Love O2O (2016)

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Blandest couple award goes to the main characters, Wei Wei and Xiao Nai! This was basically the POV and world of the benefits of being pretty - the two main characters were beautiful, smart, and pretty much flawless in every way. The main girl is basically a Mary Sue (and same goes for the main guy too tbh).

My other problems with this show:
- Internal monologues, where we could hear all their thoughts but their real conversation is only like 2 sentences between each other

- No real conflict to speak of, so if you want a background show that doesn't require much thought, this show would be perfect for you

- Wei Wei has no personality, and is basically only there as Xiao Nai's pretty sidekick girlfriend, and Xiao Nai is constantly calling after her like a dog (this sounds terrible, but the way he always tells her to 'come here' or do this, and not making it as a request really reminds me of someone calling for their dog lol)

- The acting for the two main leads were wooden and unnatural, I really couldn't get into it lol

I almost dropped this show but I really have an inability to drop shows unless they're absolutely terrible so I stuck with this until the end. Maybe if I was 10 years younger, I would have enjoyed this more.

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MUST

Honestly, my favorite drama watched this like 5 times this year already

1. There isn't any scene that drags on for a long time
2. No misunderstanding
3. Yang Yang is so freaky in this drama omg

The first time I watched this was in 2018 because I was a fan of the male lead in The Oriental Odyssey. I decided to watch all his dramas and this was the first one I watched. This drama doesn't seem special, but I'm still obsessed. The story isn't draggy, the acting was good, and there were little to no issues with the plot.

I think there were only around 5 songs in the drama and because of the limited music choice, the music didn't always go with the scene as well.

There isn't anything special about this drama, the cast was fine, the music was ok, and the story was good, but everything fit together almost perfectly. This drama is my absolute comfort drama, the story is sort of half xianxia/wuxia and half modern. The male lead is almost clingy in some way, and is absolutely so arrogant, hes super freaky with it though. This drama isn't a 24 episode 2019-2020 romance drama. The main leads are not retarded, they don't break up. This story doesn't have much plot, its just mostly romance, so if your looking for something with more plot to it, this isn't the one for you.

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Best Effort

I don’t usually make a review but this requires effort.

Hands-down: Yang Yang is superb. As well as the male cast of the show. Even the spiteful and immature Cao Guang was superb.

The female cast was DISAPPOINTING truly. None had redeeming value whatsoever. Not even in looks, acting or even presence. The female ensemble was poorly chosen; I even feel like the team made budget cuts and decided to hire sub-par actresses.

I get the college-naive-first-time feel that the scriptwriter or the director was aiming for, but it was POORLY conceptualized. Nobody is that DUMB and NAIVE in college; and there are more sharp highschoolers than the female ensemble. And literally - the lead actress wasn’t even pretty. No X-factor and the director had her play a totally blank character. She faded out from the scenes and it was bothersome how annoyingly dense her character was. A conflict to the supposed “capable and smart” woman that the character is.

It was painful watching it. Yang Yang’s character and his friends were the ones that carried the whole drama. It would have been better if the direction of the drama was focused on their friendship and struggle in a start-up company. It would have been more interesting, and would’ve been better without the romance since the lead actress was dead as wood.

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A one in a million

Ok i have to start with the fact that this drama was unlike any other drama I've seen.
I first saw this drama last year and watched the first 10 minutes of the first episode and ended up dropping it, but last week i came across the first episode again on YouTube and since I had nothing better to do I clicked on it. I decided to not give up on it and told myself to watch until episode 3 and if I wasn't satisfied i would drop it... turns out when i got o episode 3 i started to love the drama. At the beginning the game parts bothered me but they soon grew on me and halfway through the drama those scenes stopped. I'm actually very glad i decided to give this drama a second chance.

What i liked about this drama was the fact that they didn't complicate the plot with over the top evil characters, annoying parents or misunderstanding between the leads. The story although it was a bit predictable and cliche it had it's own charm that made it different from other dramas.

