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I just find her cute. I don’t get all the criticism. She’s a kid. She’s gonna react childishly. And I can’t hate girls looking out for girls🥹

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I feel like I have spent more time trying to figure out what happened in the underground prison than I did on my undergrad thesis.

It’s the director. Kisses aren’t necessary if the atmosphere is right. I watched a drama with the most romantic moment being the leads standing under the same umbrella and it was super moving and appropriate for the romance-allergic couple. With a couple like this, it’s enough for her to just rest her head on his shoulder and gaze up at the stars together.

Nah, she’s really cute and just very concerned for her sister’s wellbeing and happiness 🥹

Because in these types of shows it’s about the ML being the ideal boyfriend.

I get why I’m loving this show. It’s really good if you like female characters with personality. 90% of the female characters have their own charm. QingIan is as sweet as pie. Zui is sassy. Yan decides her own fate. The leech demon is both tsundere and gentle. Jialan is out murking all the dragons. It even breaks the gridlock of giving a “perfect” FL by giving us bad Huaizhu.

Ah, this is so true😭 wasn’t there a show this year that actually used how often the ML stabbed the FL as a marketing point? In my opinion there aren’t enough true red flag FLs. They usually just get called red flags because they don’t love the ML enough for dream girls. I can’t stand it. I want Cdrama to show me some real bad girls😭

He still looks young and pretty to me so I don’t mind calling him a pretty boy.

If we follow the logic that in idol dramas geared towards women that the ML’s devotion is the essence of their charm, then I’d argue there a very, very few MLs that are actually simps. Given the amount of red flag or scumbag MLs I’ve seen get praised for a bit of affection, imho some MLs aren’t working hard enough 😂

Maybe stop watching idol dramas? They have never been about acting skills but looks. It’s like a training wheel program for younger actors to build skills and the requirements aren’t so high. If you’re looking for acting skills, it’s better to head to serious dramas.

Tbh, I hate the word simp. It wasn’t being used when I first came to MDL but now I see it everywhere and it’s a bit off putting. What some viewers don’t seem to realise is that a lot of idol dramas either come from or are created as content for women and thus many of the MLs are supposed to be ideal boyfriends. In the eyes of many creators this often requires them to have a certain level of devotion and in some blogs on the subject that I’ve read, some people feel the ML’s key purpose is show how devoted he is to the FL -the more devoted, the better. If someone doesn’t want to see this, they’re better off looking at BL, martial arts, serious costume dramas, or dramas created for male audiences.

Hong Ye seems a bit overconfident in his abilities and underestimates the nature of others but if this is a true tragedy, then the show might not fix this flaw.

It’s never too late. Film studies is very interesting and add layers to the viewing experience-especially with analysis. Like with this show, I feel the editor has worked really hard😅 I don’t think the scripts that bad so far but I think the director is definitely one of the weaker ones. It’s really a shame because I think the show has some decent foundations that with a better director could take it to a higher level. It’s got this interesting grim dark setting without the grime of the genre. It’s got a clear worldview and setting. There’s a strong core theme and som interesting smaller ones. Also, some people don’t like Bad Huaizhu but it’s actually interesting how she used the affection of two men to achieve her goals- it felt very much like a big heroine in that part of the arc.

Posting some BTS:

Liu Shishi’s wirework skills:
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5162562406056792

Fight scene released by the martial arts director:
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5161530631651970

Ding Yuxi and Meng Ziyi interacting:
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5161839710177012

He is a pretty boy tho😂 I don’t get why people don’t think so. His styling just doesn’t lend to it. They’ve gone for a plainer more subdued aesthetic/look for him probably to give him a sense of maturity.

And Hong Ye is not a simp. He’s just someone who sees the bigger picture. If he doesn’t play the game with bad Huaizhu, he won’t get the results he needs.

What Huaizhu probably sees in Hong Ye is a man who is trying to clean up a messy situation. There’s different kinds of love and love that builds from admiration or gratitude isn’t any lesser than one that is built from passion.

I don’t really get the complaints about plot or not understanding what is going on. The setting is a world full of human-demon conflict. The ML is trying to break the cycle of violence and also clean house on his end (the human side) to reduce the bad apples who are creating conflicts/chaos. Jiu Huo+Jia Lan at this stage seem to be result of the human side messing with demons. The reason for the 20 year time skip is because it’s the best time.

As for bad Huaizhu, think about Jialan. Jialan is very clearly a psychopath- her thinking patterns will not follow mainstream human logic and when she does things, it will be with her at the centre with little empathy for others.

But he’s not the least attractive. He’s just a different aesthetic from some of the other cast members.

He looks fine. And he visually works as a serious and righteous leader. There’s a quiet gravitas about him.

This director doesn’t seem very good at capturing people’s best looks. It’s really straightforward filming with little atmosphere for most characters. And, there’s a lot of mediocre and lifeless shots of the characters which affects perception. An actor can act well and be really handsome but if the director can’t capture the performance, the effect will be greatly reduced.

Yeah, sentimentality and saccharin don’t work for the tone of this show. It’s really got to be in the background or in a few stolen moments. There’s just too much going on for it.

😂 Some fans have been trying to figure out what Jialan’s character setting is and apparently the character AI set up for her is just saying all types of things so it’s even more confusing 😂