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Hear! Hear!

I was not 100% surprised but it was a low act. This writer is just piling on the angst just so that we can go "aww" when the good guy wins. It is lazy writing when you consider all the plot holes they introduced just to land the twist. It is very annoying.

Any hopes of decent flying action has been dashed. Curse you angsty c-drama plots!

I think it is sort of back to square 0.9 but now the show is going to make GnT beg and do all the chasing. Serve him right but I'm not getting my time back with those middle meddling mindless episodes. :(

I agree with your analysis in general. I would agree that Yuheng is not a bad person but she did acted wilfully a few times. I clock that up to "love is blind". However, when GnT made it clear to her that he considers her a little sister but she still kept meddling in the background then it just add fuel to the tropey plot.
Honestly GnT is the root cause of most of the problem when he radiates conflicting messages or outright acted illogically and against everyone's best interests.
I totally agree that the leads just need to get together ASAP and we can get back to some wholesome flying action. :)

I stand corrected. I'm not knowledgeable about Chinese tv ratings. Shall play turtle now.

Its current Douban rating is 5.3/10. Not great.

Yes, I'd agree. He swings between logical and illogical but without solid reasons other than his own internal compass. He wants to step back but always shows up in weird places. How does he function as a pilot?

Totally agree 👍

Why does the word exhausted kept popping up when discussing this drama? LOL

I totally agree 👍

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I have read some very thoughtful and detailed comments on the various characters' motivations and reasons for their behaviour. I agree with a lot of the reasonings. However, there is one fundamental issue I have with this show after 24 episodes. I watched this show because I wantef to see some interesting take on the Chinese airline industry and the struggle of being a female pilot. Yes, we got a bit of that earlier on and I was cheering the FL like crazy. She get hit with setback after setback but she got back up and soldiers on. Huzzah! But the show is now reduced to a soapy, tropey romance/melodrama with love square, crushes, misunderstandings and now noble idiocy.
I didn't sign on for that. I was shipping The FL and GNT like mad from the start but now I'm exhausted. I know the show will turn around and a HEA ending is almost guaranteed but why this detour? Just to pad out the length or for the angst we don't need?

I think it is better than even odds that NZ did it on purpose to help GNT but it is still a very unsatisfying love square when we don't really need one.

That's just the old noble idiot card, chingu. ;)

I agree with you interpretation but it is just another form of the noble idiot trope. The ML just want to take on all the pain so that someone else can be happy but at the same time, he is hurting the FL and quite likely the 2ML because the FL is not going to accept just being treated like a gift to be passed on to the next best suitor. The more I watch this, the more tropey the plots get and the sadder I get.

Hear! Hear! :)

I agree with you on the point of guilt and overcoming trauma but I would beg to differ on the point of the first girl friend being a talented pilot. In fact, she learn to fly because of the ML but she crashed on her first solo flight. The accident investigation also concluded that it was a pilot error that caused the crash. She tried to show off to the ML and exceeded her ability. To be honest, that plotline was poorly done because now her reputation is tarnished. She did stuff that a good pilot should not have done.

I think it comes down to bad writing. There are so many mixed messages and meaningful glances but all comes to nought. I was shipping them like mad in the beginning but I'm exhausted with the push backs and mixed messages. :(

Thanks for your comment. :)