2021 in Review: Watching Things

[forestofglory]

2021 was a mixed year for watching things for me. While I did watch more things then last year, I also went through periods of not being able to watch anything. I once again watched mostly Chinese media.

By myself I watched five shows: A Girl Like Me, Russian Doll, Daily Life of the Immortal King, Word of Honor*, and The Moon Brightens for You.

Then with R I watched the second half of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 and all of the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. We keep saying we are going to get back to watching things together and then not. But hopefully soon! There’s more Trek that we are meaning to get to.

I also watched a lot of things with my online group watch, which is focused on watching Chinese media. It’s been really fun watching things and talking to people about them. We finished watching The Untamed in May, then watched Word of Honor, and last fall we started watching Nirvana in Fire which I’ve seen before but really rewards rewatching.

We also watched a bunch of animated things: Scumbag Systems, Heaven Officials Blessing, Cinderella Chef, Thousand Autumns, The Kings Avatar, and part of Can Ci Pin(we were going to watch the all it but the subtitles are broken). I enjoyed all of these and probably wouldn’t have watched them on my own.

In 2021 watched far more movies than I had in any year in recent memory. Which was only nine, but that’s a lot for me. These where almost all for my Wuxia 101 project: Come Drink with Me (1966),Reign of Assassins (2010), Hero (2002), The Grandmaster (2013), Iron Monkey(1993),A Touch of Zen (1971),The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity(2020),Enter the Dragon(1973), and Raya and the Last Dragon(2021)

In 2021 I was a slow and inconsistent watcher, a trend that I expect will continue. But I did watch several things I really enjoyed! For 2022 I look forward to watching more things with the group watch, getting around to some more shows on my to watch list, and hopefully finding time to watch things with R again. I also hope to watch some more older Wuxia



*I watched Word of Honor partly with my group watch and partly by myself, but I’m counting it here

Comments

[aoftheis]

Ooh, which of the animated shows were your favourites? Which would recommend? I'm not very good at watching live action things, but I definitely want to watch more Chinese media to practise my Mandarin and I loved the MDZS donghua. I remember you mentioning that Heaven's Official Blessing has a lot of violent/dark stuff??

[forestofglory]

My favorite show we've watched is Link Click which isn't on this list because we watched it this year. It's about people who travel back in time using photos. It's really good but also really emotionally intense! I'm glad I watched it with other people. Here, someone made a Carrd with helpful things like content warnings.

Heaven's Official Blessing was an odd mix of very pretty and very gorey.

I think you'd like Cinderella Chef its got looks of cooking and food porn, though there is some violence too.