Mom, I got a call today. ZGDX wants me to play on their 🎧Esports🕹 team..."
"Well I got a call today too. I won a Rolls-Royce just because I bought a fish at the supermarket." Mom isn't easily impressed.
Esports. E...Sports? They've got the fittest fingers in the world! But parents don't believe it's a suitable way to make a living. Dad chimes in that "cool" isn't a valid factor in choosing a career. Now that Tong Yao has graduated, it's time to forget games and get a J. O. B. But these esports dudes are prettier than a K-pop boy band! What's a gurl to do? Hmmm? A girl's gonna get to Shanghai and give it serious consideration.
But Yao's ex is in Shanghai playing for an opposing team... Whatever, she's so over him. As soon as Yao signs with ZGDX, mom changes the family chat heading from Happy😀Family to Unhappy😥Family... The fans are in an uproar. Her teammates aren't thrilled to have the first girl player in the league. Biscuit, the 🐈, is the only one who's happy. Just looking at Cheng's fish tank and dreaming of the catch keeps him Smiling.
FIYS is a 2021 release that is rated 8.6 on MDL. It is 1 season consisting of 31 45-minute episodes. It's proof that Xu Kai's smile can carry a show, as FIYS makes the Hallmark Channel look like the Smithsonian Channel. I flinched at the inane dialogue and weak plot devices a few times. From one sappy speech to the next, there's a heavily manufactured feel. At times even the romance feels rather staged (and at other times it's charming). Someone actually orders shark fin soup - Hey, China! That is not alright. Shark fin soup is derived from a brutal practice in which the fin is cut off and the shark is left to sink to the ocean floor and die slowly. This unnecessary cruelty should be banned🚫universally. They do not do a good job drawing the viewer into the competition; the viewer knows very little about what's happening on the screen. One can't help but compare it to The King's Avatar(8), which does a superb job of heightening game play drama and excitement. KA has no romance, but it has spectacular graphics. The tiny screen with tinier characters running around and tinny sound effects is less than exciting in FIYS. I got caught up on my shopping kist during the game play because it adds nothing to the equation until the last competition. As of ep7 it still feels like set up - things haven't gotten rolling yet. Perhaps by ep9 or 10 things finally emerge from set-up mode. Then playas gonna play, and haters gonna hate - because this new girl has *ganked the sport's #1 attraction, Chessman. She's claimed ownership. The fans are in a frenzy.
*gank -verb; to take or steal (something); in a video game, to use underhand means to defeat or kill - good word.
Chinese esports fans in this show are really rough, and I'm from right outside of Philadelphia - I know tough fans. FIYS is a 31 episode sermon against cyber bullying with a romance tucked into it. But it's cute, and it passes the time pleasantly. And, hey, it's got cats. Dogs are great, too, but cats are underrepresented and downright abused in Western media. The adorable Xu Kai (Ancient Love Poetry-8.6, Once Upon a Time in Lingjian Mountain-7.5) is Lu Si Cheng. No complaints. Notta one. Cheng Xiao (The World of Fantasy) plays Tong Yao, who is fleet of finger and can play many different RPG characters. Since opposing teams get to ban a certain number of characters, this is a necessary skill.
The romance is like a low drama Sunday stroll. What's a girl supposed to do when she hasn't quite made up her mind, yet the man of any girl's dreams gives her 2 hours to accept or reject him? She ain't ready. He pulls a stunt to seal the deal. He knows how to strategize, afterall. He seems to be into her rather quickly, particularly her bunny bra that he accidentally saw one day. In ep1 it's: "No one would look at you." and in ep11 it's, "my intermittent blindness." Soon, his bunny/carrot analogies are nibbling at her. By ep21 it's: "Your hands are so soft." From the outside it looks like this: "One of you is too proud and the other is too arrogant. Do you intend to fight for life?" They are required to live stream for several hours a month while they practice. Since they sit next to eachother, the fans quickly pick up on the tension between them and the junk that they're airing out, both knowingly and unknowingly.
