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Thanks!

I'm gonna wait and read your review once I'm done watching the show!

Are you guys buying flowers for Xu Kai Cheng?!

I feel a bit miffed by that too. I'm so used to other shows making it explicitly clear that the emperor's harem is the MOST forbidden place ever and NO ONE but the emperor can ever touch these women. Like they sent them to monasteries when the emperor died. They didn't even have a normal life after the emperor was done with them. It was so unfair and severe.
This show looked at that and just thought, "LOL!"

I fell behind again. 😐

They are lying low on purpose. It's in their best interest to not do anything right now.

They do make interesting videos but I kind of still had some issues with certain things in the video.
1. They actually got information about The Untamed wrong, which makes me think that at least some of their sources were not great! lol
2. I disagree that the bl adaptations made in China are queerbaiting because that is such a privileged perspective to look at them with? This is content made in a country that specifically has laws against them. So not only is the content revolutionary, but it's also radical and does in fact generate positive representation in very limited spaces.
Also, the actors involved in these shows are repeatedly having their careers sabotaged, as is. Imagine if they made it more explicitly gay, what would happen then? I just don't like the moral high ground of standing on the outside of a dire situation and demanding sacrifice from those within who would be putting themselves in danger by doing more. It's just not fair and everyone should only make the sacrifice if they choose to by their terms.
3. The video was clearly written by someone who hasn't lived through or within a dictatorship because if they had, they would know that dictatorships don't really get to people through religion or tradition or anything! They only need those devices in their formative years when they want to cease control. Once they do have power and start to show the extent of their cruelty, people no longer fall for propaganda. They just don't have the power to fight it anymore!
All that said, I liked that they acknowledged the fact that not all people in China have something against queer content and also the popularity of BL there. Plus the idea that it's not an ideological reason behind the government's pushback but a statistical one was very intriguing in the least.
As for their sources, I don't know, but maybe they have a list of them in their patron or somewhere else?

So this is a video about a couple of things, including BL adaptations and China's crackdown. It's interesting. A bit depressing but also not. Idk, watch at your own discretion.
https://youtu.be/zIsQ502N0fg

I'll put my next comment in spoiler but it's not a spoiler...

You're right I prefer it to getting hungry!
When it's like this I just don't understand what they are saying and get very confused!

Does anyone else get irritated when shows have long monologues where the characters describe how they like their food prepared?

Yeah, i guess it works for them.

I mean the fandom cultures are toxic, can't argue with that but trying to eradicate that with blunt force is absurd too, imo. If I know anything about fandom, then they're just gonna fan the flame like this.

For me the experience was like reading a book. Just a wonderful show and definitely a work of art.

It's hard to describe but it's a very good show. The main character is a forty year old woman who is very depressed. She and the male lead have their lives accidentally entangled and the show follows them and the people around them. It's about people who feel lost in life, finding their footing and becoming a bit more satisfied with their lives. It's a very nice show.

Maybe he'll suddenly have a heart attack?
Yeah i've noticed that cdramas are becoming sort of underwhelming. I switched to kdrama for a while. Pearl eclipse is my fisr cdrama in months.
I'm guessing the government must be doing great in regards to matters that directly affect people's life expectancy, otherwise why would they do something that will put people out of jobs and create a crisis?

Wait what? So bl is over after all? Iqiyi is in trouble? What is China doing this to itself?
Well, that is so sad.

I dropped AOL too.
His aesthetics are nice but I still haven't found any show of his interesting enough to watch all the way to the end.

She was unpleasant even before her last stunt so yeah, she got out too easily!

It's not the niceness that I have issue with. It's the lack of any personality outside of being perfect and loving the female lead that I detest. I prefer a good, nice, cookie-cutter love interest over an abusive, unhealthy one any day but being good is not equal to being bland. As Martial mentioned above, Ashile Sun is not a bland character but he is a healthy love interest.
I agree that there is no definite way to define any of these romantic archetypes but I just have a specific aversion to the second-male-lead types who are usually the subject for the "second male lead syndrome". They are not characters written with any dignity, they are just avatars of perfection that don't get the female lead. Probably because even in their fictional setting they are too perfect to be real so they have to lose the girl against all logic. Otherwise the writers would be forced to actually write a character arc for them and it's hard to make a blank page seem interesting.