Dear Military Uniform (2021)

Oh! My Dear ! Let me tell you a story !

IT'S A GOOD STORY ! A story so good, no matter how hard they try to mess it up THEY CAN'T!!!!
STORY: It's another one of them Officer/Medic dramas ! it does honor to the genre (so far!) unique in it's own , different from YAMH and DOTS(not to name them all!) The problem is the production! You can tell the writer was out of their elements trying to fluff it into 40 episodes, trying really hard not to dilute it. Including slice of life and secondary conflicts here and there to make it Lenghty. It would have been so much more amazing if it stayed concise and compact with a banm banm banm chain of events because let me tell you : The Core of the story is AMAZING and it's moving quite nicely! The mind buggling unnecessary adjacent like the forever screaming cousin going through her own awakening, The self-centered heartless wench of a heart-surgeon in need of a good sit-down and so on is tiresome and robs you of the intensity said drama would need!
OH AND THAT FRIEND .... unnecessarily dumb, selfish and imprudent for a successful career woman but they had to give her screen time to make space! Who needs enemies when you have friends like that! i can't wait for the FL to send her packing!
ACTING: NO complains at all !!!! Even said screaming cousin is so good at what she does ! FL is a little on the nose but on brand with the character, she's built to drive him insane but doesn't and that's what fascinates him hence " Da Luv" XD ! ML is played by an actor who has very well lived in a uniform all his life so i'm sure this was a peice of cake for him!
MUSIC: Entirely forgettable so far ! Definitely not an OST you'll add to your playlist later on if you ask me
REWATCH: Meh! it would be a simple and fun rewatch , you'd end up skipping all the adjacent slice of life i guarantee ! straight to love and war because that's what matters and that's what is so good about this drama!

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Its a must watch!

Its totally a my type romance and action drama. I know this has the same plot like few other dramas. Yet i love the way everytime a doctor and military falls in love. Despite being totally devoted towards their career they still stay together till the end. They overcome so many barriers in their path. This drama is not like the other romance dramas that it has too many love triangles and then the second lead's heartbreak etc etc. I feel like a lot of emotions and life lessons and messages is interconnected with this drama which it makes it worth watching. Overall i loved it!

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40 episodes of painful watch

Very very very bad.

STORY
Story uninteresting, shallow and stupid. The plot was awful. Lousy villains and heroes.
ACTING - the characters were not interesting. but I think ML and FL were ok. Only ML Liang Zemu was ok and his friend Tian Yong. FL Xia Chu was a little boring, but she is the saviour of Chinese health system! She discovered new ways of treatment, find cure for diseases and only in her first year an intern!!!
Her best friend Mi Gu was a dumb, stupid, shallow person that helped a man murdering people and hurting her friend!
The villain was very boring, angry with the world.
All is bad, I don't even have the energy to criticize this show.
I may have to go to a brain surgeon to remove some tissue that died with this drama.

MUSIC - do not remember

REWATCH - never. Well, if I want to kill myself by destroying my brain...

OVERALL - a drama that I really want to forget

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Hated Some/Like Some Of The Story

I could say I like some of this drama and hated other parts of the drama. I found that as a medical/military drama to many things did not work for me. Especially being in both fields. The writer needed to study and research a little more about both topic. The female leads character makes a lot of mistake as she is suppose to be a doctor but does not seem to handle things that come up to her as a doctor. I found the romance to cold even in the last few episode were they finally emit their feelings just does not cut it for me as 2 people in love. The lead male character is as stiff and cold but military men can be serious and act very egotistic but most soldiers are the most loving, I have ever known. Even Marines who outward look can be scary are very loving to their spouse or girlfriend. There are time that scenes confuse you and this is to long of a drama. It could have been shorter. Many characters jump in and out of the story like the writer did not know were he was going in several episodes. The actor did a good job in their performance but the story could have been better. The ending left me very unsatisfied. The best characters in this drama was Luo Xiao Jun (Finn Han). His performance was great from the beginning of the drama to the end. I also like the story oh his mom and the doctor.

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Was hopeful, but instead sorely disappointed

I hope Chinese drama writers and producers read our reviews- 40 episodes is way toooooo long!! Nothing more than 30 please! This one had too many side plots/ characters, too much information and too draggy.

First few episodes already I skipped a lot. After episode 5 it got better and more interesting. I enjoyed the storyline between Liang Muze and Xia Chu- bickering acquaintances, to housemates to a romance relationship. They only had their first kiss in Epi 22, and officially got together in Epi 30. So you can imagine how long drawn the storyline is. He is a special brigade officer, she is a military cardiac resident doctor. (You might be also thinking it’s very similar to You Are My Hero). After Epi 23 i skipped a lot a lot, so by the time I got to 30, I just gave up.

