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Can we have other stories?
It wasn't bad but it wasn't good. I liked that it ended up being a lesson on community and friendship, much more than a lesson in love or young love.
I have watched the original Taiwanese version in 2016 and I apparently sort of liked it. I honestly can't remember even watching it. I wonder why they keep remaking the same stories again and again. And did we really need a series and a movie? Is there nothing else to say?
All characters felt like caricatures, especially the support characters. It might have something to do with a Thai type of humour I can't really grasp, so I won't comment on it, I feel like it's cultural. It was funny at times, but other times it became annoying.
Lin never truly acted towards her feelings or let her feelings known out loud. We see a girl who exists to be put on a pedestal all throughout the series. She accepts the love given instead of acting on her love. She only acts towards her studies. She even decided to marry someone for pity, making the one she supposedly loves think its for love. It's a story which belongs to a time, and that time isn't now. First love doesn't mean only love. It never did. I know it's a story about first love but the ending is forced. It doesn't feel heart-warming, it feels cringe. It doesn't seem driven by love (you wouldn't ask someone to throw their phd away if you loved them). It seems like it's a matter of nostalgia and habit instead of love.
Having them have a relationship to sell products is a new level of low. I know they need financing but creating a second storyline doesn't sit right with me. Is it a story or an advert? And they gave us more romance in the ads than in the story.
It's fun and cute sometimes but that's just it.
I have watched the original Taiwanese version in 2016 and I apparently sort of liked it. I honestly can't remember even watching it. I wonder why they keep remaking the same stories again and again. And did we really need a series and a movie? Is there nothing else to say?
All characters felt like caricatures, especially the support characters. It might have something to do with a Thai type of humour I can't really grasp, so I won't comment on it, I feel like it's cultural. It was funny at times, but other times it became annoying.
Lin never truly acted towards her feelings or let her feelings known out loud. We see a girl who exists to be put on a pedestal all throughout the series. She accepts the love given instead of acting on her love. She only acts towards her studies. She even decided to marry someone for pity, making the one she supposedly loves think its for love. It's a story which belongs to a time, and that time isn't now. First love doesn't mean only love. It never did. I know it's a story about first love but the ending is forced. It doesn't feel heart-warming, it feels cringe. It doesn't seem driven by love (you wouldn't ask someone to throw their phd away if you loved them). It seems like it's a matter of nostalgia and habit instead of love.
Having them have a relationship to sell products is a new level of low. I know they need financing but creating a second storyline doesn't sit right with me. Is it a story or an advert? And they gave us more romance in the ads than in the story.
It's fun and cute sometimes but that's just it.
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