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Maybe there were scenes of them talking about their time in the coma. As I keep repeating, modern chinese dramas have 24 episodes. SOOY has 23. So I truly believe that there was a 24th episode which didn't pass censorship.

Maybe because the characters really discussed their time in a coma, and what to do from there, how to act with the people in their present lives based on what they know from their coma lives.

That kind of ending might have been too much for the censors.

But that's what I truly believe.

To each their own philosophy. I consider, with chinese time travel dramas, that there are two endings: the censorship ending and the ending the writers intended. With that in mind, I know which one I choose.

About the ending for SOOY, we weren't there in the censorship office to know which ending (or how many endings) the writers came up with which were refused. And for me, I don't blame the writers because there are 23 episodes instead of the traditional 24. I know what to believe.

Censorship ending due to time travel drama banned in China. Better stop at 33 minutes, that's the ending the writers and producers wanted. The last minutes were added to pass censorship.

Have you noticed something strange with this drama? I prefer modern light rom-com dramas. 99% of the time, they have 24 episodes. Here, it's 23. Considering how abrupt the ending was, my question is: "Was there a 24th episode, which didn't pass the censorship? One where the two leads reconnect, remember their coma dream life, take decisions about their jobs, and people in their lives?"

Maybe that was judged too dangerous in China. No changing the present because of time travel/coma travel/whatever dream stuff it was. I think that's why it ended with the two leads smiling at each other, holding hands, indicating that they remember but nothing more. Censorship.

I don't know about Kdramas for time travel. I have only watched "Queen In Huyn's man", and I loved it so much, I regularly rewatch it. It's real time travel.

Sometimes, with very successful, there are bonus scenes, but an entire episode? I doubt it.

In "A dream within a dream", she wakes up. Goes to work. See the ML. He doesn't remember her. Then there's a portal opening and the ML arrives.

Then we see the writer. All of this was a script she was writing. Even the actress waking up from the "dream"... was like a dream.

I guess the title gave it right from the beginning.

There was another time travel drama a few weeks ago. Or rather space communications between two eras. I said right from the start that it would be a coma/dream. Yep, the FL was in a coma, too.

In modern dramas, the one which WAS time travel was "Love in time", (the 2021 drama). Maybe because it was a remake of a taiwanese drama? We don't know how the contract was written, if the time travel ending was written in the contract when the chinese producers bought the rights, therefore censorship had less ... rights to oppose the time travel ending.

Maybe there are others but it's the one I remember the most.

With "Summit of our youth", there is something really strange. 99% of the time, modern dramas have...24 episodes. Here, there's 23. So, my question is... was there a 24th episode where the leads, after the lift scene, rekindle their love story, discuss their other life, whether it was a dream, a coma, traveling to a parallel universe? That would make more sense because the ending was abrupt. As if it was NOT the last episode.

New to chinese time-travel dramas?

I posted here at the beginning to NOT expect this to be a time travel drama because of censorship. And that it would end up being a dream, a coma, or the leads writing a novel, that kind of stuff.

That's just how it is. Writers have to find loopholes and add a few scenes in the end to make it look like it wasn't time travel. Like "The heart of a genius", it was even worse because there was litterally a 2 mn scene at the end explaining that the entire drama was a novel written by the FL.

Now, I know that there are two endings in those kinds of dramas:

- the one the writers wanted to write: it was really time travel. But censorhip opposes those kinds of dramas,

- the censorship ending: the one the writers are forced to write.

My advice? Knowing that, just ignore the "official censorship ending", because that's NOT the ending the writers wanted.

I think there was a 24th episode but that it didn't pass censorship. I mean, it's my theory, of course, but the drama has 23 episodes. Modern light dramas have 24 episodes. So where's the 24th?

Add to that that it ended very abruptly... it's like an episode is missing. Like after the lift scene where they hold hands, they go out, have a cafe, talk, remember their shared coma, and then decide that they are still together, still in love and will go on having a future together, like in their coma.

That's the only ending that makes sense, IMO. But censorship must have opposed this ending, because... ? not sure why. If it was a coma dream, then it wasn't time travel. I think it's not just a question of time travels dramas banned, there are other things which are banned in modern dramas which we don't really know of.

Like "Ski into love". A rom-com about skiing. So many episodes vanished, it was ridiculous, to the point where I felt completly disconnected from the story. What could be so dangerous about skiing, I ask you???

Same here, censors must have thought that a coma dream being real , discussed, explored, was a too dangerous option for "fragile minds".

It isn't and still the FL is dating a man who is older than her.

So... real space time communication or it was all a dream? a novel written by one of the characters? It's a chinese drama so I always expect some twisted ending because of censorship.

Never mind, I'll watch it.

I don't think so. But yeah, I'm sure that there was another episode but it didn't pass censorship.

My head canon is that once out of the elevator, they went to a cafe and started talking. Then they realize that they both lived the same coma dream and they spent 10 years together in that other life.

From there, they go on dating in the real world, knowing everything about each other already.

Because sorry but a drama with 23 episodes instead of the usual 24 and with such an abrupt ending? Yeah, no doubt there was another episode we'll never see.

I read that Doctor Who, or the Michael J. Fox trilogy are banned in China.

You can't convince me that there wasn't an entire episode taking place where they are both in the present, remembering the shared coma and picking up in real life where they had left it in their coma.

This drama has 23 episodes. Usually, 99% of modern dramas have 24 episodes.

So I would bet my bank account that the 24th episode didn't pass the censorship and it ended abruptly with episode 23.

Are they dating in episode 9?

Also, at 18, in western countries, a woman can drive, get married, have children, go to college, buy a car, an appartment, travel the world on her own, vote, have a job, go into the army and so on.

It's better for the FL to date when it's legal, an older man who will treat her right, than to date her dumbass same age ex-boyfriend who treated her like s****.

Those kinds of dramas get 24 episodes, this one has 23. I can't help thinking that there's an entire episode which has been scrapped and the ending is a rush one.

I mean, there could have been an entire episode of them waking up, remembering their shared coma, finding each other again and just going on loving each other since they remembered their coma. And showing that.

Maybe that last episode didn't pass the censorshipo and it was entirely removed. That would explain the abrupt ending and this strange number of episodes of 23 instead of 24.

It's a censorship ending. Remove the last 15 minutes and you have the ending the writers intended.

It's because of censorship in China. Time travel dramas are banned so the writers always have to find a loophole to get their dramas to air. It was coma/a dream/leads traveling into a novel or movie, stuff like that.

Never start watching a time travel Cdrama expecting it to be real time travel.

I'm used to it so I watch them and know that there will be an "official censorship ending" which is NOT the real ending, at least not the one the writers wanted but were forced to write.

Knowing that, think that this ending is the censorship ending and therefore not the real one. Remove the last scenes and you'll get the real ending the writers intended.

Usually, those kinds of dramas have 24 episodes. This one has 23. I wonder if the ending was rewritten to be a short one?

I think I read that for time travel, it's because it disrespects history for historical drama. And for modern drama, it's because there's fear that people will try to commit s**** in hope of time traveling to change their past. Or something like that.

I read that there are even movies like "Back to the future" which are banned in China. "Doctor Who", too, from what I read.