"Naturally, if the company has invested in your development, you need to give back to it; surely you don't expect the company to provide everything for free?" - Xu Yiruo
Unbelievable
Btw, the director who was trolled for his filming techniques in Only for Love is rumored to take over Yi Jun in Citang now 🫣
trying to find ZLH’s replacement before he leaves.
Brace yourself it’s going to get so much worse. Just look at what other artists went through right before they left their agencies, and Startimes is already trash to begin with
I don’t really care about fanwars, but at this point, this is way beyond normal fandom drama. The comments being…
Deserved. I've been staying off the drama page because it was getting increasingly annoying, but I know you're one of the few objective reviewers on this site based on how many dramas we've seen together. I actually didn't rate it as high as you did lol, but the current average is abysmally unfair so I appreciate a more clear headed opinion.
He's been through worse during the POJ days and what happened afterwards with that drama was how good karma gave back what everyone deserved. So I'll just stand by and wait for another round of fair judgment 😬
I don’t really care about fanwars, but at this point, this is way beyond normal fandom drama. The comments being…
LYT is also with this agency and is rumored to have her contract expired with them soon and won't be resigning. So they'll be losing both her and ZLH if he doesn't resign. I've seen that usually if stars intend to resign, they'll do it during the 2 years period before the official date and judging by the crazy behavior of their boss right now, I'm convinced ZLH isn't staying. I actually hope he's learning some tips from LYN on going solo and being his own company.
I don’t really care about fanwars, but at this point, this is way beyond normal fandom drama. The comments being…
One of the situations that was being criticized heavily a few weeks back while she was filming the drama with TJC was during a funeral scene where everyone was seen to be serious and immersed in the atmosphere, she was on the side in her funeral clothes joking around and filming dance videos for her douyin. Let's forget for a minute about the backstabbing politics, even just that makes me lose the impression of her as a serious actor. And before all this CiTang drama came about, I've always seen from her past MLs' fans who she's starred with having issues with her fd accusing them of SA, most notably CXX and even dating back to the MJTY day with CL. I'm afraid of what smear campaigns they'll try to attack Linghe with this time. He already has it bad enough without them adding fuel to the fire.
I just saw posts on Weibo and Xiaohongshu claiming that a Lu Yuxiao's fan is threatening to throw sulfuric acid…
Did you see the TXW cfan who wished him death too? People love calling ZLH’s fans this and that name but turn a blind eye to his costars’ toxic fans’ behavior
I'm beyond happy to be honest that he chose this drama and this script,it really showcased his acting , even though…
Yes, any drama that gives his character a full arc without unfairly cutting his scenes to prop up other people's plots is a win in my book. And the ending is not so bad if you stew on it for a bit. Due to the Republican era being such a tumultuous time period, I don't think they'll be received well if they romanticized it with a happy ending. That's why 99% of them ends tragically. I think the OE leaves a lot of room for interpretation though, depending on which direction you want to lean.
I'm glad to hear that he's been getting praise. I agree too, Overdo >>> POJ in terms of his acting skills…
Yeah, there's a large echo chamber from the critics who hate it here so it might feel otherwise, but this drama has its own cult following domestically. There were already leaks about a BE circulating online around 7/29, and most audience nowadays aren't into tragedy so it makes sense some people started drifting off. Given the angsty nature and the Republican theme dramas being already a very niche genre, let alone an idol romance centric one, this actually had a great start. The reason why we don't see very many of these made is because they're not usually profitable. It's only sometime when they're big IPs with detective, mystery thriller centric, or mainstream theme led by big name veteran actors that they take off.
Another thing is the producer of this drama was going for that viral short drama effect where a lot of scenes from Overdo can be easily made into short edits that have major appeal with the Douyin demographics. This audience is usually the main pusher of a drama's popularity. Unfortunately, they never foresaw that Tencent and Douyin would have a falling out. So basically all fanmade videos were getting taken down or shadow banned as soon as they get high views and likes. ZLH also had organized hate campaigns targeted at him and this drama as soon as it aired which drove away a lot of casual viewers who didn't care to look deeper. (I hope TRTG crew learn from all this and prepare some counter measures beforehand, but seeing how they just left ZLH to deal with all the hate during POJ by himself, I won't count on it.)
If you consider all that and look at Overdo's current data, it's doing just fine. Everyone is actually astounded by its commercial endorsements right now. The number of ads it's getting is insane, there's so much buzz around it. You know capitalists aren't stupidly building charity businesses. They see the real backend data in order to decide to invest or not.
And this was never a huge production like those gossip mongers were trying to make it out to be. It was just an A+ project by a newbie production house that ZLH signed with before POJ even aired and his popularity exploded. So people unfairly bashing it for its special effects, expecting James Cameron level work is 🙄. Also, all that talk about big marketing is also misleading. The reason it got so much hype was because the paparazzi leaks of Linghe and WCR went viral so hard on Douyin when they were filming. Heck, this crew didn't even have a trailer prepared for the iQIYI dramas conference back in April when everybody else did. They're actually reaping all the profits right now for doing practically nothing.
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Unbelievable
Btw, the director who was trolled for his filming techniques in Only for Love is rumored to take over Yi Jun in Citang now 🫣
He's been through worse during the POJ days and what happened afterwards with that drama was how good karma gave back what everyone deserved. So I'll just stand by and wait for another round of fair judgment 😬
Another thing is the producer of this drama was going for that viral short drama effect where a lot of scenes from Overdo can be easily made into short edits that have major appeal with the Douyin demographics. This audience is usually the main pusher of a drama's popularity. Unfortunately, they never foresaw that Tencent and Douyin would have a falling out. So basically all fanmade videos were getting taken down or shadow banned as soon as they get high views and likes. ZLH also had organized hate campaigns targeted at him and this drama as soon as it aired which drove away a lot of casual viewers who didn't care to look deeper. (I hope TRTG crew learn from all this and prepare some counter measures beforehand, but seeing how they just left ZLH to deal with all the hate during POJ by himself, I won't count on it.)
If you consider all that and look at Overdo's current data, it's doing just fine. Everyone is actually astounded by its commercial endorsements right now. The number of ads it's getting is insane, there's so much buzz around it. You know capitalists aren't stupidly building charity businesses. They see the real backend data in order to decide to invest or not.
And this was never a huge production like those gossip mongers were trying to make it out to be. It was just an A+ project by a newbie production house that ZLH signed with before POJ even aired and his popularity exploded. So people unfairly bashing it for its special effects, expecting James Cameron level work is 🙄. Also, all that talk about big marketing is also misleading. The reason it got so much hype was because the paparazzi leaks of Linghe and WCR went viral so hard on Douyin when they were filming. Heck, this crew didn't even have a trailer prepared for the iQIYI dramas conference back in April when everybody else did. They're actually reaping all the profits right now for doing practically nothing.