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clevermanka) wrote2019-03-04 01:49 pm
clevermanka) wrote2019-03-04 01:49 pm
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Guardian (the follow-up)
Perhaps alas, I'm tapping out on the Chinese supernatural drama Guardian. I really really wanted to love this show but I couldn't.
I thought the pretty could sustain me--seriously, this is like a CW show, everyone is young and outrageously beautiful*. And the two main actors are fucking magnetic. But attractiveness and slash-heavy subtext (episode 7 sure was...something) weren't sufficient to get me past the weak writing.
I was willing to overlook the cheap effects and marginal acting by secondary characters, but the tenth episode did me in (yes, ten episodes--I seriously gave this my all, y'all). The emotional impact depended on audience sympathy for a ghost (one of the secondary cast members), but since this was the first episode that gave her more than three speaking lines it was impossible for me to care. Seems like a small thing but on top of all the other writing failures it was the deciding factor for me to peace-out (also I spoiled myself for the series end when I was researching if I should continue watching and it...isn't an ending I would like).
I'm very sad about it because JFC just look at these two. The eye-fucking could almost be physically weighed, it's so heavy.
That will not stop me from reading these two fics rec'd bybeachlass and if anyone else has recs for this pair I won't turn them down.
*I can't link a Tumblr search, but if you search with the characters 镇魂 in the search line you will not be disappointed.
ETA: wtf, these two guys actually sing really well, too?
I thought the pretty could sustain me--seriously, this is like a CW show, everyone is young and outrageously beautiful*. And the two main actors are fucking magnetic. But attractiveness and slash-heavy subtext (episode 7 sure was...something) weren't sufficient to get me past the weak writing.
I was willing to overlook the cheap effects and marginal acting by secondary characters, but the tenth episode did me in (yes, ten episodes--I seriously gave this my all, y'all). The emotional impact depended on audience sympathy for a ghost (one of the secondary cast members), but since this was the first episode that gave her more than three speaking lines it was impossible for me to care. Seems like a small thing but on top of all the other writing failures it was the deciding factor for me to peace-out (also I spoiled myself for the series end when I was researching if I should continue watching and it...isn't an ending I would like).
I'm very sad about it because JFC just look at these two. The eye-fucking could almost be physically weighed, it's so heavy.
That will not stop me from reading these two fics rec'd by
beachlass and if anyone else has recs for this pair I won't turn them down. *I can't link a Tumblr search, but if you search with the characters 镇魂 in the search line you will not be disappointed.
ETA: wtf, these two guys actually sing really well, too?