Hi, welcome to the last but one video from AvenueX of 2021.
And this is the video of the most ridiculous
drama moments of AvenueX's pick this year.
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and occasional weird ideas.
on stories and how they're told.
I hope the end of the year rush hasn't made your life too difficult
today to lighten up your load of
living your 3D life.
I am going to offer you some of the most ridiculous moments
of AvenueX's pick coming from chinese dramaland this year
so that we can all laugh at it
and rant about it
and be happy.
Each of those moments will get their special awards
from AvenueX of how ridiculous they are.
And then I will also keep a record of which platform they come from.
At the end of the list,
I think the number will be very telling
the first moment coming from a super low budget web drama,
it aired at the end of april,
and it's an iqiyi drama.
Qi Miao de Ming Yun Ya
Wonderful Fate,
a story about a contemporary high school girl went through
a toilet and ended up on the other side of a manga book,
which is set in period timing.
The most ridiculous moment coming from this
drama happened right from the beginning,
4 minutes into it,
we see the emperor of that manga world
is being forced to marry a woman
from a very powerful political family that he doesn't want to marry.
So to stop that woman from offering herself to him.
He pulled out a dagger and then next shot
is in front of the palace door.
At night, the eunuch announced in crazy,
high pitched voice.
皇（圣）上自宫啦
he emperor has castrated himself,
yeah, that line did happen in a drama.
I don't think it happened ever in dramaland
I definitely don't see that happen in
Any other countries' drama.
So iqiyi definitely wins a point.
for this one line that you never expect will come
from any storytelling
second moment coming from the
unstoppable resource that offers us ranting points
for every chinese drama reviewer this year.
It is the Youku period drama,
Jun Jiu Ling
and this drama from moment one is worth
ranting about all the way through to the end.
and I picked the moment in episode one around minute 16
when our female lead woke up from a plastic surgery
that happened overnight and realized she had a totally different face.
It is completely healed and recovered overnight
and even her vocal chord gets changed
So this would be the golden magical moment from chinese dramaland
that beats 21st century surgical science and medical science.
It is such a pity that the old guy died immediately afterwards.
Had he been alive still today in our world.
He'd be the most wealthy plastic surgeon in this world.
The third moment also coming from a Youku period drama.
The nature of the ridiculousness of this moment has a
competition also on this category
called defy the rules of physics and make Newton jump out of his grave.
and it comes from none other than the incredible rant worthy drama
Feng Qi Ni Chang
Weaving A Tale of Love
led by Gu Li Na Zha and Xu Weizhou
And i've also made a rant video on it.
The moment comes from episode 18,
and it happens in different time code
one is at minute 25.
You see the first part of the scene
And around minute 30,
you see the second part of the scene
and the real juicy part happened.
In the second part of the scene where our male lead jumped on
a horse to save the crown prince who is also on the horse,
they galloped towards a cliff and fell off
the two guy on the back of a horse.
They don't flip around in air.
They just fall very steadily,
still sitting on the horse.
I don't know how that's manageable, but they did it.
and then they kick the horse off and grabbed onto a tree.
What did the horse do wrong?
And the cg green screen of that scene is also horrendous to look at.
It is the most epic falling down the cliff scene i've seen this year.
I struggled between this one and Long Ballad's Chang Ge
falling down the bridge while she is also on the horseback.
And then she becomes
comic
after thinking about it hard.
I think two guys on the back of the horse and falling down while
they're still on the back of the horse is more insulting to
Issace Newton and every human being who lives on this planet.
Therefore, the moment ends up on my list.
Coming right up is another moment that defies gravity,
which comes from a drama that hardly anybody is watching.
It aired very recently.
And honestly,
I didn't really wanna watch it,
but I had to go in and check out this incredible moment because it's
everywhere on china's internet about just how ridiculous it is.
And I went to check it out and it really is ridiculous.
It comes from a contemporary drama that's being aired on Tencent called
Wo Shi Sui Yue NI Shi XIng Chen
I'm the Years and You Are the Star
does not make sense at all, but hey,
does not matter either.
There is a falling down,
not a cliff,
but a roof of a tall building scene
that pushed this whole plot of
falling down from heights of dramaland to a new level
episode five around minute 18
our female lead is on the rooftop of a hospital
with a crazy doctor
who grabbed onto her and threw her off the roof.
She grabbed onto the edge of the building,
and then managed to not fall down.
You see it from a side of that shot of how much force she has to endure when
she grabbed on and hit on the side of the building and nor falling down.
Immediately, next shot is a close up of her head,
sticking out, half of her head on the top of the building
when she's just holding it with her fingers like that.
So basically,
she went from hanging on the building to,
and there's not any sign of strain of her muscle.
When she's doing that,
she just sticks out of her head and look at the roof and say somebody help me.
Even a really, super strong guy of their upper body.
