Wei Chuen Chan

It has a really unusual combi of cast! I am not a hardcore Marvel fan, so maybe that is why I'm puzzled as to why Angelina Jolie took on the role, but I decided to watch the how because of her. She looked stunning in the show, but had a much smaller role than I wished for. Anyways, regarding the plot: started on what could be a good premise, executed well initially. However, it seemed to have gone out of hand as things just get "bigger" and the writer's imagination gone wilder and wilder. Because of that, the ending was disappointing and dissatisfying to me. Actors & actresses were good w their roles; just that the plot got too wild and out of hand towards the end probably...

I am at episode 4, and like someone else who also lost their patience at episode 4, let me vent my frustration — I do not like the male protagonist at all. This review is based on my experience with 4 episodes of the show. If you are starting out on this show, I recommend you read other 1- and 2-star reviews. They pretty much commented on similar things — on the male and female protagonists, the lousy execution of a plot that started out great, etc. My rants: Did the script writer meant for him to be smart, or stupid, or naive, or loyal? This is not a romantic or melo-drama, and the writers are trying to intertwine too much plots of the male protagonist being *excessively-naively-stupidly* obsessed with his fiancee, creating frustrating amount of distractions to the main thriller theme of the plot. I guess the writer(s) is/are trying to build suspense and drag episodes, but there are other ways to build suspense, not what the writer(s) did. Addition: the female protagonist, who is supposedly a lawyer, is equally stupid. The only smart person, as you might have already guessed, is the villain. You know what would have been much better? Smart protagonists and villains, and they try to out-compete each others' wits. That would be way more entertaining and satisfying.

I hated the female protagonist (both the 37 and the 17 year old) after 43 min 19 s into the second episode. The writer(s) really drive me up the wall with the female protagonist's personality - immature, troublemaker, loud, self-denial, etc. I hope there is drastic character development, otherwise, this series would be a downfall because of her. The other characters are quite likeable thus far. I might try a couple more episodes.

The last Taiwanese drama I watched was probably from more than 10 years ago, so I might have lost touch with the current trends. Nevertheless, there are characteristics that make a drama good or bad, and this one is quite bad. I have watched Taiwanese dramas starring several of the more experienced actors, and I had good impressions of most of them. However, I found most of them unnatural or "stiff" in their acting in this show. I suspect it is the bad script and/or bad directing. About 40 min into only episode 1, I already got so frustrated and annoyed at the bad writing and awkward dialogues (I'm native Chinese speaking). Even the two main protagonists had awkward dialogues. For example, when they re-met on earth, that dialogue was cringey-ly bad. These were written after 1 episode. I'm going to give it another try and see if episode 2 improves.

There are quite a bit of good things, which I guess have already been mentioned by others. There is one flaw, however, which really really bugs me. The protaganist, So Mun, has little to no character development throughout the entire show; most other characters from the team have character development. Yes, I understand he was supposed to be a high school kid, but I cannot believe with all the things he goes thru and he has no character development. I am writing this review after watching episode 15. I deducted 2 stars for this sole reason.