Taiwanese Series Review – Some Day Or One Day / 想见你
Period aired: Late 2019 - early 2020
Channel: SETTV
The series
starts with a plot where Huang Yu Xuan, a young woman, 27 yo who lives in
Taipei cannot move on from her dead boyfriend, Wang Quan Sheng. He is about
three years younger than Huang Yu Xuan and her junior in the university. She
had missed him so much. She missed him since Wang Quan Sheng decides to study abroad,
but the plane he took got an accident. From that moment, Yu Xuan has been depressed.
She thinks about Quan Sheng all the time. Also, her coworkers finally have pity
on her.
One day, one of Yu Xuan’s coworker invented a machine that can find people who look similar to them around the world. Some friends of hers, approve it right. And, Yu Xuan tries to type Wang Quan Sheng ‘s name on it. A picture shows it up. A portrait of a guy looks likes Wang Quan Sheng and his two friends, a girl, and a boy. The girl in the photo looks like Huang Yu Xuan, but she is pretty sure that the girl isn’t herself. Besides, Yu Xuan doesn’t know the other guy in the picture.
A clue she
finds in the picture which can prove that he is Wang Quan Sheng is the 32
Record shop’s name behind the three pals.
One day Huang
Yu Xuan is wakening up from her sleep while she was on the bus coming back from
Wang Quan Sheng’s ceremonial. When she opens her eyes, she gets her boyfriend
who has died due to the plane accident beside her hospital bed. Yeah, she wakes
up in the hospital. She hugs the young man beside her and calls him Wang Quan
Sheng. Not only that, she is being asked who her name, she wants to answer that
her name is Huang Yu Xuan, but her lips mention her name is Chen Yun Ru. Huang
Yu Xuan’s heart wants to tell that she comes from Taipei, but her lips say she
stays in Tainan with her mother and her younger brother. The doctor, her mum,
brother, and her two male friends feel strange within the current condition of
Chen Yun Ru after she got a car accident. The doctor said that she is okay, but
Chen Yun Ru seems doesn’t remember the pieces of stuff around her.
Huang Yu
Xuan comes back to the year 1989, inside the body (or mind) of Chen Yun Ru. But,
Huang Yu Xuan shows she still has memory about the future in 2019—her origin
time living. The boy who she called by Wang Quan Sheng’s name is Li Zi Wei, he
is Chen Yun Ru’s schoolmate. In the time Huang Yu Xuan plays the role of Chen Yun Ru
inside her body, Yu Xuan should solve the accident Yun Ru had, and find the
suspect. Also, change Yun Ru’s fate.
From the
story Chen Yun Ru’s uncle told to Huang Yu Xuan when she tries recent info
about Li Zi Wei in 2019. Yun Ru’s uncle shocks seeing Yu Xuan stand in front of
him. Yu Xuan looks similar to his niece. Yu Xuan has similar stories to tell
with what Yun Ru had told previously. Of course, it because Chen Yun Ru is Huang Yu
Xuan at the time. But, the old people won’t understand how a person did a time-traveling
to the past.
Oh, let we
back what Yun Ru’s uncle had told Yu Xuan in 2019—in early episodes of the series.
Uncle said that Chen Yun Ru died on February 14, 1990. Someone killed her. He also said that Li Zi Wei’s family moved to
Canada, meanwhile the other friend of them, Mo Jun Jie is being prisoned because he is accused as Chen Yun Ru’s killer. People saw Mo Jun Jie as the only man who exists
when Chen Yun Ru had killed. Huang Yun Xuan shocks to hear the fact. She missed
Li Zi Wei who she claims as Wang Quan Sheng, but in the future, she can’t find
both of them.
Back to
1989, Chen Yun Ru’s life totally being changed after Yu Xuan come into her life.
Yun Ru used to be a “public enemy” in the school because she always goes alone
after class. In the simple words, she is lonely, not before Mo Jun Jie and
Li Zi Wei is willing to be her friend. On Huang Yu Xuan’s side, Chen Yun
Ru becomes more friendly, active, and loveable—not only Mo Jun Jie who loves her
previously but also there is another boy in the school who admires her with his incorrect way.