Now for the Scooby snacks.
🍬They pay subtle deference to The King's Avatar. Their uniforms are nearly the same as the ones that Team Happy wore in KA with some black added in. In ep1 a player on the other team is Yang. They're yelling "Yang! Yang!" It feels like a shout-out to The KA which stars Yang Yang.
🍬The soundtrack is loaded with beautiful piano and violin.
🍬Top lane, top laner, topsolo. Bottom lane. Bottom laner. Middle lane. Midsolo. Jungler. Shooter. Support. Gank. The lingo is fun.
🍬China loves Tolkien. One of the teams is Orcs of Doom. I've seen other references to Tolkien's works in Chinese shows.
🍬A great touch that they should have worked in more often is animation accents. They review the week's quotes with fun word animation bouncing around the screen. Great sequence. When she's tired, a hand-drawn energy bar in the red-zone and a mostly depleted heart are following her around. Less is not more in this case. More fun touches like that would have been an enhancement.
🍬"Your aesthetics are a reference for exclusion," she says as she puts back the shoes that he picked out😂.
🍬The Big BAD🇰🇷Koreans on the other teams... given the history, and the fact that with a population of around 50M to China's 1.4B, SK is 0.036% China's size, that's funny. They also make reference to watching Kdramas💖
🍬Poor chubadub. Every time something intimate happens, he happens upon it, and he just don't wanna see it!
Love can overcome the odds, and this adorable couple does manage to eke out a win, despite the above mentioned hindrances. At least that's what the ratings demonstrate. This would probably be more popular with tween and teen girls than any other group. She's a touch stiff; maybe it's just him carrying the show... The poor dialogue and plot drivers do lower the degree of difficulty, so the top score is ceilinged well under its full potential. Romance junkies will tolerate this well, but others will relate to it worse than parents will to a career playing video games.
QUOTES📢
It's safer to be a wimp.
What's yours will be yours; otherwise could you take it by force?
Never take the enemy lightly. Don't fight unprepared battles.
〰🖍 IMHO
📣6.3 📝5 🎭6.7 💓6 🦋6 🎨5 🎵/🔊7.5 🔚7 ▪ 🌞5 ⚡2 😅2.5 😭2 😱2 😯2 😖1 🤔3 💤4
Age 13+ Language: PG-13 he!!, d@mn, etc
Rated TV-14: Parents Strongly Cautioned. ..
Re-📺? Nah, and with the benefit of foreknowledge, I would not watch it for the first time, though it certainly has its bright moments.
In order of ~lite & trite~ to ~heavy & serious~ you may also like:
Historical/Period: Overlord 8.4, The Sleepless Princess 9.1 (there's a minor fantasy element), The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8, Under the Power 8.6,
K: My Only Love Song 8.7 excellent comedy; Mr. Queen 8.5; My Sassy Girl / Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo 8.5;
Fantasy - Heavenly realm: Love Between Fairy & Devil 8.9; Once upon a time in Linglian Mountain 7.5; Douluo Continent 9.4; Handsome siblings 8.7; Heavenly Sword 9 (Kung-fu!); Ancient Love Poetry 8.6;
Modern Day romance: Well-Intended Love 7.5 Rom-porn - extra points for the dopamine; Find Yourself 8.9 all around excellent; A Little Thing Called First Love 8.5
K: A Witch's Love 7.8; love To Hate You 8.9; Crash Landing On You 9.1; Oh My Ghost 10; It's okay not to be okay 9; My Mister 9.5;
K Action: K2 8; Private Lives 8.1; Sisyphus 8; Tunnel 8.1; Signal 8.6; Black 9; Squid Game 8.4; Kingdom 8.3; Sweet Home 8.4
Japanese lite romcoms: Maid Sama (10), Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo (7.8), Love, Chunibyo And Other Delusions (8.4), Toradora (8.5)
🕍
"Well I got a call today too. I won a Rolls-Royce just because I bought a fish at the supermarket." Mom isn't easily impressed.
