White Cat Legend
Dec. 12th, 2022 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryI was going to post this as part of a Media Round Up, but it just keep getting longer and longer so I decided to make it post on it's own.
My (mostly) doungha group watch recently started a new show and while we were figuring out what to watch I asked for recs. This was one of the shows that was recced that we didn't end up watching this time. But it sounded really good so I decided to watch it anyway. I’ve been having trouble focusing on 45 minute episodes so it was nice to have something with 15-20 min episodes. Even so it took me three weeks to watch all 12 episodes.
White Cat Legend is a historical dounghua set in Tang Luoyang. It features a cat demon who becomes a magistrate and various people who work for him. I enjoy the cityscapes and the small scale mysteries so much. The festival scenes are also amazing! There are some good fight scenes too. I didn't fully understand the larger plot though
This is full of what I'm coming to recognize as typical c-ent racism against central Asian people. A bunch of bad guys are coded as central Asian, and the non Han dude who is part of the main team is exoticized, as is the central Asian woman general.
Also I don't feel like I fully understand what is going on with Wu Zetian in this but I'm uncomfortable with how child-like she is here. The show clearly takes a negative view of her, as scheming despot, so its confusing that she’s shown as not understanding what’s going on.
This also ends in a terrible spot! A cliffhanger and so many things unexplained! I hope they get another season.
Overall this was fun and very pretty, but had a lot of flaws. I’m glad I watched it because the depictions of Luoyang were great and I enjoyed the characters and their relationships.
(CW gore, cartoon violence, off screen cruel and unusual punishment, war flashbacks)
My (mostly) doungha group watch recently started a new show and while we were figuring out what to watch I asked for recs. This was one of the shows that was recced that we didn't end up watching this time. But it sounded really good so I decided to watch it anyway. I’ve been having trouble focusing on 45 minute episodes so it was nice to have something with 15-20 min episodes. Even so it took me three weeks to watch all 12 episodes.
White Cat Legend is a historical dounghua set in Tang Luoyang. It features a cat demon who becomes a magistrate and various people who work for him. I enjoy the cityscapes and the small scale mysteries so much. The festival scenes are also amazing! There are some good fight scenes too. I didn't fully understand the larger plot though
This is full of what I'm coming to recognize as typical c-ent racism against central Asian people. A bunch of bad guys are coded as central Asian, and the non Han dude who is part of the main team is exoticized, as is the central Asian woman general.
Also I don't feel like I fully understand what is going on with Wu Zetian in this but I'm uncomfortable with how child-like she is here. The show clearly takes a negative view of her, as scheming despot, so its confusing that she’s shown as not understanding what’s going on.
This also ends in a terrible spot! A cliffhanger and so many things unexplained! I hope they get another season.
Overall this was fun and very pretty, but had a lot of flaws. I’m glad I watched it because the depictions of Luoyang were great and I enjoyed the characters and their relationships.
(CW gore, cartoon violence, off screen cruel and unusual punishment, war flashbacks)
