Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
and let's get right into it,as usual first let's talk about dramas that have gone live
on the 13th, we have a drama that went life on the web platform Youku
Dang Wo Fei Ben Xiang Ni, English title When I Fly Towards You, very accurate translation.
It is a high school campus drama, at least starting from there.
And we'll go to the point where our lead characters marry
24 episodes led by Zhou Yiran and Zhang Miaoyi.
I am right now very up to date with this drama,
although it is not the best school campus drama i've seen in recent years.
It is also not the cheaply made and for a quick buck type of drama,
one of the better looking higher texture quality school dramas i've seen in recent years
also it's a little bit surprising that it actually comes from the platform Youku
which is notorious for its terrible aesthetics.
\I'll watch a couple of more episodes to decide whether it's worth talking about
then on the same platform Youku 2 days later, on the 15th,
we have a web drama going live which totally didn't see it coming
because it's led by an actor that I really liked from a previous drama couple of years ago,
Zhang Yao when he led the drama Yi Cun Xiang Si,
somehow I completely missed this piece of news about him being in a drama like this
and I checked it out and it's so ridiculous.
The drama's Chinese title is Yu Sheng Zhi You Ni
This drama our male lead is a merman, and English title is Fish Show You, show you what?
I've watched the first episode and I can't tell you how many times I got completely taken out of the story
because of how shabby this production is, like you can really use the word shabby.
It's so poor. Its cgi is scarily bad and all the extras or even supporting roles.
and to some extent, even lead roles like apart from Zhang Yao that I know him from previous stuff,
everybody looks so amateur, like they don't know how to be an actor or act in front of a camera
and it looks like from department to camera to everything that's within a drama production
are all done by people who don't know what they're doing.
I haven't seen a drama this shabby since the days of Guardian and it
even Guardian is a really, really crappy production quality drama.
There's one thing that it did really well, which is the director.
I think it has two directors anyway, they know how to use cameras.
Although they don't have the best gear, they are very aware of angles framing
and within each scene characters' motivation.
Therefore for this one line he speaks what angle is the best to put on this actor
They know how to film people to make them look good
like that's one thing from the super poor Guardian drama that you can tell
it's done by people who know what they're doing,
whereas this drama, wow, honestly haven't seen a drama this bad for all the years.
So if you are curious to see how bad a drama can look like, you can test it out,
but if you want to keep your mental peace and have one less pollutant of your eyesights,
you see in this world, don't even click it open,
then we have two dramas that are scheduled.
Supposedly they will go live a couple of days later.
First one on the 20th, we have yet another drama of the same series
categories and done by the same team.
Nan Yang Er Nv Qing, English title, Sisterhood.
That's supposed to go on iqiyi and cctv eight,
and it's led by Xiao Yan and Dai Xiangyu
If you've watched these dramas, it's in the same category,
it's done by Chang Xin Chuan Mei
which is the company that did Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty.
The little Nyonya dramas we've seen previously and it's the same people.
So if you really liked those dramas previously,
this is more than likely to be yet another one that will make you very happy.
One day after that and only a couple of hours ago,
the drama came out and saying we're gonna show up on the 21st
and that is the fantasy period drama Xue Ying Ling Zhu
We've talked about this very recently on my Thursday live stream briefly,
the Snow Eagle Lord drama led by Xu Kai and Na Zha, looking at the trailer,
it's a very typical ian Xia drama with a lot of CG of people fighting
where the lights will come out of their hands and ~~~
you know with Qi coming out and our male lead character Xu Kai plays
has this typical setup of starting as an underdog who cannot fully utilize his internal power.
But after certain things, he started to be able to do it and then becomes a master of it.
And that type of story, judging by the trailer,
it's just gonna be 2 good looking people swinging their arms around with special effects
at least eye pleasing, but I think Xu Kai this time also uses dubbing
for period dramas it's unthinkable if he does it himself,
it would completely destroy the drama.
So let's see how pretty it will be.
Then we have a drama that has gone through a couple of really funny ups and downs during this week,
which is the 5th season, yes the 5th one of Huan le Song, Ode to Joy
I remember it was like yesterday when I said they aired OTJ three then OTJ four, now five
initially it was said to go live on the 16th, which literally means today
on Tencent and cctv eight at the later slot of the evening 9:30 pm
supposedly it's gonna go on satellite television like that.
But yesterday just about a day before its schedule airing date,
it got paused because right now there is a new policy rule about if you have
a drama that is like serial like you have season one, season two
or you have upper part and lower part, you have first half and second half.
The two parts have to be airing at a distance of at least 3 month time.
You see like the policy basically is targeting those super long dramas
that they wanna go over the 40 episodes limit.
so they break it manually into two parts and then air them together.
So this policy comes in basically saying, no, you can't do that.
If you want to air upper and lower part,
you have to give it at least 3 months gap time
so that if you actually gather any sort of popularity in the first one,
well you wanna make it long, so we're gonna make it manually die down for 3 months.
These day and age the drama will already lose its heat and then come in the second part.
上有政策下有对策，对策有了又有政策
it's so funny, you know reality is more dramatic than dramas.
And honestly for Ode to Joy the only good part is it's first season
the second season already started to slip and 3rd 4th are~~~
Anyway let's see when OTJ season five can eventually come out.
Then let's talk about a couple of other dramas at different stages of production.
First we have a drama that actually already wrapped last month,
but they are very low profile, so they only come out this week to talk about it.
I've mentioned that also briefly in the Thursday live stream
and I look forward to this production a lot.
It is called Meng Zhi Hai, English translation, Sea of Dreams.
