What a great first episode!!! Palawan lends well to spectacular cinematography so the scenes are visually breathtaking. While most teleseryes start awkwardly with the leads seeming to just warm up, there is nothing awkward in this first episode and already the characters feel very existent and flesh-and-blood. Zaijian, as usual, shows amazing talent that can only get better with time and Alyanna comes back after also playing young Kim in Ikaw Lamang. Kim and Xian are comfortably more mature as artists since My Binondo Girl. The supporting cast is heavyweight as well: John Arcilla of Heneral Luna fame, Aiko Melendez, Bangky of Forevermore. Richard Somes, the director, also did Imortal so it will be interesting to see how he does here. I think the biggest challenge will be the pacing and the storyline as most teleseryes might do well up to the 50 th episode and then start unravelling from there. However, I have high hopes.
Second Episode
Amazing cinematography! While I thought Dolce Amore had some good cinematic scenes, this one is magnificent. Offhand, I cannot think of any other teleserye that can match this.
By this second episode, I can appreciate the thoughtful effort put into casting. The child leads, Zaijian and Alyanna, have worked together in the period teleserye, Ikaw Lamang, playing young Coco Martin and young Kim, and the team-up was great then and even more compelling now.
The transition to the older Macoy and Tin is beautifully done with that almost ethereal underwater scenes. And instantly, there is this sizzling current between these two characters that is undeniable and palpable on screen.
Third/Fourth Episode
Beautiful and poignant slow dance and bonfire scene -- tender, slow, intense.
I so appreciate Kim's complete lack of self-consciousness in scenes like chopping wood, or folding her skirt between her legs, or playing in the sand.
It has been said that this production feels very heavy pressure following OTWOL. I think, NO NEED. If this continues, this teleserye has the potential to be the best teleserye ever made.
A Note on Long-Distance Relationships and Separate Lives
Many of the succeeding episodes deal with the difficulties and challenges of long-distance relationships (LDRs).
I think that these difficulties are not just the constraints of distance and time but more from the establishment of separate lives. What once was a couple's shared life woven ever so intimately from the strands of each other's individual lives to form a single tapestry, now becomes two very different, very separate lives that do not intersect at all or intersect only very briefly and superficially. Suddenly, their realities become so estranged that one no longer recognizes the other's reality and even has this strange feeling of detachment and inability to imagine the other's life.
As time goes by, it becomes harder to imagine the other as being part of this new life or of being a part of it in the future. As time goes by, what was so easily "us" becomes "I" and "you" and "us" becomes harder to remember or imagine without deliberate effort.
Amazing cinematography! While I thought Dolce Amore had some good cinematic scenes, this one is magnificent. Offhand, I cannot think of any other telesrye that can match this.
By this second episode, I can appreciate the thoughtful effort put into casting. The child leads, Zaijian and Alyanna, have worked together in the period teleserye, Ikaw Lamang, playing young Coco Martin and young Kim, and the team-up was great then and even more compelling now.
The transition to the older Macoy and Tin is beautifully done with that almost ethereal underwater scenes. And instantly, there is this sizzling current between these two characters that is undeniable and palpable on screen.
Amazing cinematography! While I thought Dolce Amore had some good cinematic scenes, this one is magnificent. Offhand, I cannot think of any other telesrye that can match this.
By this second episode, I can appreciate the thoughtful effort put into casting. The child leads, Zaijian and Alyanna, have worked together in the period teleserye, Ikaw Lamang, playing young Coco Martin and young Kim, and the team-up was great then and even more compelling now.
The transition to the older Macoy and Tin is beautifully done with that almost ethereal underwater scenes. And instantly, there is this sizzling current between these two characters that is undeniable and palpable on screen.
Amazing cinematography! While I thought Dolce Amore had some good cinematic scenes, this one is magnificent. Offhand, I cannot think of any other telesrye that can match this.
By this second episode, I can appreciate the thoughtful effort put into casting. The child leads, Zaijian and Alyanna, have worked together in the period teleserye, Ikaw Lamang, playing young Coco Martin and young Kim, and the team-up was great then and even more compelling now.
The transition to the older Macoy and Tin is beautifully done with that almost ethereal underwater scenes. And instantly, there is this sizzling current between these two characters that is undeniable and palpable on screen.
Amazing cinematography! While I thought Dolce Amore had some good cinematic scenes, this one is magnificent. Offhand, I cannot think of any other telesrye that can match this.
By this second episode, I can appreciate the thoughtful effort put into casting. The child leads, Zaijian and Alyanna, have worked together in the period teleserye, Ikaw Lamang, playing young Coco Martin and young Kim, and the team-up was great then and even more compelling now.
The transition to the older Macoy and Tin is beautifully done with that almost ethereal underwater scenes. And instantly, there is this sizzling current between these two characters that is undeniable and palpable on screen.
Amazing cinematography! While I thought Dolce Amore had some good cinematic scenes, this one is magnificent. Offhand, I cannot think of any other telesrye that can match this.
By this second episode, I can appreciate the thoughtful effort put into casting. The child leads, Zaijian and Alyanna, have worked together in the period teleserye, Ikaw Lamang, playing young Coco Martin and young Kim, and the team-up was great then and even more compelling now.
The transition to the older Macoy and Tin is beautifully done with that almost ethereal underwater scenes. And instantly, there is this sizzling current between these two characters that is undeniable and palpable on screen.
