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Guardian Episode by Episode: 22
Welcome to the rewatchalong! This week we watch episode 22. The Imgur screencap album has 89 images. Thank you for engaging so much last week! I hope you'll have fun discussing things this week as well.
Previously on:
Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Episode 10, Episode 11, Episode 12, Episode 13, Episode 14, Episode 15, Episode 16, Episode 17, Episode 18, Episode 19, Episode 20, Episode 21
This week: Zhao Yunlan regains his eyesight twice. End of Miracle Doctor case.
Introductions
We meet the Master of the Merit Brush! He wears a black hoodie and gives speeches on making people pay. His plot has so far caused the death of Wang Qun, the delivery dude in charge of Guangming Street on Reunion Night, plus the collateral aging of a bunch of office workers.
"I am totally not a shady drug dealer. Trust me, just take hold of my shaft."
Characterization
Da Qing is a cat and thus nosy. He peeks in Dr Feng Qubing's surgery while Dr Feng is waving his hands at Zhao Yunlan and then gets them all tossed out. He's also curiously reticient – he hides his hypnotherapy appointment with Dr Cheng by claiming he's "meeting an old friend".
"Now, close your eyes and lie to your boss."
Result of hypnotherapy appointment: Da Qing now remembers Ye Zun creepily walking towards him. As this most certainly didn't happen during the past section, maybe the Hallows are pranking him somehow? (Or, since Zhao Yunlan spent a month or so in the past, maybe this happened on some interim scouting mission that we didn't see?) Since Shen Wei is also reticient and didn't tell anyone he has an evil twin, Da Qing now distrusts Shen Wei and thus insisted on being included on the trip to Dixing.
"Hi! Do you know where my evil twin is? I need to snort him as compensation for the suffering I have undergone because of him."
Zhu Hong takes the opportunity to say she'll take care of Zhao Yunlan forever if his eyesight doesn't recover. He was not that enthused. Lin Jing didn't get what was going on.
"I can't believe boss could just ... die." "Guys, I'm right here!" "Sometimes I can even hear his voice."
Guo Changcheng and Chu Shuzhi are apparently now a better and better team, according to Zhao Yunlan. And Chu Shuzhi, despite being a notorious grump, is very very happy about the boss regaining his eyesight, too!
Guo Changcheng is upset he can't solve this person's problems; Chu Shuzhi is super glad that boss got his sight back (even if the first thing boss did was tell him he'd become uglier).
We meet Li Qian again! She gets recruited by Ouyang, first as a test subject due to her exposure to the Sundial and then as a researcher when she wows them with her brilliance. (But Ouyang was completely willing to sacrifice her For Science in the interim, which Professor Zhou went "wtf mate" at.) The cover story for the lab is trying to understand Dixingians better. Li Qian appears to be conflicted about the research already?
Sha Ya tries to raid the lab. She fails, but she looks very hot in a lab coat.
Like, super hot. Also with better safety compliance than Li Qian! No heels and hair tied up!
Shen Wei is very invested in Zhao Yunlan's eyesight. He questions Professor Ouyang about the doctor's credibility (and gets told he should visit Professor Zhou), then goes make nice with Dr Feng. He is very angry at having to swallow his pride and go kneel outside; we get a shot of his clenched fists. After an evening of kneeling outdoors and getting rained upon, Dr Feng is finally grudgingly impressed with Shen Wei's dogged determination and agrees to see Zhao Yunlan again. Interestingly, at this point Shen Wei takes off his glasses. This seems very Meaningful, but idk what the meaning would be. Help?
"The sad thing is, I would do this ten thousand times over if necessary. No, Yunlan, please don't lose your eyesight ten thousand times to test this."
Of course, then they discover the price of healing Zhao Yunlan's eyes was paid by other people, and there's a very good moment of nonverbal communication where Shen Wei immediately understands what Zhao Yunlan is going to do and tries at first to stop him but doesn't. Then Li Qian sends them an e-mail (why does she do it anonymously? wouldn't they trust it more if it came from Li Qian? is this some sort of "now Dr Professor Shen won't feel indebted to me!" thing?) and Shen Wei can fix Zhao Yunlan's eyes himself! Except that the Longevity Dial extracts some sort of price from him a few minutes afterward.
"I read the fucking manual and this wasn't mentioned!"
Zhao Yunlan continues his incredible Zhao Yunlan-ness – he has his hands in his pockets even while lying down on the doctor's table, and sits his butt onto Dr Feng's tea table. Then he is an asshole and pretends Shen Wei's Sundial-ing didn't work.
