InspectorMegre

Oh no wonder you watch cdramas.
Everything that you wrote has NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER to what I wrote. YOU MISSED what I was saying. I agree with some parts of your post, e.g. many ppl like "light" dramas bc they lack the intellectual capacity.
I TOTALLY disagree with your "hero" theories and that "deep" movies have to be dark and heavy.
In fact, kdramas are masters of portraying heavy and dark things with a certain lightness and humor. Cdramas just do not have that at all. And it is obvious, you do not even know what it is.
I am not gonna waste time to try again and again to explain it.
Keep on watching cdramas :) they are so simple - too simple to the point of childish - and thus many ppl can understand them. cdramas are masterful mass manipulation :)
I cannot talk to you anymore. GO WATCH 2016 Chinese movie Xuan Zhang to see the real story, hero does not have to destroy, and deep stuff can be very light and understandable.

Farewell. Please do NOT reply.

I thought about this a lot. Season 2 is mostly about YuMi - BaBi relationship and fallout.

BaBi has no mother and his father is cement, so BaBi tries to "buy love by being perfect. YuMi never loved him really, she just used him to serve her like she was a princess. So as soon as he found someone else to kiss his as@ and love him, as soon as he found a better "investment", he took it.

BaBi's sliminess is that he starts switching ships as soon as his current ship starts sinking. He chased YuMi while breaking up with his reporter ex, and then he got Jeju girl as soon as it was clear that she was kissing his as# and loving him... So much better than uMi who honestly was just cold to BaBi and just enjoyed his taking care of her.

BaBi needs to find someone who will truly love and cherish him as much as he does love and cherish her. BaBi has a great capacity to love but very low ability to RECEIVE - then he falls for the first person who shows him appreciation and love.

YuMi needs to grow up too and pair up with a man who is equal to her. Woong was so much more childish and was essentially a boy toy, and BaBi was like a father/servant/nurse/sugar daddy to her. Seems like YuMi is a rather shallow person who picks the first guy who will give her s.x and attention.

I thought about this a lot. Bc BaBi has no mother and his father is cement, so BaBi tries to "buy love by being perfect. YuMi never loved him really, she just used him to serve her like she was a princess. So as soon as he found someone else to kiss his as@ and love him, as soon as he found a better "investment", he took it.

BaBi's sliminess is that he starts switching ships as soon as his current ship starts sinking. He chased YuMi while breaking up with his ex, and then he got Jeju girl as soon as it was clear that she was kissing his as# and loving him... So much better than uMi who honestly was just cold to BaBi and just enjoyed his taking care of her.

Yumi's Cells Season 2 is so toxic,,,, because THE DRAMA IS DEAD FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES. It is not about love and aliveness. It is about INTENTIONAL TOXICITY, nobody is trying to become a better person, YuMi just scoots along with BaBi pushing her forward, and BaBi thinks this is the best "love" he can find for himself and BaBi "buys" this love by always being perfect and doting on the princess so that she would bestow her "love" on him.

So yeah, I feel furious after watching Yumi's Cells Season 2. It is a "waste of time" drama unless you want to really analyze toxic relationships.
The Cells is the only thing that is useful and worth watching here, to learn how ppl are able to slide into toxic relationships and maintain them for a long time.

That is the difference between how you and I watch. If I dont remember what happened in a drama, I consider it trash, and I try to avoid stuff like that. I watch stuff that engages me and makes me think and learn.
How do I know if a drama is trash or not, while I am watching it? THat is a whole story in itself. The simple answer is - if I dont remember it next week LOL Basically, I measure it by how much it is making me think and what I am learning from it and how much I am impacted by it. Like the classic masterpiece kdrama My Mister.

Sure yes, the ONLY story to tell is how to overcome one's flaws and the evil and transform into a better human being.

