for what it's worth I did finish SDC3 like a month ago

[cathyw]

...and when they made Boubou and Yang Kai battle to "Wu Gan" in the finals almost all my other thoughts drained out of my head. Whatever Yibo said about the battle was subtitled as "I'm quite vexed" and I suspect at a minimum what he was thinking was not suitable for a family program even if your standard for "suitable for a family program" includes a pair of jeans that announces that one's cock is gluten-free.

put me down as vexed right along with you there, Yibo. having your dancers battle each other was bad, but using your music to do it was twisting the knife.

(another person whose feels I felt: Su Lian Ya. "My first ever battle I had to go up against Boubou and Yang Kai and I didn't win but I also didn't run away screaming before it started and that's its own kind of victory.")

wasn't surprised Boubou lost, I'd realized a few episodes back that he wasn't going to be allowed to win. wasn't surprised his "home life" video was about how much he loved living in China and was having a great time getting acculturated there and learning the language. (the other memorable home life video: Lin's largely consisting of his mom dragging him around town to brag about him to all the local aunties. :) couldn't help but wonder how many of the local aunties had given her crap about "your son's a *dancer*? hrmph.")

The actual final battle actually felt anticlimactic, maybe because I'd never formed much in the way of an opinion about Chao? but Yang Kai's stamina. Damn.

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[lunarriviera]

magnificent recap. and yeah i wondered about "i'm quite vexed" as well. "i'm gonna kill whatever motherfucker came up with this idea" seems more likely—

"but i also didn't run away screaming before it started" XD

at least they brought bouboo back in sdc4! and he's gotten so much work since then, which is great—

[lunarriviera]

(also DAMN i haven't thought about the gluten-free cock jeans in SO LONG, what a memory)

[cathyw]

it boggles my mind that they exist, and apparently are his own jeans given that he's worn them on more than one occasion, and that one time I googled they were on sale for more than my monthly mortgage payment. (and then google helpfully showed me ads for those jeans for like a month.)

and then add to it all that at least one of the occasions he wore them was on DAY DAY UP and I just can't.

[lunarriviera]

NOT DAY DAY UP, GOOD GOD—CHILDREN watch that show!

i recently found out that one of long-ge's t-shirts costs like a thousand dollars and i was almost as upset as when my friend cas found out that her bts bias carries a birkin bag. (though it was louis vuitton so presumably it was given to him. BUT STILL. JESUS CRISP.)

[cathyw]

I assume he got by on "it's small writing and the children can't read English." :)

celebrity wardrobe pricing generally makes me kind of depressed and upset, except that it means there actually is a non-zero number of people who would pay $200 for custom-made hand-knit socks, I'm just unlikely to ever be in the position to sell them a pair.

alas.