am i the only one thinking she is acting cringy? i cannot sense any emotion from her in some parts. idk maybe…
I don't think you're the only one thinking it.
I don't find it cringy, I think it's cute and entertaining, but there are other dramas I've insta-dropped because the FL was trying this same schtick and i couldn't stand it.
Esther is capable of dialing it up or dialing it back, and in this one she's at about a medium-level. I vibe with her here personally. I think the emotional intensity at clutch moments is coming through just fine. Her crying needs just a liiiitle bit of work, but it's fine basically to me idk.
What kind of development do you think she needs? In this drama, she has put her foot down on her mother, tried…
Her coquettishness is in babygirl style, but her actions show a strong FL. She doesn't wait for permission to go after what she wants, she is always making moves to be more independent in her life, she doesn't sell herself short or see herself as weak, and she stands up for herself. She even jumped into a fight and kicked a bad guy's ass with her double black belt tae kwon do.
Her *delivery* is just soft and gentle on the outside. She has contradictions and complexity. She isn't afraid of learning about racing or fighting and knows about cars and martial arts, but breaks appliances and pretends she doesn't know how to fix them and acts like she can't peel her own fruit when she wants ML to come pay attention to her. Which, in itself is proactive if you see it on another level.
Im guessing probably at the heart of your distaste isn't a lack of character development or lack of inner strength.... but just that she hit that babygirl note so hard that its harshing your vibe. **Which is totally understandable**
But just that I wouldn't want people to read your comment and think that that's the end of the story and she's just a 2D helpless girly girl, because she's def not that.
GOD JIN ZHAO IS HANDSOME! Only thing that's stopping me from dropping it. I really hope that FL's character gets…
What kind of development do you think she needs? In this drama, she has put her foot down on her mother, tried to raise up her down in the dumps father and give him love and support, get ML to continue his education and stop taking dangerous risks all the time, enrolled in school on her own, and took her own initiative to learn more about ML's passion and develop her own skills as a racer. Not to mention being proactive about love despite feeling really shy inside.
His character is the one that needs development, and he's going to get it, as the dialogue and script make obvious.
idk why people get so hung up on "character development". She's certainly not 2 dimensional, why does she need an existential inflection point to prove it?
Not blood related, and ZERO grooming involved. But it does have a dark lowkey kinky undertone, because he helped raise her in a "parental older brother" role. He freaking bottle fed her as a child. It's riding a fine line.
Are there any annoying SFL/SML romantic interests in the drama / novel ?
Those S-characters are to draw out the jealous feelings from ML and FL, they get very little screentime, and in no way is there even a hint of a true triangle.
WAIT...WAIT......ummm so is this a brother loves his sister show? Idk if I wana watch incest.. can some let me…
It's borderline. They are not blood related, however, ML literally fed FL her first bottle when she was a baby, and played a very outsized role in raising her for the first half of her life. BEFORE the two of them could develop hormones, they were forced apart by circumstance. Now that she is of dating/marriageable age, they re-meet. And they're obvs into eachother. However, he did not actually groom her at all, in any way whatsoever, because he never sexualized her when she was underage, he wasn't even around for something like that to happen.
So it's dark and has undercurrents of twistedness. But it isn't outright gross or illegal or messed up. The choice of if that's too hard to handle is yours...
After what I did to myself with master longs for salted fish and dynamite kiss, this time i'm gonna wait and binge…
lollll me doing advanced calculations like "if i watch X episodes on my work days and Y episodes on my days off, and there's one ep drop every day, but 2 on mondays and tuesdays...."
🌬️🌃I’m just waiting for the day this drama finally drops its first episode—one hand with 🍜 noodles,…
After what I did to myself with master longs for salted fish and dynamite kiss, this time i'm gonna wait and binge this one. Which will not be easy. But this is 30 45min episodes, I know it's prime binge material. I'll be so mad at myself if I don't have the willpower to wait for it to be nearly finished before I start.
I was pretty excited for AJTL, but was super disappointed with it in the end. I don't get my hopes up about Yu Ning dramas anymore, but I've never seen He Yu in anything bad, so I am holding out hope for this one.
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I don't find it cringy, I think it's cute and entertaining, but there are other dramas I've insta-dropped because the FL was trying this same schtick and i couldn't stand it.
Esther is capable of dialing it up or dialing it back, and in this one she's at about a medium-level. I vibe with her here personally. I think the emotional intensity at clutch moments is coming through just fine. Her crying needs just a liiiitle bit of work, but it's fine basically to me idk.
Her *delivery* is just soft and gentle on the outside. She has contradictions and complexity. She isn't afraid of learning about racing or fighting and knows about cars and martial arts, but breaks appliances and pretends she doesn't know how to fix them and acts like she can't peel her own fruit when she wants ML to come pay attention to her. Which, in itself is proactive if you see it on another level.
Im guessing probably at the heart of your distaste isn't a lack of character development or lack of inner strength.... but just that she hit that babygirl note so hard that its harshing your vibe. **Which is totally understandable**
But just that I wouldn't want people to read your comment and think that that's the end of the story and she's just a 2D helpless girly girl, because she's def not that.
His character is the one that needs development, and he's going to get it, as the dialogue and script make obvious.
idk why people get so hung up on "character development". She's certainly not 2 dimensional, why does she need an existential inflection point to prove it?
So it's dark and has undercurrents of twistedness. But it isn't outright gross or illegal or messed up. The choice of if that's too hard to handle is yours...