T-Drama: Zhong Wu Yan overall Review

Oh I finished Zhong Wu Yan. Draggy unexciting show that drifted off to a slow death. Wasted my time following this. It started out good and strong, lost its way, got draggy and then curtain down in a most unfashionable manner.

After Xuan's father died, the plot went downhill. With Xuan being booted out and betrayed by David's mum who pushed him to a deep dark corner, the show just got more depressing... depressing for me to see a good casts being robbed of their due credit for a lousy script.

In the end, Ying Chu tried to pull a stunt and fake they slept together. So much loop holes. She claimed that Xuan drove her to the hotel but he was so pissed drunk and he was photo to be on the passenger seat. Harlow?!!! How can anyone be that pissed drunk and not rem having bed anyone unless u are drugged? Impossible!!!! Not that I have been that pissed drunk and gone to bed with anyone but amnesia + sex is not an idea i can believe unless someone drugged u. So for Xuan to believe Ying Chun so readily is beyond my belief and he doesnt even try very hard to explain things to Wuyan...

What drags it out more was Howard and his battle with his cancer tumor again. I mean AGAIN??? For what?!!! Sigh...and he regain his vision again... this is not soap drama.

In the end, just as readily she believed Xuan slept with Ying Chun, Wu yan readily accepted Xuan back in a flash after Ying Chun told her the truth that she is giving up on Xuan. And After doing so much to the extent of faking a pregnant diagnosis, she suddenly come to her senses in a flash after howard's few words of taunting. As if what he said wasnt common sense enough for her to realise it on her on. Sigh.....

And the last part where they secretlt try to marry Wuyan off with Xuan, with a couple wedding. I rolled my eyes. Is this suppose to be suspense? The min she was wearing that wedding gown, it was soo apparent where the show is taking us to....how can a smart person like Wuyan suddenly acting like a bimbo so dumb to believe her sister's words? Oh well...its Taiwan drama so i guess my expectation can be lowered without getting too upset.

Happy ending does not equate to Happy viewers all the time, This time round I am rather disappointed.

A quick one on Merry Stayed out all night.

I was so dead tired after my Jap paper that I crashed in and dead to the world today. When I woke, I was totally concussed and blur. So this silly piglet ended up washing her face with the wrong soap! Instead of my facial cleanser, I ended up using my Muji handsoap! Because I am using Neostrata, so the color and texture is the same, and i was still thinking, hmmm..how come my facial cleanser smells so nice today...and if it wasnt bad enuff, I accidentally used my tube of facial cream makeup remover as my toothpaste!!! How ridiculous is that!!! So I had a foamy mouth and a dry cracked up face! I had to dash and bring out my heavy duty moisturer to compensate for all the oil stripped away from my face! Muji hand soap works too well.....sob sob...

Now that I have whined enough.....Back to drama!
Oh I managed to catch a few episodes of Merry stayed out all night...and while I like JGS in Hyun nim there, I do not like his hairstyling and image in here...esp ep 1...he looks like a complete sleazeball!

It could be me but I dont like Moon GY in here. She doesnt suit this role and I think she tries too hard to be cute which is not coming through like Park did with Go Minam character. She is missing the cutesness X factor for me and at some point, I feel like the director was trying to recreate the "sauve'' hyung-nim and the naive innocent girl that follows him around like a puppy. (similar to how Go Minman with Hyun nim)  Moon was way better in Cinderella sister's character. Maybe it is the stupid awful blown up hair that turned me off too. Most of all, Sorry, but its too soon to try to do another reprisal like YAB.

However that said, JGS did his role as a talented but non-famous band-singer perfectly. He was literally like a fish in water, giving the rock star coolness pretty well except a few scene where I felt his teasing laughter of Merry borders on a little fake...

Not sure if I am tired while watching it but the show doesnt draw me in. It's abit slow, and draggy and frankly I do not sense the chemistry between the 2 leads. They have too independent feel and I find the actress was äcting cute and sweet than feel she is that way. To me, that's a big failure if the drama cannot convince me even the personality of the character as [real]

And then there is Kim Jae Wook. I really really adore him in Coffee prince as the gay dude, but in here, minus the pony tail and the half zombie-dead like, dead panned character without much smiles, again I couldnt really feel for him here. It was almost like it was a different actor in here.

After watching so much drama, I realise the success of a drama isnt solely how credible or talented or good your cast is, it is the producer and casting and direction of the drama that plays a huge part! In here, I think the 3 main casts are credible actors in their own right but the drama just seem to fall flat. (another case to prove, it isnt KHJ oppa fault for the dismal rating for Mischievous kiss! )

I just think they chose poorly for the Merry character here and the character development for both the male leads are too slow-burning, unable to reel us in. Plus alot of the scenes are so cliche or predictable that it no longer held any surprises nor excitement. And what is this "Merry "Xmas" taunting which is sooo childish and inane. 24yr old people / man dont act like that....do they?!

Sorry JGS dong-saeng, but this season, noona's whole heart and soul is committed to Hyun Bin oppa....he is just too delectable and adorable and loveable. (I better stop before I droool)  Plus Han Ji won really rock here too in Secret garden.

Well, I still have 3 more ep to catch up to the current for Merry show just as a support for JGS. Hopefully it gets better!!

Still Swooning over Hyun Bin, will it never end?!

My eyes feel like shutting from lack of sleep during my test

I was suffering from major insomnia last nite...and of coz my Jap test bombed in my face today....sigh...

The only consolation was that I wasnt the only one who thought the paper was hard...so that kinda cheer me up a little when I think about the "bell curve"theory....

After the paper, all my classmates and I could talk about NON STOP was Secret Garden and how Gooooooooooorgeous Hyun Bin is and How Adoooooooooooorable he is in here.

We were literally screaming and squealing like pigs in the restaurant everytime we mention funny scenes from the show! I suppose its a major ego dent and crusher to the table of guys sitting next to us since we barely even noticed their existence while they kept looking over according to another fren. The guys must be scorning at our bahvior but do we care? Nooooo!!

I guess after like 4 hours of idolising and going on and on about Hyun Bin - and dissecting Joo Woo every word and actions, it wasnt possible not to feel better. My gf even said she had the impulse to go back and rewatch some episodes which she missed some part of the dialogue. 


Will Sat not come soon enuff?!