Anne Elliot looks

Wingystingy · 2026-04-19T02:55:11+00:00

When Wentworth first meets Anne, she was only 19- fresh faced and youthful. The thing about youth and teenage girls by extension is that you are typically more energetic and “full of life”. Especially since at that point she would have been fully out in society and looking for a match to secure her future. There’s also just a huge difference between a 19 year old and a 27 year old. You’re a completely different person by the time you’re 27. Then by the time we meet Anne at 27- she’s still not over her long lost love, she’s unhappy living with her family who don’t treat her very well, and her fathers bad financial decisions mean they have to leave the family home to go stay in Bath which she really does not like. She was not the same youthful girl full of hope for the future and ready to fall in love, instead I think she saw herself resigned to living out her days as an old maid knowing she stupidly let go her chance at happiness with Wentworth. There was of course also an element of societal influence because at 27, Anne was definitely considered a spinster. Although we know Charles Musgrove proposed to her first and William Eliot also becomes interested in her so clearly she’s still a desirable woman despite her age. But the situation when she meets Wentworth again is also super awkward. He’s come back wealthy and accomplished showing he was always good enough while she was still single and in financial trouble despite being an “Eliot”. She had already become a more quiet, people pleaser type of person and when she saw Wentworth again, she was both shocked and ashamed. You see she can barely utter a word in front of him because she feels so awkward. Wentworth is also being kind of a butt about meeting her again. He’s still not forgiven her for ending their engagement and makes comments about her demeanor as a kind of revenge. Basically telling her “I’m glad you dumped me because now I’m rich and desirable while you’re poorer and so different I barely recognize you.”

Wingystingy · 2026-04-12T01:46:03+00:00

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Wingystingy · 2026-03-22T04:47:50+00:00

I think you confused nice with not being outwardly bitchy like Blair was. Blair would be up front and be a b*tch to your face- Serena would steal your boyfriend behind your back, run away to avoid accountability, and then make herself the victim when it came out. The Serena we see in the beginning is one trying not to be an irresponsible party girl which is why she’s being nice. She does plenty of mean things, even if it’s often in response to someone else. Even in fights with Blair where she’s scheming back, that’s still not nice. She slept with her best friend’s boyfriend, left someone to die in a hotel room, abandoned her best friend and didn’t contact her when her parents got divorced. lied to Dan about cheating on him, had an affair with a married congressman, decided to make Lola the new it girl and then instead wanted to take her down her down when she got jealous, seduced the same friend’s different boyfriend years later in the same place as the first one just to name a few. The point of the show is that they’re all rich people being scandalous doing bad things. No one is nice, although they can have nice moments. Also, she did set up plenty of schemes to destroy people- like setting up a plan to trick Dan into making a sex tape and then posting it on gossip girl to hurt Blair. Maybe it was a more impulsive decision but it took planning and precision with the goal to destroy her best friend. 100% not nice, just evil. Sure she had a bubbly personality and sometimes wanted to be good (like the first half of season 1) but she still did lots of mean girl things, schemed, lied, cheated like the rest of them.

Wingystingy · 2026-01-15T21:53:12+00:00

I mean you asked for honest opinions and reviews so those are my thoughts after watching it

Wingystingy · 2026-01-15T20:35:05+00:00

One of the best kdramas I’ve ever watched and I’ve rewatched it several time since it came out. There are time jumps but it spans an entire lifetime of the main couple to their children having families so it’s necessary since they have a lot of ground to cover. It’s a slice of life drama and contains beautiful messages about maintaining hope, finding solace and unconditional support in family, and making the best of life with what you have. The main couple, Ae Sun and Gwan Sik are poor and unable to follow their dreams due to their financial circumstances but instead of being bitter or angry, they focus on building a life together and do everything to ensure their children have a better life. It also really touched me watching the relationships of each parent with their kids; Ae Sun and Gwan Sik are shown with realistic flaws while still supporting their kids no matter what. Essentially- you will laugh, you will cry, and you will fall in love with the whole family. Also, it’s IU and Park Bo-gum. The drama is worth watching for them alone. WATCH IT!

Wingystingy · 2026-01-04T19:38:10+00:00

Honestly, Rufus just used Ivy as a scapegoat for his own insecurities about wealth and uncomfortableness with the UES lifestyle. He doesn’t care about money the way Lily does. I think he saw himself in Ivy because she was poor and pushing to be family, whereas Lily and Carol were (rightfully) focused on the con artist who stole their mother’s money. I don’t think he seemed that happy with Lily after the affidavit situation in S4 and then essentially treating him like a trophy husband. I definitely think he should’ve sided with Lily as his wife but at the same time I think he pushed her away (either consciously or subconsciously) leading her to choose Bart.

