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#hnnnnnnnnng the post-canon audio drama extras
crossdressingdeath · 3 years
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I really do love CQL. I take it as something based off MDZS but not an actual adaptation like what the audio drama is and I’m able to enjoy a lot of it. It’s why the drama has a different name, it’s not a full on adaptation. But what bugs me with so many CQL only fans is that they clearly don’t understand how Chinese censorship works with media. It’s not just the explicit unquestionable romance wangxian has that had to be censored, but the conflict as well. It’s bad to have a protagonist do the things WWX did in the novel so that had to be changed to him being framed instead of him doing questionable things and losing control on his own. You have to be careful with how you handle necromancy so we don’t actually see him dig up graves or control the dead. His character had to be toned down so much because of censorship. CQL didn’t make changes to try something different, they had many restraints to work around. Yeah, the writing could have been better at times and there’s some things they still could have done a lot differently that wasn’t part of the restraints, but at the end of the day the production team didn’t go “hey we should try this instead of that” because they wanted to explore the story from a different angle with relationships and characterizations. They were censored plain and simple in so many elements and that’s not a good thing. Praise the work, they were amazing g low budget, but CQL fans can’t forget it was all censored because of the strict laws there.
Yeah, that’s always the thing. If you like the changes CQL made more power to you, but I feel it should be at least acknowledged that those changes weren’t a good faith attempt to improve what the production team perceived to be weak points in the story, or even just changes made to better suit the screen; the changes made were forced on them because they couldn’t show things like necromancy or gay marriage. WWX wasn’t made more morally pure because that makes him a better character, it was because they literally weren’t allowed to show him as anything but. I won’t pretend I know anything about censorship laws in China or how the process works, but can people please stop insisting these changes were great or that they were made for the good of the characters or story? Because they 100% were not! And of course the biggest one for me is always people acting like the romance is better in CQL because my answer will always be: what romance? They didn’t have a romance, subtext that was most likely put in to get money out of the novel’s fans isn’t a romance! Please! stop! insisting! that! longing! gazes! are! more! romantic! than! two! people! actually! being! in! a! loving! relationship! Listen to the post-canon audio drama extras if you want to hear really good romance!
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