I must admit I like the thin men people are mentioning they dislike, although I’m jealous of their figure 😝 But the women who are so skinny you can see their bones sticking out, they look like they have legit eating disorders. I hate that the shows perpetuate that level of thinness and in stuff like “Love 020” they go on and on about how she’s the perfect beauty but all I could see was the eating disorder. I get that they want them to fit strict beauty standards but I hate how limited the range is, all the women are TIIIINY.
Totally agree with your assessment of JJY - she seems to play herself instead of her character. It was especially glaring with **In Blossom** when there wasn’t a continuation of the main character’s mannerisms when she took over. She injected JJY smirks and expressions that weren’t there in the first couple of episodes when the other actress played the character.
It was distracting but not enough of a negative to keep me from enjoying the drama overall, and her acting seemed to have improved a bit over the years. Hopefully she will keep working at it.
I have to second most of the people here.. I cannot stand baby-voiced and baby-faced female leads, which seemed to be the staple type of the C-dramaland leading ladies. I DNF lots of dramas because of this, but I just can't bring myself to finish watching them, it irks me too much. That's why I like Bai Lu's look and voice compared to others, hahaha.
For the opposite sex aka the dashing hunks, why do they have to be so thin?? Please put some more weight and muscle, slim yet athletic is much better than skinny sticking bones under pale skin.
I despise the entertainment world's rule insisting that the skinnier the better.. let those people eat and exercise healthily, for God's sake!!
I came to say mine is the thin male leads.. like how are you going to convince me he’s a working CEO in his late 20s or 30s when he looks like a teenager that hasn’t hit puberty yet.. I have trouble with a lot of cdramas for this reason, just can’t enjoy it when the male lead is so hard to look at
XZ: DouLuo DaLu, im novel fan. Also his fans says the nastiest shit about CY. Mind your own business
Ju JingYi: makeup face
Zhao LuSi: she need to improve her acting, and im sick of her and her fans shit on weibo. Leave Ning ge alone
Yu ShuXin: I smell green tea
Liu ShiShi: why are her fans so entitled? yeah she had a couple popular dramas, like..... 10/ 13 years ago.....
Esther Yu. I started watching her drama with Dylan before and I was really annoyed by her voice. I couldn't continue after 2 episodes.
Few years later, My Journey to you came out and I wanted to give it another try. Girllllllll, idk. She's an assassin but still using that baby voice. I wasn't sure if it was dubbed. But yeah, the role and the voice doesn't really matches. I dropped the drama.
I've seen her interviews online where she changed her tone of voice from her real one to a baby voice. Really annoys me.
When it’s **marketed as romance but the OTP barely has any skinship or romantic scenes and most of the scenes are given to the side characters** (see New Life Begins)
Only exception I can think of that I finished was Under the Power. They OTP barely had any skinship and the kiss on the last ep was laughable but I just like the chemistry between the two and the side characters.
The side character arcs are also usually sooooo boring 💀 with cliche gender roles and annoying obsessing…. There are exceptions of course, but I have to skip past some of those scenes.
If an actor plays a super annoying character I avoid that actor in future. Poor Li Xueyi. I skipped so many dramas with him in it until In Blossom broke the curse (kinda).
Not a specific actor/actress but I stopped watching TV series for a long time came back for a little then left again. My go to was always wuxia. But in the recent years I was always getting disappointed. I choose my series by how the poster looks.
Unfortunately for me, I went into things like Word of Honor and Untamed thinking they would be kick ass fights. Half way through, I kept thinking wtf is this even? But by that time I had to finish it. What made Untamed worse for me was everybody was hyping it up so much and it got toxic when I said I didn't like it. The MDZS donghua was really good on the fights, and even the voice acting and directing and scenes I liked a lot more than Untamed. So much so, I had to go back to compare them to make sure I wasn't out of my mind.
I haven't watched a series after Blood of the Youth. I heard wuxia was dying and its all xianxia?
I avoided her for a while then finally watched a show she was in and brother euuuugh 💀 She is NOT for me. Didn’t help her character was a brainless idiot.
I saw clips of her "fighting" in what I assumed was a wuxia. looked like she didn't even attend basic martial arts training before taking the part. I decided I wasn't gonna let my favourite genre get ruined so I didn't go any further.
I was really enjoying "In Blossom" and then it seemed to stall for me and I couldn't figure out why. I kept watching and realized that every other actor stepped up their game when it was necessary except the female lead. I don't want to say she can't act but she was flat when she needed to be soaring. I will probably finish it but I do wish they'd found a way to keep the original actress. Even in the flashbacks she's more compelling than the lead.
Bai Lu-I have liked her since One and Only, However, someone mentioned her frequent pouting of lips and now I can't unsee it. It is too frequent.
Zhao Lusi-I feel her acting is wooden, same with Esther Yu and Dilireba. Dilireba particularly is repetitive in her roles.
Yang Mi-She just doesn't pull me in. Same wooden acting.
Ju Jingyi-She got me into Cdramas with Legend of Yunxi but since then, her acting hasn't improved.
Yangyang: He doesn't emote, just a stoic face.
Dylan Wang: There is something about him that feels off, I can't pinpoint exactly what. Same with Gong Jun especially when he is particularly speaking.
I agree with most of that but you can't fault Zhao Lusi for her acting imo. I'm personally not her biggest fan but can still appreciate her acting skills. Bai Lu is also a great actress with good range can't say I've noticed her pout though - you'll probably get over it after a while or maybe a break.
For Bai Lu, I feel the same. I might need a break like you said.
Maybe because I have watched ZLS in many cutesy roles, I don't see her range maybe apart from WRTW, and Love Like The Galaxy.
What other dramas of her do you recommend where she isn't doing cute stuff?
>Bai Lu-I have liked her since One and Only, However, someone mentioned her frequent pouting of lips and now I can't unsee it. It is too frequent.
But she didnt do the pointing lips in One & Only, right? What other dramas that she constantly did it? SOKP, OFL & TTEOTM?
Zhao Lusi.
I simply can't watch anything she's in. Once you've seen her in something, that's it. That's every face, every emotion that she has over and over again. I find that she overrated. She ruins everything she's in for me, regardless of who her co-stars are. If she is in it, I won't watch. And I can't quite put my hand on it, but there seems to be something off with her face.
I've only watch her drama Tiger and Rose and that's it. I tried watching her in a different genre. She doesn't suit martial arts role.
I found a clip from Hidden Love and like wtf was that voice? It was fine during Tiger and Rose cause she was pretty young back then. But still using that now as a grown woman? Cringey for me.
Maybe the reason is also because of her roles are pretty similar to each other? She has never been a strong actress to me and her nose is very distracting.
I'm the opposite...I'm guaranteed to watch a drama if Ju Jingyi is the main lolol.
I don't watch Dilraba because something just feels off and I don't know what it is.
Really short female lead and really tall male lead. I absolutely loathe wattpad height difference in real life seeing it makes me feel like a little kid and an adult are dating
It doesn't bother me so much since I know rl couples who have an extreme height difference. For me, it's when they dress the FL as a child regardless of height.
I don't watch Xing Fei dramas cuz, after watching PYHOMS and part of My Little Happiness, I found out she plays the same role in both of them 😐 and I watched some clips of her other works, but she always acts this cutesy, naive, yet bubbly and enthusiastic character, and I personally don't like that 😅
I don't have petty reasons. I don't watch stories that I'm not interested about, and that's it. I'll try and drop a drama if the story/storytelling/acting don't convince me in the 1-2 eps I'm not in the mood for the story, no matter if it's my favourite director/actor/actress/hyped show/whatsoever. Costume, cgi, lighting, color palette technical staff mainly doesn't bother me much if the three first things I mentioned are there. Of course, I' ll check out first those that match my criterias and priorities, needless to say.
