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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Main characters from bottom to top: Chen Yun Ru, Li Zi Wei, Mo Jun Jie]] |
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| 4 | ''Someday or One Day'' (Original title: ''想見你'', translation: ''Want to See You'') is a 2019 Taiwanese TimeTravelRomance mystery series directed by Huang Tian Ren and starring Alice Ke, Greg Hsu, and Patrick Shih. |
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| 6 | In 2019, young professional Huang Yu Xuan (Alice Ke) is in mourning for her boyfriend, Wang Quan Sheng (Greg Hsu) who is presumed dead when his flight crashed. One day, she drifts off to sleep while listening to music on an old Sony Walkman, thinking of seeing her boyfriend again. |
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| 8 | In 1998, Chen Yun Ru is a shy high school student crushing on Li Zi Wei, while Zi Wei's best friend Mo Jun Jie (Patrick Shih) nurses his own feelings for her. One night, while walking during a bad day, the last thing she sees is a car heading towards her... |
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| 10 | Yu Xuan wakes up in the hospital, overjoyed to see her boyfriend again, but is shocked to discover that he is not Wang Quan Sheng, but Li Zi Wei, and that he calls her Chen Yun Ru, not Huang Yu Xuan. She must learn to navigate her new life, while figuring out why she traveled back in time, the mystery of Quan Sheng and Zi Wei's identical appearances, and what really landed Yun Ru in the hospital to begin with. |
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| 12 | [[ForeignRemake Korean and Mainland Chinese remakes were announced.]] A film adaptation (that brings back the actors for the main trio) is also in production. |
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| 15 | !! This show provides examples of: |
| 16 | * AgeGapRomance: Without getting into the time travel shenanigans, [[spoiler: Zi Wei and Yu Xuan have a 12 year]] age difference. |
| 17 | * AgentScully: [[spoiler: Jun Jie]] only pretends to believe [[MentalTimeTravel Yu Xuan's claims that she is a person from the future]], thinking that [[spoiler: Yun Ru made the entire thing up and changed her personality just to make Zi Wei like her. [[SkepticNoLonger He changes his views halfway through the final episode.]]]] |
| 18 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Cai Wen Rou is jealous of Yu Xuan/Yun Ru since Zi Wei likes her.]] To humiliate her, [[spoiler: she plasters pictures of Yun Ru changing for gym class on the school bulletin board. However, her death at Zhong Ru's]] hands is played for all its terrifying potential. |
| 19 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Jun Jie, in a distressed state from [[spoiler: seeing Yun Ru about to commit suicide]] confesses his feelings for her in his attempt of [[spoiler: TalkingDownTheSuicidal, when she is convinced no one cares about the real Yun Ru, only Yu Xuan.]] |
| 20 | * AttentionWhore: [[spoiler: Yun Ru has never gone through with suicide since everyone would think her pitiful and forget her.]] But after she sees [[spoiler: how popular she became when Yu Xuan controlled her and Zi Wei fall in love with Yu Xuan,]] she decides to go through with it, assured at that point that more people would react differently. Note that the character in question is still treated sympathetically. |
| 21 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler: Zhi Qi's]] mom mentions that he killed a cat when talking to [[spoiler: Zhong Ru about his brother's disturbing lack of remorse when being punished.]] |
| 22 | * BigBad: [[spoiler: PsychoPsychologist Xie Zhi Qi]] is the only major antagonist, directly responsible for [[spoiler: murdering Cai Wen Rou and Li Zi Wei, attacking Yun Ru with intent to kill, and being (one of) the causes of the StableTimeLoop.]] |
