i was excited to start this because i loved triumph in the skies and i love airports and airplanes but it's honestly very underwhelming... i know this was filmed in 2017 and aired in 2021 so i don't know if this was planned to be longer and then edited to cut out scenes because there are a lot of super random unnecessary scenes and important scenes are pretty brief and kinda brushed off. storyline is iffy and leaves us with a lot of questions. first off with xia yu's moms accident on the plane, it was clearly an unfortunate situation and i understand his grief but to say that xiao mo caused his mom's death is a bit of exaggeration. xia yu's character acts like a three year old and is very unlikable. throughout their time in flight school and until xiao mo and wu di got together, i was able to look past xia yu's annoying character and enjoyed watching but then the storyline just got worse... i didn't even mind xiao mo and wu di's bland relationship but when wu di starts being very irrational her character became very unlikeable as well. xiao mo was literally in a coma and the first thing wu di says to him is about him being a traitor???? with kang kang's death, they circle back to the question, 'what if you were just brave enough to pierce through the clouds?' excuse me no its not about being rigid and always following the rules as wu di calls it but its about keeping all the passengers and crew on board safe and as a pilot herself that should not be her mentality. for her to start going out with xia yu was super unnecessary but at least it made xia yu realize that to be in a relationship with someone who does not reciprocate the same feelings is not the relationship that he wanted. in the end, no one ends up with anyone and all of them are magically captains except for xia yu who took time away from flying to run the company. i can't grasp the timeline of this story but its got to be max only two years and i sure hope the captain of my flight has more than just two years of experience...

side note. there was the story about one of the pilot classmates who was looking for his brother. they showed the brother at the airport but they were never even reunited??? like why was this side story even necessary?