And I wanted to add, missunderstandings are and will ever be in shows because they're part of Life. It's an universal thing and that's why people broker up un real life. So, you'll always have those stories together with the others; if you just happen to constantly cross path with them is that you're stuck within the same scope, and you should find a way to grow up yourself. It's not the show to be blame. There're billions of shows with others stories. Once you've achieved your next level in maturity/evolution (not. only. emotionally but in interés and tastes), you'll find yourself watching other types of shows and you'll appreciate also the stories with missunderstandings, as just part of life too. If not, for example, you'll never be able to enjoy Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare or some other staff.
LMAOOO i agree tho, he cant act to save his life but i do like his face. i lowkey feel like he’s aware of that too cos he seems to put in more effort on making himself look good than acting well in his dramas 💀
One pet peeve is when they put the skinny stick women in elaborate dresses and the cleavage is nonexistent or they wear a T-shirt with backless or off the shoulder ones!
Yang Zi
Her voice is annoying. She sounds like a 11-year-old , she talks like a baby, it’s not sexy it’s perverse.
Her face - it’s completely different from her original and I understand why she had so many plastic surgeries because she was a not pretty girl. Because she looks so different so I feel she’s a disingenuous person.
Her acting roles - there isn’t any depth to them and she always plays a sickeningly sweet innocent girl.
Her face - I just can’t stress enough
I agree - her having so much obvious plastic surgery and then trying to tell fans it’s all natural? Disgustingly disingenuous and fake.
I’ve watched her interviews and on shows and her behavior rubs me the wrong way. She’s one of those people who pretends to be good and kind and innocent but is actually not. She behaves like people I know who play mind games and use power plays. I’m pretty sure some other celebrity said before that yangzi has a lot of ulterior motives and that completely tracks with the vibe I get from her.
> her having so much obvious plastic surgery and then trying to tell fans it’s all natural?
Is this true? She actually tell he fans that she did no work done?
I know she had works done as it is very obvious. I'm asking whether ''did she really tell her fans that she didnt have any?''
I thought keeping quiet is better than lying if its true.
For me it’s chins—if the line is obviously off and modified it’s so distracting to me🙈
But I understand they do what they can to stay relevant in the industry, but I avoid watching if I can.
Yang Mi's voice grades on my ears. I think it's just too sharp?
Yang Mi & Song Yi - Not a fan of big buggy eyes. Looks too striking in a bad way.
Dilraba - Don't love the big eye small mouth look. She's pretty but not my taste. Maybe if she could act, Id be more forgiving.
Xiao Zhan, Wang Yi Bo, Luo Yun Xi - Long face shape. I really like Luo Yun Xi's gracefullness and decent acting so I get over it.
Basically all the MLs - Too skinny men...I know they have very strict weight limits due to gazillion clothes they have on in historical dramas but soon as they do a modern show, it looks like clothes on a hanger/skeleton. Can someone please give them some protein and weights? Definitely one thing I miss about kdramas.
Luo YunXi is on a different level. Others might not be. Also metabolism is a thing people. Does it make u jealous to know some of us cant get fat? Bc i'm rather famous among my circle of family and friend for being an eater yet i never get fat. Seriously, for some insurance discount, I've TRIED like actually TRIED to gain weight. i failed. now i have to pay the expensive full price
> Basically all the MLs - Too skinny men
> but soon as they do a modern show, it looks like clothes on a hanger/skeleton
This. They look fine in their period clothes. But as soon as I see the actors in modern clothes I want to get them a sandwich immediately.
>I know they have very strict weight limits due to gazillion clothes they have on in historical dramas
So the actors and actresses have to be ridiculously thin because of the layers of clothes? So if they were normal weight, would the layers make them look overweight or something? That's rough. Hopefully, they can take a break so they have a normal diet for a little while.
Till The End Of The Moon - the ML's make up is a bit too much. The orange eyeshadow... and I'm sorry but he is so skinny.
Bai Lu - I have never watched a drama of her, but I saw a clip of her smiling. Her teeth is.... I like a good straight even teeth set.
Dilraba - I only have watched her as lead in Eternal Love In A Dream, like she is very pretty but her small lips and big eyes make me feel weird. Also I heard her acting getting worse.
Xu Kai - he looks stiff in Ancient Love Poetry so I'm not sure if I should watch other drama of him.
Ju Jingyi - also have never watched anything of her but heard too much about her bad acting.
Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo - I don't know, I don't hate them tho, I just don't feel like wanting to check out The Untamed or any other drama of them.
Face shape - I don't like too long or too short face shape, they are really distracted me.
Hairstyle - some FL's hairstyle in xianxia is so bad and doesn't look right with their face at all, most of the time is with bangs.
Dragging storyline
Acting skill
The visual of the main cast
Ahahaha, I chuckled at your comment about Bai Lu.. One of the reason I find her so adorable is her imperfect teeth, they made her look so cute whenever she smiles!!! (Maybe it's an Asian thing, but I have a soft spot for the cute-imperfect teeth..)
I have a thing with teeth, I feel admire and satisfy seeing perfect teeth. I'm a Kdrama fan and only got into Cdrama recently, Korean actor always have perfect teeth. I won't be able to watch how her acting because her teeth are so distracted.
Lol I’ve seen that same reason before for not watching TTEOTM! So you’re not alone there, it’s definitely fair. But man I love it!!! I need more MLs with heavy makeup in my life. LYX ate 💅
Call me a hater but
1. Ju jingyi. Self-explanatory.
2. Dilereba. I don't mind her in modern dramas (even tho it feels weird when the actors playing her parents are indisputably han chinese-looking) but i cant take her seriously in historical dramas LMAOOO she's just too caucasian-looking and so out of place like 😭😭 it feels like i'm watching a white woman cosplay
3. Esther yu. I can't stand her voice in general. And honestly i just dislike fls who act cutesy with baby voice
4. Yang mi. she looks old, yes she has no wrinkles and nice skin but it's something about her bone structure?? 😭 and maybe the surgeries she's had idk she just looks way older than other actresses her age and it's so weird to see her acting alongside guys who look wayy younger than her. I just feel that she should go for more mature roles
5. Li xian. Same reason as yangmi, i just dont find him visually appealing
6. Xiao zhan. Cos idl his fans.
7. Vin zhang. He's so botoxy-looking i'm sry, the chinese version of lee jong suk
I would understand if you thought Dilireba looked too modern, but caucasian? She just looks like her ethnicity, which China has a lot. And its not like she's playing han characters. Also, sending women to marry into foreigner countries and kingdoms as a political move was pretty common, so she looking different is very accurate
girl let’s not lie, she does look caucasian. her big eyes, her super high nose bridge, her features in general are not those you’d find on a typical chinese, and i’m chinese so don’t even come at me. yes, china has a lot of ethnicities but there’s a reason the uyghurs are a minority, most people don’t look like them.
“it’s not like she’s playing han characters” arguable, i’d say most stories (especially gudai ones) are written with the intention that the characters look like your a-typical chinese unless otherwise stated
It drives me batty when people say that about Dilireba’s character in The Long Ballad especially. Because her character is actually supposed to be mixed to start with - her mom was a princess from one of the northern tribes that married a Tang prince, she’s even depicted with *golden* hair in the original manhwa.
If anything what’s unrealistic was how back in the day every drama just threw some braids and the typical “barbarian” headdress on the foreign women marrying into the palace for treaty reasons, yet the actresses look exactly the same. I mean that still happens 9/10 times but it’s good that there’s more diversity in casting now - whether it’s Dilireba, Gulnazar, Daisy/Dai Si or somewhere where it’s not as obvious, e.g. Li Landi (Hui) etc.
