Shrimpy

Don't worry, it's difficult to follow Chinese happenings, many ask who is fat shrimp opinion blog. So way back they used to be a sort of assistant for the xz fanclub. They would take in opinions and feedback.

Now it has transformed into an account that is used to provide advice and help to xfx (shrimps, xz solo fans). It often comments on current situations and will help xfx how to handle them (don't react to so and so provocation, xz studio is aware of this situation, this drama melon is fake etc).

So it's absolutely to be trusted and Chinese fans all look to it.

MDL is an international site, they don't know anything so removed or not doesn't mean anything.

Fat shrimp hasn't denied, that is the only real indication that this is real.

I read the original work a long time before the drama was filmed, it's a staple of anyone who reads fantasy.

Tang San is a bit of a cult character so naturally I looked forward to the drama too. Instead the scriptwriter Wang Juan butchered the role, with all the legendary highlights removed.

The FL is from Yuehua, can't act and Yuehua invested in the drama, so naturally everything was given to her in order to push her. It didn't work of course but it severely downgraded his character. Typical backroom dealing in China. XZ would never accept a project like this now but at the time, it was a good choice.

He still did an amazing job, as he always does, but it could have been so much better. Wasted because of the power of money 🤷

There was also the one about playing with the curtains 🤣

I laughed so much yesterday about this whole discussion.

The he wore the same clothes argument made me want to join in because walk of shame exists, hello 😂

That's his only drama I didn't like 😭 but it had nothing to do with him, he was a perfect Tang San. The script and FL on the other hand make me murderous.

When it comes to Untamed it is absolutely an imperative not to miss anything because otherwise it is very difficult to get immersed. Character set up is absolutely brilliant, MXTX is one hell of a writer.

It is also further complicated by the first three episodes being unclear, where people get totally lost. My advice is always to go back after the flashback is done and rewatch those three because suddenly everything makes sense.

It is now up on Douban too
https://m.douban.com/movie/subject/27181010

Yes. Wood and even bronze. In the summer, in order to cool off, bamboo and ceramics. But there were soft pillows as well.

Unfortunately for me because I definitely wouldn't mind if those were all XZ core fans, it is impossible to achieve the numbers both SY and TLP achieved without huge influx of general audiences. He may be dingliu but his achievements are still his achievements and they cannot be such without huge passer by numbers.

As for the rest, XZ takes the best projects he can, according to his desires of being a real actor, what is available and what Chinese censorship laws allow. As a dingliu he for example can't take a villain role because that would be seen as promotion of negative values. But he is achieving what he wants with the roles he is taking, considering the results so I don't see much changing. Maybe he simply isn't for you, it happens.

It's not the experts. It's the data.

Most people thought this summer WDX exploded. Its pretty much a unanimous agreement in China. His Douyin numbers as MYC were above 2 billion which is a certified explosion. And congratulations to him.

Shi Ying at the time had close to 3 billion.

It's just that this is the second character explosion for XZ, first being WWX, so it generated less fuss. It is still an explosion. The same goes for the drama, that exploded with real data, not water, which is why many platforms now are emphasising that.

No, no, definitely not 🥶

Believe me, I would not be excited over that. I mean look at what happened and is happening. Cursed platform.

Only Tony Leung Ka Fai has shown up on one of the official platforms as another cast member and actually this is correct, we know he is currently filming.

No. It is set for early February right now, the spring festival slot.

It is, very big project but it is in incredibly early stages so nothing at all is even remotely sure here. We are just hearing faintest rumors about it. Honestly there is no point in thinking too much about it right now. First Tibetan Sea 🤞

Rumoured. But it has been on hot search, twice and fat shrimp hasn't denied. As I said below, this is the same pattern as before TLP and prior to SBMS. Is it a certainty? No but it is as likely as melons get.

Nope. I would never forgive myself 😭 but it's a very good cake.

It has a very high level of probability. If you spend enough time reading melons you get a good idea who is relatively reliable and how to read general signs. Imo it is true.

There is actually an incredible amount of nastiness happening on Chinese sns now. It's better that it is locked because both XZ and TLP are under fire. Especially XZ.

We definitely should because there is a certain number of views that will get recorded anyway before we hit the limit. XZ himself isn't behind a limit either so that is good. We can't do much more than operate within the limits that exist.

If you visit Douban, give it a pass today. It's one of those nasty days.