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I think, if it was a secondary female character who is breaking up the main couple just because she couldn't handle being lonely with the ML gone from her life, a lot more people would be mad at her character.

Whatever hate you are seeing against the SML here, multiply it by 10, that's how worse it would have been if it was a SFL trying to break up the main couple. So, yeah, I think there should be more people hating SML's actions here. No double standards allowed. 😜

I seem to see a pattern in your responses here. When you seem to have no comeback on the main topic, you shift to others so you can get your "gotcha" moment.

First with FIYS douban ratings, you seamlessly shifted the topic to my rating of FIYS on MDL.
Then you shifted to the "originality" of my responses.

I don't think you want to 'gracefully exit', you just want to be the one to comment last. And I will help you with that, I'm no longer going to respond to your replies on this thread of conversation (feel free to get your last comment in after this). Hopefully, if we were to meet on another thread of conversation, we will have a much healthier exchange.

'Decent' as in your 4%, or my 60%?

Whatever fits your bill. Btw, you seem to be doing fine with the 'gracefully exit from this exchange'.

I like to give back what I get, especially in hypocritical cases. A habit of mine, can't help it.

A bizarre exchange, indeed.

Let's round back up, you said FIYS got bad ratings because of so and so reason, and I replied with my observations that the main reason was another. In your response -- and might I add you seem to be the one 'triggered' here? I'm not sure, we cannot judge the tone of someone in text, which you seem to be doing here by accusing me of being the triggered one here, which I am not -- you said "One reason doesn't necessarily preclude the other." Uhh, no, because we were discussing the main reason it got so badly rated (at least I am). Yes, there are many reasons a show gets a bad rating, and such is the case for FIYS, too. But the main reason was "plagiarism". So, I reiterated that and shared my views on FIYS, calling it 'decent'. And here comes you 'accusing' (again, I'm assuming you are accusing me, I cannot judge by the text like you do) me of rating a 'decent' FIYS 10. So, I had to respond with my statistics that I usually rate 'almost' every drama 10. This is true, but you had to take a jibe at it, 'accusing' that I rated a 'decent' number of dramas below 10. I just counted, 4 out of the 97 dramas I rated. I think your definition of 'decent' and my definition of 'decent' are poles apart. In my view, a 'decent' drama gets at least a 6 out of 10 rating (I personally rate them a 10 because I'm generous, you were right about this one), which is 60%. Your view of 'decent' seems to be valuing at a mere 4% (considering the 4/97)? So, I had to point that out.

Also, I did not 'accuse' you of anything. I asked a question because it felt like you missed my 'almost' remark, cause 'almost' totally checks out in the context of 4/97, 'decent' definitely does not, at least for me.

Now, I also don't know or care why you were 'triggered' by my replies to you, but I will also be gracefully exiting this 'bizarre' exchange.

I agree normal audience rate fairly in China. The point I'm trying to make is that the haters are a lot more active on Douban as compared to MDL. Hence the comparatively low ratings.

Hence the word "almost" was used. Did you not read that?
I don't think there are a "decent" number below ten star, at most 5 of them?

As I said, unless some aspects royally piss me off in a drama, I'm always giving it a 10.

Unless I'm royally pissed off by certain aspects of a drama, I give it a 10 as long it entertains me.

I literally give almost all dramas a 10, did you not notice?

Yay!!

Most bad ratings of FIYS debuted with comments regarding the "plagiarism".
I'm sure people would rate it bad for other reasons, but the hate the drama received was mainly because of that issue. I was watching that drama live when it aired, so I was made aware of it.
I personally don't think FIYS is the best drama ever, but I do think it is a decent drama that entertained me.

I don't know how golden the Douban rating system can be when it considers fat shaming the ML and beauty shaming the FL (they called her 'not beautiful enough for Xianxias') of Ancient Love Poetry as valid reasons for 1 star ratings. It actually debuted with 2.9 rating (iirc) and the ratings got better afterwards. The drama is still highly underrated today if you ask me.

Falling Into Your Smile got bad-rated not because of the quality of the drama nor was it the gaming aspects, but because the author who wrote the source material wrote it based on a real life story of an e-sports couple. This pissed off the Chinese audience and they downrated it.

I've seen this trend from a certain actress' fandom (only crazy fans, mind you).

They usually downrate a certain actor's drama with troves of fake accounts on MDL, even if their favourite actress' drama is not airing. I guess this drama came into their hate radar now because that actress' drama is also currently airing, and has better rating even though this drama is way better than the other. They probably felt threatened by this drama.

I love the actress, so I won't blame her. But her crazy fans (only crazy fans, normal fans are decent) are another thing. I think they are in a serious need for therapy.

They will probably expand on what happened between ZM and CP.

I actually prefer to read spoilers. Unlike most people, spoilers actually make me more excited for the drama. 😅

Finally a Xianxia with a super happy ending?
If yes, it should start a revolution lol. No more last minute happy endings for Xianxias.

TLI and MM are only connected to ALP in the source material.
They are made as standalone series, so you can watch them without having to watch ALP.

MM's ML and FL characters are basically SML and SFL in ALP. MM's ML is a SML in the literal sense that he was in love with ALP's FL.
On the other hand, MM's FL was in love with MM's ML in ALP, but she dies pretty early.

So the one who finished off all immortals in the Divine Realm was our FL as Chaos Pearl?