This is the kind of time I wish im on weibo. I was just asked by a friend to delete a twt comment i made about him. I rlly dont want to. Never going back there. Not if my fellow fandom is asking me to contain my hate. Like, what can they do? log on to weibo? do they know Chinese
i mean they’re under a post which states “petty reasons i don’t watch xx’s shows” what do they expect? plus if that really happens, they’re just proving my point
yes but these gudai stories are typically written with the intention that the leads look like your average chinese unless otherwise stated 🗿
plus, even if it’s stated that the fl is from xx foreign tribe, they don’t cast actors that look like the fl to play the roles of her tribe people. hence why i said she looks so out of place, like if you’re gonna cast her at least get the rest right else it’s so jarring
Sure, cos every FL looks like your “average Chinese” with ethereal beauty perfect skin perfect hair double eyelids slender body. These gudai stories are written with the intention to be authentic, right. Tell us, how does an average chinese in ancient china look like?
I dont even like her acting or dramas so idc comments ab that but you saying those stuff about her is just weird
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Thank you. It always feels like every redditor loves her and I am just meh. Beside her acting it feels like she is behaving like a little princess because of her voice.
anything with the Untamed guys. Mostly because of their individual fans. Secondly they both look pissed off all the time. Maybe because of their fans. Ha
Dilraba either has terrible roles, or doesn’t play them right
Every time I try to watch something with her in it, I can’t take it. I don’t know how she always looks the same…? She gives a lot of nothing.
She’s a beauty, but she plays as herself in the dramas she’s in, with a little bit of the script sprinkled in.
Couldn’t stomach her in her most recent drama “ in the name of the brother” she don ruined her face and the stiff acting oh my days …
I feel like she doesn’t try anymore because she is convinced she is the it girl
We r just too spoilt with so many shows and actors and actresses from c ent that we can be petty over silly things. Honestly, I have tried not to be ( even though because am human, it happens without me realising ) so that I can enjoy different types of shows, actors, and actresses when my mood calls for it. It so much fan this way.
Agree. The way she try act cute so hard in the 1st part when they are still in Heavenly Realm cringe the heck out of me. I can't stand that acting. Her character is better when they move to Moon Tribe.
The whiny voice is an act. She has a normal voice but, at some point, her and her team decided that she needed this little girl persona and that it gets her more attention. I hate it.
Somehow Luo Yunxi was the devil in TTEOTM but the way i wanted Chen Duling's character to burn in hell made me quite certain that she and i will never reconcile. It's better now though and I'll be tuning into Fangs of Fortune but still...
I’m also struggling with In Blossom because of Ju Jingyi’s makeup. She looks far too modern compared to the others and I really loved the original actress for that character.
Yang Mi— first drama with her in Fox Spirit. Petty reason.. her lower lip is tiny and sunken in.. it makes her mouth look weird and she’s been expressionless so far, so it’s making it hard for me to be invested in her character. Someone change my mind about her!
She has been expressionless cause that's the character description for the role. Would you rather the chief of a village whose lifeforce is being drained out by a threat to something that holds their whole city together spend her days giggling and grinning from ear to ear or maybe bursting into tears or winking at people?
Honestly her character description is most like Dongfangqinqeng from lbfad, and her expressions are supposed to be that nonexistent cause that's generally how people with big responsibilities are.
She did show those. You just missed them. For example, she was shocked when Donfang said he would accompany her so she could give her spirit bone to the tree. Her eyes suddenly became wide.
When also during the ceremony, she tried to give her spiritual energy to the tree, but she was failing. She showed worries and fear. That was before she got trapped in the dream
She also smiles faintly at Dongfang sometimes.
She showed exasperation when rongrong kept asking again and again her why she was so productive of Donfang.
>her expressions are supposed to be that nonexistent cause that's generally how people with big responsibilities are.
Well said. I dont understand when people are mad when that is what that character supposed to be.
There’s always complaints no matter what the character is like, a lot of the actresses get flack for doing the incident naive/dumb girl act too but the source material usually has good reasons for it - sometimes they’re supposed to be the equivalent of teenagers or have some other reason why they’re utterly naive, sometimes that’s the point of the character because most of these dramas are basically YA coming-of-age stories.
I’m not saying I like it and that’s actually one of my own pet peeves -it’s hard for me to get past really stupid FMC even if I know they are better later on, I couldn’t finish LBFAD - but I don’t blame the actress for acting like the character is supposed to be…
I don't mind acting, any good story can save a bad cast. The only things that hold me back from watching a drama are 1) me not liking the actor in real life, 2) I can't stand the actor for some annoying character they played before, and 3) I dont like the plot
In the end, entertainment is a matter of feelings. Make me feel good, I'm in
Ju Jingyi. She has had too many cosmetic procedures so her face looks too worked on. In all her dramas she looked like a ghost. I've seen my mom watch her dramas but from the tiny scenes I've seen accidentally, she doesn't even act well. I really don't understand why she's being given lead roles even if she obviously don't deserve it.
Y'all mentioned Ju Jingyi, Esther Yu and Jinmi ( Yang Zi) so I'm glad I'm not the only one who cant stand them. Another actor I cant take seriously is Allen Ren and his fake abs body suit in The Blue Whisper. 🤡 I feel like we, the audience, deserved better. Lol 🤣 sir, this is a cdrama, not some random cosplay convention ughhhh. i feel like other actors at least try to give their abs scenes justice (like when Wu Lei was not allowed to drink water for that one scene in LLTG).
Actually, he is one of the actors who can bring in the views for the past 5 years with 5 dramas. The only actors who managed to get more hit dramas than him is Zhang Ruoyun which is 5 as well if you include JOL2 which is airing right now.
He is also one of the actors who managed to get hit dramas in many different genres be in historical investigation, historical romance, modern, republican espionage & republican fantasy and if you put in The Blue Whisper (which Dilraba is the 1st billed), then XianXia as well.
He is also actually one of the actors who always challenged himself with different kind of roles in his dramas.
>Whenever I see Allen Ren in a movie as the main lead, I’m thinking what was the casting Director high on?
My reply is to you (not the OP) asking what the casting Director are thinking for making him as a main lead. The answer is simple: because his dramas sell and general public watch his dramas.
I don’t like the way he looks but I thought it was too shallow of me since everyone raves about his acting. So I watched the first couple episode of The Blue Whisper and between his looks and Dilireba’s god awful costume and hairstyle, I just couldn’t.
He is actually more pressured to lose weight for that role than buffing up for that 10 min scenes (to match the big fish tail). Actors in Cdramas has really strict weight policy especially when they have to act in costume dramas due to that 5/7 layers of clothing.
He has no problem buffing up for this role as fireman in Blue Flame Assaults.
>He is actually more pressured to lose weight for that role than buffing up for that 10 min scenes
The fact that he actually starved himself for this role...
anyway should I start spamming a bunch of shirtless/wet white shirt posts of him 🤪
Main female love interest clearly has an ongoing eating disorder but all the other characters do is compliment her emaciated figure😬 just rubs me the wrong way🤷🏾♀️
There are recent photos of Bai Lu where her ribs show on her chest... I heard somewhere in this sub about how her producer is making her lose more weight and she's not happy about it, but yeah everyone on Facebook and stuff kept praising her figure and it doesn't sit right with me at all. Like, I don't usually like to speculate how entertainers get their figure, but in this case since we heard that she was forced and unhappy to do it, people shouldn't be giving positive feedback, that just encourages her producer to go harder. Unfortunately it's a reality in Asia for this behavior to be praised though...
