Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
today let's talk about dramas I've ditched recently
on top of the dramas that I make review on on my channel.
I actually watch more dramas.
and a lot of them don't make their way
to me making videos on them.
It is by no means a judgment on that they're all bad dramas,
but I am a human, I have limits,
sometimes I just can't deal with things.
So I give up on them.
I'll share that with you.
And let me know if there is a drama that you think
on my list that's worth saving
without further ado,
let's go into first two, more specifically saying ,
not contemporary setting dramas.
Number one, Fu Liu Nian, Lost track of time.
It's a mango television drama that went live about 2 months ago,
something like that led by Jing Chao, Xing Fei, Zhai Zilu
I watched 2 episodes of this drama before I gave up on it.
I know it's a rebirth story,
and I know it's the type of female lead dies for the first time,
and then somehow comes back
decided to do things differently
so that she can get a different result for herself and for her loved ones,
a very classic old styled web novel type of story.
So the reasons I give up on this drama
number one production quality
compared to a lot of other period dramas.
This is a rather meh quality drama.
The second thing is I just cannot buy into
the Xing Fei and Jing Chao pairing, I know,
there's another guy who come in later and he's the good guy,
but for JIng Chao this actor,
he's at the age whether its appearance wise, the person's aura
he's at the age where it's no longer making sense for him to have that.
In the first 2 episodes showing up jumping from the heaven,
turn in circle, saving the female lead, slow mo, the young man,
you know,the Xiao Pingjing level of youth and energy.
He's just like not suitable.
For that type of role anymore.
It's like seeing a middle age uncle trying to pretend
he's 20 years younger and impress a very young girl.
It's odd.
I kept laughing as I was watching all those
pretty ridiculous tropey camera work.
And then the final thing on that is
the whole idea that and an imperial
although it's fictional,
it's based on the sort of middle to later
imperial system of chinese history
that a power that's sitting on the ruling seat of the country would be.
So caring about a business family.
I know they control the canal and that type of thing,
but really in imperial china businessmens are very low class people
and they would never be that important to a ruling class.
If you're saying earlier,
very early on history,
BC time,
there were very powerful business means
that are also political affiliates to the ruling class,
but that was a totally different social structure, aristocrat
little kingdoms power.
It's different from imperial china.
This drama looks like it's basing all the stuff
that you see in camera on the, let's say,
Song/Ming dynasty type of society.
And sorry, during that time,
businessmen are just never having that much of an importance to start with.
So the female leed's family will never be that crucial to the
prince getting his power and it just doesn't make sense.
Number two,
it is a still period setting because it's not contemporary right now,
which is set in the 1950s starting point Hu Tong.
The alleyway of Beijing, that drama,
the 3 generation of women living there
led by Zhao Lusi, Cai Wenjing, Guan Xiaotong
and it starts with ZLS's section.
And I didn't survive that first section.
I actually didn't survive the first two episodes.
It's set in 1950s and nothing looks like it's belonging to that time.
Everything looks so new and so not belonging to 1950s China
where everybody is dirt poor,
also the hair style of the characters that just brings
me out of the story so much
like Hou Minghao, come on
Nobody looks like that in chinese 1950s and then Zhao Lusi's performance.
She cannot convince me that she is a beijing local growing up girl.
Her accent is all wrong for a Beijing local person
and her delivery, dictation is very blurry
and then her acting is so out of place
very animated.
She's almost like animation figure in that drama,
not only like it doesn't really fit people's expectation
or our perception of the period of time back then,
but also it doesn't even fit with other actors in a drama.
Then in no particular order,
let's just talk about a bunch of contemporary dramas
that all aired very recently.
And i've decided not to follow through.
Number one Bu Qi Er ZHi unexpected falling
led by Peng Guanying and Cai Wenjing
It's their second collaboration.
It's almost like the second life of the Confidence drama.
It hasn't finished airing yet.
I've watched 5 episodes of this drama on the day it went live.
I binged five,
and that was the point where I couldn't continue.
To me what's wrong with this drama.
Number one, on a very basic production level,
it has a lot of weird lighting.
You really can feel there's a huge tungsten light out of their
Window that's just shining in and it's a fake place.
It doesn't exist in the building
for a not sitcom production.
It's just a little bit too off.
Second thing, the story itself is not that captivating.
I know it starts with the mystery with the husband dying.
The wife has a lot of debt,
and she goes to investigate and she finds there's
something wrong going on with the husband's company.
And definitely a lot of dark things going on in
the background that is related to the death of the husband.
okay, That's fine, interesting setting for a mystery drama,
but the drama itself within the 5 episodes i've watched
really didn't cash in much on that setting.
It's not page turner, it's not exciting,
there's no hooks.
I find it really slow.
