First/second episode of Four Women Conflict - there have been more cheerful funerals

[dangermousie]

In case anyone is looking for dl links, they can find them here.

Though, be warned, Ady An's faces in this post pretty much express the cheeriness quota of this.



OK, I am barely five minutes into Four Women Conflict and a newly widowed stepmother has just sold her barely pubescent stepdaughter into a brothel. I think I am going to be sick.

This is going to be cheery. Please tell me the little kid is not the heroine.

Crap, she is.

Oh, thank God her childhood love rescued her and burned her stepmom to a crisp.

You know, I may not last much with this, this looks depressing enough for me to eat my own head.



ETA: OK, that was her nightmare flashback, currently she's a maid in some house and it doesn't look too horrific, so we'll see. Except the husband fancies her and the wife's reaction is "you can do anything you like outside but don't seduce the maids inside the house." Jesus. Except he's still after her. What is it with Ady An playing characters in danger of sexual assault (The Outsiders, Autumn Concerto, now this?) And now she's ordered to be whipped by the jealous wife. Who then marries her off to some ugly moron who limps and stammers.



ETA2: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? She gets raped by her former master on her wedding night (who bullies her husband into letting him). And now she's in the bathtub scrubbing her skin off. And the raping thing turns into a systemic thing.

OK, that's it. I am out. I admire that she turns into an angry fury with spine of steel and with nothing but hatred and scorn for her husband after this but no. I can't. I really do want to see Feng Shao Feng as the guy who is hired by the jealous wife to seduce heroine but falls for her instead and they have angsty angsty love and he treasures her and trusts her and heals her with his penis love, but there is only so much misery I can take to get to that point.



I am going to get back to it when I feel like something horribly depressing. But for now, back to Sunny Happiness. I'll just have to get my FSF fix from Jade Palace Lock Heart, where there is no horribleness like this and my Ady An fix from rewatching Autumn Concerto (not The Outsiders because talk about a tragedy) or checking out Dragon Sword and Heaven Sabre.

Don't get me wrong, none of the above indicates it's a bad drama - it's well-acted, beautifully filmed and the story is not badly written. It's just more depressing than your average Russian classic novel.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Me being my shallow self, I watched FWC last year because of FSF. Thought the plot was kinda meh. Honestly, I only liked 2 things about FWC: FSF & the theme song. Yu Zheng dramas are crazy angsty where he pretty much throws everything but the kitchen sink at you but watching a sucession of them in a row like I did (The Last Princess, Mei Gui Jiang Hu, 1,000 Teardrops, FWC) kinda numbed me to the whole thing. I thought FSF looked really good in FWC and Yun Niang, probably his best. My only gripe is I don't know why he's paired up with Ady so much. They were in Yun Niang & FWC and now filming another Yu Zheng drama together. I like him better with either Myolie or Yang Mi.

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[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I love Ady to bits, have since The Outsiders, so I am happy to see her paired with actors I like. :)

Despite swearing not to watch more, I am currently in the middle of ep 3. The angst seems to have lessened a bit.

I've never seen another Yu Zheng drama except for JPLH which isn't too angsty (yes, it has angsty things happening in it, but the tone is fairly light) but I can't say I haven't been warned by the uber-angsty MVs.

[karened.livejournal.com]

Feng Shao got paired up with Myolie before? O.o

Oh, I'm watching 1000 Teardrops...but the way too sudden falling in love of the hero and heroine kinda put me off...but what really stopped me from continuing through is that I don't see much plot development up till ep 6 and the fakey Chinese dub (especially that of the heroine). ARGH.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Youdon't want to watch FWC due to it being depressing but you are watching something with the title "1000 teardrops."???????

[karened.livejournal.com]

haha, I was on a FSF high at that time so when I saw that dvd on the shelves, I took it right away!

But the dubbing and the lack of change in dynamics stopped me from watching further....or maybe it's the fact that FSF never appeared. =S

[(Anonymous)]

Yes!! FSF and Myolie (aka: Fenolie aka: one of my fave onscreen couples) first played a couple in The Drive of Life. And they got married in a ceremony too at the end so it was awesome! At the time, TDOL was touted as a huge deal since the cast included a lot the TVB's stars like Jessica, Charmaine, Ray, Ron & Myolie and also had veterans like Michael Miu, Damien Lau and Sheren Tang. TDOL was a joint collaboration with mainland so FSF & some other mainland actors were in it too. Unfortunately, TDOL turned into a huge snoozefest (at least for me). Can't remember how long it was but was too long for me. I only finished it because of FSF and Myolie.

FSF & Myolie were also a couple in Yu Zheng's Mei Ren Jin Xi. They were guest stars and appeared for about 4-5 eps and that's what I watched...lol. When I have more time, maybe I'll go back and watch the entire drama.

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[karened.livejournal.com]

Not even my love for Jessica and Raymond could help me get through that show! And the dubbing was really horrible, so...