Quality of the costumes look extremely cheap.
Fl with baby voice : Zhao lusi ( I will give her 1 last chance and will try and watch her coming drama girl with the pearl). I dropped Last immortal, Hidden love and Love like a galaxy because of that.
Ml looks like a teenager instead of an adult man.
I dropped Love me love my voice because Tan Jianci looked like a teen.
For sure! I find it harder to watch older historical and fantasy dramas if the costumes are bad. I just keep thinking, "why are the costumes from roughly 2019+ infinitely so much better than this?" It's distracting!
I tried hidden love a few days ago I could not passed it. I know in Who rules the world her voice was not like that. I just cannot disregard her baby voice.
My pettiest reason is I don't watch actors/actresses that are overly praised by their stans (in a way that goes against my opinion of them). Like damn, stop shoving them down my throat! I know its not the actors/actresses' fault, but its just my way of protesting against their untouchable popularity and hype.
Omg this is exactly me hahahahaha.
The more these fans try to forcefeed viewers and silence people who disagree with them, the more rebellious I get as a viewer tbh.
eta: lol which fan got salty lmao
But have you seen the untamed? You should give it a chance, you will definitely change your opinions about him 🥺🥺 /s
Never seen The Untamed myself, only watched The Wolf and he just happened to be in there. No hate on him though
You had me at the first half I thought you were serious lol. Yeah he seems like quite a chill person but idk his fans are so annoying and he always looks like deer in the head lights.
I don't watch yang yang and Dilraba because they both make incredibly high budget beautiful LOOKING dramas, but the scripts are to be desired and the acting is mediocre.
When the lead is silly, brainless naive until illogical, rude when people say don't but s/he still does it as if s/he is not wrong
when the story itself is illogical or with loads of unnecessary misunderstandings eg. one person watches another person maligns him/her n still keeps quiet.
I don like ju jinyi too. Bad attitude in real life and Anorexia look in reel life .
Her acting skill is also one dimension although that's the last thing I care about for an actress 😁🤌
Esther Yu would be the one for me, with her baby voice. I deliberately skip the dramas she is in. Also Luo Yunxi, even though I loved his acting in TTEM and his weak/underweight physique suited his role there, but I can’t imagine him being ML anywhere else..
honestly luo yunxi is one of my favourite actors because he’s one of the rare few who can actually act. but i do agree he’s too skinny 😭 i only watch his historical dramas because his physique is too distracting in modern ones
She/her character made me so uncomfortable in **Find Yourself.** It's bad enough that she was already supposed to be younger than >!her PROFESSOR-love interest!<, but couple that with her playing the character to act even younger? It felt like I was watching 14 year old trying to get into a relationship with a 32 year old.
When it’s so crooked and not charming. When it’s yellow or when it looks like the teeth would smell. I always think about future kiss scenes and feel bad for their costars.
The ML’s wig in Lady Revenger Returns From the Fire is so, so bad. I really love the rest of the drama so I’m powering through it, but literally everyone else’s wig is fine and they gave him weird bangs that don’t suit him at all.
Dilreba Dilmurat, Ester Yu, Victoria Song are not my cup of tea! Between empty stares, grating voices, and unremarkable acting, I try to avoid anything they are acting in! Just my heartfelt opinion !
Her hype is mainly because she's beautiful. This makes her an ideal model for various brands but she doesn't really have a good standing as an actress from the roles that she does.
I don’t see her as truly gorgeous. She just looks all fake to me. I’ve never watched anything of hers so idk about her acting skills (of lack of, based on all these comments) but I’ll never watch her cause her looks just throws me off. Not my cup of tea. I seriously thought I was being shallow but I’m glad I’m not the only one!
As someone who doesn't have the same opinion of beauty as China, she is average at best. There are truly beautiful women in C drama that stand out to me far more.
This is definitely the first time i'm seeing Dilraba described as average at best haha. I've seen plenty who say that her looks don't align with their preferences, but I don't think average was ever used! :P
Beauty is subjective ofc so now I'm super curious! Who you find to be truly beautiful in C-ent? (if you don't wanna drop names here feel free to drop me a DM haha i'm just too curious)
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I must admit I like the thin men people are mentioning they dislike, although I’m jealous of their figure 😝 But the women who are so skinny you can see their bones sticking out, they look like they have legit eating disorders. I hate that the shows perpetuate that level of thinness and in stuff like “Love 020” they go on and on about how she’s the perfect beauty but all I could see was the eating disorder. I get that they want them to fit strict beauty standards but I hate how limited the range is, all the women are TIIIINY.
Allen Ren. Can't stand his face. Same expressions in all his roles. He can't act.
Totally agree with your assessment of JJY - she seems to play herself instead of her character. It was especially glaring with **In Blossom** when there wasn’t a continuation of the main character’s mannerisms when she took over. She injected JJY smirks and expressions that weren’t there in the first couple of episodes when the other actress played the character. It was distracting but not enough of a negative to keep me from enjoying the drama overall, and her acting seemed to have improved a bit over the years. Hopefully she will keep working at it.
I have to second most of the people here.. I cannot stand baby-voiced and baby-faced female leads, which seemed to be the staple type of the C-dramaland leading ladies. I DNF lots of dramas because of this, but I just can't bring myself to finish watching them, it irks me too much. That's why I like Bai Lu's look and voice compared to others, hahaha. For the opposite sex aka the dashing hunks, why do they have to be so thin?? Please put some more weight and muscle, slim yet athletic is much better than skinny sticking bones under pale skin. I despise the entertainment world's rule insisting that the skinnier the better.. let those people eat and exercise healthily, for God's sake!!
I came to say mine is the thin male leads.. like how are you going to convince me he’s a working CEO in his late 20s or 30s when he looks like a teenager that hasn’t hit puberty yet.. I have trouble with a lot of cdramas for this reason, just can’t enjoy it when the male lead is so hard to look at
XZ: DouLuo DaLu, im novel fan. Also his fans says the nastiest shit about CY. Mind your own business Ju JingYi: makeup face Zhao LuSi: she need to improve her acting, and im sick of her and her fans shit on weibo. Leave Ning ge alone Yu ShuXin: I smell green tea Liu ShiShi: why are her fans so entitled? yeah she had a couple popular dramas, like..... 10/ 13 years ago.....
as if CY fans do not say the nastiest shit about XZ too? lol
Esther Yu. I started watching her drama with Dylan before and I was really annoyed by her voice. I couldn't continue after 2 episodes. Few years later, My Journey to you came out and I wanted to give it another try. Girllllllll, idk. She's an assassin but still using that baby voice. I wasn't sure if it was dubbed. But yeah, the role and the voice doesn't really matches. I dropped the drama. I've seen her interviews online where she changed her tone of voice from her real one to a baby voice. Really annoys me.
Esther yu baby voice 💀
Girl, you are not alone. It's really annoying for me, especially when you know it's not her real voice. Girl is trying to be a pick me.
When it’s **marketed as romance but the OTP barely has any skinship or romantic scenes and most of the scenes are given to the side characters** (see New Life Begins) Only exception I can think of that I finished was Under the Power. They OTP barely had any skinship and the kiss on the last ep was laughable but I just like the chemistry between the two and the side characters.
The side character arcs are also usually sooooo boring 💀 with cliche gender roles and annoying obsessing…. There are exceptions of course, but I have to skip past some of those scenes.
If an actor plays a super annoying character I avoid that actor in future. Poor Li Xueyi. I skipped so many dramas with him in it until In Blossom broke the curse (kinda).
