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bingo_a: (15)
 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
bingo_a: (11)
 Right, so I'm finishing ROP here with two episodes left and like, I find it really grimly hilarious that all the insane Ning brothers think that Ning Yi crafted this genius plan to the throne when like MOST of it was just him reacting to his dopey brothers constantly trying to kill him. And in the end, the Emperor makes him the heir on his death bed.  Meanwhile, icb ZIyan and Ning Yi break up in like, the first few scenes lmao.  I might be officially sick of Zhiwei though bc the Dacheng ppl are just ridiculous and selfish. Especially the bald fuck. As far as I can tell, they literally still blame Ning Yi for something he did as a fucking eight year old.  And I really had higher hopes for Zhiwei to be a reasonable, intelligent woman, but she's gone full emo. LIke, Helian literally tries to shoot Ning Yi, and the latter shoots him back and to her, HE'S the bad guy??? Shenme??

I feel like the writer is ruining her characters. I can understand some of the stuff I'm seeing, but I was really holding Zhiwei in particular to a high standard and she is disappointing me big time lol. Her decisions here in the last several eps don't make sense.  As far as I can see, she doesn't even realize that Helian had a crossbow?  It was obvious in the frame. 

One thing I've decided to remember though is that when it comes to anything serialized, the Big Picture and/or ending is almost always disappointing compared to the journey of getting there, i.e. the episodes.  It's just kind of a fact.  That's part of why I wanted to end this at episode 68 when Ning Yi becomes emperor. 

I'm also extremely laughing at Chen Kun's extremely dramatic deep voice he's affecting as emperor. I mean, it's kinda hot but is it necessary? 

Ok, so how are we supposed to believe that she doesn't think Helian was tryna kill either her or Ning Yi when she turned right as he was holding up a crossbow??? I can't get over this. It's such a huge plot gap.  The part where Yueling tells both Zhiwei and Ning Yi that they have so much blood on their hands...well, did she lie?  And yet...again, wasn't most of it reactionary?  And most of it ppl trying to kill them. 

I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING.

This show plays around WAY too much with the unreliable narrator.  Like, to the point it's kinda cheap. How tf is the emperor still alive lmao. 

Ooop my favorite ship in Ning Yi and Ziyan isn't dead after all. |D  I'll just go with their marriage instead hao ma?

Is she really gonna believe the old man's bitter words?

And the answer is yep. 

Welp.  I won't give away the actual factual ending.  But...on one hand, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, however, on the other, I feel like they had to twist Zhiwei's character mightily to get there and I'm not super happy with that.   Oh well. It could have been worse I guess.  And the show itself was truly epic. The acting was top notch, and the twists and turns had me on the edge of my seat at times. So ultimately, yes, I would totally recommend it. One of the best Cdrams I've seen and certainly the best ancient drama of ANY sort that I've seen. 

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bingo_a: (4)
 Finished Bride of Habaek finally.  I think this is what we call a fairly cliche plot that was mostly executed well.  A lot of the really dramatic bits mostly fizzled out and there was no real "bad guy" or showdown or anything like that.  Very romance manga-ish lol.  I ended up mostly liking all the characters though, even bird brain.  Also, even though Nam Joo Hyuk is for sure a questionable actor, I think he embodied his character really well.  That is, I got the feeling that Habaek was a really naive and immature god and so his cute confused looks half the time I think really fit.  Even him being overly aggressive at times felt right.  Like, here is a guy who has no idea how to act around people lol.  Maybe his questionable acting just made him fall into that Idek, but either way it worked for the role.

Tried to catch up on the King Loves but it's still not gripping me very much.  As I said previously, just really freaking convoluted and someone's always randomly getting kidnapped and plotting and it's just ugh...  All I know is that I really like Hong Jonghyun and Yoona to a certain extent.

I finally got into OneHallyu lol.  The "who's gay" threads are farking hilarious.  If you believed these loonies, everyone in Kpop minus 1 or 2 per group are gay, even the girls!  As someone posted: when will these ppl admit that they're disgusting yaoi/yuri fetishists lol.  What's even more hilarious is all the "evidence" they use and are super serious how they post too so you can tell they actually fucking believe it.  I think the funniest bit that I saw was this: 

Like tell me that isn't the biggest DUH ever.  Do you think that person will learn from it though?  Probably not.  It's also proof that they really are taking it seriously.  I've never really been in a non-Asian fandom so I can't say if the people in other fandoms are this freaking crazy.  They might be though bc I remember reading some stuff about the LOTR movies and Harry Potter that was pretty nuts.  Idk, scary that there's so many lunatics out there tbh.

