#a hashtag girlboss slay (they do this w xss too) (esp re: relationships to men

[sunslants]

go more into the misogyny (and other issues) of Link Click. Spill the tea (so I can cry into it during the new season)

i dont really have a lottt to say abt this topic but mostly it seems to me that haolin kind of struggles with women relative to their proximity to the plot? despite pushing lg + cxs + ql as a trio in marketing qiao ling barely has a character arc if she has one At All in both seasons of the show, li tianxi dies at the end of s2 to motivate li tianchen into joining liu xiao's nefarious causes, wang juan serves an extraordinarily minor role and then is clobbered into emotional fake-out death, etc. also up until very recently it seemed that all the characters in yingdu would be men which was. a little troubling to me personally.

anyways im pessimistic about haolins ability to give the blonde lady OR qiao ling like, a complete character arc in 6 episodes esp since she seems overshadowed by the villain trio in all the promo material. im sure she'll be a pretty sympathetic character since link click has historically been fairly good with giving characters interiority or at least implying it (wang juan excluded) but to what extent she is A Character is still to be seen. it could still happen!