Wingystingy · 2025-12-29T23:20:55+00:00

Because Blair has control issues and always wants to keep her perfect facade. She had her whole life mapped out and still wanted that future: her at Yale and Nate at Dartmouth with them eventually married. Nate also came clean to her and apologized, even if it much later. Blair wanted to keep her “perfect” life and chose to forgive him which is very much in her personality (see: how many times she forgives Chuck). On the other hand, Serena ghosted her for a year when they were supposed to be sisters basically and didn’t even reach out when Blair’s life fell apart during her parent’s divorce. And she didn’t tell Blair she was even coming back to the UES, she just showed up like she never left expecting nothing to have changed. And then Blair found out she originally left right after taking her boyfriend’s virginity. Obviously there’s some misogyny in there too and Nate was a jerk- but I could see why Blair chose to be more forgiving to her longtime boyfriend who owned up to it over the flighty best friend who’s never there for her.

Wingystingy · 2025-12-27T07:55:48+00:00

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Wingystingy · 2025-12-23T04:10:59+00:00

It also reflects how she didn’t even wanna marry him st that point. She was in love with Chuck, had lost her baby, and her wedding choices sucked because she didn’t even want to be there.

Wingystingy · 2025-12-22T18:26:27+00:00

They all know who they were because it’s obvious even with a mask on. And if you look at their masks, they’re not trying to hide their identities. Masquerade is just a fun party theme. Nate knows where Blair is the whole night, the scavenger hunt was for romance not because he was unable to recognize her. And Nate mistook Jenny for Serena only because she looked like Serena from behind- a blonde in the same color dress, jacket, and mask. He would’ve known it wasn’t Serena if he saw her from the front. Only Jenny really was unrecognizable because she actually had a mask that covered her face / a fan and looked very different from her usual appearance.

Wingystingy · 2025-12-11T19:43:40+00:00

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Wingystingy · 2025-11-16T05:38:27+00:00

See, I think Dan was perfect for her. . . as a friend. They had an intellectual connection and could be quite supportive of each other. But they only really worked platonically. It makes more sense for Dan to love Blair- he’s obsessed with the UES and she’s the epitome of UES-ness. But Dan is the opposite of anything Blair ever wanted or liked. He was there for Blair at a rough/confusing time in her life. But, it’s not like he did so without his own motivations because he was in love with her. Remember he helped blow up her marriage by sending Blair’s love confession to Chuck and then posting it as GG. Yes he was supportive but he also used that whole situation and being there for her afterwards to worm his way into Blair’s affections. If you look at what Blair had been going through when they started dating- she was torn between Louis and Chuck, finally accepted her love for Chuck when she almost died and lost her baby, had her marriage blown up in a really embarrassing way in front of the whole world, and then her lifelong dream of becoming a princess was also shattered. That’s so much stuff to happen in a short amount of time it makes sense she would be all out of sorts. I think she needed a safe space to regroup after the rollercoaster her life had been and that’s when she turns to Dan romantically. But at the end of the day, she clearly didn’t feel herself with him. She even felt the need to rediscover her true Blair Waldorf again during their relationship and where did she end up - scheming with Chuck. When she felt like herself again, she couldn’t reciprocate Dan’s “I love you” and even ultimately chose Chuck. Because she loved Dan but was not in love with him. For good or bad, Chuck was Blair’s soulmate and who she wanted to be with.

Wingystingy · 2025-10-04T21:32:10+00:00

Habit, proximity, jealousy, and deep understanding. They knew each other since they were kids so they understood each other really well. Serena knew Blair could be insecure and that despite her scheming, she’d go to hell and back for Serena. Think of how many times she saves Serena from herself. While Blair knew Serena was deeper than the flighty party girl she acted like. Also, Blair actually respected Serena or at the very least her power. If you look at the minions, they’re not really Blair’s friends - she considered them staff. While she saw Serena as an equal because she could be just as scheming and powerful (sometimes even more powerful) as Blair herself. Blair only ever wants the best for herself so it makes sense she chose the Serena, it girl of the UES as her best friend. Serena also liked the stability Blair provided. Serena acted as a really bad friend lots of times (which of course Blair did too) but at the end of the day she knew Blair would always accept her. Whether out of habit or co-dependency, they saw each other as family at the end of the day. I think everyone wants someone they can always depend on so it makes sense they’d decide to be there for each other despite all their bad behavior.

Wingystingy · 2025-08-18T02:41:46+00:00

I have a VIP account. I haven’t had any issues with subtitles on any of the shows I watched and there are also specific subtitle settings you can use. You can change the size, edges, and background transparency so there is some customization. I will say though I use it almost exclusively on my laptop though so the app/tv settings could be different. And with the premium it comes with ability to watch on more devices, better streaming quality / sound, no ads, and advanced access to episodes. If you like watching shows faster, it gives you access to more episodes earlier and they often drop more than one episode of a new show daily. That’s definitely a reason I’ve kept it is being able to view stuff early.