A trash drama / movie does NOT show that. there is always some way out.
cdramas tend to show just slices of life without much if any transformation or efforts for a better life beyond just survival and physical needs
Hwood tends to focus on just the flawed part without any.much effort to improve
kdramas are the only ones that show transformation by personal efforts and communication

Just watched Yumi's Cells season 1 bc of really great review on byrei.ink - indeed it is a great study on how immature ppl get together for fun and then quickly break up. THE CELLS ARE SOOOO EDUCATIONAL AND DEEP!!!! I rated that 10 bc of its uniqueness and insights. I just fast forwarded through the cringe parts showing the external behaviors of two really dumb immature ppl butting heads without any communication.

Season 1 was about puppy young love based on hormones.

Then I watched 14 episodes of Season 2. And I feel very upset after, because it was about two slimey adults. YuMi using BaBi as her happy pill, to have someone kiss her as# and take care of her ALL THE TIME like she was a princess, and YuMi lost any interest and bailed out as soon as the dude could not deliver that all the time. And BaBi - he needs someone to truly love him, and I guess he wants someone to kiss HIS as# too, so he essentially cheated by emotionally attaching to a chick like that - and probably would have proceeded to switch ships at one point, JUST LIKE he was switching ships and jumping on to YuMi while he was breaking up with his ex.

SO SEASON 2 IS A STUDY IN VERY SLIMEY TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS.

And then this cheesy idea of 2 guys being loyal forever to one woman who used them while it was fun and then dumped them... SO unreal soapy!!!!

There was real stuff... both guys had "second wives", women who openly catered to them and tried to take them away from the official girlfriend YuMi. That is soooo realistic.
YuMi's male suitors behaved in typical ways of real life and backed off as soon as she said she has a boyfriend.

Overall, YuMi is a very ignorant unaware person and also a coward in many ways because she keeps her Hunch away in the desert and is afraid to listen to him, and also DEep Inner Self is burried in an underground prison.

So Yumi's Cells can have 10000000000 episodes where YuMi keeps using men, chewing them up while they are useful to her and then spitting them out.

In Season 1, YuMi has to kiss as# of Woong, to keep her fun boy toy. He is a moody arrogant man-child and a great boy toy
In Season 2, BaBi has to kiss as# of YuMi and make her feel like a princess, or else she loses interest in him. She gets with him not out of love, but for health reasons, to be treated like a princess, and loses interest as soon as he cannot be that loyal doting SERVANT ALL THE TIME. BaBi sold his soul and then could not resist his need for someone who truly loves him and gives to him, so he essentially chated.
BaBi needs someone who gives to him as much as he gives. BaBi did not have a mother and his father is cement, so BaBi needs real love, to be the center of attention.

Yeah BaBi is slimey too... He jumps ships as soon as it is not productive for him to stay.... As soon as "his woman" is "away" - he starts jumping ships...

So Season 2 is just ... ugly toxic muck bc it is clear these ppl are adults adn SHOULD be thinking...
BASICALLY SEASON 2 SHOWS THAT NOTHING WAS LEARNED FROM SEASON 1
and season 3 looks like the same concept


Season 1 is cute bc it is "starter kit"
but Season 2 is infuriating bc there is no progress whatsoever
the story just repeats
And Season 3 looks the same repeat...

Ok I get it. Season 1 is interesting only bc of the Cells... bc it shows the typical hormone-driven relationships that fall apart, how immature people think, what operates them inside to create those stupid external behaviors - how mismatched immature ppl get together for the sake of s.x and fun and keep it going for a short while until the first problems.
Woong is an arrogant dude and he keeps his "second wife" bc she strokes his ego, and he stays around YuMi only while his ego is stroked and looking grand. So he and YuMi used each other, and YuMi was a lot more giving, in order to keep her fun boy toy.

Season 2 is a study in toxic relationships. YuMi does NOT love BaBi and she gets together with him for convenience, takes him as a happy pill, "loves" him when it is all perfect, and loses any interest as soon as he is less than perfect. He essentially cheated by emotionally attaching himself to another chick, who was kissing his as@ and who genuinely loved him from the start, which YuMi never did. YuMi and BaBi relationship was majorly slimey, and BaBi was a lot more giving. YuMi was there as long as she was THE PRINCESS, and BaBi had to keep kissing her as@ and taking care of her.

