Genuine question. You're grossed right? why not drop it? Because the grossness will consume your body and mind…
Imma copy paste this for you because this comment deserves a copy/paste job:
If you don't like my comment, you don't have to read it or reply to it. No one is forcing you to dwell on my words. Just scroll on by, my friend. It's okay for you to love it and for me to be angry about dramas I think are shitty. It's a big world.
Well you see it as harassment and many don't. That was the point of this drama. Many ideas and sides showed up.…
Oh, by "reasons" you meant, I'm literate and able to write coherently. Why yes, I'm educated, employed at a company and I understand what labor laws and workplace ethics are. What a moron 🙄 My essay would be wasted on you.
About consent: she resists a lot. idk what to tell you. She literally tells him multiple times what she wants to keep a distance but he overrides her anyway. From giving her overtime work to keep her away from places, to literally cornering her in the staircase when she's trying to maintain secrecy. Also, yeah she's attracted to him, he's very good looking, very smart, and he's all over her. Ofc she's loving it. That's not the point. The point is, she is scared of losing her job, tells him and like everyone else that he might fire her, looks up to him and respects him deeply as a senior and then goes and sleeps with him.
Once again, the issue I'm pointing out is not that this is happening, I have worked with people who have been in situations like this. It's the fact that we are made to feel like this is a romantic thing based on the decisions that the show makers have made. Even I feel like wow, what a handsome guy trying his best to keep his girl... and then I remember that she could literally lose her job if they're found out because trust- she would be held responsible, not him. Which is why I feel deeply uncomfortable feeling butterflies when he's lovingly gazing at her back from his glass office.
Well you see it as harassment and many don't. That was the point of this drama. Many ideas and sides showed up.…
Where my reasons are coming from are irrelevant to the point I'm making lol. lol like what is that even? 🙄 I'm not asking you to judge my intentions, I'm making comments about how I think this show is about sexual harassment dressed as romance, evidenced by character development, script writing and production decisions such as music and cinematography. If you like, I can write you a post-graduate level 1000 word essay analyzing how this show glorifies workplace sexual harassment. With academic citations.
I think there’s a difference between portraying problematic behaviour and glorifying it. The relationship is…
Would you like me to pull quotes for you from the show as I'm watching it? I can literally prove it to you based on evidence that the show creators are trying to frame Zhi Tao sleeping with Luan as modern feminist woman things.
I think the difference is that so-called toxic relationship here in The Early Spring is never generated from outside.…
I'm genuinely interested to know, if you found out that your good friend is attracted to and gets into a sexual relationship with her boss who used to intimidate and scare her, would you encourage and empower an illicit romance between the two like Sun Yu does?
What the everliving f**k is this? Is this real? HAVE PEOPLE LOST THEIR MINDS? Boycott AI dramas, stop watching that vertical BS on IQiyi and MDL, stop reporting hot garbage as entertainment news. Actress, my ass lol.
If you don’t like the drama go watch something else instead of spreading hate here. It’s obvious who your…
Imma copy paste this for you because this comment deserves a copy/paste job:
If you don't like my comment, you don't have to read it or reply to it. No one is forcing you to dwell on my words. Just scroll on by, my friend. It's okay for you to love it and for me to be angry about dramas I think are shitty. It's a big world.
It's honestly so upsetting to see these people make Zhi Tao into a tease. "Holding back" to play some…
If you don't like my comment, you don't have to read it or reply to it. No one is forcing you to read words you don't like. Just scroll on by, my friend. It's okay for you to love it and for me to be angry about dramas I think are shitty. It's a big world.
I also want to say: you know which couple of toxic AF? Zhang Ling He and Wang ChuRan in Overdo. They were SO bad for each other and it was evenly matched because the power dynamic was equal. And STILL it tanked because ain't nobody selling Overdo as romantic. None of this softly gazing into each other's eyes and withholding 53x business. ZLH and WCR were a spiralling dumpster fire and we are all witness to how toxic people really deal with each other. People hated it and people hated Wang ChuRan's character. But here we are, selling sexual harassment as feminism and romance.
On episode 8 and I have to say,How has NO ONE raised the issue of this whole affair being wrong? I don't mean…
It's honestly so upsetting to see these people make Zhi Tao into a tease. "Holding back" to play some stupid romance game with cute romantic music playing in the background. Meanwhile I'm here going like "yeah don't fk'ing kiss him because he's literally your boss and you've literally told him that you don't want him to fire you"
On episode 8 and I have to say, How has NO ONE raised the issue of this whole affair being wrong? I don't mean the characters, I mean the show makers/writers/director whatever have not once addressed the inappropriateness of their sexual encounter or the stilted power dynamics between a senior executive and a junior rookie and instead they've made it like this wonderful feminist thing because she's super casual about sleeping around?
Are the two of them keeping their tryst a secret? Do they know why it needs to be a secret? Are there consequences to them doing it? A commenter below said that there were "no external forces" resulted in misunderstandings, but that's the morally weird thing so far is that there seems to be no external force that implies consequences to a boss sleeping with his much younger freshly graduated female employee WHO HE ALSO THREATENS TO FIRE ALL THE TIME.