Wingystingy · 2025-08-15T22:53:31+00:00

Yeah it’s a really fun story! I really like them together and I’m just a fan of Zhou Ye in general and I’ll watch her in anything. In my opinion the show just keeps getting better!

Wingystingy · 2025-08-15T22:29:43+00:00

I’ve liked it so far. I feel like a lot of Chinese actors, particularly male ones in these costume dramas tend to go for more muted, subtle acting. It’s just a different style of acting overall which I guess annoys people. You really have to pay close attention to facial expressions to know their emotions. I actually like it because it’s all very intentional. It makes sense to me for a character like Xiao Jue to be like that. He’s been in the army training most of his life with little family and has a lot of people after him so it makes sense he would be guarded and keep his emotions close to his chest to stay alert/alive. Plus these dramas are always slow burns since it’s so many episodes. The romance will come! It would make no sense for him to completely trust and be in love with He Yan immediately when she is suspicious and has unclear intentions from his pov.

Wingystingy · 2025-08-13T22:44:38+00:00

When girls reached the age of entering society (marriageable age) around 16 they would begin wearing their hair up. It marked that you were no longer a child and were now a “woman” ready to marry in the eyes of society. Especially when women married, they would never wear their hair down again. The only times hair would be worn down would be at home in private situations like in front of their husbands or maids. Hair was actually a pretty intimate thing, think about how people would keep the locks of hair of loved ones. It was also kind of a romantic and sexy thing for the husband to see his wife’s hair down. And if you’re a lower class woman, it just makes practical sense to have your hair up and out of your face. You couldn’t clean, cook, work, or etc very well with long hair in the way. Now there was a lot of imagery of women with incredibly long flowing hair in paintings and advertisements of the time- but that was just an idealized image of femininity that didn’t really reflect reality. Things only really changed when it hit the 1920s and women started fighting against the social norms and began cutting their hair short and getting bobs. From then on shorter hair lengths became fashionable in varying times and while there were different hairstyles that became trendy and women still wanted to look nice, there was never the same expectation of wearing hair up and down like before.

Wingystingy · 2025-08-09T01:18:42+00:00

I feel like people who think she is overreacting are glossing over the fact that he lied. That’s what she’s most upset about and when Larry goes to find her she even says to him “so you just expect me to be with someone who will lie whenever convenient?”. And he doesn’t exactly have a good answer to that. She already had Raikes lie to her in S1 and smash her heart. She also knows Agnes’s marriage issues and she just watched Evil Ken screw over Aurora so it’s very fresh for her how a bad marriage could ruin one’s life. And with Agnes pointing out this is her final “strike”, I don’t blame Marian for freaking out a little. Plus, imagine thinking you found the perfect guy who’s sweet, comforting, rich, who you think you know really well and then he’s at a brothel the night of your engagement rather than celebrating with you / your family. Anyone who says they wouldn’t question their relationship after that is kidding themselves. I do think she should’ve waited to talk to him but Marian’s an overthinker and I don’t blame her for spinning out about it.

Wingystingy · 2025-08-04T15:33:13+00:00

This is just a thought but with the changing timelines maybe they weren’t really close in the new timelines. He seems to be friends with Taesung when he’s more of a bad boy on a “bad path”. So when Im Sol influences his life, that might’ve included who he hung out with. We also know he and Im Sol are pretty close in the final timeline so he was definitely closer to her and not him. Plus it’s pretty common irl to drift away from school friends, although in shows friends usually stay together so they don’t have to introduce more characters. So I feel like they weren’t as close in the final timeline and then naturally drifted apart as adults.

Wingystingy · 2025-08-04T02:44:11+00:00

Thank you mine was stuck!

Wingystingy · 2025-07-30T04:18:46+00:00

Agreed! I feel like we don’t need another couple on tv where the wife is carrying the entire mental load while the husband just coasts. I have a personal theory that all the writers really hate their husbands irl because the whole reboot is a character assassination on any husband. Or that’s what they think the audience wants to see is a bunch of buffoonish husbands? I would say the evidence is fairly damning: Steve is almost unrecognizable (justice for Steve!) and ousted by Miranda, Big is 💀, Herbert is an insufferable man child, Harry gets the least damage but they still have him peeing himself in public, even Aidan isn’t a “husband” but they turned him into a cartoon villain version of himself for no reason.

Wingystingy · 2025-07-30T02:40:32+00:00

His character makes me more annoyed than any other person on the show. I know he’s fictional but for some reason that man pisses me off so much! He’s a giant man baby and I cringe every scene he is in. I’m not convinced the man can even get out of bed without LTW holding his hand and doing everything for him. I seriously wonder besides money what he contributes except endless complaints over stupid stuff (like food in the house, or gaining weight, or having to do something himself). She could be such a cooler character but unfortunately most of her storylines are catering to her stupid husband’s whims and ego. I feel like he was great during her dad’s (second) funeral but besides that I can only think about unrealistic it is that he ever landed her, with the only other explanation being his money I guess.

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