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#I've lost some braincells from reading the second comment
theinfinitedivides · 3 months
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this is so random but i would love to hear your opinion on mydramalist as a fellow asian drama lover. because it’s obviously well known as a reliable wiki of sorts in dramaland but i beg to differ. (the only plus i feel being the summary and cast list for info)
i mean, i’ve not seen a single comsec w more than two brain cells as a whole? there’s always complaints about female leads rooted from misogyny, they are never happy about story progression, and i just find so many of them kinda dumb sorry lol. like zero media literacy to be found, insufferable arguments, etc. the star ratings are rly just given to popular dramas w high profile actors too.
and i personally find it disheartening that so many ppl end up referring to mdl when considering dramas because so many gems are then lost and not given appreciation.
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anon. anon anon anon if you know the way i sat straight the f*ck up when i saw the notification and then read through this ask bc yes. yes to everything here that is exactly it. almost three fourths of what i've watched this year was either 1. not received well by the general MDL crowd (Moon in the Day. where is the taste brethren to not like MITD and not even for reasons that actually make sense), 2. received well but had a good chunk of people bitching in the comment section, or 3. received well but had the main point of the show (and its relevant characterization) go over their heads. (The Worst of Evil aka TWOE comment section, i am f*cking looking at you. i can count on one hand the number of people who understood what that show was supposed to be about) the one fourth that managed to escape was bc the toxicity did not reach the comment section and everyone was pretty f*cking civil. alas if only it could be like that all of the time
case in point for the ratings example, since we've already briefly tackled the lack of media literacy—j-dramas on MDL are notoriously rated much, much lower than either k- or c-dramas. half of the time that's bc there are less users watching (and rating) them therefore the average is lower but the other half it's bc people simply do not understand good media when they see it. don't get me wrong there's some freaky ass sh*t in the j-drama world that i would not touch with a Grinch level pole but to see MDLers out here talking about how slow j-dramas are and that nothing's happening. have you considered that you are either watching the wrong genre or you shouldn't be watching j-dramas in the first place bc their entire setup and general narrative framing arcs are not your style. have you even thought about that for six seconds or are you too busy expecting it to read like a typical tropey rom-com k-drama with your trending oppas. (no hate on my tropey rom-coms with [most of] said oppas, i need them when i don't want to think i just want to see sh*t on my screen and scream about hot people and the Hand Umbrellas in the Rain and the Back Hold when the male lead catches the female lead before she falls and you have the fifteen second focus on their faces just looking at each other)
and the misogyny. oh God do not get me started on the dichotomy that was the Cult, as we affectionatly called ourselves, on the feeds while THEE sageuk of the year My Dearest was airing (beloved show [that i still need to finish. JangChae i'm sorry ily life hates me like the mf it is 😭], beloved commentary on the feeds. they saw the vision on the feeds) vs the sh*tshow that was the landmine field of the comment section (the takes i saw on Gil Chae, Eun Ae AND Ryang Eum respectively.......... the misogyny wasn't enough we had to add the homophobia into the mix. buy one get one free deal fr fr). you mad man. that sh*t was insane there was a point i banned myself from scrolling farther than the cast section until the show finished airing. i kid you not on average they didn't have even half a braincell. maybe a quarter of a quarter of one. f*cked up just say you are not decent people and go
this is not to say that all of MDL is like this. i have gotten tuned into absolute masterpieces of content (and have tuned others, amen) bc of a comment comparing a show i'm watching to another one or a review being posted in the feeds about a film with less than 500 people interested. i have reconsidered my choice to not watch something after having spirited discussions in private messages discussing the pros and cons of the premise and whether they managed to get it done without f*cking sh*t up. i still contribute semi-regularly by adding relatively unknown actors and crew members to the database so they can get the credit due them. if you know where to look, you can get some good sh*t out of that place. problem is most users who are new to both the site and East/Southeast Asian cinema as a whole don't know where to look, and the cycle continues, and the ratings continue to be skewed/bloated and no one pays attention to the plot, if there even is any to pay attention to.
tl;dr: begging people to not let MDL be the be all end all for their drama recs a la 'well MDL doesn't like it so i won't watch it'. babe we have said MDLers complaining about how the ratings on Viki are too high but in my entire time watching dramas i've found that in the past two to three years the Viki ratings are making more sense than the MDL ones. sit with that for a sec. when you're done branch out and see the world (literally and cinematically), i promise you will be a better person for it
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whatrambles · 3 years
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secret-engima · 2 years
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For the Character Ask Game:
Noctis Lucis Caelum
Regis Lycus Caelum
Nyx Ulric
(I hope you don't mind that it's more than one... but feel free to ignore 2/3 if it's too much LOL)
Hmmmm. sure why not.
