strawgal

I liked for once that we had a FL who had different sides to her character, but why does the women always have to be seen as smarty groomed , and almost emotionless all the time to be seen as competent or worthy of respect.
For a women to appear competent it doesn't mean all the male characters have to be bad, silly or shades of grey. They stripped every vestige of masculinity from the ML, the excuse he was trained by three sister and his mother, which in an Asian household is probably unlikely but added the trope that women are loud, over bearing, and interfering.
In the end the ML was like a blank page, where arguments about temperature seemed his main opinion. Usually if you work in the same company as your partner you are transferred to another branch especially if it has anything to do with money.
I was just disappointed because of lot of it was good actors wasted, with what was the basis of a good idea.
Competent, but forgettable.

Just so normally funny. You can almost see the cogs turning going through as they go through emotions, and eventually say something, grudgingly, like laying down a hand in poker.
Stuck in an emotional age of about fourteen and trying not to be the first to give way or admit to anything serious.

This is far interesting than I thought it would be. I only but is, why do make female characters just boring beige filler or the suggest that being the local spiteful b!tch is normal.

The fight could have had more impact, the ex is obviously a bully, he wasn't going to up to someone who would not be cowed. It could have been funny, the big man wasn't so big. or a trigger for some other reaction, if was just lost.

I think that this has a really good idea, its just the execution that is a bit lacking pacing and direction wise.
They are not actually flirting, its more probing than that but that level of dialogue without contrast is just monotonous, and who has hours of conversation like that. ever. They go on a trip, and everyone gets sucked in to the non direct lack of communication, instead have making it have some sort of dramatic intention. No one really asks any hard questions, its an information black hole.
It's perhaps an emotionally and verbally clever script, one know what he doesn't want and and what really does the other want, so there should be tension, someone that is all one tone, so far, doesn't give you dramatic contrast.

I wish they would depict the dangers of fire properly, if you have ever seen dry wood burn it can go through a building in minutes and the heat burns your lungs., no time for wandering around .Obviously no smoke alarms.

I have was emersed at the start as the idea had some basis in reality, history is littered with marriages where old no money marries new lots of money, who marries up for status. The US had the 'fishing fleet', of heiresses.
For once I think it was shorter than it should have been, the relationship between father and daughter and the dynamic of the whole family was a bit of a puzzle with most of the pieces missing, so the characters appear extreme.
The last two episodes looked like they had run out of budget so let's finish this quick so it was a bit of the soap opera.
The script just didn't give the actors space to give rounded characters, and the actors were directed to act in mannered way, so I think they did their best with what they were given.

I just watch the last two eps because I just find the humour really loud and forced, which is a shame because it is a great concept.

Finished, and I am still digesting it like a heavy meal, thinking perhaps was it worth it?

I watch clips of old Chinese dramas and some are pretty toxic, with downtrodden wife, cheating husband and the MIL from hell, but somehow they feel less toxic than this.
If this how Chinese society has moved on no wonder they have a marriage and birth rate problem.
In this every character is either only thinking of their own wishes, or trying to manipulate someone to their own ends. It may dressed up as ambition or caring , perhaps even love but really every relationship seems to be based on some self interested transaction, and if they do not get what they want, the way they want it in the relationship,, what there was of it becomes a battlefield.

If you are thinking of watching it I suggest you start with the voice over at the end, it is repeated at the end of every episode. I suppose it is a self love story, that self love/needs are greater than any connection with another person, be parent, child or lover. Not sure I would want to live in a world like this.

Its very well produced, looks realistic, the hotel room a real character in the plot because it show how you can be passed over an leave nothing behind, where are the office is full of the messy races of ideas and work that can be passed on and used.
All the performances are good, the leads are exceptional, but I found it pretty depressing.

Ah that it explains a lot. What looks good on paper often needs cutting and framing for the screen.

It looks lovely, but it's has little dramatic tension in the narrative, like reading a text book. I have seen the FL character represented so often before, its a yawn. Perhaps its is the way it is directed, like you are watching a play.

I can never understand why people like this, it is so detached from the reality of MH treatment, I have worked in long stay mental health care in the past, and makes MH problems an excuse for violent manipulative behaviour. The 'treatment' in the long stay unit was laughable.
The character of the female lead is like someone I have met in real life, but not as bad and honestly I wouldn't wish them on anyone. If the FL character swapped traits with the ML's I am not sure people would be so forgiving.

I watched this a long time ago, and apart from a lot of the office silliness I think it stands up well.
It tackles some very difficult subjects especially how family see even someone they treat someone really badly as resource, to be used and abused.
The main positive for is is really the ML saves himself on his terms, and moves on to value himself.

The confrontation on the road is just dross, they both know they can reverse but its is a lot harder with a trailer. The fact that she is rude and has no competence to reverse a car, how does she park normally, is just stupid.
My husband has just walked in, he says they sound bonkers.

I afraid that it has lost me in the first episode, adults behaving like children, and a FL lead whose voice could cut glass, and of course she goes to the county side in four inch heals and a short skirt, with no basic manners.
OMG the trope that people that people who live in the countryside are either old ,stupid and completely unaware of the world around them, to be treated as comic relief and little else.

You are allowed to have different opinions, its OK, its not bullying people.
I do not feel bullied in any way, shape or form.
I am just bemused, I obviously must pay more attention.

Not a lot really.

I watch a wide variety types of drama and basically I view them in same way, you can enjoy some parts and be critical of others, but it still usually has some value. Things I drop I am usually bored by, or in c drama my ears hate bad dubbing.
The production companies are making so much content that often the script is often the most neglected part, because what people see is often watch catches their attention first. They have so many hours to fill for advertising revenue, so unless something is huge success there is temptation to produce more eps to get more adverting time.
Most of the very successful international drama now has only 8 eps, because it costs so much to produce and even with a team of writers getting the script / screen play right in every episode is hard, and people have so much choice they will drop it, even the big budget ones.
I think we are coming out of a period where in general especially in films visual effects has over powered good story telling, some of the most profitable this year have focused on character and plot.
I think in this particular drama they have decided like The Next Prince the look is important and it has over powered what is a basic plot, and performances.

Ah, something where most of the time adults behave like adults, but when embarrassed revert to being bashful idiots and/ or terrible liars.
Nice to see a women in control who is not some deluded idiot for once. Reminds me of my friend an absolute b!ll buster but so funny.

I think all drama is made with basically the same ingredients to tell a story, depending on the genre it may have more of one or less of another, and its only human to compare how well that mix works for you in a particular drama.

As a basic historical romance with a twist of time travel, there are a lot of these types of drama to compare it to. IMO it would have been better compressed for the amount of eps, and there is a lot of filler which doesn't concentrate on the main couples, when it does most of the time it works.

I think there is the idea you have to need a large complicated set to give an idea of time and place, when is not always the case.