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Other Chinese dramas
Memory Lost
I watched all of it and enjoyed it a lot. Bai Yu as Han Chen is very talented and charismatic, but I also really liked the main female character Bai Jingxi and the rest of Black Shield Team.
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Cold Face and his nurse girlfriend are super adorable and Zhou Xiaozhuan is a sweetheart. I love that first Bai Jingxi and later Prate keep teasing him about his crush on Han Chen. Especially that scene in season 2, in episode, I think, 8? When Zhou Xiaozhuan is pontificating about Bai Jingxi’s many different qualities and Prate says “I thought God Han was your true love”. Zhou Xiaozhuan answers unperturbed something like “Can’t I love both of them?”. Yes, my mind immediately went to “threesome!”. :)
Also I find it amusing that here Bai Jingxi is sort of the same type of character Zhao Yunlan is in Guardian. She’s a talented, intuitive cop with the lollipop addiction (I’ve read lollipops are here for the same reason as in Guardian – to replace smoking in the book). And both her love interests like to give her food (one even cooks her a lot of carefully prepared meals) and to cover her with their jackets when she falls asleep at work.
Other amusing thing for me was the constant extolling the virtues of the police force. You know, I lived in Poland under the communist regime and read a lot contemporary crime novels then, and in every one of them every policeman was such an upstanding citizen who only lived to serve and protect and who could do no wrong. Forget about any, even lightest, critique. It’s exactly the same here.
Han Chen is a very cool character, if a bit too perfect at times – he’s great at everything he touches at such a young age (if I remember correctly he’s 27 in the present time) and everyone admires him. But, man, his jealousy and possessiveness in season 2 when they got together, was sometimes too much for me. And my id likes possessive jealousy in fiction very much. All that talking about Bai Jingxi belonging to him now, and him acting like a jerk every time she was interacting with Xu Sibai, belittling her for flirting with him, when I saw nothing indicating that she ever thought of Xu Sibai as someone other than a very good friend. But Bai Yu’s incredible charisma saved it for me. So it was more like I did mind it and enjoyed it at the same time. :)
Also rape, so much rape. It took me a while to get through the first 6 episodes, because of that super creepy rape case. When it was finished I thought, ok the worst is behind me now. Boy, was I wrong about that. Because the rape case in season 2 was so much worse. I fast-forwarded a lot. At least the guy in season 1 didn’t torture and kill his victims.
But all in all I liked it and I downloaded it from Dailymotion for an easy re-watch one day.
The whole drama is on Dailymotion with English subtitles. Here's the link.
Granting You a Dreamlike Life
That one I decided to watch for Zhu Yilong. I managed 6 episodes for now and I started a month ago. Zhu Yilong of course is wonderful and beautiful and a joy to watch, but the rest is so, so boring.
But I would give everything for a crack fic when Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei meet Luo Fusheng and Han Chen. Like Zhao Yunlan and Luo Fusheng could have a contest of who’s better at sprawling at the nearest available surface. And I think Shen Wei would empathize with Han Chen’s intense personality and possessiveness.
The drama is on Viki with English subtitles. Link's here.
SCI
Dramas above I watched to see Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong in something other than Guardian, but SCI I started watching because I heard about it in passing and saw a few gifts on Tumblr and it looked enjoyable. I watched the 1st episode for now and eh… I guess it is quite enjoyable. Although the leads aren’t as good and charismatic as Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong, and the rest of the cast isn’t as pretty as in Guardian. :) So I was ready to watch a few more episodes. But I won’t, because unfortunately the episodes on youtube that were said to have English subtitles, don’t have them.
I wish Netfix in Poland had more Chinese TV dramas. They have only 5 or 6 of them, and not one that I would like to watch.
I watched all of it and enjoyed it a lot. Bai Yu as Han Chen is very talented and charismatic, but I also really liked the main female character Bai Jingxi and the rest of Black Shield Team.
