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mejomonster · 11 months
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Checked out Desire Catcher ep 1:
Thrilled the lead actors aren't as young as I expected
The main Luo guy looks so familiar to me, what have I seen him in before....
The other guy looks familiar too, but I think he looks like Khaotung from gmmtv and that's why
Luo Fei.... Luo fei.... Luo fei? You mean like Luo wenzhou and fei du????!!! I am aware the fei in fei du is费, and this one is fei 飞. But. Hear me out. Is this an original script? Maybe the script writer ships zhoudu. I can imagine, even if its not true. ToT
The setup, if at any point it turns magical/sci fi etc, reminds me of death note: being able to kill remotely and investigating that and all. And I do love some magic in an otherwise mundane reality story
Right now it's like that movie where ppl hear a trigger word then kill, except here they die
For some reason I heard some ppl saying this was gonna be bromance vibes? Well, I'll find out. I do think though that it will likely lend itself to such option (like Under the Skin perhaps? I haven't seen Under the Skin yet though)
I WILL say that... while there's the whole danmei not airing situation, and completely made shows not airing that were bl novel adaptations... mango TV is just the kind of bitch to drop an original script bl through the cracks. First, because they've written original script bl before (wasn't Killer and Healer an original script first before novelization?). Second, because it seems original scripts With bromance undertones is getting a much easier time airing right now: one example being League of Nobleman, another being Pledge of Allegiance. So any original script with Any level of gay stuff I imagine is having an easier time airing rn (also in mango tvs case right now? They're not high Press releases. There's a LOT of eyes on say Sha Po Langs drama than on this random one).
I like the vibe of this show. It's leaning darker/more realistic, feels like the kind of novels I read. Like Justice in the Dark, it has a dead animal early on and a murder scene early on. Not sure how many cdramas skew that direction in scary (or dark idk?) But this one clearly is going that route. Which I personally like (again giving me Under the Skin vibes).
ZHAO YUNLANS DAD IS IN THIS PLAYING A SHADY BITCH (GO FIGURE)
the old professor man almost... looks like he could also be Shen Weis old professor mentor from Guardian, but I don't remember that face as well... so this old professor guy could be from a number of dramas I've seen
Not to compare to Justice in the Dark cause I imagine it's totally unintentional, so it's just funny to me. But I Did Notice we have a Captain Luo, a girl cop whos on his team with That Haircut, and a guy cop who's a little less put together than Luo who talks to That Girl and you... you gotta admit visually they look a lot like Lang Qiao and Xiao Haiyang in casting and just character roles (initially) in the story. If I saw someone filling Tao Rans role I'd be really !!!. But no Tao ran like guy yet. However, our consultant? Ohoho... he's a criminal psychology consultant is he (like Fei Du), his professor helped get him in with the cops (like fei du you say?), he's a bit of a little shit (!!!fei du?!!), he's got slightly longer hair (was that a character design choice or just how the actor looked, either way very Fei Du). And I find it all just a Touch funny. ToT (also I miss Justice in the Dark). It's not Actually like Luo wenzhou/fei du though, as these two don't seem yo know each other and therefore Luo hasn't raised him for like 7 years. The dynamic is therefore Way Different.
I almost get a touch of Guardian or Torchwood vibes and I'm not even quite sure why, cause this first episode was Not campy at all or comedic. It's fairly like Beyond Evil type, murder mystery procedural and a bit heavy. But mm just like... design choices I think. Not the writing, not the directing or sound, just like the sets. The sets look way less bizarre than guardian don't get me wrong. But something about certain choices In them. The touch of bright colors at the first murder scene. The odd pink light. The glowing globe on the desk. The room of papers on the wall and a big crane light. The weird dining table on the roof with a big outer building sign in neon across the street. The focus on the Nokia phones, the Lolipop. Just like... lots of small detail decisions but they strike me as Not quite usual, enough to make it not seem like The Bad Kids (and those kind of realistic shows) in set design. Maybe... a bit like Tomb of the Sea? How tots was mostly realistic looking but there'd be a fucking stuffed animal in a kidnapping living room. Little details you notice enough to oddly remember.
All that said? I Like the set designs a LOT. It feels like Watching a murder mystery novel. It's similar to Justice in the Dark in NAILING the right atmosphere, a good coloring gradient for realism but also Slightly distorted/unknown, in sets that look done enough to feel lived in and like actual places, and with the kind of unique small details a Real place might have (like a fake office might just have office stuff, but THIS Xue guys office has some unique knick knacks so it feels more like an actual place thay could exist, etc).
I'll probably give it more eps. It was my kinda thing. Didn't absolutely capture me in ep 1 but honestly I saw just enough familiar faces that I was partly playing guessing games of where they were from in my mind and so it'll probably take me a few eps to settle and just click or not with it
I loved it's opening and ending though and... usually if I like those 90% chance I like the shows
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tothedarkdarkseas · 2 years
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who do you think is more likely to 'fall in love' with the other? stu or mudz?
Aha, you're really trying to back me into a corner here. I would not call their long-running little dance of shared identity, rejected intimacy and mutually destructive codependence "falling in love" exactly, but...
If we're sort of removing the social expectations from those words, which I understand isn't realistically a thing we can really do, but you know, as a thought exercise-- separating the concepts of romance and romantic commitments from the process of a singular relationship's pull toward exclusivity, naming that growth in importance of one person to your perception of "the future" and domestic or interpersonal fulfillment, and I know that's all a comedically clinical way to describe it-- no surprise that I would say Murdoc is the first and the more likely to fall for Stuart.
I'll relent and allow some sentimentality, haha, so I'd also say that as much capacity as Murdoc has for cruelty toward Stuart, and as truthfully as he can see his unflattering sides, I do believe Murdoc does genuinely like things about Stu and can recognize that more easily than Stu can recognize the reverse. I don't think that means Murdoc is more willing to have vulnerable conversations or show something authentic in himself to Stu (in fact I'd say he's less willing in many ways to share non-physical intimacy) but I do think Murdoc can see Stu's attributes in a frankly reverent light, probably skewing too appreciative of those gifts. I do think Stu can name certain things he respects in Murdoc with having to pull teeth for it, but I tend to see Stu's perception of himself, his relationship to Murdoc, and Murdoc himself as being at three distinctly separate "angles," so to speak; they are three cameras on this scene, each showing their own perspective, none viewed exactly the same; and further still, there is a splintering in the brutality of their meeting, in the freedom from shame their friendship allows him, in the namelessness of their physical relationship, all of it factors into this kaleidoscopic sense of self that Stu lives with. He doesn’t have to like Murdoc when he doesn’t want to, and he’s fickle about who they are depending on what suits him. 
I don't see them as the types to ever say something like "I love you," but if they were, I do think it'd be Murdoc making an allusion to it; more like desperately suggesting that Stu already knows it, that he would be glad to be less of himself and more a part of Stu and he shouldn't have to say something so plain (and real, and unguarded, and humiliating) when he's knelt at his knees for twenty years and told him far more pious things.
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