I have been tuning a little bit of TVB's Master of Destiny but to be frank I only watched parts of it because the TV was on. I spent half an hour to watch a long trailer of this series in Mandarin so I got to know the gist of the whole storyline and hurts to say but I wasn't impressed. This was mainly due to the fact that the overused of wrongly accused of rape then jail then back to take revenge and the wanting to take over someone's rich business and also the family feud of brothers not getting along anymore and then the rich spoilt boy making mistakes and all these dramatic plots are not amusing to watch. It feels like the series tries to triumph largely only on the series' value on being dramatic (overly dramatic) rather than a meaningful, original and refreshing series.
Performances wise, most people were a miscast. Even though the drama is leaning towards its finale Kenny Wong is still boring to watch and Harwick's unemoted face doesn't help either.
On the other hand, Ghost of Relativity is much much much better in terms of acting and script. Even though this series sort of went downhill when it dragged on too long about how Charlie's three girls that he taught to manipulate Michael's architect assistants, Kristal's scenes were highly entertaining to watch. For this year's TVB awards, I would want Kristal Tin to win Best Actress or even my Favourite Female Character because she deserves it by bringing the character May to life and playing it to perfection. Nancy Wu and Moses Chan are so far doing fine.
One surprising actress in this series at the moment is Vivien Yeo. Yes her Cantonese is still noticeable accented but she really went out there in terms of her ugly character Lolieta. Vivien really made her character look like a cheap flirt. Acting wise she is ok.
TVB's sitcom series Love Come Home also witnessed a drastic change in terms of storyline and cast. Now the main leading actors are Louis Cheng and Priscilla Wong and now it's about a fitness centre. When it was about Love Come Home with the old storyline viewers were complaining about how they wanted a new change and now with the new change viewers want the old characters back (not like they have completely left but just not the focus anymore).
By now it's nearly August and this series TVB has hardly had any big hit series or candidates for awards which is quite embarrassing for TVB. I know it's still early but if I were to choose the winners for awards I would want Kristal Tin for TV Queen and Ruco Chan for TV King (because no one else I could think of). As for Most Improved Actress it would be Grace Chan and Most Improved Actor it would be Tony Hung (because no one else I could think of either). Best Drama? Should be Ghost of Relativity so far.
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