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the romance between the female and male leads ("epic") just bores the snot out of me, but since Vaness Wu is the 2nd ml and he's "evil", I'm watching it. Because apparently, that's what I do, watch things with Vaness Wu.

So probably, this won't be subbed, or, if it is, it'll be subbed but it will be difficult to access it. I'm not familiar with the details of this, but I've read vaguely that there is one troll, possibly two, who have been ripping off the work of our most prominent and necessary subbers--and said troll(s) have ruined it for all of us. I could not be more pissed about this if I tried.

.What an entertaining article! You made we want to watch all of these shows,

I don't think I've seen this in dramas from the Middle East or Thailand. Yet. Everywhere else, I have. I'm beginning to think they're required now. Finding them a bit tiresome though, tbh.

I think we'd like going to the movies together. Except we seem to really like the same things, so what would we talk about after the movie :-)

I don't even know if I liked it. What an odd film. It's stiff and limp at the same time.

I watch this once a year whether I need to or not. It's my most secret pleasure.

Such a gracious reply. You must be lovely.

It's not outstanding, but all the characters are likable, and it was a rare drama that I didn't ff through. It tried hard to present "leftover" women as not being "leftover", and I thought it elevated women's friendship to the primacy they deserve.

aw, what a nice article.

If the character does grow or evolve as the drama progresses, the pace of the development over 45+ episodes is glacial, and too slow to develop the velocity required to escape the first 15 or 20 episodes.

You are right.
The promotion of female purity/innocence/virginity often leads to the characterization of women as dumb as a bag of hammers.

Surely there's some sort of middle ground between slut and virgin, though--even in the East?

We may disagree about what a "strong" female character in a drama would look like, but we can certainly agree about what a weak one looks like, and this is where dramas are going to get the most criticism.

If you make the FL look childish, immature, indecisive, overly impressionable, innocent to the point of stupidity, easily misled or manipulated, without any will or backbone, or self sacrificing to the point of absurdity, that is a weak character, and nothing you subsequently do in the drama is going to change that initial impression.

If the drama promotes an image of a FL character like the above as some sort of idealization of women, then that drama is bad, profoundly bad, and the drama deserves every word of criticism it gets.

We don't have to agree about what makes a main woman character strong, but we shouldn't accept rubbish characterizations of women.

aw. Looks adorable. Hopefully it gets picked up by one of the dramagods and gets subbed.

please, would you send me one, too?

I'm so sad that all the sources of Thai dramas and subs have almost disappeared. I understand why it's happening, but I miss lakorns so much.

Typical for a Cdrama. I thought this one would be different and not do the usual things in cdramas that make me want to flip over tables. But no.

I think it's airing still, until June 23, but thank you so much for the link!

You know I was exaggerating a little, right?

And a designer handbag! Drama law: That handbag will be as large a Louis Vuitton overnighter, and ugly af.

Park Shin Hye's kissing scene(s) in Heartstrings traumatized me. So terrible.

I can't stand these bad scenes, and I hate when the female character stands like a lamp post when she's being hugged.

If the scenes are going to be that dead, just don't have them in the show.