Thanks for posting. :) Unfortunately, from the info I found about this one, it looks like all BL content was removed (due to censorship) from the drama. :(
Thanks for such a great article! The moment I saw the title, I started grinning, and couldn't click on it fast enough. :P I love-love-love gender-benders, specifically girls disguised as boys. I hope they never stop making them! :D
If anyone is looking for new/more titles to watch, here's a couple of my lists:
Loved this article! Really, really well done and wonderfully presented. I participated in the survey, and it's so interesting to finally see the results! :)
To answer the questions at the end:
* I don't ever feel angry when a drama I liked/loved gets a "bad" rating. Or, on the flip-side, when something I hated/disliked has tons of glowing ratings and reviews. My thought is always, "That's interesting". And then I spend a good amount of time reading through the comments and reviews. I actually ENJOY seeing other people's differing thoughts, feelings, and points of view. My god... how utterly mind-numbingly boring would it be to constantly find yourself in an echo chamber of love/hate? Obviously, some people enjoy that very much, but it's not for me.
* I don't think down-rating is okay. I also don't think up-rating is okay, either. In fact, I personally feel that both are really shitty things to do, and people's "justifications" are excuses they tell themselves (and others) so they don't have to acknowledge that what they're doing is, well... shitty. Is it kinda sad? Yes. Is it worth getting angry about? No. I'm here on MDL because I love asian cinema. It's my entertainment, my enjoyment, and an escape from all the crap I have to deal with in my real-life. I have absolutely no desire to mar that by getting sucked into any kind of ugly drama, or by getting angry about the crappy shit that other people do. It's pointless, and and does nothing but affect me negatively.
I just try to think of it this way... the people who do these things, and feel this kind of rabid anger when others don't agree with them, are most likely very young and/or nieve, so hopefully they'll eventually change and mature with more life experience and human observation. Or they're egotistical, and are simply unwilling (or just not capable) of understanding how someone else could have a differing opinion. These types of people are best avoided entirely, as any kind of opposition (even if it's logical, factual, and polite) will just set them off in a very nasty way. And thus... more ugly drama in a never-ending cycle.
* I've never fought with anyone here (probably because I go out of my way to avoid ugly drama or anything that might potentially lead to that), but a few years ago I did reply to a post in the forums. If I'm remembering correctly, I think it was someone who had hated "Healer", and was really, really angry and ranting (in a very nasty way) about how they didn't understand the stupid people who liked/loved it. I tried explaining how everyone has different tastes, likes/dislikes, etc. And surprise, surprise... that person didn't take too kindly to my comment and got even nastier. I remember thinking, "Wow, that was a waste of my time, and now I'm really upset." After that, I made the decision to NEVER engage those types of people ever again... which has made my time here at MDL extremely pleasant and enjoyable. :)
If anyone is looking for new/more titles to watch, here's a couple of my lists:
Gender-Benders: Girls in Disguise - (movies)
https://kisskh.at/list/M4PxDeq4
Gender-Benders: Girls in Disguise - (dramas)
https://kisskh.at/list/W3rWym74
To answer the questions at the end:
* I don't ever feel angry when a drama I liked/loved gets a "bad" rating. Or, on the flip-side, when something I hated/disliked has tons of glowing ratings and reviews. My thought is always, "That's interesting". And then I spend a good amount of time reading through the comments and reviews. I actually ENJOY seeing other people's differing thoughts, feelings, and points of view. My god... how utterly mind-numbingly boring would it be to constantly find yourself in an echo chamber of love/hate? Obviously, some people enjoy that very much, but it's not for me.
* I don't think down-rating is okay. I also don't think up-rating is okay, either. In fact, I personally feel that both are really shitty things to do, and people's "justifications" are excuses they tell themselves (and others) so they don't have to acknowledge that what they're doing is, well... shitty. Is it kinda sad? Yes. Is it worth getting angry about? No. I'm here on MDL because I love asian cinema. It's my entertainment, my enjoyment, and an escape from all the crap I have to deal with in my real-life. I have absolutely no desire to mar that by getting sucked into any kind of ugly drama, or by getting angry about the crappy shit that other people do. It's pointless, and and does nothing but affect me negatively.
I just try to think of it this way... the people who do these things, and feel this kind of rabid anger when others don't agree with them, are most likely very young and/or nieve, so hopefully they'll eventually change and mature with more life experience and human observation. Or they're egotistical, and are simply unwilling (or just not capable) of understanding how someone else could have a differing opinion. These types of people are best avoided entirely, as any kind of opposition (even if it's logical, factual, and polite) will just set them off in a very nasty way. And thus... more ugly drama in a never-ending cycle.
* I've never fought with anyone here (probably because I go out of my way to avoid ugly drama or anything that might potentially lead to that), but a few years ago I did reply to a post in the forums. If I'm remembering correctly, I think it was someone who had hated "Healer", and was really, really angry and ranting (in a very nasty way) about how they didn't understand the stupid people who liked/loved it. I tried explaining how everyone has different tastes, likes/dislikes, etc. And surprise, surprise... that person didn't take too kindly to my comment and got even nastier. I remember thinking, "Wow, that was a waste of my time, and now I'm really upset." After that, I made the decision to NEVER engage those types of people ever again... which has made my time here at MDL extremely pleasant and enjoyable. :)