Falling into Your Smile Episode 6

a slow but interesting episode

Feels like a lot happened ... slowly ... in this episode. We got some besties supporting besties moments with Cheng Jinyang taking her girl out. We had CJY getting into banter with her ex in a way that wavered back and forth between truly pissed and annoyed to almost playful flirtation so there is clearly some unresolved stuff between CJY and Ai Jia. Unfortunately we have an appearance of Tong Yao's sad-sack scumbag ex-BF Jian Yang trying to take advantage of her being both depressed and drunk - and thus potentially vulnerable - what an absolute loser he is. We have Si Cheng morphing smoothly from his initial cold snarky character into a White Knight as he sincerely helps our girl through this difficult time with solid advice and understanding - not to mention the c-drama-requisite piggy-back ride. We have some family drama reveals about Si Cheng via the arrival of his brother - who doesn't seem very popular among all the ZGDX teammates. Despite the less than warm welcome he seems to think he can push his way in and displace Tong Yao's spot on the team. There's more that happened that I didn't list so, yeah, this was an eventful episode ... and yet it all unfolded kind of peacefully and slowly. Not that's a bad thing. My only real complaint about this episode is that it features more behavior by several of the gamer boys that is, well, just awful. Childish mysoginy and emotional selfishness run rampant. Most of them consistently act with the maturity level of 5th graders. I get that this is for 'comedy', but most real gamers who are in their 20s aren't THAT immature. Yes a few are. But most are as mature as any young adults should be at that point in their lives. The portrayals in this show so far are kind of insulting. Hopefully that's mainly for comedy in the initial episodes and the show will let the boys mature as the show proceeds.

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5.0/10 Average.

"For professional players, e-sports is their . . .faith."

Up front. I was judging Tong Yao pretty hard. It was just a silly loss. Boo-hoo! Now. I feel terrible cause I was assuming it was all about the losing. Much like Jian Yang when he rolled up on Tong Yao who was trying to let off her steam, and accidentally drank too much. Yeah, I feel the guilt.

It was interesting to see that foolish Ai Jia understood her feelings better. Even though the fool tipped Jian Yang off to where she'd be, and ruining his chances to cozy up to Chen Jin Yang. But he's not foolish enough to not pick up that Tong Yao and Jian Yang are clearly over. For real. And that there's something there with Cheng.

Cheng got it more. Though he wasn't quite on the mark just yet. It was interesting that once he realized where her thoughts where going it clicked. He got that her faith was shook, but I don't think he realized it was letting her team mates down that hit her pretty hard.

Also . . .

Wait, why is K saying esports is unrelated to gender? Of course it is. Female players have to deal with sexism. They deal with stuff that male players don't even have to worry about. The harshness of the pointed comments where very sexist. And the reality is that female fans can be the most brutal. As women are prepared for the dumb things men will say, but it's always shocking what our fellow women can come up with.

For me this episode felt slower. Because: enter a brother for Cheng to threaten Tong Yao, and then of course she gets adorably drunk. But by accident. Not to mention it took just a weeeeeee bit to long to realize why Tong Yao was upset.

Honestly I wanted more of Chen Jin Yang pumping up her girlfriend! It was interesting seeing how Chen Jin Yang felt about the defeat, thinking it should piss you off and make you fired up for revenge. Sharing how Ai Jia handled it. But let's be real, since I don't game I don't get that feeling. But for something else I could see the intense emotions. One of the fans posting in favor of Smiley was clearly a competitor in another field of sports and understood that it didn't matter. This was training.

So I did like the different takes and stuff. It also sets up a huge mountain for Tong Yao to climb up over and over come. Defeat TAT. Preferably while he's playing her character and she crushes him with whatever other one.

I hope the next episode brings back our girl's fighting spirit.

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