kittyclimpoSo I’m on ep 35 of #TheLongestPromise now, and currently I’m a bit angry. I have no illusions that shi ying is gonna stay dead, but for the moment he is, and so is chi yuan. And in the end shi ying is prolly gonna get the girl. So the narrative is just another iteration of “men have more important things to consider than women’s petty and shortsighted desire to *keep their loved ones alive”. It’s driving me insane!
Throughout the story, chi yuan and *especially* shi ying have treated zhu yan like absolute shit. They never tell her what’s going on and what their plans are, they don’t respect her, they don’t trust her judgment, they dismiss her again and again while claiming to love her and to be acting in her best interest. Girl, if that’s the kind of love that’s on offer, you’re better off without. #TheLongestPromise
Julia@kittyc Oh dear, that sounds awful. I've been very doubtful of this drama from the beginning because it sounded like it tromps through all the most terrible sexist backwards tropes, but most people in fandom don't talk about such things, they mainly admire the actor 🤯
@thalassa I admire him as well! But I’m seriously starting to question his judgment in signing up for a show like this
Katriina (at Bluesky 🦋)@76katriina @kittyc Really?? How? I would have thought it was something like a cultural appreciation for self-sacrifice and doing the right thing, at the expense of making a woman the stepping stone for a man's character arc (if my impression through twitter osmosis informs me correctly about the story).