I grew up watching a lot of romcoms with my parents so I figured a lot of the technical issues weren't really relevant in those cases.

Another factor is that a lot of the actors in this sequel aren't Chinese and/or don't speak Mandarin natively. (I saw the Mandarin dub so I have no idea how the English acting actually was.)

They did a manhua adaptation of them that was released in English, I'm not sure I've ever seen the original text though.

I thought the issue isn't that everyone is terrible at their jobs but they're working for at least two different organizations at any given time and not sure which commands trump at any given time. The SSR alone seemed to have to deal with Levithan I think, the council, Peggy's secret ops, and presumably hydra still?

I've always been surprised how crummy Chinese film audio is even in the original language track and theatrical release. It almost seems like a stylistic choice that voices don't quite match the lipsync?

This sounds surprisingly different from anything else Robert Aguierre Sacasa's written about these characters, granted I've only read the first trade of Afterlife with Archie and heard about that play where Archie was gay that initially got him sued by the company.

I'm not that familiar with the original movie but my interpretation was that Blaine had people working for him (generally those photogenic white upper middle class kids?) but when they ended up dead he made it seem like it was Boss's fault?

… Ravi bribes himself? Also somehow it makes relative sense to me that Major would be the one in his underwear and covered in bees.

I thought she was just judging the restaurant itself, the bros were like a third Latino and they were something of a Greek chorus representing her understanding of the menu? (I didn't catch what made the place seem particularly Sicilian/Italian aside from the guacamole pizza though)

I loved that bye/Yerba mate gag in part since they had a so much more appropriate line to mishear but intentionally went for a more awkward quasi match.

DeKnight weirdly isn't even writing it though. (He's upper middle tier as Whedon writing alum go right? In terms of hierarchy I only noticed how much I liked the actual Whedons et al, Goddard, Espenson, and Chambliss. Also Agent Carter writing team and probably Petrie? Greenberg? It's not like I noticed if there were…

Hector did get one of the more engaged bits in the Shakira number even if he wasn't even the only Latino person in the friend group?

They implied whatever they did would have been passed along the germ cells so kids would have inherited whatever went down. (Or was that only her excuse for what William would be able to do?)

I'm still not sure what to think of Reyes— I didn't hate her and it was nice to see some continuity with her season of the show but it seems somewhat like character assassination that would leave no one pleased. People who hate her probably didn't want her at all and her fans if any would probably prefer the character…

There was just an iZombie episode that could have served as a season or maybe even series finale if they didn't get more episodes but I think that one did a much better job of making it feel like old storylines were coming to a head and other dangling threads would be implicitly dealt with. It also had plenty of…

What was the other show? Even though this basically is massive spoiler territory for everything.

Did they actually explain PCR? I thought they only explains CRISPR. …And in hindsight I pretty much only know of the latter from a RadioLab and it's been awhile since I took a bio course involving labwork so maybe there's a chance it does play into cutting the appropriate portions of the former…?

What was the other dud other than this one? The premiere, graffiti, or the terrorism? (I thought the latter two were okay-ish though I could definitely see people having greater issue with the latter)

I just caught up in it to try and catch the finale— why was literally everyone in the story kind of sketchy other than the mother? Of the people trying to get retribution, who were they trying to get it on? Why were the Homeland Security people both speaking Arabic and familiar with everyone's names?

Darryl is good at secrets though, and the one terrible Canadian lawyer who troubled Paula had a night that he would never speak of with Darryl, which is pretty frequently synonymous to one night stands.