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"not a single green flag, romanticizing violence, and red flags"?!!!
Looking at things and people, grouping them into categories, groups, labeling them, means not seeing them in their existence, individuality and meaning, it means not seeing them. Our current problem is this need to put everything in drawers and compartments, preventing us from accessing world's reality. And this is how fiction works - we must look and see and understand, not trying to integrate things and people into simplistic concepts and ideologies, straitjackets that take away our freedom to think, understand and interpret.

I don't know how the reception to the drama is, but I hope the drama will still be successful.
Because, if we continue on this path, we run the risk of submitting ourselves to pseudo-enlightened groups that want to impose their cultural tastes on the majority, canceling and censoring everything that does not fit into their drawer-based vision, assimilating cultural products to objects that come from a mass production chain, increasingly massified, with the same ideological proposals without polyphonic voices or verisimilitude.

As if "Perfect Match" was the only drama among Korean, Japanese, Chinese that did not scrupulously respect historical rigor!! I have not seen nor do I see such a deep and aggressive concern with historical accuracy in relation to other series with these characteristics. And your argument does not justify the HATE campaign of pseudo-intellectual feminists who use their limited standards to create a bad atmosphere and prevent people from calmly discussing the drama, since they checkmate every positive comment, using a speech of hatred.

I hope so too. Because this indignation and cancellation campaign is really strange, when they let so many male characters who are much more problematic pass. But I am convinced that we are facing an orchestrated campaign to cancel the drama. The aggressive messages, the repetition of the same messages so as to always be first and the relentless pursuit of any and all positive comments, not letting people talk about the qualities of the drama, reveals this campaign. This environment has no reason to exist, other than the desire of some to prevent the first Cdrama to be broadcast by Netflix simultaneously with China from being successful. And that's sick...

I apologize in advance for the comment I'm going to write, but considering the disgusting and unethical campaign that some fandoms have orchestrated with "Love You Seven Times", I will not remain silent.
There is also a campaign here against this drama that comes from pseudo-feminists, whose feminism manifests itself in the cancellation of cultural products and even in the censorship of content — from books to films, series and dramas, including authors and artists. And they do NOTHING else! Their problems are the male characters who don't fit their stereotypes , not the REAL struggles of REAL women who suffer in the workplace, are abused, and experience domestic violence.
It is indeed a campaign because they systematically repeat the same messages and relentlessly pursue any and all positive comments, not letting people talk about the qualities of the drama, as they respond aggressively and take away all the positive tone, giving the idea that that everyone hates drama. and that only a minority values ​​it. I apologize for the outburst, but this environment has no reason to exist, except the desire of some to prevent the first Cdrama to be broadcast by Netflix simultaneously with China from being successful - and there is envy here, there is a desire for failure and fear.

For me, "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim" is more problematic: we have a female character who, in the workplace, plays the roles of wife and housewife, taking care of her boss, including performing the daily tasks of doing his daily chores. the tie bow. Think about the message of women's submission in work relationships that is conveyed, the traps for young women who watch this type of drama, but it's okay, no one was scandalized - after all, it is a Korean drama, and as we know, kdramas only feature strong and green flag men - the CEO is cute, sweet and has traumas!

Same.

Sorry, it depends on how you say it... There is clearly a campaign against this drama here, it is not about presenting criticism, it is about systematically repeating the same idea and reposting it so that it is always in the first comments on the page. And I'm sorry to say, the aspects highlighted come from people who either didn't even watch the episodes, or, if they did, they didn't understand anything. But it seems that this doesn't matter to these people's goals.

The two have just met, how can they resolve their misunderstandings if they are not close and do not have the intimacy to speak openly? In many works of literature this happens, for example, between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet...

We know very well how to distinguish between honest criticism and a hate campaign, with the systematic repetition of the same messages, always placing them in the most recent comments, creating the false idea of ​​majority opinion, a well-known technique, which I will not name.

And just to finish (and now I'm the one repeating the same information...): the mother's character, with some caricatured and embarrassing features, is part of a centuries-old tradition of European (and world) literature and drama. In my country, a 16th century author already represented mothers this way and in Jane Austern this also happens. So why the weirdness and criticism? Why can't the mother's character, in this drama, also have these exaggerated features that we see, for example, in Mrs. Bennet?

