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I kind of wished I'd done the same.

I agree. When Sandee came to her with her veiled accusations, outing Ken, the mother could have said, "I understand that you are disappointed, and you know I love you, but I love my son and want him to be happy, so let's try to step back and be gracious about this, okay?" But she didn't. I can understand that she was initially in shock and overreacted, but she's not even remorseful six weeks later.

And really, if she wanted him to get off the phone while he was driving, she could have just reassured him and hung up.

I am really, REALLY pissed off about this. So disappointed.

Yes -- he personally had done nothing, he just got caught in the crossfire. Here's a pretty thorough, in-depth run-through of the events: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/913689551

Yes, I'm wondering if this is the intention, perhaps they are both tired of playing BL roles and this is a way to help them transition to other types of roles.

And he plays Time in The Gifted: Graduation!

Or what if...
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...Karleen and Alex end up together, and Pearl has ended up being the Ever Single Relationship Facilitatator once again! XD

NOOOO Team Pearlex! XD

Seriously! Alex is objectively super hot!

Than you! I was wondering what had happened to it.

Oh, I'm talking about the drama too. You are right that nobody dies *on screen*, but it's heavily implied that they probably will (although since it's not shown, we can all have our own headcanon that their gambit of inviting everybody of importance actually worked, and they got to live happily ever after).

It's not available everywhere.

I think it's obvious that it's an old argument between them. Tharn has brought it up before, Type has put him down before. That's why they both looked so uncomfortable at the dinnertable when Tanya brought it up. It actually looked better in the actual episode than in the trailer, I think -- at least here it wasn't just "but we're both guys!", but actually an explanation of how Type feels. He still has a lot of fear around being official and public about this, and getting married is as public and official as it gets .

I don't know how it works in China, but giving it very bad ratings, starting boycott campaigns, spreading rumours, digging up dirt on people, that sort of thing. Not sure they could actually "kill" it, but they could probably make sure they'd end up losing money on it , just so that nobody would want to work with Xiao Zhan ever again. But hopefully it's not that bad anymore. I'm not Chinese so I don't know for sure what the situation is with his haters now, but they managed to screw up his life and career pretty badly when they made an effort to last time.

I'm also confused. To me it looked as if they held a wedding and invited all the important people in the area to deter an attack from the villain, but the villain said it wouldn't be enough to deter him...

I thought the ending was very ambiguous, with yes, the implied marriage (though we never saw it take place) hut also their implied imminent death, since they all figured that the allied troops would not get there in time, and the villain also said that inviting all the higher-ups to the banquet would not deter him from attacking. Maybe I missed something important at the end? The version I saw just had them being dressed as for a wedding, and then walking up a staircase, and cut to the message about needing more than a cinnabar banquet for a marriage.

I guess because homegrown tomatoes are so much tastier than store-bought? XD

I guess they're waiting to be sure that the Xiao Zhan antifans have subsided and won't rise up to kill the drama because he's in it ...

To Be Announced

That doesn't make sense, though. How would he get there? He's poor, lives on his own , doesn't have a car. If that was the case, she would have brought him along in the car when she was given the ride there., which she obviously didn't do.