MadelineMaureen

Tissues part two

I appreciate the fact we spend the majority of this episode with He SuYe and what is going on in his world...and what he is struggling with on his own. Watching his father treat a woman he's never met before better than he ever treated his mother in the same space, and on his birthday, no less...peace of work. I really can't stand his father, and I'm hoping for the day SuYe spells it all out for him in detail on WHY he failed as a husband and a father. SuYe and then XiFan reaching out to each other...her remembering it's his birthday....the whole scene made me cry for them. Zhang Ling He and Xu Ruo Han have really perfected the art of crying without letting the tears fall. The way you can see how verklempt SuYe is when trying to articulate what he wants to say to her next. The director did a really good job holding on moments, and letting the audience feel the awkwardness and tension of their interactions. How they showed SuYe's isolation even surrounded by family. There was a small glitch in this episode, which was either just my stream from iQIYI or something that will be edited out within a day. But while SuYe was fixing the red beans parts of the scene repeated themselves and the audio/sound mix got a bit funky. Again, not sure if it was just me or something everyone saw. But with how quick directors are about going back to re-edit episodes lately, I wouldn't bet on it existing for a whole 24 hours. ps. the audacity of SuYe's father, giving a woman his son's room on his damn birthday....straight to jail. At this point I'm voting for cutting ties and moving his hometown to his mother's. (you are registered in your hometown...think like a passport....it actually matters for legal and financial reasons.)

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What in the character assassination is this?

The writer-director took it upon himself to dumb down multiple characters, kill all character growth, and fundamentally change kep plot points just to extend his run time. This is how you fuck up an adaptation of a romance written by a woman. All this director seems to want to focus on are the traumatic elements. The SA...the SA that never existed in the source material so that she can meet the intern. No. No. No. "Her room looked rather emtpy" no shit Sherlock. This is "but what do we do now" levels of taking away a woman's intelligence to further a plot point for a male character. Wen YiFan GOES TO Sang Yan in YiHe. SHE DOES NOT GO INTO FUCKING HIDDING SCARYING THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF HIM. Sang Yan does not find out from other people what the fuck is happening with his girlfriend. She goes to HIM & SHE tells him her story. I get want to show a visual of him discovering what she went through over the years, but there were better ways to show the audience this information without undoing all character development & placing everyone back at square fucking one.

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