The trust between the leads was also amazing. My favorite line was when xiao nai (yang yang) told the girl that he didn't want to hear things about his girlfriend from a third party, this is something we don't hear often in the drama world. Although i've seen many people commenting on the fact that their relationship was so perfect that it's impossible an unrealistic i would say otherwise, a relationship is all about communication and trust which was something they both had.

I would definitely give this drama a try.

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What I enjoyed:
• The story's premise is great, and the drama is generally very sweet. :)
• I enjoyed some of the side characters, especially Old Man Yu, and their stories!
• Oh, and the first half was fun because of the switching between game world and real world! (They stopped doing that later)

Now as for some things I did not like as much:
• The constant focus on FL's beauty. Her beauty always comes first before her skills, and she proves others "wrong"/surprises them... by being beautiful? All the while the show acts as if looks were not important.
• ML is a little too "perfect", I don't recall any moments of him acting in a normal, flawed, human way. I saw robots with more development than he had. :/ I don't know if it was the acting directions, but both ML/FL had very stiff delivery.
• I thought I was misunderstanding at first, but some really creepy stalking happens there.
• The "antagonist" storylines didn't have a very satisfying wrap-up.

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Refreshing Love Story

It was definitely better then I originally thought. I've been putting it off for months now, but I've recently been in the faze of watching online gaming dramas and Love O2O was of course in that list of dramas to watch. What really helped was that I've been listening to the soundtrack for a while, while not knowing that it came from this drama.

A couple things that I love about this drama is that there aren't any break ups between the two leads, to add to that there also aren't any misunderstandings that lead do bad outcomes. They have so much trust between the two which I love. Even before both of them getting together in real life Xiao Nai was protective of Bei Weiwei and would not let any other man chase after her.

The antagonist Female didn't create too many problems/conflicts for the two leads, which was refreshing to see. They always to have them to be very cruel to the Female Main Lead, but she just had a huge crush to the Male Main lead and surrounded herself with friends that made her misunderstand situations and make her overall jealous of the Bei Weiwei.

On another note I love Yang Yang so him being in this drama was an added bonus.

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Sweet but URGH those kissing scenes !

THE GOOD:
The drama is a fluffy one where everything is perfect, no misunderstanding, no unreasonable behaviours from the leads EVER.
Nice animations, interesting story stand point.

THE BAD :.. those kissing scenes... urgh. The female just stand there like a dead fish, looking like she's being stabbed by thousand needles every time he touches her. The male lead is good and knows how to kiss but i couldn't stand the apathy she displayed.
I much much prefered the secondary relationship which was a lot more natural and seemed a lot more real.
One thing that bothered me too is the high pitched female voices. Got irritating after a while.

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Missed this when first released, glad I came around to it now

I really enjoyed this drama, there's a ton of other reviews and loads of people have already said why it's such an amazing drama so I'll just take this opportunity to say there were a few problematic issues but they really didn't overshadow the good vibe that was the overall tone of the story.
Things I wish were different:

The FL actress lacked kissing experience and it showed, her kisses never got any better. Her first kiss looked like a real first kiss, but by the third or fourth one she should have been responding and moving her lips too or at least puckering them a little ffs.

There were WAY too many mentions of weight, eating too much, being fat ect. NONE of the characters had a spare ounce on their bodies.

The overwhelming attention paid to people's physical beauty. Our FL and ML both had good personalities that would have made them wonderful partners even if they looked average or unattractive, but somehow because they were both the MOST beautiful people in the world apparently, everyone would stop to tell them how good looking they were. That's a little weird.

Several times various characters would belittle someone for not being pretty "enough" though who gets to determine that is random consensus?

There were several problematic mean girl characters who never really faced any consequences for their behavior, they were promptly ignored and forgotten by the leads (as they should be) but they also should have paid the price for their bad behaviors and they never really got called to account for that.

Despite these 4-5 things, EVERYTHING else was amazing about this drama. Relationship free of drama, best friends that stick through thick and thin, intelligent and fun? Check, check, check, and CHECK! Amazing show. Absolutely watch it if you haven't yet.