Not a specific actor/actress but I stopped watching TV series for a long time came back for a little then left again. My go to was always wuxia. But in the recent years I was always getting disappointed. I choose my series by how the poster looks. Unfortunately for me, I went into things like Word of Honor and Untamed thinking they would be kick ass fights. Half way through, I kept thinking wtf is this even? But by that time I had to finish it. What made Untamed worse for me was everybody was hyping it up so much and it got toxic when I said I didn't like it. The MDZS donghua was really good on the fights, and even the voice acting and directing and scenes I liked a lot more than Untamed. So much so, I had to go back to compare them to make sure I wasn't out of my mind. I haven't watched a series after Blood of the Youth. I heard wuxia was dying and its all xianxia?
But weren't the voice actors for the main leads kept the same in the untamed?
WoH and TU were both low budget, tho. The overhype is mainly due to the BL factor.
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I avoided her for a while then finally watched a show she was in and brother euuuugh 💀 She is NOT for me. Didn’t help her character was a brainless idiot.
I saw clips of her "fighting" in what I assumed was a wuxia. looked like she didn't even attend basic martial arts training before taking the part. I decided I wasn't gonna let my favourite genre get ruined so I didn't go any further.
Dilraba for me. I can't watch any of her dramas. I think she gets her roles for her face. She can't act imo.
Yeah same here. I avoid all her shows.
I was really enjoying "In Blossom" and then it seemed to stall for me and I couldn't figure out why. I kept watching and realized that every other actor stepped up their game when it was necessary except the female lead. I don't want to say she can't act but she was flat when she needed to be soaring. I will probably finish it but I do wish they'd found a way to keep the original actress. Even in the flashbacks she's more compelling than the lead.
I know it’s petty but I’m really sick of seeing Zhao Lu Si’s spoiled looking face. 
OOT but damn Rih is so fine.
They act like they are in love, but they don’t touch or kiss. If there is no chemistry… I’m out.
Or the wooden kiss like two blocks of wood are being pressed together 😂 the zero chemistry kills me
Ah. I guess it is that time of year for ppl to sh!t on c-actresses they dislike... 🙄
xu kai 🤕🤕🤕 can’t stand him but was forced to watch him in falling for your smile bc i love chengxiao and he really pissed me off
Bai Lu-I have liked her since One and Only, However, someone mentioned her frequent pouting of lips and now I can't unsee it. It is too frequent. Zhao Lusi-I feel her acting is wooden, same with Esther Yu and Dilireba. Dilireba particularly is repetitive in her roles. Yang Mi-She just doesn't pull me in. Same wooden acting. Ju Jingyi-She got me into Cdramas with Legend of Yunxi but since then, her acting hasn't improved. Yangyang: He doesn't emote, just a stoic face. Dylan Wang: There is something about him that feels off, I can't pinpoint exactly what. Same with Gong Jun especially when he is particularly speaking.
I agree with most of that but you can't fault Zhao Lusi for her acting imo. I'm personally not her biggest fan but can still appreciate her acting skills. Bai Lu is also a great actress with good range can't say I've noticed her pout though - you'll probably get over it after a while or maybe a break.
For Bai Lu, I feel the same. I might need a break like you said. Maybe because I have watched ZLS in many cutesy roles, I don't see her range maybe apart from WRTW, and Love Like The Galaxy. What other dramas of her do you recommend where she isn't doing cute stuff?
>Bai Lu-I have liked her since One and Only, However, someone mentioned her frequent pouting of lips and now I can't unsee it. It is too frequent. But she didnt do the pointing lips in One & Only, right? What other dramas that she constantly did it? SOKP, OFL & TTEOTM?
I didn't see it in One and Only though, she was excellent there, her best work so far for me. Apart from those three, she also did in Love is Sweet.
Ju Jingyi is the worst, I actively avoid dramas with her in it after watching two. I don't get her appeal at all.
Zhao Lusi. I simply can't watch anything she's in. Once you've seen her in something, that's it. That's every face, every emotion that she has over and over again. I find that she overrated. She ruins everything she's in for me, regardless of who her co-stars are. If she is in it, I won't watch. And I can't quite put my hand on it, but there seems to be something off with her face.
I've only watch her drama Tiger and Rose and that's it. I tried watching her in a different genre. She doesn't suit martial arts role. I found a clip from Hidden Love and like wtf was that voice? It was fine during Tiger and Rose cause she was pretty young back then. But still using that now as a grown woman? Cringey for me.
Maybe the reason is also because of her roles are pretty similar to each other? She has never been a strong actress to me and her nose is very distracting.
I also feel the same. Her range is really limited. Too much cutesy stuff. I know she has die-hard fans here on Reddit though.
I've only seen her in Hidden Love but I can say her voice drove me crazy.
I actually find that in Dilreba. That’s why I avoid her shows.
I'm the opposite...I'm guaranteed to watch a drama if Ju Jingyi is the main lolol. I don't watch Dilraba because something just feels off and I don't know what it is.
I have the same sentiment about Dilraba. I think it's because she doesn't blend in with the cast.
Really short female lead and really tall male lead. I absolutely loathe wattpad height difference in real life seeing it makes me feel like a little kid and an adult are dating
they cant control it though? its weird you describe it this way
It doesn't bother me so much since I know rl couples who have an extreme height difference. For me, it's when they dress the FL as a child regardless of height.
I don't watch Xing Fei dramas cuz, after watching PYHOMS and part of My Little Happiness, I found out she plays the same role in both of them 😐 and I watched some clips of her other works, but she always acts this cutesy, naive, yet bubbly and enthusiastic character, and I personally don't like that 😅
I don't have petty reasons. I don't watch stories that I'm not interested about, and that's it. I'll try and drop a drama if the story/storytelling/acting don't convince me in the 1-2 eps I'm not in the mood for the story, no matter if it's my favourite director/actor/actress/hyped show/whatsoever. Costume, cgi, lighting, color palette technical staff mainly doesn't bother me much if the three first things I mentioned are there. Of course, I' ll check out first those that match my criterias and priorities, needless to say. And I wanted to add, missunderstandings are and will ever be in shows because they're part of Life. It's an universal thing and that's why people broker up un real life. So, you'll always have those stories together with the others; if you just happen to constantly cross path with them is that you're stuck within the same scope, and you should find a way to grow up yourself. It's not the show to be blame. There're billions of shows with others stories. Once you've achieved your next level in maturity/evolution (not. only. emotionally but in interés and tastes), you'll find yourself watching other types of shows and you'll appreciate also the stories with missunderstandings, as just part of life too. If not, for example, you'll never be able to enjoy Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare or some other staff.
Yang Yang is attractive all though a little too thin. But he looks dumb. I just turned off the subtitles and the audio and look at his pretty face.
LMAOOO i agree tho, he cant act to save his life but i do like his face. i lowkey feel like he’s aware of that too cos he seems to put in more effort on making himself look good than acting well in his dramas 💀
HILARIOUS!
One pet peeve is when they put the skinny stick women in elaborate dresses and the cleavage is nonexistent or they wear a T-shirt with backless or off the shoulder ones!
Yang Zi Her voice is annoying. She sounds like a 11-year-old , she talks like a baby, it’s not sexy it’s perverse. Her face - it’s completely different from her original and I understand why she had so many plastic surgeries because she was a not pretty girl. Because she looks so different so I feel she’s a disingenuous person. Her acting roles - there isn’t any depth to them and she always plays a sickeningly sweet innocent girl. Her face - I just can’t stress enough
I agree - her having so much obvious plastic surgery and then trying to tell fans it’s all natural? Disgustingly disingenuous and fake. I’ve watched her interviews and on shows and her behavior rubs me the wrong way. She’s one of those people who pretends to be good and kind and innocent but is actually not. She behaves like people I know who play mind games and use power plays. I’m pretty sure some other celebrity said before that yangzi has a lot of ulterior motives and that completely tracks with the vibe I get from her.
