Personally, as much as I love romance, the moment they made the leads' relationship and romance the focal point…
I get you, however, we shouldn’t forget that those guys are also at work and have their own personal problems.
Because we rate based on emotions and attachment, that leads to them not getting booked for more work and can lead them to depression while we got instant gratification at their livelihood’s expense.
Its not about non-sensical. People are already stressed out from their shitty daily life and the dramas are their…
Do they ever think that, that kind of thinking is also ruining the actors lives? Because those guys are at work at the end of the day and depend on ratings from people who are using them for reality escapism.
It’s not fair and doesn’t make it right. There’s many fluffy dramas for them but they will go ruin ratings for dramas that do not focus on romance and use it as add on. Then make noise.
The romance focused audience is the most blind audience that doesn’t focus on detail, a destroyer of good ratings and creative writing.
Most don’t focus on the story itself but puppy love.
I also don’t get the obsession about happy ending. Every time they ask “HE?” Or “happy ending?”.
Sadly writers are subjected to this lot as they are many, because of commercial reasons.
This is one of the reasons Kdramas are losing momentum now and we’ve moved to Cdramas for great and creative storytelling. But the romance cabal will ruin this too, and Netflix and other western networks will milk it.
Honestly does real life always have happy ending?
Why must creative writers be limited to nonsensical happy endings even if it doesn’t make sense?
I share the same sentiments about Liu Xue Yi‘s acting skills vs A-listers. Most of them work in comfort zones with a lot of aid for commercial reasons.
Indeed, and that’s because they relied on the 2nd season and forgot that anything is possible.
If you look at the ending of JOL first season, although you would desire a 2nd season, you wouldn’t have much complaints if the 2nd season didn’t happen.
For it to meet that expectation it had to have season 2.
They wasted too much time on the SML and delayed showing FL’s super skills. So her greatness was left to be something to be desired for.
Also, the fact that managed to super market a plagiarised body of work tells you that skills of actors were not the priority but making money and fame was the focus.
However, if we look at the success of The Double with the ML who’s also an “underdog” Liu is too, her argument doesn’t hold water.
This product company is capable of turning things around and giving underdogs golden characters.
It’s just that with this things got lost in translation while trying to rewrite the whole novel.
They should have just put it in credits that the project was inspired by the novel but not necessarily taking it’s direction.
The problem is that, people who read the novel have high expectations.
With that said, the four writers inconsistencies that are too visible including the editing.
They chose ML to turn things around for them with his great acting skills of turning mediocre characters into golden one.
No super famous actor can do what he’s able to do, because super famous actors get easy planned out characters with a lot of assistance and big marketing budget.
You can look at highly hyped dramas that after the hype you see that it wasn’t that great but, it had too marketing budget.
E.g Princess Agent, kdrama King the land etc…
Princess agent wasn’t great as made up to be when you watch it with a critical eye, but it had marketing budget and super famous actors.
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Because we rate based on emotions and attachment, that leads to them not getting booked for more work and can lead them to depression while we got instant gratification at their livelihood’s expense.
I just think we should be mindful about it.
It’s not fair and doesn’t make it right. There’s many fluffy dramas for them but they will go ruin ratings for dramas that do not focus on romance and use it as add on. Then make noise.
Most don’t focus on the story itself but puppy love.
I also don’t get the obsession about happy ending. Every time they ask “HE?” Or “happy ending?”.
Sadly writers are subjected to this lot as they are many, because of commercial reasons.
This is one of the reasons Kdramas are losing momentum now and we’ve moved to Cdramas for great and creative storytelling. But the romance cabal will ruin this too, and Netflix and other western networks will milk it.
Honestly does real life always have happy ending?
Why must creative writers be limited to nonsensical happy endings even if it doesn’t make sense?
Phew! I really don’t get it.
There’s no problem with the FL.
You can watch Destined, he’s a villain there, Qing Luo, unshakable faith.
He’s good and versatile in all of his dramas.
Liu Xue Yi is an A-lister to me.
I stopped watching at ep 16, waiting for all episodes to come out for a similar reason.
If you look at the ending of JOL first season, although you would desire a 2nd season, you wouldn’t have much complaints if the 2nd season didn’t happen.
For it to meet that expectation it had to have season 2.
They wasted too much time on the SML and delayed showing FL’s super skills. So her greatness was left to be something to be desired for.
Also, the fact that managed to super market a plagiarised body of work tells you that skills of actors were not the priority but making money and fame was the focus.
However, if we look at the success of The Double with the ML who’s also an “underdog” Liu is too, her argument doesn’t hold water.
This product company is capable of turning things around and giving underdogs golden characters.
It’s just that with this things got lost in translation while trying to rewrite the whole novel.
They should have just put it in credits that the project was inspired by the novel but not necessarily taking it’s direction.
The problem is that, people who read the novel have high expectations.
With that said, the four writers inconsistencies that are too visible including the editing.
They chose ML to turn things around for them with his great acting skills of turning mediocre characters into golden one.
No super famous actor can do what he’s able to do, because super famous actors get easy planned out characters with a lot of assistance and big marketing budget.
You can look at highly hyped dramas that after the hype you see that it wasn’t that great but, it had too marketing budget.
E.g Princess Agent, kdrama King the land etc…
Princess agent wasn’t great as made up to be when you watch it with a critical eye, but it had marketing budget and super famous actors.
Thanks for the insights.