That is so sweet.
I know it's not real, but it's cute to see on screen
like a giant music video that just has occasionally drama plot plugged in
and not vice versa.
Wo De Shi Dai Ni De Shi Dai, DT. Appledog's Time
is a 38 episodes web drama that's being aired
On Iqiyi, the drama is led by Li Yitong and Hu Yitian
and it is literally Go Go Squid 2
The sequel to Go Go Squid 1 that did really really well.
The drama's director is the same director of Love is Sweet, Ban Shi Mi Tang Ban Shi Shang
And Once Upon the Time There's A Spirit Sword Mountain,
Cong Qian You Zuo Ling Jian Shan
This drama finished shooting at the end of August
so it's a pretty fast schedule that now it's out.
I've watched the first 14 episode.
So this video is based on those episodes.
I also have to let you know that I actually haven't
watched the entirety of Go Go Squid 1
I do know roughly about what the story is about and who leads it.
And obviously because the drama has big popularity,
I think most of my audiences know
but this time i'm coming from the perspective of somebody
who really knows close to nothing about the first drama.
Based on what i've seen so far,
i'm gonna give it a one gold mine rating.
And I have the inkling that it's probably
gonna stay there till the end of this drama.
So now let's get into talking about the details.
First the things I really do like about this drama.
This drama has quite a few really good songs in it,
and it's also a problem,
but i'm gonna talk about it later,
but as a positive side features a lot of music.
Its title song is actually written by the same musician
who wrote the songs for Guardian.
He even sang the song this time
For the ending song
It's actually sung by the singer/actor who played the black spectacle,
the Hei Xia Zi character in Ultimate Note.
Zhong Ji Bi Ji
so to me, there are a lot of familiar faces in this drama, not just the actors,
but actually the musicians,
the people who sing songs for this drama.
The first thing I really like about this drama
is there are a lot of good looking people.
Can we be honest frank and really shallow about that,
which is it's very eye candy, Hu Yitian
tall, good looking, Li Yitong
sweet sweet girl and she looks really good in this drama
Wang Anyu, playing a supporting role Shen Zhe
Very good looking too, and they all have pretty nice sense of fashion too.
And it's shot with a very lovely style of cinematography that is
sitting in the middle between a very cinematic and very video-ish look
which is very suitable for contemporary romantic young adults dramas,
not been too over exposed and colour-graded
but then not being too frankly honest.
So first thing eye candy, good looking people, go looking clothes,
Good looking... everything, in general
the second thing I like about this drama is it actually has quite
a lot of comedy and often happening in places unexpected.
The interactions between the characters, the little moment, little gestures,
the little bantering,
the little weird timing of people doing things.
All those little things work very well.
I can tell this director has a very good sense
of rhythm, how to make any particular scene
even though they're not so important plot-wise
but enjoyment-wise, very enjoyable.
Both the leads and the second leads line are enjoyable
and they help each other work for each other.
When the camera is on a particular character or a particular couple,
your attention is also with them.
You're not so bothered or bored at times that you feel
you wanna know what happens to the other couple.
The third good thing is although this drama is a very standard contemporary,
young adult's romantic drama because of the nature of the story,
it doesn't really require a super difficult level of acting,
but people have done a pretty good job throughout
the main ensemble characters you will meet in this drama.
Are pretty much all played at the same level
of ease on the natural style of acting side.
So although nobody super impressed me with their acting,
and I think that's also to do with the script quality,
nobody really made me feel really annoyed.
And this actually doesn't happen that often to me when I watch
contemporary romantic drama
cause usually there are a couple of characters
that will just make you feel really annoyed.
The 4th thing I like about this drama is
it does contain some very heightened, dramatic,
romantic moments
That's so not realistic,
but you actually enjoy watching it.
You know it's not real, but because of the directors good gauging
ability of not doing it to the point that you feel it's
offensive and yet still pushing it a little beyond reality.
My little deer in my heart does sometimes
start to skip when I see that is so sweet.
I know it's not real, but it's cute to see on screen.
Although a couple of scenes are a little bit too much,
we can talk about that in the not so good points which i'm gonna bring up now.
First, it really isn't a robot competition drama.
I know Go Go Squid originally is actually about gaming,
but they've changed it in this drama.
So it becomes a robot competition thing.
When you think back on last year.
Crossfire, it's a gaming plus thriller plus some romantic story, story
That story has a much deeper and centered focus on gaming itself.
It is very much like people dedicate their life
to their dreams that type of storytelling.
Right from episode one.
Whereas so far in episode 14,
although the characters are doing that thing about robot competition,
you so feel that the emphasis of the narrative
of Appledog's Time is the romantic stories.
And the robot competition is the side dish.
So you have to have the right kind of expectation going into this drama.
You need to know you're actually going in for contemporary romantic drama.
If you have to flip expectation,
you'll get disappointed.
The second thing that I don't quite a little stronger is
there are too many slow motion and too many songs.