Esports. E...Sports? They've got the fittest fingers in the world! But parents don't believe it's a suitable way to make a living. Dad chimes in that "cool" isn't a valid factor in choosing a career. Now that Tong Yao has graduated, it's time to forget games and get a J. O. B. But these esports dudes are prettier than a K-pop boy band! What's a gurl to do? Hmmm? A girl's gonna get to Shanghai and give it serious consideration.
But Yao's ex is in Shanghai playing for an opposing team... Whatever, she's so over him. As soon as Yao signs with ZGDX, mom changes the family chat heading from Happy😀Family to Unhappy😥Family... The fans are in an uproar. Her teammates aren't thrilled to have the first girl player in the league. Biscuit, the 🐈, is the only one who's happy. Just looking at Cheng's fish tank and dreaming of the catch keeps him Smiling.
FIYS is a 2021 release that is rated 8.6 on MDL. It is 1 season consisting of 31 45-minute episodes. It's proof that Xu Kai's smile can carry a show, as FIYS makes the Hallmark Channel look like the Smithsonian Channel. I flinched at the inane dialogue and weak plot devices a few times. From one sappy speech to the next, there's a heavily manufactured feel. At times even the romance feels rather staged (and at other times it's charming). Someone actually orders shark fin soup - Hey, China! That is not alright. Shark fin soup is derived from a brutal practice in which the fin is cut off and the shark is left to sink to the ocean floor and die slowly. This unnecessary cruelty should be banned🚫universally. They do not do a good job drawing the viewer into the competition; the viewer knows very little about what's happening on the screen. One can't help but compare it to The King's Avatar(8), which does a superb job of heightening game play drama and excitement. KA has no romance, but it has spectacular graphics. The tiny screen with tinier characters running around and tinny sound effects is less than exciting in FIYS. I got caught up on my shopping kist during the game play because it adds nothing to the equation until the last competition. As of ep7 it still feels like set up - things haven't gotten rolling yet. Perhaps by ep9 or 10 things finally emerge from set-up mode. Then playas gonna play, and haters gonna hate - because this new girl has *ganked the sport's #1 attraction, Chessman. She's claimed ownership. The fans are in a frenzy.
*gank -verb; to take or steal (something); in a video game, to use underhand means to defeat or kill - good word.
Chinese esports fans in this show are really rough, and I'm from right outside of Philadelphia - I know tough fans. FIYS is a 31 episode sermon against cyber bullying with a romance tucked into it. But it's cute, and it passes the time pleasantly. And, hey, it's got cats. Dogs are great, too, but cats are underrepresented and downright abused in Western media. The adorable Xu Kai (Ancient Love Poetry-8.6, Once Upon a Time in Lingjian Mountain-7.5) is Lu Si Cheng. No complaints. Notta one. Cheng Xiao (The World of Fantasy) plays Tong Yao, who is fleet of finger and can play many different RPG characters. Since opposing teams get to ban a certain number of characters, this is a necessary skill.
The romance is like a low drama Sunday stroll. What's a girl supposed to do when she hasn't quite made up her mind, yet the man of any girl's dreams gives her 2 hours to accept or reject him? She ain't ready. He pulls a stunt to seal the deal. He knows how to strategize, afterall. He seems to be into her rather quickly, particularly her bunny bra that he accidentally saw one day. In ep1 it's: "No one would look at you." and in ep11 it's, "my intermittent blindness." Soon, his bunny/carrot analogies are nibbling at her. By ep21 it's: "Your hands are so soft." From the outside it looks like this: "One of you is too proud and the other is too arrogant. Do you intend to fight for life?" They are required to live stream for several hours a month while they practice. Since they sit next to eachother, the fans quickly pick up on the tension between them and the junk that they're airing out, both knowingly and unknowingly.
