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Wo de Fan Pai Nan You, Mr. Bad is a 24 episodes
web drama that has finished area on the platform iqiyi
it is directed by Li Qingrong
written by three credited scriptwriters.
Lu Han, Li jingchun, Liao yunmei
led by Shen Yue, Chen Zheyuan, Luo mingjie, Qu jingjing
the drama went live on the last day of September
and It's a nonstop airing drama.
This drama is about our female lead character.
Played by shen yue,
she is a very young aspired web novel writer.
She has a one novel creation.
That's a period wu xia novel
in which she actually is kind of the female lead.
And the greatest hero ever is a guy
who is based on her role model and her idol
in the novel writing land.
In a drama played by the actor Luo Mingjie
and you need an anti hero.
So in the book that character is called Xiao Wudi
and that is Chen Zheyuan's character
for some unknown reason that initially you're not gonna find out
until the very end of the drama.
One day her fictional creation,
the bad guy,
the anti hero,
somehow materialized in her world and creates a lot of drama
and mess and love and bubbles.
So this is another very common drama type in Asian drama land.
The "Chuan Yue" (穿越） story.
There are different types of chuan yue such as time traveling,
such as spiritual traveling into other bodies.
And this version is fictional reality to reality
long time viewers of dramaland
You are very familiar with this type of story.
I have watched all 24 episodes of the drama.
I'll give it a, cause I don't do really decimals
so i'll call it a one gold mine drama,
but it's a high one gold mine.
It's probably like 1.5/1.6,
but really not getting to two gold mine for me.
So it's in between that.
Let me first talk about the good things about this drama.
Number one, it is an overall very acceptable quality contemporary,
romantic drama production
avoids most of the, let's say,
systematic problems with chinese young adults focused romantic dramas
such as weird lighting,
crazy color,
things that just makes it look too cheap and unprofessional
this drama, although it's a very arcatypical romantic dramaland drama.
Overall all the technical aspects,
the look of it doesn't actually feel super cheap and cheesy.
The second thing I liked about this drama is
I really do feel it is a very
with a lot of positive charge drama,
Shen Yue and Chen Zheyuan
I wouldn't say their coupling and their chemistry,
and their particular cp will leave a very long lasting,
strong impression on me.
But there's no bad taste in it at all.
It's a very smooth and well worked out coupling.
I think both of them did a really good job
of making the relationship fun and relaxed
when they are acting pretty much throughout the whole drama,
even under circumstances that's highly dramatic and definitely not realistic.
Still though from day to day life they have
it feels like 2 real person.
I am not a fan of either of them in terms of like
I just really like looking at them.
But while I was watching this,
I have the feeling of me being the aunt of
the family looking at the next generation.
And i'm just like~~ CUTE
I'd like to buy you presents when you get married.
That's how I feel about this coupling.
So it's not like i'd dream about them.
but while I was watching, i'm smiling most of the time.
So I think that's a pretty successful result
for a contemporary drama like this.
I also like the mother character played by Dong Xuan
the mother and daughter relationship in this drama is also quite lovely.
The third thing about the story itself,
we've seen a lot of this type of jumping through reality,
young adult romantic stories in dramaland
This is honestly just another one,
but not a bad one.
And for this type of story,
it's set for comedy.
Why wouldn't you use this opportunity to write the most ridiculous scenarios?
Right?
So you're gonna see those in this drama,
this drama has its own kind of rhythm and
type of comedy that's unique to itself.
I wouldn't spoil it for you.
But there are a couple of moments in this drama
where the comedy comes from places you really don't see
and when it suddenly happens.
I remember I was like frozen for a moment
and then burst with laughter.
If you are looking forward tp comedy in this type of drama,
you're gonna get it ok
This is a romantic comedy drama.
I'm not saying it's the best funniest drama of its kind,
but it's good enough.
Then I really have to emphasize that compared
to every other drama i've seen recently,
that's contemporary chinese romantic drama.
This one has done a better job at dealing with the relationship
between the main couple and the second lead couple
the thing that I think it has done better
than see you again, than little forest. ~
Is first, these two people's story on its own is
interesting enough and their characters are clearly defined
and distinctive and their conflict.
And the things that's stopping or making them work together is unique enough.
and then the two actors are very well casted
for the type of character that's on paper.
so you have no problem of believing they are,
who they are
and then they do integrate with a main lead couple
better than the other ones that I consider to be a failure.
Although I wouldn't say this is masterpiece writing,
at least it doesn't offend me.
While I was watching this drama,
there're actually a couple of scenes and points where it's
the story between say the female lead and male second.
That's actually quite nice to watch and interesting,
engaging and don't feel like you're wasting my life.
You really reach the conclusion by comparison.
So if you've been suffering from a couple of other dramas recently
where you just wanna kick the scriptwriter in the ASS
stop writing about uninteresting second lead couple
this roma has done it much better.
I also actually really like how they explained why
at the end of the drama,
close to the end of the drama
that the male character materialized,
who actually called him in. what's his purpose,
why did he come into reality?
How do you resolve the problem of the classic
Once your time travel or space travel or whatever
Can you stay here?
Do you have to go back?
