Hello you're watching AvenueX and today let's rant about a recently finished airing chinese contemporary drama
from late May to now, really hasn't been that many good things going on in chinese dramaland
still though as someone who is so experienced in reviewing chinese dramas
AvenueX will always find a way to utilize even garbages
so today let's make fun of some crappy stuff and then get some laughter out of it.
The lucky drama that gets honored with this treatment from AvenueX will be the recently finished airing on the platform Tencent drama,
Zhao Liang Ni, A Date with the Future, led by Chen Weiting and Zhang Ruonan
A contemporary romantic drama of a journalist falls in love with a firefighter,
both professions in this drama will get decimated.
I have only watch the first 5 episodes and decided not to click open any of the future episodes
when you take a bite of something and you realize it's rotten,
you don't have to finish the whole plate to actually get that idea.
The first thing that made it absolutely painful to watch is actually one
of the supporting role played by the actor Ren Hao, in this drama
Some actors got dubbed some actors use their own voices
for certain actors they can't do it.
For example, the male lead actor Chen Weiting who is known for the years he's been around in dramaland that
he cannot do mandarin, he has such a heavy cantonese accent that if he speaks himself,
it will completely bring everybody out of the story.
Therefore he always gets dubbed and I understand that and I accept certain actors from hong kong
just can't quite do it, but Ren Hao is not a person like that.
He's from mainland china, wow, his mandarin has such a strong accent,
his regional accent that makes him sound different from everybody else in this drama.
And every time it's him talking, i'm out of the story.
I wanna somehow laugh. It starts to become a comedy and a bad one for me.
If that's only the auditory suffering that I got from watching this drama,
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Now, let's get back into ranting about visual pollutant.
I'll talk mainly about two things.
The first one is a very unprofessional depiction of the profession,
journalists and firefighters, completely sacrifice the basic integrity of these his professions
for the sake of telling a romantic story, for the poor journalist profession,
our female lead character completely decimates it with everything she does.
that is totally unprofessional, right from episode one you're gonna see her
when the firefighters have clearly set up a boundary and saying the site is too dangerous,
nobody is allowed to enter. She would still run into because her camera is left there.
I don't think you can argue even that it is your responsibility to keep your equipment safe
and get all the footages back, when firefighters are telling you clearly there's danger of that site.
And if you enter something happens, we have to come in risking our lives to save you.
It is your life, my life against the camera recorder and its tape.
Still though she runs into the site, the firefighter has to follow her and then something explodes.
And he has to take out the fireproof blanket to hide both of them under that explosion of fire.
And what do you think the camera crew, the directors decided to do with that scene?
Slow-mo, romantic music, while the fire is eating them up, and they're looking at each other
pink bubbles under fireproof blanket when there's an explosion,
I was literally gobsmacked by the unprofessional actions of the female lead
and why the drama decided to depicted in that stupid tropey chinese dramaland only romance matters way.
And that's only the begining, later you'll see a second iteration of this kind of action
when there is a huge wasp hive and the vipers come in trying to take it down.
They set up also this area where you should not enter.
She insisted, no, i'm a journalist therefore, it's my job. I will just enter.
She's an unprotected completely, holding her camera, walked right under the hive.
And what do you think will happen?
She gets stunned and she gets even more pink bubble afterwards,
because the male character offered some kind of medical balm to put on her stunned forehead.
and that makes her really happy and thinking the whole thing is really worthwhile to do.
Other ridiculous plot includes later she would go undercover into a skin care product making factory
based on a report she gets that they are doing things that are against the regulations.
And once she got in and found proof of that,
she is so dumb to the point that she wouldn't even bother to leave the vicinity.
She was literally inside the factory, in one of their workshop room
took out her phone directly and start to call and report to the health board.
This is a factory that's doing this right now wrong, and coming get some people in
you know like catch them in action. Obviously, she gets found out
and she gets chased to the roof and who is gonna come to rescue her firefighter male lead
Every action she takes in his drama is motivated by the fact that she wants this guy.
She wants him to fall in love with her. She wants him to be hers.
That's the only thing she cares about, everything else can be sacrificed.
I don't know how can you write a character like that in 2023.
So in a second category of ridiculous things happening in this drama,
let's concentrate on the female leads' 恋爱脑,
a brain that's completely saturated with romantic infatuation,
quickly telling you what's the background story of these two leads.
When she was a teenager, she was in a really bad earthquake,
the building she was in completely collapsed on her and she got buried under.
It was the male lead character who managed to find her and saved her
ever since then she developed this under extreme situations infactuation with this guy,
although apart from doing his job, pulling her out of the wreckage,
he really didn't do anything else much more beyond what he is supposed to do.
Still, though she's like imprinted on him and at that point, she decided,
no matter what happens in the future, i'm gonna grow up.