I normally enjoy crime/ investigation/ conspiracy theory kind of tv series. The American series 24 is my favourite. So this one fell short to deliver any sort of interest in that area.

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One of the best

Around a year ago, I watched the Korean version which is kinda the original then recently I watched another Chinese version so Of course I decided to give this one
a go and it didn't disappoint me, the characters, acting, emotions, the loyalty to their country and the doctors' hard efforts for saving patients, but I cried really hard watching Tian Yong die but still life goes on. I liked how the ML was protective but from far and when the FL told him I'll follow you and your unit but he said this ain't what you want you're just confused at the moment, the ending isn't quite the best but it's okay!

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One of those dramas where literally nothing is missing.

Well, maybe just except one of the leads going missing for at least a year, otherwise nothing is missing: damsel in distress, special forces, a whole 4 minute long shootout between the car and the chopper, ugly Ex, natural disaster, an epidemic, damsel clinging onto a bad guy, hostage situation, hysterical side character, mafia business, cute animals, near death situations, thousand times repeated hand grabbing, when one tries to leave, and 39 unnecessary episodes, because the main plot is not even enough for a movie, let alone whole drama.

Plot: 1,5
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★☆☆☆☆ Main idea:
--> It was boring and uninteresting.
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★★☆☆☆ Logic:
--> Plot doesn't make much sense. It’s not because the story would have lacked logic, but there’s really not much happening, so there has to be tons of nonsense twists and side plots to keep the leads occupied with something the whole 40 episodes. The main storyline itself is so unoriginal, that even those little nonsense side plots are more interesting than that.
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☆☆☆☆☆ Pace:
--> I was bored right from the start.
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☆☆☆☆☆ Impression:
--> What was it about again?
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☆☆☆☆☆ Skip rate:
--> I skipped most of the story, even main plot wasn't interesting enough to watch it without skipping.
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★☆☆☆☆ Annoying factors:
--> The whole story was extremely annoying because of the fact, that it was weak. It lacked a leading thought, so the story bumped from one twist to another with just a vague direction. It wasn’t thrilling, nor dramatic, nor romantic… Simply uninspired to the point of extreme annoyance.


Characters: 5,5
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★★★☆☆ Leads:
--> While I pretty liked the temperaments of both main leads, I must also say, they had no chemistry at all and their interactions were pretty boring as well.
The second leads (FL Ex and her friend) were the embodiment of what I don't like about any character and I was pretty annoyed with them.
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★★★☆☆ Side characters:
--> On the contrary, I quite liked some of the side characters around main leads – the hospital personal and army comrades. There were also extremely annoying side characters. But what I liked about all of them, they weren’t existing just to complicate things for leads, but they had their own storylines and backgrounds, their own goals to pursue and their own relationships.
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★★☆☆☆ Overacting:
--> Annoying. Any intense emotion was expressed either with crying or screaming, or both, backed up with an emotional music theme, that was just about all.
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★★☆☆☆ Acting:
--> Didn’t like it. Also (and now I know I am being extremely materialistic), except for the FL I didn’t like any of the other actors looks. Looks aside, what’s more important, they lacked something like a charisma. Maybe it was just my coax from the bad storyline, but all of those actors seemed boring and bad at acting. They weren’t stirring any emotion. They were either crudely pragmatic, or switching into hysteric behavior – I couldn’t feel happiness, nor excitement, nor fear, nor sadness, nor admiration… They were all just flat.
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★★★☆☆ Annoyance level:
--> As mentioned, I was annoyed with a secondary couple. Female clinging onto a male, who not just had zero interest in her, but was also using her to his advantage. Male clinging onto FL, who not only had zero interest in him, but also wasn’t in contact with him for several years and had a new life already, but for some funny reason he was still convinced she has to fall for him eventually. On top of that he was constantly interfering with her life in a very inappropriate way, and I couldn’t see any logic for his obsession with her other than being the annoying character in the drama existing just to make things difficult for the leads.


Background: 7
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★★☆☆☆ Soundtrack:
--> Didn't notice any particular song, it was neutral. I only noticed the music when there was a moment, that was supposed to be intense, because there was nothing else about the scene to catch my attention except for the music (pretty sad, in a good drama, when an intense moment is happening, I am usually so immersed at the scene I don’t even notice, there is some supporting music, because the scene and acting are too interesting to pay attention to anything else… can’t happen in this drama though).
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★★★★☆ Visuals (camera, scenery, visual effects, ...):
--> Liked it.
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★★★☆☆ Wardrobe (costumes, hairstyles, makeup, ...):
--> Average.