And this is a happy drama,
okay, doesn't have any bad things at the end,
but why it happened and what it involves
it involves a story within a story type of situation.
And it's actually a really lovely way resolving that thing.
It's like drinking hot chocolate and eat marshmallow.
On the winter day,
I had a lot of fun watching this drama.
It really relaxes you
There's very little pain and pressure
while you watch this drama psychologically.
And that could be also in a way, a problem.
So let me talk about two things, mainly
basically why I didn't rate it even higher.
Number one.
This is a too sweet drama for my liking,
but it's a very personal thing.
There's nothing wrong with having a drama that's pretty
much overall all happy from beginning to the end.
But for a romantic drama
to make me remember this cp or this story longer.
Over time, i've realized at least for me,
it needs to be a balance between sweet and sour,
between happy and sad, between sugar, sugar, sugar,
and then broken glass.
It is a 60% sweet and 40% broken glass would be the ideal,
mixture where I don't suffer too much,
but I remember them a year later, 2 years later,
3 years later,
whereas if it's like 80% sugar or like 90% sugar and 10% broken glass,
which pretty much is this drama,
i'm gonna forget about it.
I know very very soon
also with very little painful moments and
hardly really any moments where their relationship
is under threat like serious threat,
the heart wrenching part of any good romantic stories.
It doesn't have that to contrast the sweet moments and earned happiness.
So you feel it's very much like the stone that's skid
across the pond and it just keeps skidding
never sinks down.
If actually that's what you like,
then it's a positive thing for you.
But for me, i'm like yeah okay
i've spent the time watching this drama,
but I know i'm gonna forget about it very soon.
The second thing about this drama is although it's 24 episodes,
and although i've said the second lead couple is not problematic,
and sometimes it's actually really helping the main plot.
I still feel this drama
It's a little bit too long.
All the plot that has happened in this drama
probably can finish within 20 episodes,
I think cap it at 20 and even maybe like 18 would be Iideal
there are parts of the drama around.
after episode let's say 8/9 around the 10-14 range
I can't remember the exact number of episodes,
but pretty much after the two leads have kind of
consolidated that they have feelings for each other.
But then it hasn't gotten to the point where they completely
just sit down and make sure it's that
it's during the game
where the guy is trying to get the girl's attention.
But he's proud.
He doesn't wanna show that he actually cares for her,
but then he constantly is just like watching her and trying to
show up in her life
that couple of episodes
there are too many repetitive romantic little game things
that happens, at least that was the part I really wanted to fast forward.
I'm like, I already know what you're trying to do.
And you have done a couple of scenes consecutively,
just showing what you wanna do.
Maybe we can condense that down a little bit and move on
at the end of this.
I still say this is a very, very watchable drama.
I really went into this drama initially just trying to see
a couple of years later after Dear Ancestor
which was also a iqiyi drama
which was also played by Chen Zheyuan as the lead
which was also a Chuan Yue Story
Is there any difference?
Would I prefer this new one?
Honestly I still prefer the older one.
Although that drama's production quality and budget
is definitely lower than this one,
because that story is half sugar, half broken glass.
And when it's broken glass, it's effing really broken glass.
It's not joking, broken glass,
it's life and death broken glass.
That's why I still remember that story till today.
And I still think it's the better romantic.
Chen Zheyuan led chuan yue story.
Again, it's just me
those are my opinions about this drama
yesterday when I was thinking about
what I should be talking about in this video,
I suddenly realized at least in recent 5 years or so,
when you think about all the chuan yue,
romantic stories in dramaland from china,
or even like from Asia.
I haven't watched everything, obviously,
but among the ones i've paid attention to and watched,
it seems whether it's from a novel or from a manga,
or from time travel,
from different world travel, almost it's always,
the guy travels to the woman's world,
or the guy is the other worldly person.
Your main character narrative is always the woman's place.
The female leads place
think about the korean drama The King
It's really from the female lead's world.
That's the real world we have,
where there isn't a king in south korea.
and the other world, the other dimension,
the other parallel universe,
you have the king character,
think about W (2 Worlds) also a korean drama
where the guy is literally drawn by the female lead's father.
This story, the guy is written by female lead as a novel character.
Think about the recent See You Again
It is again the male character who is 84 years older,
than the female lead.
He exists in previous time,
whereas current time is female lead's time,
and he jumps in.
yeah It makes me wonder.
Earlier on, like more than a decade ago,
it's more popular for the female lead to jump,
but often she jumps backward in time, therefore,
into an ancient society where she is effed up by the social structure
like Bu Bu Jing Xin, Scarlet Heart, or even the Meng Hui Drama
It's not a good drama, it's made more recent,
but then it's based on a novel that's so old.
That's literally Bu Bu Jing XIn's era work
it just didn't get made at the time.
Maybe things just happening clusters like you often notice \
so if you actually have similar dramas
from whereever you are you've watched in recent years,
I wonder what it's like
is it always the guy who is the other worldly person
who enters the girl's life
would be nice to see something that switches it around
or mess it up or completely go crazy with it.
It's a genre that's funny
It's easy to set up comedy and extreme dramatic situation with,
but it's also very easy to get it very old and stale
like i've played every trick I can, now what situation
Anyway, that's a little bit thought at the end of this review.
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