And then when it comes to Peng Guanying and Cai Wenjing
I have to say maybe it's just my wiring.
I cannot receive the signals
because their previous drama, some people really liked,
I couldn't get anything either
somebody would have to pay me to get me back to watch it
then then. 4th one on my list
and also the second contemporary drama i've given up on
is Ni Zai Dong Ye Li Shan Yao, WInter night,
the time travel contemporary story,
or more like parallel time travel whatever
however you call it drama
led by Qiao Xin and Ma Sichao
I like time travel parallel universe story,
I always would give them a try.
I just wanna see how people spin that whole paradox angle
this drama. I watched 10 episodes.
yeah I think that's a lot, before I gave up.
And now when I think back on what happened in those 10 episodes,
it's all blurry.
In terms of the parallel universe,
what happens to a person when they realize
their life is the same but different
is not so, let's engaging, as I imagine,
it would be highly highly dramatic and comedy heavy.
And with a lot of interesting twists and turns
that you can do with this type of setup,
it just did didn't offer me any of those,
although it has like a really good actors in it,
like the mother actor of our female lead, she's
Guo Yi (Aunty Pot), earlier this year,
anybody remembers high pressure cooker that makes everybody nervous
I don't know what I should be feeling about this drama.
I just don't feel. with that setup.
They've done the best to milk on the type of genre it is
at least in the first 10 episodes i've watched.
By that point, the female lead and male lead's
their romantic line hasn't really gotten anywhere that's significant either
I lost patience and didn't wanna stick through it.
So that's another drama i've given up on
the third contemporary drama. 5th One on my list is Zhui Guang Zhe
Light Chaser Rescue, Led by Luo Yunxi and Wu Qian
when it first when live I watched about 4 or 5 episodes
before I gave up and decided never go back to it
First thing is I particularly do not like how
they do music like the bgm of this drama.
It just has those big epic bgm swelling
when there's a big rescue happening,
whether it's earthquake or whatever and people
going to save, you know like all the heroic stuff.
It's like the production is trying to remind the audiences,
look!ook! those people are so brave and heroic.
I'm like, yeahI know I can see that, stop
don't overdo it.
That's just one tiny thing.
But overall, the thing that actually put me off is unfortunately
the writing of the story and particularly how they set up,
the two leads, the type of
really, there's no need for us to have conflict,
but somehow to make us know each other and literally just
encounter each other more and having more friction.
So that later we can you know like build it upon that
they force things to happen.
That is just not making logical sense,
like how they meet in the bakery shop and the guy shows the woman
that somebody was like filming you
all those misunderstanding,
unnecessary and doesn't make logical sense.
Also the beginning like opening of the drama,
it makes the male lead look so much like a jerk,
just because he has a meeting with a client as a lawyer
that he actually drives onto the emergency.
That's reserved for fire trucks and for police cars.
He drives onto that.
Let's breaking all the rules and actually potentially killing
people who are ahead like who are piled up
for that one action.
It just destroys any good impression that audiences
can potentially have for your male lead.
And he doesn't need to do that.
he can just call his client and saying i'm freaking
stuck in traffic because i'm on this overpass highway.
And there's a huge car accident ahead of me.
I'm pretty sure your client is gonna understand you for that okay?
I know, it's just to put him out there,
go ahead and then he can get into the accident and actually help people.
But before you do that,
you actually already blocked the freaking road
similar thing that they did with the Bai Zhu Character
In the doctor drama that Bai Yu plays
just to make him so annoying,
i'm just saying that comes from writers who can't do their proper job.
I don't know later if it's worth watching,
but based on the couple of episodes that i've seen,
I doubt the scriptwriter is suddenly gonna have
enlightenment
the 6th one my list.
It's a contemporary drama again,
and probably nobody is watching it.
I clicked into it and watch one episode and decided that's enough.
it's a wrong choice that I headed into
Zhi Nian Ru Ying, Obsession
and it is a crime drama,
police drama that went on youku very quietly.
I don't know that many people are watching it.
It's led by Song Yang and Geng Le
Both are actually quite interesting actors.
I admit I went into this drama because it's the these two guys
and also because of the grittiness of the cinematography,
it looks like a really if you've watched, An Ye Xing Zhe
Earlier this year,
the day breaker led by the actor who is now cancelled in china.
It's similar vibe that dirty look of a police drama
and the camera work looks quite stylish.
So I was attracted by the two names plus the look of it
and trying to see if it's worth watching.
So as a police drama that's set in china,
it just doesn't look like anything related to the realistic picture
of police work
as if the scriptwriter have watched too many.
Let's say US dramas, dramas that set in countries
where police works are very different.
