This is a rant video,
so it will have no structure,
and i'll just go with it.
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If you like the drama,
Yu Long, Miss the Dragon
exit now
because you're not gonna like what i'm going to talk about in this video.
And there's absolutely no need to voluntarily look for things
that will irritate you.
If you are still here,
then everything that happens to you due to
watching the rest of this video is on you.
Let's rant about.
Yu Long, Miss the Dragon
This drama aired very recently on Tencent
adaptation of a game within a game.
There was a game quite a while ago that actually got made into a drama already.
It talks about people who try to break through in the acting business.
Main character is an actor and one of the script they get.
This drama is based on the game script.
If that makes any sense,
yu long means encounter the dragon.
The original story is pretty simple
It's a girl encountering a dragon king
watch any chinese fantasy.
You should be pretty familiar with what it is.
They've made a drama
before that people have already edited fan videos.
That is putting different actors and actresses.
Performance in other dramas editing them together
and making their own version
Luo Yunxi and Zhao Liying
Yeah, were the two person that most people like to use
as their fan video of the meeting the dragon story.
Now we've got the actual production of the
drama that's led by Wang Hedi and Zhu Xudan.
And after watching a few episode,
most people would agree the fan made video actually much better.
I don't know how I sat through 4 episodes
and I don't care what happened afterward.
I don't care if the story got more interesting,
whatever
the beginning of the drama warranties
the fact that nobody should go and watch it.
It's not worth it
time of your life.
You're never gonna get back.
so I'm just gonna talk about the points that really annoyed me
in the first two episodes and everything Beyond that
I don't even wanna bother to jog down notes.
After the title song
We see a horse drawn carriage among a bamboo forest.
A group of people are on their journey and you see
there is a mark on the carriage that says, Xia
so it kind of shows this belongs to the Xia family
cuts into the carriage.
You see two girls and in their lines
they directly tell you,
one is the lady,
the other is the maid.
Because if they don't say that you can't tell,
there's literally no distinguishable mark to tell you.
One is the owner and the,
other is pretty much the slave.
The lady is called Xiahou Xue
So that's the first mistake the drama has made showing the
script writer knows nothing about culture and literature
and chinese whatever not qualified to be a script writer
because Xiahou is the surname, not xia
there are a couple
of double character surnames very ancient surnames that
are still in use today don't think many Xiahou are still here,
but ancient time we can agree Xiahou still exists.
So if this family is named Xiahou then on the horse drawn cart
it should be 夏侯 not 夏
pretty much the first 20 seconds showed me
that this drama is definitely not watchable
then the carriage got stopped suddenly and our lady
twisted her ankle while she's sitting in the car.
It's not going at a very high speed anyway,
and it's not a car crash in modern time.
I don't see how you can actually twist your
ankle while you're sitting in the carriage.
But anyway, the drama shows,
that she twisted her ankle and the people who stopped the
carriage are a group of people running away from a famine.
And they're famished and they ran into the
carriage and pointing is like I want your food.
So our female lead character who is the maid
Not the lady, hand out one dish of cakes,
whatever to that guy.
And without that guy actually requesting for more,
the female lead character is like
do you want more?
I'll give the rest of all the food we have in our carriage
to you without actually first asking the lady's permission,
maybe in this family household,
the lady actually doesn't have to say
it's the maid who's running it,
who knows
immediately afterwards,
our leading female character who is a maid told
another servant go and try to buy some egg, flour
wine or liquor from the surrounding villagers so that
I can make up something to treat my lady's twisted ankle.
ok
so you've just had a group of people who are running from a famine,
who are starved and who looked for food.
What are the possibilities of you being able to actually find some
peasants living around who actually has food in their household?
And it's only 2.5 minutes.
I've already pointed three things out that does not make sense.
And then she had this conversation while dressing the ankle with
her lady and said my biggest dream is to see a dragon one day.
And she looked up and there's a freaking dragon in the cloud.
WHY??!!!
I wanna see Tom Hiddleston
Can I just turn around and see him just standing there?
Do I not deserve that?
For the rest of this stuff
Let's just point out a few things that just ...&^%%*&^%
first you will see when they get home,
this maid our female character.
Liu ying has a huge,
well decorated private room.
Her bedroom is literally bigger than my entire place.
Every room added together and the
decoration is at the level of
an aristocratic lady.
The lady, she serves disappears.
It's all her,
like there's nobody else in this house, only her,
and she has her big room.
She doesn't take care of the lady's
hair or makeup,
help her dress or wash her stuff or do housework.
Like there's nothing she does as a maid
Where is that place?
I wanna go and apply for a job as a maid,
because clearly I get paid and I live in the extravagant
place and I don't have to do anything
while our maid's illogical story is progressing
all male lead
The dragon also needs to progress.
So he shows up in this place that is pretty much copied from a game,
but doesn't not matter
comes out of the water and then
turning into this white haired man that's played by Wang Hedi
And then he's told that if he wants to pass the heaven's,
a couple of days later,
this thunder strike test so that he could finally become a god,
he has to do something and he's like i'm gonna go and steal
this thing supposedly to be heavily guarded
Epically
It's the first time i've seen anything on chinese television fantasy
drama with a male lead who fights with his magic without doing anything.
