Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
look at chinese dramaland in the past week.
Let's get right into it.
Do not have that much stuff going on this week.
well It happens.
You get a crazy week and then you get a less crazy week.
and I have a feeling the next week is gonna be more busy than this week
because a lot of summer holiday dramas are coming out.
There have already been very rough schedule for the major platforms
in terms of what they wanna do during July and A ugust.
Usually. It's a big battle,
but none of them have given confirmation yet.
Now let's just talk about this week.
We do have quite a few dramas that got wrapped.
And then dramas that have started.
Let's first talk about dramas that have wrapped, Thin Ice.
I think i've mentioned once before.
Bao Bing, Min Guo, Republic of China setting
espionage drama has just wrapped,
and they've released the first set of atmospherical posters
for all the major characters
led by Peng Guanying and Chen Yuqi
And it's gonna be a mango television drama,
and they're aiming at putting it out.
Next year, also, it's one of those rare dramas these days
when it starts to promote itself on its official account on weibo.
It doesn't list people in those ridiculous orders of like leading actors,
leading supporting actors,
leading special actors.
There are so many drama these days in China
in order not to offend fandom,
they would list all the actors.
It's still in order of importance,
but everybody has the title of leading
Everyone is a lead actor.
They just lead in different ways,
which is absolutely ridiculous.
And this drama you know just pick a different route
They literally at every actors account,
just the name like nobody has a title,
literally is a bulk of copy.
at this, at this person, at this person,
paragraph!
go figure who is the lead.
Cool,
I much appreciate that kind of attitude
does not give a shit to the ridiculous nature of
Entertainment business these days
immediately after this drama wrapped.
The lead actor Peng Guanying jumped into the next crew
and this week starting to fill the next drama,
a contemporary drama called Bai Se Cheng Bao, white castle.
The White Castle, judging by the name
You probably have guest correctly.
It's a medical drama.
And it's gonna be led by him, Tu Songyan, Gai Yuexi
And quite a few other actors
also Xiong Ziqi I think
he's not old, he's really young.
I don't know what he's done to his face.
Over the last couple of years.
He just keeps like how how, much injection.
Have you done to yourself?
why? like Why is it needed?
Then we also have a couple of other dramas that have started shooting.
Number one, Wun You Du, Ren Jialun fans out there
you have another period drama to look forward to
english title is The Demon Hunter's Romance
Another based on ip story led by him.
And Song Zuer
There's already kind of a feel of what they gonna look like
because on their opening ceremony,
they are already dressed up,
they probably are gonna go straight into shooting.
You can see what the male lead and female lead's
hairstyle roughly looks like and it's demon hunter,
So it's definitely gonna be fantastical, pretty, period.
Wondering if this time Ren Jialun is gonna get dubbed as well.
Let's see
also another period drama started shooting during this week
called Lian Hua Lou, English title The Lotus Casebook,
another ip based story
a Wu Xia, Jiang Hu, and also sort of like detective story mixed together
and it's a mainly led by men
obviously featuring female main characters,
but not as important as guys drama.
These three male leads are Cheng Yi
Zeng Shunxi, Xiao Shunyao
two people who are enemies,
they had a big fight,
and then they disappeared from jiangsu.
10 years later,
one of them comes back under the disguise of being a doctor
and get discovered by another person
and eventually the three guys come together and blah blah blah.
It's a Jiang Hu story.
If you're fan of either of those three guys or all of them
well Lucky You
now you have something to look forward to
also during this week a drama that's still in the making I think
has released their first set of official posters.
That is the period drama led by Xu Kai and Jing Tian
Le You Yuan, Wonderland of Love
in those posters, you can see all the main characters looks
and what they kind of look like on said within the story.
The styling is, okay,
not terrible.
But don't think it's very well done,
doesn't flatter. Basically.
The actors, for example, for the two leads,
I think they both had better stylings in other period dramas previously,
this one just looks very average.
Obviously, we have to wait till the actual drama comes out
to know What it's gonna look like
then during this week,
Mango television has roughly mentioned
what they kind of have plan for the summer holiday,
but none of the dramas they mentioned had an official set date
and they're all very small budget drama
led by people who are virtually unknown.
I hope at least one of those dramas will come out and be an unexpected success.
There is one that I find maybe hopeful called Xu Yan
The Evil Face
It's a two female leads story
in this story set up the two female leads
switched identity and their face
and married into two different families
and one married a prince, the other married general.
I do feel like maybe it's another Killer is Also Romantic
vibe thing going on
and because it's 2 female leads
let's hope it's a good watch.
