“A Change of Heart” Finale
*Spoiler*
A Change Of Heart’s <好心作怪> finale aired on July 12, boosting ratings last week to a peak of 32 points. The final episode came to a dramatic cliffhanger conclusion.
In the final episode, Tang Sin Ji (Vincent Wong 王浩信) is still in a coma. Tang Sin Hung (Joey Meng 萬綺雯) is arrested for her wrongdoings, and feels highly remorseful for being the cause of her father’s heart attack. However, while Sin Hung was detained in the police car going to the station, the car lost control and dove headfirst into the ocean. Despite searching for her body, there were no traces of Sin Hung, and she was presumed to be dead.
Not long after Sin Hung’s car accident, her half-brother, Sin Ji wakes up from his coma and starts a new life with Yip Wing Sze (Elaine Yiu 姚子羚). Yuen Siu Gut (Niki Chow 周麗淇), who is confused about her life and believes that too much has occurred in the past couple of months, decides to leave Yiu Yuet San (Bosco Wong 黃宗澤). Yuet San tells her that he will wait for her no matter what, and the two temporarily part ways.
One year later, Siu Gut returns to Yuet San and decides to marry him. However, her love life is anything but smooth when Sin Hung, who actually survived her accident, kidnaps Siu Gut. Sin Hung receives plastic surgery to resemble Siu Gut and tries to kill her own husband, Power (Michael Miu 苗僑偉) in the process.
In order to prevent Sin Hung from committing more crimes, Power manages to persuade his wife to let the innocent Siu Gut go. Sin Hung and Power both realizes that despite the difficulties and obstacles they have faced, they still retain feelings for each other. After Siu Gut has been freed, Sin Hung saves her husband from a falling cargo load and dies in the process. Seconds before her final breath, Sin Hung encourages a heartbroken Power to become a better person and leaves the world without a burden.
A Change Of Heart ends on a cliffhanger note with Power accidentally encountering a woman who looks exactly like Sin Hung.
Source: Apple Daily
This article is written by Su for JayneStars.com.
JOEY MENG should be a contender for this year’s best Actress. Her acting scared me a bit. She was very good at convincing me that as a sociopath, obsessive and all at the same time a classy woman.
I agree. She was so good. Her acting was outstanding throughout the series
This is my first time watching Joey Meng act. I think her acting is great! She is much better than the others (Mylio, Tavia, Kate). These three are younger but they lack acting skills.
trying to watch my date with vampire. I loved her role in that drama.
Niki was scary when she was being sin hung
Niki only has a pretty face. She isn’t as great as Joey.
The audience, including me, hated her character. This showed she did a great job portraying it. Joey’s character is no doubt one of the worst TVB Character of the year. On the other hand, you have to give it up for Joey. She did an excellent job and showed what she’s made up of. She is officially a serious contender for Best Actress, if it was actually and realistically based on acting.
I actually really liked her character. Although she did a lot of bad things, you can see exactly how she got there. It was a very complex character and Joey’s acting was nothing but stellar. She would be a serious contender if the show was more popular or if she was a contracted TVB actress.
It sounds really weird when you say “worst” TVB character of the year, as if her character really sucked. It would be more appropriate to say best villain of the year. and I agree
Definitely best villain of the year!
I don’t see how it was a cliffhanger ending. Everything was resolved quite well.
joey did an awesome job! love her!
This drama I felt the most outstanding is Mandy Wong as “Sze Ka Jei ” . Her english always ends with ‘S….Byesss , Hellosssss
Won’t surprise she get herself TVB My favorite actress
I liked her in there too but I think she may be nominated for her other two dramas coming up soon. She also talks like that in real life adding the “S” to her words, which I guess she decided to add that in to her character.
The spoilers in this article are wrong.
Joey does not turn herself in, rather she gets tricked into revealing the truth and gets arrested.
Second, Joey does not think she is Niki. She decides to get plastic surgery to look like Niki to get revenge, kill Michael (under the impression that Michael loves Niki).
yup. this. this article does a rather poor job at summarizing the finale!
Ace,
Thanks for pointing out some of the errors in the article, which have been corrected.
Joey was superb in this, and so were most of the cast. I feel like she has a higher chance of the favorite award rather than Best Actress. Most important thing though is that most people acknowledged and noticed her character and how well she did.
Everything went out great, a pretty good ending! Was mandy wong ever mentioned in the finale?? Cuz I don’t think I skipped any parts
Yup, she also was in a scene in the finale having dinner with Bosco, Elaine, Benz and Vincent along with her new husband. They all remained friends in the end.
so does this mean that there will be a sequel? i think a change of heart is one of the best drama i’ve seen in a while after inbound troubles. the rest were, sad to say, disappointing and mediocre. i really like joey meng in both inbound troubles and a change of heart! she should win best actress this year!
Joey Meng, by miles, was the BEST performer in this series. She was extremely convincing with her character and I was genuinely afraid of her.
