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《降魔的》 (2017)
Even though I have largely given up on TVB series since the early 2010s, childhood nostalgia is still keeping me from abandoning them completely and I still check out their stuff now and then, even when I know it will be largely utter cr*p.
I did hear good things about this though, and the plot summary sounded interesting and atypical of TVB's usual fare — TVB hardly ever does ghostly-supernatural stories and when they do, it often ends up well, super boring/just plain bad…anyway, I had been half keeping an eye on this. Finally got the chance to check it out recently.
Season 1 did pleasantly surprise me! The characters were interesting, plot pacing was good, few dull moments especially in the latter half, when the story and characters really started moving along.
Even though I thought the resolution with the main villain was handled rather lamely, and I wish the series had concluded nicely rather than led on to a Season 2, overall, Season 1 indeed lived up to its hype (among TVB viewers at least) and I found myself easily managing to binge-watch and finish all 21 episodes within a week!
Acting wise, nothing much to say, really. Kenneth Ma is a likeable guy but those who have followed his progress long enough know he's a limited actor. He's great at these nice guy, rather lackadaisical kind of roles, but any role that requires more than that and he falls short. Didn't expect and didn't get any character growth from him.
As for the other main/main-supporting actors, besides veteran Susan Tse (謝雪心) who's great in almost whatever role thrown her way (and she gave a great performance as usual), I can't say I know them well enough to judge.
In short, everyone's acting was…serviceable. Nothing outstanding, but nothing extremely bad either.
Besides the general enjoyability of Season 1, there was the added bonus of seeing a guest appearance by Law Lan (羅蘭) in Episode 1, which I thought was a very fitting and amusing cameo appearance considering 羅蘭姐 (Sister Law Lan) has made much of her later career through playing ghostly old ladies or ghost mediums in numerous movies and TV series before!
↑ 羅蘭 in Ep. 1 (S1)
廣東話：「又危險，又容易嚇親人」
Spoken Cantonese: “It's dangerous (to move about at night), people may get frightened (of you) too.”
I also enjoyed seeing the brief — don't think hers are considered as ‘guest’ — appearances of Winki Lai (賴慰玲) as the younger version of Susan Tse's character.
↑ 賴慰玲 in Ep. 4 (S1) & Ep. 3 (S2) respectively
Have liked Winki since first seeing her in 2014's 《女人俱樂部》 (Never Dance Alone), where she also played a younger version of another older character, in this case it was Angie Cheong's (張慧儀) character.
↑ 賴慰玲 & 張慧儀 at a promotion for 《女人俱樂部》 in 2014
Speaking of NDA, I'm finally watching this again too since it's currently available! Still really funny and relatable in many ways!
I also recently learned that Asako will be starring in the Japanese musical version of “Sunny” (the Korean movie upon which NDA was based, and there's also a Japanese movie remake) next year, if all goes as planned.
Even though I didn't enjoy the original Korean movie much (I actually preferred TVB's adaptation), and a musical version of a movie I didn't much enjoy doesn't sound very promising, it's still kind of exciting to know Asako will be in a project that is somewhat related to something I like, even if not the original! Heh!
(P.S.: I do wonder how Winki came about her Western moniker…very HK flavour I must say! I've noticed Hong Kongers tend to choose some of the most unusual sounding “Western” names for themselves sometimes! Sometimes, you can tell it's derived from their Chinese name, other times…it can be a real head-scratcher! Heh!)
Third bonus, I especially loved the cute rendition of the 石敢當 (sek6 gam2 dong1, aka shí gǎn dāng, aka ishigantou) that played a pivotal role in this series. 石敢當 aren't usually so cute, from what internet research tells me…
Someone in production obviously got heavily influenced by Japanese/Okinawan culture as the rendition in this series looks more like the 石敢當 found there. In the series' 2nd season, this was even affirmed by the introduction of the miniature souvenir figure version. Susan Tse's character supposedly bought it from Okinawa.
(P.S.: thanks to this series I guess, there seems to be copies of the exact same 石敢當 sold on the likes of Taobao now!)