Rewatch value: 1,5
I assess this value based on impression, skip rate, annoyance level and overall preference.


Final verdict: 3
Garbage. Do not watch it, not worth it.

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My Very Own Thoughts in watching My Dear Guardian

I watched it because I am a fan of Military Medical Romance Drama.The overall drama is good for me. This was the only drama I'm looking forward every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during 8PM at iQiyi. It gives me so much excitement as to what will happen next in the drama.
WHAT I LIKE on this drama:
First of all the ML is one of the love of my life LOL Johnny Huang's visual and physiques really suits him.
Li Qin is good too. I find her character annoying at first but later on I became her fan. FL is so brave.
The OST's are good (LOL because the drama is nothing without the OST's)
The fighting scenes were so amazing. That feeling that you literally stop breathing while watching.
The Chinese Military Troops, their equipments and environment is so amazing.
I cried a lot on what happen to Tian Yong. It really stir up my feelings.
WHAT I DISLIKED:
The Main lead has too little screen time. Too little sweet moments. Full of loopholes. The annoying bestfriend Mi Gu (atleast she's sane enough to think right). I don't like what they did to Tian Yong. The ending is a happy ending yet rushed.

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First half sweet other half draggy, cringey torture

Never have I seen a drama that had so much sweetness and potential go down hill this badly, why I kept on watching, I thank dubbele speed and skipping... as well as hope of seeing that sweet sweet cat as well as more scenes between the main couple but no she was long gone and those two where not as fun as I would have hoped they would be. This is the first drama I have ever watched so much in dubbele speed, but oddly enough dubbele speed did not feel fast at all, making me wonder if they used slow mo just to fill the time.

It did have some nice action scenes good explosions, high speed water chases and a whole lot of helicopter shots (though i think they reuses allot of those too), so if you are obsessed with tanks, helicopters etc this might actually be enjoyable for you.

Characterwise, the leads and one of the second coples where highly lovable, one was so annoying that I struggled feeling empathy with her, others where also pretty annoying. Not to spoil the drama I will mention one character and a very satisfactory scene as a spoiler tagged comment.

The medical stuff was so ridiculous and inconsistent I struggled between the emotions fear and comedy... one heart transplant was postponed and could be planned several weeks away, giving people the idea that hearts are easy to come by while a lung is rushed and extremely urgent... And I will not get started on how the organ is portrayed after it has been recycled...

So if you want to watch this go for the first half it is actually good and if you start feeling that it is draggy then drop it, it does not get any better! I really hoped it would, but no it will just keep on being draggy... but if you find yourself enjoying the second half too all the power to you! It will keep on going that way so you are in for a fun watch.


Just a note the cat, was the best thing with this drama, I want a spin off for the cat, preferably in a new home with other characters.

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Is a joyride - enjoy the process

Sometimes I wonder what people expect to see from a drama. LOVE triangles or Relationships breakdown. To start with I have always enjoyed Johnny Huang that’s the reason I started this and so looking forward when would be his next drama. But in the case of My Dear Guardian- I can’t wait to most of the actors and actress… I like how the story was written, the believe, symbolic of faith and loyalty that they displayed as a countryman, career and love ones. Even the Bird Cockatoos got my attention on what would he learned next. Using poems as way of life is interesting that many have forgotten in today life. The meaning of vow spoken by the Drs and Soldiers touches my heart.

Yes there are instance when you question whether that is necessary to have that particular scenes but I got it… one just need to be patience so that things could unwind itself… I have that love hate feeling for MG and ZR/PY but i understood their complex relationship… something that I respect no matter how one felt stupid how it is. Coz love doesn’t have an eyes to decide whether a person is evil or saint.. love is just there.

TY and LSX scenes made me laugh and cry and laugh and cry… the acceptance and with no conditions defined just showcased the beauty of the relationship..

I love all the comrades spirits in this drama.. I love the actions packs… it made the drama more realistic and made one wants to appreciate life. LMZ and XC is funny and lovable couples the way they stand by each other every time, the conversations and the support they had for each other.. something I look forward too. No matter how they agree to disagree and to agree just show how this life should be in every relationship.

All in all.. I felt the writers and actors and actresses made a lot of effort.. they spiced it up with love, loses, grieved, regrets, happiness, loyalty, faithfulness, believe, sadness, angers, frustration and appreciation for one and another…

I fully recommend it to watch. I understand to some may not be their cup of tea but sometimes tea would calm one heart….

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