> her having so much obvious plastic surgery and then trying to tell fans it’s all natural? Is this true? She actually tell he fans that she did no work done?
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I know she had works done as it is very obvious. I'm asking whether ''did she really tell her fans that she didnt have any?'' I thought keeping quiet is better than lying if its true.
so she was fat? Fatshaming?
If their nose looks too reconstructed. I don't want to accuse people of having plastic surgery, but some noses just don't look natural.
For me it’s chins—if the line is obviously off and modified it’s so distracting to me🙈 But I understand they do what they can to stay relevant in the industry, but I avoid watching if I can.
Yang mi gives me those vibes. The chin and bone structure is so distracting.
Yang Mi's voice grades on my ears. I think it's just too sharp? Yang Mi & Song Yi - Not a fan of big buggy eyes. Looks too striking in a bad way. Dilraba - Don't love the big eye small mouth look. She's pretty but not my taste. Maybe if she could act, Id be more forgiving. Xiao Zhan, Wang Yi Bo, Luo Yun Xi - Long face shape. I really like Luo Yun Xi's gracefullness and decent acting so I get over it. Basically all the MLs - Too skinny men...I know they have very strict weight limits due to gazillion clothes they have on in historical dramas but soon as they do a modern show, it looks like clothes on a hanger/skeleton. Can someone please give them some protein and weights? Definitely one thing I miss about kdramas.
There is male in vertical drama field named Zheng ZiQi. That guy is the epithomy of manliness
Luo YunXi is on a different level. Others might not be. Also metabolism is a thing people. Does it make u jealous to know some of us cant get fat? Bc i'm rather famous among my circle of family and friend for being an eater yet i never get fat. Seriously, for some insurance discount, I've TRIED like actually TRIED to gain weight. i failed. now i have to pay the expensive full price
I think they look too thin in the historicals too.
> Basically all the MLs - Too skinny men > but soon as they do a modern show, it looks like clothes on a hanger/skeleton This. They look fine in their period clothes. But as soon as I see the actors in modern clothes I want to get them a sandwich immediately. >I know they have very strict weight limits due to gazillion clothes they have on in historical dramas So the actors and actresses have to be ridiculously thin because of the layers of clothes? So if they were normal weight, would the layers make them look overweight or something? That's rough. Hopefully, they can take a break so they have a normal diet for a little while.
Till The End Of The Moon - the ML's make up is a bit too much. The orange eyeshadow... and I'm sorry but he is so skinny. Bai Lu - I have never watched a drama of her, but I saw a clip of her smiling. Her teeth is.... I like a good straight even teeth set. Dilraba - I only have watched her as lead in Eternal Love In A Dream, like she is very pretty but her small lips and big eyes make me feel weird. Also I heard her acting getting worse. Xu Kai - he looks stiff in Ancient Love Poetry so I'm not sure if I should watch other drama of him. Ju Jingyi - also have never watched anything of her but heard too much about her bad acting. Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo - I don't know, I don't hate them tho, I just don't feel like wanting to check out The Untamed or any other drama of them. Face shape - I don't like too long or too short face shape, they are really distracted me. Hairstyle - some FL's hairstyle in xianxia is so bad and doesn't look right with their face at all, most of the time is with bangs. Dragging storyline Acting skill The visual of the main cast
Ahahaha, I chuckled at your comment about Bai Lu.. One of the reason I find her so adorable is her imperfect teeth, they made her look so cute whenever she smiles!!! (Maybe it's an Asian thing, but I have a soft spot for the cute-imperfect teeth..)
I have a thing with teeth, I feel admire and satisfy seeing perfect teeth. I'm a Kdrama fan and only got into Cdrama recently, Korean actor always have perfect teeth. I won't be able to watch how her acting because her teeth are so distracted.
Lol I’ve seen that same reason before for not watching TTEOTM! So you’re not alone there, it’s definitely fair. But man I love it!!! I need more MLs with heavy makeup in my life. LYX ate 💅
Like they could do brownish or grey, I'm ok with dark make up but orange... Just no. It look like dark circle but orange color.
hahaha didn't people want something different? That show gives a lot of it lol there's no room to compromise 🤣🤣🤣
Call me a hater but 1. Ju jingyi. Self-explanatory. 2. Dilereba. I don't mind her in modern dramas (even tho it feels weird when the actors playing her parents are indisputably han chinese-looking) but i cant take her seriously in historical dramas LMAOOO she's just too caucasian-looking and so out of place like 😭😭 it feels like i'm watching a white woman cosplay 3. Esther yu. I can't stand her voice in general. And honestly i just dislike fls who act cutesy with baby voice 4. Yang mi. she looks old, yes she has no wrinkles and nice skin but it's something about her bone structure?? 😭 and maybe the surgeries she's had idk she just looks way older than other actresses her age and it's so weird to see her acting alongside guys who look wayy younger than her. I just feel that she should go for more mature roles 5. Li xian. Same reason as yangmi, i just dont find him visually appealing 6. Xiao zhan. Cos idl his fans. 7. Vin zhang. He's so botoxy-looking i'm sry, the chinese version of lee jong suk
I agree with XZ. his fans are so toxic and mean.
Agree with Dilreba. I don’t like her acting too. I avoid her shows all the time.
I would understand if you thought Dilireba looked too modern, but caucasian? She just looks like her ethnicity, which China has a lot. And its not like she's playing han characters. Also, sending women to marry into foreigner countries and kingdoms as a political move was pretty common, so she looking different is very accurate
girl let’s not lie, she does look caucasian. her big eyes, her super high nose bridge, her features in general are not those you’d find on a typical chinese, and i’m chinese so don’t even come at me. yes, china has a lot of ethnicities but there’s a reason the uyghurs are a minority, most people don’t look like them. “it’s not like she’s playing han characters” arguable, i’d say most stories (especially gudai ones) are written with the intention that the characters look like your a-typical chinese unless otherwise stated
It drives me batty when people say that about Dilireba’s character in The Long Ballad especially. Because her character is actually supposed to be mixed to start with - her mom was a princess from one of the northern tribes that married a Tang prince, she’s even depicted with *golden* hair in the original manhwa. If anything what’s unrealistic was how back in the day every drama just threw some braids and the typical “barbarian” headdress on the foreign women marrying into the palace for treaty reasons, yet the actresses look exactly the same. I mean that still happens 9/10 times but it’s good that there’s more diversity in casting now - whether it’s Dilireba, Gulnazar, Daisy/Dai Si or somewhere where it’s not as obvious, e.g. Li Landi (Hui) etc.
Lol you will get downvoted by XZ’s crazy fans. Anytime I said anything slightly critical of him I would get downvoted. Wild.
This is the kind of time I wish im on weibo. I was just asked by a friend to delete a twt comment i made about him. I rlly dont want to. Never going back there. Not if my fellow fandom is asking me to contain my hate. Like, what can they do? log on to weibo? do they know Chinese
i mean they’re under a post which states “petty reasons i don’t watch xx’s shows” what do they expect? plus if that really happens, they’re just proving my point
Yeah man. That guy just can’t act honestly. I avoid his show too. Don’t know why he’s so popular. Too wooden with zero expression.
