Guardian episode 16
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waterscrollI continue to not understand what is going on and have intense feelings anyway.
Zhao Yunlan goes on a tour and finds that Dixing is, well, a kind of shitty place to live. There are no schools (just like in terrible real life right now!) and also no hospitals. The government is nonfunctioning and there's random crime on the streets. (Although Haxing's government doesn't seem to be great either so maybe I shouldn't hold that against them.) People on the streets consider Lord Black Cloak a traitor.
Right now I'm having maybe a little too much sympathy for purple-haired villain who, as he says at the end of the episode, just wants Dixing people to be able to come up to Haxing. And while I do trust this show to resolve the central romance in a way that I'm more or less ok with, and fandom to fix anything I'm not ok with with, I am not sure if I can trust the show to resolve things for the Dixing people. This is making me nervous.
I do have some confidence in Zhao Yunlan personally, though, and in his ability to not let infatuation turn off his brain and moral compass. Here he expresses some confidence that his boyfriend is on the right side of this mess while still trying to figure out what is going on. It seems...odd...that Shen Wei would let him wander Dixing like that, no matter what the necessity, but I suppose this isn't a show that you watch for absence of plotholes. And Zhao Yunlan really is making the most of his time there. Watching him gather information in a freakishly competent way is quite satisfying, and shows that in his own way he's something of a match for his terrifyingly powerful boyfriend.
Meanwhile we get to know Zhao Yunlan's dad who is 1. awesome 2. weirdly hot and 3. a Dixing person? Something else? Which means that Yunlan is also part....? I am a little taken aback by this. And the bit about Zhao Yunlan and Zhu Hong having the same polarity... I am also not sure what to make of the talking pillar. Clearly there are some mysteries about Zhao Yunlan too, and right now I don't have any good guesses.
Zhao Yunlan goes on a tour and finds that Dixing is, well, a kind of shitty place to live. There are no schools (just like in terrible real life right now!) and also no hospitals. The government is nonfunctioning and there's random crime on the streets. (Although Haxing's government doesn't seem to be great either so maybe I shouldn't hold that against them.) People on the streets consider Lord Black Cloak a traitor.
Right now I'm having maybe a little too much sympathy for purple-haired villain who, as he says at the end of the episode, just wants Dixing people to be able to come up to Haxing. And while I do trust this show to resolve the central romance in a way that I'm more or less ok with, and fandom to fix anything I'm not ok with with, I am not sure if I can trust the show to resolve things for the Dixing people. This is making me nervous.
I do have some confidence in Zhao Yunlan personally, though, and in his ability to not let infatuation turn off his brain and moral compass. Here he expresses some confidence that his boyfriend is on the right side of this mess while still trying to figure out what is going on. It seems...odd...that Shen Wei would let him wander Dixing like that, no matter what the necessity, but I suppose this isn't a show that you watch for absence of plotholes. And Zhao Yunlan really is making the most of his time there. Watching him gather information in a freakishly competent way is quite satisfying, and shows that in his own way he's something of a match for his terrifyingly powerful boyfriend.
Meanwhile we get to know Zhao Yunlan's dad who is 1. awesome 2. weirdly hot and 3. a Dixing person? Something else? Which means that Yunlan is also part....? I am a little taken aback by this. And the bit about Zhao Yunlan and Zhu Hong having the same polarity... I am also not sure what to make of the talking pillar. Clearly there are some mysteries about Zhao Yunlan too, and right now I don't have any good guesses.
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Date: 2020-04-29 08:29 pm (UTC)This makes me think about how light and air isn't really just about light and air...which is also something I am feeling right now.
I keep thinking about face stealing girl (wow there is a lot of thieving going on) and her boyfriend, and how they came aboveground and still weren't happy, because they had no one and no place to belong to.
And come to think of it, mirror girl too. I wonder what would have happened if she'd told her fiance she was a Dixing person and asked him to go to Dixing with her. But I don't think she would have, and realistically speaking that may just be swapping one kind of tragedy for another.