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just finished e32, it was very good it tied everything up. and with a bit of mental gymnastics it's pretty much as good as it gets for this type of a show.

will figure out cuteinternet eventually, i remember you had bears and stuff. might do a search on them directly. anyway cheers
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Lol,I really hope it's not the case.

Where the hell do you get your ASCII smileys I feel like stealing everything you post 😆

i'm just keeping the faith🤣

i'm definitely getting the express tomorrow but now i suspect she/they go away and come back.

well, it was obvious that all other teams were going to produce far better dishes, entourage and all that. they are just running a fast food diner not a michelin level restaurant, so come on, it doesn't feel fair to come in with BAYM expectations. here it was really just a vehicle to wrap up that other plot-twist. i actually forgot over how many episodes that BAYM competition dragged over, 3? can't say i didn't enjoy it but there was a point where i was like, fuck! please! end it! but i understand where you're coming from - marketing for the show is a bit misleading.

next time is see a drama by this 2 scriptwriters i'm definitely waiting until it finished airing. so far 4 out of 4 of their works have brilliant start and then some bs is introduced just to spoil the mood - "viewer can't be too happy". i suspect one of them does all the good work and the other introduces dead children & psycho women.

There are a few but yeah it's rare no doubt. I suspect it's because endings like this would be difficult to wrap up.

they don't always go back, just off the top of my head:
https://kisskh.at/746275-shou-fu-da-ren-you-du-xin-shu
and in https://kisskh.at/751369-i-have-a-smart-doctor-wife
the driver stayed back but she brought ML back with her.

also, it would be very strange to narrate the story in the beginning as if they are still there to just shift and carry on from that. so there's still hope yet.

in a 2 minute extra episode after it all ends 😭

such a slow burn that one party now resorts to kidnapping. i must be misunderstanding what "slow burn" means 😂would be funny if she tells him that she is from the future in the last episode and he is like "me too! i had no idea what you were saying because i didn't speak chinese when i got here"

he must be going crazy from all those mixed signals.

does the official synopsis or posters imply that it's a "family drama centred around women"?

first of all it's tagged as a comedy. so when i read family is going on" extraordinary adventure" i expect they will be facing issues as a team. when i read "unconventional love story" i honestly dont expect that one party will be harming herself to feel better for avoiding that relationship.
seriously "extraordinary journey filled with culinary delights" doesn't imply that the family is dysfunctional and the plot has no obvious positive strategy to solve their issues and make each character become better and family overall. actually no time either despite being at e26 everything is still the way it was around e10. Yang Yang's lot is just too sad and it's difficult to watch her scenes. does any of that correlate with the name "Yummy Yummy Yummy"?

so in retrospect what you say could be true. at least it's one of possible interpretations, but to me it's definitely was not obvious from marketing or the vibe at the start of the show. overall the show isn't bad and i'll probably get express just to get it over with. but yeah my expectations are definitely not met.

unrelated yeah it would've been hilarious if "Twelve Letters" poster was done in similar style as the YYY poster on wetv.

well something light from this year's transmigration for me:
minis:
"royal upstart" is just pure positivity
"the relic keeper" is virtually 0 angst
from normal length, i think "Love and Sword" https://kisskh.at/702847-love-and-sword

"‘trying’ makes someone entitled to forgiveness" well that's why i said if he didn't do it well, and she didn't explain to him what is he doing wrong... he should walk. although, i'm not entirely convinced he did anything wrong and i'm certain she has no skills to explain it either. actually i'd love to hear some suggestions on actual physical actions he should perform to show his sincerity.

i honestly don't care how it was intended to be interpreted by the writers also i doubt you know their intent. i'm watching a show i interpret what i see. i accept that relationships are complex but also that each situation must be evaluated fairly. here we are not shown that her effort was greater than his or the other way around. more likely they complemented each other and i don't recall him saying that he achieved everything by himself (even if they didn't achieve much). we know nothing of how they got through their tough times, were the times tougher than now? no idea. that said ... he remembers only 20 years of being verbal & physical abuse. hmm. still, there are 2 sides to the story but he definitely loves his kids.

i said what i felt after watching their interactions in the show. i'm seeing two people who drifted so far apart that they can't interpret intent behind each other's actions. if out of the two us it's me whose empathy is one sided that's fine.

