the fl in this said 'true filial piety is breaking the fate of family and striving to ensure parents' faults and ancestral shortcomings do not reenact in oneself. The evil of the whole family must stop with my generation' and she did! and OMG 🤯. This is why we need mini dramas, bc to them full length dramas, filial piety means mercilessly torturing your child while they accept it as love and obey you without question
This is a really good and bewitching drama but I do feel like some criticism is justified, and people are being treated like haters for pointing out very real flaws with the script, characterization, and world-building.
I know I'm expected to empathize with Song Yimeng and I do — she's doing her best to survive this situation, knowing there seem to be some inevitable outcomes — but enough has changed from the canon plot that there should absolutely be more doubt in her mind about everyone and everything. She mostly skimmed a lot of the script/novel, and there's lots of context she's missing (which she should logically have realized by now).
The narrative reeeeeally emphasizes her empathy and compassion for every single other person, so for the average casual viewer, her constant vindictiveness (not just verbal abuse but also physical violence) against ML comes across as excessive and extremely callous. I'm watching closely and I DO understand her desire to avoid getting entangled with ML, but this show was marketed as a romance and considering we are 2/3 of the way through now, there's still truly very little of that happening. I'm not at all surprised viewers are fatigued.
It was REALLY late in the game to try and give her a tragic backstory in episode 27 with her parents dying in a fire IRL; that seems like a last-minute addition to garner sympathy. For the sake of her characterization, this absolutely should have been handled earlier....like idk, during that massive fire at the Lantern Festival. And then having Nan Heng not press for more details considering her actual dad is still alive in this world seemed a bit silly and weird considering how smart and calculating he usually is. Idk.
They could have easily alleviated some audience exhaustion by peppering in a few more scenes here and there of FL experiencing real inner conflict, or having the self-awareness to question her own behavior. Like, ML has had many pointed lines of self-defense (both as Nan Heng, and as Liu Shiliu) but not a single time did they land with her or shake her whatsoever. She's barely had a hint of doubt about who he really is or that she might have gotten some things wrong. That kind of pride gets really tiring, especially from a character who hasn't actually 'experienced' the awfulness that SYM from canon did. She wasn't reborn from that life, like for example in SOKP. No, FL literally read the TV show script on her couch, but then proceeds to take everything sooo personally. And she's had zero inclination to reconsider her own biases in a discernible way until episode 27, and....barely even then.
Again, I'm enjoying the show, but they could have easily prevented a lot of criticism by making FL a little more narratively consistent and....less unlikeable. Sorry, it is what it is. At this point it's a reach that ML is so in love with her when she's only ever been so incredibly cruel and unfair in her judgment of him. I don't find it enjoyable at all to watch, especially so late in the game. It's willful ignorance on her part now to emphatically believe Nan Heng is totally evil, selfish, and wanting her dead when he didn't even kill her in the actual story. Technically SYM killed herself. This isn't the point lmao but I'm just saying, man!
I keep seeing versions of "nan heng tried to kill her at the beginning of course she's suspicious!!!!!" but song yimeng tried to kill him too, multiple times lol — but he loves her anyway and forgives her for misunderstanding him. Her failure to show the same insight and introspection for so long is beyond stubbornness, and makes it harder to root for her (even though I want to!). It's simply getting old that she keeps hammering on about The Script, even going so far as to say "this whole world is just a storybook on a page" — if this is really still how she feels about her environment and these characters, then why the hell does she care anymore, about any of this? Why should I? Does anything even matter? Do any of these people even matter?????
Recently GXDH saw a comment assuming that Dylan "will be treated very very well going forward" at this stage of his career thanks to previous success in dramas. As much as we would love that, C-ent doesn't quite work like that, and it definitely does not apply to the movie industry. The odds are actually stacked against him: Dylan isn't a nepo baby with a rich family and lots of connections, he didn't come from drama school where all the alumni help each other out, nor does he have major capitals/large agencies backing him up. Dylan is on his own in c-ent, and even his own agency isn't on his side.
>That's why he was blacked so severely during GOTD broadcast and nobody helped him. >That's why GOTD had very little marketing and why Dylan had to work so hard to promote it himself, even getting D.Desirable staff to teach fans how to do data for the drama, hence he was so grateful that he sent out 30k customised shirts for all fans who helped him. >That's why all his social media has its traffic limited to this day, and his and his dramas' hot search topics are very few compared to others who will pay for marketing. >That's why his safety is often ignored - LLAP and the 🥝 basketball VS as recent examples, as well as his "special forces" schedule that risks his health.
His lack of backup actually makes him a perfect target for bullying, exploitation and for people to black him. And Dylan, being a boy from humble background who has no option but to work hard and put up with suffering and injustice, will always swallow it down and pretend everything is okay.
But he shouldn't have to. Especially not when he has XDH around. We are his sole backup and #PerAsperaAdAstra is the GREAT CHANCE to prove that Dylan is not an actor who can just be dismissed so easily. PAAA is not a normal movie in Dylan's career—it is his chance to break free.
This FL is very poorly written, I just can't anymore, she was cute at the beginning but that has rapidly worn off. She is not even close in personality to the FL in Prisioner of Beauty (who was shrewd, emphathetic and truly altruistic), it's so frustrating to see her assume so much and spew so much crap at the ML. This is show should be called a Misunderstanding within a Misunderstanding.
