I Respectfully Disagree

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[drwcn]

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[shanehollancler]

2026 canadian screen award winner hudson williams

best lead performer, drama series

[russianblush]

Best Lead Performer, Drama Series is....Hudson Williams!

[mysteriouslysassytriumph]

Man so happy he finally got married , Familial bliss looks so good on him

[drwcn]

before A Spendid Match i quite liked Win2 but now that he's been aggressively shoved down my throat, making a show with such potential essentially nonsensical and unwatchable i will be actively boycotting any show win2 will be in in the future.

[xiaolanhua]

A Splendid Match ‧ 良陈美锦 ‧ 2026 dir. Jin Xiong Hao ‧ Ep. 30

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Generation to Generation | Episode 34

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Sped through the last arc of A Splendid Match, and thank you @aysekira for providing me with this image because it's very much how I feel about the show:

It's not even the horse meme because that would imply a strong start.

Okay, the positives: Ci Sha and Ren Min's acting and chemistry. I also did personally love the set and the coloring of the drama, especially how the director(s) were not afraid of rich colors. My favorite costume has to be that navy blue and pink.

The negatives: YX story aside, the fundamental issue is just the lack of coherency. The political plot was incoherent, which is often the case of a courtyard drama (I adore Minglan, but I do think the weakest part of its writing was the political writing) and that is fine if the courtyard drama is done well. Except, the courtyard writing isn't done well either. And somehow, every single veteran actor managed to have an off day.

But ... my trash island OTP got their HEA, so I'll just watch the OTP cut.

[aysekira]

I tried to postpone the piling up since they dangled the 'side story' on us earlier; now that it's out, i'm just gonna make it short:

[drwcn]

nobody with common sense who made this show and watched this show would like it for its plot. It was ALL over the place. They spent waaaaay too much time on Ye Xian. The last episode had his funeral for 30% of it.

It really makes me think there's some contractual/legal agreement/disagreement within the production team because it makes Perfect Sense if there was alternative agenda that was being fulfilled that has nothing to do with the actual storytelling. Like did Ye Xian's actor pay to be there? Not saying he did but this is the kind of bs you get when there's nepotusm/money changing hands.

[dramatictrajectory]

I didn't expect you to be so patient with kittens, yet so vicious towards people.

Baopu's beloved dad.

[numerodix]

"Instead of dying a meaningless death, I would rather live a glorious life. In the past, my father always scolded me for being unable to learn martial arts, unable to lead troops, and unable to uphold the honor of the Marquis family. But this time, I have led troops, I have fought the battles, and I return wrapped in a horse’s hide, having died on the battlefield. When I meet him in the underworld, I will be able to straighten my back, and tell him proudly: I, Ye Xian, have not disgraced the Ye family name."

[numerodix]

“我叶限，没给叶家丢脸“

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[catchymemes]

[angry-eevee]

when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL  “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.  

[galren]

#give us the middle-aged gender fluid Chinese protagonist that we can all relate to and project on (via @mr-and-mr-pavus)

[buddhamethods]

#if i show up to a function looking this hot you can safely assume I'm devastated over the loss of the love of my life to a decade long string of trauma induced lies and unadulterated bigotry

DESIRE (2025) | EPISODE 15

[rosesofstydia]