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Are you talking about the short comments, that only makes up of not even 1/3 of the total ratings, you can rate without commenting. The different stars with percentage adds up, it's fairly easy to find other dramas rated 7 with similar percentage, it doesn't have abnormal amount of 5 stars either.

Basically, I guess not enough people care to downvote it, they are simply refusing to touch it. Douban definitely have its water armies but if they are here, these ones are smarter than most of the other ones and they aren't super significant enough making a 3 drama into 7. (i would have predicted a 6 with downvoting, high 7 without the controversy, which matches the shape of the current ratings)

For interest, you can look at If There is No Tomorrow 我是余欢水, which had one terrible dialogue in the last ep that set off analysing its misogynistic roots (you can argue the writing is a bit) and consequent downvoting. it's sitting at 7.4 with 8.9% one star, similar to MHH's 8.2% one star. That one actually started at 8 or high 7 I think? and dropped and there was bit of upvoting to 5 stars to combat the 1 stars too.

higher rating isn't particularly difficult, popularity is little hard to say since it's on two different platforms, but this definitely have a wider reach since it's mostly comedy.

nope, it's better off not to to be honest, since the details are different, and directing of the drama, career focus and some characters' personalities are different.

It was never LoL to begin with, it's a fictional group shooting game in the novel, CS:Go (multiplayer shooting game) when they filmed GGS, ctf (cybersecurity, not gaming at all) when they aired GGS. They changed the career probably because they wanted to air on tv to reach a wider audience, all the gaming esport dramas are webdramas and have fairly limited audience.

douban ratings have always been influenced by controversies. this latest one happened in january, it's too recent, it's also tangentially connected to this incident where a female author spoke up about being harrassed in events, and bunch of male authors just attacked her going "not all men", even though she didn't name any names. zhui xu's author was one of them, AND THEN he mentioned "i didn't really think about female audience", I sort of understand what he was saying, but it's just hilariously bad PR. If the drama wasn't adapted this well, i would have dropped the drama like a firebomb tbh.

you can watch this as a separate drama since details are different, it'll explain everything relevant.

Yeah ZRY lost some weight before filming snow sword stride, Maybe because his wife gave birth and they were losing weight together? Or he got used to feeding everyone else with his cooking. This drama's cameo was done when he filmed SSS.

You are already here! I was going to rec this to you ahahaha. This is so much fun and easy to watch.

As for JoL's bgm, it's intentional comedy for some people, they think it's brilliant, while other find it rips them out of the drama.

just watch this one, watching GGS might make you more confused lol.

they are very close friends, not romantically linked at all, although some novel readers said hua ti has a crush on her? I totally didn't notice so it's real subtle.

ooh yeah i remember that scene. they just age them up 3 years for some reason?

you don't need to. it tends to confuse you since there's career change + bit of personality change as well as cast change. watching it might supplement some background story that you might be curious about, but you can always ask here, unless you can separate the two dramas really well.

novel age + age gap between gun and appledog. (gun is confirmed 29) where did grandpa say 25?

dt is 22 and appledog is 25. appledog is younger than solo and gun by 4 years.

they call her "da sao", sister-in-law, but you also call your bro's girlfriend that, it's not sequel yet. Timeline-wise, if we are reconciling the two version, it's before they date, but 97 and One misunderstood their relationship. (between GGS ep 4 and ep 7) ep 13 = Chinese New Years = GGS ep 8

? she doesn't have to be the same team as dt to have a romance. she joins SP as she did in GGS and the novel.

No. it's a separate story and the characterisation for FL is different. People are having difficulties consoling the two timeline and some changes. I'd suggest watching that later if you are interested. This one's timeline is before GGS and it ends after GGS finishes.

To be fair to Solo, that was after she quit and they broke up, he also said it for his daughter, it's just sort of final straw that broke camel's back.

he was a minor when they started dating, or just turned of age, idk. how iffy it feels depends on you?

I wouldn't call it explained well, you piece together the timeline and what happened bit by bit. I was pretty annoyed with Su Cheng, since her side was never explained, and she came off incredibly irresponsible and without reason. GGS helped in that they finally filled in the gaps, and it had characters that asked questioned i wanted to ask and they yelled at people for being irresponsible. i should note that even with GGS, it took most of the drama for Solo's team's backstory to unfold itself, and for them to reconcile, because that's how the novels wrote it, and because that's how Tong Nian finds out I guess. This story's source novel also have bits that made me really angry at some point, so I hoped they smoothed out that bit.