In the actual drama, this drama,
particularly the early couple of episodes,
feel like a giant MV
music video that just has occasionally drama plot plugged in
and not vice versa.
I've counted in episode one.
There are literally six songs that happened when time slows down,
when the female and the male lead gaze.
The lyrics start to show up on the screen and
everything is ~~~~ the atmosphere happens with music.
If it shows up once or twice in a drama,
For one episode,
ok
you do it 6 times and I know they have collaboration with Net Ease Music, the app,
Wang Yi Yun Yin Yue, cause you literally see characters
close-up of their phone screen playing on that app and actually
doing the buttons and showing what the functions are.
It's a little bit too much.
Too in your face.
It slows down the pace.
It destroys the dramatic feeling of it.
It even takes you out of the story.
So not a big fan of that.
The third thing that I don't quite like about this drama is
I feel the male lead and the female lead's romantic line is
not as well written and exciting as the second lead's.
The the second leads are pretty straightforward.
They meet.
and they're like, I like you, i'm gonna pursue you.
And i'm gonna be very frank about that.
I'm here.
Do you wanna date me or not? Straight to the point,
which is pretty lovely to watch and quite interesting as it develops
Whereas the female lead and the male lead is like
They're flirting, their teasing.
And there's a step forward two step back
and they're doing that all the time for the first.
However, many episodes i've seen,
there's no clear,
logical obstacle in their life, not from their parents, not from their family,
not from any previous story.
They've had not really from anything that would stop 2 free.
adults pursuing each other.
And then this plot moves to the point where the female lead goes to
work for somebody who is actually in competition with the male lead.
So like at that point,
it makes sense that you're trying to figure out
how your relationship can work out.
But before that, nothing stopped you really
why
I find it's harder to actually dig into the male lead and the female lead's romantic story
They have too many slowed down and MV moments that doesn't end anywhere.
Then the last thing is there are a couple of scenes
that are really weird in this drama,
so it may put you off.
I'd let you know, when our male second.
First show up played by Wang Anyu
the character Grunt/Shen Zhe
He did this really stupid thing with the female second
that put a lot of people off and I found that scene totally unnecessary.
He got something from the vending machine and literally just drank
the water in front of the girl's face like one inch away from her
like what's the point?
After that scene everything was like normal
He pursuing the female second is actually really
funny to watch and makes a lot of sense.
I love everything that happened afterwards between them.
But the first scene when they first met, it's like...
You don't have to do that.
It put a lot of people off immediately.
And then there are like stupid scenes such as
You see our male lead and female lead
walking and kind of having fun in this not theme park,
but some kind of park place.
And they got something off the vendor who are
selling things like frapchino that type of drink.
And they walk to this vent on the ground
and the guy dragged the girl to the top of it.
And when the wind comes right,
it blows up.
And it's very romantic.
And it's exactly like the scene.
From Step Up the film.
I'm old enough to know, unfortunately,
and it's the same camera angle
the same reaction literally copied from the film.
and that's not the worst, the worst is immediately afterwards while they're still
being blown by the wind from the vent, Hu Yitian starts to blow
soap bubble out of his plastic straw,
out of his Frappuccino.
I don't know milk can do that like since when
and I went back to look at the whole sequence,
whether there's anything suggesting he actually has hidden that somewhere,
or he has some kind of deal with the vendor to surprise the girl.
So it's actually not a milkshake.
He didn't drink it, but like there's no signal showing
that he's actually doing it on the side to impress the girl
just started to blow.
soap bubbles out of a milkshake,
or frappuccino
It does not work physically impossible.
We still live on earth.
This is 3d existence.
There are physics and chemistry.
There are laws that you just can't change
and the girl
just acts all impressed and happy.
And she didn't even like question,
what are you doing?
How did that happen?
Anyway
It's dramaland right?
It's romantic dramas.
Anything can happend
even in contemporary setting without magic in play.
So these are the good things,
bad things, things that did put me off a little bit and things I...
enjoy quite a lot in this drama
Over all, I still think this is a pretty watchable drama
For me I'm still watching it
Probably will continue watching it as it updates
because of Hu Yitian, Li Yitong and Wang Anyu
and some of the comedies it has, for example,
coming from the supporting role played by the old actor Qin Pei
the grandfather of Han Shangyan and Wu Bai
He's such a lovely,
adorable character and even the little robot called
Wu Liao, Boring, that does really funny things in this drama.
So it's very enjoyable light-hearted.
I don't have to think too much.
I can off-load type of drama, but then again,
I don't expect much coming from it apart from that.
And probably after i've watched it once,
I wouldn't go back to watch it again,
but then I wouldn't feel regretful.
For the time i've spent watching it
That type of drama
that would be my first impression on the drama.
Wo De Shi Dai Ni De Shi Dai
Go Go Squid 2 DT. Appledog's Time
What a long name!
Wish you've had a good time watching this video
as the first (reveiw) video of chinese year of the Ox 2021.
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