song and dance
May. 21st, 2021 07:39 am 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
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