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Guardian Episode by Episode: 25
Welcome to the rewatchalong! This week we watch episode 25. The Imgur screencap album has 60 images.
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, Episode 22, Episode 23, Episode 24
This week, we have the personality swap virus case and continue with Zhao Yunlan's FML faces.
Characterization
Doctor Cheng keeps making appearances! She consults with Zhao Yunlan about the case, both by giving him info about personality disorders and by ... spilling all of Kong Jing's diagnoses. I assume doctor-patient confidentiality doesn't exist in this universe? She's also the source of all the info about Lin Jing obviously only escaping the personality change thing because he's hiding his own personality/hiding something big.
We meet Minister Gao, briefly! He yells at his subordinates over the phone until Zhao Xinci arrives, at which point he immediately transitions to perfect civil servant mode. He's also confused at Zhao Xinci/Zhang Shi calling him Jing Feng – does the name come up at any other point?
"Sorry, what was your name again? I never can keep track of you butt-kissing sycophants."
Lin Jing shows some shiftiness about not changing his personality. There's also the needle weirdness and him turning up to investigate the crime scene personally, though we'll get more of that in the next episodes. OTOH, his boss keeps deducting his bonus and thwapped him on the nuts just this episode.
"Guo, please put that down before you hurt yourself! I don't want to lose my bonus again!"
Ya Qing seems to be living in a wuxia film – she gives Wang Xiangyang a speech on people deserving to die with at least some shreds of dignity, even if that'll give the SID crew a few days of reprieve, and also gave Guo Changcheng that IOU necklace! Complete with declarations that she'd never met a decent human before him and that she wouldn't kill him before Dong Nan's corpse.
100% goth wuxia, complete with menacing calligraphy.
Meanwhile in Dixing, Ye Zun has found the wind generator. The forcefield keeping him in is cracked after 30-odd sigils drawn by the Merit Brush, and 3 more will let him out! He is obviously a bit cheerful at Wu Tian'en. He also says "I've been behaving for so long" when told to behave, and I end up side-eyeing the Hallows even more. What must've been intended to be the lifetime of the planet, confined in a pillar?! Sheesh. This is no just punishment!
Meanwhile on the surface, Ye Zun's minions give Zhao Yunlan yet more bad days. He absolutely hates everyone's sudden personality changes – he'd rather escape to talk about case stuff elsewhere than talk about Zhu Hong's feelings, and this all continues what I think is a running thread of Zhao Yunlan not appreciating useless people in his department. He runs a tight ship, even if no-one else seems to realize it.
Yet another episode of Zhao Yunlan showing off his DNW face!
He's also his usual self, very good at social maneuvering. He expresses his condolences about Zu Ma to Doctor Cheng, investigates the taxi driver case because his higher-ups told him to even if he privately thinks it has nothing to do with Dixing, and if you watch the scene where he's been captured by Kong Jing, you can watch him disengage his mask when Kong Jing's behind him and put it back on when Kong Jing can see his face again. (At this point of his life, Zhao Yunlan's default expression is "fuck my life". See also: Zhao Yunlan telling Kong Jing "You're mistaken, I'm not awake yet.")
"Yes, yes, could you please untie me so I can go be annoyed at my subordinates now? I can promise you a ringside seat!"
When Kong Jing tried to transfer his personality (or one of them, at any rate) into Zhao Yunlan, there was a dark energy kaboom and Zhao Yunlan had dark energy swirling around his hands. Do you think this was some side effect of the Longevity Dial thing, or Shen Wei doing something one of those times Zhao Yunlan slept? Shen Wei must've known about the defense against personality switching, since he said "Anyone but you is susceptible".
Option B is that his mother Shen Xi was secretly Dixingian, and Zhao Yunlan is now manifesting his Dixing power of being a supreme pain in the ass.
Shen Wei's method of dealing with the SID getting all personality change-y was to run away to the university and hold class to a bunch of women. (The faculty seems to have solved the problem of women not going into STEM programs. The solution is Professor Shen in a nice suit.) He did offer some sympathy for Zhao Yunlan in the form of a shoulder pat as he went past (there was no nice still opportunity, but it's at around 13:54 for you giffers!). He didn't catch the personality change thing, but IDK if that was meant to be personality change viruses being afraid of the Envoy, some dark energy thing of his, or simply him not being in close enough proximity to the SID members who caught it.
This image was chosen with no regard to the above paragraph. Instead, it's showcased because I want Shen Wei to take off all his clothes (so I can steal them).
Other miscellanea we now know about Professor Shen: He changes into a less formal suit between lecturing and going to the SID, he hasn't been home much, and he doesn't like cutesy talk from Zhao Yunlan.
"Yunlan pls."
Canon details
Cinematography
Shots from above!
The SID team sharing a meal through a framing device just before the personality changed Guo Changcheng turns up. Guo Changcheng and a dying Dong Nan.
A shot from below!
Zhao Yunlan is very, very exasperated.
Shots from afar!
Zhao Yunlan yelling at his superiors for letting a taxi driver escape custody. Shen Wei helping by talking to the Regent in his civvies.
Zhao Yunlan doing kung fu while tied up!
It was super effective!
The episode's mandatory hand close-up is of alpha asshole Guo Changcheng brushing off Chu Shuzhi's hand:
Zhao Yunlan jacket watch
Four! The black affair seen last episode, a black leather jacket, a nice brown coat, and another black leather jacket.
