The reason I am harsher on OC than LC, I think, is because ultimately it's OC who gets the girl
I get this, but I think we will see sufficient amounts of scenes that signify OC’s reformation. If we don’t, I might end up not liking the drama as much. You see, this is a big thing of mine, when a hero starts horribly but gets reformed at the end. I like this more than when the guy is 100% good. Remember DMS in “Meteor Garden”? He almost raped Shankai! And at the end we totally buy his reformation. So at the moment, I see how OVis nasty to her and XM is nasty to him (she told him to die!) and I am all full of glee and expectation of how he is going to reform. Again- if he doesn’t, I would not like this. But if he does – I am easy to forgive.
I would have felt sorry for LX if he didn’t feel so much sorry for himself. I despise people like this, family issues or not.
BUT, and that is a big but, for some weird reason nobody in that fictional world views it this way - the way Xiamo acts IS as if she is in Medieval Florence and will always be stuck with OC until they die of old age.
This is a good point. But I think this is because they all are nuts. :D
She just may not be thinking things through but I cannot help but be affected by her mental state - she is miserable, close to collapse
She is not miserable because of OC, she is miserable because her brother is ill + LX left her (he left her, remember! AND KISSED OTHER LADIES just before that)
clearly this was part of his plan, why else did he get tested other than hoping he'd match and then he can force Xiamo to him (the book even says this was his long-ago plan).
I was sure this was the part of his plan all along, but still , the emphasis is different. He didn’t initiate anything and Xia Mo could have found someone else! In fact, she seems to have means at the moment – I can not believe there are no other matches (not in the whole world?) . Instead of trying to persuade OC and losing time, why doesn’t she look far and wide?
And LX annoys me even more here – instead of throwing tantrums, why didn’t he (presumably he is rich) didn’t help her to look for a kidney match in Europe or USA or something?
What goes for OC IMHO, is that just before she agreed he was ready to do it for free (when he saw her being miserable) but then she agreed and he couldn’t bring himself to say “no”.
I know if genders were reversed and I was in the situation, it would drive me mad. Logically I could understand it but emotionally I'd go mad.
But I know people who did this kind of thing and gone through unscathed. You have to have no feelings for the marriage partner, though, otherwise (like in SD) everything mixes up.
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Date: 2010-07-01 01:12 pm (UTC)I get this, but I think we will see sufficient amounts of scenes that signify OC’s reformation. If we don’t, I might end up not liking the drama as much. You see, this is a big thing of mine, when a hero starts horribly but gets reformed at the end. I like this more than when the guy is 100% good. Remember DMS in “Meteor Garden”? He almost raped Shankai! And at the end we totally buy his reformation. So at the moment, I see how OVis nasty to her and XM is nasty to him (she told him to die!) and I am all full of glee and expectation of how he is going to reform. Again- if he doesn’t, I would not like this. But if he does – I am easy to forgive.
I would have felt sorry for LX if he didn’t feel so much sorry for himself. I despise people like this, family issues or not.
BUT, and that is a big but, for some weird reason nobody in that fictional world views it this way - the way Xiamo acts IS as if she is in Medieval Florence and will always be stuck with OC until they die of old age.
This is a good point. But I think this is because they all are nuts. :D
She just may not be thinking things through but I cannot help but be affected by her mental state - she is miserable, close to collapse
She is not miserable because of OC, she is miserable because her brother is ill + LX left her (he left her, remember! AND KISSED OTHER LADIES just before that)
clearly this was part of his plan, why else did he get tested other than hoping he'd match and then he can force Xiamo to him (the book even says this was his long-ago plan).
I was sure this was the part of his plan all along, but still , the emphasis is different. He didn’t initiate anything and Xia Mo could have found someone else! In fact, she seems to have means at the moment – I can not believe there are no other matches (not in the whole world?) . Instead of trying to persuade OC and losing time, why doesn’t she look far and wide?
And LX annoys me even more here – instead of throwing tantrums, why didn’t he (presumably he is rich) didn’t help her to look for a kidney match in Europe or USA or something?
What goes for OC IMHO, is that just before she agreed he was ready to do it for free (when he saw her being miserable) but then she agreed and he couldn’t bring himself to say “no”.
I know if genders were reversed and I was in the situation, it would drive me mad. Logically I could understand it but emotionally I'd go mad.
But I know people who did this kind of thing and gone through unscathed. You have to have no feelings for the marriage partner, though, otherwise (like in SD) everything mixes up.