This episode features an interrogation by Peiyi of senior judicial chief Wu Yue Kun. This is a wonderfully camped-up portrayal by Bai Lu of the Pei Yi character at her ice-cold prosecutor best. She is in command the moment she enters the bed chamber, easily manipulating first the judge's wife and then the judge himself - who was no easy mark. Otherwise, this episode is kinda sad as it reveals how the Seven Palace Maids all sacrificed themselves to finally bring justice to some really awful men. Also, it is now even more clear that Xiao Hua'jin is hiding information from Pei Yi connected to the slaughter of her family 15 years ago.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 42
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Overall quality of this episode climbed back up a little from the schlock that the past few have been, but the show is still relying heavily on really cliche drama plot gimmicks. Sadly this includes killing off one of the few truly decent characters in this drama just to serve as a 'life lesson' to all the other characters. I'm sure some viewers will be upset by this episode.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 38
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Without Earl's cute little performance, this episode probably deservers a "1". At this point this series has really leaned hard into using nothing but cliche' plot trope after cliche' plot trope to drag out these remaining episodes. The script quality has gotten so bad. This barely resembles the show that was the first 20 episodes. I'm just gritting my teeth to make it past all this stupidity to get to the happy ending. But Earl was cute so I'm adding a +2 to the score just for him.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 37
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Wow. The show-writers have now doubled-down and infected the Tang Ming + Yan Xiaoqiu romance with the dreaded 'noble idiocy' trope. And through the use of one of the worst, stupidest scenes I can recall in recent dramas. Shan Shan threatening suicide to get her way ..... and succeeding!!!! Yan Xiaoqiu bizarrely gives up her love for her sister and insists Tang Ming turn any love he has for her towards her sister. - as if that makes _any_ sense whatsoever! That has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. And in the main couple thread, despite paying off Chen Jiaming's debts, he still manages to torment Su Mang more and she sinks even further into her already deep spiral of noble idiocy, running away from Zheng Chu upon the reveal that her baby is from an anonymous sperm donor! Of course, she doesn't realize that Zheng Chu himself was a sperm donor!!!! The show writing quality has basically sunk to incredible low depths at this point.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 35
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On the good side, the show has finally resolved the miscommunication trope betweenYan Xiaoqiu and Tang Ming. On the other hand, they are dragging and dragging out the 'noble idiocy' trope where Su Mang has sacrificed her relationship with Zheng Chu in order to not conflict with his parent's wishes and otherwise she is taking on way too much burden and starting to crumble under the weight of it all. And of course this opens the door for Fei Yi to try to worm his way into Su Mang's life in place of Zheng Chu, creating a feeble 'love triangle' where no one was needed. Sigh, it's all very disappointing of the writers.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 34
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The show writers are leaning heavily into the 'Noble Idiocy' drama trope now. Su Mang is basically breaking up with and reacting Zheng Chu, "for his own good" .... and of course this will cause all kinds of problems for both of them. Its such a stupid tired drama trope and I can only hope they won't drag it out too long.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 33
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Same problem as recent episodes: The show is fine while it follows the two main leads' romance. Yes, they are encountering lots of resistance and friction - especially from the insane, evil Auntie Meiling who is setting new world record for hypocrisy and selfishness even as she heads toward her deathbed (not fast enough, unfortunately). But the writing on the main couple storyline at least feels decent and makes sense and the two leads are so endearing and easy to root for. The storyline for the secondary leads, however, is just a train wreck of bad, lazy writing and an SML who is not at all worth rooting for. And the toxicity of that storyline has finally infected even the formerly saint-like Xiaoqiu, who is clearly so hurt by what has happened to her that for the first time in this entire drama she gives out terrible advice to a friend. The secondary storyline is really dragging down the overall quality of each episode.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 32
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The main couple storyline is worth a much higher score, but the secondary couple storyline is an absolute mess. Mainly because the SML, Tang Ming is such a pathetic, unlikable idiot. All the commenters on Viki can't stand him and think Yan Xiaoqiu deserves a better man anyway. This whole secondary storyline is incredibly cringy with cliche' tropes and every bit of the plot feels contrived. Lots of viewers are actually rooting for Tang Ming to end up with Shan Shan because both characters just suck. He simply is not deserving of Xiaoqiu.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 27
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I'm getting tired of the recycled plot device of: Tang Guo Guo does something stupid to wreck things for Zheng Chu. The show has recycled this a billion times now and while yes, I can see the her character is gradually, sloooowly crawling through needed changes, it's just taking forever to get her past this stupid behavior. Similarly, it's frustrating watching her brother be nearly equally stupid (though in different ways) in each of his scenes. Both Tang siblings are just dumb as posts and the trouble their respective stupidities each cause is just being dragged out now for over 2 dozen episodes already.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 24
