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History 3: Make our days count. (Spoilers included)
I loved everything about this show apart from the last episode.
I mean yeah, Haoting bullying Shigu them trying to date him is a bit weird but i think it was well explained. He didn’t do most of the bullying, that was his friends being overprotective. Then when he stopped Shigu from attending his exam, he realised the severity of what he had done. Yeah, he could have done better but his character is immature and selfcentred. It fits well with his character. He then goes through a regret stage where he realised that his actions were wrong.
He is a immature teen boy whose never had to deal with responsibility. That shows. So yeah, he could have done better but these flaws make his character so real and interesting. Shigu learns through him to enjoy life and have fun. While Haoting learns from Shigu how to take things seriously. They both go through so much character development and I love it. It makes everything so real and potent. Like yeah, Haoting made Shigu moss and exam. But Shigu forgives him and doesn’t hold on to grudges. They both learn together, which is realistic and wonderful.
Then there’s Sun Bo and Chigang. Yeah the age gap is a bit weird. It took me a while to warm up to them because of that. But I’ve known people with larger ages gaps in their relationships. Sun Bo is seventeen, turning eighteen in the show so he becomes legally of age. Chigang does not pressure him at all, he actually refuses to start a relationship with him because of the age difference. He is not with Sun Bo because he’s younger. It’s not like that. In every one of their shows, History explores real romance. The age gap between Chigang and SunBo is smaller than the age gap in History2:Right or Wrong.
Both Chigang and Sun Bo love each other as a person, not because of sexuality. SunBo even mentions that Chigang is the first man he’s ever liked. And if it was just about sexuality on Chigang’s part, he would have turned Sun Bo down due to his age (which he technically did anyway).
In all, I think both relationships are human and realistic. Relationships, in any given form, are messy. If I was to hold a grudge against everyone whose ever been mean to me, I would have no friends. Haoting realises his mistakes. Shigu learns to live rather than just survive. Sun Bo learns how to love and fight for his love. And Chigang learns how to let himself be loved.
The only thing that I don’t like is the last episode and Shigu’s death. But death is tragic and sudden and unexplainable. Somethings accidents happen. Yes! Shigu shouldn’t have died and it was a shitty ending, but death doesn’t care about life. Tragedy happens all the time. The History company aim to show life like and realistic shows, and that means tragedy and shitty endings.
What I always love about History shows is that it feels real. Like these are actual stories. (Not including trapped or any history 1. That is all a fantasy. Amazing, but the most unrealistic of their shows despite the epicness of the dramas). It makes me connect with them more. The banter, the flaws, the character development. All of it is golden and poignant.
All these boys deserve the world. No matter what mistakes they make.
I thank History for all their dramas.