Yin Zhou becomes such a useless, snivelling little twerp whenever one of his parents is around that I have to keep reminding myself, in another timeline, the bastard actually won.
And both OST main songs were made with STUTS, so dreamy and sad and beautiful 🫶I also prefer these kinds of…
Right?
Look, I know you and I disagree on some content (for instance, I appreciate "The Untamed" for how the entire crew worked to give the CCP the proverbial middle finger while still working within the rules; reminds me of how my ancestors obeyed Jim Crow laws while also flaunting the rules) but I can also acknowledge how even situationally "progressive" material can be broadly "regressive".
That said, I give Japanese productions no cuts, no buts, no coconuts. Japan has been about that life for a long, long time. "Taboo" is a goddamned glitter pen in their world. Therefore, I will not and do not accept this nonsense of a series.
Even divorced from the suggestive Homosexuality, the supposed "philosophical underpinnings" are shallow and well-trodden and fairly boring, all said. I am annoyed in facets.
Episode 5:This is the first Chinese BL drama I have enjoyed to this degree.If not for the dubbing, I'd be near…
Ugh, the dubbing, always the dubbing! with Chinese BLs. Or, frankly, all Chinese shows.
I fell most-of-the-way in love with "L.O.R.D. Critical World" but the dubbing hurt my soul. Made even worse by the fact that they included BTS excerpts in the credits, and the actual voices of the actors were almost always so much better. Hell, "L.O.R.D. Critical World" is not a BL, but the dubbing actually makes it seem like an explicitly censored Homosexuals Loving Homosexuals work (there are a couple of lovely lady couples in it).
From a global perspective, we all really need China to just...stop, and pull it the fuck together.
On the lower lip thing? Yes, yes I do, on occasion. Catches me off guard.
I said what I said. If you all don’t understand male bodies, I can’t help you. You literally have to bend…
Your view is hot garbage. You are precisely the type of person who contributes to underreporting by male victims of sexual assault. You're the type of twat whose beliefs led to Denim Day.
Hundreds of thousands of male inmates, of all shapes, sizes, and ages, are raped every day in prisons around the world; millions of women have been forcibly sodomized by date-rapists and strangers; and you're over here insisting they all had to be willing because you quite stupidly think the Human anus is impervious to forceful incursion.
You should be ashamed of your rank ignorance. And that's before even considering your pathetic level of media literacy, you absolute walnut.
Well, damn it. I'm disappointed but that's my own fault for letting the series trick me into believing it might have the courage. Not sure what planet I was on, thinking GMMTV would NOT give a fixed ship a HEA. Silly me, I forgot for a second what business they're in.
Episodes 6,7,8:Absolutely, 100% NOT recommended.I just finished and am so pissed/annoyed that I'm going to put…
I, too, did not care for this one. Once I realized what pathetic, tedious, shitty, over-trodden road it was going down, I got really depressed. Then really mad. It's been awhile since I was so irritated by a bait-and-switch.
Well, at least they didn't Bury Your Gays onscreen at the end. Although I'm not sure if that makes me detest the series more or less. If you're going to kill him, go the whole nine and give us the rain-drenched funeral and close-ups of soft crying and swelling score of sadness. I've already sat through the rest of this meanderingly tedious pathos, after all, pay it off.
I think I might actually stand up and clap if Jack and Dean break up. Not just because their characters have so clearly reached the end of their shared road, but it would be rather exciting for a fixed ship in that stable to not get a HEA.
Extremely violent and exceedingly wet. A crackingly demented, unapologetic genre work that is a great deal of fun to watch. I keep hoping for a sequel but, alas.
I absolutely detested the lead protagonist. He was whiny, entitled, pervy, inconsiderate, and kind of lazy (he was also nosey, but, given that he was a cop, that was one of his better qualities). All of this is par for the course in Hero's Journey stories, except that, generally speaking, the purpose of those stories is for the Hero to grow, mature, and understand they need to change their ways. The only difference between Yoo Sang Hwan at the beginning and Yoo Sang Hwan at the end is that he added "cocky" to his laundry list of obnoxious personality traits.
