Finished watching Lost Romance last night.
I admit I watched it for Marcus Chang but in the end I watched it for, well, Marcus Chang.
I loved the first half. I was pleasantly surprised at the plot and the humor was great. The real life aspect with Chang's half sister and brother, evil uncle, business dealings, and company intrigue was sufficiently serious to offset the alternative reality side. The switching back and forth between parallel time was pretty seamless and well done. The side characters were good, everything was good.
The chemistry between the main leads was excellent.
Oddly enough it was, when they commited to one another and begin their relationship, that it started to lag a bit for me. I felt that some of the tension that worked for them, went away, and there was a new tension with them trying to get their love scenes right.
This is a pg 13 drama by taiwanese standards so there was plenty of kissing etc.
I don't know, maybe it's just me but whenever actors try to fulfil (for the audience) the love that has been building in the drama, they can suddenly become awkward.
It's probably just just me.
Anyway fast forward a few episodes to Marcus' character waking in real time after his coma, and Vivian Sung's doing the same. She remembers everything but he doesn't.
Chang once again delivers. Vivian Sung seems to have changed somewhat and her spunky, less than honest, and not perfect, personality is now far more sweet. I can understand the change, after all she learned some things about herself in the book world, and she fell in love and then lost the man she loved, when she woke up.
But now here he is, in the real world right in front of her and he's recovering from the coma and the fall that caused it and he doesn't remember anything that she does from the sleeping book world they shared, and I missed the funny girl she was in the book world, even though I understood her change.
Chang's character has a chance to shine again though because he isn't besotted with her, but he is intrigued, (and the parts when he is reading the romance books are funny!) and attracted and wants to figure things out. Figure out what she is, who she is, and why she looks at him the way she does.
The family business, revenge, evil uncle, siblings and real life drama, also remain to be solved. In the last few episodes these things take up time, but never eclipse the ongoing romance Chang's character is pursuing with an unwilling Vivian Sung's character.
Unwilling because she feels that any attraction she feels towards him is simply a projection of what she felt towards who he was in the book world, and that replacement with a look alike irl now, would be a poor thing to do considering how much she loved him I the book world.
This began to irk me some, until He tells her he isn't giving up, in a great scene on a bridge, becoming very alpha in a good way, and surprising her.
And then finally he reads the last book in a stack of romances he's been working through, (hoping they would help him understand her) and it's THEIR romance book and he remembers everything.
The last episode sweetly wraps up this 20 episode drama, complete with more skinship and kisses.
I gave the drama 9 out of 10 stars simply because I "speed watched" a few episodes.
That's probably just me though, and I would definitely recommend it and I really enjoyed it. 🙂
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