| 23 | * BittersweetEnding: By [[spoiler: breaking the casette of Wu Bai's "The End of Love"]] in the past, this means that [[spoiler: Zhi Qi is unable to go back in time, therefore preventing Yun Ru, Jun Jie, Zi Wei, and presumably Wen Rou's deaths. However, this means that no MentalTimeTravel happens, and Quan Sheng and Yu Xuan never meet (and Quan Sheng [[AmbiguousSituation may have actually died]]). Everyone loses all their memories of the story's events and the Yu Xuan and Zi Wei that engaged in time traveling are RetGone.]] However, there is the possibility of [[spoiler: Yu Xuan the little girl and Zi Wei the student meeting each other after growing up.]] |
| 24 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: The Mainland Chinese broadcast excised all scenes related to sexuality [[spoiler: such as the real Quan Sheng's [[{{Gayngst}} entire backstory]]]] and a scene where a character masturbates. They also censored elements that showed Taiwan as an independent country (like flags and identification documents). |
| 25 | * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Xie Zhi Qi shows up once]] in an early episode and appears to be a bit part. [[spoiler: Then much later it's revealed he's related to the guy who is unhealthily obsessed with Yun Ru and may have murdered her. And then he turns out to be the BigBad.]] |
| 26 | * CoolUncle: Chen Yun Ru's uncle encourages her, acts concerned for her welfare, and takes the reveal of Yu Xuan possessing her well, to the point where he acts like a better father figure to her than [[DisappearedDad her actual father.]] |
| 27 | * DarkestHour: In the last few episodes, [[spoiler: Zhi Qi is intent on killing Yun Ru, has killed the present Zi Wei, and smashes the Walkman. Yun Ru has an IdentityBreakdown, and the repaired-but-barely-working Walkman runs out of its final play as Yu Xuan fails to change or prevent anything.]] |
| 28 | * DeadHandShot: [[spoiler: After Li Zi Wei's car accident]], the camera shows his hand dangling out of [[spoiler: the car before panning to the Walkman on the ground. However, it turns out he isn't actually dead.]] |
| 29 | * DeathOfPersonality: Unlike Yun Ru, whose soul is explicitly shown as stuck inside her body, [[spoiler: and Zhong Ru, who is FightingFromTheInside, the absence of any such scenes for Quan Sheng may mean that the real one is effectively dead once Zi Wei takes over.]] |
| 30 | * DisappearedDad: Yun Ru's father shows up only once after she is released from the hospital. Even after the divorce proceedings, he never shows up in the narrative again even during situations when it would make sense [[spoiler: like visiting her grave, which her mom and brother do.]] |
| 31 | * DrivenToMadness: Being unable to control a body while someone else is controlling it [[spoiler: does quite a number to Zhong Ru's sanity. Later he has a full-on FreakOut when he [[IdenticalStranger sees Yu Xuan's face]] while she is interrogating him.]] |
| 32 | * DrivenToSuicide: |
| 33 | ** After his [[spoiler: release from prison, Mo Jun Jie commits suicide at the scene of Chen Yun Ru's death out of guilt.]] |
| 34 | ** [[spoiler: Yun Ru had suicidal feelings for a long time. It's not until she sees how everyone liked Yu Xuan and ensuing IdentityBreakdown that she goes through with it.]] |
| 35 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Huang Yu Xuan's flashbacks with her boyfriend show her smiling and laughing with long hair. In the present time, her hair is short to signify her StepfordSmiler status. |
| 36 | * FamilialBodySnatcher: [[spoiler: Xie Zhi Qi's mind travels to and from his brother Zhong Ru's body [[MentalTimeTravel from 2019 to 1998.]]]] |
| 37 | * FatBestFriend: Kun Bu, Yu Xuan's best friend (who is also the only overweight character in the series) is an outgoing GenkiGirl who gives Yu Xuan some leads early on in investigating Zi Wei during the present time, but is largely non-essential to the plot. |
| 38 | * FightingFromTheInside: |
| 39 | ** [[spoiler: Zhong Ru attempts to resist Zhi Qi (who is inhabiting his body) from murdering Yun Ru,]] which stuns him for a moment. |