More behind the cut with spoilers
Cold Face and his nurse girlfriend are super adorable and Zhou Xiaozhuan is a sweetheart. I love that first Bai Jingxi and later Prate keep teasing him about his crush on Han Chen. Especially that scene in season 2, in episode, I think, 8? When Zhou Xiaozhuan is pontificating about Bai Jingxi’s many different qualities and Prate says “I thought God Han was your true love”. Zhou Xiaozhuan answers unperturbed something like “Can’t I love both of them?”. Yes, my mind immediately went to “threesome!”. :)
Also I find it amusing that here Bai Jingxi is sort of the same type of character Zhao Yunlan is in Guardian. She’s a talented, intuitive cop with the lollipop addiction (I’ve read lollipops are here for the same reason as in Guardian – to replace smoking in the book). And both her love interests like to give her food (one even cooks her a lot of carefully prepared meals) and to cover her with their jackets when she falls asleep at work.
Other amusing thing for me was the constant extolling the virtues of the police force. You know, I lived in Poland under the communist regime and read a lot contemporary crime novels then, and in every one of them every policeman was such an upstanding citizen who only lived to serve and protect and who could do no wrong. Forget about any, even lightest, critique. It’s exactly the same here.
Han Chen is a very cool character, if a bit too perfect at times – he’s great at everything he touches at such a young age (if I remember correctly he’s 27 in the present time) and everyone admires him. But, man, his jealousy and possessiveness in season 2 when they got together, was sometimes too much for me. And my id likes possessive jealousy in fiction very much. All that talking about Bai Jingxi belonging to him now, and him acting like a jerk every time she was interacting with Xu Sibai, belittling her for flirting with him, when I saw nothing indicating that she ever thought of Xu Sibai as someone other than a very good friend. But Bai Yu’s incredible charisma saved it for me. So it was more like I did mind it and enjoyed it at the same time. :)
Also rape, so much rape. It took me a while to get through the first 6 episodes, because of that super creepy rape case. When it was finished I thought, ok the worst is behind me now. Boy, was I wrong about that. Because the rape case in season 2 was so much worse. I fast-forwarded a lot. At least the guy in season 1 didn’t torture and kill his victims.
But all in all I liked it and I downloaded it from Dailymotion for an easy re-watch one day.
The whole drama is on Dailymotion with English subtitles. Here's the link.
Granting You a Dreamlike Life
That one I decided to watch for Zhu Yilong. I managed 6 episodes for now and I started a month ago. Zhu Yilong of course is wonderful and beautiful and a joy to watch, but the rest is so, so boring.
But I would give everything for a crack fic when Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei meet Luo Fusheng and Han Chen. Like Zhao Yunlan and Luo Fusheng could have a contest of who’s better at sprawling at the nearest available surface. And I think Shen Wei would empathize with Han Chen’s intense personality and possessiveness.
The drama is on Viki with English subtitles. Link's here.
SCI
Dramas above I watched to see Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong in something other than Guardian, but SCI I started watching because I heard about it in passing and saw a few gifts on Tumblr and it looked enjoyable. I watched the 1st episode for now and eh… I guess it is quite enjoyable. Although the leads aren’t as good and charismatic as Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong, and the rest of the cast isn’t as pretty as in Guardian. :) So I was ready to watch a few more episodes. But I won’t, because unfortunately the episodes on youtube that were said to have English subtitles, don’t have them.
I wish Netfix in Poland had more Chinese TV dramas. They have only 5 or 6 of them, and not one that I would like to watch.
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I still like it a lot, but boy it‘s a rape case AGAIN! It‘s like even the sniper case is just a quick breather (and even that one had rape elements to it). It‘s really getting on my nerves how hard they are flinging the men-are-evil-beware cases around. (Not that American series are any better with that....)
I adore Han Chen being ill and getting covered with blankets! (Also that scene in the office where he‘s dreaming about his mystery woman and grabs Bai Jingxi....). I really thought there would be at least some hints to the amnesia plotline, but apparently they are saving it for season 2?
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Yes, I noticed that, too. It looks as if the drama was arbitrarily divided into 3 parts without the clear season finales and season premieres. And I see they also aired all 36 episodes in the second half of 2016. So I don’t know why every website has it listed as 3 seasons. It really seems as it is just one long drama.
I still like it a lot, but boy it‘s a rape case AGAIN!
Ah, yes, my thoughts exactly. And that case was so much worse, I had to take long breaks between episodes.
I really thought there would be at least some hints to the amnesia plotline, but apparently they are saving it for season 2?
Yes, they explain a lot about their memory loss in season 2, although not all of course. The best part IMO comes in season 3.
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And yes, that case was seriously messed up and hard to watch for me too. Will the cases get any better during season 2 and 3?
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