Angel in the Making - 實習天使 (2015)

Discussion in 'Chinese Drama Discussion' started by shinobi, Nov 27, 2015.

  1. turbobenx

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    thank god for u guys. Without u guys, i would've been watching this...
     
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  2. ralphrepo

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    LOL...

    Ep 17 Long lost relative shows up asking for a kidney? Man... that is rather rude... At any rate, about kidneys in general. It is a false notion to think that if you have two kidneys, that one is a spare that can be given away. Like the dual halves of your lungs, you need both. In fact, people with two kidneys are generally the ones that go into renal failure in the first place. That is, when one gets older, the amount of collective renal function overall declines in just about everyone. How much it declines is dependent on a lot of other things but suffice it to say that giving up half your kidney function (ie. 50%) when you haven't even yet reached middle age is a very stupid thing to do.

    Case in point, Chinese teen, Wang Shangkun, who sold one of his kidneys in order to get money for an iphone (yes, he was an idiot) is now himself in renal failure because, as it turns out, having only one kidney isn't enough for his own personal physiologic needs. Moral of this story is, never donate your kidneys until you're dead.

    Source: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/004010.htm
     
    #22 ralphrepo, Dec 18, 2015
    Last edited: Dec 25, 2015
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  3. Jeff

    Jeff 神之馬壯

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    Episode 1 to 5 = 24 (-2)
    Episode 6 = 20 (-9)
    Episode 7 to 11 = 22(-2, peaking at 24)
    Episode 12 = 18 (-2)
     
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  4. ralphrepo

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    LOL...

    Episode 18 Defea's HUSBAND, in a darkened office getting it on... with a DUDE? LOL...
     
  5. Espresso

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    The HIP HOP RAP thing is really really lame. All the male nurses are scrubs. I like the female nurses, especially that supper skinny girl. I forgot what her name was. The tall nurse looks familiar. I think she sings or was in another drama before.
     
  6. Lol i didnt get a good look who was the other guy :shino:
     
  7. Espresso

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    LOL @ the fegot scene. TVB at an all time low doing something like that.
     
  8. ralphrepo

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    Does it really matter who it was? It was a dude, LOL...

     
  9. xaznxryux

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    am I the only one who's happy that douchebag died? Eliza's bf?
     
  10. ralphrepo

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    Well, if they keep up with their sloppy isolation procedures, they're all going to die too. I love how the doctor comes out of the infected isolation room and uses his dirty gloved hand to remove his own mask and then touch everything outside the room. Later, as the dirtbag BF laid dying, they all gather in his room and remove their masks, as if all the infection is gone once the dirtbag died, LOL...
     
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  11. xaznxryux

    xaznxryux Well-Known Member

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    TVB logic, well, at least I'm glad the dirtbag died lol
     
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    What I couldn't figure out was, why he was even given such a tremendous memorial of the kind usually reserved for really important people? He was essentially a pampered, self absorbed and undeserving son (of a doctor) that was overly filled with a sense of entitlement; of the world owing him something. I found it rather strange too, that Halley would now agree to donate a kidney based on his words.
     
  13. xaznxryux

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    I would think that's sort of a scene where the character transforms, but if you think about it, this is literally what happened

    cheating douchebag entitled bf cheats on you

    cheating douchebag entitled bf dies

    cheating douchebag entitled bf convinces you to donate kidney
     
  14. ralphrepo

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    So by the end of ep 22, we're wondering if Ray, the mentor, is mental or not. Did he really find the driver that killed his family or is all of this a figment of his wildly vivid imagination? And is Doctor Tong really a caring friend or a back stabbing opportunist? But, what I'm really interested in, is... when does he nail Halley? LOL...
     
  15. Espresso

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    the big nose dude? he's a ABC lolz i dunno about him and how he got into the show.

    the whole HIP HOP and YOU crap suits others, but not for the real ABCs lolz....
     
  16. ralphrepo

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    Ultimately this show fails, IMHO. While it's laudable that they're attempting to illuminate the often unrecognized quiet professionalism of nurses, this particular production sadly tries to be too many things all at once. One minute it's a comedy and the next it's a murder mystery. Characters who are reliable and honest become dishonest and suspect at the flip of a switch. Viewership depends on audiences getting to know a character. By introducing a new personality to known characters each episode, the story loses audiences quickly. Ray no longer seems all powerful and infallible, Dr Tong isn't a nice guy anymore, and Halley is just another ditzy chick who gave away a body part. The rehabilitation of Halley's ex, from dirtbag to a dead messianic hero, was as ridiculous a turn as they come. The problem here with this isn't new. TVB's writing has always involved intertwined personal relationships between the entire cast of characters in a show. It is writing to this constraint that kills what would have been a good story. They try too hard to make a story that twist and turns based on the limited set of characters they have, and it shows.

    Also, why is Joel Chan's picture even shown with the intro pictures? He was nominally Dr Tong's brother who had died from cancer and he appears very briefly as flashbacks in a few episodes but his picture is shown with the opening graphic, mixed in with the main characters. This kind of representation is just sloppy, unless he's going to magically reappear in some later episode. And the Halley (Eliza Sam) straddling a surf board showing a little thigh? Cheesy. It seems that TVB always needs to show a little leg in each of these series in order to get people to watch.

    Ep 22, Ray is definitely psychotic, having auditory and visual hallucinations of his dead family. He may be a sharp and experienced nurse, but his mental instability is no longer a question as the show demonstrated his seeing his dead family talking to him. He seriously needs help regardless.

    Ep 23, Ray is off the hook. Mass Kidnapping and Murder? So... is all this a hallucination or is it real? This story is veering off on such a tangent that it doesn't matter how it ends. It just needs to end, LOL...

    Ep 24-25, What can I say, Ray is shown to be having emotional problems and finally realizes it, and Halley is slowly falling in love with him. The rest of these two episodes are just filler with tie up loose ends for the other no named characters. In the end Ray comes back after treatment, and Halley, in a bathing suit with wet t-shirt, wraps her hot little legs around him. Damn... Now THAT's a happy ending ;)
     
    #36 ralphrepo, Dec 25, 2015
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  17. this is tony hung crying face lol :yao: <--- i was laughing hard at that scene :lol:

    I dont think i will enjoy any of his roles :jackwhat:
     
  18. EvilTofu

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    Took you that long to figure that out....:fight2::fight6:
     
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  19. turbobenx

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    IKR!?!?!?!?!?!?
     
  20. Jeff

    Jeff 神之馬壯

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    Episode 13 to 17 = 22 (--)
    Episode 18 = 17 (-1)
    Episode 19 to 23 = 23 (+1)
    Episode 24 = 19 (+2)
    Episode 25 = 25 (+9, peaking at 26)