Hai pai tian xin

For the first two episodes, the train runs on the familiar and well-worn tracks of "new kid with hair like a giant cock vs. girl who plays tough and nobody likes her". Fortunately, the boy isn't too much of an idiot, as such characters tend to be, so it's doable. Moving on, it's getting better, but looking forward to the part where they get rid of the giant cock. Okay, okay, we've survived school, their crushes, the Pink Panther dance, and I'm finally at the painful breakup! Yay! Okay, here comes revenge/not-exactly-revenge. Anyway, it ends with "Oh, I love her so much, but she hurt me so much, I mustn't give in, I mustn't!" Moving on, the older sister is also getting herself made up for romance, well, I'll fast forward through that with gusto, like her new haircut I guess. Okay, now it's going to be this, now that, she's finally found out who the rich handsome guy really is, she's disappointed and angry, okay, she's quitting her job and planning to go away with her high school senior. Only she catches a recording studio where it just so happens that she’s alone and the rich guy just happens to be standing in front of it, and the best part? Call the fire department? Are you crazy? Why the fire department?! The best thing to do is fly in, breathe in the smoke, get buried in the burning beams... And then when you wake up, you don’t remember a thing (kind of a dramatic Boys Over Flowers 2). But oh well, then this and that happens, Rainie gets beat up, Senior saves the day, blah blah blah. His memory comes back, but... damn, why did he have to return to the form of the giant cock! No, the ending... which is too much, way too much. It still looks good at the beginning, even though Show Lo makes worse faces worse than Bean (as a friend of mine pointed out), but then it goes horribly awry and you're left with nothing to do but wring your hands and laugh hysterically about it because it's already pathetic. What looks like a pretty promising dorama at the beginning turns into an unbelievable load of garbage. But it's clear to me that even things like this can be enjoyable. Plus, there are plenty of songs by the leads, so you can listen to Taiwanese pop... (04.02.2011)