Spooks, Robin Hood, and Sherlock

I haven't updated for a while, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been watching TV series.
First, I all begin from The Pillars of the Earth. I saw Matthew MacFadyen on the show. I liked him since his Mr. Darcy. Then I looked up him on imdb.com. I saw he was once on the British show 'Spooks'. I couldn't find the show with Chinese subtitles, so I have to watch the raw videos. Gladly, I found out that my listening is not that bad. I could understand 90% of what they are saying if I concentrate on the show. The 10% is because there are a lot of politics, terrorists, and weapon terms that I am not familiar with. After watching this series, I hooked with Spooks. Sadly, he left after 2 seasons.
However, that didn't change my love to Spooks. I kept watching, then I began to like Adam Carter, Rupert Penry-Jones. Therefore, I looked up his other films and series. I watched his Whitechapel and Persuasion. So beautifully directed and filmed.
More sadly, he left after Season 6. Then Lucas North came along. Actually, before that, when I looked up Matthew MacFayden, there was a video on youtube.com that compared all Mr. Darcy from various actors. I was surprised that I didn't recognized one of them, so I looked up. He was Mr. Thornton from 'South and North'. I couldn't stop watching this series. It's a beautiful story, and the story line is very similar to 'Pride and Prejudice'. I think that's why Mr. Thornton is one of Mr. Darcy. One user commented that Mr. Thornton is the working-class Mr. Darcy. She/He couldn't imagine living with Mr. Darcy, but with Mr. Thornton, it would be fantastic.
Well, that's why I liked Richard Armitage, and his voice. It's so low and comfortable. I continued watching Sean 7 and 8. And then his Robin Hood, though he is a bad guy in the show. I also watched Strike Back. I am so eager to watch the next season for all those shows.
What a brilliant show, three lead actors are all graduated from famous acting collegs, all taller than 180cm, all filmed Austen or Victorian film.

Really, I am so hooked by Richard Armitage, I began to cut his portion in Robin Hood.

By the way, I like the new Sherlock. I love it! Hohoho.Unfortunately, we have to wait a year to watch Season 2. New Sherlock and Watson are so funny together. The crew of the show even created the two blogs online. Those blogs are funny, too. It's just so interesting to see how Watson wrote about their cases and how other characters on the show commented on the blog. It's even funnier to see how Watson and Sherlock cross in the comment area. By by the way, I like the detective.

The little thing about 'The Pilliars of the Earth': I know I shouldn't like William Hamleigh because he is just a pure evil from the start to the end. However, after all those episodes, I just couldn't stop liking him, or the actor, David Oak. His face is just pure, clean, and handsome, not like others' faces. I didn't read the book before. But I read the sequel of this book 'World without End'. I couldn't finish the book. It's just so boring, and confusing with all those characters, places, and storylines. Maybe there's nothing interesting for me in the first few chapters. The other reason I don't like the book is that there's just too much sex scenes from the beginning. Furthermore, those scenes are not beautiful or pure. They are all about purposes. That's why I gave up on the book.
Well, since I like the TV series, I may started to read book 'The Pillars of the Earth'. It published on the year I was born. Hehe, same age as me.

XiaoWu Zhang's Spring

It's a city drama show, and it's about Older/Younger relationship. I mean older woman with younger man. You know I hate that kind of relationship. My ideal relationship is that the woman is two years younger than the man. That's a perfect couple. However, the head roles for this shows are Yan Ni and William Li. I don't like William that much because he always stars in Taiwan dramas and I don't like Taiwan dramas a lot. However, Yan Ni is kinda in my favor taste. I liked a lot thought she might be had some aging but her acts are perfect.

Anyhow, because of the name Yan Ni, I begin to watch the show. Then I found it very funny. It's about a small building contractor and a big construction company's young heir.

XiaoWu, the manager of her building contract company, had several failures near her 30th birthday. Her boyfriend dumped her to chase after a much younger and richer girl. Her company is near bankrupt. She didn't have money to pay the company's office rent. Her relatives run after her to get their money back. She is just totally in bad luck.

YaBin Wen comes to Beijing for his grandfather's company. He also wanted to finish his script about a starting contractor trying everything to deal with problems. He also has problems with the Chinese branch because he is too young and out of experience.

Their first met was at the airport where she run to meet a manager who gave a contract before but it will be disappeared with the manager's flying out and he just got off the plane to meet his relatives and family. They run into each other, and she thought she broke his camera. She doesn't have lots of money but she give him few dollars to say sorry and run away to chase the manager.
The next thing XiaoWu did was withdrew all the money from the bank to pay worker's salary and then slept in her truck under the bridge for one night. Her driver/secretary saw her ex-boyfriend, who is also his cousin, was coming out from a fancy restaurant. He stopped them waiting for his boss coming. Well, finally, she arrived drunk. She stopped them and asking him to leave the younger girl. At that time, YaBin came out of the same restaurant with his friend and his girl friend. He noticed XiaoWu and wanted to help her, but it just get worse. They ended up in the hospital. YaBin took care of her and wanted to make friends of her because she is the material of his script.