↑ Ep. 5 (S1) & Ep. 2 (S2) — cute! (=^・^=)
《降魔的 2.0》 (2020)
Sadly, this rare success from TVB (nowadays) could not last beyond one season…
While S1 was great and a refreshing take for TVB, looks like S2 is back to the same old TVB problems: lack of focus, pacing issues and probably going out on a whimper.
S2 started off well enough, continuing directly where S1 left off. I was happy to revisit the characters again and follow whatever development was in-stored for them. Up until around Ep. 8 or 9 I was still quite enjoying this sequel, but it began to lose focus soon after that. Sigh…and it was going so well…
Can't say it wasn't expected though! Most sequels fail to live up to its predecessor, and TVB sequels have an especially bad track record. That was also the main reason I wished things had ended nicely in S1.
Thinking of this sequel thing, Hong Kong series in the past (say…around more than 15 years ago) rarely did sequels, most series wrapped up in a season (and this term ‘season’ wasn't even used back then), but lately I've noticed more sequels happening…can't say I like that! I hope this isn't going to become a standard! I like my shows short and sweet!
But not too much of a problem for me I guess, if I'm mostly going to stick to old (very old, by some people's standards) series from the noughties and before! Heh!
Anyway, back to 《The Exorcist's Meter》. In summary, enjoyed S1 a lot, S2, not so much but given that it's TVB, it's not the worse series they have churned out in recent years and now that I'm more than halfway through, I guess I'll see it to the end.
At least the theme and sub-theme songs from both seasons sung by Hubert Wu (胡鴻鈞) are nice! Putting a note here to check them out in full at another time:
S1: 《到此一遊》，《遙不可及》
S2: 《十字路口》，《凡人不懂愛》
#Dake Rambles#TVB#The Exorcist's Meter#The Exorcist's Meter 2.0#Kenneth Ma#Hubert Wu#Mandy Wong#Moon Lau#Law Lan#Winki Lai#Angie Cheong#Never Dance Alone#HK Drama#My Caps
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As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai, 1988).
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Comic - Moon Knight #025 Cover (2023)
Art by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau
#Comics#Marvel Comics#Moon Knight#Artgerm#Stanley Lau#Stanley Artgerm Lau#Marvel#Art#MCU#2023#2020s#20s
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Rebel Moon prequel comic cover by Artgerm.
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Boyfriend Jacket™️
#i be like i wanna kms. anyway here are some selfies#btw shout out to lau for lending me the jacket she’s such a gentleman <3#THESE ARE OK TO REBLOG ‼️#yo#effie talks to the moon
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Funny & Cute Drawings in Ancient CDramas
A screencap collection from:
Blooming, My Chinese Chic Boutique, The Happy Seven in Chang'an, The Journey of Chong Zi, My Heroic Husband, The Legendary Life of Queen Lau, Love You Seven Times, Oh My Emperor, The Untamed, Song of the Moon
The above was a "Have you seen this person" poster
The Happy Seven in Chang'an - p1
Blooming - p2
My Chinese Chic Boutique - p3
The Journey of Chong Zi - p4
My Heroic Husband - p5
Love You Seven Times - p6-8
The Legendary Life of Queen Lau - p9-14
Oh My Emperor - p15-16
Song of the Moon - p17
The Untamed - p18-20
To see all themed screencap sets, click here: [# cdrama themed screencap set]
#cdramasource#dailyasiandramas#cdrama#The Untamed#Oh My Emperor#The Journey of Chong Zi#Love You Seven Times#The Legendary Life of Queen Lau#Blooming#The Happy Seven in Changan#My Chinese Chic Boutique#My Heroic Husband#Song of the Moon#chinese drama#cdrama themed screencap set#screencaps#original post
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hi bardlau nation
everyone say "thank you @bapydemonprincess for causing this"
bye bardlau nation
+ headshots bc they're kinda cute
#so. i couldn't be bothered to figure out how to incorporate a sun motif in bard's all-black fit.#but yk damn well they're sun and moon gays because that is the universal trope. it fits every two-character ship.#anyway yeah. drawing and colouring this silly little sketch was very enjoyable. we know i love drawing clothes.#my art#kuroshitsuji#black butler#kuroshitsuji fanart#black butler fanart#kuroshitsuji bard#kuroshitsuji lau#bardlau
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Mr. Vampire II (1986)
#Mr. Vampire II#ricky lau#Biao Yuen#Ching-Ying Lam#Moon Lee#Wing-Cheung Cheung#Pauline Yuk-Wan Wong#Kin-Wai Ho#hong kong cinema#80s action movies#filmedit#80s movies#80s film#80s#Geung see ga zuk
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Moon Knight #25 by Jed MacKay, Alessandro Cappuccio, Alessandro Vitti and Partha Pratim. Cover by Steve McNiven. Variant covers by (2) Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau, (3) Gary Frank, (4) Frank Miller and (5) Maria Wolf. Out in July.
