#kung fu cw spoilers

[dotthings]

Kung Fu 3.07 "Villains" WELL THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY

Pei-Ling and Zhilan. These sisters. Zhilan offers Pei-Ling an apology for, y'know, murdering her, and Pei-Ling apologizes for abandoning Zhilan. There's so much hurt and history and also love between those two. And then they lose Pei-Ling again, for now, because Xiao and her Harvester, Bo, trick them all.

Xiao attacking Mei-Ling, in the Shen home, and Jin saving the day clobbering Xiao with a vase. Jin, who insists on speaking with his own voice, from his heart, while running for office. Mei-Ling, mirroring her husband, determined to assert her rights over her own restaurant again. They're different yet so well matched and similar in many ways and both are so strong-willed. The epic love story of Mei-Ling and Jin.

Nicky standing between Xiao and Mei-Ling, Jin, and Althea like a tiger protecting her cubs and she has claws but can't bring herself to use the knife because of her love for her again-possessed shifu. Nicky fights for love, out of love, always.

The Sebryannnnnnnnnn. "I have to. It's Seb." Seb pulled Ryan out of his coma, and Ryan's not going to give up on Seb. So he'll go into the dark, against a dangerous ancient warrior hunting all the shoobies through the building, to save Seb. And they do save Seb, but because of Seb's past, being possessed by Xiao dredges up a lot of things he wishes he could leave in the past, and because Xiao made Seb hurt Ryan while she possessed him. Ryan the very last person in the world Seb would ever want to hurt.

Ryan really was an mvp in this ep. Using his medical knowledge, science, and applying it to magic, to solve things and run the tests and then he figured out that the lids had been switched, and Ryan, the healer, who doesn't have much in the way of fight training, the gentle scientist, refusing to stay behind in the hurt for Xiao, so he could save Seb.

But Seb. First he loses his spot at Harmony Dumplings and it puts a rift between him and his friend Mei-Li, now he's terrified because of what happened while he was possessed, due to that trauma and his love for Ryan, and can't be with Ryan right now. Seb felt so rootless before he met Ryan and right now he's on his own. By his choice, and I hope he realizes that's not the way, and he can lean on the people he loves, his discovered family, and the love of his life, and I'm having a lot of Seb angst.

[thelivingsin]

contains kung fu panda 4 spoilers

what zhen did was a call for help. to tell that the "she" everyone sees isn't entirely her, that she was only who her master wants her to be. she couldn't escape her even if she wanted to and can—the poor fox only wanted survival and a home to begin with—and the only thing that would make her is help. zhen's actually a very gentle person and she's lucky to have po see the good within her.

[thelolarahaii]

what hits so hard about the scene after pei-ling's death is that nicky never knew that zhilan was only alive for pei-ling. i think while nicky thought they were saying goodbye because zhilan was gonna go somewhere else, there was a deeper meaning for zhilan bc she honestly didn't know if she was gonna ever see nicky again

[revenge-of-the-shit]

Just watched Joy Ride (2023) and mixed thoughts.

Spoilers below!!

It was really, really refreshing to see East Asian women being portrayed as unapologetically raunchy and messy and terrible and fucked up. It's the first time I've seen a movie where they're NOT some out together socialite or kung fu badass or a fetishized dragon lady or delicate lotus flower. The characterization was well done and I felt like they were fleshed out pretty well, and it was a very sex-positive portrayal of East Asian women and it was done ENTIRELY without fetishizing them. It's a low bar to pass and the fact that this is the first movie I've seen that passes this bar is... depressing but it was very nice to see that they can be trashy and sexy and just be themselves.

It's the typical sort of humour you'd expect from an R-rated comedy. Not my sort of thing entirely, but I had some laughs for sure and some other reviewers thought it was hilarious.

I could tell that the film was indeed made by diaspora for diaspora. There were just so many little details sprinkled through the whole thing that I could recognize from lived experience

While the film certainly made some commentary on internalized racism, I felt like it never really followed through with exploring this theme, or that when it did, it was somewhat superficial and did not really fully address it. Same goes for exploring the theme of being in-between - something that's very, very central to diaspora - as well as the identity crisis evoked by a twist I admit I was surprised by. All of these, while they had the potential to be weaved more strongly into the film, were not really fully addressed - and while this is a comedy movie, the way that all these themes were set up as serious things to address led to a rather mediocre reaction to its execution.

The female gaze is generally very, very, very present for this film, which is once again rare to see in R-rated comedies with nudity and sex. None of the four friends are ever objectified as sex objects, and anything sexual is something they choose for their own pleasure. It's a very sex-positive take, again.

Sprinkles of queer Asian experience in there too, which is nice to see. I found Deadeye to be a very compelling character as I can relate to them in several levels, and it was really really nice to see queer Asians who can be awkward, be raunchy, be terrible, be unapologetic, a d just be human.

Plot was a typical comedy plot, so not revolutionary at all and with some plot holes, but it's a plot.