| 40 | ** [[spoiler: When Yun Ru regains control of her body and shuts Yu Xuan out,]] the latter attempts this by questioning [[spoiler: her about her motives and pointing out that what she is doing won't prevent the deaths of herself and the people she knew in the future. It doesn't work.]] |
| 41 | * {{Gayngst}}: The [[spoiler: real Wang Quan Sheng faced homophobic bullying from his peers and his crush when confessing his feelings]] goes wrong. |
| 42 | * GayngstInducedSuicide: The [[spoiler: real Quan Sheng [[SuicideBySea walks into the sea]] after his crush rejected and bullied him, though his body survives but gets taken over by Zi Wei.]] |
| 43 | * IdenticalStranger: Wang Quan Sheng and Li Zi Wei look the exact same despite the age difference. Slightly downplayed with Chen Yun Ru and Huang Yu Xuan as they style their hair differently though their identical appearances are remarked on in-universe. |
| 44 | %%* IdentityBreakdown: The [[spoiler: real Yun Ru, upon seeing how popular she becomes when Yu Xuan is possessing her, and that her crush Zi Wei adores Yu Xuan, decides to take on that personality, since by her reasoning they only care about Yu Xuan.]] Sadly it doesn't work as the people around [[spoiler: her note that she acts like a different person. Zi Wei is turned off and suspects that Yun Ru has returned to her body. They then express that the way she was before was much preferable to the real Yun Ru. This is a major factor leading to Yun Ru's death.]] |
| 45 | * InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Jun Jie attempts to stop Yun Ru from committing suicide. In the first iterations of the time loop he fails. However, in Yu Xuan's last ditch effort to travel back in time, he pulls her back.]] |
| 46 | * ItsAllMyFault: In the last episode, [[spoiler: Yu Xuan blames herself for going back in time, as she believes her entering Yun Ru's life ended up being the catalyst for her death.]] |
| 47 | * KnightOfCerebus: Xie Zhong Ru is set up as [[spoiler: Chen Yun Ru's potential murderer]] and after his appearance the tone of future episodes gets darker and darker. |
| 48 | * LoveTriangle: Mo Jun Jie likes Chen Yun Ru, who likes Li Zi Wei. When Huang Yu Xuan is in her body, it turns into a TwoPersonLoveTriangle as Li Zi Wei falls for her and Mo Jun Jie is slowly turned off. |
| 49 | * MaybeEverAfter: The ending [[spoiler: takes Li Zi Wei out of the equation in the Chen Yun Ru - Mo Jun Jie - Li Zi Wei]] LoveTriangle and makes the remaining two people friendlier though doesn't definitively confirm any romantic feelings on [[spoiler: Chen Yun Ru's part]]. |
| 50 | * MentalTimeTravel: By listening to an old Walkman that plays Wu Bai's "Last Dance," Huang Yu Xuan's consciousness goes from 2019 to 1998, and lands her in Chen Yun Ru's body. [[spoiler: Li Zi Wei's consciousness goes from 2003 to 2010 and lands him in Wang Quan Sheng's body in the same manner, and he travels from 2017 back to 2003 in the plane accident.]] Time still passes in the 'base' times and the bodies left behind are left in a vegetative state. [[spoiler: Though when Xie Zhi Qi uses the Walkman [[FamilialBodySnatcher to travel to his brother's body]], he is able to be woken up by outside stimulus.]] |
| 51 | ** In the final episode: [[spoiler: Yu Xuan takes the cassette out of the broken Walkman and puts it in the car player while thinking of Zi Wei, traveling back to Yun Ru's body by accident.]] |
| 52 | * MiscarriageOfJustice: [[spoiler: Jun Jie]] goes to prison for [[spoiler: Yun Ru's murder (which was really a suicide).]] |
| 53 | * MyFutureSelfAndMe: [[spoiler: The OlderAndWiser, grizzled time traveler Zi Wei and Li Zi Wei in Quan Sheng's body meet before the plane flight that will kill Quan Sheng and lead Zi Wei to travel back in time.]] |
| 54 | * NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: [[spoiler: Zhi Qi, in Zhong Ru's body, talks to his younger self and encourages his [[InsaneEqualsViolent unstable tendencies]], which lead him to grow up, go back in time to his brother's body, murder people, and [[StableTimeLoop encourage his younger self, and so on...]]]] |