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This show is just plot-dragging around how incredibly stupid both Tang Ming and Tang Guo Guo are. So much of the drama is just waiting for each of them to stop being so consistently stupid. In TGG's case, we are waiting endlessly for her to finally grow up past her childish infatuation over Zheng Chu. In Tang Ming's case, we are just waiting for him to grow a brain cell of any kind other than medical information. Because he continues to dumb as a post on everything except medicine.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 22
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A very eventful episode. First off, Su Mang's pregnancy becomes publicly known and rumors that it is Zheng Chu's are flying. He wants to transfer to another team to create separation to protect her from rumors but she insists on facing things straight on so won't let him. This all seems fine ... until the two Tang siblings just mess things up so awful. First, Tang Guo Guo barges into Su Mang's office and starts a terrible argument with her and refuses to leave. Zheng Chu shows up and tries to escort her out but she gets crazy physical and pushes a weekened Su Mang down to the floor - which angers Chu so much he actually slaps TGG!! This is something that is probably years overdue but unfortunately will have repercussions. Su Mang feels like she needs to avoid Chu to protect HIM now and tries to go to the hospital without him but Chu is persistent and follows her there and is there for her to see the first ultrasound images of the baby. This is all super sweet again ... until he has to go meet with Dr. Idiot, Tang Ming, who is furious that Chu slapped TGG. Chu lets Ming beat him up. This scene just adds one more reason to dislike Tang Ming who just continues to be an absolutely stupid, idiotic a**hole. Earlier in the episode he did pretty much the lamest 'apology' to Yan Xiaoqiu and now he does this. He doesn't take into consideration that maybe there were _reasons_ why his sister got slapped. He just throws punches. He's a horrible, stupid blockhead about so many things, how can the show writers expect us to like him? Yan Xiaoqiu deserves a better man than this jerk.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 21
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A bit of an emotional up & down episode but forward progress on both the main and secondary romances was made and they also finally got rid of the annoying Auntie so overall a very good episode. I really like how the episode closed with a strong emotional moment between Zheng Chu and Su Mang. I also have to call out the acting performance by Zhang Wei, (the actor playing Mr. Yan, Xiaoqiu's father). In the scene in Tang Ming's office, when he tells the story of his family's past and breaks down remembering Xiaoqiu's words .... that was very real despair and regret in his voice. That performance in that scene by itself was worth watching the episode. On the flip side, I'm pretty much done with Tang Ming. He's so infuriatingly stupid and does not really deserve Yan Xiaoqiu. She consistently does nothing but the 'right thing' for everyone but her reward is to get just emotionally stepped on by both her sister (expected) and, worse, by idiot Tang Ming (not expected). She deserves a better man than him, though I know that the drama is probably going to make them end up together. So he had better do a lot to make up for the crap way he treated her.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 13
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Big improvement over the awful writing of last episode. It was good that they quickly resolved the stupid and contrived 'misunderstanding' trope of last episode and got Zheng Chu and Su Mang back on track. We are finally starting to see some tiny steps in TGG's being forced to reconsider her relationships with Zheng Chu, Su Chang and Su Mang. But it's still moving really slow. They are really dragging out her childish infatuation to near obsession levels and it's not really cute or entertaining anymore. The joke is past its due date. Hopefully the writers will contrive ways to get her to start to look towards Su Chang more earnestly and they will let her grow up. Meanwhile, on the Tang Ming front, we see some nice progress in his relationship with Yan XiaoQiu, who continues to be one of the very few likable characters. Here is the open question, though: Did Tang Ming actually sleep with Shan Shan on the night she pretended to be drunk in order to seduce him? Or did he do the right thing and leave? The show left that un-clear. Feels like that will come back to haunt things.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 12
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This episode is a dramatic downturn in script quality over the prior episodes because all of a sudden the writers have both the ML and the FL behaving as stupid and irrational as their surrounding cast of characters. Up until now, both the leads were the pillars of sanity compared to all the loonies around them but suddenly in this episode they both behave like idiots, leading, of course, to misunderstandings and over-reactions. In other words, the writers have leaned heavily into both the 'plot-induced-stupidity' and the 'contrived misunderstanding' tropes just to create some humor and false drama. I really hope this is not a regular occurrence in this show going forward.
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Across the Ocean to See You Episode 6
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So far, this show has been pretty good. On one hand, it is filled with many characters who are very unlikable for various reasons. Arguably, the only fully likable characters are the ML & FL, Zheng Chu and Su Mang and potential SFL, Yan Xiaoqiu. Everybody else is annoying for one reason or another. Even the SML (Tang Ming) is annoying because while he is a nice guy, he is also kind of pathetic with the way he lets himself get manipulated. But despite that, the show is fun to watch, moves the plot along briskly and whenever they use tropes, they make fun of doing so, either by calling them out in the script, diminishing their effect, tripping or even flipping the trope. The biggest such is of course the inversion of the classic C-Drama trope of the "cold-cruel-CEO boss" sternly but fair guiding the underling who they are destined to be with. Su Mang is excellent at being the female version of such a CEO trope. She keeps giving Chu more responsibility and he is growing professionally due to her guidance. And he literally acknowledges to Tang Ming that she is his "master" who is brainwashing his thinking. This whole dynamic is usually gender-flipped the other way around in so many c-dramas (and k-dramas).
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