This season on Taiwanese TV...

[uisceros]

Summary of ratings for Taiwan's Idol Dramas: Performance of 'ToGetHer' is mediocre

First off, they changed the name of Superstar Express to "ToGetHer"?! No wonder the ratings suck... I hate it when there are those last minute changes to drama names (in english)... while the original titles aren't always great, the alternative titles are always 50% worse. Like, when they changed "Invincible Shan Bao Mei" to "Woody Sambo" (which is totally 'wtf territory' to me). Why can't they just do direct translations of the Chinese name?

But yes, I'm sad that Superstar Express (I REFUSE to call it ToGetHer) is doing badly. It stars some of my favorite people (Rainie, George Hu, and JIRO), is a love story involving an agoraphobe, and the theme song is one of my favoritest songs ever (越來越愛 by Fahrenheit!!). Even if it really DOES suck, I'll still watch it because OMG Jiro.

The article also mentions how Starlit is apparently pretty good. I'm glad, it's one of the dramas I was/am most looking forward to this season. I love Jerry Yan passionately, and Terri Kwan is amazing and beautiful. Plus, the ANGST! I just can't possibly watch it as it airs. Doing that with BBF is hard enough.

And how come I didn't know that Ethan Ruan had a new drama, Defeated Queen?! It sounds really good too! Older woman, younger guy... an eight year age difference too! I really liked Ethan in Fated to Love You. Watching him in other dramas (Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu & Green Forest My Home) only proved to me that he was someone to watch out for. I'm looking forward to this drama, and all his future projects. Also, the main lady, Cheryl Yang, is beautiful.

Lastly, The Concerto has been getting good reviews, which really REALLY makes me happy, because I love Lee Wei, and wish him nothing but goodness and rainbows, and puppies, and butterflies. Esther Liu is in it as well, and I was impressed with her in Green Forest. And EDDIE PENG ♥♥♥♥♥♥!

When Black & White comes on, I AM going to be live-watching. It stars Zai Zai (love of my life), and Chuan Yi (not the love of my life, but close). Btw, the wiki.d-addicts site for this show has the BEST engrishy sentence ever used to summarize a drama ever; "When a case brought these two top crime solvers together, sparks flied and a little light peeked into this dark city where the nation's President is on friendly terms with the local mafia and twins kill people while drinking milkshake."

I've seen videos of Zai Zai practicing shooting guns, and holy shit is it hot. I also have recently discovered I like his shorter hair a lot better than I like his longer hair. It took me months to get used to it though. Oh Zai Zai, I still love your Mars era Farrah 'do as well.

Comments

[your-insomnia.livejournal.com]

actually I believe that it's in really good quality on mysoju since it's somehow a dvd burn (I also hate streaming twdramas. why are they always in such low quality?)
Those dramas lists are so useless, for me at least because I watch dramas so randomly all the time. XD
Jiro is so freaking hot in Superstar I have NO WORDS. I've never seen him so sexy and charming. I liked him in ISWAK but his haircut and his clothing are to die for in Superstar.

I don't know who comes up with the title translations for those dramas but they should be fired. Miss No Good? Really? WHY?? What was wrong with Bad Campus Belle (original title)? Okay it doesn't make any sense but at least it sounded somewhat nice...

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

Mm, the quality on mysoju is actually pretty bad imo - not the worst I've seen, but very far from DVD quality. I'm sad :(

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

It might be TAIWANESE DVD quality. I have the original DVDs of Why Why Love and ISWAK, and I was surprised at how sucky the picture was... The quality of Taiwanese dramas continues to baffle me.

[your-insomnia.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it is DVD quality it's just a rip from dvd as opposed to TV. Mysoju doesn't really put on good quaility videos (well of course cuz it's a site for streaming videos) but compared to some other examples (like iswak, is so bad you can't distinguish faces), the quality is not the worse. ^^

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

You're right, it's actually not bad at all. (I've resigned myself to the suckiness of twdrama production quality. Even the non streaming stuff sucks in comparison to jdramas or kdramas)

I need lists in order to remember what I want to watch, and how many episodes of each I've watched. But I usually don't plan what to watch next... they're just a reference.

I'm REALLY loving his new look for the new Fahrenheit album (and it looks like it's translating into the drama as well).

Hehehe! I know! Usually the Mandarin translations are a ton better (Bad Campus Belle is the closest thing to a translation of the Chinese... it does sound better than Miss No Good though!)