I have read so many reviews of this show and I know that there are MANY remakes of it. In fact, I watched more then half of the Chinese remake of the remake of this drama and I still don't understand the hype. I actually didn't realise I was watching the original drama Meteor Garden was based on until after I started this drama.

Many people like this drama because of the female lead. I liked the FL, she is the kind of person everyone would want as a friend because she is so loyal. Her loyalty to her friends and family, is to me, her best characteristic. I just didn't like how she treated the ML.

The male lead is my favourite character in this drama. Yes, he starts of as a bully, I mean a really bad bully. But his personality makes a complete 180 within 2 episodes. By episode 3 I loved his charecter. And the acting was amazing, even when his character is being mean, his eyes are so expressive and honestly reminded me of a lost puppy. His eyes always seem to hold back tears. He was also so much more loyal than the FL. He does put his friends through some shit, but no matter what, he always sided with those he loved; he trusted them and was always loyal to them. That is unless they broke his trust. But even then, he can't hold back.

I loved the character development of all the F4 members, especially the ML. The SML didn't really have a character development at all.

Since the FL already started off as a loyal and strong character, she didn't really have much character development. I didn't like her any more at the end than I did in the begining. I just hated her treatment of the ML who obviously did so much for her, and I really dislike the fact that it took until the last episode of season 1 for the FL to realise she may actually like the ML. Her treatment of the ML compared to her treatment of one of the actual 'villains' is so backwards:
- You have this loyal, adorably dumb (yet really smart) BF who goes out of his comfort zone to make you happy, and yet the FL immediately breaks up with him due to a misunderstanding that is not the ML's fault.
- Then you have a backstabbing 'friend' who used you and lied to you throughout your entire relationship, and yet the FL was able to forgive her almost immediately without the 'friend' having to do anything to regain the FL's trust.

The FL really annoyed me throughout this drama and litterally had me thinking "who tf does the fl think she is?". She just goes overboard and into things she has no business going into. Her charecters, if anything, was very lucky. Lucky that she has powerful friends.

The comedy aspect was really good. Again, this is all thanks to the ML who brought in ALL the comedy. His charecter was the reason I finished this season off. I really want to see more of the smart side of his character because it is so surprising how bad he is at Japanese considering the fact that it's his native language and that he must have gown up with really good education.