The Asian Obsessed blog: The Gateau Affair: Another TVB Typical Series

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Friday, August 26, 2005

The Gateau Affair: Another TVB Typical Series

After much debating whether to rent this series or not, I decided to give this series a try after all. The cast to me wasn't striking therefore I had a hard time deciding to watch it or not. First off, Joe was top of my Hate List, for most of his recent series in which he leads in. Joe isn't what I call handsome, but not ugly, he is just an average looking guy. I had nothing against him really…but when TVB promote him to leading roles, it just annoys me.

For starter, I didn't have a good impression on him to begin with when I watched Lady Fan and A Handful of Love. His roles in there were somewhat the same, dull and unlikable. The second reason was Myolie Wu. Yes, I admit the girl could act a lot better than recent TVB newbies, such as Shirley, Mandy Cho, etc. However, she isn't very attractive, and it really upset me how TVB promote her like crazy, and having talented artists such as Annie Man played a supporting role. Well although I had a difficult time, but I decide to rent it anyways for the sake of Annie Man, Bobo Chan, and Jack Wu.

The plot is very similar to many of TVB other food series, so I won't go into much detail...but basically Joe Ma took the role of a master in making cake, and Myolie played a naive girl who became the student of Joe Ma. Myolie get hook up with Joe Ma through the connection of his little 9 years old son. Through misunderstanding Myolie became a little insane and challenged her own master. She wants him taste the feeling of losing, ah sound like an ancient kung-fu series being put into making cakes. LOL. But seriously, if you watched this series and see how they transformed making cake techniques into these weird names, you would thought that you are watching a kung-fu series.

Like I had explain earlier, I don't have a good impression on Joe Ma, but I must say after watching this series, and since Myolie played such an annoying character and was opposite of Joe Ma it really changed my mind about Joe Ma. Alright, Myolie role in here is somewhat a fool to me. She was used by Annie, and she didn't even trust her own boyfriend, in fact she accused him of stealing her mom's skills! I swear to god, she was the most annoying character in the story, and even when in the end when she had cancer, I didn't feel sorry for her. I just felt sad for Joe Ma, since he lost his career and even the woman he loved did not trust him. Sigh. But in the end, she recovered and they lived happily together.

Annie Man played a really spoil rich girl in this series, and was somewhat the villain in here, however I still enjoyed her performance and although she was evil, I wasn't annoyed by her. At least not as much as I was annoyed by Myolie. Annie is pretty, and her acting ability never fail me, she could play cute, tomboy, nice, and evil. She is what I call a versatile actress, too bad TVB is too shallow and don't value her. I hope Annie will further her career outside in China now. TVB had lost another great actress :( Sigh.

So should you rent this series? I say yes, even though it was typical, but it was enjoyable. Oh and if you are a Joe-hater, don't worry, you will like him after this, I promise you! Having Myolie in this series really made Joe Ma shines.

posted by asian obsessed @ 3:12 PM

9 Comments:

At 5:02 PM, Nhu said…

I'm watching this right now and I don't like Joe Ma either. Lol and I totally agree with you (though, I haven't finished the series yet)
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At 6:50 PM, FoREvALuVNiC said…

I have to agree with you about your views and opinions about this series. I wasn't fond of Myolie either, and to say that her acting improve is an absurd excuse. She has been giving similiar roles for several series, I don't see why she shouldn't improve. Knowing that she isn't pretty or rather average looking or even worst, ugly, she should picked a more likable role.
At 11:57 AM, Ted said…

Glad I didn't give it a try.
At 4:06 PM, stephie said…

I absolutely agree. Except for the Joe Ma part. I've always liked him and I liked him even more after watching this series :) Anyway, Myolie really annoyed me in this series as well. I mean her acting is fine, it's just her character. She is really naiive, impulsive, foolish, and easily persuaded. I personally think that Myolie should die at the end because that would make the series a bit better. It was very cliche and corny about all of that miracle stuff. Having Myolie die through sickness would've been more memorable. But overall, this series wasn't that bad despite the cliched ending and all those cheesy stuff.
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