Hello, dear viewers of AvenueX
We have finished, officially, the first half of 2021.
What do you think
about what we've seen so far?
Today?
I'm making this video talking about a couple of dramas
i've given up along the way in the first half of 2021.
By no means saying their dramas that do not deserve attention.
I know some people love them very much
and I gave up on them for very sometimes
ridiculous reasons.
And I really welcome everybody to leave a comment.
What are the dramas or what is the drama depending
on how many dramas you watched
that you've given up.
So far this year,
first I wanna talk about the drama,
li ge xing,
Court Lady led by Xu Kai and Li Yitong
aired on iQiyi 55 episodes set in Tang dynasty.
The drama has something that's really, really well done.
costume
prop, sets.
And it has some of the best, i'd say,
Tang dynasty costumes
very pretty highly refined and parts of that really based on history.
So that department is one of the best i've seen this year in period dramaland
but can you guess how many episodes did it take me to quit it?
2
I've briefly mentioned one of the things I don't like about this drama.
In another video,
i've done about other dramas that is to do with the earlier plot
of how the female lead character sort of set up her future husband's
family and not marrying him, but still get the money.
I think it's questionable.
It may not be so morally despicable because
the guy is also a jerk and a really bad guy.
So she's kind of like get back on him,
but that's not the reason I gave up on this drama.
The reason I gave up on Li Ge Xing, Court Lady
you would not be able to imagine why
is the BGM
have you noticeda
a lot of the period dramas coming out of Yu Zheng's company these days
With the style that looks very "Gao Ji (高级)" classy, has the
infestation problem of bgm going on all the time,
45 minutes of an episode.
The music is on for 40 minutes
cueing the audience.
Now you should feel sad, happy, angry.
The music sounds like a verbal cue.
It's literally like using words to tell you.
Now audiences,
this is what we write this.
plot for, you should feel happy.
So we put the music that will let you feel that way.
And I don't like the particular style of music.
With this add on top.
I got so annoyed
by episode two when it finishes, I'lm like, goodbye.
I cannot stand 55 episodes of this audio annoyance
that is almost the production,
telling me you audiences are too stupid to figure out what
kind of emotion you should be feeling at this point.
So we literally throw music at you
that is very unnecessary.
It's the first time I thinking in any dramas that I had such a
strong reaction of the annoyance the bgm provided me
Wondering if there are people out there
like me reacted to this drama this way.
Next one,
Yi Bu Xiao Xin Jian Dao Ai (Please Feel at East Mr Ling)
led by Liu Te and Zhao Lusi
This drama is probably looking at my four dramas on the list,
most embarrassing one,
the stupid writing just put me off.
I didn't even care about the acting.
It's just the writing of everything is filled with troppy bad
writing of contemporary chinese romantic dramas
like the male lead
shows up possible future air of a big company
and how funny that conference scene is,
the guy is like showing the presentation and he picked
one problem of the coding
yeah...that works in reality,
really just to show off the male lead is ...how clever
That part is just too ridiculous.
And then his car has an accident and he tumbles
down the cliff and falls into the ocean.
And then it's night that he managed to climb up
by the point that plot happens.
And then the female lead's motorcycle kind of runs into him.
I've given up on the drama
But I still continued watching and I saw she got accidentally
bumpped and kissed male lead when they are in hospital.
And then later when they got to her apartment,
supposedly she's like not really rich and poor,
but her problem looks good.
And he just lives there not so long after he's
inability to deal with water flooded her apartment.
They are not on the ground floor.
There's floor one underneath them.
I don't know.
Didn't anybody run up and just try to kill our male lead?
By that point it should have been leaking like crazy.
Is it possible to keep that much water in an apartment where
it can leak out of the door and then go down the stairs?
she decided the first thing she needs to do is to put a
set of headphones on the guy's head because he's scared of water,
I don't know what happened later to the characters in this drama.
I don't think it deserves my attention.
Then.
There is a drama that's called Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard
led by Xing Fei and Ren Jialun
that drama I watched to about episode eight or ten.
So the first day when it went out, the first week,
it usually airs about eight ten episodes.
I think i've watched the first week's stuff
and decided not to continue,
not because it offends me in any way
or because it's super bad,
it is a relatively speaking acceptable,
contemporary romantic drama.
But by the point,
when it was like 8 or 10 episodes,
I still didn't feel.
I was pulled into their story.
I don't quite care about the characters' life.
I don't find it's...
In any way exciting, I know the guy has a robotic heart,
so that's kind of the selling point of the drama and he ends up being
able to electricute people that makes a lot of sense like a pikachu
But apart from that what is so special about this drama?
Really
there isn't much
it's a very no high light drama and
neither has like super good comedy nor very unusual plot twist.
None of that.
It is actually very forgetable
So after I watched the first week,
I didn't go back the second week and
then I totally forgot about its existence.
And there's one point while I was watching the drama that
kind of put its ratings at the place where I was like.
This is not gonna be a great drama,
it's just gonna be a very normal standard.
Contemporary drama is, again,
the female lead's apartment.
She lost her parents when she was young,
so she was brought up by her aunt and her aunt is quite
financially restricted as right from the beginning.
It will tell you that she saves money, she earns money,
she's really proud of getting money.
her, her aunt and her grandma.
They're not rich yet,
the place that they rent holy moly
it's not a place that you can afford if you're not very well doing.
