2018 Meteor Garden Wraps Airing and Cements Dylan Wang Status as Current C-drama It Boy

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• I gave a break at the time when Lei is helping out the best friend (that story has never been a fave of mine, only in the Korean version it kind of generated any emotion).

  Hana Yori Dango is an amazing story really that managed to effect so many people no matter how and how many times it is told.

  As for my favorites

  Daoming Tze : Jerry Yan - by far (I loved his crazy eyes)
  Rui : Oguri Shun (he is simply the best actor.

  The rest of the characters are all acted best in the South Korean version in my opinion.

  As for Shancai - Everyone did a great job with this character. The performances were all good my least favorite is the Korean actress though simply because she looked old for the character.

  My favorite is Barbie but not by far.

  The strongest breakout star? Lee Min Ho - no contest there.

• Oh I forgot to comment on this version. I think everyone but Shancai and the F4 guy who is not Shimen (the other one I can't remember his name) are really bad but they all look good. Shancai once again represented by a talented actor and she is really likable too, as far as I'm concerned.

• The lead actress in MG2018 annoyed me to no ends and I am probably one of the few who aren't smitten by Dylan Wang. The long episodes also made the drama kinda draggy.

  Having watched all the versions (except halfway only watching BBF) and almost 20 years later since the original MG, I still love Jerry Yan's Dou Ming Shi the most. There's that natural adorableness about his version.

  • I'm annoyed watching it too. Shan Chai have no backbone, always backing off whenever and wherever, if i were Dao Ming Si i would definitely left her, got no sense of loyalty and courage that girl. It's like Dao Ming Si is not important enuff for her to give consideration to. Although most of the time i think it's her fault, no one ever reprimand her for doing something wrong and out of sort,they always support her like wtf. i would like to see Ah Si stay away from Shan Chai a bit longer after each their argument/break-up but it's always the same cliche trope, he will eventually give way to his feelings for Shan Chai and start to chase and beg her again and again. I mean if it's always like this, when will the girl ever learn to appreciate you?? But surprisingly i think some of the dialogue were quite mature, depicting relationship flow these days, it wasnt as childish and cringey as the previous one. The chemistry is much better than from Jerry and Barbie era also. This kind of stories is better watch with your brain and rationality thrown off somewhere and just simply enjoy the eye candies and fluffiness of the couples ?

    • I think Shancai got much better after episode 41

  • I honestly think it’s her character. Hers has to be the worst Shancai (or whatever the names be in different lanagua) ever. Such a shame because Shen Yue was charming in A Love So Beautiful.

    @Prettyautumn : Lol, 41 is like, less than 1/4 of the drama left. But I have to agree. It took her a longgggggggggg time to turn around.

• I loved Dylan in this, he has been my favorite Dao Ming Si by far! Granted, I never followed the original Meteor Garden series when it was a hit but I enjoyed the Korean and Japanese versions. Previously I adored the J-version the most but I think Dylan topped Matsujun for me but Shun Oguri still wins for his portrayal of Rui! The supporting characters in the Korean version shone more though like Kim Bum.

  Honorable mentions in this version: Xi Men and Lei were pretty okay actors, but who wrote the story for Meizuo, it was just terrible or maybe the actor is also not so great? But great visuals for this F4. Shen Yue is adorable and I would love to see her in other dramas. The lady who acts as Dao Ming Si's mum was perfect too!

• For me the best is Dylan. He was Daoming Si. And I really like this version. It was the most similiar to manda which I loved. The actors, drirector and so on really did a good job for this one.
  I really recommend this to those who want be in Hana Yori Dango world again:)

• Age-wise Dylan is spot on to be Daoming Si. His acting is okay for someone who has no experience whatsoever. It was Shen Yen who was the problematic one for me. She is pretty but her acting was below par for Shancai. I enjoyed this version overall.

  • DYLAN WANG acting is really good especially in episode 4 he nail it...even other f4 member like DARREN his portraying character as Lei is really realistic while Conneur portraying Meizuo also excellent a young boy who felt in love with elder women....while Caesar who is playing ximen also have a good acting...while the lead actress for me is really problematic in her acting so badly portraying her role I didn't see the connection of her acting to the lead actor..

  • I just watch Meteor Garden 2018, I mostly like it. So I tried to watch the 2001 version. I just can’t. Why does it take place in the 70’s? I just can’t watch it, it’s awful ?

• MG2018 OST was first of all amazing. Daoming Si was much better than Gu Jun Pyo. Shancai sometimes annoyed me because even after 36 episodes, she was acting like a frigid daycare kid. Daoming Si was either a saint, impotent or he was secretly suffering from blue balls. If Shancai had even a little compassion, she'd at least help Daoming Si with her hands or mouth if for some reasons she wanted to "save" herself for marriage. Anyways, I much prefered MG2018 to the Korean version. I loved the fact that it was set in college rather than high school.

  • An addition: I totally hated Jing and Huaze Lei’s story. I also hated Zhou Caina and Terrence subplot, it took too much time and at the cost of Shancai and Si. But I was glad that Zhou Caina didn’t choose Meizuo. In fact, Caina and Terrence as a couple was much more realistic and relatable. I hated how they kept dragging and dragging Shancai and Si’s plot. It felt like Shancai didn’t love Daomingsi. That said, I hated how they acted like daycare kids. They are adults studying in university ffs and they still haven’t had sex after a year of dating and instead they act like a couple of frightened elementary school kids. On the side note, Dylan Wang’s voice is nice and I really liked the OST he sang. I also liked Wei Qi Qi’s ai cun zai (love, existence). The western songs were sometimes overused, like Bishop Briggs’s River in badass scenes and A Great Big World’s Say Something in heartbreaking goodbyes. They should have used more songs like some James Blunt, Queen etc. But the OST was always on point. In fact, I didn’t care much for this drama, F4 dynamics was so boring, Shancai was annoying but surprisingly, I liked Daoming Si.

    • Bunch of nonsense

    • Is sex that important?? lol they are not a bunch of horny kids who must absolutely have sex once they started dating after a while. Different culture got different take on this issue, and in asia modesty is important also. Having sex after marriage is not out-of-norm even. Calling out on them not having sex as a bunch of adult acting like elementary kids was just ridiculous.

    • @Hannasj I'm Asian and yes, sex is important

• I like jerry yan's dao ming si the most too. this drama was okay people did watch this drama but it didn't seem to set the world on fire like the meteor garden did

• i don't like with this version, the plot, the chemistry, and i don't understand why this version is so weird. but yeah dylan make his own version of daoming tze characters. i still think hana yori dango is the best version of meteor garden or boy before flower

  • what I remember from the previous version of meteor garden, this story supposed to be about a girl who struggles with the oppression in her school, even dares to fight back f4, because of the strong character of the sanchai, dao ming tze falls in love with her, and the sadly thing is I don't feel that in the drama this.

• I tried to watch this 2018 version but there was so many cringey scenes, plot holes everywhere, some events happened with no logic it was laughable at some point. i couldn't get the emotions the characters were trying to portray either because the acting was mediocre, Sanchai pissed me off most of the time, she showed zero feelings for daoming si who did so many crazy things for her, she never gave me the impression that she liked him like he did, so the romance felt flat i stopped in the middle couldn't finish watching.

  • Yup, couldnt agree more, i even thought Shan Chai is not deserving of Ah Si love?