Jumpsuiter

This is your comment, your opinion.
It’s not a description of what’s happening in the drama.

The Best Thing. I liked it more. I think the balance is better.

‘In China, a man should lead the relationship most of the time’ 🤢
I’ve checked. It’s 2026 in China, too.

I usually like Gu Man adaptations but this one is only okay for me. I’m still watching it but over the last 3/4 episodes (I’m on ep31), my interest has waned. It seems to have most of the right ingredients but they are not in the right volumes.

Are you really quite young? I’m not criticising, at all. I ask because you seem to look at life in a rather black and white way. It gets very nuanced when you have opposing needs. The push and pull of fear and want is very real and it makes people act capriciously. This would explain the changes to the characters behaviour. He’s emboldened by his friends’ support but he’s also scared.

Do any of us? The constant battle between want and should? The rational vs emotional mind? Superego vs id?
Loins vs lobes?

How would you have ended it?

Of course he wants to be with Fah, he loves him. However, at the same time he wants his father’s love too. Oh and he is floating around in an ocean of guilt. Oh, and his mother abandoned him.

I think he’s allowed to be a bit confused about what he wants the most.

Such is the complex and sometimes paradoxical nature of human emotions.

Usually people avoid marrying cousins because of the chances of birth defects in children with parents who share genetic material. This is essentially why it’s not recommended. Not a problem for the characters in this drama I suspect.

It doesn’t need to be feast or famine. Just normalise healthier consumption levels.

Separated at birth! So similar.

If I received a ‘breakthrough’ award from an industry I’d worked in for 20 years, I’d probably be rather annoyed 😬.

No watchlist. No other dramas watched. No other reviews. Fishy.

With all of these the answer is more closely matched to the question 'What have you watched the most recently?' rather than the actual question asked.

Not offended. Observant.

Opinion is: ‘I don’t like this. It’s not for me.’

Rage baiting is using passive aggression to be broadly dismissive of its overall merit.

Or perhaps Pilates. Good for the core. It’ll make you feel better.

Rage baiting is not a good hobby. Have you tried crochet?

This is such a textbook reply. With your own argument in tatters, you turn to the classic formula of demeaning insults and passive aggression. It’s pretty much exactly where I thought you might take this.

You are missing the point by quite a margin. In these films/dramas, made 90% of the time by men, how many conversations between woman are about anything other than men? That’s the test. Whether characters are poorly written or poorly portrayed is moot. Just because they are made largely for a female audience doesn’t mean they benefit women in society. In many cases they perpetuate outdated notions. I would be interested in your examples of male characters who are largely just ciphers.

The test measures how many conversations are had between women in media where the topic isn't a man. I don’t understand your comment, though?