I can't lie, idk why this seems to have received so much scorn. Admittedly it's nothing revolutionary, plotwise it's pretty light, but on the contrary I think this can be appealing depending on what you're looking for. If you go into this looking for intense mystery, high stakes and intellectual stimulation, then yeah, sure, you're probably going to be disappointed. But if you just wanted to curl up with something nice and fluffy, seasoned with a light side of push and pull drama this will more than float your boat. Perhaps the comments dragged my expectations down too far, but I honestly enjoyed it - having finished it, it almost felt like a slice-of-life: A photographer who's whole life seems to have collapsed around her ears returns home with a shattered ego and tries to find a way to pull herself back together. However, no cloud is without a silver lining and she takes the opportunity to try and repair the bond with her estranged best friend, only to find a greater love than she had ever anticipated waiting for her all along. Bit by bit, we follow her as she works to mend the broken trust between them, and find the confidence within herself to stand up again facing her new life. It's as sweet and simple as that. Yes, maybe LenaMiu's magnetic chemistry is carrying the show - but so what? Let it. People are talking like they're using their personal charm to get viewers to overlook their characters committing war crimes or something, but it's just not that serious. Heck, it's only like 6 hours, idk how much storyline people were expecting them to fit in, but this is basically a pure romance; there is no sub-genre or parallel side plot.
Two things you can be sure of when you watch a Channel 3 GL: everybody's rich and the women all wear high heels…
Her father left them the house when he walked out. Ngl probably would have made sense to downsize if they were that hard off, but at least it's more logical than them having bought a mansion to live on foodstamps or however they were struggling.
As much as I love GL, and despite liking the cast, this has to be one of the worst scripts I've ever had the misfortune of watching. Some films and shows are so bad they're funny, but this felt more like ragebait, ranging from clumsy to outright problematic. In some cases it was theatrically simple, as though written for a five year old, frequently breaking the show don't tell rule with inconsistent narration, sometimes from the characters, and once from an actual narrator. In others, the script seems to have been rearranged, edited or cut in some way that left in existing lines that no longer made sense, or rendered scenes emotionally abrupt, such as the initial school confession: Ping seems to have only ever spoken to Charm once at that point, and yet she goes up confidently enough that she seems genuinely shocked to be rejected - it is shown in a much later episode that she was nervous beforehand, but that is completely missing from our first impression. She later also states that Charm called her annoying numerous times, and that she tried lots of things to get close to/be acknowledged by Charm - at this point we see some random flashbacks of them interacting as students that have zero context and are never explained, such as them sharing a car home. Was this a one off, or a regular thing? How did Charm end up in the car of a junior she was blatantly giving the cold shoulder? What really was the state of their relationship as students considering all these background scenes that keep showing up in vague flashbacks without any supporting info? It's very murky, and seems like there was supposed to be more in depth scenes to back the montage up. There is a homophobia plot that exists solely to demonstrate how a good parent should come to terms with their child's sexuality that read like a war-time instruction manual to the point I could practically see Rosie the Riveter cheering the father's speech in her signature pose flashing before my eyes. The most unforgivable part though was, without spoiling *too* much, the rape plot, in which only the victim is held responsible until the very end. The person who drugs her gets away scot free without so much as being yelled at, while she gets accused of cheating. This is made worse by the fact that, thereafter, pretty much everyone speaking for her is pushing the argument that cheaters should be forgiven if you're really in love, because "it's just a mistake that anyone could make" in this abominable two-for-the-price-of-one bundle deal that absolutely no one asked for. It's not that there wasn't a single good moment in this show, I did like these leads together and all, but while something like The Earth was badly produced, it was at least cute and funny, and by extension charming and enjoyable - but Frozen Valentine, while produced to a...slightly higher level (there was one emotional scene where I had to pause to check the crappy music wasn't something I accidentally clicked on playing in another tab, another where they "woke up" in false lashes long enough to brush their eyebrows, and an emotionally critical moment where Natty was dressed in what I can only describe as clown formal wear - I don't know how she offended the wardrobe department, but I'm sure she didn't do it twice) did not enjoy such qualities. There were a few times I couldn't help but laugh at how flat or staged a scene's dialogue felt, but nothing could make up for how fouled the core plot was in the latter half. It wasn't low quality, it was emotionally insulting. Also It should have been about 6 episodes: we must have spent an hour on eye contact between the leads and the camera alone, and I seriously felt like I was suffering deja vu the number of times Charm asked Ping "Can we talk?", I only know I lost count, and when they actually did talk she'd say a whole load of nothing and then stand there like a mute while Ping acted hurt and left, it was so ridiculous it seemed as though the characters were strapped into the script like a straightjacket with no way out because oh my god just communicate like normal adults for five minutes, but no, the plot needed 10 episodes some way some how.
