Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much :D! (I personally didn't end up shipping them much, but I like their dynamic regardless if it's platonic or romantic š)
Watching this show you just kind of have to accept that Drawing is Magic. Many times I thought to myself āthis doesnāt seem very realisticā, and then dismissed that thought because itās beside the point. You have to take it at face value.
This was my instinct, too! But I read/heard somewhere that the director (?) said in a Chinese interview that they actually dumbed some of the art abilities down compared to the RL cases they consulted because it seemed too unreal. Idk, it's definitely dramatized, and some of it feels like built in assumptions could easily lead to false arrests, but what do I know? (Source might've been AvenueX's review video on YouTube, but I'm not 100% certain)
He suffers memory loss after being pushed into the ocean and almost drowning, but none of the characters treat this attempted murder as a big deal for some reason.
Tbh I interpreted this as Shen Yi not telling them about drowning? The scene where he tells Du Cheng about it felt like the first time he mentions it, which imo was an important step in their relationship, progressing their understanding of each other (a direct mirror to Du Cheng opening up about his past and why his mentor was so important to him). I guess the question is how did Shen Yi get saved from drowning. The place he got kicked in was pretty lonely, so I doubt there's many passerbys. For him to be able to keep it secret, as I'm assuming, he must've gotten himself out. Or maybe his art friend saw and saved him? She didn't get interviewed by the police, I don't think...
Iām gonna be honest here and admit I didnāt really get the explanation. At first I thought it was Tragic Lesbians, but then one of them is painfully straight apparently? And she somehow thought the other was a boy?
Yeah, that whole case was convoluted, possibly due to censorship. My read on it was that boy-girl is a butch lesbian and/or gender nonconforming, and Xiao Xuan mistook her for a boy and crushed on her, but either was straight or didn't dare question her sexuality on top of all her other burdens. Maybe she even thought it was an elaborate prank by the lesbian to "trick" her into falling for a nonexistent boy ĀÆā \ā _ā (ā ćā )ā _ā /ā ĀÆ
They assume that a red-green colour blind suspect would be very slow to read a traffic light. I think this is a reach. You can still see which light is on and a colour blind person would be used to how it looks. And that is still ignoring the existence of people who cross on red all the time and donāt even look at the light
I think there was a study (studies?) that showed a significant slower reaction in red-green colourblind people re: traffic lights, I assume something like that inspired the writers. But I bet "slower" is like milliseconds of a difference, and I haven't personally read the study so who knows if the methodology was clean and solid. It's the sort of fact that gets blown way out of proportion because it sounds interesting.
Which is a long way of saying: I agree š
Shen Yi is very much affected by the loss, but it didnāt really work for me at this point. The character was introduced suddenly and died quickly; I was not invested in his story then.
Yeah, same. The show was very tightly paced so I get why, but even having him show up in an unrelated flashback or a phone call before this episode would've helped set up more sympathy.
No one believes Shen Yi when he has a theory where the next bombing might be so he just goes alone. Why are they so sure heās wrong? Why does nobody go with him anyway?
Iirc I think Shen Yi didn't have enough confidence in his own instinct. It was his choice to send the rest of the troops to protect the other potential victim and then he went off to be a self-sacrificing reckless idiot (I have a type don't I. Omg). Shen Yi stepped into Du Cheng's role and shoes here, so I get why he wouldn't want to 100% commit in case he was wrong, but there must be a way to split the party, right!? *despairs*
(I bet Du Cheng would have trusted Shen Yi's gut instinct more to gamble on it.)
If a season 2 happens, I'll let you know as soon as I hear! Though I'm rarely up to date on drama news myself š
Also, I forgot to pull the quote, but mood on patient confidentiality! I wonder if it's a China thing or a police thing (either because Du Cheng is police or because Shen Yi's employer is the police. Since she did his fitness for police work assessment, I assume the psychologist works for the police department in this capacity in general, so procedure about confidentiality might be different.)
