The Untamed to episode 10
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waterscrollI don't have a lot of deep thoughts about it yet, so just some personal reactions.
It really is very addictive. Despite having no time, I keep watching episode after episode and now somehow I'm on episode 10.
I liked Wei Wuxian a lot in the first two episodes, as a cute, bubbly, terrifying necromancer who everyone hates (apparently for good reason). I liked watching him squee over his zither-playing extra dramatic boyfriend and I really liked watching him do magic with his flute. I enjoyed him somewhat less as a bratty teenager who thinks he's too smart to learn anything, but once they got out of Cultivation Hogwarts he started growing up a little.
I understand in the novel he is extremely subby, which is relevant to my interests, but I assume we won't see any of that in the drama. I also haven't seen it that much in fic, but maybe I'm not reading the right fic.
(Speaking of fic, the tag 'no beta we die like wwx' cracks me the hell up. Because he dies immediately and dramatically and everyone except his boyfriend agrees that him being dead is good for humanity. I've never quite had an unbetaed fic of mine go down like that but there have definitely been times where I've been afraid that it might.)
Lan Wangji took a while to grow on me. I also liked him better before the flashbacks than as a perpetually bored teenager. But I'm getting used to him.
Now that I've met Xue Yang I can see whysolo was worried I'd fall in love with him, he's very terrible but also cute and fun to watch. But there are lots of terrible, borderline-terrible and morally complicated characters in the show, and I didn't bond with him in particular. I did unfortunately fall for Wen Qing. I like the way she always seems to be thinking about things and making choices in her head, and I like that she has reasonable, comprehensible motivations for working with Wen Ruohan, and that she is determined to take good care of her brother. I also loved that scene where she insults Jiang Cheng to get him to punch her so she can give him info, it showed her being clever and quick-thinking and also was extremely funny. I got attached enough to her that I felt the need to look her up to see where her story arc goes, and oh no. Please tell me she gets fixit fic?
I also like Jiang Cheng but I feel like I can't really have an opinion about him until I get a better sense of where his arc is going. I mean we know he kills Wei Wuxian in the first episode, but I imagine one of the big questions of the series is going to be how he gets there and what it means.
If you've watched it, who are your favorites? Any spoilers you want to give me? I'm not avoiding spoilers at all.
It really is very addictive. Despite having no time, I keep watching episode after episode and now somehow I'm on episode 10.
I liked Wei Wuxian a lot in the first two episodes, as a cute, bubbly, terrifying necromancer who everyone hates (apparently for good reason). I liked watching him squee over his zither-playing extra dramatic boyfriend and I really liked watching him do magic with his flute. I enjoyed him somewhat less as a bratty teenager who thinks he's too smart to learn anything, but once they got out of Cultivation Hogwarts he started growing up a little.
I understand in the novel he is extremely subby, which is relevant to my interests, but I assume we won't see any of that in the drama. I also haven't seen it that much in fic, but maybe I'm not reading the right fic.
(Speaking of fic, the tag 'no beta we die like wwx' cracks me the hell up. Because he dies immediately and dramatically and everyone except his boyfriend agrees that him being dead is good for humanity. I've never quite had an unbetaed fic of mine go down like that but there have definitely been times where I've been afraid that it might.)
Lan Wangji took a while to grow on me. I also liked him better before the flashbacks than as a perpetually bored teenager. But I'm getting used to him.
Now that I've met Xue Yang I can see why
solo was worried I'd fall in love with him, he's very terrible but also cute and fun to watch. But there are lots of terrible, borderline-terrible and morally complicated characters in the show, and I didn't bond with him in particular. I did unfortunately fall for Wen Qing. I like the way she always seems to be thinking about things and making choices in her head, and I like that she has reasonable, comprehensible motivations for working with Wen Ruohan, and that she is determined to take good care of her brother. I also loved that scene where she insults Jiang Cheng to get him to punch her so she can give him info, it showed her being clever and quick-thinking and also was extremely funny. I got attached enough to her that I felt the need to look her up to see where her story arc goes, and oh no. Please tell me she gets fixit fic? I also like Jiang Cheng but I feel like I can't really have an opinion about him until I get a better sense of where his arc is going. I mean we know he kills Wei Wuxian in the first episode, but I imagine one of the big questions of the series is going to be how he gets there and what it means.
If you've watched it, who are your favorites? Any spoilers you want to give me? I'm not avoiding spoilers at all.
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Date: 2020-07-27 01:57 am (UTC)(Speaking of fic, the tag 'no beta we die like wwx' cracks me the hell up. Because he dies immediately and dramatically and everyone except his boyfriend agrees that him being dead is good for humanity.
This is a great tag, and that extra read is hilarious.
Fire Emblem has "no beta we die like glenn", a side character who dies before the plot and whose death ends up affecting a few of the students. But it doesn't have that double meaning. Unless you need him dead for shipping purposes.
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Date: 2020-07-28 01:15 pm (UTC)