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Tencent acts as if they have no experience with similar dramas, which are usually popular ... They only care about investing in and promoting dramas with big budgets and popular actors. Something similar happened with WIFTY, but it seems that Youku understood and started promoting it better, and it ended up on Netflix, which is an indicator of its international popularity.

Why is the rating still 8.1? It's strange because comments are 90% very positive. And the funny thing is that on Douban Always Home is one of the best rated dramas among those currently showing.

Lovely Us, Always Home, Flourish in Time, Meeting You, When we were young, Skate in Love, The Day of Becoming You, You are my Glory, The romance of tiger and rose (historical)...

True! I can usually realize it following the release on YouTube and people are reacting really, really well - it reminds me of When I Fly Towards You, which started with a low number of views on the eps premieres and the latest ones had thousands.

So cute and sweet ep 24!

But they know they are not blood sibilings, because they started living together as a family when they were already school age, and one of them continues to live in his own house with his father. The fact that they treat each other as sibilings marks this deep fraternal relationship and I do not consider it at all abnormal, nor do I see the change as perverse. In fact, we accept much more complex and perverse relationships in dramas and anime and keep quiet. I continue to affirm: this issue and this strangeness only started to be raised strongly after "Family by Choice" premiered and it seems like a justification for making the remake better than the original, when the "solution" they found was quite basic.

These themes have already been covered in many films and series and if we were to check, we would find dozens of similar ones from different countries. It would be good if we looked further and saw series/films from different countries, or read traditional tales from many countries, or novels from universal literature, to realize that the themes, the types of heroes and many plots are repeated in thousands of variations. And the plots in which a magical object is used for the most varied purposes are already thousands of years old!

I completely agree!

I hope that the success of "The first frost" - 32 episodes, 45 minutes each - will be proof to Youku that, if the drama is good, no matter the number of episodes, people will watch it.

I am not questioning the existence of censorship in China. We all know that it exists, Chinese government itself makes public the rules for entertainment - they do not hide the censorship! If there were no such extreme censorship in China, Chinese entertainment would dominate and be much better known.
But your post was not about that, it was about the propaganda of the Chinese government and how C-dramas are used for this (and I think they are used as much as K-dramas or J-dramas). BUT ALL governments use entertainment for propaganda, not just the Chinese. The Americans have been doing it for many decades: American heroes are always the best and the winners, Asians and Africans and Eastern Europeans are always the villains; the omnipresence of the American flag; political insinuations; caricatures and stereotypes of peoples... But since they are Americans, we are blinded, because we have already been brainwashed! Koreans and Japanese also use their productions to project a positive and superior image... And, honestly, I stopped believing in absolute creative freedom a long time ago. There is always a little pressure from those in power.So, directly or indirectly, everyone resorts to propaganda. And we must be attentive and critical and never forget reality.
Thank you!

"Meet Yourself" is like many films and series made here in the West or Kdramas. If we do a search we will find dozens of them, made in specific places with great tourist potential. But, of course, the Chinese are very suspicious... And don't take it the wrong way, but cdramas are not so well known in the world that the Chinese government has ordered the production of one, encouraging people to visit China...
If it's China, everything is propaganda and everything is devalued, no matter how good it is... Koreans, Americans and Japanese are saints and don't do any kind of propaganda in their dramas/series and movies! We're all blind or we only see what suits us! For example, the Korean government was the main promoter of Korean entertainment at the end of the last century and beginning of this one, with the aim of improving the country's image... All countries use entertainment as a form of soft power. And, therefore, we must look at everything with eyes to see, without prejudice and always critical!

As someone who has not read the novel, that final scene brought me deep feelings of gentle sadness and paradoxical beauty and hope. inexplicable and striking.

The resolution of the "questionable plot point from this drama" by transforming the Korean version into "a better experience" (Kang Hae Jun imagining himself kissing Kang Hae Jun and rejecting that idea), is, let's say, a very superficial, reductionist and mechanical way of approaching human relationships and has nothing original or surprising about it, much less can we characterize it as a masterpiece solution.

We have mixed feelings towards a friend, has it ever happened? And do these confusing feelings have to go straight to sex? Do we immediately start thinking about sex, imagining ourselves in bed having sex without restraint? In fact, this is what the Korean version suggests, when we see Kang Hae Jun imagining himself kissing Kang Hae Jun and rejecting this idea, which is, let's say, a very superficial and mechanical way of approaching human relationships). I reiterate that the Korean version does not come close to the original Chinese drama - it transformed a masterpiece into a little drama, taking away all the depth of the characters and "resolving" the action in a simplistic way.
And just one more observation: Li Jian Jian, Ling Xiao, He Zi Qiu are not actually brothers, nor have they been together since birth. They began interacting as school-age children, creating very strong fraternal bonds as they grew up together. It was normal for them to call each other brothers, something common in Asian societies even among people not related by blood.

And if there was a deep feeling from He Zi Qiu for Li Jian Jian, which I don't think is the case, what was the problem? So many works of universal literature and films and series have plots with love triangles! Now it seems it is forbidden! And what's more: one drama is disregarded or diminished in favor of another, with this excuse, when in the case of Go Ahead, the representation of human complexity, in its relationships, emotions and feelings, is much deeper, more credible and sensitive.

What questionable aspects?!! Honestly, this drama, Go Ahead, the original, not a version, is much deeper in the depiction of human relationships, which can be intense, confusing, silent, profound, inexplicable, merciful, fraternal, loving in its most varied expressions, which the Korean version made much more superficial, in addition to the performance of the characters from children to adults being better in this C-drama.

Yes, yes... We know: Koreans are the best! Since audiovisual media was discovered and films and series have been made, there has NEVER been a film, drama or series from any country that surpasses the Koreans, those perfect films and dramas makers! As if Koreans only made masterpieces, having the Midas touch in everything they do! Sorry but this kind of comment is annoying: we don't have to submit to the Korean dictatorship of making dramas. Each of us has different sensibilities and ways of seeing cinema and drama. I personally appreciate different cinematic sensibilities and different narrative rhythms, and I like the fine, sensitive and "slow" way Chinese tell stories and give time for relationships to develop. Open your cinematic horizons, look East and West, South and North. And don't limit yourself to the Korean world, because before them so many, so many, so many, so many masterpieces were produced! (and let me say: many of the iconic scenes that only K say are originally Korean, accusing others of "copying", are nothing more than "copies" taken from many films and series from other countries) Let's cultivate ourselves!

Since when do the number of negative and hateful comments posted on MDL by 2 or 3 people systematically and repeatedly correspond to the opinion of the majority of people? Different opinions encourage the exchange of ideas and open up horizons, which is very different from general and hateful comments, whose objective is to create a bad atmosphere and distance people from dramas. They may be misleading at first reading, but people quickly understand the strategy. And that is why so many different people are already responding to you. And please do not play the victim...

We must look, see, think for ourselves... You trust too much in the opinion of some (who, by the way, are in an open campaign to defame this drama).

I also apologize for what I'm going to say next, but I have to say it, because I'm really outraged (and that's why I'm intervening more): whoever writes the comments knows perfectly well which tone he used and how often he used it. It is very clear that a hate campaign is underway against "Perfect Match", a drama that, WITHOUT A DOUBT, would normally have NO problem. Doing everything to cancel a drama is NOT making an HONEST and VALID critical assessment, it is something else..