...I still have a lot more feelings about this show than I thought, whoops.
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Watching this show you just kind of have to accept that Drawing is Magic. Many times I thought to myself āthis doesnāt seem very realisticā, and then dismissed that thought because itās beside the point. You have to take it at face value.
This was my instinct, too! But I read/heard somewhere that the director (?) said in a Chinese interview that they actually dumbed some of the art abilities down compared to the RL cases they consulted because it seemed too unreal. Idk, it's definitely dramatized, and some of it feels like built in assumptions could easily lead to false arrests, but what do I know? (Source might've been AvenueX's review video on YouTube, but I'm not 100% certain)
He suffers memory loss after being pushed into the ocean and almost drowning, but none of the characters treat this attempted murder as a big deal for some reason.
Tbh I interpreted this as Shen Yi not telling them about drowning? The scene where he tells Du Cheng about it felt like the first time he mentions it, which imo was an important step in their relationship, progressing their understanding of each other (a direct mirror to Du Cheng opening up about his past and why his mentor was so important to him). I guess the question is how did Shen Yi get saved from drowning. The place he got kicked in was pretty lonely, so I doubt there's many passerbys. For him to be able to keep it secret, as I'm assuming, he must've gotten himself out. Or maybe his art friend saw and saved him? She didn't get interviewed by the police, I don't think...
Iām gonna be honest here and admit I didnāt really get the explanation. At first I thought it was Tragic Lesbians, but then one of them is painfully straight apparently? And she somehow thought the other was a boy?
Yeah, that whole case was convoluted, possibly due to censorship. My read on it was that boy-girl is a butch lesbian and/or gender nonconforming, and Xiao Xuan mistook her for a boy and crushed on her, but either was straight or didn't dare question her sexuality on top of all her other burdens. Maybe she even thought it was an elaborate prank by the lesbian to "trick" her into falling for a nonexistent boy ĀÆā \ā _ā (ā ćā )ā _ā /ā ĀÆ
They assume that a red-green colour blind suspect would be very slow to read a traffic light. I think this is a reach. You can still see which light is on and a colour blind person would be used to how it looks. And that is still ignoring the existence of people who cross on red all the time and donāt even look at the light
I think there was a study (studies?) that showed a significant slower reaction in red-green colourblind people re: traffic lights, I assume something like that inspired the writers. But I bet "slower" is like milliseconds of a difference, and I haven't personally read the study so who knows if the methodology was clean and solid. It's the sort of fact that gets blown way out of proportion because it sounds interesting.
Which is a long way of saying: I agree š
Shen Yi is very much affected by the loss, but it didnāt really work for me at this point. The character was introduced suddenly and died quickly; I was not invested in his story then.
Yeah, same. The show was very tightly paced so I get why, but even having him show up in an unrelated flashback or a phone call before this episode would've helped set up more sympathy.
No one believes Shen Yi when he has a theory where the next bombing might be so he just goes alone. Why are they so sure heās wrong? Why does nobody go with him anyway?
Iirc I think Shen Yi didn't have enough confidence in his own instinct. It was his choice to send the rest of the troops to protect the other potential victim and then he went off to be a self-sacrificing reckless idiot (I have a type don't I. Omg). Shen Yi stepped into Du Cheng's role and shoes here, so I get why he wouldn't want to 100% commit in case he was wrong, but there must be a way to split the party, right!? *despairs*
(I bet Du Cheng would have trusted Shen Yi's gut instinct more to gamble on it.)
If a season 2 happens, I'll let you know as soon as I hear! Though I'm rarely up to date on drama news myself š
Also, I forgot to pull the quote, but mood on patient confidentiality! I wonder if it's a China thing or a police thing (either because Du Cheng is police or because Shen Yi's employer is the police. Since she did his fitness for police work assessment, I assume the psychologist works for the police department in this capacity in general, so procedure about confidentiality might be different.)
...I still have a lot more feelings about this show than I thought, whoops.