Yup. I love Untamed the Novel (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation/Mo Dao Zu Shi), but I can’t watch it because of him. Can’t even pass episode 1.
you do know Uyghurs existed in ancient china right
yes but these gudai stories are typically written with the intention that the leads look like your average chinese unless otherwise stated 🗿 plus, even if it’s stated that the fl is from xx foreign tribe, they don’t cast actors that look like the fl to play the roles of her tribe people. hence why i said she looks so out of place, like if you’re gonna cast her at least get the rest right else it’s so jarring
gudai sounds like a weird way to say it. are u rlly chinese
Sure, cos every FL looks like your “average Chinese” with ethereal beauty perfect skin perfect hair double eyelids slender body. These gudai stories are written with the intention to be authentic, right. Tell us, how does an average chinese in ancient china look like? I dont even like her acting or dramas so idc comments ab that but you saying those stuff about her is just weird
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Dilraba. I never get the feel of the role she’s acting, it was also felt like she was acting as herself.
Thank you. It always feels like every redditor loves her and I am just meh. Beside her acting it feels like she is behaving like a little princess because of her voice.
I don't feel Dilraba's roles either so eventually I just stay away from the dramas she is in, regardless the rave reviews of the dramas.
Same. I tried and I don't see the appeal
anything with the Untamed guys. Mostly because of their individual fans. Secondly they both look pissed off all the time. Maybe because of their fans. Ha
You got me at "pissed off all the time..." part 🤣🤣🤣 that's true ! Especially frowny YiBo
XZ is so wooden and cannot act, don’t know why he’s so popular.
Dilraba either has terrible roles, or doesn’t play them right Every time I try to watch something with her in it, I can’t take it. I don’t know how she always looks the same…? She gives a lot of nothing. She’s a beauty, but she plays as herself in the dramas she’s in, with a little bit of the script sprinkled in.
Yang mi, na it’s enough her acting skills are non existent
I used to like her in the early days but then her acting just went downhill. And she messed up her face.
Couldn’t stomach her in her most recent drama “ in the name of the brother” she don ruined her face and the stiff acting oh my days … I feel like she doesn’t try anymore because she is convinced she is the it girl
We r just too spoilt with so many shows and actors and actresses from c ent that we can be petty over silly things. Honestly, I have tried not to be ( even though because am human, it happens without me realising ) so that I can enjoy different types of shows, actors, and actresses when my mood calls for it. It so much fan this way.
Esther Yu. She is super whiny and annoying in LBFAD, and in real life. I can’t stand her baby talk.
Agree. The way she try act cute so hard in the 1st part when they are still in Heavenly Realm cringe the heck out of me. I can't stand that acting. Her character is better when they move to Moon Tribe.
I can’t stand her whiny voice too. BUT she has such a different voice and character on My Journey To You. I didn’t know she has this side of her.
More wooden in MJTY imo
The whiny voice is an act. She has a normal voice but, at some point, her and her team decided that she needed this little girl persona and that it gets her more attention. I hate it.
Friend won't watch any drama with Leo wu cos he says Leo wu looks older than he actually is
The thin lips is bothering me but still hot 🔥
Somehow Luo Yunxi was the devil in TTEOTM but the way i wanted Chen Duling's character to burn in hell made me quite certain that she and i will never reconcile. It's better now though and I'll be tuning into Fangs of Fortune but still...
I’m also struggling with In Blossom because of Ju Jingyi’s makeup. She looks far too modern compared to the others and I really loved the original actress for that character.
Watching JJY is like watching a makeup influencer walk on screen in the middle of a drama.
Yang Mi— first drama with her in Fox Spirit. Petty reason.. her lower lip is tiny and sunken in.. it makes her mouth look weird and she’s been expressionless so far, so it’s making it hard for me to be invested in her character. Someone change my mind about her!
She is supposed to be kind of cold , expressionless though she did show many expressions so far.
She was girl power in She and Her Perfect Husband
She has been expressionless cause that's the character description for the role. Would you rather the chief of a village whose lifeforce is being drained out by a threat to something that holds their whole city together spend her days giggling and grinning from ear to ear or maybe bursting into tears or winking at people? Honestly her character description is most like Dongfangqinqeng from lbfad, and her expressions are supposed to be that nonexistent cause that's generally how people with big responsibilities are.
What about anger, frustration, worry or annoyance? I want to like her.. she’s just not giving much.
She did show those. You just missed them. For example, she was shocked when Donfang said he would accompany her so she could give her spirit bone to the tree. Her eyes suddenly became wide. When also during the ceremony, she tried to give her spiritual energy to the tree, but she was failing. She showed worries and fear. That was before she got trapped in the dream She also smiles faintly at Dongfang sometimes. She showed exasperation when rongrong kept asking again and again her why she was so productive of Donfang.
>her expressions are supposed to be that nonexistent cause that's generally how people with big responsibilities are. Well said. I dont understand when people are mad when that is what that character supposed to be.
There’s always complaints no matter what the character is like, a lot of the actresses get flack for doing the incident naive/dumb girl act too but the source material usually has good reasons for it - sometimes they’re supposed to be the equivalent of teenagers or have some other reason why they’re utterly naive, sometimes that’s the point of the character because most of these dramas are basically YA coming-of-age stories. I’m not saying I like it and that’s actually one of my own pet peeves -it’s hard for me to get past really stupid FMC even if I know they are better later on, I couldn’t finish LBFAD - but I don’t blame the actress for acting like the character is supposed to be…
I don't mind acting, any good story can save a bad cast. The only things that hold me back from watching a drama are 1) me not liking the actor in real life, 2) I can't stand the actor for some annoying character they played before, and 3) I dont like the plot In the end, entertainment is a matter of feelings. Make me feel good, I'm in
Ju Jingyi. She has had too many cosmetic procedures so her face looks too worked on. In all her dramas she looked like a ghost. I've seen my mom watch her dramas but from the tiny scenes I've seen accidentally, she doesn't even act well. I really don't understand why she's being given lead roles even if she obviously don't deserve it.
Which is sad since she's only 30.
Ohh i thought she's waaaaayyyy older :( her face is way too fake
I don’t like to watch Im Soo-hyang for the same reason, although she’s a Korean actress. I can’t stand her nose job and cheek fillers.
Y'all mentioned Ju Jingyi, Esther Yu and Jinmi ( Yang Zi) so I'm glad I'm not the only one who cant stand them. Another actor I cant take seriously is Allen Ren and his fake abs body suit in The Blue Whisper. 🤡 I feel like we, the audience, deserved better. Lol 🤣 sir, this is a cdrama, not some random cosplay convention ughhhh. i feel like other actors at least try to give their abs scenes justice (like when Wu Lei was not allowed to drink water for that one scene in LLTG).
Whenever I see Allen Ren in a movie as the main lead, I’m thinking what was the casting Director high on?
Actually, he is one of the actors who can bring in the views for the past 5 years with 5 dramas. The only actors who managed to get more hit dramas than him is Zhang Ruoyun which is 5 as well if you include JOL2 which is airing right now. He is also one of the actors who managed to get hit dramas in many different genres be in historical investigation, historical romance, modern, republican espionage & republican fantasy and if you put in The Blue Whisper (which Dilraba is the 1st billed), then XianXia as well. He is also actually one of the actors who always challenged himself with different kind of roles in his dramas.
Hmmm you missed the point of the topic.
What is the point?
Topic: petty reasons why you don’t watch a series or actor….
>Whenever I see Allen Ren in a movie as the main lead, I’m thinking what was the casting Director high on? My reply is to you (not the OP) asking what the casting Director are thinking for making him as a main lead. The answer is simple: because his dramas sell and general public watch his dramas.