| 55 | * PhonyPsychic: ZigZagged with the fortune teller that Yu Xuan and her friends visit to search for a lost dog. Her advice is quite unhelpful but the aura she gets from Yu Xuan that [[ArcNumber 32 is important]] isn't wrong. |
| 56 | * ProductPlacement: Aside from the Walkman's role in the plot, the majority of the characters own Samsung phones. |
| 57 | * PsychoPsychologist: [[spoiler: Zhi Qi is Yu Xuan's psychiatrist and the one behind the murder attempt on Yun Ru.]] |
| 58 | * PsychoticSmirk: The first hint that Xie Zhong Ru [[spoiler: who is really Xie Zhi Qi]] is off are his sinister smiles [[StalkerWithACrush when looking at and hearing about Chen Yun Ru.]] Later on it turns into outright SlasherSmile territory [[spoiler: when he's attacking with intent to kill.]] |
| 59 | * ReadingLips: Jun Jie reads Yun Ru's lips in the final episode when observing, from a fair distance away, Yun Ru talking to herself [[spoiler: (really talking to Yu Xuan trapped in her body)]]. He manages to accurately understand the entire conversation. |
| 60 | * RetGone: [[spoiler: The time travelers Li Zi Wei and Huang Yu Xuan disappear in the ending, though Li Zi Wei the high schooler and Huang Yu Xuan the six year old girl remain.]] |
| 61 | * TheReveal: |
| 62 | ** In episode 6, Li Zi Wei (and by extension, the audience) learns who a seemingly minor character really is: |
| 63 | -->'''Little Girl''': Big brother! [[spoiler: I'm called Huang Yu Xuan!]] You can't forget me, okay? |
| 64 | ** [[spoiler: Xie Zhi Qi is [[BigBad more malevolent]] than [[ChekhovsGunman he appears to be]], and is the [[FamilialBodySnatcher one behind Zhong Ru's actions.]]]] |
| 65 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler: The time travelers retain their memories of what happened in the loop. Though by the ending, this is no longer the case due to VictoryGuidedAmnesia.]] |
| 66 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Yu Xuan's goal in 1998 turns to preventing her host's murder in 1999.]] |
| 67 | * ShooOutTheClowns: After [[KnightOfCerebus Zhong Ru's appearance]], Yu Xuan's colleagues steadily make fewer appearances and eventually stop appearing in the plot. |
| 68 | * SkywardScream: Jun Jie screams up to the heavens [[spoiler: when holding Yun Ru's corpse.]] |
| 69 | * SplitPersonalityMakeover: |
| 70 | ** Yun Ru's forehead is covered due to her bangs. When Yu Xuan is in control, she combs them back, exposing her forehead. |
| 71 | ** [[spoiler: The real Quan Sheng]] has a bowlcut. [[spoiler: When Zi Wei takes over, he styles his hair to look exactly like that of his original body.]] |
| 72 | * StableTimeLoop: It's not until [[spoiler: multiple loops of trying to change the past but failing and Zi Wei saying what will happen [[MyFutureSelfAndMe to his past self in Quan Sheng's body]] that he realizes he's repeating the same words that were said to him when he was in that position, and the reply he gets confirms as such.]] |
| 73 | -->[[spoiler: '''Wang Quan Sheng (Li Zi Wei)''']]: If I don't [[spoiler: get on this flight, how will you stand here in front of me right now? And Huang Yu Xuan won't go back to the past because of me. Then no one will go back to the past to help Mo Jun Jie, Chen Yun Ru, and us two.]] |
| 74 | ** Furthermore, [[spoiler: Zhi Qi in Zhong Ru's body influences the Zhi Qi of the past by encouraging his budding sociopathic tendencies by having him witness Wen Rou's murder. Then, when he grows up, he travels back in time and does it again.]] |
| 75 | * StalkerWithACrush: Zhong Ru[[spoiler:/Zhi Qi]] is unhealthily obsessed with Yun Ru, acquiring photos of her, [[spoiler: masturbating to them, following her at night, and fantasizing about Yun Ru saying she wants him.]] |
| 76 | * StepfordSmiler: Yu Xuan has a friendly demeanor but it's clear to her boss and her best friend that she is still depressed over her boyfriend's death. |
| 77 | * SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Yun Ru in her IdentityBreakdown doesn't try to avoid Zhi Qi following her]] and offers no resistance when [[spoiler: he tries to murder her. When Zhi Qi is interrupted by the police capturing his body in 2019, she tries to get Zhong Ru and later Jun Jie to kill her. When they refuse, she takes matters into her own hands.]] |
