Well school holidays are nearly over and waiting one week for Dou Niu episodes is just not enough so I gave this drama a try despite hearing bad reviews about it. I watched it and keep reading on to know what I think ..
English title: Romantic Princess
Episodes: 13
Genre: Romance / comedy
Broadcast network: CTV / GTV
Broadcast period: 2007-Sep-16 to 2007-Dec-09
Air time: Sunday 22:00 – 23:30
Opening theme song: Xin Wo by Fahrenheit and S.H.E
Ending theme song: Bu Xiang Dong De by Angela Zhang
Adopted by middle classed parents, Xiao Mai has always had a dream to be an heiress. Who knew that one day this dream would come true. Xiao Mai’s biological grandfather is the head of a prestigious aristocratic family and after many years of searching, he finally finds his long lost granddaughter. As she starts her life as an heiress, everyday is filled with excitement; however, everything seems a bit different from what she had imagined them to be. (D-Wiki)
My Thoughts:
This drama really did leave me speechless, yet it isn’t a good speechless. I don’t know where to start of first so I guess I’ll do a character review.
Wu Chun as Nan Feng Jin –
Nan Feng Jin where do I start with this character? Cold, quiet, prince like, in other words lacked personality and so typical of Chun to play this role firstly with Liang in TJ then Quan in HK, good grief am I so not anticipating his role in Hot Shots . His character gave me no special feelings towards him, he was those typical prince like characters all rich and was a goody two shoes, he was obedient and yet again no personality. Nothing attracted me to this character little own to Chun who played it. I have never been a fan of Chun since Hana Kimi, even in that drama he was a bit better in my point of view. Chun’s accent really got to me, and his acting is still stiff, he rarely shows emotion other than those dejected expressions.
Rating: 3/5
Angela Zhang as Mai Qiu Sui –
Mai is cute I admit, her character I meant. She’s those gullible girls you often see in dramas and she has that type of typical innocent feeling I guess people wouldn’t really hate her that much. Angela’s acting was mediocre, I prefer her singing honestly, her crying scenes weren’t to convincing, I asked myself at one point as to whether she was screaming rather than crying, but after I see a few tear drops roll, well it isn’t as convincing as I’ve seen but it’ll do.
Rating: 3.5/5
Calvin Chen as Nan Feng Cai –
Cai a playboy that you rarely see in dramas, well the ones that I’ve seen. Yet like all playboys they end up getting an innocent girl to change them back. Calvin’s acting was better than Chun’s but his acting hasn’t changed that much from KO One his first drama. When I look at him I guess his facial expressions are in a way believable and sorta convincing other than that, I really don’t see anything else besides his cute smile.
Rating: 3.5/5
Plot: The first time I read it! I thought Disney immediately, the characters were typical the plot line was typical. Romance and comedy would usually be your perfect combo in a drama, but after the first few episodes I just had to go on reluctantly to do this review. The test for the relationship wasn’t very interesting, some girl barging into their life trying to steal the guy etc. I watched this drama and could predict most of it.
Rating:3/5
Overall rating:
6.5/10: Why lie when I seriously slept through this drama well the second half that was, there was suspense which kind of got tiring half way as well. I guess the power of Fahrenheit’s fame was what kept the ratings up. Other than that this drama would’ve gone downhills in my opinion. Also there were so many places I recognised from Why Why Love which was odd.
its not about fahrenheit’s fame that kept the ratings up of the drama..its how they act and the story line…^_^