What else?  I'm not sure if I'm an EXO or CBX fan tbh.  Probably the latter.  It's weird bc obviously CBX is IN EXO lol.  But I mean, with Exo, you figure, I only like the entire War album.  Half of Lotto and the other one are trash.  Otoh, I love all the CBX songs.  Even the Japanese ones and I'm sugoi hard on Kpop in Japan.  I also don't really care about any other Exo members other than CBX.  Except maybe Lay, but honestly, I still think he'll leave.  I came across this thing from a former SM trainee, who was American, and he basically said Tao and Lay would leave.  Obviously Tao did, but I mean...Lay not being in the War and such, I just lowkey bet that they'll sort of slowly cut him out and he'll just be in the China market releasing solos and acting.

So yeah I'm pretty sure it's CBX I stan lol, it's just EXO gets dragged along for the ride Idek.
bingo_a: (3)
 Finished Lookout the other night and I have to say, the ending was extremely MEH compared to the rest of the show.  I felt like it was hovering at a 9 and then I dropped it to a 7.  There were two main problems for me with the ending.  Spoilers all over this bitch so be warned.

1.The fact that every single character almost behaved completely irrationally and out of character in order for that evil kid's plot to work.  Just, especially Lee.  Like I don't believe for a second that she would have gone off by herself intending to kill Sooji.  She never displayed any tendency towards that kind of irrational, overly emotional behavior.

2.The end basically left everything hanging.  It's only obvious that Dohan died, but then again, what was that scene with him not wanting to call Kim hyung?  Meanwhile, Sooji, Bomi and Kyungsoo are still doing their vigilante shtick so why didn't any of them go to jail?  What happened to Seungro and his monster kid?  None of that was addressed.  Maybe there's a season 2, Idk, but the ending was barely an ending at all.

Side note, that priest was HOT and I'm mad.

Anyway, so that one's over, just need to make myself finish Suspicious Partner so I can focus on Sparrow.  My sugoi drama phase is kinda fading for now, but I'll probably want to watch the new Lee Jong Suk one at the very least.  But it also doesn't air until September lol.

In Kpop things, I hear that Hui and Edawn are producing a song or songs for that Wanna One group.  I really didn't intend to care about them as I didn't follow that show, but them are my dudes.
bingo_a: (1)
 Finally watched the last episode of Tunnel and ok, so it was a pretty fun ride, but honestly, it really was't THAT amazing.  Not like certain tools on MDL think anyway lol.  First of all, the ending.  They never show whether he catches the killer in the past and it's like...how is everything going to turn out the same?  I mean, presumably it would turn out better because the girl wouldn't end up being adopted and all that and she grows up knowing Sunjae, but on the other hand, how likely is she to get interested in....ok, nevermind I solved my own conundrum.  It's easy enough to assume that the killer gets caught back then and then nothing else really matters.  The future events won't happen and only Kwang Ho will remember that they happened at all.

I GUESS that's fine lol, but Idk, I can't help thinking it would have been better if he'd stayed in the future, present, whatever.  Time travel is so confusing lmao.  But see that's the thing, it honestly didn't factor a whole lot into the plot and that's why it's just a pretty good crime drama with a fantasy twist that allowed for those a-ha moments throughout.  Idk, I rated it good, but there were a lot of things that annoyed me about it ultimately.  I really liked the lead actors though, they were both really good and "bromantic" without being ridiculous.

Anyway, on to Lookout.  Or at least, I will be on to Lookout just as soon as DF puts out the new eps.  They really dropped the ball on bothering to sub Tunnel there at the end.  I watched like the last four episodes on Viki.

I've said before that I honestly don't give a crap about Kpop or Jrock or any other Asian groups getting awards here because I don't care about the American music industry and therefore I don't care about its awards either.  But I was completely unsurprised to see BTS get dragged by American music fans for winning whatever it is they won.  That same thing happened when Psy was at some award show.  People were all, who are these fucking Asians?  Isn't that the most interesting part of it though?  The vitriol is really aimed at Asians specifically.  Because I remember European artists, even ones who could barely speak English being at these shows (back when I gave a crap) and no one gave them shit.  Even Latin artists, same thing.  But Asians, OMG THIS CAN'T HAPPEN.

I see you America.