I'm sorry, Charm gets drug raped (as far as anyone can tell) and her girlfriend's response is "You've completely broken my trust"??? Bitch, how about an "Are you okay, did you call the police?"! I can tolerate slightly disjointed scenes and amateur acting, but treating a rape victim like a cheater and everyone acting like that's normal and moral and logical crosses the line by about a thousand miles. She'd have been a more decent human being if she'd grabbed a knife from that kitchen to hunt Mint down in broad daylight. To add insult to injury, when everyone's acting like Charm is a cheater we're also throwing in a side of "give your cheater a second chance". I seriously have to wonder what kind of life the writers are living to come up with such a repulsive combo.
I usually dislike friends to lovers because it’s so overdone but this story was so unique I didn’t mind. They…
I mean tbh I don't think they were ever really friends, they were pretty much flirting out the gate, just pretending to be friends until their relationship was officially confirmed (but then Lene found out about her dad and tossed the whole thing out the window ^^")
Cute. If it's virtual, that means they can literally sell her to fans in any shape or form they want. It's only…
I think, iirc, the issue was, you know how people can get radicalised on the internet because they enter these niche self-affirming circles? The chatbot essentially functioned the same way, reflecting the users' input back at them. So when the user keeps saying things like "I'm sad, I want to die" the chatbot, uh, "offers support and encouragement" because it's not a real person, it's just a program designed to accommodate the user and their wishes.
it's not an actress, it's a program, an animation. It's not making deals the designers are making deals. F this…
Hey hey hey now, animation requires human input too, every movement given soul through intent. GenAI just recycles shit for prompts. It's an imitation of art and acting.
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Yes, maybe LenaMiu's magnetic chemistry is carrying the show - but so what? Let it. People are talking like they're using their personal charm to get viewers to overlook their characters committing war crimes or something, but it's just not that serious. Heck, it's only like 6 hours, idk how much storyline people were expecting them to fit in, but this is basically a pure romance; there is no sub-genre or parallel side plot.
There is a homophobia plot that exists solely to demonstrate how a good parent should come to terms with their child's sexuality that read like a war-time instruction manual to the point I could practically see Rosie the Riveter cheering the father's speech in her signature pose flashing before my eyes.
The most unforgivable part though was, without spoiling *too* much, the rape plot, in which only the victim is held responsible until the very end. The person who drugs her gets away scot free without so much as being yelled at, while she gets accused of cheating. This is made worse by the fact that, thereafter, pretty much everyone speaking for her is pushing the argument that cheaters should be forgiven if you're really in love, because "it's just a mistake that anyone could make" in this abominable two-for-the-price-of-one bundle deal that absolutely no one asked for.
It's not that there wasn't a single good moment in this show, I did like these leads together and all, but while something like The Earth was badly produced, it was at least cute and funny, and by extension charming and enjoyable - but Frozen Valentine, while produced to a...slightly higher level (there was one emotional scene where I had to pause to check the crappy music wasn't something I accidentally clicked on playing in another tab, another where they "woke up" in false lashes long enough to brush their eyebrows, and an emotionally critical moment where Natty was dressed in what I can only describe as clown formal wear - I don't know how she offended the wardrobe department, but I'm sure she didn't do it twice) did not enjoy such qualities. There were a few times I couldn't help but laugh at how flat or staged a scene's dialogue felt, but nothing could make up for how fouled the core plot was in the latter half. It wasn't low quality, it was emotionally insulting.
Also It should have been about 6 episodes: we must have spent an hour on eye contact between the leads and the camera alone, and I seriously felt like I was suffering deja vu the number of times Charm asked Ping "Can we talk?", I only know I lost count, and when they actually did talk she'd say a whole load of nothing and then stand there like a mute while Ping acted hurt and left, it was so ridiculous it seemed as though the characters were strapped into the script like a straightjacket with no way out because oh my god just communicate like normal adults for five minutes, but no, the plot needed 10 episodes some way some how.
To add insult to injury, when everyone's acting like Charm is a cheater we're also throwing in a side of "give your cheater a second chance". I seriously have to wonder what kind of life the writers are living to come up with such a repulsive combo.