Drinking ridiculous number of bottles of soju and beer, female getting wasted, piggyback home, blackout about…
What's worse is that the parents in these shows seem to be encouraging their children to get drunk and sometimes even join them.
Does this reflect ground reality in Korea & China? Do girls get drunk, faint on streets and rely on strangers to pick them up and drop them somewhere safe?
The show is pretty fun, easy going and good. You can see how the plot will move for rest of the episodes & we can look forward to the journey, which promises to bring in a lot of fun.
Having said that, this is yet another Asian Drama that romanticizes female drinking to the point of them not knowing where they are, who they are with or what's happening to them. Watching this just couple of days after Eliza Fletcher being kidnapped and murdered makes you feel disjointed. The young girls watching these dramas are ending up watching these females getting pissed drunk & good things happening to them. That's dangerous since that's not how the world works. Worse, these kinds of drunken scenes are exclusive to the FL who is shown doing stupid yet funny things while being drunk, the ML is rarely projected that way.
Really hope these film makers in some shows address the real dangers of excessive drinking, especially for women. The fun take is ok but having it shown as fun in every drama is sickening to watch.
Every cheater has bunch of excuses.She knew exactly who and what MRF was before getting into a relationship with…
People do develop feelings for others while being in a relationship. While the whole situation sucks, there is a right way to go about it.
The drama just showed how self-centered this character was. She literally was a bored person looking for adventure. Worse was shacking up with the man her husband trusted to protect her.
I know some will disagree with me, but I don't fault Nan Lan for choosing a different man, just for how she did…
Every cheater has bunch of excuses. She knew exactly who and what MRF was before getting into a relationship with him. He provided, protected and looked after them to the best of his abilities & never ever abused her in remotest sense. Imagine a soldiers wife started shagging other guys cause the husband is away fighting war for months.
Forget about MRF truly loving her, if she ever truly loved him, she would not have done what she did. It's not like he went off to have fun with other women. Love is not one way street.
It looks like you have a thing for love triangles and ‘multiple’ It's my second time seeing you complaining…
Love triangle should feel organic to the story not forced or out of place.
Mix and match the love triangles, give the men some interactions with other girls for god sake. It feels odd to look at Cdrama ML who look as though he has no idea what sex is or how it is done. Make the men have more sexual reactions wrt to women, just like how the FL reacts to good looking men.
make the characters and their interactions more believable. Right now the love triangles in many dramas don't serve a purpose and make what follows as illogical. It's because the show runners want to show the FL having multiple men in her life. If it feels part of the story and organic, this would not happen.
Most importantly variety. Currently a love triangle is default FL and 2 men. There are variations of the same but at the end of the day, it's almost always FL and multiple men. The writers need to give us something new.
It looks like you have a thing for love triangles and ‘multiple’ It's my second time seeing you complaining…
It does not matter if it's even a girl and multiple guys or vice versa. It needs to make sense. Characters need to make sense. Continuity needs to make sense.
A love triangle I absolutely loved is 'Love and Redemption'. It was simply riveting & it made complete sense why it was there. A love triangle that absolutely made no sense was Binary Love. That killed characters of ML and FL completely. the worst of the lot are the CEO & Cinderella trope ones. To be honest, the first few I watched, i was hooked by how good they were. I did not realize that they have been doing the same trope for years without an iota of change to the characters of ML and FL.
it is all about mix and match. I don't want to see the same type of ML and FL played in every romance drama. The story needs to make sense, the characters need to make sense. And because the characters lack variety, they start coming off as fake and boring.
It looks like you have a thing for love triangles and ‘multiple’ It's my second time seeing you complaining…
I am not against love triangles. I am against the same triangle being repeated in every drama that has a love triangle.
You are right, will keep posting in similar dramas.
I will bet anything about every love triangle in cdramas this year will be about FL and her dildos.. I Want to be surprised by the writers and directors of cdramas by showing some variety in love triangles BUT we all know it will always be the FL and her dildos.