I'm just saying
so that immediately destroys the believability
of the setup of the characters and everything that happens later.
I just wouldn't wanna take it seriously.
Then the final one is,
unfortunately,
Ai Shang Te ZHong Bing
My Dear Guardian
led by Li Qin and Huang Jingyu
This is also on iQIyi drama
45 episodes.
I've been talking about this drama since it was filming last year many times,
and i've also heard people talking about the later
episodes kind of got more reasonable and less
weird as it's earlier episode.
But the earlier episode are so hard for me to sit through.
So there's no way for me to enjoy the later episodes.
Really, even if it got better,
the reason that I quit after watching,
I think also the first 2 episodes,
it's very floaty
It's a super, super floaty drama.
The characters are not real people like
and because of their profession
and the setup in this drama, what they do, what they say,
the environment they're in
everything feels
so beautify or dramatized or idolized.
It just doesn't read like a real story,
the epic and very famous and everybody
rant about tie the female lead onto,
the pole with her doctor's white coat scene
And while that was happening,
the romantic music oozes
and it's not romantic.
These two hardly know each other.
And the guy is literally using brutal physical
force to overcome her, and make her embarrassed.
And you put like a romantic music going on,
what is the... what is going on in the producer's mind?
I'm just saying or the writer's mind,
are you trying to say this is like a beautiful scene?
It's a romantic scene
And if you're a girl,
you got treated by a guy like that,
you should feel
bubbly in your
heart
So this type of thing really put me off.
First episode they were on foreign land.
And then later when they got back to china and they got put
together in the guy's apartment because both of their mother
know each other and they kind of try to put them together,
but what kind of mother would make your
unmarried daughter live in a guy's apartment?
And also the guy is like a super strong, like huge,
muscly big guy,
like he can literally smack her and then just destroy her on spot
I don't see how it gets practice in China
Unless the two families literally are always stuck together,
and they're more like relatives than friends and the two people,
the girl and the boy know each other like
inside out for years and years in their life.
But then if it's at that point and they're still not together,
that means they're more like relatives than
lovers and they will never get together.
And Li QIn
When she's doing laundry,
she talks to herself and she has Lu Xiaokui's energy.
So i'm gonna do this, i'm gonna be fine.
I can do this.
Nobody is watching you girl, what are you doing?
Not saying humans cannot talk to themselves.
I do that all the time,
but I usually do it for reasons like i'm practicing
the video i'm gonna make, for example, beforehand.
I talk to myself while I was sitting down
in front of my desk or cooking stuff,
but really when you're doing laundry,
and suddenly you just decided to start to act to yourself.
I know it's exposition to the audience,
but it's called lazy writing
it's because the writer couldn't
make it justified in the actions, in the behaviors,
in the meaningful plot of the drama.
Therefore they make the freaking character stand there
just say things out.
I didn't watch it very carefully
4 or 5 episodes.
I kind of skipped
first 2 watched
And then the next couple I skipped quite a lot,
but I do remember there's a point when she's in the
hospital and then there's a boy that's played by Han Haolin
I think that's why I watched it because I want to see the boy.
The kid who has a problem with his heart,
Li Qin's role is the resident doctor who
thought it might be a very rare problem,
but then the doctor who is in charge of this case wouldn't listen to her.
Basically, it's like you're inexperienced
you're a young doctor
who are you to tell me
what to do with his surgery plan or whatever?
I just don't like that kind of depiction of cardiologist.
My mother is exactly the type of doctor that she is not agreeing with
and then treating her really badly
honestly in a working environment.
In the hospital, the safety and the health
of the patients always come first.
Doctors will not just disregard possibility that may
have actually big implication of somebody's life
just because they think the other doctor is too young to offer their opinion.
So that part also just made me a little bit... cringing
Chinese doctor dramas.
99% of the time would not make me very happy,
all those things considered I didn't continue to watching this drama
then there are other dramas such as the QIn Hao's drama
hunting (Hunters) that I didn't stick through because it's boring
in my opinion,
but this cinematography is still the BEST
Cao Dun
really shouldn't be a director,
he should just be a cinematographer and he will do the best
cinematography
(The longest day in Chang'an) and this (Hunters) too
He just doesn't know how to control narrative pacing and story telling.
So I quit that drama and then they're more
the one that's recently just aired.
I looked at it and I was yeah, it's too old,
it's 5 years old drama you really can tell
The Hai Shang Fan Hua
zhang yunlong, li qing
I looked at like the first three episode
I'm like ...no
and then I skipped to episode six because that's the episode when our second
male lead character died and it's by zhang yun long.
So I really like him.
So I watched that bit,
but I was like, it's so not realistic
landslide that killed people,
some very random smears of dirt on your face and everything else perfect hair,
perfect clothing and you like they tell you like this guy.
died in a landslide.
I'm like, goodbye,
there are more i'm not gonna mention them
name by name, 1 by 1, there are too many
So I have given up on many dramas,
i've watched many more dramas.
My life is drama,
hopefully it's just drama filled,
not dramatic,
I love peace and quiet much more.
So that would be me sharing the dramas that I have given up on
for my reasons.
Some of them super personal,
some of them.
I think most people would agree with me.
One of them might be your favorite.
You can talk about that all you like in a common section
that's all fine
just be civil to each other and understand that
it's totally my personal opinion.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy.
Drama watching.