However, says Lin with a laugh, things didn't go exactly as she expected. "Because the writer, director, and actors all had different political orientations, after the first several episodes which laid out the background of the era were produced, the plot shifted toward traditional family relations and romance, along the lines of the typical prime-time serial." The series was nonetheless a watershed.
「但因為編、導、演各有不同的政治立場，在開場的十幾集做完時代背景的交代後，劇情就趨向傳統以親情、愛情為主軸的連續劇路線」，林玲玲笑著說，這是始料未及的，而因為受歡迎，類似的題材，徐進良共製作了三部。