It will be hard for them to do that all the way.
Certainly they will be all read and sweating and
veins popping out of their head or something.
She looks very relaxed and happy while she was doing that.
And she was clearly not standing on anything.
Then the male lead comes in to her rescue
as she falls down.
He jumps,
and he ends up like below her,
because we can explain that with he had a starting speed of jumping out.
But then the way he grabbed onto her,
and they fall off a couple of storeys which should end in less than a second.
Physical speaking
is being pulled so long.
On camera, slow-mo happened
romantic music showed up,
start to swell,
and this guy dies.
And then because he doesn't die,
that's like the setting of it.
He stand end up like a zombie.
I highly recommend you go and check out,
just that one sequence.
You probably will stay
like this.
All the way through
it is so funny and ridiculous.
It will make your day if you're not happy and you will
laugh so loud that suddenly life feels brighter.
Then let's move on to our 5th ridiculous moment,
which I would call absolute insulting on average audiences'
intelligence and common sense moment that
happened to yet another Tencent drama,
contemporary drama called
Cute Programmer.
Cheng Xu Yuan Na Me Ke AI
when you hear me talk about the title of the drama
if you have watched the drama
you know what i'm gonna rant about.
Yes,
a contemporary 21st century woman dresses up
as a man goes into a company to get a job.
And nobody discovered that
the entire premise of this whole thing is absolutely insulting,
but i'll pick one moment out of the whole thing
which happened in episode 2 minute 15.
When our female lead supposedly dressed up
as a guy which she only did with short hair,
and a very baggy shirt.
That's all okay
she still has freaking mascara on,
and then she didn't even disguise her voice.
She still sounds like a woman.
She goes to the HR of this company and says I have come
here to report to start working and HR lady, the moment.
She noticed how "good looking" she/he is.
The HR breaks all the rules and our female lead because she has
to offer her id card to get registered for working at a company,
but her card says she's a woman,
so she holds the card out to that lady.
But with the information side facing herself and then not giving that to her,
they just start to do this pull and the HR lady thought
that the “guy” is just teasing with her and having fun
and she enjoyed it immensely.
Then our female lead goes.
My card has just recently expired.
I'll go and get a new one.
and the HR goes like
gobsmacked by the good lookingness of this main character.
And she just said, ok
when you get it, don't forget to give it to me.
And then she passes all the procedures of actually
getting registered at this company and start working.
Who wrote that?
And if they wrote that when they went on set
to film that
what happened to the director?
did the director has no brain?
What happened to the actors?
Did they not notice what they're doing is absolutely ridiculous?
Why doesn't censorship stop this kind of plot?
Isn't that more worth censoring than
you can't have a policeman as a murderer?
I don't understand how these things work.
It baffles me.
It pushes the limit of my understanding of human logic,
but it did happen.
It happened in chinese dramaland it's from Tencent.
Are you surprised?
Then the 6th moment comes from a drama that got aired on all three platforms.
So what can I say
all of you will get a point
Wo De Kan Jia Nv Wang, My Bargain Queen,
counting the opening titles song in
3 minutes into this drama,
you get the first male and female lead.
Bi Dong scene
the guy pushes the girl onto the wall.
overbearing ceo classic scene,
they were just standing at a bus stop
under the canopy from the rain
And a car just drives by, splash and the guy
Shield the girl from the water.
But instead of pull her around or just you know just just do this,
he turns around and pushed her to the wall of the bus stop
and got so close that it's like he's
trying to kiss her.
And then his assistant just happen to walk by
and saw that and romantic music and slow-mo
And i'm like what the f is that ?
this moment will get the award of
how to turn away your audiences fastest and make them feel disgusted.
7th moment also coming from a youku drama.
She Wo QI Shui, Go into Your Heart
i've made a video ranting about it.
So if you're interested,
you can check out for more details.
And I actually spoiled for choices in terms of
how many ridiculous moments this drama has.
And then out of their own competition,
I i picked the one with
QR code,
it is the most insulting to actually hard working,
but super clever people on planet earth award winner moment.
Our mail lead was exposed to our female lead's
wechat account QR code for like less than a second,
because she showed it literally to him for like less than
a second before a call came in and then changed the screen.
That night when he got home,
he was like
I should still add the girl on,
but I need the QR code,
I remember it,
I need to recreate it.
And I happen to be a Go player.
I have a digital system,
projector screen of doing that.
So I just use white and black and white and black stone
and recreated the QR code out of my 1 second exposure memory.
And and I scanned it,
it's her account success.
If the director,
the script writer and the actors,
all of them have no problem with the logic and the practice of making.
A scene like that
that says a lot.
And there's no more I can say about this drama
do not go and watch this drama would be my recommendation.
The 8th one also comes from the platform youku,
unfortunately says a lot about the platform.