They always run in each other and he always helped her deal with any troubles and leave his girlfriend alone. Some other people begin to think that maybe they are a couple, but she said it's not possible because she is older than him and poorer.

Eventually, after XiaWu's efforts, her luck comes. She found several contracts and started her business again. In the mean time, her ex-boyfriend got dumped by the richer girl and wanted to go back to XiaoWu, but XiaoWu said that their love had ended very long time ago, and he will find a right woman for him. She wanted to find  YaBin to thank him for his long-time help, but she couldn't find him. He lost from the publican's sight because he found out that he is not blood-related to his grandfather and has no right to stay in the company.
Finally, XiaoWu found YaBin, and they both showed little love interests to each other.

Anyway, they finally deal with any other problems and get married at the end.

Well, a great story and funny to watch.

By the way, I deleted the Imperfect Love Without You. I won't do the recap for that show. But maybe this show.
I am somehow interested to do that.

Modern Family

Seriously, Modern Family is very funny.

I just couldn't stop watching them. They are so cute families and they have tons of humors. No wonder why almost no one had a bad comment on them. They are just adorable. Well, I have to say, I love Haley and Dylan. So cute teenager couple.

Here, I am gonna say it. I hate The Secret Life of American Teenagers. I think I just couldn't adapt their over-mature life. I really don't know how come this kind of life get on TV, and even get a second season. EW~

I like 10 Things I Hate About You better. They have all the teenager issues.

About the Wizards of The Waverley Land (I hope I spell them right), I think it is going on the road like Heroes did. Now the topic is way flatter than their first season. And obviously I missed the second season. After watching few episodes from the third season, I don't have enough right or material to judge this show.

But the Modern Family is hilarious.

Glee

I wasn't all that into Glee from the beginning of this show till two days ago. I saw the first episode when it came out way earlier than September, but it didn't like it very much. And it stayed that way that I refused to see the series. The first episode was all about introducing the new crew and it was very like High School Musical. I lost my taste.

Till two days ago, I didn't know why, but I looked up for Glee. I always got those news that Glee is awesome. I saw those comments. It said that Glee is nothing like High School Musical. I watched the second episode on PPS. Then I couldn't stop watching it. I downloaded the whole season up until now on my computer. I really liked how the writer and the director tell the story. I also like their song collections, especially when they are singing It's My Life.

 What an awesome state to sing~!

By the way, I finally got them singing a song from Avril, Keep Holding On.

By by the way, I want to watch the movie, How to Train a Dragon, I think it's the name.

Ashur and Bones

Well, first, Ashur.
In Spartacus: Blood and Sand, I had no feelings toward Ashur because he was just the commonest slave/handler in the show. Then I changed my mind after he killed the other gladiator using his master's hand. I hate him very much. I wanted him to die immediately, but I know it's not possible because there has to be a very thorough bad man in show.
Then I changed my mind, again, after the episode 12. I kinda love Ashur. I think the most is because he improved from his slave stage and changed his appearance. I love his clean face and new clothes.

And about Bones, I never liked this woman. She thinks she's smart, but she absolutely doesn't deserve other people's respect.
Well, I admit that she is a smart lady with several degrees in her hand. I respect that cause I don't have any degrees. However, that doesn't give her any right to look down on other people's noses. After I finished watching the latest episode of Bones, I just can't hate that woman any more. How can a human being be such hateful and disgusting.
I confess that I love Sweets that psychologist. Bones always hated Sweets, I know, Booth hated Sweets, too. But at least Booth respect others and know he can solve some crimes after using Sweets' knowledge, and he THANKS to Sweets. But Bones never.
And that's why Bones disgusted me. I don't even want to watch the show anymore.
Much like I don't want to watch Cold Case because I hat the leading role's character. How can she be so annoying?!
AH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!

Imperfect Love Without You Ep.1 -Continued

Feng is doing a presentation to the crew with his boss. After he finished and sat on the chair, he touched his left eye. The boss thought that he was tired, but Feng said that his eyelid is always jumping. The boss asked which eyelid is jumping, and Feng said it's left eyelid.The boss thought that it's a lucky sign, cause according to an old saying, left eyelid's jumping means money and right eyelid's jumping means disaster. The boss also indicates that the drama show that Feng participated will be a popular hit.
Feng said in front of all the crew about his feelings to the drama show. He didn't have other opinions about the show, and honestly, there's no need to add extra scenes because of him. If the show is terrible but I am looking good, there's no meaning of it. If the show is perfect but I have less scenes, it's OK because the general picture of the show is everything. If the show is great, then everyone is great. The Boss is very happy about this speech (of course, what an actor).

