Season 2 feels like a commercial for China tourism

Four seasons, this the second, and while the premise of the franchise is to search for Mu cities all over the world, almost the entire second season feels like a massive commercial for Chinese tourism.

You've got Chinese pirates, then Shaolin monks, then an extended sequence where Esteban has to take the place of the Chinese prince in the Forbidden City (!!!), and then a showdown with Mongol raiders at the unfinished Great Wall of China!

You can tell they were really milking it for all it's worth, and even the documentaries that MCoG is famous for is almost all centred on Chinese culture.

The worst moment is where Esteban, in disguise, has to entertain the Emperor (who thinks Esteban is his son) together with a camp dance troupe, in costume and everything! I never DREAMED I would be seeing this in this franchise!

What were the producers of this rebirth thinking, to cater to the so-called "large Chinese market" as Hollywood and many other Western studios have done? The Chinese don't care about the West, in fact many aspects of Western culture are banned in China, so why should we care about them? It's all a fucking money-making exercise, as usual.