I'm watching for Dai Gao Zheng. But the drama is not my cup of tea. I think DGZ deserves better He's a really good actor and making lots of Mini dramas is not the best bes way to get success he deserves. Give him a proper role in a good drama and let him show his talent.
It's so rare for an actor to speak truthfully about real things and not just talk about vague and fluffy things that it's really praiseworthy. Well done.
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I know I'm expected to empathize with Song Yimeng and I do — she's doing her best to survive this situation, knowing there seem to be some inevitable outcomes — but enough has changed from the canon plot that there should absolutely be more doubt in her mind about everyone and everything. She mostly skimmed a lot of the script/novel, and there's lots of context she's missing (which she should logically have realized by now).
The narrative reeeeeally emphasizes her empathy and compassion for every single other person, so for the average casual viewer, her constant vindictiveness (not just verbal abuse but also physical violence) against ML comes across as excessive and extremely callous. I'm watching closely and I DO understand her desire to avoid getting entangled with ML, but this show was marketed as a romance and considering we are 2/3 of the way through now, there's still truly very little of that happening. I'm not at all surprised viewers are fatigued.
It was REALLY late in the game to try and give her a tragic backstory in episode 27 with her parents dying in a fire IRL; that seems like a last-minute addition to garner sympathy. For the sake of her characterization, this absolutely should have been handled earlier....like idk, during that massive fire at the Lantern Festival. And then having Nan Heng not press for more details considering her actual dad is still alive in this world seemed a bit silly and weird considering how smart and calculating he usually is. Idk.
They could have easily alleviated some audience exhaustion by peppering in a few more scenes here and there of FL experiencing real inner conflict, or having the self-awareness to question her own behavior. Like, ML has had many pointed lines of self-defense (both as Nan Heng, and as Liu Shiliu) but not a single time did they land with her or shake her whatsoever. She's barely had a hint of doubt about who he really is or that she might have gotten some things wrong. That kind of pride gets really tiring, especially from a character who hasn't actually 'experienced' the awfulness that SYM from canon did. She wasn't reborn from that life, like for example in SOKP. No, FL literally read the TV show script on her couch, but then proceeds to take everything sooo personally. And she's had zero inclination to reconsider her own biases in a discernible way until episode 27, and....barely even then.
Again, I'm enjoying the show, but they could have easily prevented a lot of criticism by making FL a little more narratively consistent and....less unlikeable. Sorry, it is what it is. At this point it's a reach that ML is so in love with her when she's only ever been so incredibly cruel and unfair in her judgment of him. I don't find it enjoyable at all to watch, especially so late in the game. It's willful ignorance on her part now to emphatically believe Nan Heng is totally evil, selfish, and wanting her dead when he didn't even kill her in the actual story. Technically SYM killed herself. This isn't the point lmao but I'm just saying, man!
I keep seeing versions of "nan heng tried to kill her at the beginning of course she's suspicious!!!!!" but song yimeng tried to kill him too, multiple times lol — but he loves her anyway and forgives her for misunderstanding him. Her failure to show the same insight and introspection for so long is beyond stubbornness, and makes it harder to root for her (even though I want to!). It's simply getting old that she keeps hammering on about The Script, even going so far as to say "this whole world is just a storybook on a page" — if this is really still how she feels about her environment and these characters, then why the hell does she care anymore, about any of this? Why should I? Does anything even matter? Do any of these people even matter?????
https://x.com/DylanWangGlobal/status/1933756899696288058
Recently GXDH saw a comment assuming that Dylan "will be treated very very well going forward" at this stage of his career thanks to previous success in dramas. As much as we would love that, C-ent doesn't quite work like that, and it definitely does not apply to the movie industry.
The odds are actually stacked against him: Dylan isn't a nepo baby with a rich family and lots of connections, he didn't come from drama school where all the alumni help each other out, nor does he have major capitals/large agencies backing him up. Dylan is on his own in c-ent, and even his own agency isn't on his side.
>That's why he was blacked so severely during GOTD broadcast and nobody helped him.
>That's why GOTD had very little marketing and why Dylan had to work so hard to promote it himself, even getting D.Desirable staff to teach fans how to do data for the drama, hence he was so grateful that he sent out 30k customised shirts for all fans who helped him.
>That's why all his social media has its traffic limited to this day, and his and his dramas' hot search topics are very few compared to others who will pay for marketing.
>That's why his safety is often ignored - LLAP and the 🥝 basketball VS as recent examples, as well as his "special forces" schedule that risks his health.
His lack of backup actually makes him a perfect target for bullying, exploitation and for people to black him. And Dylan, being a boy from humble background who has no option but to work hard and put up with suffering and injustice, will always swallow it down and pretend everything is okay.
But he shouldn't have to. Especially not when he has XDH around. We are his sole backup and #PerAsperaAdAstra is the GREAT CHANCE to prove that Dylan is not an actor who can just be dismissed so easily. PAAA is not a normal movie in Dylan's career—it is his chance to break free.
But the drama is not my cup of tea. I think DGZ deserves better He's a really good actor and making lots of Mini dramas is not the best bes way to get success he deserves.
Give him a proper role in a good drama and let him show his talent.