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extrapenguin) wrote2020-01-30 10:58 pm
extrapenguin) wrote2020-01-30 10:58 pm
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Fairyland Lovers
Okay, I've now watched 16 episodes (one month in-universe) of Fairyland Lovers, and while it is ... Twuu Wuv: The Show (same-sex couples? never heard), it's remarkably funny! Okay, part of that is me finding the "woman trips, man catches her by the waist, there is slo-mo and peach blossoms spontaneously appear" signaling utterly hilarious, but it does have a fair number of comedy moments intentionally put in!
The main het couple consists of: Bai Qi, spirit (dude possessed by green energy from space aliens) who has not gone the spirit -> evil spirit route, but instead stayed a spirit and uses the power of his late beloved space alien's peach bush to cure other spirits, and Lin Xia, normal human reincarnation(?) of the beloved space alien who's also a small-time actress, good at martial arts, and really fucking annoying. *g*
Okay, they started off as equivalently annoying at each other, then improved around episode 10, then the annoyance came back due to the Romantic Noncommunication (in which they both such at talking about things in a mature way, though with ep 16 it seems to have improved marginally). They stay at roughly the same level of annoyance/immaturity, which makes it more tolerable to watch. On the non-ship level, I greatly enjoy seeing Bai Qi be competent and fix things, while Lin Xia doesn't have similar solo appeal.
The secondary het couple (less official, but it's so damn telegraphed that it's inevitable; subtle in the romance this show is not) is heavenly soldier (space alien part of space alien group sent to kill all spirits) Yang Jian and big name actress Xiaoxiao. I actually expected to dislike Xiaoxiao, since she's a touch stuck up, but then five minutes into her appearance she went all "You know what I hate more than incompetent colleagues? Men who bully little girls" and my opinion changed completely. She's still all shallow, but hey.
As for Yang Jian ... he brought a bicycle to a car chase! I love him for that. He's a fish out of water, he's painfully literal, he has a stone face, and while it takes him a while to figure out that maybe his approach of murdering these curable people is wrong and Bai Qi isn't a horrible evil being, he does get there! (And speaking of autism rep: yeah. Definitely a case of a character who's not meant to be autistic but hits the rep buttons much better than any official autism representation I've seen. See also: classic hard SF.)
It's not high cinema and it's supremely hetero-tropey, but it's entertaining. My main reasons for watching are seeing all the cases of the week get happy/happier endings, plus the competence porn from Bai Qi. (He also looks dapper in his suits.) Yang Jian's reformation arc is nice, to watch, too. And I'm a sucker for people caring for fish out of water and the fish being loved even if they're aliens/demons/spirits.
The main het couple consists of: Bai Qi, spirit (dude possessed by green energy from space aliens) who has not gone the spirit -> evil spirit route, but instead stayed a spirit and uses the power of his late beloved space alien's peach bush to cure other spirits, and Lin Xia, normal human reincarnation(?) of the beloved space alien who's also a small-time actress, good at martial arts, and really fucking annoying. *g*
Okay, they started off as equivalently annoying at each other, then improved around episode 10, then the annoyance came back due to the Romantic Noncommunication (in which they both such at talking about things in a mature way, though with ep 16 it seems to have improved marginally). They stay at roughly the same level of annoyance/immaturity, which makes it more tolerable to watch. On the non-ship level, I greatly enjoy seeing Bai Qi be competent and fix things, while Lin Xia doesn't have similar solo appeal.
The secondary het couple (less official, but it's so damn telegraphed that it's inevitable; subtle in the romance this show is not) is heavenly soldier (space alien part of space alien group sent to kill all spirits) Yang Jian and big name actress Xiaoxiao. I actually expected to dislike Xiaoxiao, since she's a touch stuck up, but then five minutes into her appearance she went all "You know what I hate more than incompetent colleagues? Men who bully little girls" and my opinion changed completely. She's still all shallow, but hey.
As for Yang Jian ... he brought a bicycle to a car chase! I love him for that. He's a fish out of water, he's painfully literal, he has a stone face, and while it takes him a while to figure out that maybe his approach of murdering these curable people is wrong and Bai Qi isn't a horrible evil being, he does get there! (And speaking of autism rep: yeah. Definitely a case of a character who's not meant to be autistic but hits the rep buttons much better than any official autism representation I've seen. See also: classic hard SF.)
It's not high cinema and it's supremely hetero-tropey, but it's entertaining. My main reasons for watching are seeing all the cases of the week get happy/happier endings, plus the competence porn from Bai Qi. (He also looks dapper in his suits.) Yang Jian's reformation arc is nice, to watch, too. And I'm a sucker for people caring for fish out of water and the fish being loved even if they're aliens/demons/spirits.