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| Two Taiwanese Dramas This Season |
| Written by Mei | |||
| Thu, Feb 26 2009, 11:56PM | |||
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As I mentioned previously, I've been following two Taiwanese Dramas this season. Which is a rare thing of me because I don't watch CDrama much and much less recent Taiwanese ones, because they've been so....cliche and tacky and some even bordering on annoying in recent years. (not to mention I was thoroughly disappointed after the Taiwanese Hana Kimi. Yes I am one of those people who disliked it =P even though I loved the original manga AND the Japanese drama version. But that's a totally different subject altogether.) Ok, now back on topic: Mysterious Incredible Terminator (霹雳MIT) 
This was kind of a detective-ish drama. Basically, there's a group of people at this school who are out to help people and stuff, and strange things started happening at school when someone started sending "game discs" to people.  These "game discs" contain instructions on how to punish/hurt people the user wanted to all the while dropping clues to the MIT, making it a game of "see if you can find out what I'm up to before it's too late." Now, the best thing about this drama? Aaron Yan. =P He's just so....adorably cool =P He also gets a lot of nice angled scenes where his pretty face was shown at its best =P. His role is cool too: a genius who got Meniere's Syndrome (basically sometimes everything would appear to be spinning around and he'd pass out)when he was too stressed about
Story wise, it's alright. Each ep would be one new "game," although I have not finished watching it (the series has already finished airing), some of the eps were so...predicable. There was even one ep where I knew who the "culprit" was right from the start and thought how it took the "genius" a whole ep to figure it out @_@. My Queen (败犬女王)   A story about a 33 yr old workaholic who sports a very sharp tongue and a 25 yr old jack-of-all-trades freelancer. There paths first crossed when she, in her rush in getting her big headline story in, "borrowed" the bike he was paid in giving to orphans at a church dressed up as Santa on Christmas Eve. Then several more things happened and he was hired as her assistant plus bodyguard by her boss to protect her while she worked to uncover deep dark secrets of a politician. The story went on from there...
It is a nice change from the typical "idol" dramas that had been coming out of Taiwan in recent years. The male lead being cute helps too =P. Although...I hate the female lead's haircut, it made her look so old and her face so long. I guess the "old" part was the point since the show stresses on the 8 year difference between her and the male lead and her inferiority Complex at being old yet single. I personally think she has an unnecessarily sharp tongue  but I guess it helps build her unique character? Even though I can't associate with her character completely, I think many women out there would be able to somehow empathize or correlate with her character. I did too on some levels.The pace of the drama slowed somewhat starting from episode 4 or so. Heck they spent almost 1 whole episode just to lead up to her going on matchmaking dates. I am anxiously awaiting new eps. Hopefully the ending won't disappoint me. |
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