olewis
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Come for the cute couple....and watch them carry this show on their backs
I have so many thoughts about this show.
The lead couple (Song Yan and Xu Qin) is really its main strength; they have adorable chemistry and a worthy "thwarted young lovers find their way back to each other" arc. I love how naturally SY and XQ's relationship progresses; they don't immediately reconcile or go from haters to lovers in an instant, but rather gradually forgive each other and grow closer before re-committing. It is a rewarding slow-burn with still enough time to enjoy watching their renewed romance.
Other positives include the funny and lovable firefighter ensemble and Song Yang's family, especially Zhai Miao. I also enjoyed the firefighter/medical action sequences, in particular, the multi-episode earthquake arc, which is perhaps the best part of the series. As the show becomes more about the characters' relationships and less about their careers, we see less of this type of action, as well, which is a bit disappointing, IMO.
Unfortunately, the side characters and plots are not nearly as fleshed out as the two leads, with some uneven writing hampering their development. The plotline between Meng Yan-cheng and Ye-zi is so irregularly looped in and then takes a bizarre 180 turn and abruptly ends without a satisfying conclusion. Jiang-yu and Li Meng should really have been the second couple.
And of course, there are the classic drama tropes, like an evil, classist mother and innumerable plot points revolving around characters accidentally bumping into each other, which is hard enough to believe without a setting as massive as a major Chinese city. (Are we really supposed to believe that the same firefighting unit responded to all of these incidents and always brought their patients to the same hospital)? But ah well, such are C-dramas.
Anyway, if you, like me, love dramas centered around a cute couple with not a ton of other plotlines, then I'd recommend Fireworks of my Heart. While initially daunted by its 40-episode runtime, I found it quite easy to get through (okay I may have skipped a few of the slower moving scenes) and a lovely show about love and friendship.
The lead couple (Song Yan and Xu Qin) is really its main strength; they have adorable chemistry and a worthy "thwarted young lovers find their way back to each other" arc. I love how naturally SY and XQ's relationship progresses; they don't immediately reconcile or go from haters to lovers in an instant, but rather gradually forgive each other and grow closer before re-committing. It is a rewarding slow-burn with still enough time to enjoy watching their renewed romance.
Other positives include the funny and lovable firefighter ensemble and Song Yang's family, especially Zhai Miao. I also enjoyed the firefighter/medical action sequences, in particular, the multi-episode earthquake arc, which is perhaps the best part of the series. As the show becomes more about the characters' relationships and less about their careers, we see less of this type of action, as well, which is a bit disappointing, IMO.
Unfortunately, the side characters and plots are not nearly as fleshed out as the two leads, with some uneven writing hampering their development. The plotline between Meng Yan-cheng and Ye-zi is so irregularly looped in and then takes a bizarre 180 turn and abruptly ends without a satisfying conclusion. Jiang-yu and Li Meng should really have been the second couple.
And of course, there are the classic drama tropes, like an evil, classist mother and innumerable plot points revolving around characters accidentally bumping into each other, which is hard enough to believe without a setting as massive as a major Chinese city. (Are we really supposed to believe that the same firefighting unit responded to all of these incidents and always brought their patients to the same hospital)? But ah well, such are C-dramas.
Anyway, if you, like me, love dramas centered around a cute couple with not a ton of other plotlines, then I'd recommend Fireworks of my Heart. While initially daunted by its 40-episode runtime, I found it quite easy to get through (okay I may have skipped a few of the slower moving scenes) and a lovely show about love and friendship.
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