Our Generation

Why such a low rating?

In my personal opinion, this drama rating should be much higher. When you do a review, it's not about your taste of drama. You got to break it down. This drama is not about # of kissing scenes, spoil rich kids bullying the FL/ML, or revenge. It's about lesson in life.

Length of the drama; 24 episodes are perfect. Chinese drama tends to be too long.

Casting: Perfect. Both ML and FL grown up version look like their child version. They even add a mode on his nose. The ML looks matches his living condition between pamper vs hard working.

Acting: I think everybody play their part very well. Some of comments did think it was not the best ML work. Remember, he is supposed to play sad trouble kid. All these kids are supposed to be teenager. If you had been teenager before, remember how sensitive you were. Little issue was seems like a big issue. Now I am much older and have children of my own, I have more patience and compassion; I can see their point of view.

Story: This drama is on a dark side. This hit so many psychology issues: parenting style, grieving, friendship, Financial struggle, etc...
- Different parenting style: Parents have tendency to compare sibling and to other children. They also push their children to do their best. It's like they show their love through the children's success. This is especially in Asian cultures. You can see how it effect the children mental health. FL grow up in a loving family; she turned out to be stable, strong, high self esteem, and most importance of all, compassion.
- Friendship: Some comments said the FL is obsessive. I think it's about friendship helping each other. If one of her friends is in the same suggestion as the ML, I feel that she would reach out to help also. She has compassion and see through the issue ML.
- Closed to real life issue: No rich family, no fancy cars, no body dress like the just step out of glamour magazine, financial struggle. I'm glad the ML can be saved. If this is Korean or Western drama, the ending most likely will be different. In real life, not everybody can be saved. Not everybody is fortunately enough to have friend reach out to help.

To Parents: I recommend watching this drama. Our action effects our children and their children for the rest of their lives. We can only guide them; we can not force them to live our life. Don't make your dream become their.

To Young people: I recommend watching this drama also. Focus on friendship. The world will be better if you help each other.

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Cherry: The Light That Conquered the Darkness

In Our Generation, amidst grief, fractured families, and the shadows of loss, the character of Cherry shines as one of the most remarkable female leads to grace the screen. Where so many stories present a male lead who fights the world for the woman he loves, here the roles are reversed—and therein lies both the beauty and the controversy.

Cherry’s love is not fleeting, nor does it depend on declarations or reciprocation. She does not wait for affirmation; she knows. From the moment she stepped into Jiang Qiao Xi’s broken world, she became the steady hand that pulled him from the abyss into the light of day. With her quiet devotion, she offered him something his wealth and family could not: the constancy of love that asked for nothing in return.

In an era that celebrates the “move on” philosophy, Cherry dared to remain steadfast. She did not trade loyalty for convenience, nor affection for comfort. Everything she felt for him—every memory of shared meals, sunsets, fireworks, or the simple joy of raising a bunny together—became the very fabric of Jiang Qiao Xi’s strength. Her presence taught him that he was not defined by tragedy, nor doomed to solitude.

To some, her devotion may seem outdated, but to others it is the purest expression of love: unwavering, patient, and transformative. Cherry came, she believed, and she conquered—not with force, but with a heart that never wavered.

If anything, Jiang Qiao Xi’s hesitation was not a lack of love, but the humility of a man who feared he could not give her the life she deserved. He respected her freedom, never binding her in ways she could not escape, even acknowledging the comfort she might have found in Yu Qiao’s steadier world. That restraint was not hostility, but reverence.

So while critics may call Cherry’s devotion blind or Jiang Qiao Xi’s distance cold, I see something far more poignant: a story where the female lead’s constancy is not weakness, but triumph. In the end, Cherry’s love was not hostage-taking, but a liberation—the dawn that forever outshone his darkest night.

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