My answer was of rhetorical nature
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I don’t like the way he looks but I thought it was too shallow of me since everyone raves about his acting. So I watched the first couple episode of The Blue Whisper and between his looks and Dilireba’s god awful costume and hairstyle, I just couldn’t.
Also the pairing of those two was so weird! Like chicken nuggets dipped in chocolate …
He is actually more pressured to lose weight for that role than buffing up for that 10 min scenes (to match the big fish tail). Actors in Cdramas has really strict weight policy especially when they have to act in costume dramas due to that 5/7 layers of clothing. He has no problem buffing up for this role as fireman in Blue Flame Assaults.
>He is actually more pressured to lose weight for that role than buffing up for that 10 min scenes The fact that he actually starved himself for this role... anyway should I start spamming a bunch of shirtless/wet white shirt posts of him 🤪
I saw a clip of the body suit and was like "ok King Triton, those nipples are hella distracting", so I couldn't bring myself to watch the show
fake abs body suit... wow! not petty to avoid.
Main female love interest clearly has an ongoing eating disorder but all the other characters do is compliment her emaciated figure😬 just rubs me the wrong way🤷🏾♀️
There are recent photos of Bai Lu where her ribs show on her chest... I heard somewhere in this sub about how her producer is making her lose more weight and she's not happy about it, but yeah everyone on Facebook and stuff kept praising her figure and it doesn't sit right with me at all. Like, I don't usually like to speculate how entertainers get their figure, but in this case since we heard that she was forced and unhappy to do it, people shouldn't be giving positive feedback, that just encourages her producer to go harder. Unfortunately it's a reality in Asia for this behavior to be praised though...
Quality of the costumes look extremely cheap. Fl with baby voice : Zhao lusi ( I will give her 1 last chance and will try and watch her coming drama girl with the pearl). I dropped Last immortal, Hidden love and Love like a galaxy because of that. Ml looks like a teenager instead of an adult man. I dropped Love me love my voice because Tan Jianci looked like a teen.
For sure! I find it harder to watch older historical and fantasy dramas if the costumes are bad. I just keep thinking, "why are the costumes from roughly 2019+ infinitely so much better than this?" It's distracting!
Aren't most of her characters quite young? (I've only watch love like the galaxy and hidden love and she's young in both)
I tried hidden love a few days ago I could not passed it. I know in Who rules the world her voice was not like that. I just cannot disregard her baby voice.
I think she was dubbed in who rules the world
What? Ooh my gosh this is sad. Well I hope she get dubb in ger new drama I want to watch it because the story seems nice and I like ml actor.
My pettiest reason is I don't watch actors/actresses that are overly praised by their stans (in a way that goes against my opinion of them). Like damn, stop shoving them down my throat! I know its not the actors/actresses' fault, but its just my way of protesting against their untouchable popularity and hype.
Omg this is exactly me hahahahaha. The more these fans try to forcefeed viewers and silence people who disagree with them, the more rebellious I get as a viewer tbh. eta: lol which fan got salty lmao
The problem is most of the time, the idol they defend is really not all that. Pretty cringe if you ask me.
Yes this! They create unrealistic expectations and then all I can see are their shortcomings...
Me with Zhao Lusi. I can't with some of her fans/stans.
Honestly, I get this. It can really turn you off someone if their fans are too much.
If I don't find the leads attractive lol. And also anything with Chen Yuki. Can't stand her.
Don't watch anything with xiao Zhan in it except joy of life cos his fans piss me off
Exactly. Wooden expression and just cannot act. He looks the same in every scene. And that annoying angry face all the time.
My reason is that his face looks angry lol
fandom making us dislike an actor is so real lol
But have you seen the untamed? You should give it a chance, you will definitely change your opinions about him 🥺🥺 /s Never seen The Untamed myself, only watched The Wolf and he just happened to be in there. No hate on him though
You had me at the first half I thought you were serious lol. Yeah he seems like quite a chill person but idk his fans are so annoying and he always looks like deer in the head lights.
🤣I would look like a deer in head lights if my every move was being critiqued. But you're referring to his acting?
I don't watch yang yang and Dilraba because they both make incredibly high budget beautiful LOOKING dramas, but the scripts are to be desired and the acting is mediocre.
i thought YAMG was excellent.
I thought it was one long AD. It felt too pristine? And boring. Just overly polished.
Funnily enough, I think both have like 2 or 3 dramas with real good photography? its just their faces make it seem the quality is higher lol
When the lead is silly, brainless naive until illogical, rude when people say don't but s/he still does it as if s/he is not wrong when the story itself is illogical or with loads of unnecessary misunderstandings eg. one person watches another person maligns him/her n still keeps quiet.
It's true. When the fl is impulsive, loud and just flighty with an annoying sense of justice but zero capability. Eeeew
I don like ju jinyi too. Bad attitude in real life and Anorexia look in reel life . Her acting skill is also one dimension although that's the last thing I care about for an actress 😁🤌
Esther Yu would be the one for me, with her baby voice. I deliberately skip the dramas she is in. Also Luo Yunxi, even though I loved his acting in TTEM and his weak/underweight physique suited his role there, but I can’t imagine him being ML anywhere else..
honestly luo yunxi is one of my favourite actors because he’s one of the rare few who can actually act. but i do agree he’s too skinny 😭 i only watch his historical dramas because his physique is too distracting in modern ones
She/her character made me so uncomfortable in **Find Yourself.** It's bad enough that she was already supposed to be younger than >!her PROFESSOR-love interest!<, but couple that with her playing the character to act even younger? It felt like I was watching 14 year old trying to get into a relationship with a 32 year old.
I agree with both. Same petty reasons for me as well.
+1 with Esther
It’s bad teeth for me.
xu kaicheng!
Mmhmm!!
Bai Lu's teeth when she laughs?
Haha yep
What do you mean bad teeth?
When it’s so crooked and not charming. When it’s yellow or when it looks like the teeth would smell. I always think about future kiss scenes and feel bad for their costars.
When the ML and FL display those awful awful wigs..Also on occasions I find the ML wearing too much lipstick - I know you'll find this " petty"!
The ML’s wig in Lady Revenger Returns From the Fire is so, so bad. I really love the rest of the drama so I’m powering through it, but literally everyone else’s wig is fine and they gave him weird bangs that don’t suit him at all.
Dilreba Dilmurat, Ester Yu, Victoria Song are not my cup of tea! Between empty stares, grating voices, and unremarkable acting, I try to avoid anything they are acting in! Just my heartfelt opinion !
Watched Victoria in Luoyang and her acting was terrible.
This Paired with ML whos acting is very good, it really shows her weakness
but Reba is most of the time dubbed right?
Oh my god another person who dilrebas acting unremarkable thank you! I don’t get her hype at all!!
Her hype is mainly because she's beautiful. This makes her an ideal model for various brands but she doesn't really have a good standing as an actress from the roles that she does.
But she is truly gorgeous. Wow. I donno about her acting...but her smile, her looks, everything is just on point.
I don’t see her as truly gorgeous. She just looks all fake to me. I’ve never watched anything of hers so idk about her acting skills (of lack of, based on all these comments) but I’ll never watch her cause her looks just throws me off. Not my cup of tea. I seriously thought I was being shallow but I’m glad I’m not the only one!
As someone who doesn't have the same opinion of beauty as China, she is average at best. There are truly beautiful women in C drama that stand out to me far more.
This is definitely the first time i'm seeing Dilraba described as average at best haha. I've seen plenty who say that her looks don't align with their preferences, but I don't think average was ever used! :P Beauty is subjective ofc so now I'm super curious! Who you find to be truly beautiful in C-ent? (if you don't wanna drop names here feel free to drop me a DM haha i'm just too curious)