That also made the "romance" between him and An Ui Jin aggravating. She was a stable character who understood herself and held fast to her clear, if unhealthily rigid, principles. Obviously, Yoo was supposed to win An's respect through his training and deeds, and she was supposed to loosen up, but the movie skimped so hard on that element of the Hero's Journey that it just seemed like An woke up stupid one day. The "romance" diminished An Ui Jin's character, rendering her silly and susceptible to the absolute lowest bar of "charm". She was gifted to the lead protagonist because the script said so, and not because he had done anything at all that would realistically woo a woman like An Ui Jin to consider him in a new light. Honestly, there was moment where I hoped she died because I would rather see her dead than in a relationship with Yoo.
There are other issues with the movie but as the relationship/partnership/romance between the two main leads was crucial to a lot of the storyline, I was most annoyed by it.
One thing I would've love to see was how the villain got his wardrobe. Was he mugging flamboyant people on the street or walking into retail stores and just stealing shite off the racks? Also, what was is actual objective? There is a scene where it seems like his big evil beef is with natural disasters, which was very funny.
Maybe watch it once if you have nothing else to do, or just want to waste some time while scrolling through your phone.
Are you ok?
Look, I know you and I disagree on some content (for instance, I appreciate "The Untamed" for how the entire crew worked to give the CCP the proverbial middle finger while still working within the rules; reminds me of how my ancestors obeyed Jim Crow laws while also flaunting the rules) but I can also acknowledge how even situationally "progressive" material can be broadly "regressive".
That said, I give Japanese productions no cuts, no buts, no coconuts. Japan has been about that life for a long, long time. "Taboo" is a goddamned glitter pen in their world. Therefore, I will not and do not accept this nonsense of a series.
Even divorced from the suggestive Homosexuality, the supposed "philosophical underpinnings" are shallow and well-trodden and fairly boring, all said. I am annoyed in facets.
I fell most-of-the-way in love with "L.O.R.D. Critical World" but the dubbing hurt my soul. Made even worse by the fact that they included BTS excerpts in the credits, and the actual voices of the actors were almost always so much better. Hell, "L.O.R.D. Critical World" is not a BL, but the dubbing actually makes it seem like an explicitly censored Homosexuals Loving Homosexuals work (there are a couple of lovely lady couples in it).
From a global perspective, we all really need China to just...stop, and pull it the fuck together.
On the lower lip thing? Yes, yes I do, on occasion. Catches me off guard.
Hundreds of thousands of male inmates, of all shapes, sizes, and ages, are raped every day in prisons around the world; millions of women have been forcibly sodomized by date-rapists and strangers; and you're over here insisting they all had to be willing because you quite stupidly think the Human anus is impervious to forceful incursion.
You should be ashamed of your rank ignorance. And that's before even considering your pathetic level of media literacy, you absolute walnut.
Well, at least they didn't Bury Your Gays onscreen at the end. Although I'm not sure if that makes me detest the series more or less. If you're going to kill him, go the whole nine and give us the rain-drenched funeral and close-ups of soft crying and swelling score of sadness. I've already sat through the rest of this meanderingly tedious pathos, after all, pay it off.
That also made the "romance" between him and An Ui Jin aggravating. She was a stable character who understood herself and held fast to her clear, if unhealthily rigid, principles. Obviously, Yoo was supposed to win An's respect through his training and deeds, and she was supposed to loosen up, but the movie skimped so hard on that element of the Hero's Journey that it just seemed like An woke up stupid one day. The "romance" diminished An Ui Jin's character, rendering her silly and susceptible to the absolute lowest bar of "charm". She was gifted to the lead protagonist because the script said so, and not because he had done anything at all that would realistically woo a woman like An Ui Jin to consider him in a new light. Honestly, there was moment where I hoped she died because I would rather see her dead than in a relationship with Yoo.
There are other issues with the movie but as the relationship/partnership/romance between the two main leads was crucial to a lot of the storyline, I was most annoyed by it.
One thing I would've love to see was how the villain got his wardrobe. Was he mugging flamboyant people on the street or walking into retail stores and just stealing shite off the racks? Also, what was is actual objective? There is a scene where it seems like his big evil beef is with natural disasters, which was very funny.
Maybe watch it once if you have nothing else to do, or just want to waste some time while scrolling through your phone.