Just start watch this after a few week ago, all three men are piece of trash, one cheats, one abusive and one…
I wonder too, after all the missing the date to sign final document :) Anyway if they did not, it looks like they married again after he changed his ways and the awful mother in law was tamed by her brush with death The other two were far worse.
No need to call people haters. No one is obligated to give high score if they were disappointed about the ending.
Those who post 1 or below 5 are definitely in haters sects. 8 to 9 I can understand because some are not forgiving of (some) p(l)otholes and real inconsistencies, but they were too few from my pov to shoot the drama down. So, in keeping my lenient streak, it's a 9.5 rounded to 10 for me although I still prefer LLTG in Rosy's ancient dynasties drama filmography.
It is ok if you watch dramas to escape reality, but demand that cdramas must have happy endings is just childish…
Although I agree that tragic or realistic final end is not a reason to downvote a drama, I don't agree with your claims about xenophobic or colonizer mentality, because there are indeed many people in China who get tired of repeated somber ends to dramas which they hope will lift them out of their own bad mood for any reason.
I agree with your last paragraph, but I think that it is up to audience to like or not a more realistic and complex drama, like this one, or The Tale of Rose, or Angels Fall Sometimes, in other genres.
It is not our place to scold audiences here or there with over-the-top accusations that they "want to westernize the cultural production of a country where >>> etc. In China, families don't mourn tepidly their passed ones as if death was 'just a matter of fact', not touching sensibility, nor are they indifferent to injustice and death of others. It's rather in western countries that the sense of family weakens to the point that elders dying alone or in sometimes abusive retirement homes is just something ordinary and no need to feel bad about it. Or that young girls can get beaten, raped, knifed or torched to death not raising eyebrows more than cats who get run over by a vehicle.
your loss, it's a very good one, but not candy floss snatched from kids.
It would be a welcome change, yes. He shouldn't be forever stuck and typecast as the tragic, expendable, character. Unless he wants to. But that'd be a pity. His songs are almost always lit, even though I read... did he need a vocal chords surgery, recently? I can't fathom how he could belt out for hours in live stream and talk non stop around his recent 5 drama OSTs, which are all good, including the surprising change of style one for FOF.
"valar morghulis"... We were spared here from a graphic and bloody agony, or riding into the wild with bereft…
mmm, yeah, many like that yes these days : Rose riding her bike into the sunset, etc. Or worse ones like The Double which needed a 1/4 saving episode bonus to make sure people did not find it ending like an AJTL copy (mind you, I liked the finality of the ending in AJTL, despite half wishing the riders in the end were not figments of imagination from sun stroke hit lady). Dramas get stingy on weddings, and if there is one, the qipao gets ruined by bratty sister in law, and the spouses are... mmm... awfully imperfect like in Our Days --- which I am halfway through with: TSOPG took up too much of my attention to focus on much more, and I am unsure of when I'll get back to the two others, that I left technically on hold. The many spoilers about bad end are not very incentive for me: as long as it is undecided, it is more exciting for me to watch on. Even hard fluff short Embrace In The Dark Night (6 on Douban!!) deprived audience of a proper wedding. But I don't mind open endings too much if they remain logical.
You sure need a vacation in some quiet place then. Time to splurge on hotel and a temporary change of scenes for real, instead of on Black Friday or Singles Days special offers to fund drama platforms ?
I have mixed reactions about the ending...Keeping in mind how the entire drama was rooted in Realism..this ending…
To answer your question and frustration : allegory for diseases like asbestos cancer or other cancer that can be the results of being exposed to such substances? Or congenital genetic disease that can lay dormant but flares up from stress or other situation?
Three dramas ended back to back with this one and all of them had bittersweet ending / open ending.. Cdramas are…
"valar morghulis"... We were spared here from a graphic and bloody agony, or riding into the wild with bereft soulmate left livid and unable to move on. DW will explore the world for 40 years, next - ending is less somber than some other ones, probably. But if you needed fluffy pink candy floss, yes, that wasn't it.
