Chinese Dramas I Gave Up - First 1/4 of 2022 [CC] 

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Thanks! Anyway, it's "Gold Panning", for 7:52 (not Goat Penny) 😊

@@suyv4079 didn’t notice the typo. It’s changed thanks!

I liked ms, cupid in love and liked but... It could have been better. Hello my sharpshooter was so bad.. I wanted to watch it cus I love the actors and I've seen them done better but it was so disappointing

@@yeonjunhour3733 I agree with you with the Hello My Sharpshooter one, I was anticipating this drama the moment the released the casting and such but the moment it aired and I finally get to watch it, I dropped it. I tried going back to watch it from time to time but i just can’t get myself to finish it. Maybe I’ll pick it up one day.

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After 1 episode , it was hair I decided its not for me.. I simply did not understand why you would style a 30 something law firm partner a mullet with shaved side hair 🥴🥴

hes a crap actor, and not really a good singer either IMO

I'm interested. The personality of any actor determines his features of the game, the features of the characters. Look at any famous actor in any country. You can say about everyone that they do it in their own way)))) I have heard reviews about Zi Tao's hairstyle more than once. I can't understand such comments. It is difficult for a foreign viewer to understand the claims to the hairstyle. Films can be made in different styles, with different approaches. This art is an opportunity to look at life differently. It often happens that you do not like an actor or director. This is also normal. We are all different. I was introduced to the dramas and music of China after hearing and falling in love with Huang Zitao's songs. Now I'm watching "Legally romance". I think he has good acting skills. He knows how to immerse the viewer in feelings, convey them through the screen. There are scenes in the drama where he appears as a powerful dramatic actor. Take a look at episode 23, episode 24. I can trust myself as a lover of Russian theater and cinema.

Not only him.. there is a few famous names(both male and female actors) that always looks the same and act the same in almost every drama they stared~

I think Huang Zitao plays differently. I can not agree that his acting is the same. His playing in "Legally romance" is at a very high level. He is already a professional actor. The fact that he is so natural in the role shows that the director and producer made the right choice of actor for the lead role. It also pairs incredibly well with Song Zuer.

That is true but that style Cao Yuchen was in made him look stuck up and awkward, which Jin Zi Xuan was stuck up and awkward in TU. I know where you are coming from though..lol.

>sometimes it's like they try to make someone look bad on purpose!< I totally agree! I have even looked up wig styles from Chinese opera, I looked up wig shapes , and Chinese geomancy to see if those things had an effect on the choices made. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I agree with u very good insight 👍

Yeah when i watched Cao Yuchen without the wig I was omgggg he is sooo cute/handsome. He does have a very doll face but in this drama the wig looks better than in TU

Same with Wang Zhuocheng. He's handsome but I can't watch his scenes in the Untamed without busting out of laughter from that hairline. I hate it so much 😭

I agree. It is our time after all that we are investing. So, we are really not obligated to carry on if it is too boring or cringe-worthy 😉😛

@@naleenidas8444 Yes! I see so many people saying they didn't enjoy some drama but they still managed to watch a lot of episodes... Like why do you do that to yourself?? If you don't like it, drop it, you're really not missing out on much if you don't watch it

Same and this usually only happens with cdramas in my case

@@chickwit2575 Same here

I think it's normal. I watched close to 300 now (I know, I keep track on Mydramalist haha) and when you've watched so many you naturally lose patience with subpar productions and writing. Also, it becomes clear just how low the standards of dramas have dropped lately. We're used to better stuff haha

@@gianellab.4953 You're right

Do what everyone else does...WATCH FOREIGN🤣😂. I find a LOT of good TV Series/Movies with different plots from other countries to keep my interest.

