La Belle Laide

AHHHHH I want to watch Yibo in War of Faith or Storm Chaser or whatever it is, but I will definitely have to skip the t0rture scenes DDDDDD: It's weird because I am the most massive h/c person in the world when it comes to characters. But something about those scenes crosses a few of my lines in that "I know it when I see it" kind of way. For me, it hits all the Gs: too gritty, too graphic, too gruesome, and too gratuitous.

In something like Legend of Fei--and actually, Xiao Zhan in CQL--I feel like the injuries and sicknesses in those were magical in nature, so they were fine for me to watch. (Though I always do skip through Wen Ning's death - and the Jiang kid 😭 - honestly I have never watched either of those scenes, I am quick with the FF button. Wanton cruelty is hard for me to watch being depicted.) But there were t0rture scenes in CQL also and they didn't bother me. And we spent most of LoF watching Yibo slowly die and I was okay with it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm trying to figure out why Wen Chao brutally beating Wei Wuxian was fine to watch, but from what I've seen of War Of Faith t0rture scenes, that's a huge no for me.

On a side note I also have to say that I read all the behind-the-scenes stuff about how it was really cold while they were filming that, and everyone else was wearing coats but he was just in his torn up shirt and how everyone is so proud of him for that. It was the same when he did that fighter pilot one and he worked while he was really sick and everyone was like "YAY! Such dedication, what a great actor!" I really wish people would get over this glorification of working in bad conditions. It's not okay.

Which is not a reflection on Yibo; I think he's always been a terrific actor, but these days he's really grown, and become fully amazing and really watchable. To the point where I think I can could him as one of my all-time favorite actors!