"It worked! Don't tell him."
After recovering his eyesight, he's very chipper, and jokes about how he was afraid Shen Wei might stop feeding him (as if) and insists on accompanying Shen Wei to Dixing, even if last time he came down with a case of stabbing. He's still on his charm A-game, too, and becomes best buds with the Dixing barkeep who originally disliked him by teaching him some cat-related gimmick for acquiring money.
"Ahh yes, that's good. Hey, maybe you could teach my Committed Ally how to massage my shoulders properly, just like I taught you the cat trick?"
Oh, and a nice shot of these two contemplating the evidence in unison:
This is what commitment looks like.
Canon details
Cinematography
Shen Wei kneeling in the rain! But before that, he kneeled in the not-rain, and he was very effectively visually isolated from his background: warm-toned Shen Wei in front of a cool-toned background where people walked past, symbolizing him standing apart from the world.
This episode, we had two hand close-ups!
Shen Wei clenching his fists in anger at being asked to kneel, and the Sundial healing thing.
Shots from afar!
Shen Wei kneeling! The whole SID doing stuff together! Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan walking to Dixing! All of Dixing being closed for the holidays!
Shots from above!
Shen Wei kneeling in the rain! Chu & Guo interviewing a victim!
And with regards to the healing process, we have a tilted angle shot to foreshadow that something is off, and a shot through a framing device.
Featuring Shen Wei's terribad fashion choices and the SID.
Zhao Yunlan jacket watch
We start with him in yesterday's green affair, and the day after that he wears a leather jacket. When they go re-visit Dr Feng, he's in a brown coat. When his eyes are re-healed (at least one day after the re-visit?) and for the visit to Dixing, he's in a jean vest.
Shen Wei shoe watch
These bootlets.
Did Shen Wei take off his glasses?
Twice! Once in the rain after Dr Feng decides to treat Zhao Yunlan again after all, and once in Zhao Yunlan's apartment over food.
Previously on:
Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Episode 10, Episode 11, Episode 12, Episode 13, Episode 14, Episode 15, Episode 16, Episode 17, Episode 18, Episode 19, Episode 20, Episode 21
This week: Zhao Yunlan regains his eyesight twice. End of Miracle Doctor case.
Introductions
We meet the Master of the Merit Brush! He wears a black hoodie and gives speeches on making people pay. His plot has so far caused the death of Wang Qun, the delivery dude in charge of Guangming Street on Reunion Night, plus the collateral aging of a bunch of office workers.
"I am totally not a shady drug dealer. Trust me, just take hold of my shaft."
Characterization
Da Qing is a cat and thus nosy. He peeks in Dr Feng Qubing's surgery while Dr Feng is waving his hands at Zhao Yunlan and then gets them all tossed out. He's also curiously reticient – he hides his hypnotherapy appointment with Dr Cheng by claiming he's "meeting an old friend".
"Now, close your eyes and lie to your boss."
Result of hypnotherapy appointment: Da Qing now remembers Ye Zun creepily walking towards him. As this most certainly didn't happen during the past section, maybe the Hallows are pranking him somehow? (Or, since Zhao Yunlan spent a month or so in the past, maybe this happened on some interim scouting mission that we didn't see?) Since Shen Wei is also reticient and didn't tell anyone he has an evil twin, Da Qing now distrusts Shen Wei and thus insisted on being included on the trip to Dixing.
"Hi! Do you know where my evil twin is? I need to snort him as compensation for the suffering I have undergone because of him."
Zhu Hong takes the opportunity to say she'll take care of Zhao Yunlan forever if his eyesight doesn't recover. He was not that enthused. Lin Jing didn't get what was going on.
"I can't believe boss could just ... die." "Guys, I'm right here!" "Sometimes I can even hear his voice."
Guo Changcheng and Chu Shuzhi are apparently now a better and better team, according to Zhao Yunlan. And Chu Shuzhi, despite being a notorious grump, is very very happy about the boss regaining his eyesight, too!
Guo Changcheng is upset he can't solve this person's problems; Chu Shuzhi is super glad that boss got his sight back (even if the first thing boss did was tell him he'd become uglier).
We meet Li Qian again! She gets recruited by Ouyang, first as a test subject due to her exposure to the Sundial and then as a researcher when she wows them with her brilliance. (But Ouyang was completely willing to sacrifice her For Science in the interim, which Professor Zhou went "wtf mate" at.) The cover story for the lab is trying to understand Dixingians better. Li Qian appears to be conflicted about the research already?
