of the drama that's enjoyable.
Ni Shi Wo de Cheng Chi Ying Lei
You are my hero.
It's a 40 episode contemporary drama that's been aired right now in China.
As I'm making this video,
it has aired 20 episodes
I've watched14 episodes.
So this video is based on those episodes.
This drama is led by Ma Sichun and Bai Jingting.
It's adapted from a novel that was written back in 2012.
It is a contemporary romantic drama.
So it's not really professional drama.
They categorized themselves as romantic drama that is focused on
the relationship between a rookie doctor, played by Ma Sichun
and a very distinguished Swat
special OP officer played by Bai Jingting.
Based on the 14 episodes I've watched
i'll put it on the one gold mine scale on my seven level scale,
so it's on the positive end.
Now let me go into detail about what I would give it that score
This time, let me switch the usual order.
I will talk about the things that are not so ideal about this drama.
And then i'll talk about the things that I think still
would make it worth watching to a particular audience.
So let's first talk about the stuff that is not so ideal.
I think the biggest problem of this drama is it has a lot of very old trope
I haven't read the novel.
I don't know if it's taken from the novel.
Therefore, it is like that because it's a relatively old novel,
almost a decade ago
Right from the beginning,
you'll see a lot of very familiar character setups, events,
plots that's just like so old, for example,
our female lead character,
she's a rookie doctor and she goes to this training camp
for getting the emergency responder's qualification.
So she has to go through 2 weeks of training, living on that camp base
and being taught by our male lead character who is a swat officer
But then she has very valid reason that she needs to
get away from the training camp a couple of times,
because she has a friend who has cancer and there's a very famous doctor
who might be able to help her friend who is coming to her working hospital.
So she wants to grab the chance and talk to that doctor.
So it's a very very valid reason
just tell that to the training officer
and say this is like life and death problem for my friend.
So I have to leave for an afternoon.
I have to like leave for the night.
I'm pretty sure nobody would stop you from going there.
That would be like no making sense.
You're just getting a qualification.
It's not like you are national security lock down in a camp and
You have like national secret that you just cannot share with other people
within the first 2 or 3 episodes.
It happened twice when she wants to get the leave.
And then for some reason,
because of the convenience of the plot she just couldn't get it.
So she runs away without getting the leave from the officer
and then comes back and getting punished and getting.
Basically, the male lead is like,
I'm not gonna give you your qualification,
even if you'd gone through the whole course,
like it's a little bit pushing it.
Really?
Because in our real world,
there are just so many different opportunities
and ways you can explain this and say,
this is really important.
I'm sorry, I have to leave for an hour or two or for the afternoon,
because this is like important for my friend's life.
I don't think any police officer will stop you from saving other people.
I see the narrative intention of that is to create conflict
for the two leads so that they can ..... and then get sparks.
But really, can you do it in a more elegant way?
This is just so forced.
And there are more tropy stuff like slip on the floor
because there's soap on the floor and fall onto each other
why does it have to happen in every freaking romantic drama?
This is 2021.
Also our female lead has this weird body quality
is like where she goes trouble follows.
She's like Conan.
Whatever you go, some kind of murder happens,
for her, wherever she goes,
some kind of weird things happen
such as she goes into the mountain she will get lost
such as she gets into the elevator
the elecator got stopped and then they get stuck
with a patient and she had to do some surgery
in elevator when she's stuck, so that she is a hero
lazy writing ?
something that we've seen a million times plus our male second,
female second storyline while it's pretty cute,
it's made up with all kinds of tropes in the romantic dramaland
and it's like pure trope combination.
So to me,
this is the biggest problem.
It's like I really have to like grit my teeth and stand through this.
I almost quit the drama after the first 2/3 episodes
because of the trope showing up too intensively.
And then to make the male lead and female lead work together,
they sometimes sacrifize basic logic.
I don't want to spoil it too much for you,
but when you watch it,
just think a little bit about certain plot that happens and you will realize,
yeah, but that doesn't make sense pretty much.
Also the biggest problem for most of Chinese drama script,
yeah... but it doesn't make sense.
Or that's so forced
if you can with stand that type of onslaught,
then there are parts of the drama that's enjoyable,
which leads me to talk about the good things.
The biggest reason I think that made me somehow be able
to stand through 14 episodes is the two leads' acting
is really relaxed,
like so relaxed and natural, so like real people,
even though sometimes the things they do doesn't
quite make sense.
But the way they act and talk and gesture and laughter and giggle and all that,
it's just so relaxed.
It looks like somebody just put a camera in the room
and they were just not aware of they are being filmed.
So the reality of the acting kind of cancels out
a little bit of the illogical part of the plot.
And I do have to say Ma Sichun and Bai Jingting both did pretty good job
playing their role and both of them use their own voice.
So that definitely adds a lot to the believability.
Sometimes when they giggle I feel like
is that gag real take?
Because it feels so not like acting,
it may actually just be the actor started laughing.
And they actually kept it in the drama.
I am also very impressed by Bai Jingting's muscle
like he is hard core guy.
It really sells that he could be the Top ranking officer of the entire Swat
team of whatever city that it's set in, because okay, that's impressive.
Also when this drama describes certain
professional things such as the hospital part,
the medical part and then the police part,
it's relatively reliable.
For example, there is a case in the drama that you
will see that to save a girl who ingested poison,
they had to get this particular medicine,
but it's all sold in very small dosage and the hospital never stocks big,
A big dosage package,
but they need a huge amount of that to wash her system and save her.
So everybody comes down and start to break those
smaller glass bottles to make a big dosage.
It's actually based on real thing.
In a drama version, they broke 3,000 bottles to save this girl.
In reality, that case actually happened.
And the doctors and nurses got together and broke 8,000,
8,000 little bottles!
So I mean, when I found that out, I was like, okay, cool.
at least there's some level of research that went into this.
So I would say for this drama,
if you really like these two leads
Ma Sichun and Bai Jingting, right?
For whatever reason,
because I know some people really, really like them,
you will enjoy this drama because you probably can ignore all the things that
doesn't quite make sense and then focus your attention on the sweet moments,
some quite lovely acting,
very relaxed atmosphere,
and generally quite happy bubbly feel of this drama
personally for me because currently my emotional bank,
the reservoir is drained for the other drama.
I have to confess that I don't quite feel for this couple,
but I know some people do like on internet.
I see a lot of people do and I think it's pretty valid.
Finally I do have to say it has a really weird title.
Ni shi wo de cheng chi ying lei
You are my city and my soldiers' camp,
which is like such a weird Chinese name.
The English name is ok, you're my hero.
Cheng Chi Ying Lei, is so weird
like you don't even know how to chew that in Chinese.
It's very hard to sell a very confusing title
Oh, Plus I wanna let you know it's so funny, for this dram, Liu Yuning,
if you watch my weekend video you know i've mentioned him
is again singing a soundtrack song for this drama
like I said
he starts to show up in every Chinese freaking drama,
singing theme song, title song, ending song, whatever and also for
one of the ost within the drama and also the ending song,
it's written by the team.
Chen Xueran and Luo kun,
the masters who wrote the soundtrack for Guardian,
my old friends Know, Guardian is special and we have to
acknowledge even though that drama's script is shit,
the drama's music is like ace, top notch.
So I'm happy to see those old names showing up in this new drama.
I hope this review has been useful to you.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.