A near miss.
This short story has a lot going for it - the two leads are really cute, and they have really strong chemistry - the actors not afraid of affection and do a lot of the sort of touching that people who love with each other do. They're very sweet togther, and really pleasant to watch. It's funny, Edison Song's facial expressions are really charming, and the mild outrage with which he faces the minor tribulations of his fate are cute and not OTT as they could have been.
But there are two serious problems. One is that the cloying music is too loud and just oppressive - really unpleasant and irritating.
But more seriously. the fujoshi in this is the most horrible character ever conceived. She is supernaturally annoying, she's a horrible human being, and although I abhor violence, I want to punch her in the face so badly. If you were to line up Meng Meng, Ted Cruz, and Hitler, and tell me I could only punch one of them in the face, I'd choose Mehg Meng without a thought. She's not merely fetishizing, she takes it to the point of malignant self-indulgence and what she does is so awful, so thoughtless ,and selfish, and could have destroyed a family. She's instantly forgiven by the boys, when they should have never spoken to or associated with her again. I mean you want to just grab her by the hair and slam her head into a hard surface over and over again. And that's understating how I feel.
This was hard to rate. I want to give it an 8.5 - other than the abovementioned flaws, it does what it does quite well - but I also want to give it a 1 for Meng Meng. You might enjoy this if you FF through her scenes - she does nothing that's important to the story except for one awful thing, which is revealed offscreen, so you can skip her without missing anything.
But there are two serious problems. One is that the cloying music is too loud and just oppressive - really unpleasant and irritating.
But more seriously. the fujoshi in this is the most horrible character ever conceived. She is supernaturally annoying, she's a horrible human being, and although I abhor violence, I want to punch her in the face so badly. If you were to line up Meng Meng, Ted Cruz, and Hitler, and tell me I could only punch one of them in the face, I'd choose Mehg Meng without a thought. She's not merely fetishizing, she takes it to the point of malignant self-indulgence and what she does is so awful, so thoughtless ,and selfish, and could have destroyed a family. She's instantly forgiven by the boys, when they should have never spoken to or associated with her again. I mean you want to just grab her by the hair and slam her head into a hard surface over and over again. And that's understating how I feel.
This was hard to rate. I want to give it an 8.5 - other than the abovementioned flaws, it does what it does quite well - but I also want to give it a 1 for Meng Meng. You might enjoy this if you FF through her scenes - she does nothing that's important to the story except for one awful thing, which is revealed offscreen, so you can skip her without missing anything.
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