My son is allergic to lactose but can drink milk or eat cheese provided he gets his medication for that before... I also was allergic to lactose as a child and nearly diedof toxic shock from it, according to my mother who did'nt know at the time that cow's milk is not good for babies ; my intolerance gradually shifted to accepting over the years even though I don't like to drink a glass of milk, just tolerate cream on cakes or in coffee. I am strongly allergic to other things which I became aware of as an adult and have not managed to be desensitized to. So even then (the detail you brought up eluded me), I would not just stop watching because of perceived lack of consistency there. I liked the Sharpshooter story (together with its OST, esp. the opening song), which I watched while reading Billy Summers, which is perhaps the best novel written by Stephen King. I focused not on the romance, but on the serious concerns that were tackled in this drama and the growing and healing of the victims (Shen Qingyuan, Tang Xin Shi XiaoCI, even less direly so Chen Hai and Zhou Zuguang and Ding Fang): PTSD, OCD, Aspergers (although this syndrome was not explicitly mentioned) and coping mechanisms against violence or betrayal, such as the hyperactive smiling of the character played by Xing Fei. I have encountered people with these types of problems, and in Billy Summers, chanting is also used to relieve pain, just as the rapping idea that allows the livestreamer to temporarily overcome her nervous stuttering caused by the traumas that are revealed later on. I don't think the drama was a masterpiece, but is was more than tolerable as far as I am concerned, and conveyed some emerging ideas that some behavior that is commonly seen as "romantic" in dramas (seizing a female to kiss her forcibly, unwanted touching...) is in fact questionable. -- As for your other comment, I also ended up somewhat disappointed by Luoyang, but watched till the end, even if I knew what was coming. Maybe I was growing tired of that story by then. I liked some of the songs.

@@Lileyflor Just letting you know as an Autistic person, don't use the word Asbergers. It isn't something to diagnose anymore under the DSM anymore because it ignores that the people who were diagnosed are just Autistic. That word was used to separate and divide the Autistic community with functioning labels that ignores Autistic people's spiky skill sets. Functioning labels ignores that being Autistic is a spectrum and functioning labels don't exist for Autistic people. Also, Asbergers comes from Hans Asbergers who was a literal Nazi who led to the literal murder of millions of Disabled children. He committed literal eugenics on us. Being Autistic also isn't a syndrome but a Neurotype. It's a part of the Neurodiversity of the world. Being Autistic isn't a disease. All being Autistic means is that you are Neurodivergent.

@@arabellasterwerf7980 You are right to point out that autism is not a disease and that what was accepted by the DSM (manual of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) in 1994 up to 2013 as AS is now viewed as just part of the neurodivergent spectrum; even if many people still adhere to the description and definition. (One young man I hired as a tutor back in 2018 volunteered that he was an Aspie - he did his job just fine and I was puzzled he felt the need to tell me. It did not faze me anyway.). I am convinced that quite a lot of people diagnosed as neurodivergent can function in society like anybody, be parents, teachers, scientists, artists. Maybe some professions are closed to them, just like color blind people cannot become pilots in the army or airlines Sometimes, the peers of some students or colleagues need to be more sympathetic to some instances of their troubles, so raising awareness about neurodiversity and inclusivity is a good thing, beyond just establishing categories. Reading up the Wikipedia page about Hans Asperger (with a P) I'd just state that I don't think there is enough there to accuse that Austrian of having sent cold bloodedly"millions" of disabled kids to be killed or "committing literal eugenics". It does not mesh with the mention of some of his former patients like Elfriede Jelinek who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, nor with his being involved in schools throughout his career, or the mention of "since 2009, Asperger's birthday, 18 February, has been declared International Asperger's Day by various governments". Sometimes, things are not easily broken down in Manichean worldview terms. Asperger was a man of his time so of course he followed the mainstream around him, but when the time of assesment came, he was not prosecuted as "evil nazi" after the war, contrary to John Rabe, the nazi who still saved about 250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre, establishing the Nanking Safety Zone, which earned him respect and help in the form of food packages from China when he became destitute on his return to Germany. Asperger's views about AS were perhaps a fad in psychological "science", but I don't believe he was treating his young patients and agreed to have them be killed by injecting, clubbing or gassing them to death as you seem to have been led to think. From the Wikipedia page, it is not apparent. There are a lot of writers who drag up stuff to accuse people of hateful sins, sometimes they are correct, sometimes they just amplify rumors for their own publicity. I remain cautious about rushing in to believe allegations and sensationalist writings. Anyway, I have no stake in this one way or the other. So it's just my 2 cents.

