So I watched the Taiwanese drama Autumn Concerto because I was craving something slightly angsty. Do NOT expect emotional maturity or common sense from this drama. It has a really cute kid though

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    😂😂😂 That’s an interesting way to put it. It is an old drama right? I guess it was very popular back then.

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      It came out in 2009 with all the weird fashion and hair lol. And yes, it seems to have been very popular

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    I could never bring myself to watch this, even at the height of it’s popularity and now being regarded as a classic. My sister loves it and I saw bits and pieces of it back then, and I couldn’t help thinking this was basically a mashup of all the most annoying cliches in Meter Garden S1+2 and Mars but with a kid. I don’t mind cliches honestly, but it being compiled in one drama just to up the angst was too much.

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      Mars?

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        You don’t know the classic Mars with Vic Zhou and Barbie Hsu ? It was with some actors of Meteor Garden but this time Vic Zhou was the lead.

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        As Kurama said, Mars is a classic with Barbie and Vic. A lot of drama.
        https://youtu.be/ZPCQIFUvUTI

        Mydramalist summary:
        Han Qi Luo, an extremely shy art student went to the same college as Chen Ling, a popular play boy. By chance one day they met at a park when CL asked HQL for direction to a hospital to visit his friend who was injured in a bike racing incident. Hurriedly HQL drew him a map, unknowing that she was drawing on the back of one of her sketches. She ran off before he could thank her. He then noticed the sketch of a mother holding a baby and was touched. In school HQL was sexually harassed by a teacher and CL came to her rescue. They began to grow fond of each other but each of them had a secret past that needed to be addressed and overcome before they could accept and love one another freely.

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        Just to add, it gets really crazy but if you’re looking for angst and a great OTP, I’d recommend Mars. It touches on a lot of sensitive and dark subjects too.

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          Thank you so much. I’ll keep it in mind for when I need to watch angsty stuff

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        MARS is an AWESOME drama! I watched it a few months ago, and LOVED it completely. It’s totally OTT, but with an OTP that works so beautifully, I couldn’t root for them enough. Plus the story actually still holds up ~20 years on. I’ve been saying this for a while now, Mars is the show that is ripe for a remake. If only the Asian drama industry would look beyond Meteor Garden!

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          I think there are Japanese remakes (movie and drama).

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            Isn’t it based off a Japanese manga? I’d love to see a tw-remake, honestly. They captured the raw emotion of the base story so well, and the OTP was great in itself, but I felt the acting was lacking. :/

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            @pickleddragon the acting in the Japanese version?

            For the TW one, if I remember well Vic and Barbie dated after Meteor Garden. So they really had a great chemistry.

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            Ah no @kurama I meant the acting in the tw-version. I loved the OTP to bits, and yes, I read about the real life connection, but I don’t think Vic Zhou did a great job with the acting there. :/

            What I meant was I’d love to see Taiwan itself do a remake of it, or other Asian drama industries pick this up.

            I haven’t watched the Japanese remakes, though. Do you recommend them?

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            @pickleddragon I think that the Japanese versions were less dark that I remembered in the TW version.

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