Yep, it seems My Day got trapped in a static dimension and just recently rejoined our timeline. While the rest…
It's the bottom of the barrel. Spend some time watching other series in between episodes of this one and it will be even more stupefying than before. Honestly I think this series is just an exploitation ploy.
Anything that becomes overwhelming popular inspires fake versions and imitators who cash in. As the audience we need to stop lapping up everything 'BL' that gets posted to a YouTube page. Behind the scenes they're just laughing at us.
I love the romance because Ling Xiao hasn't hidden it at all all these years; it's just so subtle in everything…
I find I can't get worked up about their romance either. I just love watching their scenes together.
For me LX is no different than someone you might have grown up with over many years, who visited your house all the time and frequently stayed overnight, who eventually became so involved with your family that you started to refer to them as part of the family.
I'm sure countless people fall in love with friends like that.
The way JJ is always calling LX and ZQ her brothers seems to be a sticking point for many people. But it's the term that a young girl might start to use when she's constantly in the company of boys, to keep from being teased or even just to reassure herself: they're not my 'boyfriends', they're like brothers to me.
And as for LX, he might not have considered JJ like a 'sister' for even a second. I certainly don't recall him ever actually referring to JJ as his sister. (Does anyone else remember him doing that? Because maybe he did lol.) Maybe if he'd been more forthcoming about his feelings when they were younger it wouldn't seem so strange to people now that they're adults.
It's also notable that HC's concern about ZQ's interest in JJ was that if their romance faltered it might permanently affect their friendship. He didn't react as though ZQ's interest was immoral.
It was a moment of high comedy when LX, after making JJ even more dizzy over his feelings for her, had just left to go upstairs to bed when ZQ immediately came bounding in to make his own confession. That was some funny stuff! xD
I also think that there is some heavy drama when he went to Singapore that hasn't aired and it was very hard for…
Exactly! LX has been sure about his feelings and hinting at them for years, and JJ just didn't seem to catch on. He needed to step it up or risk losing her.
OMG the men in JianJian's life aka ZQ and LX are driving her insane. The poor girl can't catch a break. One is…
I was thinking the same thing. Talk about being overwhelmed ... ZQ and LX have been the two people she can confide in the most, and now with Ming Yue out of contact and both boys hitting on her, Jian Jian must be at wit's end.
LX is a good talker though, and very motivated after literally years of waiting, so he'll eventually bring her around.
Of course then I realize we're only halfway through the series so I expect some big conflicts and disruptions down the road.
I havent even started to watch this im put off buy the brothers and sister thing it makes me feel uncomfortable…
One of the boys is a foster brother to Jian Jian in every sense but the legal one. He lives in the apartment with her and has his own bedroom, so the sense of a sibling relationship is appropriate.
The other boy is the upstairs neighbor. He and Jian Jian are very close but he has a dad of his own and lives separately.
The three characters don't make it easy to distinguish these differences since they constantly refer to themselves as a family. Almost from the beginning, though, the upstairs neighbor boy has had deeper feelings for the girl, and once in a while you see him acting in a way that shows he knows there's a difference and that he prefers the 'non-brother' designation because it leaves a door open for romance.
You might like watching her in 'With You,' where she plays a character very similar to Jian Jian.
I've been trying to think of what 'age gap' there is in the series and I can't remember any such thing. Maybe it was in a side story, but the main characters are definitely all the same age.
I just tried to vote down those tags because they're incredibly misleading.
I know I'm alone in this and I'll probably get roasted for it, but I think if a series is going to take on the 'big issues' related to the pandemic then it should follow through on them. It shouldn't just use them for dramatic effect and then move on.
It was a big, big deal to everyone when the series included the plot development that Cairo's father died from the virus. In addition to Cairo losing his father, his mother lost her husband and his brother lost his dad as well. Cairo and London were now facing the vast remainder of their lives without a father, and their mom was now faced with raising a family and providing for them on her own. This was huge!
In an earlier episode this led to the emotional scenes where Cairo dealt with his feelings of guilt over how his father caught the virus, and Elijah's performance was justifiably praised, but now that that's done there's been no remaining impression that anyone in Cairo's family is still grieving, or that their friends have any concern about how they're coping.
In Episode 11, during a light-hearted conversation with Wesley, Cairo makes the comment that 'it's not easy to talk to our parents', and there's no sense of him realizing that for him the word 'parent' (and the notion of talking to a parent) has now taken on a shading that it doesn't for other people. (If you've lost a parent, trust me: this happens.)
Then we have Wesley. He is Cairo's lifelong friend, and in Episode 11 he's speaking with Cairo for the first time in a long while -- certainly since before Cairo's father died. (Wesley even says he's glad that Cai still remembers him and needs to tell Cairo what his gamer handle is.) Yet in the entire episode Wesley makes absolutely no acknowledgement that Cai's father has died and no expression of concern over how Cairo and his family are doing. There's much talk about the move to Bukidnon, though, and if Welsey's mom had told him that Cairo was moving then she would certainly have included the much more important reason why.
