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.
ikr! One of my favourite interaction is when he said something like '...but you guys are enough for my world'…
I should probably explain a few things. This gets a little complicated, but here goes.
There are three series set in the same fictional universe:
- With You (which stars Seven Tan) - My Huckleberry Friends (which stars Steven Zhang) - Unrequited Love
'With You' and 'My Huckleberry Friends' take place almost at the same time and at the same high school, and there's at least one crossover character in both series who's played by the same actor in both. I don't think any of the series can be categorized as sequels to any of the others. Each has its own independent story.
(I should also mention that Seven Tan's character and Steven Zhang's character never actually meet in either series.)
In 'With You', Seven Tan plays Geng Geng, a character who's very similar to Jian Jian -- big personality, bad grades, etc. Toward the end of the series there is a 10-year time jump similar to the one in 'Go Ahead', where we find that Geng Geng is a mature adult with a successful career as a photographer.
Early on in 'With You', Geng Geng meets Luo Zhi (of 'Unrequited Love') who is her senior in the high school, and much later, after Geng Geng has become a professional photographer, Luo Zhi asks her to take photos of Luo Zhi and Sheng Huai Nan after they've had their wedding. The photo session takes place up on the roof of the high school, where Huai Nan surprises Luo Zhi with that phrase that he's written on the wall.... ;)
But, like I said, this Luo Zhi and Huai Nan are not played by the same actors as the 'Unrequited Love' series that we're familiar with.
'My Huckleberry Friends' takes place at the same high school as 'With You' and is set after the events in 'With You'. There's even a couple of occasions where the students refer to things that happened in 'With You'.
In 'Huckleberry Friends', Steven Zhang plays Lin Yang, who's more or less in love with a girl he has grown up with (sounds familiar, doesn't it), but they are best friends, not family. The 'hook' of 'Huckleberry Friends' is that Lin Yang is always doing things behind the girl's back that lead to her succeeding in something or just avoiding a catastrophe that appeared almost certain. The big question is whether the girl will finally realize how much he's done for her over the years and return his love.
I think that both 'With You' and 'Huckleberry Friends' are essential viewing. It's been a while since I saw them, but I don't remember any love triangles or scheming characters. (Others on here will have to remind me if I'm wrong about that.)
Not a rumor, but there are hints everywhere, like she has seen him naked etc.
I'm expecting all of the troublesome characters to return to the story before the series ends, if only so that they can account for the terrible things they've done. The writing is too elegant not to achieve that kind of symmetry. There will be justice.
Why I feel so annoying to ming yue??? She always tried to stick with ling xiao. Come on girl.. give him some space…
The most recent episodes include one misunderstanding after another, to the point that Ming Yue is convinced that Ling Xiao was secretly in love with her in high school. Even Jian Jian inadvertently feeds her delusions by jokingly referring to her as her sister-in-law. They're both in for a rude awakening. :)
I'm looking forward to seeing how that comes about.
This series was a 9.5 for me. In my opinion the ending was just right. No kiss -- and honestly as I watched I was thinking 'Don't kiss! Don't kiss!', because when you get down to it the final scene was Tony and Mico truly meeting in person for the first time. (That earlier attempt seemed to end before it began.)
No matter how much you've exchanged messages and video chats with someone, when you finally see them there standing in front of you, you're going to feel a little nervous and self-conscious. You're arrived at what's essentially the final hurdle in making a real connection with them. You're going to be taking in everything you can about their physical presence while knowing that they're doing the exact same thing with you.
Kissing in that situation would be too forward and maybe even a little creepy. Although you've broken through almost all of the boundaries with them, you've now arrived at the most important one of all. So I think in terms of physical intimacy, a big hug is just right. It sends the message that you're interested in continuing along the path you've been going, but that for now your priority is establishing a true comfort level. There will be plenty of time for kissing later on.
My only reason for deducting the 0.5 was Tony's acting. He was one of the main characters, and I don't think he was at the same level as the rest of the cast. Learning that he's very popular in the Philippines makes me admire that he took the risk of being in a BL series at all, and as a lead no less. I hope he'll get some training and do even better in his next project.
I've been kinda sour on Thai BL lately so this was a welcome change.
I think it will. I'm also doubtful when a show is airing for a "longer than usual" amount of time but based on…
I've felt a subtle shift in tone as the girls moved into their own apartment and the boys returned from their sojourns.
A scene like the one where Ming Yue catches ZQ just coming out of the shower, and the way it's played for such broad comedy, feels like it would be better suited to a more conventional drama.
