I have finished ep 1 of Summer Desire
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dangermousieAnd there is NO WAY Xiamo/Luo Xi (i.e. Barbie Hsu and Huang Xiaoming) are not the OTP of this drama.
They are in the credits and inserts together, all their scenes together are filmed in an "OTP OTP OTP" kind of way, from their first meeting under the freaking cherry blossoms to his playing the piano and her singing just for him - getting rid of her stage fright issues, to that really really sexy kissing scene (two of them, actually). Their chemistry is out of this world. Also, Luo Xi has enough issues to be interesting (orphan with trust issues and tragic background, uses his looks and charm to get through with no trouble but doesn't really care about others, etc) but not enough to make a horrible boyfriend or a bad guy.
Plus, the other guy, Ou Chen (Peter Ho) is seriously scary. I don't mean in a 'bad boy, would be fun to reform' or 'tortured soul' way - no, I am seriously grossed out and freaked out by him - he comes across as a classic abuser both emotionally and physically (the scene with him forcing his screaming and pleading girlfriend to hold an apple so he could shoot at it - sick). The way he looks at Xiaomo does not denote love to me but a "hmmm, where shall I dispose of the body?" reaction. To be fair, that could be Peter Ho's limited acting ability, but I prefer to think of the makers sharing my take on Ou Chen - seeing the horror movie music they play whenever he is in her vicinity, they probably share my views.
Yikes. Shall one pick a non-psycho sexy smart superstar or a rich abuser who you blame for the death of your family. Let me think - hard choice. OTOH, I am not the target audience - I still remember fangirls going into mad frenzy over twdrama Knock Knock Loving You because heroine picked the nice guy she has always loved over the dude who blackmailed her into an engagement and then tried to rape her. (They were so pissed and I was so happy with the drama. Let's hope this will be a repeat).
I leave you with this. Ahhh, Taiwan, you know how to do kissing scenes right.
They are in the credits and inserts together, all their scenes together are filmed in an "OTP OTP OTP" kind of way, from their first meeting under the freaking cherry blossoms to his playing the piano and her singing just for him - getting rid of her stage fright issues, to that really really sexy kissing scene (two of them, actually). Their chemistry is out of this world. Also, Luo Xi has enough issues to be interesting (orphan with trust issues and tragic background, uses his looks and charm to get through with no trouble but doesn't really care about others, etc) but not enough to make a horrible boyfriend or a bad guy.
Plus, the other guy, Ou Chen (Peter Ho) is seriously scary. I don't mean in a 'bad boy, would be fun to reform' or 'tortured soul' way - no, I am seriously grossed out and freaked out by him - he comes across as a classic abuser both emotionally and physically (the scene with him forcing his screaming and pleading girlfriend to hold an apple so he could shoot at it - sick). The way he looks at Xiaomo does not denote love to me but a "hmmm, where shall I dispose of the body?" reaction. To be fair, that could be Peter Ho's limited acting ability, but I prefer to think of the makers sharing my take on Ou Chen - seeing the horror movie music they play whenever he is in her vicinity, they probably share my views.
Yikes. Shall one pick a non-psycho sexy smart superstar or a rich abuser who you blame for the death of your family. Let me think - hard choice. OTOH, I am not the target audience - I still remember fangirls going into mad frenzy over twdrama Knock Knock Loving You because heroine picked the nice guy she has always loved over the dude who blackmailed her into an engagement and then tried to rape her. (They were so pissed and I was so happy with the drama. Let's hope this will be a repeat).
I leave you with this. Ahhh, Taiwan, you know how to do kissing scenes right.
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Date: 2010-05-31 10:54 pm (UTC)do you know how people view the couples in the book? IE some books are wildly popular but the majority of people/a large percentage ship the secondary couple - in which case there's a chance they'd swing that way with the drama. Or - almost worst case scenerio - maybe it's a Jacob/Edward Twilight thing where the movies always ultimately follow the book and Edward is marginally more popular but the secondary lead is so wildly popular, almost eclipsing the main lead, that they give us tons of fanservice with the secondary lead - the credits, the kissing etc?? NOOOOOOOOO. I would hate them for that - it would be like *gaps* the Taiwanese version of the Ji-hoo/Jandi/Junpyo triangle.
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Date: 2010-05-31 11:00 pm (UTC)I don't know. Sadly most everything related to the book is in Chinese, and I can only translate so much of it before I get confused.
But I'm 99% sure they won't change ships. It's just not Taiwan's style to alter canon. It's hard to tell from the first episode, but from what I've gotten so far from the book, Chen isn't a bad character (he's a sort of anti-hero, if you can call it that - much darker than Luo Xi).
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Date: 2010-05-31 11:06 pm (UTC)What about Xiao Ming versus Peter Ho? Is one of them definitely more famous than the other or are they about the same?
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Date: 2010-05-31 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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