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a slow but interesting episode

Feels like a lot happened ... slowly ... in this episode. We got some besties supporting besties moments with Cheng Jinyang taking her girl out. We had CJY getting into banter with her ex in a way that wavered back and forth between truly pissed and annoyed to almost playful flirtation so there is clearly some unresolved stuff between CJY and Ai Jia. Unfortunately we have an appearance of Tong Yao's sad-sack scumbag ex-BF Jian Yang trying to take advantage of her being both depressed and drunk - and thus potentially vulnerable - what an absolute loser he is. We have Si Cheng morphing smoothly from his initial cold snarky character into a White Knight as he sincerely helps our girl through this difficult time with solid advice and understanding - not to mention the c-drama-requisite piggy-back ride. We have some family drama reveals about Si Cheng via the arrival of his brother - who doesn't seem very popular among all the ZGDX teammates. Despite the less than warm welcome he seems to think he can push his way in and displace Tong Yao's spot on the team. There's more that happened that I didn't list so, yeah, this was an eventful episode ... and yet it all unfolded kind of peacefully and slowly. Not that's a bad thing. My only real complaint about this episode is that it features more behavior by several of the gamer boys that is, well, just awful. Childish mysoginy and emotional selfishness run rampant. Most of them consistently act with the maturity level of 5th graders. I get that this is for 'comedy', but most real gamers who are in their 20s aren't THAT immature. Yes a few are. But most are as mature as any young adults should be at that point in their lives. The portrayals in this show so far are kind of insulting. Hopefully that's mainly for comedy in the initial episodes and the show will let the boys mature as the show proceeds.

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