Forensic Heroes IV
oh my god... Lemme just say the part which I was very happy about and it was seeing GHONG ZAI!!! Not like he is playing the character ghong zai but seeing Fred Cheng as a familiar face on FH was such a throwback to FH I and II. Making me miss the Spanish background music, Linda Chung and all the funny things going on in FH I and II.
So I’m till episode 9 and.... it wasn’t going too good in my opinion. Firstly, I don’t know if whether it was because of Rosy Business I and II. Having watch Rosy Business immediately before this FH is a little anti-climatic because I was so used to the fast-paced story line from RB and having start on FH which goes on a case by case (a tradition of FH series) made me feel a little sleepy watching..(Oh and speaking of RB, I thought that the next drama before watching FH is going to be Rosy Business III but nope. Bad casting (Myolie Wu replacing Sheren Tang?! Seriously...?!), super low ratings, bad reviews (from online and people around me who was watching) and story going very slow are the reasons why I decided to throw that out the window and skip it.. Yup..)
I guess one element that they sort of REALLY missed out in FH IV is simply the fun part to FH. Now I take back the part I said about FH III that lost its humorous element to make the entire story lighthearted and fun. FH IV really lost it TOTALLY. I still remember FH I being funny with Madam Leung’s underlings, Ghong Zai having a crush on Ding Ding and we have FH II having the underlings funnily bitching about Madam Ma and those parts they gather and have their friendly banter. FH III still had its fair part of fun such as Amy Chan and Edwin Siu’s toilet moment and Kate Tsui’s awkward relationship with her boss. FH IV really was just about work, work and work. And I was a little bored out looking at them swabbing blood, picking clues, looking cool with sunglasses and 3D scanners etc. The first few times was okay but the more they repeated it for every case was boring for me. They also go super fast about the case and it became a little information overload but I just let it pass because I was losing interest... But anyway, cool technology they have there. Really shows the upgrade in technology from FH I to IV.
Watched till episode 21 and I realized that I find myself enjoying stories that were related to main cast more than some random cases they had. The drone thingy that wanted to bomb Dr Man was entertaining and now the complicated case with Queen and her friend who betrayed her. The other random cases was just meh and I find myself just trying to get over them just for the sake of trying to finish the drama.
Ended the drama and I was so so glad that it turned out slightly a lil’ better. I am still sticking to my stand on how they lost the humor part of it but by saying it turned out for the better was because of that very last case. I realized that the cases that I enjoyed were the cases that involved “better” and more “famous” (more like well-known) cast. Just like the cases involving the main cast and the very last case (with Sharon Chan, Kelly Cheung and Johnathan Cheung) were more interesting and exciting. I was indeed chasing the last 4 episodes...
As for the pairings... unpopular opinion here so I was skipping the entire part between Selena Lee’s character (Ka-Hei) and... who was that..?! Sorry but that Stan guy was a little turn off... I literally just fast-forwarded their part.. so yahhh. I dunno it just didn’t feel interesting to me for this pairing. Another unpopular opinion for the next pairing by Alice Chan (Queen) and Shaun Tam (King Sir)! Even though I was still not impressed by Shaun Tam, I was excited to see how this pairing would turn out but yet they left it all till the end (or technically the last episode)... I was indeed rooting so much for them. And I see what they did there with that King and Queen naming... Following that was the pairing by Raymond Wong (Ko On) and Yumiko Cheng (Monique)/ Roxanne Tong (Tsui Yi). It was just a simple and normal relationship between Ko On and Monique but I find it seriously abrupt at the end for Ko On and Tsui Yi. There wasn’t much development between these two in terms of personal relationship but yet they just match these two up at the end. Like what..?! Also for Ko Zing and Tsam-Ting.. Abrupt and random.
The ending was o..kay.. because it ended traditionally like how they did it for the first 3. The link between FH and clowns weren’t lost. The cast was......o..kayyyy..... I rarely say this for HK drama because I was usually very impressed with their acting but here.... ermm I don’t know how to put it but I don’t think Raymond Wong was the best candidate for the role.. He had this standard face everytime. Shaun Tam.. same monotonous straight face like in 天命 which I didn’t like his performance there... Selena Li... okayyyy not bad (the crying part for Chau sis)... ughhhhh enough of those average ones but I want to applaud YUKI JEH!!! (from twilight mansion) okay sorry, her name is Akina Hong! Omg I totally liked her acting where she portrayed the delusional friend suffering from some depression. She was totally amazing and really look as if she is going out of her mind. She totally outshone Alice Chan as a main and simply just wow!
In my opinion, FH IV was the worst out of all the FH. Cases were like... meh. (Seriously, looking at a wound and being able to decipher it from a thermoflask cap and being able to google which actual one was used..?!) But again, still watchable for me... (at least still exciting at the end..)
OH OH OH and i cannot imagine that Tsui Yi which is supposedly to be played by Jacqueline Wong is going to be paired up with Ko On played by Raymond Wong?! No wonder Raymond Wong got annoyed at the entire scandal and that he had to reshoot part of the drama.