Sha Ya tries to raid the lab. She fails, but she looks very hot in a lab coat.
Like, super hot. Also with better safety compliance than Li Qian! No heels and hair tied up!
Shen Wei is very invested in Zhao Yunlan's eyesight. He questions Professor Ouyang about the doctor's credibility (and gets told he should visit Professor Zhou), then goes make nice with Dr Feng. He is very angry at having to swallow his pride and go kneel outside; we get a shot of his clenched fists. After an evening of kneeling outdoors and getting rained upon, Dr Feng is finally grudgingly impressed with Shen Wei's dogged determination and agrees to see Zhao Yunlan again. Interestingly, at this point Shen Wei takes off his glasses. This seems very Meaningful, but idk what the meaning would be. Help?
"The sad thing is, I would do this ten thousand times over if necessary. No, Yunlan, please don't lose your eyesight ten thousand times to test this."
Of course, then they discover the price of healing Zhao Yunlan's eyes was paid by other people, and there's a very good moment of nonverbal communication where Shen Wei immediately understands what Zhao Yunlan is going to do and tries at first to stop him but doesn't. Then Li Qian sends them an e-mail (why does she do it anonymously? wouldn't they trust it more if it came from Li Qian? is this some sort of "now Dr Professor Shen won't feel indebted to me!" thing?) and Shen Wei can fix Zhao Yunlan's eyes himself! Except that the Longevity Dial extracts some sort of price from him a few minutes afterward.
"I read the fucking manual and this wasn't mentioned!"
Zhao Yunlan continues his incredible Zhao Yunlan-ness – he has his hands in his pockets even while lying down on the doctor's table, and sits his butt onto Dr Feng's tea table. Then he is an asshole and pretends Shen Wei's Sundial-ing didn't work.
"It worked! Don't tell him."
After recovering his eyesight, he's very chipper, and jokes about how he was afraid Shen Wei might stop feeding him (as if) and insists on accompanying Shen Wei to Dixing, even if last time he came down with a case of stabbing. He's still on his charm A-game, too, and becomes best buds with the Dixing barkeep who originally disliked him by teaching him some cat-related gimmick for acquiring money.
"Ahh yes, that's good. Hey, maybe you could teach my Committed Ally how to massage my shoulders properly, just like I taught you the cat trick?"
Oh, and a nice shot of these two contemplating the evidence in unison:
This is what commitment looks like.
Canon details
- It's November 1st, according to the newspaper, but also the 26th according to another prop. It's also simultaneously Monday and Friday.
- There was a death after Reunion Night and then every other day, six total, so it's at least 10 days after Reunion Night.
- Lin Jing's detector and Shen Wei have both stopped sensing any dark energy.
- Shen Wei is a dark energy detector! This explains how he could arrive to help out the SID, though probably not always his timing.
- The barkeep in Dixing raised prices because the Black-Cloaked Envoy visited his bar.
- A bunch of Dixingians now know Shen Wei on sight as the Black-Cloaked Envoy.
- Dixing closes for business when its Lord retires.
Cinematography
Shen Wei kneeling in the rain! But before that, he kneeled in the not-rain, and he was very effectively visually isolated from his background: warm-toned Shen Wei in front of a cool-toned background where people walked past, symbolizing him standing apart from the world.
This episode, we had two hand close-ups!
Shen Wei clenching his fists in anger at being asked to kneel, and the Sundial healing thing.
Shots from afar!
Shen Wei kneeling! The whole SID doing stuff together! Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan walking to Dixing! All of Dixing being closed for the holidays!
Shots from above!
Shen Wei kneeling in the rain! Chu & Guo interviewing a victim!
And with regards to the healing process, we have a tilted angle shot to foreshadow that something is off, and a shot through a framing device.
Featuring Shen Wei's terribad fashion choices and the SID.
Zhao Yunlan jacket watch
We start with him in yesterday's green affair, and the day after that he wears a leather jacket. When they go re-visit Dr Feng, he's in a brown coat. When his eyes are re-healed (at least one day after the re-visit?) and for the visit to Dixing, he's in a jean vest.
Shen Wei shoe watch
These bootlets.
Did Shen Wei take off his glasses?
Twice! Once in the rain after Dr Feng decides to treat Zhao Yunlan again after all, and once in Zhao Yunlan's apartment over food.
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