I mean, he first gets interested in Zhi Tao when he notices how earnestly she works and how well she learns. She wants to learn FROM HIM. She has already pedestalized him and he LIKES IT. He enjoys the dynamic in which he can teach her stuff and she's learns it quickly. He uses her fear of being fired as a way to keep her in places. Either by physically blocking her in spaces or keeping her there with sheer authority.
It's fk'ing gross! The toxic people here aren't the characters, its the people who've made this show, trying to sell this as romance lol
Man wtf. I'm going to watch until epsiode 10 and if things don't get realistic by then, I'm going to have to drop this hot potato because yuck.
They are different, but getting involved with another person romantically while you're officially in a relationship…
I don't think it's meant to be "romantic" in the way we think of other "romantic" dramas. The word "romantic" is an adjective and by definition a subjective term so it is dependent on each person. I don't think of this kind of stuff as romantic at all and more of a melodramatic portrayal of the lifecycle of a relationship. Not everyone stays in honeymoon phase all the time and everyone thinks of their commitments differently. That's what makes it interesting. If you can think of these dramas as a reflection of what exists out in the world instead of making it a lesson on morality, then I think you might enjoy this kind of stuff a little more. Frankly speaking, I _personally_ find dramas focused ENTIRELY on two people's relationship really boring, and even MORE boring when two other people are also involved in a 16 episode unraveling mess, especially when the whole thing can be solved in a couple of honest face-to-face discussions.
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If you don't like my comment, you don't have to read it or reply to it. No one is forcing you to dwell on my words. Just scroll on by, my friend.
It's okay for you to love it and for me to be angry about dramas I think are shitty.
It's a big world.
What a moron 🙄
My essay would be wasted on you.
About consent: she resists a lot. idk what to tell you. She literally tells him multiple times what she wants to keep a distance but he overrides her anyway. From giving her overtime work to keep her away from places, to literally cornering her in the staircase when she's trying to maintain secrecy. Also, yeah she's attracted to him, he's very good looking, very smart, and he's all over her. Ofc she's loving it. That's not the point. The point is, she is scared of losing her job, tells him and like everyone else that he might fire her, looks up to him and respects him deeply as a senior and then goes and sleeps with him.
Once again, the issue I'm pointing out is not that this is happening, I have worked with people who have been in situations like this. It's the fact that we are made to feel like this is a romantic thing based on the decisions that the show makers have made. Even I feel like wow, what a handsome guy trying his best to keep his girl... and then I remember that she could literally lose her job if they're found out because trust- she would be held responsible, not him. Which is why I feel deeply uncomfortable feeling butterflies when he's lovingly gazing at her back from his glass office.
Boycott AI dramas, stop watching that vertical BS on IQiyi and MDL, stop reporting hot garbage as entertainment news. Actress, my ass lol.
If you don't like my comment, you don't have to read it or reply to it. No one is forcing you to dwell on my words. Just scroll on by, my friend.
It's okay for you to love it and for me to be angry about dramas I think are shitty.
It's a big world.
It's okay for you to love it and for me to be angry about dramas I think are shitty.
It's a big world.
None of this softly gazing into each other's eyes and withholding 53x business.
ZLH and WCR were a spiralling dumpster fire and we are all witness to how toxic people really deal with each other. People hated it and people hated Wang ChuRan's character.
But here we are, selling sexual harassment as feminism and romance.
like ppl... withholding isn't feminism my god.
How has NO ONE raised the issue of this whole affair being wrong? I don't mean the characters, I mean the show makers/writers/director whatever have not once addressed the inappropriateness of their sexual encounter or the stilted power dynamics between a senior executive and a junior rookie and instead they've made it like this wonderful feminist thing because she's super casual about sleeping around?
Are the two of them keeping their tryst a secret? Do they know why it needs to be a secret? Are there consequences to them doing it? A commenter below said that there were "no external forces" resulted in misunderstandings, but that's the morally weird thing so far is that there seems to be no external force that implies consequences to a boss sleeping with his much younger freshly graduated female employee WHO HE ALSO THREATENS TO FIRE ALL THE TIME.
I mean, he first gets interested in Zhi Tao when he notices how earnestly she works and how well she learns. She wants to learn FROM HIM. She has already pedestalized him and he LIKES IT. He enjoys the dynamic in which he can teach her stuff and she's learns it quickly. He uses her fear of being fired as a way to keep her in places. Either by physically blocking her in spaces or keeping her there with sheer authority.
It's fk'ing gross! The toxic people here aren't the characters, its the people who've made this show, trying to sell this as romance lol
Man wtf. I'm going to watch until epsiode 10 and if things don't get realistic by then, I'm going to have to drop this hot potato because yuck.
Not everyone stays in honeymoon phase all the time and everyone thinks of their commitments differently. That's what makes it interesting. If you can think of these dramas as a reflection of what exists out in the world instead of making it a lesson on morality, then I think you might enjoy this kind of stuff a little more.
Frankly speaking, I _personally_ find dramas focused ENTIRELY on two people's relationship really boring, and even MORE boring when two other people are also involved in a 16 episode unraveling mess, especially when the whole thing can be solved in a couple of honest face-to-face discussions.