I feel that it's rather awkward that they released both dramas at the same time. They hyped up our expectations for both dramas and ended up, we as a general public/audience felt 'cheated' and disappointed at one of the dramas over the other because of the lack of standards in the show.
Fighting spider works because of their story plot (Everyone's going back into the retro era - Nyonyas, 60s etc.) plus their cinematography, location choice was beautiful. It gave the actual film cinematic feel. Whereas Red thread is like a typical Chinese 8 drama wannabe in English. The lighting for most of the indoor scenes are flat, dead and utterly boring. The story plot was beyond reality to the point where the suspension of belief comes in. Adrian Pang's acting wasn't too bad but I can't say for the rest, especially Aileen Tan. Because she comes from a Chinese-speaking drama background, her speech annoys me greatly and made me cringe the moment she says her lines.
Despite the flaws, I'm at least grateful that for once, Mediacorp actually came up with something 'decent' for their local dramas.
Fighting spider works because of their story plot (Everyone's going back into the retro era - Nyonyas, 60s etc.) plus their cinematography, location choice was beautiful. It gave the actual film cinematic feel. Whereas Red thread is like a typical Chinese 8 drama wannabe in English. The lighting for most of the indoor scenes are flat, dead and utterly boring. The story plot was beyond reality to the point where the suspension of belief comes in. Adrian Pang's acting wasn't too bad but I can't say for the rest, especially Aileen Tan. Because she comes from a Chinese-speaking drama background, her speech annoys me greatly and made me cringe the moment she says her lines.
Despite the flaws, I'm at least grateful that for once, Mediacorp actually came up with something 'decent' for their local dramas.