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aw, what a nice article.

If the character does grow or evolve as the drama progresses, the pace of the development over 45+ episodes is glacial, and too slow to develop the velocity required to escape the first 15 or 20 episodes.

You are right.
The promotion of female purity/innocence/virginity often leads to the characterization of women as dumb as a bag of hammers.

Surely there's some sort of middle ground between slut and virgin, though--even in the East?

We may disagree about what a "strong" female character in a drama would look like, but we can certainly agree about what a weak one looks like, and this is where dramas are going to get the most criticism.

If you make the FL look childish, immature, indecisive, overly impressionable, innocent to the point of stupidity, easily misled or manipulated, without any will or backbone, or self sacrificing to the point of absurdity, that is a weak character, and nothing you subsequently do in the drama is going to change that initial impression.

If the drama promotes an image of a FL character like the above as some sort of idealization of women, then that drama is bad, profoundly bad, and the drama deserves every word of criticism it gets.

We don't have to agree about what makes a main woman character strong, but we shouldn't accept rubbish characterizations of women.

aw. Looks adorable. Hopefully it gets picked up by one of the dramagods and gets subbed.

please, would you send me one, too?

I'm so sad that all the sources of Thai dramas and subs have almost disappeared. I understand why it's happening, but I miss lakorns so much.

Typical for a Cdrama. I thought this one would be different and not do the usual things in cdramas that make me want to flip over tables. But no.

I think it's airing still, until June 23, but thank you so much for the link!

You know I was exaggerating a little, right?

And a designer handbag! Drama law: That handbag will be as large a Louis Vuitton overnighter, and ugly af.

Park Shin Hye's kissing scene(s) in Heartstrings traumatized me. So terrible.

I can't stand these bad scenes, and I hate when the female character stands like a lamp post when she's being hugged.

If the scenes are going to be that dead, just don't have them in the show.

I just watched a drama which shall be nameless where one of the characters is in the elevator and the other character has run to the elevator and is trying to keep the door from closing. And that scene was shot 91 1/2 different ways--inside the elevator 35 times as the elevator door closed inch by inch, and outside the elevator 47 times as the elevator closed inch by inch. It was the dumbest thing I've ever seen in a drama, and that's saying something.

Is this really coming soon? I think I've been waiting for it to air at least a year, probably longer. And if it does finally air, I so, so hope Neko or Thippy will sub it. (Please, please, please?)

Looks like fun, although I'm not particular to stories featuring female harems.

available on Netflix now (June 5, 1018) as Bangkok Bachelors

There are not many scenes to judge by, but the few I've seen, she's very stiff and uncomfortable in them. She may like to kiss personally, but it's for sure not her preference on screen.

Too soon to tell, but 1) it's a Cdrama, so probably and 2) the FL is Yang Mi, so there will be very few kissing scenes--maybe zero, but if there's one or two, they will be very bad.

If it gets subbed, I will probably watch a few episodes at least.

Hey, hey, looks like a drama for grown ups. Hope it gets subbed!

Just kill me now. For 99 episodes of this 46 episode drama, it's the same thing every episode, except their wardrobe changes. (Hella awesome clothes and shoes, though.)

They were in love. They are still in love. But there was a bitter break up 7 years ago. Why? I've watched half of the drama and I still don't know and the longer I watch, the less I care why.

The FL lead spends most of the drama with tears in her eyes. She initiated the break up. Why? Didn't I just tell you that we don't know ? She used to be a spunky college kid, but sometime in the last 7 years, the writers performed a personality extraction, leaving her with a part that so one dimensional, you could slide her under a door. Just our luck.

This is yet another repetitious, frustrating Cdrama with a spineless, weepy FL. It's terrible.

Xing'er is probably my all time favorite character of any drama. If Princess Agents had ended properly (or at least conformed more to the novel's ending), it would be my favorite drama.

If you're going to watch any dramas, you know you have to overlook flaws, plotholes, etc. I think the issue is how many of these you have to overlook and what your patience with it is. In a lengthy drama (and this is unique to Cdramas) a drama defect you can tolerate for 16 episodes is excruciating after 30 or 40.

Thanks so much for joining the conversation and adding your thoughts.