Lame attempt to crank my amount of posts up but it was not the only reason why I even go through the effort of letting it have its own post. The main reason why I even started The Drive of Life was because of Ron. Yes, go ahead and gasp because I was never a fan of Ron, to begin with. But I ended up somehow liking him better after watching The Brink of Law so I decided to give some of his other series a try. Since I like some other cast too, I thought I give this one a try. Big mistake after diving into it since it became excruciatingly painful to watch with so many lame dramatic moments coming into play. However, I decided to watch on and off once a while to get through this one.
I remember asking someone regarding Ron’s appearance and got the answer of ‘Episode 20’ BUT no when it hit 20 and everything just became more frustrating than ever. So I put it aside until recently. It actually paid off this time around since Ron actually appeared about 15 minutes into episode 23. YES, for a major character, it took him forever to appear. But I guess it had to be that way OR we would not get anything new. His appearance at least had us going for a while with a new character being introduced and developed.
I already knew (through some spoilers) that Ron paired up with Toby in here. Not really my favorite pairing or seemed like so but I thought that with Toby’s character in here thus far (not too overboard with stuff OR that loud), I was willing to accept.
Anyway, Ron’s appearance gave some sort of intrigue feeling to it. Though I know it was an attempt to create hype around his character, but at least it was different from others in here so I decided to be patient and see what else would happen. But I found it a tad funny that Man Shek (Michael Miu) was making a comment about how the rumors kept spreading so that was how Ron’s character became the legendary racer. (I had a laugh at that for once.)
Ron actually did not appear like officially until the scene were Man Shek took Ching Ling out for a midnight snack at this one street stall. It was really funny that some of the guys at their table were going on and on yet they did not know that the supposedly ‘legendary racer’ was right in front of them all that time. (Claiming that the ‘legendary racer’ was a woman WAS WAY funny. Especially how after that, Ron appeared and sat down at the table. It was like his cue or something.) After one of the guys was done with telling the story and trying to prove that the ‘legendary racer’ was a woman, his friend jumped in and contradicted him right away. And honestly, they should’ve seen it coming! LOL! Those two were actually trying to play the ‘dine and dash’ game yet Man Shek and Ching Ling fell for that one. Too bad they did not realize that the ‘legendary racer’ was sitting alongside them the whole time and even had to endure the accusation.
That was WAY too cliche since it was soon revealed Gai Keung (Ron) actually lived around town but was less seen until that point, considering how Ngai Ling Tai (Benz Hui) was seen visiting his friend and talking. Of course, the link was easy to guess.
Despite some lame, cliche setup thus far, I think I somehow prefer this direction aka watching Ron’s character unfold more than the other major characters. Since I felt a tad disappointed as I said in previous posts because of how they ruined several characters already. Knock on wood for Ron’s sake.