I also think that ZQ's gesture toward JJ of making a full table of desserts is a little excessive - I think three or four gorgeously prepared desserts would have been more realistic, while still conveying to her how important she is to him.
The fact that the two brothers end up competing for the same apartment and quickly end up living together also felt a little too neatly schematic.
This hasn't made me love the drama any less -- it's just that I've noticed these things and felt a tiny flash of concern. I think Go Ahead's greatest strength is in how it so perfectly captures what real people think, feel, and do, and this makes those more conventional plot developments stick out more.
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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.
There are three series set in the same fictional universe:
- With You (which stars Seven Tan)
- My Huckleberry Friends (which stars Steven Zhang)
- Unrequited Love
'With You' and 'My Huckleberry Friends' take place almost at the same time and at the same high school, and there's at least one crossover character in both series who's played by the same actor in both. I don't think any of the series can be categorized as sequels to any of the others. Each has its own independent story.
(I should also mention that Seven Tan's character and Steven Zhang's character never actually meet in either series.)
In 'With You', Seven Tan plays Geng Geng, a character who's very similar to Jian Jian -- big personality, bad grades, etc. Toward the end of the series there is a 10-year time jump similar to the one in 'Go Ahead', where we find that Geng Geng is a mature adult with a successful career as a photographer.
Early on in 'With You', Geng Geng meets Luo Zhi (of 'Unrequited Love') who is her senior in the high school, and much later, after Geng Geng has become a professional photographer, Luo Zhi asks her to take photos of Luo Zhi and Sheng Huai Nan after they've had their wedding. The photo session takes place up on the roof of the high school, where Huai Nan surprises Luo Zhi with that phrase that he's written on the wall.... ;)
But, like I said, this Luo Zhi and Huai Nan are not played by the same actors as the 'Unrequited Love' series that we're familiar with.
'My Huckleberry Friends' takes place at the same high school as 'With You' and is set after the events in 'With You'. There's even a couple of occasions where the students refer to things that happened in 'With You'.
In 'Huckleberry Friends', Steven Zhang plays Lin Yang, who's more or less in love with a girl he has grown up with (sounds familiar, doesn't it), but they are best friends, not family. The 'hook' of 'Huckleberry Friends' is that Lin Yang is always doing things behind the girl's back that lead to her succeeding in something or just avoiding a catastrophe that appeared almost certain. The big question is whether the girl will finally realize how much he's done for her over the years and return his love.
I think that both 'With You' and 'Huckleberry Friends' are essential viewing. It's been a while since I saw them, but I don't remember any love triangles or scheming characters. (Others on here will have to remind me if I'm wrong about that.)
I'm looking forward to seeing how that comes about.
No matter how much you've exchanged messages and video chats with someone, when you finally see them there standing in front of you, you're going to feel a little nervous and self-conscious. You're arrived at what's essentially the final hurdle in making a real connection with them. You're going to be taking in everything you can about their physical presence while knowing that they're doing the exact same thing with you.
Kissing in that situation would be too forward and maybe even a little creepy. Although you've broken through almost all of the boundaries with them, you've now arrived at the most important one of all. So I think in terms of physical intimacy, a big hug is just right. It sends the message that you're interested in continuing along the path you've been going, but that for now your priority is establishing a true comfort level. There will be plenty of time for kissing later on.
My only reason for deducting the 0.5 was Tony's acting. He was one of the main characters, and I don't think he was at the same level as the rest of the cast. Learning that he's very popular in the Philippines makes me admire that he took the risk of being in a BL series at all, and as a lead no less. I hope he'll get some training and do even better in his next project.
I've been kinda sour on Thai BL lately so this was a welcome change.
A scene like the one where Ming Yue catches ZQ just coming out of the shower, and the way it's played for such broad comedy, feels like it would be better suited to a more conventional drama.
I also think that ZQ's gesture toward JJ of making a full table of desserts is a little excessive - I think three or four gorgeously prepared desserts would have been more realistic, while still conveying to her how important she is to him.
The fact that the two brothers end up competing for the same apartment and quickly end up living together also felt a little too neatly schematic.
This hasn't made me love the drama any less -- it's just that I've noticed these things and felt a tiny flash of concern. I think Go Ahead's greatest strength is in how it so perfectly captures what real people think, feel, and do, and this makes those more conventional plot developments stick out more.
I nominate you for official historian and interpreter of Go Ahead. :)