Gossip sure, but it's surface level. When push comes to shove, women do help other women, but here's the thing.…
I think women learn from role models--other women who mentor, support, lead--who are strong and independent. Many times, how you are as a woman is a result of what you were taught or shown about how a woman is supposed to be. If your models are gossipy, weak, disloyal, for example, that sets the stage for what you think is normal behavior.
This is very much why we need to be aware of what we're showing other women, especially young women and girls. They will be ladders for others if they're taught that it's the right way to be.
Still feeling a little pissy that I didn't know "Flourished Peony" was a 2-parter before I started it, and I'm not in the mood to find out that out the hard way again, so anyone know if this show has a 2nd part? The first part's only 30 episodes, which sort of suggests it . . .
You haven’t been tricked. Some people noticed that it’s tagged with a sequel and others did research.If you…
It shouldn't need ANY research, is my point. If producers know there's a part 2 coming, even if they don't know when it can air, they should say so--the way the producers of "Joy of Life" did.
Feeling annoyed when you learn there's a part 2 you didn't know about before you started watching is completely reasonable.
You haven’t been tricked. Some people noticed that it’s tagged with a sequel and others did research.If you…
It's not reasonable to tell people to research a show before they start watching. When I want or need to do research, I work on my Master's thesis. No one should have to research TV they watch for entertainment.
Secondly, the sequel isn't called anything like "Flourished Peony", so even if you notice that there's a note about "related content", the note is in Mandarin, and when you click, it doesn't tell you anything except the leads are the same in both dramas.
Third, I'm smart enough to get by, and I didn't know there was a sequel either. I would not have started the show if I'd known there was, so please give people who are annoyed and/or feel like they've been bamboozled a break.
And Shengyi, that co-owner, the weak friend who remarried her loser husband, deserves no sympathy. I hope she…
We should help people who are weaker than we are, especially if they're being abused. But you do get to a place where the care you have gets worn out if you've helped once or twice before (especially if you've helped and it was risky for you, too, as it is in Mudan's case) and the person you've helped keeps returning to her abuser. Which is sort of where we're at with Shengyi.
If you give people a 3rd chance to hurt you and they take it, you're on your own.
About the only good thing from this episode is it looks like, so far, that the FL has not been brutally gang raped…
You did a very good job of listing complaints I have. One of the most frustrating things about the drama is how good it could've been, and instead it's . . . this.
He can quit if it's too much for him. Make space for other celebs who get what it's about.
You're kind of a dick, aren't you? What a shame. I guess if you'd had another choice about who you wanted to be, you wouldn't have chosen to be a petty internet troll, but there you go.
We cannot do anything. Chinese authory must take action before it goes too far.Maybe only be against sasseang's…
What about the extreme fans here? The ones who play rating games because they're anti fans, stalking posts and comments, trolling essays because their darlings have been criticized? Aren't they part of sasseang culture too?
If I lived to be 1000 years old, I will never understand this kind of fandom. To me, its evidence of mental imbalance. Neither the courts nor a country's culture should allow stalking, invasion of privacy, harassment or any other activities typical of extreme fan culture to be acceptable or normalized.
Every time I see this here at MDL, it makes me absolutely cringe, and you all have seen it here, too.
What can or should we be doing about it here, in our own backyard?
I realize that this story is popular, which is why there are Korean, Thai and Chinese versions. But it's so boring and dumb. Why do people like it so much?
It's stunning that someone can still die from pneumonia in 2025. A loss of an outstanding talent much, much too soon.
This is very much why we need to be aware of what we're showing other women, especially young women and girls. They will be ladders for others if they're taught that it's the right way to be.
Call me bad, but the book version is the one I'd rather see. I love an obsessed, sex-craved ML. In FICTION.
Feeling annoyed when you learn there's a part 2 you didn't know about before you started watching is completely reasonable.
Secondly, the sequel isn't called anything like "Flourished Peony", so even if you notice that there's a note about "related content", the note is in Mandarin, and when you click, it doesn't tell you anything except the leads are the same in both dramas.
Third, I'm smart enough to get by, and I didn't know there was a sequel either. I would not have started the show if I'd known there was, so please give people who are annoyed and/or feel like they've been bamboozled a break.
If you give people a 3rd chance to hurt you and they take it, you're on your own.
Every time I see this here at MDL, it makes me absolutely cringe, and you all have seen it here, too.
What can or should we be doing about it here, in our own backyard?
Thank you.