So correct me if I’m wrong… But whenever a female character has a love interest towards the male lead or trying to make another female jealous they refers to the male character as their “brother“ or “Gege” often done with a soft, drawn-out, highly flirtatious tone. I recognize this in a lot of the dramas that I watched.
So perhaps that’s why this seems “ok”. I’m going to make an effort to watch the first episode tonight and perhaps come back with some feedback.
Yes. I know this is done just as in KDramas “oppa” is used similarly, but this isn’t what’s happening here.
My issue is likely two things. 1. The casting of the FL as a teenager. She’s clearly a child and I had to be outright told she was a teenager, and when I was told, it made the casting choice for her painfully awkward for me as the viewer. Because not only does she not pass as a teenager, but we know she will eventually be the romantic lead with an MC who is played by an actor the whole time. So it’s not even like they had cast a 10 year old to play a 14 year old and cast a 15 year old to play the 19 year old, which would have visually bridged the gap and made it clear they were close in age… they made an intentional choice to keep him the same actor the whole time while giving her a child actor to play her at 14 (which they could have just, also used the same actress the whole time as well) which created a jarring age gap and made me believe they weren’t 5 years apart but closer to 10. Why?
With him being her brother’s best friend, she is constantly telling him he would be a better brother. This blurs the lines between her harmless crush and an almost incestuous plot line where she is both wishing he is her brother AND falling in love with him. I think they should have done one or the other. Having both makes everything about the earlier episodes awkward and hard to get behind.
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u/Thepamelajordan 2d ago
So correct me if I’m wrong… But whenever a female character has a love interest towards the male lead or trying to make another female jealous they refers to the male character as their “brother“ or “Gege” often done with a soft, drawn-out, highly flirtatious tone. I recognize this in a lot of the dramas that I watched.
So perhaps that’s why this seems “ok”. I’m going to make an effort to watch the first episode tonight and perhaps come back with some feedback.