Lin adds that intellectuals criticize such shows but in fact don't watch TV. Television stations have always based their decisions on ratings, and it is virtually impossible to expect that they will change a proven formula. "Rather than say that serials are a mirror of life, it would be better to say that people identify with the characters in these dramas even if their own lives are not as dramatic."
值得注意的是，知識分子只會批評，但又不開機看，而電視台一向以收視率為依歸，要他們主動去改變這種狀況幾乎是不可能的。