My Girlfriend Is an Alien Episode 21

Three Stars

Just when you though it was safe for our two leads to FINALLY actually start an actual romantic relationship, after having endured 20 episodes of constant attraction/pursuit/misunderstandings/avoidance/reconcilliation cycles again and again ...we just go on repeat. This time the writers reach into the lazy writer's toolkit and throw a stupid, completely unnecessary 'love triangle' at us by having the stupid man-child Fang Lie decide he simply HAS to pursue Xiaoqi despite her giving him EVERY POSSIBLE CLEAR MESSAGE that she is not interested in him romantically.. His motivations for pursuing her stem completely from his own personal issues of insecurity and sibling rivalry and have nothing to do with the girl he is pursuing - a real great recipe for romance, right? This is on top of the FL being (actually, understandably) afraid that she'll get hurt by Fang Leng again. She merely wants a little space and time to consider her relationship with Leng. But the idiot Lie is diving into that gap and forcing the issue which of course results in some really contrived stupid rivalry scenes. The Fang Lie character is really exasperating at this point. He is such a stupid, emotionally infantile character that he makes zero sense as a romantic match for anyone, let alone the FL, and so it all feels like a waste of time.

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