| 78 | * TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler: Jun Jie and Yu Xuan [[FightingFromTheInside trapped in Yun Ru's body]] attempt to calm Yun Ru down. They fail.]] |
| 79 | * TechnicallyASmile: [[spoiler: The real Yun Ru]] has a creepy, obviously fake smile when [[spoiler: she regains control of her body, her IdentityBreakdown imminent.]] |
| 80 | * ThematicThemeTune: The opening and ending themes, while not to the level of ExpositoryThemeTune, describe the story quite well. |
| 81 | * TimePassageBeard: After [[spoiler: Jun Jie is released from prison in 2008,]] we see him with a mustache and goatee. |
| 82 | * TimeSkip: Discounting the time travel related ones, [[spoiler: in the final episode, time passes from 2019 to 2020 after the Walkman breaks.]] |
| 83 | * TitleThemeTune: |
| 84 | ** The opening song and the official English series title translation are both called "Someday or One Day." The lyrics themselves almost name drop it, give or take a word. |
| 85 | --->''Impossible to stay'' |
| 86 | --->''You'll be back to me someday'' |
| 87 | --->''One day'' |
| 88 | ** The ending song drops a "想見你" a couple of times: |
| 89 | --->''Want to see you, just want to see you'' |
| 90 | --->''Future and past, I just want to see you'' |
| 91 | * TwoPersonLoveTriangle: Over time, Li Zi Wei gets closer to Huang Yu Xuan in Chen Yun Ru's body, though Yu Xuan initially doesn't want to start anything so not to mess up Yun Ru's relationships. |
| 92 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler: Xie Zhong Ru and Xie Zhi Qi ([[ActingForTwo who are both played by the same actor]]) are brothers (with a 6 year age difference),]] though they look similar enough that one is mistaken for the other. |
| 93 | * UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Quan Sheng attempts suicide, but thanks to Zi Wei's consciousness entering his body, his body survives but no mention is made of his soul remaining trapped in the body unlike the explicit scenes of Yun Ru stuck inside and Zhong Ru's voice interrupting Zhi Qi. In the final episode when Zhi Qi's wrongdoing is undone, preventing Yun Ru and Zi Wei's deaths, no mention is made of what happened to Quan Sheng.]] |
| 94 | * VictoryGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: The steps Zi Wei, Yu Xuan, and Jun Jie take to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong involve preventing the circumstances that lead to a StableTimeLoop, therefore eliminating all memories of the series' events from everyone involved in the story.]] |
| 95 | * VillainousCrush: Major antagonist Zhong Ru[[spoiler:/Zhi Qi]] is sexually obsessed with Yun Ru, [[StalkerWithACrush and it isn't portrayed positively]] at all. |
| 96 | * WackyMarriageProposal: Quan Sheng's plan to propose to Yu Xuan involved him pretending his car broke down and pulling over, a traffic officer coming in and giving her a fake ticket that says "Yu Xuan, marry him," and several of their friends cheering before he kneels down and presents the ring. |
| 97 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 98 | ** Episode 7. Things get darker as [[spoiler: a student gets murdered,]] and [[spoiler: we get confirmation that the Wang Quan Sheng that Huang Yu Xuan knows really is Li Zi Wei.]] |
| 99 | ** Episode 10 [[spoiler: reunites the older Li Zi Wei and Huang Yu Xuan, reveals that the nature of time travel is a StableTimeLoop, [[ChekhovsGunman brings back the psychologist Xie Zhi Qi]], who reveals that Xie Zhong Ru is his older brother, and later has Zhi Qi attack Yu Xuan in her home. Zhi Qi travels back in time, ending up in Zhong Ru's body, from which we see him attempt to murder Yun Ru and kill the Zi Wei in the present time.]] |
| 100 | * WistfulAmnesia: In the final episode, [[spoiler: the 17 year old Zi Wei gets the feeling he has forgotten someone important to him.]] |
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