For the fan meeting in Japan, the Kiseki cast was asked to pick new partners and it got very chaotic
Everybody else picked one person but Huang Chun Chih decided to go for the polycule and be the meat in an Aaron Lai and Hank Wang sandwich
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For all of China’s efforts to carry on the Winter Games with a festive spirit, Beijing 2022 unfolded as a joyless spectacle: constricted by a global health disaster, fraught with geopolitical tensions, tainted once again by accusations of doping and overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine.
As athletes marched into the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing on Sunday night to close the most contentious Olympics in years, China could celebrate pulling off the Games on schedule, despite everything. It is a success, however, as measured by the low bar of avoiding total disaster.
The most indelible memory of these Winter Olympics — beside images of Olympic workers and volunteers enrobed in hazmat gear — will very likely be that of a 15-year-old Russian skater falling on the ice after being allowed to compete despite a test showing traces of a banned heart medicine.
The skater, Kamila Valieva, broke into tears after her dismal performance, only to be berated by her coach, leaving organizers and observers alike to ponder how much they demand of athletes who are, after all, still children.
The International Olympic Committee, which spent years fending off doubts about choosing an authoritarian nation as host, spent much of the past two weeks dodging controversy after controversy in Beijing.
In addition to troubling issues raised by the Valieva episode, it faced questions about the conditions for athletes who isolated after testing positive for Covid; about the fate of Peng Shuai, the tennis player and former Olympian who accused a senior Chinese official of sexual assault; about the inevitable injection of politics into an event meant to rise above them.
“What can one say, except to heave a sigh,” said Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. “Such an august occasion, designed to promote openness, good sportsmanship and transnational solidarity, ended up being a heavily policed, brittle, Potemkin-like simulacrum of the Olympic ideal.”
— With Olympics Closing Ceremony, China Celebrates a Joyless Triumph
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My Girlfriend is a Alien. 8
Story: 8
Acting: 10
Chemistry: 9/10
Comparable to: My Love From a Star (kdrama) ; My Amazing Boyfriend (cdrama) ; I Robot (kdrama)
This is a hard one for me to judge. In some ways I absolutely love this drama and in other ways I really don’t. At first the storyline seems to be great, yes it’s cliche and predictable but it was entertaining and hilarious also. Well for me at least anyway. Yes it did start to get repetitive and drawn out, especially midway. I almost considered fast forwarding through some scenes, but I didn’t. Now the chemistry between the main leads at times I felt were somewhat lackluster but other times like fire. I can’t put my finger on what it is exactly but there were moments that you could feel Bie Thassapak Hsu and Wan Peng connect then other scenes not so much. Maybe it was the way Wan Peng’s character was written for me. The character could become slightly overbearingly too much. 🤷♀️. I’m just now starting the second season which I will admit feels kinda ‘meh’. Honestly you don’t have to watch the second to feel complete nor likewise do you have to watch the first in order to understand the second. Nonetheless Its still a fun entertaining romcom. I definitely recommend watching it at least once for romcom fans.
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Getting Revenge on EVIL is a 6-Year Plan! "Kill Butterfly Kill" reviewed! (Neon Eagle Video / Blu-ray)
“Kill Butterfly Kill” – Both Films Available on Blu-ray!
Caught on the wrong side of the tracks during a torrential downpour one dark and stormy night, a soaked Mei-Ling seeks shelter in a haybarn where a group of drunk men are playing cards. Through an intoxicated lens of brash confidence, the men rape Mei-Ling as if the whole ordeal was nothing more than a game, like them playing cards. For…
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The Red Peafowl trailer is out! 👀
Some reactions–
Heavily Sino-Thai, emphasis on the Sino part. Some shots of Shanghai and street scenes that look like they might have been filmed in China/Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Que is not actually a reference to Hong Kong (unless there's more they've not shown) – it's the hanyu pinyin transcription of Red Peafowl in Mandarin, where hong (红) means red and kongque (孔雀) means peacock or peafowl. The words for Hong Kong are totally different (香港 or xianggang).
Lu Yi Peng is played by Maiake Kandis, and it seems he's an inspector skilled in martial arts who goes undercover to infiltrate the mafia headed by Red Peafowl, played by Dollar Patchara. And of course the two get romantically and sexually entangled.
Max Nattapol plays Red Peafowl's husky lover/seducer, sounding like he has a case of COVID.
Earth Katsammonat is protagonist Lu Yi Peng's brother, who is kidnapped by a shadowy someone who sounds like (but doesn't look like) Max.
There are hawks and hawkshead rings on shadowy figures in this, looking to take down Red Peafowl's gang.
Frank Thanatsaran looks totally different from how he did while with GMMTV.
Boun Noppanut, Lee Long Shi, and Mek Jirakit are part of Red Peafowl's mafia family. Everything they say and do is performed with theatricality, as though to emphasize the sense of foreboding and import. Lots of arched eyebrows and drawling delivery.
Red Peafowl has a huge back tattoo, and guess what it's of? (Hint: it's a big bird, not white or yellow, and it's not a phoenix or a cockatoo.) Kinnporsche has a lot to answer for.
Hooped earrings on both ears appears to be a popular trend among the Chinese mafia.
The martial arts fight scenes look a little slow and klunky, like they need to be speeded up 10%.
Still no clue as to why there's a (sulphur-crested?) cockatoo in this.
Despite what your eyes tell you, Mix Sahaphap is not in the show:
(above) Dollar Patchara, doing his best impersonation of post-graduation Mix Sahaphap glowering in the torched ruins of his veterinary clinic after rescuing one of the birds within (arson plotted by GMMTV perhaps?)
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