Underwhelming Season 2

Season 2 felt like a complete letdown after Season 1. The couples felt like throwaway pairings, with none truly in love except maybe one. It was like they just got tired of staying and wanted an out so they left with whomever picked them.

I feel like the ageism was out of control this time as well, all the younger women literally could have cared less about the older guys and the younger guys cared less about the older women. I'm pretty sure a big point of the show is that you can love someone even if there is a decent age gap. It doesn't help that the commentators call them dirty old men and older motherly figures all the time.

Gitarin and Ayakan were treated terribly as well. *Possible Spoilers* Poor Gitarin listeining to the other women and getting the wrong ideas. Then as for Ayakan, as a guy, in my opinion Ayakan was the best girl on the show. She had faced some terrible bullying early in life and had mental issues because of it. It seemed like the show purposely highlighted every time she broke down and cried. In the later episodes you get to see how sweet and caring of a person she actually is. I think they tried to push her off as a mentally unstable crybaby all the time and purposely cut out some of her better interactions, which was completely wrong. She was definitely my pick of the women.

Overall it seems as if they tried to emulate season 1 and some of the personalities that were present on it but came up short with Season 2.

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A decent martial arts drama marred by unlikeable characters and bad fight choreography.

"Sweet Combat" is loosely based on the South Korean Manwha "Girls of the Wild's". I would suggest reading it before the show to get the best experience. While I loved "Girls of the Wild's" for the most part, this show was somewhat of a step down due to a few unnecessary changes.

The biggest downiside to the show is the main female lead. Fang Yu or "Queen" is one of the worst female romance leads I've ever seen in a drama. If I were Ming Tian, the first time she wanted to break up I would have left and never went back to her. He had so many other choices, Zhengze University was all girls except for he and Sun Hao for God sakes. Fang Yu had a terrible personality, she always believed anyone, even her Aunt and Grandpa who were obviously scheming pieces of garbage. Would it never occur to her that all of this terrible news could be made up or a lie? Ming Tian couldn't control any of the reasons she broke up with him, yet she blamed him anyway. Xiaomi was clearly the more loving and attentive girl for Ming Tian but because "reasons" he ended up with Fang Yu time and time again.

The training and fight choreography in this show is abysmal as well. As a huge fan of MMA and combat sports in general it is laughable, especially if you're used to seeing professional fighters or even amateurs fight. If you're going to have a show about a martial arts college at least teach the actors proper form and how to throw punches, kicks, and engage in submissions correctly. You can tell during the "fights" they aren't even touching or pretending to touch each other at times.

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