To Ship Someone (2023)

Troppo lungo per la sua trama ma ben recitato e senza sottotrame inutili

Io adoro i drama ambientati all'interno del mondo di un libro o di un fumetto infatti sono grande fan di W two worlds apart, Lost romance e Extraordinary you. Questo drama parte più o meno dagli stessi presupposti ma con una sua trama originale, per quanto banale alla fine. Una ragazza che shippa la coppia di un romanzo finisce non si sa come dentro ad esso e cerca di darev alla coppia un lieto fine contro il volere dell'autore. Questa la premessa. Poi in realtà tutto cambia anche l'autore entra nel romanzo, poi c'è un cattivo pricopatico hacker, poi sono in una fanfiction non nel romanzo, poi l'eroe deve superare i suoi traumi passati....c'è molta carne al fuoco, si cade nei soliti clichè ma mai troppo per fortuna. E una cosa molto positiva è che la trama principale e la coppia principale resta al centro della storia sempre, non veniamo distratti da infinite sottocoppie o sottotrame. Anhe la coppia fictional dei personaggi del romanzo non occupa troppo spazio ma il giusto, forse pure troppo poco dopo la puntata 10 e 11. Ecco il più grande difetto del drama che ne abbassa per me il voto è che i protagonisti passano troppo tempo fuori dal mondo del romanzo nel mezzo del drama e che verso la fine dopo la puntata 20 si allunga proprio il brodo. E la trama del romanzo da modificare la coppia da aiutare....passano troppo in secondo piano. Tutto ruota intorno al potagonista maschile ai suoi traumi passati e presenti e al suo nemico. Peccato perchè il drama sarebbe carino seppur non eccezionale, ma si perde via . La recitazione però è molto buona e i protagonisti bravi belli e pure simpatici il che non è poco.

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Optimism falls in love with Pessimism

Story
In comes FL, Xiao Xi, who despite her difficulties and struggles in life and work, she always holds a positive view in living her life. She works in a company that purchased IP from web novelist and send them in film production. FL has been a fan to a web novel series written by Ji Shu. She is in love with Ji Shu’s novel CP and wanted to get company to purchased his IP. Hence FL meet ML. Ji Shu is the opposite, due to misfortunes of his family and blames himself for the death of unborn sister, he became aloof and pessimistic about life, relationship and love. And after encountering a betrayal from love and friend in University. He became more withdrawn and devoted to his novel writing and used it for his own therapeutic healing, hoping that he wrote his story out, he can heal and move on.
While I mentioned because of their work FL and ML met, fell in love and ultimately through various trials and situations involving life threatening events, they have an happy ending. The story involves FL trying to use love initially to make ML sell his IP. H the fantasy element is that while she was upset with how ML changes her sweet CP characters to a sad ending, she started to make comments on his site, but miraculously suck into the web novel as a character and was able to change ML’s novel CP through her involvement in his web novel world. Subsequently ML also got suck in too and fell in love with FL through their encounters. Simply put it that her positivity changed him and he learnt to love someone whole heartedly.

Pros and Cons
The story’s premises were refreshing and realistic about fanatic fans chasing novel CP and wants writer to gave them a happy ending. Characters entering web novel is not new storyline, this drama didn’t spend much time explaining how and why it happened. It just follow on the story of the characters and their development.
It’s definitely a low budget production as the unfitting clothes, poor styling to bad lighting and outdated fashion is quite obvious from main lead to supporting casts. I wish they have done more justice to ML’s charming appearance. FL is also pretty but here, they may have purposely increase her ugliness for the character. In later part, one can see her dress sense change slightly after the CP got together. The dress sense for all the cast just seems cheap and poorly done.

The romance is a bit cliche at some parts but acceptable with comedy, the story is straightforward. The FL’s character is a little over the top to sometimes being irritable, annoying and draggy. However FL is silly but yet adorable at moments. ML acts well here being melancholic and aloof, and taking a process of change. The antagonist is also conveniently planted with not much depth, and I couldn’t understand the hatred he has for ML, if it’s spin off from jealousy, it’s too convenient plot. At some point one may wonder how come the antagonist has so much power to control internet and their fate in the internet world.
The supporting casts are good. The side story involving the novel CP is interesting and their changes reflected the writer’s perspective, but I wasn’t that invested in them. It’s acceptable to me that this story wants to show how lack of love or trauma can shape and change one’s perspectives. I would wish there are more depth to the characters. The comedy is fun to watch. As a ROM-Com, with good amount of tension and good effort of set up of a cohere story and low budget, I thought this is relatively a good drama and definitely worth a re-watch for the CP’s sweetness.
I enjoyed the journey watching the development of main CP, although the ending was conveniently wrapped up with happy ending and then again, one need not think too much on watching this drama.

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