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Ace Troops
Mar. 8th, 2022 10:19 amGao Liang and Gu Yi Ye are recruited into the same unit and thrown into action the first day of enlistment. Their careers start ‘on a bad foot’, even if their bravery is undoubted, as they both come from different backgrounds and thus have different personalities. Though they are rivals in love and competitors in army, they cherish each other as comrades-in-arms. With time passing, their lives are put through constant trials, forcing them to make hard choices as they strive forward.
This is the story of young heroes, that once had dreams, and that grew and strove for nearly four decades, to become the heroic Ace Troops. (MDL - 2021)
The things I watch because of Xiao Zhan. Even propaganda drama.
Taking aside the Chinese propaganda (it is directed to their country after all, I can't comment on that, as a foreign), the edition was terrible. I am aware the original amount of episodes was 60, so that the final was 40.... you can tell. There were times where I was ?? why? what happened? how?, like I missed a couple of episodes, which makes sense since TWENTY were cut off.
Besides the nonsensical plot, even if there are 40 episodes, because of the terrible editing, I never understood or knew these characters. Gao Liang was loved by everyone and every superior liked him... the favoritism of him over Gu Yiye was ridiculous, and I could never, even till the end, understand WHY Gao Liang was THE best. It was obvious Gu Yiye was better, but for some reason, he was not.
As a soldier, yes, Gu Yiye was better. As a character.... wow, the hero complex he had... I more or less understand his reason to marry AXiu, but still. I was never invested in him and his story, and it was played by Xiao Zhan! He was wonderful of course, but this role was disappointing. When he was meaner (in ep 48? 49?) he was more interesting, but overall, he was boring and too intense. On the other hand, I love to see an "older" Gu Yiye... XZ looked amazing <3
NanZheng's actress was really good, her tears were moving and she had a nice chemistry with both leads. Unfortunately her story arc was ridiculous. Not only nepotism, what was her relationship with her father? An absent father for almost 20 years, and then he is all "my beloved daughter" bs. They get tight so out of nowhere; he didn't deserve it. And of course he, the superior and most serious character, had to like Gao Liang and see him as his son **eye-rolling**
The romance was boring, totally unnecessary but well... stupid Gao Liang gets invalid, NZ helps him, he mistreats her, he comes back as a new man, but not really, so better let's break up. WHUT.
This drama is like the military version of Grey's Anatomy: loads of drama, deaths, unrequited love, reciprocated love, blood, tears, etc, etc. As a plus side, the action and battle scenes were excellent; the episode were the platoon leader loses his life was O_O it looked so real it made it painful to watch it.
Took me 3 months to end this show... Hallelujah, I did it!
**My review: 5/10**
This is the story of young heroes, that once had dreams, and that grew and strove for nearly four decades, to become the heroic Ace Troops. (MDL - 2021)
The things I watch because of Xiao Zhan. Even propaganda drama.
Taking aside the Chinese propaganda (it is directed to their country after all, I can't comment on that, as a foreign), the edition was terrible. I am aware the original amount of episodes was 60, so that the final was 40.... you can tell. There were times where I was ?? why? what happened? how?, like I missed a couple of episodes, which makes sense since TWENTY were cut off.
Besides the nonsensical plot, even if there are 40 episodes, because of the terrible editing, I never understood or knew these characters. Gao Liang was loved by everyone and every superior liked him... the favoritism of him over Gu Yiye was ridiculous, and I could never, even till the end, understand WHY Gao Liang was THE best. It was obvious Gu Yiye was better, but for some reason, he was not.
As a soldier, yes, Gu Yiye was better. As a character.... wow, the hero complex he had... I more or less understand his reason to marry AXiu, but still. I was never invested in him and his story, and it was played by Xiao Zhan! He was wonderful of course, but this role was disappointing. When he was meaner (in ep 48? 49?) he was more interesting, but overall, he was boring and too intense. On the other hand, I love to see an "older" Gu Yiye... XZ looked amazing <3
NanZheng's actress was really good, her tears were moving and she had a nice chemistry with both leads. Unfortunately her story arc was ridiculous. Not only nepotism, what was her relationship with her father? An absent father for almost 20 years, and then he is all "my beloved daughter" bs. They get tight so out of nowhere; he didn't deserve it. And of course he, the superior and most serious character, had to like Gao Liang and see him as his son **eye-rolling**
The romance was boring, totally unnecessary but well... stupid Gao Liang gets invalid, NZ helps him, he mistreats her, he comes back as a new man, but not really, so better let's break up. WHUT.
This drama is like the military version of Grey's Anatomy: loads of drama, deaths, unrequited love, reciprocated love, blood, tears, etc, etc. As a plus side, the action and battle scenes were excellent; the episode were the platoon leader loses his life was O_O it looked so real it made it painful to watch it.
Took me 3 months to end this show... Hallelujah, I did it!
**My review: 5/10**