"MOON KNIGHT’S PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE, LEADING INTO HIS FIRST EVENT SERIES!
The past comes back to bedevil Moon Knight as he pursues his latest enemy, someone once familiar and new. From grim New York nights to the blazing sun of Alexandria days, Moon Knight hunts for answers among the graves of Hart Island while haunted by the last mission of the Karnak Cowboys, a mercenary crew counting among its members Marc Spector, Jean-Paul Duchamp, Robert Plesko… and Layla El-Faouly.
PLUS: A CLASSIC MOON KNIGHT STORY FROM THE PAST BY DOUG MOENCH AND BILL SIENKIEWICZ!"
#moon knight#marc spector#fist of khonshu#marvel#jed mackay#alessandro cappuccio#alessandro vitti#partha pratim#steve mcniven#stanley artgerm lau#gary frank#frank miller#maria wolf#variant cover#comics
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Read Ch 11 on AO3
“A Circus is a place where dreams become reality.” Joker leaned forward, caressing Sebastian’s cheek with the skull handle. It might have been fondness in another setting, but here, Joker’s smile was practically demonic when he spoke next. “Tonight, I’ll be the ringleader of your worst nightmares.”
As always, @luci-on-the-moon and I feed off kudos, comments, asks, likes, reblogs, screams, gifs, and keysmashes, and blood of innocents 👉👈
We are SOOOOOOO very excited to FINALLY present the long-awaited update to this story! We hope it was worth the wait…!
PS- even more art awaits within the chapter…
#黒執事#black butler#sebastian michaelis#bardroy#sebard#sebaciel#joker#ronald knox#fan fic#bard#mafia au#modern au#update#where demons hide#wdh#fan art#fan fic fan art#luci on the moon#lau#poi writes#poi og#100 notes
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As Tears Go By (旺角卡門) (Wong Gok ka moon) (1988) Wong Kar-wai
February 11th 2024
#as tears go by#旺角卡門#Wong Gok ka moon#1988#kar wai wong#Wong Kar-wai#andy lau#maggie cheung#jacky cheung#alex man#旺角卡门#Secure Door to Cornucopia
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Edits de outros tempos
Quando digo que eu edito há mais anos que aqueles que gostaria de contar, eu realmente edito há muito tempo.
Fiquem com algumas edições dos anos 2010 feitas por mim <3
Se inspirar, credite <3
#wallpaper#signature banner#henry super junior m#henry lau#jonghyun shinee#key shinee#sailor moon#tuxedo kamen#luna sailor moon#chibiusa#yesung#superjunior
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Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon is getting a prequel comic
Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon is getting a prequel comic #rebelmoon #comics #comicbooks
Titan Comics has announced that it will be publishing Rebel Moon: House of the Bloodaxe, the prequel comic series to the anticipated Rebel Moon directed by Zack Snyder – part one available on Netflix on December 22.
The four-part comic series, based on a story by Zack Snyder, is written by Eisner-nominated Mags Visaggio with art by Clark Bint and colors from Francesco Segala. Launching January…
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#clark bint#comic books#Comics#francesco segala#netflix#rafael albuquerque#rebel moon#rebel moon: house of the bloodaxe#stanley lau#titan comics#zack snyder
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