Stormy_77
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Roast Review - Weasel Grave - too much propaganda & completely useless females
Watching Candle In The Tomb (CIIT) in chronological order, Weasel Grave is the second series following the very excellent Wrath of Time, which I loved. It started super slow, we are introduced to Hu Bayi (Ethan Juan), "Fatty" Wang KaiXuan (Ryan Liu), the lovestruck Yan Zi (Daisy Li) and cold Hua Mei (Lulu Xu) early. The are various levels of annoying as they start investigating a weasel grave near their village.
The constant "revolutionary" propaganda is SERIOUSLY off putting because we know that real communists would have executed or work camp indoctrinated the smart ones like ML and SL instead of bringing them to a village. Despite how distasteful this was I gamely plowed through till episode 10 when things started to move (plot wise) in Mongolia, and we were treated to some spectacular landscapes and a real Tomb, except WW2 Japanese built a base next to it so their Scientists could conduct Nazi type experiments on human/animal subjects in order to get weapons superiority and win the war. Evil!
The good news is the introduced monsters and undead ramped up the action and excitement since the series becoming a SURVIVAL HORROR video game. The CGI monster graphics are pretty well done so action wise this was satisfying.
The bad news is lazy script writing leads to entire episodes where all 3 girls do no acting besides screaming "HU BA YI!" over and over every time he's in danger, as if it does anything productive? Like pick up a weapon of opportunity and help him instead of being useless!! Screaming his name doesn't help. Literally this is all they do from episode 10 to 20. By the 100th plus scream, I was done. All 3 of them are so annoyingly useless collectively they are not even worth 1 fingernail of Miss Hong Gu Niang from Wrath of Time.
The story doesn't even feel like it concluded properly from a human relationships point of view. What the hell happened here? The only thing I'm not surprised at is Hu Ba Yi was smart enough not to end up with any of the 3 (although Ding SiTian was less bad than the other 2). This is sad as it might be the first series I watched where I actually disliked every single character. Poor Weasels. Here's to hoping the rest of the CIIT series has a better story, portrays the MLs better and has stronger female characters.
The constant "revolutionary" propaganda is SERIOUSLY off putting because we know that real communists would have executed or work camp indoctrinated the smart ones like ML and SL instead of bringing them to a village. Despite how distasteful this was I gamely plowed through till episode 10 when things started to move (plot wise) in Mongolia, and we were treated to some spectacular landscapes and a real Tomb, except WW2 Japanese built a base next to it so their Scientists could conduct Nazi type experiments on human/animal subjects in order to get weapons superiority and win the war. Evil!
The good news is the introduced monsters and undead ramped up the action and excitement since the series becoming a SURVIVAL HORROR video game. The CGI monster graphics are pretty well done so action wise this was satisfying.
The bad news is lazy script writing leads to entire episodes where all 3 girls do no acting besides screaming "HU BA YI!" over and over every time he's in danger, as if it does anything productive? Like pick up a weapon of opportunity and help him instead of being useless!! Screaming his name doesn't help. Literally this is all they do from episode 10 to 20. By the 100th plus scream, I was done. All 3 of them are so annoyingly useless collectively they are not even worth 1 fingernail of Miss Hong Gu Niang from Wrath of Time.
The story doesn't even feel like it concluded properly from a human relationships point of view. What the hell happened here? The only thing I'm not surprised at is Hu Ba Yi was smart enough not to end up with any of the 3 (although Ding SiTian was less bad than the other 2). This is sad as it might be the first series I watched where I actually disliked every single character. Poor Weasels. Here's to hoping the rest of the CIIT series has a better story, portrays the MLs better and has stronger female characters.
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