@@Lileyflor Maybe not millions, but at least 772-800 Disabled children were killed by him. I couldn't remember the exact amount. He signed them a death warrant basically. Yes he was recently uncovered to be connected to the Nazi Party. He wasn't a part of the Nazi, but he sure had strong connections with them! The man was a monster. Regardless of the people he helped, he still murdered so many people. So yes Autistic people don't want to be associated with a monster who led to many of our deaths. He had negative viewpoints on Disabled people and supported eugenics. This wasn't always known. It's only been recently that we know this when people found evidence of his crimes. Jewish Autistic people are especially uncomfortable with the name because of his clear ties to the Nazi and the deaths of many Disabled children. He had a hand in eugenics. He isn't a product of his time. Not everyone supported the euthanasia of Disabled People. Actually, many Disabled activists even then fought against eugenics during Nazi Germany. So I'm glad that Asbergers isn't diagnosed anymore. He may have helped some people, but he doesn't deserve to be respected by the Autistic community. There are many Autistic people who were diagnosed as "Asbergers" for a long time and still use it because it's a part of their identity. That's fine! It's the Autistic person who gets to choose. But Asbergers is seen now by a majority of Autistic people now as yikes. Especially with how it was used to separate the Autistic community into labels. However, Neurotypical people shouldn't get a say on whether it should be used or not. They honestly shouldn't use it unless the one Autistic person is ok with it because it is their identity. But don't assume everyone is! Because that is simply not the case. The only reason his crimes may not be on the Wiki page is because this was recently uncovered. It didn't used to be known before and that's why he wasn't prosecuted. The mindset that Neurodivergent people can do certain things reads kinda yikes to me. Especially the sympathy part. Yes Neurodivergent people can do many different jobs because we are humans. Some of us do have higher support needs, but they still have value regardless. Like Neurodivergent people do have to struggle due to the fact that the world is designed against us. The world doesn't accommodate or provide enough accessibility. Functioning in this society can be debilitating because of all the ableism and lack of accessibilities. Believe me, I've experienced the ableism as an Autistic/ADHD Disabled woman. I've seen how ableist society is towards Disabled people in general. We aren’t special, but we are humans with different needs. We also tend to be discriminated in the workforce for being Disabled. We don't need sympathy or to be made into someone to pity. We need to be supported and respected. We are humans with full complex lives. Many Neurodivergent people can do many things. Some can't because of their other disabilities and that's ok! They deserve more support and accessibility to live their lives to the fullest. Even if it doesn't look like how Capitalism puts out about being good little workers. Disabled people don't need someone's sympathy to raise more support. Recognize that Disability is really neutral and that everyone eventually will become Disabled from old age or even they get injured later on. It's a part of being human! Disabled people and Neurodivergent people deserve to be recognized as complex humans with different needs. So support shouldn't come from a misplaced savior complex to "save the Disabled" because that is been the basis of eugenics. I mean, even Hans Asbergers believed in that! Instead come from wanting to help other humans and recognize their value as human beings. We aren’t "broken." I agree that Neurodiversity and Neurodivergent people need to be talked about more in general though. I do agree that we need more people fighting for Neurodivergent people's rights to exist. I would just be careful where able-bodied and Neurotypical people are getting their motivation to help and that it doesn't come from ableist viewpoints about us. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hans-asperger-actively-assisted-nazi-eugenics-policies-study-claims-180968845/ tidsskriftet.no/en/2019/05/essay/asperger-nazis-and-children-history-birth-diagnosis www.spectrumnews.org/news/new-evidence-ties-hans-asperger-nazi-eugenics-program/

I am a lawyer. How does the lawyer should look?! I like the appearance of the main character.

@@elenazablotskis1353 Professionals in China tends to go for a much more conservative look. It's not even like he was depicted as an eccentric lawyer. So yes, you like it, but it doesn't fit the role.

@@swhat9203 Lawyers tend to be conservative in every country. But we're watching a drama - a romantic drama with elements of comedy. It's funny that I, as a lawyer, and my friend the prosecutor cannot judge the acceptable appearance of the main male role of a lawyer)))) It surprises me that the hairstyle is the most important.By the way, in the drama they successfully joke about the hairstyle))

What is the authour's other novel that is superior?

still discussing Huang ZiTao's hairstyle?! His general style in Legally romance?! Recently I came across photos of Elon Musk and found a very similar hairstyle and clothing style. Elon Musk is definitely not an idol!!!

