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It's not reasonable to tell people to research a show before they start watching. When I want or need to do research, I work on my Master's thesis. No one should have to research TV they watch for entertainment.

Secondly, the sequel isn't called anything like "Flourished Peony", so even if you notice that there's a note about "related content", the note is in Mandarin, and when you click, it doesn't tell you anything except the leads are the same in both dramas.

Third, I'm smart enough to get by, and I didn't know there was a sequel either. I would not have started the show if I'd known there was, so please give people who are annoyed and/or feel like they've been bamboozled a break.

We should help people who are weaker than we are, especially if they're being abused. But you do get to a place where the care you have gets worn out if you've helped once or twice before (especially if you've helped and it was risky for you, too, as it is in Mudan's case) and the person you've helped keeps returning to her abuser. Which is sort of where we're at with Shengyi.

If you give people a 3rd chance to hurt you and they take it, you're on your own.

You did a very good job of listing complaints I have. One of the most frustrating things about the drama is how good it could've been, and instead it's . . . this.

Okay, well I guess you've decided that your contribution to the site is to be an annoying pest.

You're kind of a dick, aren't you? What a shame. I guess if you'd had another choice about who you wanted to be, you wouldn't have chosen to be a petty internet troll, but there you go.

Wow. Dis is a lotta subplots, and I'm ready for all of 'em.

What about the extreme fans here? The ones who play rating games because they're anti fans, stalking posts and comments, trolling essays because their darlings have been criticized? Aren't they part of sasseang culture too?

If I lived to be 1000 years old, I will never understand this kind of fandom. To me, its evidence of mental imbalance. Neither the courts nor a country's culture should allow stalking, invasion of privacy, harassment or any other activities typical of extreme fan culture to be acceptable or normalized.

Every time I see this here at MDL, it makes me absolutely cringe, and you all have seen it here, too.

What can or should we be doing about it here, in our own backyard?

Intelligent and thoughtful, with an insight I hadn't considered.

Thank you.

I realize that this story is popular, which is why there are Korean, Thai and Chinese versions. But it's so boring and dumb. Why do people like it so much?

You did better than me. I bailed after 10 minutes.

Sorry, not intending this as a criticism of you, Empress. just in case it seemed that way. I agree with you completely.

Unless a person is family or a close friend, they have NO involvement in these actors' lives. For fuck's sake, be grateful for the hours and hours these actors work to make the dramas we love, and leave them alone. Criticize their work, sure. Criticize them as people? Just fucking stop. Leave them alone; don't write and post things that add to these people's psychic load.

Who cares about them? It's about you--the kind of person you want to be. Hold on to your goodness, even when you're fighting a fire.

Many of these comments are thoughtless and very unkind.
But while you're rightly condemning these comments, don't write one that's just as bad.

This is a clusterfuck all around.

Believe, disbelieve. Whatever. It is undeniably true that this actor is very unwell. What matters--the only thing that matters--is that she does what's necessary to get better.

The entertainment industry in China treats its talent like they're vending machines. It bullies and exploits them--even top stars like Zhao Lu Si, and it threatens them with their careers to force them to conform. The only thing China's government cares about is whether the actors are paying their taxes and isn't gay. It's not going to do a damn thing about the exploitation of the kids in the industry.

For these reasons, I can well believe that a manager treated Rosy like shit, and she's experiencing PTSD as a continuing result.

Egad. No wonder I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for the help!

I couldn't unwind that synopsis if I had a map and a flashlight. Also, Vin Zhang is ML, so drama will probably kill him off again. I'm more than willing to be wrong, though.

Bring your counter argument. That would be interesting

But calling another poster a name, whose only sin is presenting an opinion you don't agree with, is not it.

Isn't life hard enough already without griefing other people who don't have it coming?

I like the drama, and I look forward to it every week, but you've done a very good job of raising the issues I have with it, too. I hope some of these questions are answered by the end of the show, otherwise it's going to be another Kdrama that started out with a bang and ended on a whimper.