Love O2O - Rant/Review

Copy of my pillowfort post from December 2018


Love O2O

Youtube: 30 episodes with good English subtitles

Mydramalist: https://mydramalist.com/15031-love-o2o


Characters:

MAIN Bei Wei Wei (Zheng Shuang)

MAIN Xiao Nai (Yang Yang)

BETA Er Xi (Mao Xiao Tong)

BETA Cao Guang (Bai Yu)


NOT A REC


Love O2O - the main lead Xiao Nai is on the left, playing the game with his group of friends


I only started watching it because Bai Yu is in it, even though he's part of a beta pairing and thus looks like this:



There is no resisting Bai Yu's laugh, who cares about the hair and glasses



It starts out very promising: Wei Wei, a CompSci student girl is very good at gaming, fellow gamer Xiao Nai notices her in an Internet cafe and befriends her within the game. It has everything! Smart geek girls! Fun in-game interactions! Cheesy costumes! Getting fake-married and falling in love later! Mistaken identities! An unthreatened main pairing! A gay side pairing!


The female main character even gets to dress down some people for misbehaving, and people listen to her. She also gets one technically challenging task when she starts out as an intern.


Guys, the first ten episodes of this were SO much fun to watch. Unfortunately, it all goes downhill from there. There are 30 episodes in total. It's like midway through, the writers forgot that their female characters used to be smart and had agency. I just wanted to strangle them all.


quick cut with THE cdrama question: does it have a happy ending?

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Here starts my spoilery ranting:

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Verdict: if you want to see Bai Yu be cute in curls and glasses, by all means watch at your own risk. Otherwise this is not worth your trouble.