I did not know Tao has only 1 acting style but it seems acceptable. The main actress is ok and is from the recent drama The Bond. The script is ok so I am enjoying Legally Romance.

I think Huang Zitao plays differently. I can not agree that his acting is the same. His playing in "Legally romance" is at a very high level. He is already a professional actor. The fact that he is so natural in the role shows that the director and producer made the right choice of actor for the lead role. It also pairs incredibly well with Song Zuer.

It's the first time I watched him acting too but his acting skill was acceptable other than his hairstyle. I somewhat agreed that a partner lawyer in an elite law firm shouldn't looked like that but again maybe I am old fashioned..... lol

I watched hello,the sharpshooter too and to be honest it was not that bad (was tolerable),maybe because I liked the main leads idk

Thx for the recommendation I loved another Thai movie as well I fine... thank you love you and Thai series Boy for Rent ⭐⭐⭐⭐ the eye candy was next level😍 Mond is a beautiful man.

True. Out of the 10 cdramas I watch, I end up dropping 9 of them.

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Spot on hahahaha

haha you sounded so funny....

Badass women warriors was very common in wuxia movies from Hong Kong and Taiwan of the mid60s to the 90s

@@ashaj7095 Yes by now I’ve also found more cdrama’s with badass female leads

You're definitely not alone. I can't finish Fu Yao even after trying to pick it up again few times

Oath Of Love is living mainly on the usual tropes. The main problem for me are too many hospital scenes which most people are already very familiar with bec of the 3 year pandemic. I am watching it since the acting is ok.

@@colonyofcellsiamamachine6175 roughly for the first 8 episodes, the setting takes place in the hospital. I definitely still want to see more tho

I gave up after 12 episodes of Oath of Love. The dreadful script wastes the talents of the cast. And most of the female roles are so insulting to women, especially Yang Zi as a naive, brainless klutz. I cannot believe she and Xiao Zhan signed on for this mess.

@@maryannrondinella5680 Xiao Zhan and Yang Zi acting is great in The Oath of love it a good Romance story, it not a mess it's a good story more to true life. I love the drama I give it more then 10 stars you gave up to early. Thats how I feel about the drama and a lot of people feel same they like the drama. It wasn't your cup of tea, we all have our likes or not to like a drama. It gets better and better more you get in to The Oath of love. One thing we have so many chooses to watch Chinese dramas and movies, so many wonderful actors and actresses.

@@maryannrondinella5680 i also dropped the Oath of love

True , I love Zheng Yecheng so much but i still drop the drama,they did him dirty😞

@@fatisummer9106 I am only 1 year old fan of asian dramas, I barely finished 10 chinese dramas till now, most of them are xianxia..i like this type of drama 😂...so I started to watch it... Thankfully It cured my insomnia temporarily 😂🤣

She has not talk about XZ s tv dramas since 227. I think she fears backlash or losing her fans.

not more? LOL

I enjoyed Mirror, a tale of twin cities but the ending was awful. Like they ran out of time and had to wrap it up quickly.

I heard that china made a new rule to not make dramas more than 40 episodes!

@@dramaQuiin maybe that was it. It felt like it was a couple of episodes short somehow. I enjoyed the series though. Mainly because there were no scheming, bitchy women.

I love Wu Lei's Ashina Sun. But i still wonder what could it be if QCX take the role. The age difference between WL and DD in real life affect me in feeling their chemistry. I also love QCX's acting. I think he is really talented and his character in Bloody Romance is really cool and hot at the same time 🤪

Not gonna lie that drama was honestly boringggg and I watched all of it just cuz I liked the ML acting and the story was slow and predictable enough but I some how managed to the whole thing

I liked Joy of Life almost more than The Untamed! I'm so looking forward to season 2!

It’s funny because I’m the other way around :)

i love both, joy of life, and sword snow stride.

I loved joy of life so much I couldn’t wait and found an English translation of the novel. So worth it. Such a great story.

The comedy is gold 😂😂 TIC squad is literally squad goals. Hope you end up liking it as much as I did.

Except I think that she's a bit overacting in this drama series.....

No offense to her, but mirror twin cities is really good, like i would really recommend it to people!

If I'm not wrong, she didn't watched untouchable lovers because plagiarism issue and they kinda ignoring and never apologise for this