 

Ouside of the meeting room, two company men is gossiping. A(left) looked at his watch. It's already 12 o'clock at night. Feng is still having a meeting. B(right) tell him that a pop star isn't that easy to be. A added that despite that there's no time to date, he has to spare more time from work to take care of his trouble-maker younger sister. It's all too hard for him.

After Xin and Chao finished their instant noodle soups, they decided to sleep. Xin told Chao that the bed isn't that comfortable after all. After Chao checked, he found there's a nail on the bed to cause the pain. He told Xin that it's easy and he will find something to nail it down. He found a rock, so he smashed the rock to the nail, but it made a very huge sound that noticed by other neighbors. One neighbor was yelling to them that it's too noisy to sleep. Chao wanted to argue, but Xin stopped him. He smashed with rock more gentle and quite. Then they turned off the light.

 

Chao is sleeping on the ground while Xin is sleeping on the wooden bed. Then I realized that Chao is lying on his bag. What a typical poor young couple~ Chao good nighted to Xin and indicated that tomorrow will be a new day and they have to start to fight for the career. Chao is happy, but Xin is not that happy on her face. She remembered the day back in her old town where she was acting on the stage and the director was checking on the seats with Chao. The director signed that the acting group was dismissed in his hand. He told that the dress that Xin was wearing was kinda old, but it was the root of acting. Xin can take it with her as a memento. Xin thanked him. The director also told her that it's a pity that she stopped acting after because she is the youngest and talented actresses in the group. He suggested that they should go to capital to seek any further chances. Xin promised to the director that she will become the top of the top stars and won't disappoint you.
Chao couldn't sleep either. He remembered that the day he told his parents that they are going to the capital. His mum is yelling him that if he went to the capital with Xin, She will lie on the train rail to die on his sack. His father also told him that he had already found a job position for him in the town and he worried that they would suffer a lot in the new place. All he can say was that he had already promised to Xin that he would go with him. He bowed very deep in front of his parents after.


Feng found out that his sister escaped from the house. He was very angry about how she escaped worried that what if she got hurt by escaping through climbing the wall the bed sheets. He went back to the bed where his sister slept. He sat on the bed very hard and immediately jumped up because of something on the bed under the blanket. He raised the blanket to see a balloon and a long figured clothing. There's some words drawing on the balloon. "Keep Me ? No Way !"plus a smile face. He broke the balloon while vowing that he won't be nice to her anymore again if he found her.
 
Xin and Chao wanted Qi's help and she didn't have spare time. Well, I think Qi don't want to have any more connections with them anymore because in Qi's mind, she has already helped them a lot. Anything after that, they have to deal by themselves. She couldn't always help them.However, Qi told Xin that she want her to meet someone with her because there's maybe some chances out there. Chao was happy about this news and told her that don't need to worry about him. He will find some job positions by himself. They opened the large and poor capital map and decided to take bus first and take subway next.

Fei gathered her friends to celebrate the grand opening of her studio. Her friend, Yao, is worried for her. "Now, it's a special, but you gathered that lot of friends to come. Don't you worry that it will somehow sneak into your brother's ears?" Fei told her that it's the open time for the studio and need lots of help, if they didn't gathered many friends here to celebrate, there will be no one to help them. By the way, no one is like Yao that knows Fei is Feng's sister. Fei also told her that hiding the fact that she is Feng's sister isn't her idea. It actually is Feng's idea. He worried that if others know that she is a pop star's sister, there will be someone close to her intentionally with some purpose. Then she won't have close, real-hearted friends anymore.

Stop at here first, continued later......

19-Year-old Innocents

It is a Korean Drama. It first aired when I was in China. We watched it through cable tv. I didn't like it back then, and I don't know why. Maybe it wasn't interesting enough for me. However, right now when I review it, I just love it.

Actually, I didn't like much about the leading roles' story. It was typical Cinderella and  some rich handsome guy. I like the story about the supporting couple.

They met at the company where he and her older brother works. After several times he helped her, she falls in love with him. However, he doesn't like her as much as she does because there was someone else in his heart at that time. Well, of course the girl is the leading heroine. She is brave for a Korean girl. She asked him out for several times, but he always said no. Few months later, she finally realized that she loves him, but he doesn't love back. Therefore, she kinda give up and meet a guy that her mother introduced to her. At that time, he feels something different. He found out that he actually didn't want her to meet other guy. When she dressed up to meet the other guy's parents, he stopped her and said to her that 'how about we date?' Hohoho......She couldn't be more happier. From now on, she just stuck with him wherever he goes and tries very hard to please his parents and his family. She also has to convince her mother. She is the little girl in the rich family and she didn't know anything about housekeeping and always do something wrong in his family's house. As we can see, there are a lot of problems between them. She is very eager to marry him after that day that he ask her out.

That's the story I liked and enjoyed. Really, Cinderella story? Aren't we have enough of them? Changing tastes is necessary for us, well, at least for me.