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yes, I don't mind bad reviews, as long as you can see they actually watched the drama. a good snarky takedown can be fun to read, even if it's against something I love.

or they should do a weighted average like IMDB (which gives less weight to 1 and 10 scores as this is usually what haters/fans like to default to.) my only knowledge about MDL's algorithm is that it favors dramas with more ratings so that's why kdramas and popular genres like romance usually get higher scores, while jdramas or some of the lesser watched genres are stuck at low 8s or high 7s because there's less viewership.

lol according to its synopsis, he dies at least 8 times in his next drama under Yu Zheng so maybe watch out for that.

was bananakim's fake review finally removed? I can't see it anymore.

although there's another review calling every character morally questionable without any plot details so they might have just made another account lol

if you scroll down far enough you'll see why people here call it trolls/fan wars. there were a lot of unnecessary comments in the beginning insulting the FL's actress (some were eventually deleted) or comparing this show and actor with that show and actor. when you check their profile they weren't even watching this drama and they were mostly inactive accounts with barely any comments/interaction. but they've gone quiet for now.

EDIT: oops never mind, there's one troll that's still stalking the reviews lol at this point I'm calling them Joe Goldberg coz they're just so in love with this drama.

it's better but I feel like it'll confuse the people who want romance even more😂

they really care enough for this drama to come here multiple times a day, it's so sweet🤣

megan frampton, she posted about him on bluesky.

I know I should block them but I'm kinda curious how long they can keep this up lol

a bunch of them aren't even active (barely 20 dramas watched) so just ignore them. they already lost whatever battle they're fighting by being this bothered while the rest of us are just watching the drama lol.

Zhao Dongling is also one of the owners of Upcoming Legend, the production company that co-produced this. The head screenwriter is reportedly one of her proteges. She probably lent a hand to make things cheaper, just like the makeup/costuming team was provided by Yu Zheng.

he gets a lot of grandma fans lol a romance author I read also likes him🤣

iqiyi gives "gift packs" to all their dramas, usually on the 2nd day and on Sundays. TWD's gift pack on Saturday was low and there wasn't one on Sunday so people thought that was it but last night at 6pm they suddenly gave another gift which made the heat curve look abnormal. TWD was at the top of the TV search list for a bit so its possible some new people did check it out but just not at the speed to justify the heat curve rise. we'll see in the next few days if they do it again (and yunhe may cut it, as they sometimes do anomalies)

I noted the numbers in the google spreadsheet tracking I shared in another comment below and I'm sure you'll see posts all over xhs.

that's fine, it's showbiz. it's an endurance test, not a race. the only way you can really lose is if you quit.

most of the cast are young so they can recover. the ratings may be bad but the advertising has been good so far so it still might earn money for iQiyi.

unfortunately the heat index started to do weird things tonight so the data isn't clean anymore.

it started at 2k since iQiyi changed the heat index in July to include livestreaming (they had an announcement about it and everything). TWD had a livestream before their premiere so it inflated the number, then weibo bloggers began to say the TWD would open high like CD and iQiyi would manipulate the number like it did CD but anyone who knows/analyses data could see that in spite of the livestream that boosted the initial popularity, the rise in heat was not good. this was proven in day 2 when the rise was even slower and in day 3, when it plummeted. the c-ent audience is just not interested in it.

I didn't mean to start a fight but I follow the data on Douban and there were a couple of particularly noisy CD fans spreading misinformation about TWD's Baidu index and iQiyi search statistics. thus my comment about my annoyance. and to be fair, it could've also been a random person(s) just wanting to start trouble but they were posting new posts every hour until midnight (and again, early in the morning the next day) that even the people not watching TWD came out to defend it.

to be fair, there's also a number of CD fans in TWD's barrage enjoying/watching the show. it's just annoying when the ones who post on social media try to equate a one hour livestream before TWD's premiere to help boost popularity (which was just confirmed that yunhe didn't count towards their playback), to the 6 episode CD variety show (that yunhe does count lol) and say that they're both being favored by the platform.

the problem is a noisy faction of CD's fans are pushing that TWD is also 💦 even though the douban data workers keep shutting them down, plus that one big weibo data blogger who keeps posting high Yunhe/heat predictions for TWD even though the trend is obviously not going there. i've already seen twitter sharing his posts so the misinformation is spreading faster.

personally for me, it's good but missing a spark that can bring it to the next level (not just in a CP sense that the drama page is complaining about, but also in a filming sense.) we'll see in the next few days if the script can raise it higher.

also, if anyone's curious how the first day did in China: it's average (leaning low) but that's expected since it's an original script with no big marketing push. people seem to be more interested in whether iQiyi is watering the drama like it did the last one rather than the plot (majority of Douban's data group seem to think not, which is good for its reputation at least.) and it's fighting Nezha 2's online release today so I'm just hoping it holds on with a bit of dignity lol.

they also haven't rated or watched any other drama🤣