It is the they themselves highly anticipated would perform well
but didn't do well at all and got really really laughed at drama.
Shi Er Tan, 12 Legends
led by Na Zha a fantasy drama
that has little unit story made up as its content.
Honestly, I haven't watched much of it,
but I did watch the first couple of episodes.
And ~~ ~~
I saw enough weird things in those minutes, episode one,
only 6 minutes and 20 into it.
So if you wanna watch it,
but only just wanna watch that scene
It comes to you very soon after you switch it on,
which is the worst cg moment of chinese dramaland of 2021.
Basically for that moment,
we see a mermaid sitting on the rock in front of an open ocean.
Then a merman comes in,
the mermaid herself looks not so bad with her tail and everything.
Just her makeup looks really *&^&^
The guy came in and it got weird.
He jumped out of the water with a human body and cg fish tail.
And it's the worst hard rubber like cgi i've ever seen.
And the way that the fish had to land on the rock
beside the mermaid with the way the actor wiggles his body,
and then sit down on the hard rubber,
looking like cg tail is
wow
eye openingly bad and embarrassing.
You have to go and watch it in motion.
I don't put it on here because copyright issues,
but oh my god
if you happen to be a teacher teaching 3d graphics,
you know this would be the perfect case to show it to your students
and tell them don't do it and probably make everybody laugh a lot.
Then the 9th moment coming back to Tencent and it
will get the award of the laziest wire work award.
And you already know after i've said that
it is none other than the epic fantasy drama,
Yu Long, Miss the Dragon
I also did an individual ranting video on it and since i've
already told you it's wirework you know which scene it is,
I can lift up in the air without moving a muscle.
And that's just because I have magic.
The male lead actor literally started a new type of wire work,
which is standstill as a stone and
rise up in the air as an elevator.
Honestly, why do you even bother to use wire?
If you're gonna do it that way
might as well just
don't do it,
just let him stand there.
What's the difference?
Why?
What's the point?
I don't understand like since when this has become acceptable, but
2021 magical year of drama land.
Finally we arrived at the 10th moment,
the worst moment of Chinese drama land of 2021 of my picking,
which is how you should not do adaptation,
adding shit,
to original delicious food and ruin everything.
It's also a Tencent drama,
adding shit,
adding pee
literally,
you know what it is already, hey,
the latest adaptation of Jin Yong's Wu Xia Novel
TIan Long Ba Bu
(Demi Gods Semi Devils)
doesn't matter how you translate that,
you know which one it is.
This drama just has so many worth ranting about points,
but the one i've picked for today's video would be episode 12 around minute.
5 and 50 second
Duan Yu meeting Wang Yuyan for the first time,
every adaptation drama of Tian Long Ba Bu previously would put a lot of focus
on this particular moment and film it in the best romantic pretty way,
because it is a defining moment of two of
the most important characters of this story and...
what did this one do?
It made Duan Yu pee
in front of his goddess.
Why?
As he got dragged away,
the camera pans down and reviews on the path.
There's a pool of pee he just left.
there
Didn't happen in original novel and totally
doesn't make sense for Duan Yu
because he's a Prince.
Can you understand that he's a Prince?
He would never do that.
He would die before he do that.
And what's the point of peeing in front of the woman you love?
Like doesn't the show that you &^^%*&^
why?!
and you know what？
Because everybody ranted about this moment,
this drama cut it out.
Now, if you go on Tencent and
go on that episode and click at that moment,
the shot stops
right before it's gonna pan down
and then it cuts to the next scene
and you don't see the pool of pee,
but internet has memories.
Everybody has already seen the pool of pee
so you cannot run from the pool of pee
It's embarrassing, it's disgusting, it's stupid,
has no point of being there.
It is insulting and had Jin Yong still be alive.
Today he would probably go and murder the entire crew
or maybe going dark web and higher an assassin.
It's even more baffling than the emperor has castrated himself
what is going on with the lower part of your body that you
just can't control these days hey2021,
Chinese entertainment 2021,
a lot of things happened about you cannot control the lower half of your body
So that should conclude AvenueX's pick
list of the most ridiculous drama moments.
Coming from Chinese dramaland of 2021,
I hope you've had a good time.
And if you have to make such a list,
what would be the choices on your plate
do let me know if you have even more exciting ones.
Like I said, I don't watch every drama that came out of China every year.
And then among the ones i've watched,
I do tend to forget a lot of it,
because how much I have to watch all the time.
So the ones that makes their way to the surface of
my memories may have more to do with my own psyche than say
the nature of how ridiculous they are themselves.
That should conclude this video.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I have another coming up Thursday,
and then that would be the last one of 2021.
Hope everything is going on well
And i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching
or ranting
做人嘛，最重要的是要开心啊 Being a human, most important thing is to be happy （TVB classic line)