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I thought it would never end!

Don't shoot me, this is just my personal opinion, but what did I just watch? There were a couple of things that I liked about this drama, but truthfully it irritated me no end. I don't actually think I should have rated it as high as I did, but it did have some redeeming value for me. I watched this show a couple of years ago and just watched it again after watching You Are My Glory and loving Yang Yang.

What I liked:
1)Yang Yang - he's better in YAMG because he's grown as an actor, but here he was very cute. He doesn't show a lot of emotion, but there is something so magnetic about him, I kept watching, waiting for his smiles. He knows how to do good kissing scenes. Unfortunately, it looked like he was kissing a piece of wood here. I blame the actress or the way she portrayed the character. In the kissing area, she's of the dead fish variety, until the final episode.
2)Good CGI for the gaming.
3)The Hao Mei/KO storyline.
4)Episode 30 - they turned up the heat in this episode!
5)His friends were funny.

What I didn't like:
1)Zheng Shuang as Wei Wei (both the actress and the character). She had the wide-eyed look down to a science. She is a stunning woman, but she didn't display much range in this role. He facial expression pretty much stayed the same the whole time. She was treated unfairly (a lot) but her expression never changed. Very poorly done kissing scenes. And her character? She was supposed to be this brilliant computer science girl, but once she got with Xiao Nai, she was just an accessory hanging on his arm. Up until they met in person, she was this cool young woman, the type that other women admire and aspire to be. They met and it was as if her IQ immediately took a nosedive. She couldn't look at him, she was doing all this stupid internal dialog, she was behaving in a silly manner (was it supposed to be cute? It wasn't).
2)The dubbing. This is always a problem for me in Chinese shows, but it seemed especially bad here. I swear, the FL and at least three of the other females were dubbed by the same person with the same high, squeaky, breathy, irritating voice.
3)Too much gaming. I get it, it's a show about gaming, but come on!
4)Her friend group, especially Er Xi. They behaved in a juvenile matter all the time, chasing each other around, tickling each other, etc.
5)The character of Er Xi. She gets special mention because of how much she irritated me. The high dubbed voice, the overacting, the yelling, the immaturity. Ugh!
6)I didn't come into this show expecting realism, but the way that everyone fawned over Xiao Nai all the time was absolutely ridiculous. Women running toward him and standing around him talking about how handsome he was. He comes into a room and everyone takes out their phones to take pictures of him in all his handsomeness. Conversations cease, staring begins, and the thesaurus comes out to come up with new words to describe how handsome he is. There is one scene in particular that stands out. They are trying to take graduation pictures when he shows up. No one can pay attention to what they are supposed to be doing because they are all enthralled by him. The photographer says, "Handsome guy, go stand behind that tree." That pretty much sums it up, If he's in the vicinity, he must be fawned over.
7)Mean girls. A plethora of them, each one more mean and scheming than the other. They were portrayed as "the popular girls", but with the way they badmouthed Wei Wei to her face and to everyone around them, there was NO ONE to stand up for Wei Wei and tell them to shut up? It was verbal bullying at a very high level.
8) ASMR. We were privy to EVERY indrawn breath, surprised breath, and sigh of Wei Wei.

I would love, love, LOVE to find a Chinese romance that I didn't have to use the fast forward button so much. The concept of the romance was cute, but not executed that well, and there was SO MUCH boring stuff to get through!

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Where should i start? This is not a light and fun drama if you are someone who likes depth in their dramas.
The male lead is arrogant, bossy and all around idiot in my personal opinion.
Kisses are cringe as always.
The female lead is supposed to be smart from the synopsis but is actually a pushover.
Most of the characters are shallow.
Oh and despite dating for two years ,the main lead has not hit it and has not cheated either. I mean ??????.
How i finished it Lord only knows. That and I was bored.
This was my second Chinese drama and I hated it. I am wondering if the main leads are all around shitty actors. Clearly they don't know how to choose projects.

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