The key problem is that YuMi is totally oblivious to her Hunch Cell and her Deep Inner Cell and is fact scared of them, so she keeps operating out of limited / dumb Emotions, Reason, etc

Season 3 is about .... ? hopefully real love for who the people ARE and a real relationship where both give and take and LOVE equally.

But there could be 100000 seasons and NOTHING WILL WORK AS LONG AS THAT HUNCH CELL IS FEARED AND PUT TO LIVE ALONE IN THE DESERT, AND DEEP INNER CELL IS BURRIED IN AN UNDERGROUND PRISON

YuMi is an ordinary clueless ignorant person, living life on automatic pilot. The interesting part is the Cells, we need to see how that all works

Ok I get it. Season 1 is interesting only bc of the Cells... bc it shows the typical hormone-driven relationships that fall apart, how immature people think, what operates them inside to create those stupid external behaviors - how mismatched immature ppl get together for the sake of s.x and fun and keep it going for a short while until the first problems. Woong is an arrogant dude and he keeps his "second wife" bc she strokes his ego, and he stays around YuMi only while his ego is stroked and looking grand. So he and YuMi used each other, and YuMi was a lot more giving, in order to keep her fun boy toy.

Season 2 is a study in toxic relationships. YuMi does NOT love BaBi and she gets together with him for convenience, takes him as a happy pill, "loves" him when it is all perfect, and loses any interest as soon as he is less than perfect. He essentially cheated by emotionally attaching himself to another chick, who was kissing his as@ and who genuinely loved him from the start, which YuMi never did. YuMi and BaBi relationship was majorly slimey, and BaBi was a lot more giving. YuMi was there as long as she was THE PRINCESS, and BaBi had to keep kissing her as@ and taking care of her.

Season 3 is about .... ? hopefully real love for who the people ARE and a real relationship where both give and take and LOVE equally.

ah let us not start on that again! they are free independent adults and MAY fully consent to 1000 years age difference if they so choose! LET THEM BE

ong my assessment of Ba Bi was 100% correct. As soon as he went to another place, he found another chick. There was NOTHING REAL between BaBi and YuMi for real since the very start, she does not love him, he is just her happy pill to forget Woong... so yeah I can see why he would feel drawn to someone who is totally in love with him.

And there certainly NOTHING between BaBi and YuMi already by ep 8.... but he gave her a ring!!!! - so .. 6 more episodes to end that toxic relationship??? aaagh that is gonna be bad... and it was....

Adult men moping after their woman for YEARS AND DECADES and unwilling and unable to have new relationships - and one woman having at least 2 great guys like that forever dedicated to her - wow what a super disgusting lie soapy cringe trope that shows up on most if not all dramas. So those moping men just do not have s.x all their adult life, or for so many years and decades?
WOW WE FOUND WHY S KOREA HAS THE LOWEST BIRTH RATE IN THE WORLD - and why hostess bars and prostitution are so normal in Asia.
The reality was shown by both Woong and Ba Bi. Woong was keeping his "second wife" at work, and Ba Bi found "second wife" as soon as he moved away. And both those "second wives" had NO problem butting in to steal the man from his official girlfriend. On the other hand, men who were told the girl is taken, backed off immediately. THAT IS THE TYPICAL REALITY

Season 2 was too soapy.
Adult men moping after their woman for YEARS AND DECADES and unwilling and unable to have new relationships - and one woman having at least 2 great guys like that forever dedicated to her - wow what a super disgusting lie soapy cringe trope that shows up on most if not all dramas. So those moping men just do not have s.x all their adult life, or for so many years and decades?
WOW WE FOUND WHY S KOREA HAS THE LOWEST BIRTH RATE IN THE WORLD - and why hostess bars and prostitution are so normal in Asia.
The reality was shown by both Woong and Ba Bi. Woong was keeping his "second wife" at work, and Ba Bi found "second wife" as soon as he moved away. And both those "second wives" had NO problem butting in to steal the man from his official girlfriend. On the other hand, men who were told the girl is taken, backed off immediately. THAT IS THE TYPICAL REALITY

