I LOVE Netflix!! I watch more Netflix, and not just for Kdramas, etc, than I watch anything else. :) PLUS from next month they're going to have ALL the Studio Ghibli movies on there - and okay, my husband may have bought me and our daughter the complete set for Christmas, BUT having it on Netflix to watch whenever is just.....BLISSFUL!
There won't be a Part 3 now - ALL LGBT projects have been banned in China now. the only hope they have is to go…
We have facial recognition cameras on police officers in London where every single face they pass by is scanned and checked against a police database, anyone dodgy shows up they're alerted to do a 'stop and search'. Likewise many, MANY CCTV cameras in London are doing the same now and alert a nearby police officer to the whereabouts of the person. Also this will be rolled out across the country.
Currently ALL police officers across the country wear bodycams that record everything (though the officers have been proven to tamper with them to suppress evidence against themselves). They're also getting thuggish with ordinary citizens who record them making arrests if they're getting aggressive to a drunk person for instance who is unconscious or a person who is just not resisting. There is NO law in the UK that stops anyone filming the police doing anything, even making arrests, so long as that person doesn't interfere with them.
In the US many police officers have taken up a 'shoot first' attitude and can be EXTREMELY aggressive even with children. So even so-called 'democracies' are becoming increasingly....worrying.
I hope youngsters change things for the better - maybe not in my lifetime (I'm 54), but perhaps in yours and my daughter's. :)
I wonder the same, I guess you're referring to that creepy naked scene from the trailer... :/
Oh definitely - and all the 'shh' motions he does to her.....just creeped me out and I'm not sure, because the trailer wasn't subbed, if that's not my own cynicism showing, or if I should genuinely be alarmed and as creeped out as I am. Just that weird naked scene especially makes me think they're doing more than just 'crushing' and she's clearly VERY underage and he wants to keep it secret..Yuk vibes there alone. So...still not sure whether to drop it or watch it....I hope someone can tell us. :$ Currently I'm very alarmed and extremely creeped out by it. :(
Joo Ji Hoon makes it a must watch for me - I hope there's either a comedic element to this though or a redemption arc, because otherwise these 'greedy evil people to the end' is just hard work to wade through to the end, even if this is only 16 episodes. But I'll do it for Joo Ji Hoon. lol!
My late Irish granddad used to say there was "no shaming in crying because it gives our eyeballs a good wash".....well, having watched the trailer I can see my eyeballs will be the cleanest they've been since watching Grave of the Fireflies....... (T~T)
I put this on my plan to watch list, THEN watched the trailer.....now I'm confused and more than a lot alarmed......anyone want to fill me in on whether I should watch this, or continue to be horrified and drop it?
There won't be a Part 3 now - ALL LGBT projects have been banned in China now. the only hope they have is to go…
@J100 - you are so right. Russia has just made Putin 'President for Life' which means they now are back to a dictatorship and are no longer a democracy.
We have systems here in the UK that if a future government wanted to abuse the people, the technology is there to allow them to monitor our every move. So far though our democracy is still intact.
My daughter is 22 and I worry for her future........youngsters nowadays have it much harder than my generation (I'm 54) did at a similar age. I have immense respect for all of you.
Did you ever watch this??? If you didn't good for you. You know that 5.7 rating it has...well that is a little…
No, I never did - Life got in the way and then other dramas came along....so I never got round to it. Sounds like I dodged a bullet though! Thanks for the heads up, I'll drop this off in the 'Not Interested' pile. ;)
I will ALWAYS support Zhang Johnny, and Xu Timmy, after the way they were both victimised and blacklisted for so long by their own government and the censors just for starring in Addicted (AKA Heroin).
There won't be a Part 3 now - ALL LGBT projects have been banned in China now. the only hope they have is to go…
I think the dictatorship - because that's what being made 'president for life' by your own order and doing away with all democratic votes means - is such that anyone dissenting 'disappears'.
