Death Be Upon Ai Art

Death be upon ai art

Reblog to make it die faster

Have you ever licked a button battery?

the axe forgets but the tree remembers

I'm seeing mysterious lotus casebook being hyped so much because it's queer coded and so similar yet so different to nirvana in fire (which I love) and it's even rated 9.0 on mdl?

Don't get me wrong, I loved it, Rain Wang/Wang Herun was so good as the saintess, the main trio was amazing, choreography also was on point

However I do feel its been a bit overhyped and overrated and it has plenty of room for improvement so this post will focus on the negative points of what was a great c drama

(mild spoilers ahead, read at your own risk but this post is late so most of you might have seen it already?)

One of the things I (and my sister who I watched it with) really disliked was how the saintess got people to do things for her purely because she's hot? Like I get it fits the unrealistic and exaggerated nature of the wuxia genre but also? It's just a terrible trope? Maybe I'm biased because ace spec but it feels so cheap and wrong? It just doesn't make sense to me at all

Another thing was the entire character of Di Feisheng was so slept on? His personality and motivations were explored only on a surface level and despite his and Li Lianhua/Li Xiangyi's relationship dynamics being arguably the most interesting it was pushed aside in favour on focusing on the relationship between Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua/Li Xiangyi (which I must admit I loved their dynamic but still)

I also felt the characters of Qiao Wanmian and Xiao Zijin were boring and off putting, I felt the way they were written was so horribly predictable and unoriginal, like of course girl can't properly get over the MC despite it being 10 years? And of course the 'love rival' of the MC has to be a bad guy? Ugh

And then to the plot - the murder cases were interesting but didn't invite the audience to join in at all as Li Lianhua/Li Xiangyi always spouts out another random obscure martial art technique that does weird things to put the pieces together, also the entire treasure hunt type thing didn't exactly help the plot stand out from any other wuxia

The main villains were again one dimensional and not given the chance for development, the saintess in particular I disliked at the start because it seemed it was all out of her 'love' (obsession) with Di Feisheng (may I mention no reason is given for the obsession part? she's just crazy for no reason?), although she got better when she became power hungry as well so at least it's not her only motive?

Also I do wish we got to see more of the trio found family dynamics and more of how the trio as a whole develops but that might just be because I'm a sucker for the found family trope?

Anyway for these reasons I feel like it wasn't exactly deserving of all the hype I felt it was getting, maybe an 8.5 on mdl fits better? Of course this is just my personal subjective opinion so yeah

Feel free to ask me any questions :)

One character I loved in Arcane besides Jinx/Powder is Silco. He is a flawed character that isn’t good or evil but a complex grey character. Two things I best see it in is his relationship with Jinx/Powder and Zaun. While their relationship was somewhat toxic their care for each other was genuine. But their relationship was toxic nonetheless with Silco seeing Jinx as a younger him and pushing his trauma onto her. He enabled and manipulated her violent and unstable behaviors instead of helping her which is understandable considering he himself never healed from his trauma. Because Silco saw Jinx as a younger him he pushed what he needed onto Jinx not thinking that they were 2 different people in different but somewhat similar situations. With Zaun he does care for it because he grew up in it and wants better for but he pumps shimmer into it poisoning the people creating deformed addicts to bring him money. But after all of the years work and blood he put into Zaun’s independence he was willing to give it up for Jinx. Even after Jinx shot him and gave him a fatal wound he comforted her saying he wouldn’t give her up for anything and called her perfect even with her mental instability and violent tendencies. Their affection with each other was uncomfortable for people watching because of their trauma and Jinx still thinking like a little girl wanting affection from who she thought of as a father with no sense of boundaries. Silco did come to genuinely love Jinx like a daughter but he was still a bad father to her with the only reason why Silco spared Jinx is because he saw she could be of use to him and again he saw himself in her. He saw weapon he could groom to help him get Zaun’s independence that he later come to love.

Have you ever considered cubes?

Like biblically?

All I can think about is cubits now and this is your fault

Shout out to chengling, man couldn't catch a break throughout the entire thing

I would have suicided long ago in his place so props to him