I totally not look forward to masterpieces,
but if it's entertaining, it's great.
then just a couple of other things I caught this week
that made me you know have a lot of question marks over my head.
Number one is among the dramas that have wrapped,
there's actually one drama also wrappe d.
I didn't mention it earlier because I wanna leave it till the last
which is the remake of Shang Cuo Hua Jiao Jia Dui Lang
Wrong Carriage Right Groom
The remake of the early 2000s classic period idol drama
that was led by Huang Yi and Nie Yuan, and Li Lin
and back then were so popular.
I've mentioned this one before in my weekly, so this drama,
the remake official remake just wrapped during this week
and it looks
terriblyumpromising.
If nobody writes the name of the characters that the actors play on the side.
If you haven't heard about that,
you just look at the picture.
You can't imagine they were actually playing that character.
If you didn't know,
it's the remake of Shang Cuo Hua Jiao Jia Dui Lang,
You just look at the photo,
you would have no idea at all about that's it
Just the looks of things is just so far away
from the standard of the past, I mean before.
We had hd high definition
before all the material or hardware side of things
of industrial standards were much slower.
Somehow back then,
everything seems to be better.
Actors were better.
They were more suited to the roles
The styling artists are much better.
I mean that drama's styling artist is a legendary one
in chinese television history.
So you can't really compare that.
20 years later,
something like this.
History doesn't progress in a linear fashion
to wrap up today's video.
We're gonna quickly talk about something that happened during last week
while a drama went live and then get unanimously hated on china's internet,
which is The Legendary Life of the Queen Lau thing.
It's the costume that destroyed this roma's reputation and
it got, wow, carpeted on china's internet about being guilty,
literally like it has historical guilt now,
because it is true that the stylist pretty much
copied everything from japan's ancient costumes.
It's way too japanese to the point that
people just are super offended,
because of trailers tend to give you very short snippets of every scene
People didn't really see it clearly.
But now you actually see all the characters showing up
Like, what? What is that hat ?
like that never ever existed in chinese history, Ever
That's a totally japanese thing.
It's like a kimono exhibition.
I did turn it on for a bit.
trying to see if it's worth watching.
Like I said in the trailer, I hated the color palette
I still don't like it.
And then yeah the japanese part is just too pronounced.
Xing Han Can Lan, Lave Like Galaxy drama happens to
release its promotional material in its poster and in its trailer
with the main character stressed in costumes
that also has very strong japanese vibes
a couple of extremely easy to recognize style and things that only
exist in kimono in the japanese style,
particularly the knot tying of different belt.
That's just not a chinese thing at all.
Anyway. so Zhao Lusi has this costume that has this big ribbon
tie that on her back that is totally not chinese.
Because this drama the legendary life got so boycotted
galaxy got pulled out.
And also people started to attack this drama
and this drama hasn't aired yet immediately.
Tencent went to photoshop out all the knot on her back
on the posters and then in the drama.
In the trailer, at least people now can see
they are erasing that that japanese thing.
So i've heard that this drama decided overnight,
they're gonna go in and find all the shots that clearly shows that
not chinese thing
that clearly kimono thing, and they're gonna,
I don't know post production magic,
delete them all or if they can't
they're just kind of zoom in
So you are not gonna see the knot.
It's over 40 episodes drama and it's about to air in like what?
5 days.
Good luck.
It's like a lesson to to all the productions.
It's just funny that you would allow this kind of
clearly questionable and will get a lot of hate thing
happen to dramas
about chinese period drama is
we are yet to see a drama if it's set
okay if it's completely fantastic doesn't matter. I guess,
but then better if it's a chinese story don't
use other countries elements too much.
But if say it's set in a real time, whether it's Song dynasty,
Tang dynasty, Weijin, or like Han,
whatever time,
you decide your story is gonna be set
we are yet to see a drama that has done,
at least based on current archaeology study,
material categorizing that that can reflect the
in a way, at least a part of the essence of that time.
We are yet to see a drama that can claim itself have done extensive research.
I understand money, time,
all that expense and stuff.
and You have this type of drama showing up
that just like makes you go,
what are you doing?
and If you do that, you're kind of looking for trouble yourself.
So let's see if first galaxy drama is gonna
air on time and also once it starts airing,
let's just pay attention to the guy and the girl's,
belt and their ribbon,
the big tied knot,
whether it shows up,
if you realize like there have being a lot of unreasonably zoomed in shots.
That's probably because of this.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
hope you have a great weekend
for the Canadians.
yeah it's It's a weekend of celebration and holiday.
and Other places hope you're having a good summer slash winter,
depending on which side of the planet you're on
I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.