This was also in the back of my mind as Gav and Cai met in person for the first time. Amidst all the joy I was looking for something from Gav that expressed concern for how Cairo was holding up. There was much for them to celebrate in their finally being together, but somewhere along the way I was hoping for a quieter moment where Gav would look Cairo in the eye and simply ask how he's holding up against all the loss and change that's been suddenly thrust upon him. But this didn't happen.
When characters in fiction don't behave like real people in fundamental ways it takes me out of the story and makes it hard to take it as seriously. For the death issue I don't know if a course correction would be possible, but I hope in future episodes the production team will consider how the events they choose for the series can have a deep and lasting impact on the characters. Story elements shouldn't be treated like billboards along the highway, seen once and then replaced as the next one comes up.
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Anything that becomes overwhelming popular inspires fake versions and imitators who cash in. As the audience we need to stop lapping up everything 'BL' that gets posted to a YouTube page. Behind the scenes they're just laughing at us.
The things ZQ said during his conversation with the co-worker's boyfriend rather dazzled me. Maybe they dazzled her too.
They certainly know how to keep me guessing as to who ZQ's "endgame" partner will turn out to be.
For me LX is no different than someone you might have grown up with over many years, who visited your house all the time and frequently stayed overnight, who eventually became so involved with your family that you started to refer to them as part of the family.
I'm sure countless people fall in love with friends like that.
The way JJ is always calling LX and ZQ her brothers seems to be a sticking point for many people. But it's the term that a young girl might start to use when she's constantly in the company of boys, to keep from being teased or even just to reassure herself: they're not my 'boyfriends', they're like brothers to me.
And as for LX, he might not have considered JJ like a 'sister' for even a second. I certainly don't recall him ever actually referring to JJ as his sister. (Does anyone else remember him doing that? Because maybe he did lol.) Maybe if he'd been more forthcoming about his feelings when they were younger it wouldn't seem so strange to people now that they're adults.
It's also notable that HC's concern about ZQ's interest in JJ was that if their romance faltered it might permanently affect their friendship. He didn't react as though ZQ's interest was immoral.
LX is a good talker though, and very motivated after literally years of waiting, so he'll eventually bring her around.
Of course then I realize we're only halfway through the series so I expect some big conflicts and disruptions down the road.
The other boy is the upstairs neighbor. He and Jian Jian are very close but he has a dad of his own and lives separately.
The three characters don't make it easy to distinguish these differences since they constantly refer to themselves as a family. Almost from the beginning, though, the upstairs neighbor boy has had deeper feelings for the girl, and once in a while you see him acting in a way that shows he knows there's a difference and that he prefers the 'non-brother' designation because it leaves a door open for romance.
I just tried to vote down those tags because they're incredibly misleading.
It was a big, big deal to everyone when the series included the plot development that Cairo's father died from the virus. In addition to Cairo losing his father, his mother lost her husband and his brother lost his dad as well. Cairo and London were now facing the vast remainder of their lives without a father, and their mom was now faced with raising a family and providing for them on her own. This was huge!
In an earlier episode this led to the emotional scenes where Cairo dealt with his feelings of guilt over how his father caught the virus, and Elijah's performance was justifiably praised, but now that that's done there's been no remaining impression that anyone in Cairo's family is still grieving, or that their friends have any concern about how they're coping.
In Episode 11, during a light-hearted conversation with Wesley, Cairo makes the comment that 'it's not easy to talk to our parents', and there's no sense of him realizing that for him the word 'parent' (and the notion of talking to a parent) has now taken on a shading that it doesn't for other people. (If you've lost a parent, trust me: this happens.)
Then we have Wesley. He is Cairo's lifelong friend, and in Episode 11 he's speaking with Cairo for the first time in a long while -- certainly since before Cairo's father died. (Wesley even says he's glad that Cai still remembers him and needs to tell Cairo what his gamer handle is.) Yet in the entire episode Wesley makes absolutely no acknowledgement that Cai's father has died and no expression of concern over how Cairo and his family are doing. There's much talk about the move to Bukidnon, though, and if Welsey's mom had told him that Cairo was moving then she would certainly have included the much more important reason why.
This was also in the back of my mind as Gav and Cai met in person for the first time. Amidst all the joy I was looking for something from Gav that expressed concern for how Cairo was holding up. There was much for them to celebrate in their finally being together, but somewhere along the way I was hoping for a quieter moment where Gav would look Cairo in the eye and simply ask how he's holding up against all the loss and change that's been suddenly thrust upon him. But this didn't happen.
When characters in fiction don't behave like real people in fundamental ways it takes me out of the story and makes it hard to take it as seriously. For the death issue I don't know if a course correction would be possible, but I hope in future episodes the production team will consider how the events they choose for the series can have a deep and lasting impact on the characters. Story elements shouldn't be treated like billboards along the highway, seen once and then replaced as the next one comes up.