One more point under the cut with bigger spoilers but also CW: Mentions of SA.

Overall, I'd give it a 6.5 - 7/10. Not great, not bad. Could've been better. Some weird spots. But it sure is something, and I'm glad to see more Asian American rep all across different genres.

One of the biggest scenes that made me feel off was a scene where Stephanie Hsu's character, Kat, has a bag of coke up her ass, and it breaks. She freaks out because she feels it entering her system and it makes her, as she says, "very horny." At this point, she and the three others are in a hotel with a bunch of hot athletic Asian men who are friends with one of the MCs. One of the men, who's also Kat's ex, tries to hit on her and hook up with her, but she tries to reject him - she also tells him that she's engaged, which he is. He does not back off and he does not take her seriously. She runs off (to the gym). He follows.

While he definitely thinks she's sober (he has no idea she's on drugs), the rest of the gals, FULLY AWARE that Kat is completely drugged out of her mind and being hit on by someone she does not want to be with, decide to go their separate ways while wishing everyone a good time and to "have fun tonight". Nobody checks on Kat.

At that point in the film I was beginning to get extremely worried that they were going to play off a date rape-esque scenario as a humorous, joking one given how the entire tone of this scene was a humorous one.

At the end, they do not have sex, thank God.

The scene between them is indeed sexually charged. What happens is that she pulls a muscle when trying to work off the energy, and he uses a muscle blaster/massage gun on her back. He does not touch her without her asking him to, but she is still under the influence of drugs (which he doesn't know...but still...). She then grabs a basketball and puts it between her thighs, and he uses the massage gun on the basketball. Afterwards, she takes the gun and uses it on his balls, and apparently shatters his pelvis. Wow

This is never addressed afterwards, ever. The scene left me feeling rather confused and more uncomfortable than anything else in the entire movie. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but something about it was clanging bells in my head.

[makeyouminemp3]

Hi! So sorry to bug you, but I was looking through the tag and I saw your post about obsessing with ships. By Henry and Nicky did you mean Henry and Nicky from Kung Fu on the CW? If so Omg I LOVE THEM! Idk if you’re caught up but s3 has been so painful for me to watch this season. How’ve you liked it?

yeah I was talking about Nicky and Henry. I LOVE THEM so much, I'm a little bit behind but from what I remember it's been a lot and they mean the world to me. I've just been caught up in other shows so catching up slowed me down.

I wish them the best, even if they're not currently together (from the last time I watched so no spoilers)

[jacquelinemoleski]

Kung Fu Season 2 Review

Series: Kung Fu Season: 2 Episodes: 13 Discs: 3 (DVD) Cast: Olivia Liang, Shannon Dang, Eddie Lui, Kheng Hua Tan, Jon Prasida, Tzi Ma, Vanessa Yao, Yvonne Chapman Network: CW DVD Format: Color, Widescreen This review includes spoilers for Season 1 of Kung Fu. I enjoyed Season 2 of Kung Fu even more than Season 1. The season is more focused, but the characters also seem to be continuously…

[tishrivers]

zhilan breaking out of prison—KING SHIT ONLY

[dotthings]

Really enjoyed reading Christina Kim and Robert Berens talk about their approaches to all the character arcs and the show's themes (spoilers for the S3 finale). Kung Fu really hit the right balance--there's pain and loss, and also a lot of growth and hopefulness (keeping fingers crossed for a S4, if not on CW, then on HBO Max).

[ohheyalex]

Ok let me watch this episode of Kung Fu, hopefully everything works out fine and Ryan lives because I would think it’d be such a bad decision to kill him off 😭

[tvcentric]

KUNG FU (2021— ) S01E01, Pilot

[powerfultenderness]

whew, for a moment i thought Mia was gonna go with Zhilan. 

I feel like that would have been the predictable route, turn the cousins against each other. they could easily drag that out to the end of the season. i like what they did instead, having Mia go back to Nicky’s family.

On another note, that scene where Nicky and Zhilan fight Tan’s men together? 😍

[lesbianmaxevans]

Nicky, I’m here for you. I am, but, uh... What?

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Henry: I saw you. Leave the gala with Evan. I know it was a crazy situation. You were hurt, and he was there. But you didn’t even tell me where you went, and I’ve been starting to think that maybe you’re not completely over him. If you have feelings for him, any feelings at all, that’s okay, but... I’m just gonna have to put a pause on... this. Nicky is clearly taken aback. Nicky: Yeah. Okay. She forces a smile.]

[spaceskam]

The excitement that flooded my system when they reveal Kerwin is still alive

[isisparker]

... so the first two minutes of episode 5 confirmed what we all suspected: Henry knows Nicky can [and has] kick his ass AND VERY MUCH LOVES IT.

Color me Pikachu Surprised Face.

[jaybear1701]

Sorry not sorry, but Nicky has more chemistry with Zhilan than with Henry and Evan combined.