Not Today

 First I'll review Butter lol. It was terrible. The MV was cringe af and Suga, as usual, had 8 seconds. I'm not even sure Hobi had lines???? I saw him once dancing and that's it. The English was barely understandable, it wasn't catchy at ALL.  Ugly song that doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Dynamite. I liked the latter immediately even with the MV, which was honestly nice and summery and I watched it a few times.  This was annoying candy pop crap. And it made me depressed to think about good their old stuff was and this is what they put out now all to get kudos from the West. Gross. 

Second, I finished You Are My Hero.  Overall, I loved it. One of the best romcom or romance dramas whatever you want to call them, that I've seen. I'm somewhat surprised to see people always saying that Chinese dramas are too long and like, IDTS???  I mean, i can finish a 40-ep drama with ease bc they never drag. YAMH went through so many twists and turns and the only part that was a tiny bit dull was the earthquake stuff. The ending, let me get the cons out of the way first, was also a bit weak and dull, which I find is the weak spot of Chinese drams. They never seem to know how to make a real strong satisfying ending. Forward Forever was the best in that area I've seen recently.  The ending wasn't sad or anything like that, it was just kinda weak and did nothing with the strong chemistry between the leads. 

Now for the good stuff. It was genuinely funny and very little of the comedy was derived from cringe-y things and second-hand embarrassment. They did a good job mixing in the SWAT scenes with the medical stuff (which isn't at ALL gripping to me, but maybe for others), and they also did a good job finding plausible scenarios to mesh the two, i.e. to have Mi Ka and Kelei work on something together. Which reminds me, the climax event before the actual ending was fantastic. 

Here's the other thing that amazed me about this show though. The main couple was actually a good example of a healthy relationship. Wow!  There are so many toxic and irritating relationships in dramas where one or both of the FL and ML are constantly misunderstanding each other and playing games of manipulation. It's the most frustrating fucking thing and after i saw several of those, it turned me off from trying many more romance dramas bc i hate that shit.  But these two actually talked about things and admitted when they wrong!  Le GASP.  The place where this really comes out is when these two sisters from Kelei's childhood show up and try to drive a wedge between him and Mi Ka bc the older one wants to marry him, and nothing they did worked bc neither Kelei nor Mi Ka overreacted to things or got mad at each other.


Lol like I seriously kept expecting one of the stupid typical misunderstandings in romcoms and there were none!  At least, not between the lead couple. Between the second couple, yes, and they were annoying to me most of the time, but fortunately, they didn't get a ton of screentime so it was ignorable. I skipped a few of their scenes lol. 

Acting was also really good. Nothing too OTT. And ye gods I am SO impressed with Bai Jingting. His acting is so steady and in character and he's never over dramatic. I'm probably gonna watch that new one with him too even though i have no idea if it's my type of thing or not just bc he's so entertaining.  He was absolutely perfect as Kelei. 

Now i have to wallow in my show hole feels for a bit. I assume I'll work on finishing Lost in 49 next bc that's the closest one. That one sucks bc it means i will be running out of Chen Kun things to watch. TAT

 Lol i'm back. But I'm done with Kpop so anyone happening upon this journal, just forget everything that comes before this post bc i don't care anymore. I'm still a fan of some random solo artists and sorta girl groups, but I really don't care about boygroups any longer. EXO is ruined for me thanks to the traitors who joined another group and all the stupid fans who supported them so bye bye lah. I briefly considered going back to BTS since I love Suga still, but nah, that group is ruined for me too bc they no longer make the music that made me listen to them. Now, rapline gets hardly any lines, esp Sope, and their vocalists are still trash af. I liked BE for the most part and I guess it's good that they're not pots and pans like most boygroups out there but nah, I only like Suga and Hobi. 

Anyway.

Decided more or less to go back to an older fandom: Cpop and Chinese entertainment in general. Of course, the ifandom for it is as dumb as ever but just in a different way. The landscape has massively shifted from being focused on Taiwan and Hong Kong to the mainland, but that's not all that surprising when you consider the political situation. The CCP has way more power than it did 10-12 years ago, which is when I first got into it. HK is basically irrelevant now on their own. And Taiwan is not much better. Stars in both places have to work in the Mainland in order to have work at all.

I'm not a fan of how this went down necessarily, but at the same time, I won't lie that dramas and movies being higher quality and more available means that I get to watch more of them. Bc I'm not just done with Kpop, I'm done with Korean dramas as well. I watched a buttload in 2016 and 2017 and just got sick of how a lot of them were the same stupid romcoms.  Japanese dramas I will still watch occasionally if I find an interesting one that's been subbed. Bc Japan has the problem of wanting to keep all their shit out of gaijin hands. 

Reopening this so i can rant about things that are too annoying to rant about on TWitter. And Cpop Twitter is really stupid and annoying bc they're all newbs who got into it through either Yixing or other Chinese EXO members, or survival shows, OR that stupid Untamed drama. Don't get me started on the faux BL in Cdramas that fujoshis are ridiculously obsessed with lmao. They're such misogynists bc the only thing they want is no women. The dramas themselves could EASILY be construed as simple friendship only. Censors won't allow anything else so that's literally all they are. There's more "romance" in American buddy cop movies. But yeah, it gives MALE actors an easy way to get coin and popularity as they then move onto bigger and better things lmao. They even have a slang for it: going out to sea. That's all it is to them.

Dumb girlies.

My other rant is how much i fucking hate Yixing stans. I don't dislike him personally. But his STANS seem to think he's God's gift to Cpop and his music is showstopping never been done before when it is literally NOT. There are several Cpop artists who have been doing what he's doing for longer. Like Gong for example. They think mixing hiphop and electro beats with Chinese traditional music is new. They also think he can rap. I can't stand they asses. I have to refrain from dragging Yixing bc he doesn't really deserve it but ye gods his fans are insufferable.