Showing posts with label 这里发现爱. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 这里发现爱. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2008

这里发现爱 Wish to See You Again Summary

Genre: romance drama. is meant to help promote Taiwan as a tourist destination.

Episodes: 16

Leads: 仔仔(周逾民),朱孝天,王传一,陈妍希.

More info at DramaWiki.

Motivation to watch: Thought will be interesting to see how this drama is supposed to help the Taiwanese tourism board promote Taiwan overseas. Besides, the lead is 仔仔, & I had a good impression of the female lead 陈妍希 from her 1st show Why Why Love.

Sypnosis: The 3 male leads were close friends from high school. 10 years since, 王传一 is helping out in his family's hotel business & 仔仔 became a popular novelist, who turned to driving a taxi to get inspiration for his new novel. Thus he met 朱孝天, whom they've lost contact after the latter migrated to the USA after graduation.

The show revolves around the friendship & love stories of the 3 men, with flashbacks to their high school days, detailing how 朱孝天 & 王传一 gained the friendship of recluse 仔仔.

陈妍希 is the subodinate of 王传一, & initially had a crush on the dashing PR manager. She later became the love interest of 仔仔, whom she mistaken to be a suicide attempt while the latter tried to get back his inspiration from her. 陈妍希 is also a family friend of dejected 朱孝天, who rejected the love of 陈妍希's sister, since he still couldn't forgive himself for failing to save his father's business.

Another subplot in 关颖, dream girl of 王传一, ex-fiance of 朱孝天.

My 2 fav parts of the show:




Extended trailer at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBhMUOD9jm0

Loves: Got interested in Taiwan's 阿里山 after watching the show!!!!!!! The place was filmed so beautifully & seemed rather interesting. I had thought it was simply another nature reserve/mountain, but think the place is rather well developed as a tourist spot. Wanna go visit!!!!!

Oh, & they did a rather good showcase of the 101 building: the fireworks on New Year's Eve looks wonderful! Have never knew it possible to have fireworks of a building like that! And now I know, if visiting the building, must post a letter from the post office there, cos will have a unique 101 building postmark!!!!!

Hates: the slipshod ending. Can't stand how all the characters repent/made decision in the last few minutes of their stories, when they've spent >10 previous episodes rejecting the other party.

Finished watching 这里发现爱

Oh! the last 3 episodes were such a drag!!!!!!! Sooooooo predictable of taiwanese idol dramas to come up with some miserable twist to the story near the end, so that there'll be a happy end in the last episode.

And the last episode is so different from the rest of the show!!!!! They spent the 1st 15 episodes building up all the characters, only to have the main character repent in the last episode without any explanation of why he so suddenly 'gain enlightenment' & became the ideal good son & boyfriend. Did they have a different scriptwriter for the last episode or what???? Or maybe it was like the scenario in "On Air", where the last episode was filmed 1st before the prior episodes' script were written?????

Sigh!!! I guess can't expect too much. After all, I did have an enjoyable 13 episodes before the story developed downhill.

Especially around episodes 6~7, when the 2 leads started falling in love, it was soooooo sweet!!!! And so funny to see 仔仔's character get jealous in episodes 10~12! Really think 仔仔's acting has improved, watching the show mainly for him! ;) Pity he's so thin, would have been perfect if he looks a bit more healthy...........looking forward to see his next show!

陈妍希 was not bad, I thought. Even hubby noticed her across the room. She really reminded me of 大S. Wonder why she got so much bad press????????

这里发现爱 OST

Nearly every drama serial I loved has a good OST. Shows need good songs to bring the audience into the mood. And the story will help bring out the essence of the song.

So though I wasn't expecting much from the OST, since didn't really like the show's starting song by F4, I got to notice this song played whenever the female leads were having a sad time with their love life:

I believe in Love, by WOW 头号人物



The MTV for the song itself is actually rather boring. It was much more touching to hear the song when you're watching the drama's love story unfold..........really heart melting!!!!!! Kinda wish I can make my own mtv from the drama scenes to show you what I mean!!!!

Surprisingly, the rest of the OST used for the show are not bad, rather suitable for the drama. Don't think it's good enough to listen on its own, but as the soundtrack it did a very good job, I thought!

Vic Chou's 白 was not bad too.......well, at least I noticed the song when watching the show. Don't think much of the singing, but the tune & lyrics did the show justice, touching enough for me to actually find out about the song. So I guess it's a 'success'. ;)

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

这里发现爱 Episode 2

Started watching this show today.

Turns out to be not bad, funnier than I expected. 仔仔's character quite amusing, doing all sorts of weird interpretations of others' advice to him in his hunt for inspiration to write his novel. And 仔仔's acting really improved, now is less exaggerated & more believable when he acts like the crazed novelist. Only dislike is that he's gotten too thin!!! Not so nice!!!!!

王传一 is so cool in the show as a 花花公子! Much more good looking that 朱孝天, who looks fat in the show & has such a strange lopside hairdo. Looks like 王传一 got a more meaty role than 朱孝天, since the former appeared in the 1st episode already, while the latter only turned up from 2nd half of episode 2. Looking forward to see how 王传一 will chase the girl of his dreams......