My distant memories of Taiwanese dramas has always been the image of Ching Han and Ling Ching Xia back in those days when TV series rule most of my growing up life, apart from my obsession of taping each music video that played on TV every now and then on VHS and compiling them to watch after. Taiwainese dramas then never were that significant but yet seem needed back then, like those addictive Hong Kong series. Chance brought me to this recent Taiwanese drama called Defeated Queen. I watched with little expectation as most modern Taiwanese dramas seem to be obsessed with using teenage stars who do not seem to appeal to me. Surprisingly, this series shows a certain maturity in terms of handling relationship issues between its characters and it seems more honest in portraying how they are being dealt with. I enjoyed watching it ultimately. It did not seem overly draggy like most Korean dramas, though it started off being to overly contrived in its comedic approach, for me, but it picked up as the story progresses. I guess who wouldn't like to watch something which gives you hope, especially in love, even though this love is one that is 8 years apart, but tells you that anything is possible in life after all.