Oh please, this is nothing like the Chinese fantasy dramas. in fact this drama has more similarities with western fantasy tropes than the Chinese ones.
This is a new genre on it's own. I thought it would be a copy of Chinese Wuxia or Fantasy but it was not.
This surely is top 5 Kdrama/Cdrama this year. The most fun part of trying to figure out the genre of this drama. Dare say the makers have created a whole new world with it's own set of rules that future drama creators can play with. This drama was part horor, part fantasy, part sword & sandles and part adventure with right amount of romance sprinkled in.
Some of the romance tropes did slow down the pace in few places, would have liked the makers to trim down a episode or two to remove some of the slow pacing and continuity aspects, which frankly were not needed.
The male lead is a total loyal person to the people he love. The ML was full on 'I will marry no one but her'…
My point is less about fairness and more about variety.
If you start watching a new drama and you can easily predict how the premise of main characters, it becomes boring. the ML and FL you see in this drama is pretty much the norm in most Cdramas now a days. the leads in this drama are the same as the leads in 90% of Cdramas released in last year.
in my limited viewing experience of Cdramas and Kdramas, the love triangle is almost always the FL and multiple men around her. The converse almost never happens. Once as viewer I can predict this at the start of the drama, you are not that interested since you know the basic journey of FL & ML.
When was the last drama any of us watched where towards the end you are not sure if ML will end up with FL or 2FL? In fact I don't remember watching a drama where 2FL has romantic interactions with ML and is genuinely a nice person who you can root for. Most 2FL are manipulative and horrible women. There is no variety in 2FL, they are almost always bad.
So, it's not about fairness. It's all about variety, which sadly Cdrama are lacking.
??? Of all the critics I've heard about this drama,this has to be the worst one because there's no trace of truth…
read my original post please.
I did not trash it.
For those who like this kind of storyline, this is a perfect drama. To me though, it seemed repetitive.
Whether the 2ML is a red flag or not is not the point. This is just another variation of that formulae. The base of the story is centered around three people, the FL and the two men in her life. Everyone else is the supporting cast, This premise & it's variations form the core of most Xianxia dramas.
Not that it's wrong but personally finding the base very repetitive and boring.
??? Of all the critics I've heard about this drama,this has to be the worst one because there's no trace of truth…
So, the 2ML who is in love with the FL does not spend extended amount of time with her? Watched a dozen episodes but it is apparent the 2ML is here to stay with FL until the last episode.
They should have added 1 or 2 more, two is a bit less. Could have thrown in an uncle or two as well to spice it up.
Does this reflect ground reality in Korea & China?
Do girls get drunk, faint on streets and rely on strangers to pick them up and drop them somewhere safe?
You can see how the plot will move for rest of the episodes & we can look forward to the journey, which promises to bring in a lot of fun.
Having said that, this is yet another Asian Drama that romanticizes female drinking to the point of them not knowing where they are, who they are with or what's happening to them.
Watching this just couple of days after Eliza Fletcher being kidnapped and murdered makes you feel disjointed. The young girls watching these dramas are ending up watching these females getting pissed drunk & good things happening to them. That's dangerous since that's not how the world works. Worse, these kinds of drunken scenes are exclusive to the FL who is shown doing stupid yet funny things while being drunk, the ML is rarely projected that way.
Really hope these film makers in some shows address the real dangers of excessive drinking, especially for women. The fun take is ok but having it shown as fun in every drama is sickening to watch.
The drama just showed how self-centered this character was. She literally was a bored person looking for adventure. Worse was shacking up with the man her husband trusted to protect her.
Just as reversal, imagine if MRF cheated on her with another woman, took their baby and left her alone.....
She knew exactly who and what MRF was before getting into a relationship with him.
He provided, protected and looked after them to the best of his abilities & never ever abused her in remotest sense.
Imagine a soldiers wife started shagging other guys cause the husband is away fighting war for months.