I learned a long time ago not to be influenced by drama ratings here on MDL, having found many quality ones with quite low ratings. Because normally, if you notice, a Jdrama or a Cdrama with quality equivalent to a Kdrama usually has a lower rating than the Korean production, due to prejudices, stereotypes and trends. So, a lot of these ratings are also a result of hate campaigns orchestrated by fandons (remember the shameful campaign against Love Me Seven Times?). So, what matters is what I value and experience with a series/drama, not the ratings.
And sorry for what I'm going to say, but I have to say: there are people here who comment just to destabilize and boycott this drama. People can criticize the drama, pointing out whatever negative aspects they want. But systematically posting the same message, with exactly the same opinion, 4,5,6,7... times, is too much! And this goes beyond the scope of opinion, it is already a hate campaign and whoever writes it takes care to update it so that it is always being read.

First impressions are important in almost everything in life (although they are often not confirmed...). And in the reception of a drama too. This drama premiered yesterday - 4 episodes out of 36. Some people think that's enough to rate, others don't. All good. What I don't understand is the hypercriticism, the comments that range from bitterness to indignation just because the characters don't have 21st century values ​​and behaviors, or because there is no character development, or because they fail to communicate, creating misunderstandings (but, if the protagonists did not know each other...), etc. I have noticed that much of people's criticism lies in the fact that they do not accept or understand the Other - the Other from other times, from other centuries, the Other from other geographies, from other societies. This requirement for ethical, moral and behavioral anachronisms makes us poorer because we are increasingly ignorant about the historical past and the REAL world. And, ironically, with so much outrage and hypersensitivity, we end up blind to completely heinous messages and behaviors conveyed by so many famous series and dramas...

The character of the mother, sometimes caricatured, is part of a centuries-old dramatic tradition, for example in Europe. The mother in "Pride and Prejudice" in the BBC series (I haven't seen the film), is an example of a character with exaggerated features.

Don't take ratings too seriously, especially if they are based on the first 4 episodes out of 36. Ratings based on first impressions are hasty, without any informed critical appreciation, and many people give a low rating because they hate one or more actors or for fear that their idols' dramas will be surpassed or forgotten.

Although there are several cases in which copyright is not respected, either through ignorance or consciously, there are others in which, for a variety of reasons, such as advertising or fandom wars, the most ridiculous suspicions of plagiarism are raised, with the production teams having to prove their innocence. Not all accusations are true.

Oh, the "Love Triangle"! It seems like we see love triangles everywhere. What sets a good drama apart from an average one is the ability to question this stereotype and remember that human emotions, feelings and relationships are not geometric figures nor can they be limited to them. And Go Ahead did it very well.

To say that there is a love triangle in Go ahead is to not understand the entire drama, to not understand the complexity of the human feelings portrayed there and to not understand that life is NEVER in black and white, but involves many colors and gradations. As there isn't much to criticize in Go Ahead, the original cdrama, the pretext of the love triangle, which isn't even a love triangle, is used to make the Korean remake superior, by having a perfect ending with everyone in pairs, forgetting that feelings are complex, they lead us to question them and try to understand them, and we don't all have to find our love-passion at the same time, because in life there are many bonds and loves, beyond romantic love.

Life is not perfect, but it is wonderful. There is a path to be followed by each of us and we do not all arrive at the same places at the same time - places of bonds, of love, of professional growth, of marriage... - There are doubts, confused feelings, options, growth personal and bonds that are being built with our lives. Making everything too perfect in a drama is not making a masterpiece.

Perhaps I didn't explain myself well: it's not a love triangle, but a simulacrum of a love triangle, not being the center of the dramatic action and arising from the confusion of feelings and advice from friends, which happens quite often with us. Therefore, we don't have the obsessive love triangle around which all the action takes place, but moments that make this drama even closer to the human emotions and feelings experienced by all of us. Finding a romantic partner for everyone and everyone ending up happy according to the "norms" is what would make Go Ahead a banal drama, not celebrating the life and unique paths of each character and each one of us.