one aspect about them i love:
Noctis: His kindness. Noctis has his flaws as a person, but one thing about him I love is that he is at heart, very very kind. While we the player never stop to think twice about the inane side quests we get, in universe it's amazing that a prince on the run and grieving takes time out of his day to just *help* his people. From things like helping farmers with their harvest and monster clearing (ie, important tasks), to searching the wilderness for lost dog tags so that some loved one will get closure. And in the end, he even offers words of kindness to the man who killed his father and fiance, blinded his brother, and covered the world in darkness.
Regis: Gosh that's hard to pick, since we don't see him nearly as much on screen and so much of his character is tied up with his death and his son's death. Probably- his love for his son? And also how he handles it. He is, throughout the story, first and foremost a Father caught in an impossible place. He is a king who must save his people, but the price for it will be his child. It would have been so *easy* for him to close himself off from his child and become hard and cold, not wanting to get more attached to a sacrificial lamb. It also would have been easy for him to try to lock his son away and screw the prophecy. Instead he does neither. He *loves* his son and gives him every scrap of happiness he can, while also teaching him and trying to prepare him for a role he does not want his son to fulfill. He sacrifices himself to save Noctis, not just because he's the key to the future, but because this is his son and Regis loves him. Even to the end, his love for his son is his shining motivation. It makes him hesitant to kill Noctis at the end, because what real father wants to harm his child? But in the end, it's also that love that drives the blade home, because he loves his son enough to trust him and to accept his choices, and in the end, it is Noctis's choice to fulfill the prophecy for the sake of his friends and world.
Nyx: Hmmmm, again, it's hard to choose when he gets overall so little screentime (main character status in the movie notwithstanding). Honestly, I'd say it would likely be his loyalty. In the movie we see how even his best friend turns against Regis, how Nyx has lost so much, how he *is* angry underneath it all because Galahd was his home and now his king has seemingly given up on it after so much. But he gave his word and he honors it. He gave his word to follow, to fight, and to trust, and he *does* and it's an admirable thing, for him to stick to his word like that even as his world starts to crumble around him for a second time.
one aspect i wish more people understood about them:
Noctis: He is NOT an emo. The amount of stupid comments I saw on youtube and other places about him being "sasuke" or "emo" or "insert x jerk character" back when his game first came out was hugely annoying. Because they all come from people who insist on being spoonfed every drop of character understanding they need and if they don't get it they tantrum over having to use their braincells. (pardon the salt). I also wish certain people didn't call him spoiled or selfish for his reactions post Luna's death. Being in shock and grief over yet another death on top of the ones he hasn't been allowed time and space to grieve for (because being on the run is no place for a breakdown) isn't spoiled or selfish. It's painfully human.
Regis: I'm not sure honestly how most people see Regis, most of the fics I've read of him handle him very well. I suppose I would want more people to understand how breathtakingly deeply he has to love his son, to have made the choices he did all with the gods and prophecy hanging over his head. How tightly he had to juggle responsibility with love for years.
Nyx: He's smarter than I've seen some people give him credit for. He's reckless yes, but that's honestly because he's very likely suffering depression under that smile. And most of his reckless behavior appears to be backed up by experience. I've seen some fics portray him as- loveable but stupid and that's wrong. He figured out how the Empire was tracking him and Luna within *moments* of them realizing that they were being followed. That takes brains.
one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character: I'm gonna shorten this to just Noctis HCs because honestly this is taking forever- Noctis has a hidden addiction to dark chocolate, the darker the better, because it has caffeine, but not so much that it will keep him from napping like coffee would.
one character i love seeing them interact with: Any of the Chocobros, but especially Prompto, because they have so much "youngest sibling" energy when together.
one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: Luna. I would love for there to be a book or short story or *something* detailing some of the letters they exchanged with each other over the years as secret penpals. Or just give them a happy ending where they can be married and alive darnit.
one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: Noctis with his chronic pain tends to get very stiff in his back for understandable reasons. Ignis, overachiever that he is, decided one day when he was a teen that making Noctis suffer until his regular chiropractic session was a Problem and ended up getting lessons in massage. As Noctis got older, he got embarrassed to ask for them, but Ignis can always tell when he really needs one and is more than willing to gently bully Noctis into lying down so Ignis can smooth out some of the aches and pains.
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