Slowly but
sure, Yu Xuan success to help Yun Ru find someone who had attacked her. At the
same time, Yu Xuan also realizes that Li Zi Wei is Wang Quan Sheng who she had
known well. Li Zi Wei had time traveled, as well in 2013 to find the real Huang
Yu Xuan In the future. In the previous
scene, Li Zi Wei realized that he has fallen for Huang Yu Xuan who has trapped
in Chen Yun Ru’s body. It makes Chen Yun Ru is being jealous because she loves
Li Zi Wei. But, Yun Ru is only a close friend to Li Zei Wei since he knows Mo
Jun Jie is liking Yun Ru so much.
In 2013, Li Zi Wei comes back for a while to Taiwan
from Canada to arrange some matters about his family's sold house in Taipei, and
he makes time to visit his best friend in the jail. Mo Jun Jie refused to meet
Li Zi Wei there. Li Zi Wei is frustrated he can’t talk a lot with Mo Jun Jie.
Huang Yu
Xuan’s motives to change the past increase. She may lose all of her memories
and togetherness with Wang Quan Sheng in 2013-2017, but she is okay and she is
already make a deal with it. She thinks if she keeps the walkman which a
cassette and song in it bring someone to the past, the accident won’t never
stop. Huang Yu Xuan would come back to the past; Li Zi Wei would fall in love
with Huang Yu Xuan in Chen Yun Ru’s; Chen Yun Ru’s keep face her death in 1990;
and, the worst one is actually Yu Xuan’s future psychiatry, Xie Zhongru, who
has a mentality sickness, coming back to the era, got obsessed with Chen Yun
Ru, and tried to attack her.
Chen Yun Ru
take a part-time job in her uncle’s record shop. It sold many jazz musicians’
records, but Chen Yun Ru loved the pop song. She often plays her favorite song
in the shop when she had her job, or she listens to it by walkman and listens
everywhere she goes. A song title Last Dance had presented by Wu Bai & China
Blue, that brings Huang Yu Xuan travels to 1989 when she fell asleep in the bus
on the way her home in Taipei after attending Wang Quan Sheng death ceremony. Also,
in 2013, Li Zi Wei got into a car accident after he failed to ask Mo Jun Jie have a
chat in the jail. Li Zi Wei used to like the song because it played so well in
the record shop and asked Yun Ru to keep one for him. Nevertheless, Yun Ru
never tells Zi Wei that the cassette is re-stock in order Li Zi Wei and his
friend, Mo Jun Jie, more often come to the record shop. Since both of the real of Chen Yun Ru and Huang
Yu Xuan in the past played Last Dance several times, Zi Wei got used to like
it. The last, Xie Zhongru or Huang Yu Xuan know as dr. Xie, due to he’s Yu
Xuan’s psychiatry. He accidentally comes back to 1989 when he has a chance to listen to that song by Yu Xuan’s walkman.
Oh, that
walkman, it is can belong to Chen Yun Ru that Huang Yu Xuan brings to the
future, or actually Li Zi Wei—no, Wang Quan Sheng who give it to Huang Yu Xuan
as her birthday present.
Who was the first person who starts the circle of the game? Huang Yu Xuan? Chen Yun Ru, who
asks to help by a dream to someone over there? Or, Xie Zhongru?
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This series
aired in Taiwan in late 2019 until 2020. You can watch it on viki.com in your
own language subtitle. Even though it has been about a year ago, I still want
you to know about this great time-traveling-themed. I love how they made the
transitions from the past and the future; and how to bring the audience mindset
from the real era of Huang Yu Xuan’s living to the past and meet Li Zi Wei,
Chen Yun Ru, and Mo Jun Jie.
Some Day or
One Day has beautiful and meaningful theme songs that we never get bored with when we listen to it anytime. Also, make me want to experience a time-traveling to the past to meet him back there and said to him: good
luck with your tough journeys. You are so great!
