When the Stars Gossip (2025, K-drama)
Putting logic aside, I was really rooting for this rom-com until the final episode. The English name in no way prepares you for the fuckery in this drama. The last episode SMACKED the rose colored glasses off my face. My brain in the corner pissed. I must now let her speak. I ignored a lot of shit but you expect me to believe that having a child in space, resulting that child being trapped in space, is safer/better option than trying to go back to Earth with a two-month embryo?? BE FUCKING FOR REAL!! Spoiler alert.
This show was not that bad. The premise/plot is what ruined it. It's polarizing. If you suffer from infertility or know any science, basic or a full blown astronaut, it's triggering. Even to the layman, it's unbelievable.
Kong Ryong (Lee Min Ho) His character had a lot of flaws. Man was not mature enough to tell his "girlfriend," Choi Go Eun that he really didn't like her. He just went along with it. This fed the narrative that she was the crazy girlfriend who "can let him go" and negates the part he played in it. If he had been honest from the start, then I could 100% blame her rich entitlement and family, but because he was not honest, it's 60% his fault how their relationship turned out. And I am not putting that 40% just on Go Eun, her father and MZ Group is responsible for 25% of that. And then he goes on to fall in love with Eve in the exact same way.
As a doctor, why was he so invested in this plot. He should know better than anyone that life is fragile and not always guaranteed. Has he not been unsuccessful in IVF type procedures before? This whole thing feels egotistical. He wanted to succeed more than face/acknowledge reality. Acting as if death/destruction of the morula wasn't always a possibility pissed me off.
Eve was a great character until the end. The fate of most FLs unfortunately. At least they waited until she was pregnant so you can at least blame the hormones. Being in zero gravity is already stressful for the body, being pregnant..come on!!! Risking infant death versus embryo death is just WILD to me. She having a baby... in SPACE??? This is selfish thinking. It's not the environment for a child at all. Human technology - as we know it and as it's displayed in this drama - is not capable of supporting this. I just realized her name was Eve. Like the first woman and supposed mother of us all. She became the first. She became the experiment.
The happy ending was there, they even shown us a glimpse of it, just to swerve left and jump off a bridge.
More Issues/Opinions
Science without objectivity. The one good thing about this drama is that it can show how unchecked emotions/beliefs/etc. can ruin Science. Human beings are fallible in all that they do. One must take this into consideration in all things.
Is this based on real science because I need to see those studies. I know the show said that this is something they are researching but the conclusions they leaped to were crazy. Fruit flies make sense because they don't rely as much on gravity, they fly. I saw the parallels between the mice and humans this drama was trying to make. Mice would have similar issues that humans have. Like logistically, sex in zero gravity? Humans would have to solve the issue of gravity - creating artificial gravity, if we haven't already - before we can make any real progress in space. We have evolved to Earth conditions so evolving to other environments can take millennia or genetic intervention.
How the fuck was zero gravity was going to fix defect in sperm on the genetic level? How Sway? Not saying it's impossible I just need receipts.
With the creative liberties this drama took, it should have embraced the fantastical - went full on fantasy/anime.. in the world of Cowboy Bebop for example. That way the idea of humans having the technology to comfortably procreate in space would be more believable.
The whole premise was selfish. I understand wanting to be a mother but asking people to risk their lively-hoods and break international law was selfish and peak rich asshole entitlement. You ruined lives. And then was surprised when it didn't work out. I'm glad the implantation didn't succeed. I know that can come off as harsh but that behavior should not be rewarded.
The MOST triggering thing about this drama was how they spoke of the morula in absolutes. They got Dr. Na's hope up and down so freaking much I was tired. "Counting your eggs before they hatch." Guaranteeing her anything was bad science and bad Bedside Manner or whatever it's called.
I read a review that this show was pro-life propaganda. I tried to rationalize it in another way but... yea. The way they keep taking about the clump of cells in absolutes when life at this stage is incredibly fragile and anything could have happened to end this embryo. They risked it all for the probability of life while destroying actual lives. Those astronauts are now baby sitters. Also, the "mother's sacrifice" propaganda. The FL did not survive child birth but hey a baby is born and now stuck in space. All the things she worked hard for an tried to preserve a few episodes back now became not as important. It reinforces the ideology that women are only good for giving birth. I even agree with another user's review in that Eve's death was probably recompense for destroying the morulas.
As someone who worked in labs, the way they disposed of biological material bothered me. No biological red bags or incineration. Not important but I noticed.
I could discuss this from a spiritual aspect because people don't give souls enough credit in choosing their meat suits for this Earth life but I aint bout to argue with y'all. I'm tired. I;ma let this go now and move on with my life.