However, I thought the finale was a little forced and there were a few noticeable production mistakes, ie: After Sin Hung was arrested, she was put into a POLICE CAR but during the “transportation” she was in a normal black car (that dove into the ocean). Gau Yeh (Benz Hui) was also wearing a different shirt.
Mandy Wong’s character, Ha Sze Ka also fizzled out after Siu Gut found out that she slept with Yuet San. That was lame, Mandy Wong was a star in the show, she should’ve had a better ending too.
Joey Meng was really the star of the show but the drama was poorly written and executed at the same time. The ending felt so rush but eventually closed out the drama. I would’ve like it if they dragged it to 2-3 episodes at the end. The believing and surgery story would’ve been great from the start.
Bosco was also really good bosco acting has matured from his play boy roles
i agree!
I agree with you peeps. Since it doesn’t seem like any of the five fadans have a very outstanding role qualified for best actress this year, I think Joey has a great chance!
I think… I think it’s funny to see a pair of twin brothers and two pairs of “twin sisters” (Niki Chow and Joey Meng). But have to say the twin sister impact (TSI) for Niki is quite successful, and TSI for Joey and TBI for Bosco are acceptable.
Maybe someone can do a review of how many tvb drama incorporates that “twin brother” or “twin sister” idea.
“Power accidentally encountering a woman who looks exactly like Sin Hung.”
This is a series of many lookalikes. Twin brothers, lookalike wives… I find it rather unimaginative or maybe too imaginative.
Funn Lim,
Not reviewing this drama ? Always enjoy your review
also enjoy review by Miriamfanz
Sorry didn’t watch. I watched instead that other one, Awfully Lawful
Extremely lazy writing for sure. Not only does Power meet someone who looks exactly like his late wife, but you also had to buy Niki’s character falling for the twin brother and Joey’s character getting plastic surgery to look exactly like Niki’s character.
And of course, the show will be followed by TITS2 which will also feature multiple “lookalike/doppelganger” storylines.
im so satisfied with this finale but i feel sad cos the drama ended. The plot was really complicated, but it worked out really well, better than Bullet Brain. ^^
joey meng gives an exellent performance here.she act with her eyes and this drama is the best from tvb thus far these year.
yay at last 😀 love love love this show ttm! all were good . bosco improved finally ahah! if this drama was to air end of the year , they most prob have chance to get award. my opinion .
i find that he improved a lot since lives of omission
Tong sin wo? Isnt it tong sin ji.
earlier reports (like last year when news of this drama first came out) reported the character’s name as that, however you’re right, in the actual show, that was his name. this article was summarised quite badly and the character’s name was translated/printed wrong.
I think Joey Meng is sooo over-rated. I mean loved her from MDWAV, but she wasnt all that in ACOH
Oh..tvb at least this series are well done..I like this drama “A Change of Heart” quite like the ending but scared me off with 2 Niki…he…he…
I like the ending theme song by Bosco as well.
This is by far the best of all series so far in 2013. I love Joey Meng’s character. She really should win the Best Villain or Best Actress 🙂
Wonder if tvb will create my favorite villain award so it doesn’t interfere with best actress promotions.
This is why I like the awards show better back in the 90s/early 2000s when it first started. Back then, they actually did have a Best Villain award (along with Best Couple / Partner as well as a bunch of other awards)…and I liked the fact that they had 10-15 Favorite Character awards, as that made so much more sense given the fact that with all the series TVB airs in a year, it’s impossible to have only 1 favorite character (maybe if they had kept it that way, the award wouldn’t have become such an unwanted, ‘pork’ award as it is now). Though I highly doubt that TVB will ever go back to their old format with the awards, I personally would rather they do that than to introduce ‘gimmicks’ such as having audiences vote for the awards….
I really liked this series. I thought that they developed the characters pretty well and just enjoyed the storyline in general.
Love Joey’s character and her acting… saw her “A date with spring” and watched her through all the “My date with a vampire” series… too bad her series aren’t all available online to watch…
She played the cool and loving wife as well as the distant and manipulative person.
I think they rushed the ending… they always take their time to develop the story only to quickly end it.
TVB always use doppleganger formula when they want a “happy ending” for everyone…
I’m not surprised with rush happy ending formula as TVB is unable to create impressive ending with elegant way currently as they had did it in past era 😛
They could have moved parts of the ending to another episode lol. Then, there will be more time. People wouldn’t complain too 😀
yup, agree, Joey is a really good actress, she carries out the role very well.
Love the ending! Love Joey! Such an awesome actress!
joey and michael’s final scene is very touching. I love them as a couple.
By far one of the better TVB series in a loooooooong time. I truly enjoyed watching it. The story and each of its character portrayals were acted out very convincingly by Bosco, Michael, Mandy, Vincent, Elaine and Niki and the best one by a mile was Joey. She was the star of the series hands down. She’s such an amazing actress. Hope she wins something for her portrayal as Sin Hung.