I've had Chinese nationals, especially those not living there or who are pro the president, berate me for putting down their leadership and supporting LGBT+. Most say there's 'no problem' for the Chinese LGBT+ community and it's Western media being anti Chinese - but that's just the government propaganda talking.
The Chinese LGBT+ people I know that were, or are, living in the country would certainly beg to differ with such a 'sweet' view of the deranged leadership. Apparently Ji Yie Ping would give Chairman Mao a run for his money on the 'ruthless grip on power and people' title.
Hopefully things will change for the better again - but I'm not holding my breath.......I'm liable to suffocate. It's a shame because it's a beautiful country, with a wonderful population of people....but it's not somewhere I'd go now.
There won't be a Part 3 now - ALL LGBT projects have been banned in China now. the only hope they have is to go…
Sadly, no. I think you can kiss LGBT+projects goodbye in China right now. Certainly everything that had a release date is now looking at TBA and projects to be filmed appear to be slowly cancelled one after the other.
China is now a dictatorship again, albeit with this one smiling and meeting other world leaders. It's also veryanti LGBT+. Sufficed to say a gay couple I know have now left the country and moved to Thailand and they tell me that others are trying to get out now.
Others are going to the extremes of meeting opposite gender gay couples and marrying and then living together 'to cut costs' as far as they're families are concerned. Even then they have to be extremely careful when in public - and at home if they're parents are homophobic and suspicious.
Most openly gay couples still in the country are now underground and others are either in hiding or already out of the country. In that kind of climate of fear I can't see the government allowing the making of pro LGBT+ entertainment any time soon. My friends are keeping touch with their other gay friends, just to reassure themselves they're okay more than anything else.
Currently ALL police officers across the country wear bodycams that record everything (though the officers have been proven to tamper with them to suppress evidence against themselves). They're also getting thuggish with ordinary citizens who record them making arrests if they're getting aggressive to a drunk person for instance who is unconscious or a person who is just not resisting. There is NO law in the UK that stops anyone filming the police doing anything, even making arrests, so long as that person doesn't interfere with them.
In the US many police officers have taken up a 'shoot first' attitude and can be EXTREMELY aggressive even with children. So even so-called 'democracies' are becoming increasingly....worrying.
I hope youngsters change things for the better - maybe not in my lifetime (I'm 54), but perhaps in yours and my daughter's. :)
We have systems here in the UK that if a future government wanted to abuse the people, the technology is there to allow them to monitor our every move. So far though our democracy is still intact.
My daughter is 22 and I worry for her future........youngsters nowadays have it much harder than my generation (I'm 54) did at a similar age. I have immense respect for all of you.
I've had Chinese nationals, especially those not living there or who are pro the president, berate me for putting down their leadership and supporting LGBT+. Most say there's 'no problem' for the Chinese LGBT+ community and it's Western media being anti Chinese - but that's just the government propaganda talking.
The Chinese LGBT+ people I know that were, or are, living in the country would certainly beg to differ with such a 'sweet' view of the deranged leadership. Apparently Ji Yie Ping would give Chairman Mao a run for his money on the 'ruthless grip on power and people' title.
Hopefully things will change for the better again - but I'm not holding my breath.......I'm liable to suffocate. It's a shame because it's a beautiful country, with a wonderful population of people....but it's not somewhere I'd go now.
China is now a dictatorship again, albeit with this one smiling and meeting other world leaders. It's also veryanti LGBT+. Sufficed to say a gay couple I know have now left the country and moved to Thailand and they tell me that others are trying to get out now.
Others are going to the extremes of meeting opposite gender gay couples and marrying and then living together 'to cut costs' as far as they're families are concerned. Even then they have to be extremely careful when in public - and at home if they're parents are homophobic and suspicious.
Most openly gay couples still in the country are now underground and others are either in hiding or already out of the country. In that kind of climate of fear I can't see the government allowing the making of pro LGBT+ entertainment any time soon. My friends are keeping touch with their other gay friends, just to reassure themselves they're okay more than anything else.