Adult men moping after their woman for YEARS AND DECADES and unwilling and unable to have new relationships - and one woman having at least 2 great guys like that forever dedicated to her - wow what a super disgusting lie soapy cringe trope that shows up on most if not all dramas. So those moping men just do not have s.x all their adult life, or for so many years and decades?
WOW WE FOUND WHY S KOREA HAS THE LOWEST BIRTH RATE IN THE WORLD - and why hostess bars and prostitution are so normal in Asia.
The reality was shown by both Woong and Ba Bi. Woong was keeping his "second wife" at work, and Ba Bi found "second wife" as soon as he moved away. And both those "second wives" had NO problem butting in to steal the man from his official girlfriend. On the other hand, men who were told the girl is taken, backed off immediately. THAT IS THE TYPICAL REALITY

Ah 2 great guys chasing YuMi and staying single for years bc of her and really helping her... Oh what a steamy bologney. That is one of the few faults of this series.

CEO Chae definitely looks like Olive Oyl, the hairdo and the SUPER THIN silhuette and the type of clothes... the frills around the neck and sleeves... !!! TOTALLY! Whoever saw that similarity, has super shapr eyes!!!! I forgot who it was, but it was another user on this page.

Before I saw that, I thought she looks like a huge chicken, bc that is how she walks, and then she had some shoes with feather fluff on the heels :) and her hair looks like a crest.. She looks like a very mean chicken strutting around looking for a victim and will eat you or peck you to death...
THe LapDog really looks like a very sad old dog

the dad went missing while yachting in Monaco, Cote d' Azure, France... So.... chance of him disappearing in the super densely populated French Riviera... ? are slim. Something weird happened to him and HOPEFULLY he will be back

YES!!!! just wait a bit for Seo Rim to get out of bed!!!!

Season 2 is cringe tropes .... ong my assessment of Ba Bi was 100% correct. As soon as he went to another place, he found another chick. There is NOTHING between BaBi and YuMi already in ep 8.... but he gave her a ring!!!! - so .. 6 more episodes to end that toxic relationship??? aaagh that is gonna be bad...

i like YuMi as someone who is SMART, she uses Reason Cell and listens to all other cells, and Reason Cell talks a lot to Emotion Cell, and all cells are accountable and keep good care of Yu Mi. BUT I DISLIKE that YuMi never listens to her Inner Self... the Hunch cell... that is a loser...

Also I like YuMi bc she is HEALTHY - she eats, she is sexy, she is healthy in every way

I honestly cannot think of any modern age kactress that is like that, except actresses in daily or family dramas. "Status symbol" short dramas all use SUPER THIN anorexic thin actors and actresses and it is no fun.
Being sexy requires ENERGY - movement, activity, stamina, muscles... and that is possible only with food and exercise.

I cannot imagine any of those modern actors and actresses going for a run... or kissing for more than 1 second. They will run out of breath.. and do not look good at all. YuMi's Fashion Cell nailed it, that anorexic look is fashionable.. she called it GAUNT LOOK when Woong was suffering...

but Woong and BaBi are both muscle men, and YuMi is relatively strong and meaty too...
Old dramas show healthy people. Not anymore!!!!

SO UNFORTUNATELY WE CANNOT POSSIBLY SEE DRAMAS LIKE YUMI
S CELLS ANYMORE, FOR THE SHEER FACT THAT MOST - practically all??? - ACTORS AND ACTRESSES JUST DO NOT HAVE ENERGY BC THEY ARE TOO MALNOURISHED

Agh... not again. at least 2 guys fighting for one woman and being loyal to her and only her for years and decades - what a cringe soapy lie.

I like YumiCells series bc it shows the realism - other women trying to steal her man - and YuMi not tolerating it. Usually women in those situations attack the other woman and let the man of the hook, and I am glad YuMi is different