i'm not hiding the fact that i am a man. are you going to suggest that i can't comment on the current situation? in any case differences in how men & women perceive same situations is pretty much always the cause of problems in relationships. the analogy that you called weak is an exaggerated example of a number one cause of male infidelity. whether it's fair or not you can interpret it the way you like.

that's a weird one, "forgive men for their shortcomings" well ok. let's come up with a list of shortcomings and we could discuss it one by one and decide which could and couldn't be forgiven .... just kidding i have no interest in doing that for men or women especially when it doesn't apply here anyway.

actually, your original post started with something like "i must be able to sympatize" then you changed it to it makes you sad that people interpret it differently to "how it should be", now you "think people are missing point". it really is normal for different people to interpret certain situations differently based on age, culture, gender, experiences. so no need to be sad it's actually quite normal and nothing to be intrigued by.

absolutely. even everything is going smoothly it's easy to drift apart. here it reminds me of a joke. 2 old people are getting a divorce one is 100 the other 105. "judge asks why are you getting a divorce at such an old age?" ... "we were waiting for children to die "

anyway, it's funny to me .

are you replying to my post or replied by accident instead of creating your own?

i did say "maybe she interprets his actions as attempts to appease her and doubts that he sincerely values her". now i didn't see him trying to brush her off. and he made every possible way he knows how to communicate that she is important to him. if he failed to do so and she cared she should've found a way to communicate that to him.

"when he praises her for being good with money..." at this stage it's better than saying that she throws a good punch. that's all he knows about her. sad but yeah, i can see it can be difficult.

anyway by "work the same hours" i meant they also do the same amount of work. she cuts vegetables he cuts the rest. their tasks are comparable. i assume being a chef is a little more than just cutting ingredients and throwing them into the pot. but regardless some of your comments praising her seem like a very generic projection. we were not shown enough for you to make those claims.
also, i did say that raising kids is tough when there's no money. also, they were broke when they arrived to the past so they still had nothing. so who he is today is an insecure emotional wreck barely trying to get his shit together. yeah i agree she made a serious contribution to that.

it's funny to me how differently we interpret his praise of himself. you see arrogance while i see some guy excited to finally get some small win. ad absurd um example, like some fat guy who finally got to the gym and managed to do 10 push ups jumps up and shouts "i'm the best in the world". wife "a" says "well done you", wife "b" says "i bought your gym membership, your gear, packed your bag, so we have have to share credit for that, and oh yeah you're still fat a bastard that barely managed to do 10 push ups, the guy on the machine next to you can do 12". like, i'm not sure how far society moved on now but i'm 99% sure that when that guy is going to be able to do 100 push ups his wife "b" will be cheated on or divorced. actually relationship with wife "b" really has no future even if he says f' that gym.

in some situations yeah your points are valid, and it's not confined to chinese culture either. case in point would be a british film "shirley valentine" it's actually very good for what you're trying to say. but i definitely don't see a "shirley valentine" here.

i'm having a really tough time to sympathise with the mother.

they all work the same hours.
he gives most of his salary to her and gets 10 qian a month (price of a lamb-skewer set they are selling)
and this arrangement happened in a very inappropriate way.
on this money he attempts to buy her presents (i don't remember him buying anything for himself)
attempts to share her workload and generally appease her on every turn.
but all he gets is scorn, hit and generally abused.
forget about getting some support he gets scolded even for giving himself a pat on the back.

anyway, so out of 33 years of marriage, he remembers only the last 20. the number of years he was getting similar treatment? maybe she interprets his actions as attempts to appease her and doubts that he sincerely values her?
alright. after 20 years of hardship and raising kids. no doubt life was hard for both of them.
although, his expectations that now they have money she will will suddenly change her attitude is a bit much, but her expectations that he should suddenly remember to treat her how she was 33 ago are pretty wild too. given that intelligence is primarily inherited from the mother and handsome shen being the way he is ... yeah ... i'm wondering.

anyway, i'll be really disappointed if in e26 papa shen is not shown taking a deep breath, counting to 10 and just walking out the door.

i started to seriously dislike these two screenwriters. they start in one genre and then do some weird spin to completely ruin the vibe. don't know why they do that. maybe they have issues with staying happy for too long or this pattern works and just doesn't suit my taste.

someone else mentioned below what could've been easier than coming clean about their origin. so he would be aware that this group of people believes that they are from the future and that's why he is being pushed away. whether he believed this explanation or not is a different issue.