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Like clearly Teresa has been manipulating him his whole (?) life.
And now the whole gang immediately jumps to 'ooooh he’s the bad guy' any chance they get.
Honestly, I’m tired of this whodunit 'mystery' on WIndy.
Like we’ve seen almost everyone on this show seriously hurt/kill/nearly kill someone, even Hoyt, like, twice. But at this point it’s pretty clear Tom wasn’t going to kill the Collinses AND tried to stop Shane from doing that, but like I have a feeling even once they resolve it everyone would be like, ‘But you initially agreed! Oooh such a bad person!’ And I’m tired of WIndy scapegoating Tom. Yes, he’s not THE good person™ but every other character acts as if he’s the only one who’s done fucked up things. He isn’t.
I wanted to make a vid just about just Tom this week, but 1x12 just left me... Tired af. Like even Gus saw Shane torturing Tom and still went, 'yeah, um, you’re bad, I’m arresting you'.
The promo for 1x13 looks amazing but Abby jumping from, ‘Tom’s bad’ to ‘Tom’s good’ to ‘Tom’s bad’ in the span of 48 hours without asking any questions is just... No, nope. Looks very pretty and next week I’ll probably be jumping from joy, but not now.
Tom needs a break and a hug. I need a break and to stop getting so attached to characters. I feel like I’m back watching Merlin when they tried to blame Morgana for literally anything and everything and it’s not a good feeling. :/ I literally don’t have it in me to vid this week, sorry.
Promo is truly kicking up for #WIndy. That's how professionals do their marketing! I can't wait until we can either watch the panel or read Damian's article!
So, I took one for the team and compared the commercials for last week's TW, Windy, and Walker. Some ad overlap but also some interesting differences:
TW: iPad, iPhone, Marvel, Disney, Amazon Prime Video young romance films, Jeep car ads, 4 Kohls/Old Navy/Walmart ads, lots of ads with Millennials.
Walker: iPhone, Shingles vaccine (for those over 50), Medicare health plans, Olay wrinkle cream, Ford car ads, 2 Kohls ads, a mental health ad, some ads with Millenials.
Windy: iPad, Disney, Shingles vaccine, flu shot, dry skin cream, probiotic, ads with grandkids, 8 Kohls/Old Navy/Walmart/grocery store ads, no car ads.
Gosh, I wonder which viewer demos watch which shows, lol.
Ironically this shows more faith in Windy than Walker. Its demo runs lower but it's running lower in a later slot. Its digitals through the app, however, are a multiplier over Walker's, and like I said, the ad bundles are shared.
Walmart is higher end. Disney is higher end. The i ones are mutual.
But you'll notice TW is the collection of all the top ones. Amazon, Disney, Marvel, Ipad, iphone, Walmart, etc.
I'd be interested in the breakdown of the store ads, whether it was a dump of repeat ads bought cheap or more varied.
You'll notice you also just listed. Less. For Walker. Because there's less ad buy, so they just shovel it full of other show promos hoping to catch people to a sustainable show.
You see what I mean. Ads tell all.
Stuff like this is why I floated the potential of them ending Walker before the budget inflates and trying to catch the audience into Windy since it's higher value to nexstar's digitals by like 2x, and if it moved into Walker's slot it could pull at least the same numbers, and as a newer production it's lower budget. It MIGHT be sustainable that way.
These decisions aren't even squared away at Nexstar yet, so when you hear me floating these ideas, imagine I'm just representing a few different voices at a corporate table debating the best monetization methods of the channel.
This pair of figs looks like Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan - but it's actually two of their characters!
This Double Xu features Zhehan as (modern) Xu Jin from The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion, and Gong Jun as Xu Si from Rising with the Wind (to be aired).
I still have The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion on my to-watch queue, so I haven't caught up with our sparkly-eyed modern Duke Su yet. I don't want to spoil myself (or you!) so I'll simply add a promo pic of him for fig comparison purposes:
Keen-eyed observation notes he looks broad shouldered and super cuddly in that soft looking cardigan.
Wait a minute, the fig is of him in a suit, not a cardigan! Hold on, hold on, let me get a promo pic of him in a suit...
Hmm, there we go. That suit matches the fig, although it needs the coat over it. I'll come back once I've properly watched the show!
Xu Si is Gong Jun's genius investor character from Rising with the Wind, which should be hopefully airing soon. Xu Si was spotted during filming wearing a lot of very beautiful suits and coats, such as:
But let's not talk about that so much in order to jump right to the fig maker's bonus for the first 1,000 buyers.
The fig maker offered this lovely bonus of an A5 folder with artwork of the two of them. This is what you saw featured as a fig background and you can see the full view of here:
Rooftop proposals are always in style! And YES, let's talk about this.
You may recognize that handsome pose from this handsome photo:
Yes, here we have Gong Jun wearing a gorgeous long coat over a gorgeous tuxedo and looking like a 100 million billion dollars yuan. This photo shoot of him striding across the Shanghai Peninsula Hotel helipad like he owns Shanghai himself, his long coat billowing and snapping in the wind, is pretty much everything I've ever wanted in a visual ever.
This photo shoot was done on 12-21-2021, during filming of Rising with the Wind.
Hot damn. If you will recall from me raving about Zhehan's Weibo Night McQueen frock coat, I have an intense weakness for long coats. They are my favorite. He is debonair in this.
Incredible. Wow, do we ever have exceptional taste, I must congratulate us.
Ok, I could stay here all night staring at these photos, but we have figs to talk about!
Look at that dapper suit and tux and those shiny shoes! Those Oxfords are polished to a mirror shine. I like it when each other has the other's symbol in their eyes, so we have Gong Jun Xu Si (ugh, it's hard to stay in the JZUniverse for this!) staring at his moon and Xu Jin literally starry-eyed looking at his beautiful star.
You notice the ring in Xu Ji's hand? Yep. Really, these figs are a blend of JZEU and Junzhe.
The white rose Zhehan / Xu Jin is holding is of course a nod to Zhehan's comment that if he ever confessed his love, he would confess it with a white rose, as well as Gong Jun's single white rose his assistant was spotted with during filming:
Oops, so easy to get distracted by all the symbolism. Onwards!
Love the detail on the rose here, and little flip in the back of Xu Si's coat (it must get windy on that helipad indeed!). The fig maker did a nice job with the hair - really captured Xu Jin's hairstyle from the show, and we have Xu Si's expensive layered cut.
Interestingly not much of a height difference on these figs. Xu Jin is pretty tall in the future. We have a bit of a forward lean on both of these handsome men, but otherwise they stand pretty well.
I like the coat detail of each of their hands in their pockets. Ugh I love the long coat even from the back, that's how deep the love for gorgeous long coats goes.
Top view - they're very seriously and cutely talking about their upcoming wedding plans.
Extreme closeup of their outfits, the rose, and the ring! I love Xu Jin's uwu mouth (because of course I do, that mouth shape is so cute!)
Xu Si's Serious Investor Face together with his Serious Investor Mouth looks frowny from this angle (sorry guys, I don't look good in an upshot angle myself!), but from a regular straight on view he just looks Serious. Well, I guess proposing to the love of your life IS the most Serious Business there can be!
Look at the heel on these shoes! The detail in these! I love it. What a great set of figs.
I'm not sure why there's chocolate bars on the box cards, but I'm not here to question artistic choices in fig designs. Maybe a better question is why not have chocolate bars on the box cards?
Now I kind of do want some chocolate. Advertising of the cutest kind! I'll buy it all!
Material: PVC (and apparently different percentages of cocoa)