If it had been otherwise, we would still have haters saying where is 'realism'! So u cant stop them.. Even the…
My happier take on end: after sleeping with her and offering breakfast, he slipped his ring on her finger as a commitment to stay with her until end, not just the ring stay... they went to the mountains after the exhibition while he prepared their convoy with the guiding star, and after she entrusted the guild to one who also had known anguish and picked herself up bravely to face reality, knowing how to distinguish truth from lies. She held his hand while he passed on later, perhaps at the foot of the mountain where they should have looked at stars together. She continued on her travels. OK, it's less bittersweet then ?
I am a determined optimist when there is even just an atom of hope, although a pessimist about how things will really go, so just stoic and looking at the bright side if nothing else works: imagination is great so as not to get submerged in fruitless sorrow and guilt like Zhuohua almost did. But as they say in high valyrian : "Valar morghulis "
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Ah yes, a nice way to solve it. And after all, that was LYN's own suggestion. The speech given by DW/SMZ before she moved on was rather good, so the last episode still had something to chew on, instead of pink candy floss.
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Anyway if they did not, it looks like they married again after he changed his ways and the awful mother in law was tamed by her brush with death
The other two were far worse.
8 to 9 I can understand because some are not forgiving of (some) p(l)otholes and real inconsistencies, but they were too few from my pov to shoot the drama down. So, in keeping my lenient streak, it's a 9.5 rounded to 10 for me although I still prefer LLTG in Rosy's ancient dynasties drama filmography.
You can look up names in the MDL drama cast, or, for more, with snapshots from drams, in my "companion piece" : https://kisskh.at/discussions/zhu-lian-yu-mu/131556-the-story-of-pearl-girl-companion-piece
I agree with your last paragraph, but I think that it is up to audience to like or not a more realistic and complex drama, like this one, or The Tale of Rose, or Angels Fall Sometimes, in other genres.
It is not our place to scold audiences here or there with over-the-top accusations that they "want to westernize the cultural production of a country where >>> etc.
In China, families don't mourn tepidly their passed ones as if death was 'just a matter of fact', not touching sensibility, nor are they indifferent to injustice and death of others. It's rather in western countries that the sense of family weakens to the point that elders dying alone or in sometimes abusive retirement homes is just something ordinary and no need to feel bad about it. Or that young girls can get beaten, raped, knifed or torched to death not raising eyebrows more than cats who get run over by a vehicle.
He shouldn't be forever stuck and typecast as the tragic, expendable, character. Unless he wants to. But that'd be a pity.
His songs are almost always lit, even though I read... did he need a vocal chords surgery, recently? I can't fathom how he could belt out for hours in live stream and talk non stop around his recent 5 drama OSTs, which are all good, including the surprising change of style one for FOF.
Dramas get stingy on weddings, and if there is one, the qipao gets ruined by bratty sister in law, and the spouses are... mmm... awfully imperfect like in Our Days --- which I am halfway through with: TSOPG took up too much of my attention to focus on much more, and I am unsure of when I'll get back to the two others, that I left technically on hold. The many spoilers about bad end are not very incentive for me: as long as it is undecided, it is more exciting for me to watch on.
Even hard fluff short Embrace In The Dark Night (6 on Douban!!) deprived audience of a proper wedding.
But I don't mind open endings too much if they remain logical.
Time to splurge on hotel and a temporary change of scenes for real, instead of on Black Friday or Singles Days special offers to fund drama platforms ?
OK, it's less bittersweet then ?
I am a determined optimist when there is even just an atom of hope, although a pessimist about how things will really go, so just stoic and looking at the bright side if nothing else works: imagination is great so as not to get submerged in fruitless sorrow and guilt like Zhuohua almost did.
But as they say in high valyrian : "Valar morghulis "
The speech given by DW/SMZ before she moved on was rather good, so the last episode still had something to chew on, instead of pink candy floss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5Z6eadmcs
But it could just as well be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2RnxZnubCM