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The answer is: because writer(s) aren’t very good. There’s a lot of puzzling decisions being made. Like when ML & FL met but neither wanted to give a right of way — that’s something that might only happen when one of the people is very impolite, but 99.9% of the time one person will just let another person pass because it’s quicker than arguing. Or in ep. 3 how reporters barged into a VIP’s hospital room… or how FL yelled “mom!” at the top of her lungs in a presence of a ton of reporters (when it was clear mom was fine… she wasn’t dying or in a coma). Or how the channel manager wants to ruin a perfect setup (1 great cosmetics sales person + 1 great non-cosmetics) and is making both of them mad; especially since FL selling cosmetics again will likely resurrect articles/stories about the incident that caused sever damage to people. Just a lot of unexplainable things. 🙄

He made her write her address down on a contract she signed promising never to come into her house (it was when she was trying to catch escaped chicken). Let’s be honest, there’s no need for an address on a contract like that so it was clear the writers were setting up a scenario like this one.

I love light hearted dramas, but have to admit that writing of this drama leaves much to be desired 😳

Friday can’t come soon enough! 👑

Ohh… did you enjoy Born to Run though? I love TFF even despite the horrible mom — it’s just quite heartbreaking 💔 to watch flashbacks. But it did make the last two episodes super nice when FL got accepted into ML’s family & could relax and be herself. Actually, last two episodes of TFF should be a blueprint for drama endings — instead of doing something trope-y like breakup & reunion in last episode, spend more time on happy times (and don’t do it as a 5-minute special). I really like You Are My Glory not just because it has two sets of nice parents but also because it shows development of a relationship and even life after marriage.

Tencent / WeTV needs to hurry up, get aboard WCR train 🚂 and finally release this drama!

I haven’t watched those shows yet, but to me the worst parent is FL’s mom in The Firat Frost. What she had done / not done makes other drama parents look like angels 👼

When I rewatch Fireworks of My Heart, I skip most scenes with the crazy mom 🫣

Why would you run into a room full of reporters and blow your cover? Feels like writers could’ve handled this better 🙄

Even in C-dramas it’s common to have parents like that. That’s why I appreciate dramas where both sets of parents (ML & FL) are nice and supportive.

It’s on Viki in the U.S. now.

If you want something very interesting and short (K-drama length), check out Mobius (it’s a detective drama; more of Hong Kong-style with quite a bit of action elements); Fake It Till You Make It (probably one of the best realistic romance dramas [K or C]); and then if you want to chill to a throwback great high school/college drama, there’s When I Fly Towards You.

Episode lengths vary a lot in C-dramas, from 30-45 minutes to 40-45 to 1 hour+.

Tencent/WeTV, YOUKU, iQIYI and Mango TV are streaming platforms (like Netflix) but some of the better/more popular dramas from their catalog do end up on broadcast TV in China, I believe.
(Interestingly, some dramas are so expensive to produce that they are co-funded by multiple platforms, e.g. Pursuit of Jade aired simultaneously on Tencent/WeTV and on iQIYI).
Another interesting fact — in China there’s an official cap on what percentage of budget can be spend on actors.

You can’t change anyone’s mind on the Internet, so it’s better to move on after blocking that person (if they are clearly a troll/hater/anti). Sometimes people have different preferences and it’s okay, but those normal people usually just move on and don’t try to give drama a score of 1 and then loudly rage-bait in the comments.

I’m missing so much (NOT!) because I blocked troll/hater accounts 🤣

Sometimes lighting in K/C-dramas can be strange, especially when they shine a bright light behind someone 😎
But recents examples of great lighting & cinematography are dramas like “Can This Love Be Translated” (K) and “Pursuit of Jade” (C).

Haha… I love HIMYM but don’t remember that. So many great moments 🥰

Viki and MDL rating scale is kind of like video game rating scale — it’s very skewed to one side. On Viki 1-6 practically don’t exist and on MDL 1-5 are the same. Even terrible / very bad dramas get rated into 6.x on MDL.

Personally, my rating scale (when translated to MDL) is: 10 for great/groundbreakibg dramas, 9 for very good dramas, 8 for good/average (so most dramas fall here), 7 for so-so/below average, and 6 for really bad. This drama is “very good” tier in my mind for now, but I don’t rate anything until the end. How the drama ends is very important to me; but some people rate dramas highly even if the ending clearly is bad which I don’t quite understand.

I use the app because it’s very convenient. The main feature it lacks is not being able to rate individual episodes but it’s fine otherwise. There are ads in the app, but not a lot.

You could be right. But Chinese dramas are still very long (usually) even when they licensed to streaming companies. Pursuit of Jade was 40 episodes long and still set all kinds of records on Netflix :)

For all we know, by the time the wedding happens, the Prince may be the King 👑