Okay to be honest I loved Meteor Garden at the beginning and I was so excited we were getting an adaption of Hana Yori Dango that would be well done (no offense OG MG and all the other East Asian adaptions). And Shen Yue was going to be in it!! Like. My excitement was immense. I even have a signed cast Meteor Garden photo.

With all that being said, the beginning of MG was fine. But then there was just too much filler, Shancai was so dense, her and Dao Ming Si would go back and forth on EVERYTHING. I like friendly banter but they couldn't have a conversation without fighting for 3 seconds. Also the plot would go two steps forward then 4 steps backward. Tbh it could've ended at the 20 ep mark if they hadn't dragged it out. Especially all of the side stories like I wanted some character development from the other F4 members but it was so DRY. There were even some episodes that I could skip and literally nothing could change.

I think it was dumb how Dao Mingsi just flat out refused to stand up to his mom over Shancai...? I mean he kind of stood up to her but most of his approach involved ignoring her and then she would threaten Shancai and it would just be a whole thing. And then we had Hua Ze Lei just out of no where confess to her with no hints that he likes her again besides the fact that her and Dao Ming Si were "broken up" again so he just randomly made a move. I forget everything else that happened because it got so boring. The acting wasn't bad it's just the storyline...

Hmmm if whoever is reading this liked it tell me why you liked it? I'm genuinely very curious. I liked it up to a point but it just got so over the top that it was too unbelievable.