While I avoid forcing myself to finish the last six episodes of #DeepAffectionateEyes , I decided to start up the #cdrama #SiJin which stars Zhang Wan Yi who I loved in #AreYouTheOne and #LostYouForever , but so far it has the emotional depth of a tea cup with lazily brutal team-up-to-solve-murdered-women CSI: Miami type stories. 😒
Only 5/40 episodes in, so I'm hoping they add some more nuance and fewer corpses-in-wells plot drivers. I think they're trying to make it a comedy?
This Very Good Doggo with a spotted tongue like a past dog of mine does help with watching the #cdrama #SiJin
Attached: 1 image Legit my favourite character and actor in Si Jin right now. He's carrying the entire show on his little furry shoulders, I swear. I thought I'd like #SiJin right off the bat for Zhang Wanyi reasons, but alas, the first episode was a mess because the editing was a mess and the writers or director thought it wasn't necessary to establish our characters in the first episode. Instead, we were shown a cascade of events that made our heads spin. We weren't given any anchor to really care for the characters. I think if it was set up like Blossom, whose writers lovingly set up our characters in such a way that we're invested in their second lives, I would've been kinder. I'll give it a few more episodes...but I'm having trouble focusing lol #CDrama #CDramas #China #entertainment #dogs #SiJin
On episode 17 now and the plots are as fleshed out as paper dolls still.
But! I don't have to care too much. It isn't emotionally compelling. It stars Zhang Wan Yi and his permanent buddy Zhang Chi, and their presence is just enough so far, and the main storyline is hinted at to make me not give up yet.
Yet.
The emotional depth was thin throughout, with some too-easy resolutions or quickly trusting between strangers, but the characters were enjoyable enough that I rated this an 8/10. Sometimes it is good to not be emotionally invested and to not be on an emotional roller-coaster throughout.
Zhen Heng's arc was most interesting. And I am now a fan of Huang Yi in her perfectly evil Princess Royal role. For about 60 seconds, she cross-dressed as a man. I want 40 episodes of THAT.
Jill