If you watched the Jing Cha Rong Yu drama, right earlier,
that's about the solidly like grounded actual police work in China
and what people like dress like, talk like
how they do things
compared to the drama, two different worlds.
It's just weird.
It starts with this big episode of
undercover police being found out by the bad people.
And then there's a gun fight in this really stylish building
that has a huge atrium,
all those gunfighting and hardly ever happens in china in that way.
Also nobody gets shot like hundreds of shots were fired
and they just misses our leads like magic.
By that point. I'm like, goodbye,
the 7th one, another contemporary drama.
This one offended me in a very specific way.
Ta Men de Ming Zi, Rising Lady
that is the Youku drama led by Qin Hailu, Bai Bing, Wei Wei, Also featuring Jin Shijia
I've watched about 14 episodes of this drama
before I decided not continuing.
And because of a one particular plot,
I just hated it.
And it happened at the wrong time
in the early stage of this drama.
Everything was normal, although it's not like masterpiece
it's okay
by I think 11 or 12,
there's one plot happening where our main group
of female roles they all in this pr company,
they do ads and stuff for others.
And they are working for a client who basically is a tampon,
sanitary pads that kind of company
for that whole 3/4 episodes,
where they're talking about that particular case,
they changed in post production of their lines from
sanitary stuff or tampon to Make-Up Remover Pad
So you can see the mouth is still saying Wei Sheng Jin （卫生巾）
the dubbed voice where the actors did in adr are all Xie Zhuang Mian (卸妆棉）
which is makeup remover cotton pad.
And it's not just one line,
because those 3/4 episodes are all about this case.
So every character is speaking and every time you see that
it just doesn't match,
it's so embarrassing.
Around the time that those episodes were airing was the time
when Scotland announced they're gonna give tampns for free to women.
Isn't that ironic
in one country, You can get it for free,
and in another country
Can't even freaking mention it in a drama.
Now I don't know why that happens because in other dramas,
i've seen this been mentioned and never changed.
People don't change the words for it.
Other certain contemporary dramas that talks about marriage,
talks about women that have much more,
let's say controversial opinions and line spoken didn't get dubbed and changed.
This drama it's just talking about freaking tampons
It's like so what?
whether it's a production company itself
that decided to self censor or whatever.
I don't care, it's just embarrassing.
I am embarrassed as a Chinese person to see that coming from
Chinese dramaland and from 21st century humans
absolutely pathetic.
I don't care what reason it is.
I'm not gonna watch this drama anymore
The final one, another content drama i've given up recently,
i've watched two episodes and decided to quit,
which is Wu Yun Yu Jiao yue
my deepest dream,
another parallel universe time travel
type of story led by Li yitong and JIn han
They meet on ocean liner type of thing,
and then the woman wakes up.
And somehow it's a year that she's missing in her memory,
and she tries to find out what happens.
And the story starts to go from there.
I don't know really what happens later.
If this is actually time travel-wise worth watching
Interesting enough
Tell me that okay. in the comment section,
maybe I can go back to it
The the reason I gave up on it,
it's first in the first two episodes.
It hasn't really set up that mystery that well I'm not so
curious to see what's gonna happen and why it happens that way.
And the thing that actually stopped me majorly is
because somehow I cannot watch Li yitong and JIn han
being together as a couple.
I literally had my toe grabbing on the carpet.
I'm like This is so weird. This is it's so weird.
I think it may be due to Royal Nirvana.
If you've watched that drama you know in that drama,
Li yitong's role and Luo Jin's role are a pair and a very sad pair.
And then Jin Han is their enemy,
JIn han is the challenger of the male lead,
he's the other Prince and they are political, mortal enemy.
Although I haven't finished watching the entirety of royal nirvana,
but because of that drama's overall,
such serious and painful tone,
it almost feels like the the people from the period drama
reincarnated in contemporary time
and then found the wrong person to fall in love with.
it's me it's me, I know, it's me, but I can't do it.
I just cannot bring myself to do it.
Sometimes my physical body disagrees with my logical mind,
so can't help it.
Anyway, so these are the dramas that i've recently given up on.
Hopefully 2023 is gonna be a better year.
We're gonna have less ridiculous stuff.
And hopefully most of the piled up haven't aired
crappy stuff that got made in say,
from 2017 to 2020 something
would completely being already consumed.
And then we can have better stuff coming in.
Usually in Chinese dramaland
some major heavyweight dramas will be released around
middle of December
KPI every platforms in trying
to get more bonus for the end of the year performance.
So let's see in a month's time or even just half a month's time,
are we gonna get some really major stuff to
kick on the butt of Chinese dramaland?
Also just don't forget if you strongly disagree and also think
there's one drama on my list that i've totally missed.
And it's a secret treasure that I haven't discovered.
Let me know.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
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Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching