Fall in love

There's a new HunanTV drama that began airing recently called Fall in Love 一不小心爱上你 which is supposed to be a remake of Autumn in My Heart. It stars Zhang Han from Meteor Shower, Dennis Oh, and Jiang Kaitong. I started watching it, and I literally mean started because I saw about 35 seconds of it, and I can already guess what the first episode will be about. It's so typical..

So let me summarize: The first 35 seconds is very Chinese/Asian drama-y. A girl is sitting on a park bench (I was kind of wondering what she was doing because she was staring straight ahead. Robotic? idk) and all of a sudden she gets a call and gets all excited. She jumps up from the bench and spazzes, and as a result of her spazzing, she knocks over a bald fat guy and makes some corny joke about his nice hairstyle that day. Then she's on a bike riding down a hill in the middle of the road (mistake #1) with the wind blowing though her hair and she's all happy and taking her hands off the handlebars (mistake #2) screaming "I have a job!!". She's too absorbed in her joyous little job-filled world to notice her surroundings and crashes into a car (mistake#1+mistake#2) of a rich preppy guy, complete with the ironed button down shirt tucked into his khakis and aviator shades.

And I'm guessing the rest of the episode/drama goes something like this: The girl gets up and starts acting all Asian-drama girly about being hit by the car and screams at the guy for not paying attention to where he was going while it was really her fault. I mean seriously, who rides a bike in the middle of the road in CHINA of all places? There's 1.3 billion people just waiting to hit you with a car, not on purpose of course. And if you're going to do it, at least keep your hands on the handlebars and your eyes open. And what is it with Asian dramas and people getting hit by cars? How many relationships actually start like that? Anyways, back to the drama. So then the guy will either retaliate by saying she wasn't paying attention and they will fight, or he will say that he is sorry and give her his number for insurance purposes. It really depends on the personality of the guy. The girl will continue her day while fuming about the idiotic guy that hit her. Then she will meet the other male lead who will turn out to be her handsome and kind prince in shining armor. Later, she will somehow meet the idiotic guy again, but this time, there will be some kind of unfortunate relationship that ties them together and they start to develop feelings for each. And then the girl will struggle to decide who she really loves while the guys are dueling for her heart or whatever. Add some crying, some intense staredowns, a few guy vs. guy jealous moments, a mysterious past, a determined ex-girlfriend, and maybe a piggyback ride or two to the mess-- and there's your drama.

Ok, now that I've attempted to predict the drama, let's see if I'm right. I'm only watching this 'cause Zhang Han's one of my favorite male actors, so if the drama's predictable (although I'm really hoping there's a couple of twists), at least there's still Zhang Han.

Zhang Han

Dennis Oh

Jiang Kaitong

-Q