Forget about MRF truly loving her, if she ever truly loved him, she would not have done what she did. It's not like he went off to have fun with other women.
Love is not one way street.
She is stealing the show from ML.
As much as I enjoyed ML journey from child -> man, they should have taken some time to show us FL journey ark as well.
Mix and match the love triangles, give the men some interactions with other girls for god sake. It feels odd to look at Cdrama ML who look as though he has no idea what sex is or how it is done. Make the men have more sexual reactions wrt to women, just like how the FL reacts to good looking men.
make the characters and their interactions more believable. Right now the love triangles in many dramas don't serve a purpose and make what follows as illogical. It's because the show runners want to show the FL having multiple men in her life. If it feels part of the story and organic, this would not happen.
Most importantly variety.
Currently a love triangle is default FL and 2 men. There are variations of the same but at the end of the day, it's almost always FL and multiple men. The writers need to give us something new.
nothing beats a real person though when it comes to romance.
Would rather the men be men than be dildos.
It needs to make sense.
Characters need to make sense.
Continuity needs to make sense.
A love triangle I absolutely loved is 'Love and Redemption'. It was simply riveting & it made complete sense why it was there.
A love triangle that absolutely made no sense was Binary Love. That killed characters of ML and FL completely.
the worst of the lot are the CEO & Cinderella trope ones. To be honest, the first few I watched, i was hooked by how good they were. I did not realize that they have been doing the same trope for years without an iota of change to the characters of ML and FL.
it is all about mix and match. I don't want to see the same type of ML and FL played in every romance drama. The story needs to make sense, the characters need to make sense. And because the characters lack variety, they start coming off as fake and boring.
I am against the same triangle being repeated in every drama that has a love triangle.
You are right, will keep posting in similar dramas.
I will bet anything about every love triangle in cdramas this year will be about FL and her dildos..
I Want to be surprised by the writers and directors of cdramas by showing some variety in love triangles
BUT
we all know it will always be the FL and her dildos.
in fact this drama has more similarities with western fantasy tropes than the Chinese ones.
If the drama Kingdom has magic and fantastical elements in it, this might be it.
This surely is top 5 Kdrama/Cdrama this year.
The most fun part of trying to figure out the genre of this drama. Dare say the makers have created a whole new world with it's own set of rules that future drama creators can play with.
This drama was part horor, part fantasy, part sword & sandles and part adventure with right amount of romance sprinkled in.
Some of the romance tropes did slow down the pace in few places, would have liked the makers to trim down a episode or two to remove some of the slow pacing and continuity aspects, which frankly were not needed.
Can't want for season 2.
If you start watching a new drama and you can easily predict how the premise of main characters, it becomes boring.
the ML and FL you see in this drama is pretty much the norm in most Cdramas now a days. the leads in this drama are the same as the leads in 90% of Cdramas released in last year.
in my limited viewing experience of Cdramas and Kdramas, the love triangle is almost always the FL and multiple men around her. The converse almost never happens.
Once as viewer I can predict this at the start of the drama, you are not that interested since you know the basic journey of FL & ML.
When was the last drama any of us watched where towards the end you are not sure if ML will end up with FL or 2FL?
In fact I don't remember watching a drama where 2FL has romantic interactions with ML and is genuinely a nice person who you can root for. Most 2FL are manipulative and horrible women. There is no variety in 2FL, they are almost always bad.
So, it's not about fairness. It's all about variety, which sadly Cdrama are lacking.
I did not trash it.
For those who like this kind of storyline, this is a perfect drama.
To me though, it seemed repetitive.
Whether the 2ML is a red flag or not is not the point. This is just another variation of that formulae. The base of the story is centered around three people, the FL and the two men in her life. Everyone else is the supporting cast,
This premise & it's variations form the core of most Xianxia dramas.
Not that it's wrong but personally finding the base very repetitive and boring.
Watched a dozen episodes but it is apparent the 2ML is here to stay with FL until the last episode.