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No person of good character allows their friend to be beaten without doing something to help. (A trained person may assess the situation they're jumping into for risks--how many attackers? Are they armed? With what? What's the terrain? Is it raining? Broken pavement? Obstacles? Broken glass? In that regard, your point about untrained people being a liability and not a help is correct, but that is a completely different drama.) The scriptwriters make the FL not just a coward in that scene, but also a disloyal and unworthy friend. If you're the person who is taking the beating while your friend stands there and does nothing, you'll be unfriending them as soon as you get out of the hospital.

I think you're very understanding and kind.

It's just that girls in Cdramas are always so badly represented. They may or may not get character growth in their drama, but almost all of them start out the same way. The timid, modest, clueless, witless, clumsy and weak FL in Cdramas is criminally over represented--rarely balanced by girls who are smart, fearless and aggressive. Those types of girls exist in real life, too.

When you watch drama after drama with these passive girl characters, it begins to look like a blueprint for how girls are SUPPOSED to be.

But thank you so much for your thoughtful reply.

Every girl will not be brave, but neither will every boy.

I don't have any friends who would do nothing to help me if I was being physically attacked, and I don't want any who would do nothing, either. At the very least, they'd run to get help and not stand there with their lower lip sticking out, looking down at their shoes.

It's a drama: except to highlight the current uselessness of the FL's character, there was no need to write a script that called for her to stand there, doing nothing.

Unpopular opinion, but I'm at episode 8, and the FL's character so far excels at weakness, timidity and pouting. This episode, while the ML has come to her aid and is facing 4 other boys who have every intention of beating the ML to death, the FL listens to the beating behind a closed gate, looking down at her feet, helpless.

If it's me, and my best friend is getting beat half to death, I'm not cowering behind a door while it's happening. I know that lots and lots of people--if not most--would be scared in a situation like that, but standing around doing nothing while your boyfriend is getting pulped is not it.

I really, really dislike FL characters who are drawn like this. What a terrible example for girls.

If only the last episodes had lived up to the edginess of the first few. It's as though the writers read how shocked and scandalized the audience was in the beginning, and said "oh, dear, we can't have that!" and turned this sloppy but original and fairly realistic portrait of messed up university relationships into a box of ordinary romance tropes. The first episodes, I could hardly wait for each week's episodes, and starting with episode 6, I struggled to stay awake. What a shame.

The show improves your Mandarin, because the available English subs for it are really a struggle. The show is so good, you're nearly desperate to understand what's happening, what people are saying, and what they mean by what they're saying.

Quite powerful slice of life drama that manages to be very up lifting, even though you need 10 hankies to get through it. That's a masterful accomplishment, considering the whole show is only 12 episodes (average episode length is 75 minutes, though.)

A rare Cdrama that's as good as it should be, where all the FL characters are realistic but admirable.

There is about an 85% chance that there will never be a season 2 of Princess Agents. The cast for the original has long since gone on to other projects, and if there was anything in the works for a season 2, some details--cast, screenwriter, director, script, budget, set--anything about these at all--would have leaked or been disclosed. But there's absolutely nothing. (The only reason I'm not 100% sure is because the wiring in my crystal ball is busted.)

Princess Agents ended badly because, for whatever reason, the screenwriter gambled on there being a 2nd season, only there isn't.

I can't remember exactly, but it's nearer the middle of the show, say like episode 8 or 9? Or earlier? It's not a drama where they drag how long it takes for them to get together.

By the time all the sexy parts in the original Kdrama were zippered off to make this align more with Thai sensibilities, you're sort of left with a not very exciting noona romance that features some very attractive actors.

If you're going to do a re-make, either subtract the parts from the original that weren't very good, or add parts to the original that make it better, but what's the point of doing a copy, only duller?

A lovely, lovely drama from start to finish. Easily in my top 10. The performances are so heart felt and honest, without being overly dramatic. I loved everything about it. On days when I feel like the world is grinding me into paste, I'll take two aspirin and watch this drama again.

It wouldn't be a Cdrama if the FL wasn't clumsy, though.

Season 2 is better than season 1, but I couldn't understand season 2's ending if I had a GPS and a flashlight. Unless it's a set up for an (so far) imaginary season 3, it made fascinating and zero sense. I'd come back for all those ridiculous pairings, though.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'll check out at least the first few episodes.

This a the rare Cdrama, where I'm not ff through any episodes, and look forward to every new one. Parts are hilarious. (Am I the only one who noticed the judgy dog statue in her apartment? So quietly funny!) The leads have an endearing, easy and unforced chemistry. It's completely believable that they're honestly delighted by each other.

The best part of each episode is the first two minutes, when the leads are children. He is stupidly loyal, does whatever she tells him to do, no matter what, while she leads them both into trouble, over and over again. I want another 20 episodes that are just about them when they were kids.

This a the rare Cdrama, where I'm not ff through any episodes, and look forward to every new one. Parts are hilarious. (Am I the only one who noticed the judgy dog statue in her apartment? So quietly funny!) The leads have an endearing, easy and unforced chemistry. It's completely believable that they're honestly delighted by each other.

The best part of each episode is the first two minutes, when the leads are children. He is stupidly loyal, does whatever she tells him to do, no matter what, while she leads them both into trouble, over and over again. I want another 20 episodes that are just about them when they were kids.

This was a commercial for Rio beverage with actors saying and doing stuff, interrupted by other commercials, the most notable of which was a Chanel earring the size of a shoe, dangling from a character's ear like she was a prize-winning cow at the county fair.

I know that the rent has to paid, but let's be sensible about the PPL, maybe?

I wasn't sure where this drama was going or even what it was about until the last 5 minutes of the last episode. It's quite representative of what Jdramas do so well--slice of life--in this drama's case, a fine slice of one woman who falls apart, rather spectacularly. The symbolism of the last few moments of the show are very heavy handed, however.

The FL runs headlong into society's sexual taboos, like the Koolaid kid running through walls. It's an uncomfortable watch, and you wonder how far down she thinks she needs to go before she finds the freedom she wants to live her own life.

I've known women who stretched themselves to the breaking point to get away from their own lives, Before they snap back into some resemblance of themselves it can be very messy and painful for their family, their friends, and other fairly innocent bystanders.

I thought this drama was inspiring, though.

Thank you SO much for subbing this, and providing a link to the drama.

My favorite genre! And it's usually awful! [Excludes Kluen Cheewit, which is an excellent drama.)

When may we hope for part 2 of this splendid article?

My comfort dramas are "Coffee Prince", "Secret Garden", "Goong", "Descendants of the Sun", and any 5 episodes in a row of "The Story of Ming Lan".