This week on Bromance: This show is disgusting. This show gives you cavities. If you held your breath for as long as Ya Nuo and Zi Feng kissed this week you might honestly collapse due to oxygen deficiency.
I’ve heard that director Cheng Rong Hui was famous for his kissing scenes. Fans were like, “Have you watched ‘Apple in Your Eye’? He’s known for kissing scenes.” And I was like, “Cool, alright.”
I think for a moment there the show forgot they weren’t exactly on a midnight time slot?
That aside, I’m really glad that they got Zi Feng to bring up the incident where he overheard the conversation between Ah Chao and Ya Nuo. At that moment I’m sure it cast a shadow on him. Besides bringing closure, it shows his persistence in pushing through his internal hurdles – the extent to which he had to go “HECK IT” to finally confess to Ya Nuo. Zi Feng is singular, determined, and an utter fool in love.
But enough of that. Let’s move on to Mr. Sexual Tension himself – Han Sheng. These past 3 weeks have been filled with glorious eye intensity courtesy of resident bad guy.
Part of me still grieves the lost potential of a grey morality plot. But in Bromance it’s all Black and White, Mary Sues and 1D Antagonists. Accepting all that, I loved everything about Zi Feng and Han Sheng’s face off. Remember what he told Han Sheng previously. He would crush the very place Ya Nuo gets hurt. By the very fire of Hephaestus did he look like he was going to destroy Han Sheng and I LOVED IT. But I also loved that he COULDN’T do it, because their ties run so deep. I ship it. Not sorry.
Not sorry Zhe Rui’s not in this episode either. The writers took a hint. I’m thankful, but I’m also aware that this makes for a really disjointed show. Kid at the beach didn’t work, dump her. Ya Qi didn’t work, send her back to wherever she came from, Zhe Rui’s not working, shove him in the trunk till we can figure out what to do with him (not that they’ve had much of an idea this whole time).
I continue to mourn the fact that Sean Lee could’ve served a better purpose. He’s a more than decent actor. You’ll have your time in the spotlight love, in another show perhaps.
This is why I’ve always preferred the even episodes to the odd episodes. This show has a pretty consistent pattern where odd episodes are more plot heavy (ish, anyway…), and even episodes are more fluff heavy. But with the plot lines running here there and everywhere with some not ever coming to proper closure, I’d rather take the fluff. So it’s emptier, but it has centrality in Zi Feng and Ya Nuo’s (increasingly cheesy but still lovely) romance.
That being said, I am very interested in the gang tussle plot, and I am crossing all my fingers in hope that it will turn out as exciting as it can be. I know it’s so contradictory to say this right after I said I prefer fluff, but if the writers can move the gang plot forward in a coherent, intriguing manner it would definitely make this story more interesting. Empty fluff has its limits at times. Remember, with the actors as close as they are off screen, I could seek fluff in the BTS, but I could never get gang politics other than within the plot.
The writers have no excuse because right now Zi Feng and Ya Nuo’s lines are basically copied from every other romance drama right now. They don’t need to think, they just need to insert. So concentrate on writing me a good ol’ gang throw-down please.
Then there’s this inexplicable semi-schizophrenic moment? It’s very In Time With You like for Ya Nuo to just “appear” beside Zi Feng, but the difference is that in ITwY it was done consistently. In this case, it’s just bewildering! My guess is that Zi Feng can’t yet bring himself to say those words to Ya Nuo, because he’s not sure how Ya Nuo would react. He wishes that she would say, “I know” like she does in the spectre. But if that is the case, why is it that he can’t say it to her in person? Zi Feng doesn’t strike me as the sort who can’t say those words. So…I’ll just put this down as another WTH? moment.
Half time comment: Zi Han showed herself to be a shining beacon of sisterliness. And also, where’s my girl Xiao Jing at?
Back to the game, and I really loved the parallels between Zi Feng’s parents and him and Ya Nuo. Simply speaking, the young lovers are basically married at this point. Y/N? But well, on a deeper level, what strikes me as so heart warming is that as Ya Nuo and Zi Feng stand looking at Zi Feng’s parents, we as audiences are supposed to take in so much at one time. We, together with Ya Nuo and Zi Feng, take note of the strength of love displayed by Feng Jie, and we earn for it just as our favourite onscreen couple does. This is love, a different form of romance, a deep committed form that is great to witness in an idol drama.
The gold star definitely goes to Linda Liu this week for balancing comedic timing and gravitas. She is so classy and I bought every note in the range of emotion she brought out this week. As the Chinese saying goes, 姜还是老的辣 – it’s the oldest ginger that’s the spiciest – and she proves it.
We’ll end off where we started, at the kiss. Just a short snippet of Men’s Talk 14, where Megan and River kiss so deeply Megan doesn’t realise that the director yells cut. A second later, River taps her back once gently before removing his hand (though his lips are still locked against hers), and that’s when she realises that the director had already gone about his business and pulls away. The look they gave each other as separated scared me a little as a shipper. Might I have struck gold or is this all an illusion?
Just as the kisses drew us in, there must’ve been something quite pleasuring about it to get them so deeply involved. River, it ain’t just an addiction for you. Maybe, just maybe, it’s an addiction for us all.
This week on Bromance: This show is disgusting. This show gives you cavities. If you held your breath for as long as Ya Nuo and Zi Feng kissed this week you might honestly collapse due to oxygen deficiency. This week on Bromance: This show is disgusting. This show gives you cavities. If you held your breath for as long as Ya Nuo and Zi Feng kissed this week you might honestly collapse due to oxygen deficiency.
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