In the first minute, during the opening theme song, it's not hard to figure out what's going to happen: who is going to cry, who is going to fall down and get hurt, who will get slapped, who will meet with a car accident, who will die and how, who will be kissing who. The editor had put these images together, and we anticipate what will pan out. The excitement is in how they happen (how they cry, why one slap someone, how one dies), because in HK dramas, so much can happen within 1 episode.
There are no silent moments in most HK drama series. 97% of the time, someone is talking. 1% belong to recollections of past memories played to background music, 1% to having soup or dessert with family members, the other 1% to images of characters crying. Yet, the script is so well written and filled with meaningful lessons and playful banter. The romance between 程亮, 常在心 and 唐至安 is more romantic, heart-breaking, and utterly sweeter than anything on Fann-Christopher's phony milking-the-marriage tv show. On top of the script, credits go to the actors, who can cry as easily as freely whenever they please; and those huge chunks of lines they have to memorise!
In spite of its lack of subtlety, smooth editing, and smooth transition, the best thing about the show, or watching any show, is what you learn or bring away with you. Everytime 大契 speaks, and everything she said, is full of meaning and truth, so much that it made me cry sometimes. I learnt about values like kinship and respect, sacrifice and how to be a good friend.
It's all drama of course. Everything is staged and exaggerated, fictional, and nothing that happened in shows sometimes can happen in real life. Well, who's to say that. Say even if it's true, I'm glad that when I watch them, it gave me hope. Those laughter and tears were real though.
"甜的吃, 苦的也要吃"
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