His face does not have expression,
his eyes does not even move or change focus.
His body is stiff and just standing there.
He doesn't raise a hand.
He doesn't do anything, not even a blink.
He just stands there.
And when he gets wire work and pulled up in the sky,
he literally rises like a stick without moving any part of his body.
The cgi comes out of his body and kills his enemy.
*notes on screen
earning the money by standing there,
the laziest wire work.
Fighting scene i've ever seen in the history of drama making,
then our female lead side it doesn't get any better.
She somehow goes to the back mountain of their mansion,
which is a totally made up cgi plus a little bit.
Plasticky set making of a flower valley where everything is covered
by pink petals and the soil is literally like a milky sandy color,
naturally that kind of place would just not exist on earth.
It's so pretty and then they come across
The injured dragon who has turned into a white snake,
we can rant about the snake later,
but here the weird thing is the lady and maid saw the
snake and lady is like it's really pretty white snake.
If we don't save it it will die,
so Maid, go and pick the snake up.
And the maid is like but I was bitten by a snake when I was little
i'm afraid of snake and clearly the lady is not.
I'm like you are not afraid of snake clearly
and you think the white snake is pretty.
So why don't you go and get the snake yourself?
Why do you force your maid to get it?
when you know she hates snake
earlier parts of the story kind of showed us
that you two are more like sisters right?
You care about each other,
you don't really use her as your maid.
So why at this point you have to do that?
It does not make logical sense.
The only logical sense is because the script writer said
it has to be the female lead character getting the snake,
male lead and female lead
And then when you are afraid of snake and you have to pick it up,
natural thing is cut a piece of your cloth on your huge long,
I don't know sleeve and skirt and wrap it or just make a
make shift bag and
get the snake in and take it that way.
No, our female lead character who is afraid of snake literally
held the snake by her hands like that in her palms.
She puts the snake into a cage when the gap between
the poles is that much wider than the actual snake!
My hand.
It's red.
because I have done that to myself too many times filming this video.
I just feel like there's a huge insult on me as an audience watching this drama.
Later, you'll come across the plots such as the lady wants to go
to a temple for a few days and want to bring the maid with her.
And the maid refuses
says, I pick beds, if I sleep on a bed, that's not my bed,
I will lose sleep
You know me and the lady is like I know,
then you can stay at home and have fun.
I want that job ok?
Head hunters out there.
If you know a job like that,
tell me
I am the perfect person for it
and the purpose of that plot is
to leave the female lead character in the mansion
so that her story and dragon can continue.
And then there's one thing I really want to rant about
which is when you see how she interacts with that cgi snake and the
snake turns into the human form at night when they're sleeping
On the bed,
Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms
exact plot as Bai Qian's story
when she became Su Su in the human realm.
And then ye hua, as the black dragon got injured and got saved by her,
even the snake look at the same.
With two little things sticking out of their head.
The only difference is Ten Miles of Peach Blossom.
It's a black dragon turning into a black little snake,
and this is a white dragon turning into a white little sanke
Ironic thing is in TMPB
Zhu Xudan also played a character in that, Xuan Nv
who is a character who copies Bai Qian's face and everything
And then in Miss the Dragon
She's basically copying her boss's previous role in
another fantasy drama where she also actually play a role in
how can you term this?
reversed serendipity?
And honestly, I don't think anyone who has watched
the 10 miles drama would appreciate this.
And I don't think the actress probably would appreciate that either,
but who knows how they got signed to this drama
and why they took part in this production.
And then there are many other things that you can rant about this drama,
but honestly I don't wanna make this video unnecessarily long,
making my subtitling efforts that much more difficult.
In the first 4 episodes,
what I can see is this drama just doesn't know what it's doing.
Nothing make sense.
There's no logic working in any of the lines of the
characters and nobody showed what their motive, really is
probably only this female second like she's clear about
her motive which is just get rid of a mark on her forehead.
That's what she wants throughout the whole thing.
And that's why she does everything for
As for everybody else,
you have no idea as a character what they want.
And if this is a plotting character who has a lot of secrets
hidden and they have like many layers of motives.
That's fine.
You can review it later like most of the good story talents are,
but still at the beginning of the story,
you should let me know what every character is here for
why are they in the story?
Why are they necessary for your narrative?
And honestly this drama just just doesn't have that.
And everything that happens in this drama is just like
failing the most basic level of logic in any kind.
And I haven't even started to rant about aesthetics, which is really,
also very bad of this drama.
I have the feeling that this drama is totally made,
not for the purpose of actually telling a visual story,
whether they're making it for money,
which I don't see how
How do you sell this crap or
whether it's another $$ laundry effort,
which is very well known in the dramaland these days.
I don't know if for the particular case of Miss the Dragon
it is because of xxxx purpose that they made this drama,
but it could be, it could be 1 million other reasons that are just totally not because
Anyone wants to really make a drama,
but because by making a drama,
they can get something else.
It's just sad that this kind of things happen
at the end of the day,
I can still comfort myself at the fact that maybe the existence
of this kind of crappy production still has its purpose,
which is for AvenueX to make a rant video.
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