Screenwriter of The Whirlwind Girl Publicly Calls for C-drama Hidden Love to be Removed From Streaming Calling it Bad Morals to Promote Underage Girl Romance with College Guy

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• This is just trying to create an issue out of nothing really. The show hasn't crossed any boundaries as far as I am concerned, nothing really happened between the leads until they are adults and the crushing was only on her side without him feeling the same way (which is pretty common in the real world).

• This issue don't bother me so much because we all been there liking someone older when we were younger. My issue is with ZLS baby tone speaking is annoying me considering the younger version of her talks normally (and comes off very mature) or is that how she normally talk (as I've only seen her voice over in period drama). Sadly, I drop the drama because of it and her character is too immature for my liking.

  • This! The child actress's speaking/tone and acting as a 14-year-old Sang Zhi was more mature than ZLS's 17-year-old version. It came off like the character was 10 instead of 17, which was a bit disturbing. However, her acting improved once Sang Zhi hit college, thankfully, although I'm not too convinced by her crying/emotional scenes.

  • This! The child actress's speaking/tone and acting as a 14-year-old Sang Zhi was more mature than ZLS's 17-year-old version. It came off like the character was 10 instead of 17, which was a bit disturbing. However, her acting improved once Sang Zhi hit college, thankfully, although I'm not too convinced by her crying/emotional scenes.

• Meanwhile, these buffoons seem to have no problem with fantasizing about 40 year old women going out with 20 year old guys as if that has any real life relevance...

• C-ent has all these paranoiacs that literally and constantly destroy much joy that the entertainment is supposedly to create for its customers. Here came another demand for nonsensical censorship based upon bullsh*t accusation made by the TWG screenwriter!! How many projects and celebrities have been banned because of absurd censorship that has been abused per farcical accusations? One prior example I can recall is the ML of World of Honor, who was banned thanks to unfounded accusation of him paying tribute to Japanese WWII war criminals just because he's found taking photos in front of a Japanese Shrine. LOL

  The Whirlwind Girl is a mediocre drama with mediocre scriptwriting and directing. As a comparison, Hidden Love is extremely charming and intriguing even though the plot isn't complicated. Hidden Love has been the only school romance drama since Lighter&Princess that I was able to sit through each ep without skipping a scene so far. Coincidentally these two dramas were both directed by Taiwanese directors. I wonder if Taiwanese directors happen to be better at romance storylines than C directors because ALL other C romance dramas I've watched are either predictable or cringe worthy full of cheesy love lines. A suggestion from an inferior scriptwriter of TWG to ban a much better drama than her own work is like bad money driving out good !!

  C-ent won't ever be as popular as K-ent worldwide if such paranoia culture persists to stymieing creativity and good projects in the showbiz. Fans aren't stupid. Ppl will eventually get tired of cheap gimmicks recycled in romance dramas.

• They casted the wrong actress for the 14 yo. She's actually a pretty good actress but actually 10 yo. But even then they were pretty clear that it's a one sided puppy crush even when ZLS steps in for the role. He doesn't know her feelings. And when he starts to like her when she's in college, she's pretty mature and he is treating her differently. But yeah I think the initial backlash was avoidable, that part of the story wasn't even that important.

• HUm...I don't think it's gross because the male lead didn't feel anything for her. But I wished she had felt for somebody else before she dates him or had something in her life that it's not about him. It's very unbalanced for now.

• Ew. The drama for the first 3 episodes left a bad taste in my mouth. Why couldn't they have found a younger version of CZY instead of having him play himself at 21? It just looks so wrong on every level. How many 21 year olds do you know that flirts with a 14 year old and you think that's ok? Even flirting with an underage girl (with no physical interaction) on sites like FB, Omegle, etc. gives predatory vibes and you might just get targeted for arrest. Just cus it's a handsome guy playing someone older doesn't make it right. Maybe if they filmed the perspective in a different way, the drama wouldn't be plagued with controversy, e.g. he doesn't give her like 100 stares every time they're close to each other. Or being so much more mature looking. It's so inappropriate on every level that I've stopped completely at episode 4. I just can't. It hasn't gotten better.

  • What scenes were he flirting with her? The first three episodes were just him being like an older brother to her like giving her tutoring lessons. There was no actions of him being flirty towards her when she was young. I’m wondering if people already take offense knowing the plot and reads too much into the drama when they’re watching it.

    None of his actions are of being a predator. He simply saw her as his little sister.

  • You are reading too much into it. Purely one sided on the young girl. the guy she had a crush on looks at her like a little sister, nothing predatory. I also think that the team did a good job showing that it was a pure one sided crush on her end. He did not have any romantic inclination on her until that accidental kiss on their way to the hospital.

• It was absolutely gross to see it, she was a literal child. Netizens were rightfully upset, there have been discussions for days, this was not shot innocently. What I find terrible was Zhao Lusi fans dismissing everything because their idol was more important. I have no idea how this mess passed censorship when they withold much less problematic things.

  • What's more insane is how almost every post criticizing this drama or ZLS have been deleted/removed from public forums. They've blanketed all social media platforms with incessant hot searches, trying to give an appearance of how popular this drama is. Even on Twitter, where I've repeatedly muted conversations or clicked on not interested whenever anything ZLS related pops up, the app pushes her posts and her drama onto my timeline. Her media team must spend tons of money to keep up appearances, and she must have some pretty powerful backing behind the scenes for two problematic dramas in a row to pass censorship so easily.

  • Are you just speaking out of your hat or have you actually watched the drama? Viewers are not fools. They dismiss the claims because they have no merit. Instead of regugitating misleading articles, why don't you watch the drama yourself?

    • I watched the drama and then dropped it because I am not here for pedophilic content. Typical fan response, if a person disagrees with you they don't just don't get it. Oh no, we watched and we get it all right.

• I think it's the directing problem. The younger version seems more mature than ZLS (first the voice - younger girl has a more natural voice, and the attitude - younger girl knows what she is doing). And only in my opinion, the younger girl is prettier (and definitely a good actress). The older version (ZLS) seems to have left her brain in elementary school... behaving like an airhead and speaking from her nose... Did she have a fall and hit her head hard somehow while travelling in time?

  • 'Big' SPOILERS

    I love Gong Yoo, but this is exactly what bugged me about Big. When Shin Won Ho played student Kang Kyung Joon, his personality didn't seem immature to me at all. Shin Won Ho wakes up in Seo Yoon Jae's body played by Gong Yoo, and the character just became a totally different person. Immaturity out the window. I don't know if it's the actors or the directors choosing to play the characters this way.

• The plot is pretty real, a lot of teens have crush on their sibling's friend, the problem rely on the older character decision. They shouldn't be able to reciprocate or this becomes a crime drama