rapaciousobserver

This is an interesting twist on the time travel theme. I do hope they give us an explanation of how it happened. Great tension so far. I have high hopes for this story.

Yeah, your posts make the joke clear, especially with the emoji to give tone. I'm talking about folks who said they dropped the show because it wasn't what they expected.

It was probably a comment you responed to that was deleted by the author, so your coment went with the bathwater. It happens when their bad take is shown for what it is.

I'm really enjoying this series. Nothing deep, just good, silly romcom fun. If it keeps up, it may end up in the same category where I put Queendom.

I don’t understand the comments from people who don’t like it because Wine and Lal aren’t really enemies. They have always said friends with benefits in the story, except at the very beginning when they made it clear that they had to keep it quiet at work and were going to play on the initial friction and joked about “Enemies with benefits.” No shade-if it’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine. I just don’t understand where they are coming from.

Wait, I'm confused.

Are you actually policing someone's language skills for using the term "grape" as a euphemism for SA? This has been the norm online for quite some time to get past automoderation. Then, worse, you are throwing shade because English might be their second language on a forum dedicated to shows that aren't in English? HUH?

It's a common misconception that dictionaries set the definitions of words. Dictionaries document how a word is used, and they change over time because language and word use change. Yes, there are other, more specific words, but in common use, pedophilia is used broadly to cover them all. Policing language is a weird take in a forum where a large portion of the users have a variety of first languages. Policing language has its roots in elitist classism. Obviously, only poor, uneducated slobs would misuse words.

The rest of your gishgallop is similarly inaccurate. You've created several strawman arguments because arguing the actual point is hard and unseemly. There is a world of difference between calling anyone who watched the show an apologist and calling those who are actively and vigorously defending the relationship apologists.

For someone who espouses specificity, your arguments are sloppy.

Nah, it's only a few, they are just way too loud.

The fact that a morally incorrect behavior is normal in some parts of the world does not make it OK, it just means it fits the social norms of the place. Some places age of concent is 12. Some places don't even have an age of consent would vidoes of 6 year olds be ok, if they came from those places? It's not a solid arguement.

Yes, the age of consent is 15/16 in many places, and we see plenty of highschool romances in eastern and western media. As long as they are both that age, many people don't have an issue with that. The pedophilia (it's no treally the right term, but this isn't a lingustics discussion) issue with older teens is the power differential that comes from expierence, not just a specific position of power like a teacher.

"Normal people" do object to this kind of media, and we have well thought out reason's for our objections.

Thanks for calling out the pedo plot; you saved me from watching this show.

Here’s the thing: I don’t mind a show tackling a problematic issue as long as it does it well. “GLs” rarely give these issues sufficient time to handle them well, though. The worst of these come down to consent, from SA to age gaps that either are blatantly pedo, or lean heavily into it (I’m looking at you, Blank.)



If the offender (SA, physical or emotional abuse, pedo, or other consent problems) does not have some sort of redemption arc and still “gets the girl,” without careful framing, it will end up slowly normalizing these behaviors in relationships, and it will be reflected in reality by shifting the psycho-social overton window.

I regularly see two weak arguments in favor of these bad plot lines: the age of consent/cultural norms, and “it’s just fiction.”

Yes, not all individuals who watch this content will internalize that message. That comes down to your own socialization, experience, education, etc. The people using this argument are falling for the fallacy of assuming other people have similar experiences, abilities, and thinking to themselves.

Yes, many places with a history of arranged marriages have incredibly low ages of consent. That is because children, and girls in particular, as well as adult women, were or still are seen as property. This is an abusive patriarchal structure that has bled over into saphic media.

They are lazy arguments, and the same arguments have been used to defend a multitude of horrible behaviors around the world and throughout time.

Always let your partner know you are bringing someone home. LOL

Too stunned to do anything but watch. Fun was quite stunning. :)

Totally stunned. And a more than a bit turned on, IMHO.

I was roaring with laughter at the end! A literal Laugh-Out-Loud moment. Poor Fun. What a good frist episode. The mother-in-laws seem toxic in different ways.

Delightfully silly. I was afraid it was going to be too over the top, but they are killing it.

Yes, and no. Yes, it's a bit different for each of us. No, it shouldn't hurt like that. I little streach, or pinch, sure. The kind of pain shown is a warning that you are tearing something. Size up gradually and dilate often enough and it won't hurt, regardless of the surgical technique used, unless it was very botched.

And we have another mediocre episode. Emi singing More Than Words from US was amusing. Min and Praew are the only thing brining me back to the show at all. Overall the writing is flat and the directing is worse.

Girl rules is meh at best. Min and Preaw are the most interesting pairing. It's lazy writing and flat characters.

I agree. With the rushed beginning I don't find myself as invested in the relationship, so why do I care if it survives the drama? I'm not saying we need six episodes of them datinging, but two would have been nice. I'll say it for the record right now. the series should have been 10 episodes. The first should have been two and I'll bet the finale is rushed as well.

They are only giving us 8 episodes. Adding a few more would allow for the events of episode 1 to be spread out over two or three episodes. I don't expect 16 episodes like The Loyal Pin; that takes a lot of production capital, but 10 would be a more reasonable space to tell most stories. Too many GLs already rush finales, typically with unearned forgiveness of the antagonists.

Storytelling is always a balance between editing out the unimportant fluff that always finds its way in and providing enough room for world-building and character development. Shoehorning the entire relationship-building process into a single episode left me less invested in the relationship as a whole.

Yes, we know they will end up together because that is the genre, but that is a writing shortcut that often leads to lazy writing. I’m keeping an open mind because I really want Faye’s company to succeed. My many objections to Blank aside, she is a very capable actress. Hopefully, she will be just as skilled at the business side of GLs.

The first episode feels rushed; they shoved way too much into it. I hope the pacing improves in the next one.