I don’t really agree that the stakes evaporate once his mum gives him the cash. If anything, that moment clarifies…
Thanks for the comment!
I get your point about the heroism being in the choice to spend himself, but that is exactly where the show lost its teeth for me. By making the money a trigger, I just think that the writers dropped the ball on the tension of being broke and the bleak reality of a guy forced to choose between a flat (or anything) and a doing something for a stranger. When the focus moves to the generic question of what kind of man he is, the bite just vanishes for me.
That bag of cash felt like a total cheat code.Since it is found money and not his own savings, it lets the show dodge the actual costs. Maybe if even his own windfall, just feels like too much of shortcut for me. Burning through a windfall is not the same as watching an actual future vanish one punch at a time. I get where you are coming from with the heroism angle, but I just prefer a story that stays a little more in the dirt and not over a more generic hero arc.
I always pretend last episode just didn't happen and s2 doesn't even exist for me
I am not saying that it had a happy ending. I am saying that it didn't need a happy ending to be a good show. It just needed a different ending to season 1 and didn't need season 2.
Joy of life is probably my all time least favorite Chinese drama. Its one of those dramas that i really tried…
Not my least favorite, but it is taking me so long to get through. I just keep waiting to get hooked. Each episode feels like a chore right now, so probably only watch 1-2 a month.
I always pretend last episode just didn't happen and s2 doesn't even exist for me
100%. I don't think I needed a perfectly happy ending, but it just went off the rails in less than a single episode. I just imagine s2 and that end of that episode doesn't exist either.
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It does seem like we share thoughts on this one!
I get your point about the heroism being in the choice to spend himself, but that is exactly where the show lost its teeth for me. By making the money a trigger, I just think that the writers dropped the ball on the tension of being broke and the bleak reality of a guy forced to choose between a flat (or anything) and a doing something for a stranger. When the focus moves to the generic question of what kind of man he is, the bite just vanishes for me.
That bag of cash felt like a total cheat code.Since it is found money and not his own savings, it lets the show dodge the actual costs. Maybe if even his own windfall, just feels like too much of shortcut for me. Burning through a windfall is not the same as watching an actual future vanish one punch at a time. I get where you are coming from with the heroism angle, but I just prefer a story that stays a little more in the dirt and not over a more generic hero arc.
Yea
Ji