Based on Liu Cixin the writer of Wandering Earth and Three Body sci fi short story,
which is about a scenario where earth gets a big thing happening to it
when all its ocean water got sent into its near orbit,
so it got frozen into ice and becomes a ring around earth, the planet.
At the same time on Earth crust there's no ocean left
12 episodes short drama, it's gonna air on Youku
and a couple of cool things about this is apart from its Liu Cixin's work
It is directed by Tian Li, who is the same director who did the two series of Tientsin Mystic, He Shen
I really like this director's style, although i'm not a huge fan of the second season of the drama.
There's one thing we know about this director is he has very good taste in camera
And in framing and in all the visual department of dramas
one of the most having their own style director these days.
So he is at the helm of this production.
I think at least in the looks and visual department,
it's gonna be very good, and it's led by Huang Jingyu, Wang Zixuan, Liu Chang
Wang Zixuan is the female leader of the two seasons of TM and probably worked really well with this director.
Therefore she is the female main role in this story,
Liu Chang the tall and quite good looking previous model who's being in dramaland
for a lot of contemporary jobs in recent years.
With these three people leading it, with Liu Cixin's ip and with this good taste of this director,
fingers crossed.It's gonna be a sci-fi story that does justice to this whole genre.
And let's hope Youku doesn't interfere in the looks department.
Then quickly injecting a couple of photos,
it's paparazzi leaked photos of the right now in shoot.
Huai Zhu Pian of the Fox demon matchmaker, the second one
led by Liu Shishi and Zhang Yunlong
This is what they look like at least one of the outfit and look style in the drama.
What do you think? I think it looks pretty nice.
Let's hope this drama eventually when it airs you know everything looks good.
Then during this week we have many dramas that have gotten its to air license.
Technically they can all show up any time now
first one is a 1990s setting contemporary young adults romantic,
but also depicting that era life drama,
Na Xie Hui Bu Qu de Nian Shao Shi Guang, Stand By Me
led by Zhao Jinmai and Bai Yufan
Zheng Wu Yang Guang's previous drama's frequenters
I think it's based on a novel that a lot of people liked quite a lot.
So hopefully the production will do justice to the original work.
The next one that has gotten its license is the firefighter drama that we
somehow also mentioned during Thursday's live stream.
and It's the Ta Cong Huo Guang Zhong Zou Lai, Bright Eyes in the Dark we've talked about recently
during the whole 2 weeks with too many trailers, those two weekly videos
and it's led by Huang Jingyu, Zhang Jingyi, also featuring Wang Ziqias the guest story if you still remember
so that drama is now airable anytime.
Then the next drama is Yong An Meng, Yong An Dream
a period drama led by Ouyang Nana and Xu Zhengxi
For the coming July and August summer holiday official slot,
we're gonna see a lot of dramas
That's why we have a really boring June so far.
Then we have one thing about film that has released a first trailer
which is a production not so long ago I mentioned they've started shooting
and now they are already releasing trailers.
It is the Mei You Yi Dun Huo Guo Jie Jue Bu Liao de Shi
very long title, English title is also very long, Nothing Can't be Undone by A Hot Pot
It is a murder mystery solving film about a group of thieves
go into a backstage of a theatre trying to steal something and then run into a murder.
And it's led by Yang Mi, Yu Qian, Tian Yu quite a lot of other very well known actors.
It's definitely a small story that has a lot of flares and probably a lot of twists and turns.
Let's see when this film goes into cinema whether it's gonna be one of those
qualified mystery murder solving slightly black comedy probably film.
We have one final thing,
which somehow you know things happen in cluster,
and we have this happening in dramaland pretty much around this week,
which is multiple popular singers or idols or actors' fandom, official fan club,
starting a battle or war against the official studio of those singers and idols and actors,
including people like Zhang Yixing, who is mainly known as a singer and dancer.
But he also was in a lot of dramas, Tan Jianci yeah I didn't expect that
Bai Jingting, well we all know who he is, Zhang Linghe and Zeng Shunxi
And it just happens that all of their official fan club leaders and most of the fans
come together complaining about this and that and that and that and that
I mean recently Yu Shuxin's studio also had this whole thing happening
about how their artists or their idols are not treated fairly,
how the people working at the studio are not doing their job.
And the fandoms mostly are like we demand a regrouping of restructuring
or firing certain people at your studio,
because they're not doing their job properly and we're not happy.
And and if you don't do that, our fandom will officially stop supporting you
or doing datas doing Shu Ju (数据）
、basically going everywhere sending comments and 打榜， you know charts, billboards
like all those things that fandom's people do voluntarily for free for their stars.
They're like, if you don't change how your studio is run and how those incompetent people are doing their jobs,
we are gonna stop supporting or doing those work for free for you.
Each person has their sort of individual different situation regarding their studio.
Some of the studios are really problematic,
like not really getting work done and being ridiculous as if nobody is actually working there.
And then some are just, come on fans, like, what are you thinking?
They definitely are stepping to far out of appropriate boundaries.
This week somehow it just happens one after another after another.
And when I was looking at those social media and all those things, I'm like
maybe it's because it's at the end of the term, either you finished Gao Kao
which just happened early June,
or like you're at the end of this semester,
and somehow you start to get time free,
and you don't know what to do during summer holiday.
So let's just like all gather and together and try to stage a coup,
just melon eaters and tea drinker on the side and watching and finding it's amusing
that would be the end of this week's video.
If you wanna me hear me talk more about drama land what's going on right now
and also quite an extensive somehow started chat during the Thursday live stream.
I just did about line delivery, mandarin and actors performances.
And what's the problem with what's going on these days in dramaland in china
I talked a lot about that during that live stream.
So can head over there and hear me talk for another 2 hour and half
Thank you for watching AvenueX, I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.