Now for the Scooby snacks.
🍬They pay subtle deference to The King's Avatar. Their uniforms are nearly the same as the ones that Team Happy wore in KA with some black added in. In ep1 a player on the other team is Yang. They're yelling "Yang! Yang!" It feels like a shout-out to The KA which stars Yang Yang.
🍬The soundtrack is loaded with beautiful piano and violin.
🍬Top lane, top laner, topsolo. Bottom lane. Bottom laner. Middle lane. Midsolo. Jungler. Shooter. Support. Gank. The lingo is fun.
🍬China loves Tolkien. One of the teams is Orcs of Doom. I've seen other references to Tolkien's works in Chinese shows.
🍬A great touch that they should have worked in more often is animation accents. They review the week's quotes with fun word animation bouncing around the screen. Great sequence. When she's tired, a hand-drawn energy bar in the red-zone and a mostly depleted heart are following her around. Less is not more in this case. More fun touches like that would have been an enhancement.
🍬"Your aesthetics are a reference for exclusion," she says as she puts back the shoes that he picked out😂.
🍬The Big BAD🇰🇷Koreans on the other teams... given the history, and the fact that with a population of around 50M to China's 1.4B, SK is 0.036% China's size, that's funny. They also make reference to watching Kdramas💖
🍬Poor chubadub. Every time something intimate happens, he happens upon it, and he just don't wanna see it!
Love can overcome the odds, and this adorable couple does manage to eke out a win, despite the above mentioned hindrances. At least that's what the ratings demonstrate. This would probably be more popular with tween and teen girls than any other group. She's a touch stiff; maybe it's just him carrying the show... The poor dialogue and plot drivers do lower the degree of difficulty, so the top score is ceilinged well under its full potential. Romance junkies will tolerate this well, but others will relate to it worse than parents will to a career playing video games.
QUOTES📢
It's safer to be a wimp.
What's yours will be yours; otherwise could you take it by force?
Never take the enemy lightly. Don't fight unprepared battles.
〰🖍 IMHO
📣6.3 📝5 🎭6.7 💓6 🦋6 🎨5 🎵/🔊7.5 🔚7 ▪ 🌞5 ⚡2 😅2.5 😭2 😱2 😯2 😖1 🤔3 💤4
Age 13+ Language: PG-13 he!!, d@mn, etc
Rated TV-14: Parents Strongly Cautioned. ..
Re-📺? Nah, and with the benefit of foreknowledge, I would not watch it for the first time, though it certainly has its bright moments.
In order of ~lite & trite~ to ~heavy & serious~ you may also like:
Historical/Period: Overlord 8.4, The Sleepless Princess 9.1 (there's a minor fantasy element), The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8, Under the Power 8.6,
K: My Only Love Song 8.7 excellent comedy; Mr. Queen 8.5; My Sassy Girl / Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo 8.5;
Fantasy - Heavenly realm: Love Between Fairy & Devil 8.9; Once upon a time in Linglian Mountain 7.5; Douluo Continent 9.4; Handsome siblings 8.7; Heavenly Sword 9 (Kung-fu!); Ancient Love Poetry 8.6;
Modern Day romance: Well-Intended Love 7.5 Rom-porn - extra points for the dopamine; Find Yourself 8.9 all around excellent; A Little Thing Called First Love 8.5
K: A Witch's Love 7.8; love To Hate You 8.9; Crash Landing On You 9.1; Oh My Ghost 10; It's okay not to be okay 9; My Mister 9.5;
K Action: K2 8; Private Lives 8.1; Sisyphus 8; Tunnel 8.1; Signal 8.6; Black 9; Squid Game 8.4; Kingdom 8.3; Sweet Home 8.4
Japanese lite romcoms: Maid Sama (10), Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo (7.8), Love, Chunibyo And Other Delusions (8.4), Toradora (8.5)
🕍