I'm gonna find you, and then we're gonna be together.
That makes a lot of sense.
So for the next 10 years, she decided what she studies will eventually serve a purpose
of working in close proximity to the male lead as a firefighter,
where which is a dog trainer as rescue teams would also need to train dogs.
And when they finally meet 10 years later,
when she runs into that site where she's not supposed to and meet the guy,
she's like my prayer is finally answered so that everything I do from now on is to get him.
Although the guy totally doesn't remember who she is and is quite weird it out by her advancement,
she would chase his fire took trying to resurrect his memory of 10 years ago.
When they left she was chasing their truck as well.
She would inject herself into the fire station under the excuse.
that from her television station stuff she's filming a documentary of the daily life of firefighters
voluntarily sit next to the guy when they're eating,
picking food out of his plate with her chopsticks
when they don't even know each other that well and the guy totally hasn't said anything about.
I'm interested in you. That is so plainly stalker, yet,
because she is the lovely female lead character, it's romantic.
The drama is trying to present that to you as a really lovely and cute thing to do.
Can you imagine if they switch the gender and if it's a man doing that to a woman,
it will be plain stalking and quite scary.
But somehow I don't know what's going on with chinese drama writer.
They think that writing a girl doing that to a guy is cute.
She thinks somehow she got saved by this guy when she was a teenager and that means a special connection
and that's totally not making sense because that's his job, he saved many people.
If he has to fall in love with everybody he saved, even if he lives 10,000 years, it's not gonna be enough.
Yet. She's totally double standard in this thing.
She is the only special one in this whole "got saved" relationship.
There's another girl who shows up in the first 5 episodes
when she actually also got saved by our male lead.
And she comes in and showing that she's interested in him
because he's good looking, and our female it will literally walk in blocking them
and say he already has future family relatives, which means herself.
So she's basically claiming him when he hasn't said anything about that.
and then she would took this girl to the side and educate her and preach to her.
The literal words would be you are someone who do not have your own opinion
saving you is his firefighter job.
I was like, yeah while saving you is also his job.
Why is this girl different than you?
A woman who only lives for a man has no charisma, attractiveness.
You have to love yourself before you love someone else
well that applies to you too.
And you're lecturing the other woman who has the same exact situation happening as you do.
But somehow you are better and it's totally valid that you fall in love with this guy.
Because he saved you, but the other woman cannot do it
completely not making sense double standard speech.
I cannot believe i'm watching the scene unfolding in a 2023 airing contemporary chinese drama
and to make the whole thing worse, to combine all the unprofessionalism, the love infatuated head,
and just like things not making any logical sense together,
there's an epic scene in the first 5 episodes,
where there's the big fire of an apartment building, our male lead and his team got in,
and he got trapped inside, and he is losing his oxygen and he is about to faint.
Our female lead is a journalist, okay, and she happens to be close to that site
and without showing you any process of how did she know where he is.
And then he is completely trapped and he's in danger or how did she get equipped
with a full firefighter gear? One scene she's still under there as a journalist.
And the next scene the guy is trapped up in the building.
Next scene she shows up fully dressed helmets, fireproof jackets, oxygen.
And she just shows up, how can she just locate this guy by magic in the whole fire world
and then grabbed him, gave him oxygen and just saved him.
And then the worst part is, after saving him,
they got onto this platform that's raised by a crane off the building,
taking them down, and there's water coming down, pouring on them,
and romantic music start to happen, the lyrics start to get typed out on the screen
and they are hugging each other under the man made waterfall
while the building over the apartment is burning right next to the water.
So the water that's just coming down like a waterfall is not hitting on the fire.
It is on them. If it's a daytime exterior shot,
it would have rainbows already.
And when I saw that happening, I'm like, this drama, I don't care what happens for the next 20/30 whatever episodes.
I'm not gonna watch any more of that.
Every other second I spend watching it will be an insult to my intelligence
and an insult to the profession of firefighters and journalists and every other profession this drama includes
and also every firefighters in the firefighter team that the male lead works in
whenever there's a scene of multiple people of this firefighter team sitting down
or doing their chores in the fire station, doing whatever, feeding cats.
The only thing they would be talking about is gossiping about the romantic relationship
of their team leader male lead and the journalist girl.
That's really based on real life hey !
A group of 20 or so young guys sit together and chat about another guy's romantic relationship all the time.
Shouldn't they be chatting about the latest game release, sports, boobs?
So this is another completely lifted in the air, not touching any ground,
not even making logical sense, romantic daydream infatuated story.
When will we see a day when such type of production cease to exist,
that will be the end of this ranting video from AvenueX,
hope you've had a good time listening to me talk about
the only thing that I can extract from crappy dramas you know
like make it into a joke.
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