The jacket of interrogation + Guo Changcheng day, the jacket of Zhu Hong day. The jacket of Chu Shuzhi day + captivity, the post-case jacket he goes to Shen Wei's apartment with.
Shen Wei shoe watch
Brown bootlets, against Kong Jing's arm!
Did Shen Wei remove his glasses?
No.
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, Episode 22, Episode 23, Episode 24
This week, we have the personality swap virus case and continue with Zhao Yunlan's FML faces.
Characterization
Doctor Cheng keeps making appearances! She consults with Zhao Yunlan about the case, both by giving him info about personality disorders and by ... spilling all of Kong Jing's diagnoses. I assume doctor-patient confidentiality doesn't exist in this universe? She's also the source of all the info about Lin Jing obviously only escaping the personality change thing because he's hiding his own personality/hiding something big.
We meet Minister Gao, briefly! He yells at his subordinates over the phone until Zhao Xinci arrives, at which point he immediately transitions to perfect civil servant mode. He's also confused at Zhao Xinci/Zhang Shi calling him Jing Feng – does the name come up at any other point?
"Sorry, what was your name again? I never can keep track of you butt-kissing sycophants."
Lin Jing shows some shiftiness about not changing his personality. There's also the needle weirdness and him turning up to investigate the crime scene personally, though we'll get more of that in the next episodes. OTOH, his boss keeps deducting his bonus and thwapped him on the nuts just this episode.
"Guo, please put that down before you hurt yourself! I don't want to lose my bonus again!"
Ya Qing seems to be living in a wuxia film – she gives Wang Xiangyang a speech on people deserving to die with at least some shreds of dignity, even if that'll give the SID crew a few days of reprieve, and also gave Guo Changcheng that IOU necklace! Complete with declarations that she'd never met a decent human before him and that she wouldn't kill him before Dong Nan's corpse.
100% goth wuxia, complete with menacing calligraphy.
Meanwhile in Dixing, Ye Zun has found the wind generator. The forcefield keeping him in is cracked after 30-odd sigils drawn by the Merit Brush, and 3 more will let him out! He is obviously a bit cheerful at Wu Tian'en. He also says "I've been behaving for so long" when told to behave, and I end up side-eyeing the Hallows even more. What must've been intended to be the lifetime of the planet, confined in a pillar?! Sheesh. This is no just punishment!
Meanwhile on the surface, Ye Zun's minions give Zhao Yunlan yet more bad days. He absolutely hates everyone's sudden personality changes – he'd rather escape to talk about case stuff elsewhere than talk about Zhu Hong's feelings, and this all continues what I think is a running thread of Zhao Yunlan not appreciating useless people in his department. He runs a tight ship, even if no-one else seems to realize it.
Yet another episode of Zhao Yunlan showing off his DNW face!
He's also his usual self, very good at social maneuvering. He expresses his condolences about Zu Ma to Doctor Cheng, investigates the taxi driver case because his higher-ups told him to even if he privately thinks it has nothing to do with Dixing, and if you watch the scene where he's been captured by Kong Jing, you can watch him disengage his mask when Kong Jing's behind him and put it back on when Kong Jing can see his face again. (At this point of his life, Zhao Yunlan's default expression is "fuck my life". See also: Zhao Yunlan telling Kong Jing "You're mistaken, I'm not awake yet.")
"Yes, yes, could you please untie me so I can go be annoyed at my subordinates now? I can promise you a ringside seat!"
When Kong Jing tried to transfer his personality (or one of them, at any rate) into Zhao Yunlan, there was a dark energy kaboom and Zhao Yunlan had dark energy swirling around his hands. Do you think this was some side effect of the Longevity Dial thing, or Shen Wei doing something one of those times Zhao Yunlan slept? Shen Wei must've known about the defense against personality switching, since he said "Anyone but you is susceptible".
Option B is that his mother Shen Xi was secretly Dixingian, and Zhao Yunlan is now manifesting his Dixing power of being a supreme pain in the ass.
Shen Wei's method of dealing with the SID getting all personality change-y was to run away to the university and hold class to a bunch of women. (The faculty seems to have solved the problem of women not going into STEM programs. The solution is Professor Shen in a nice suit.) He did offer some sympathy for Zhao Yunlan in the form of a shoulder pat as he went past (there was no nice still opportunity, but it's at around 13:54 for you giffers!). He didn't catch the personality change thing, but IDK if that was meant to be personality change viruses being afraid of the Envoy, some dark energy thing of his, or simply him not being in close enough proximity to the SID members who caught it.
This image was chosen with no regard to the above paragraph. Instead, it's showcased because I want Shen Wei to take off all his clothes (so I can steal them).
Other miscellanea we now know about Professor Shen: He changes into a less formal suit between lecturing and going to the SID, he hasn't been home much, and he doesn't like cutesy talk from Zhao Yunlan.
"Yunlan pls."
Canon details
- The SID has no cells
- The personality-changing virus seems to take some time to incubate
- The Regent claims the change and evolution of Dixing powers has no pattern
- Kong Jing was a normal human, so Feng Qubing and Zu Ma must've been part-Dixing
- Crow Yashou turn into their animal forms at death
Cinematography
Shots from above!
The SID team sharing a meal through a framing device just before the personality changed Guo Changcheng turns up. Guo Changcheng and a dying Dong Nan.
A shot from below!
Zhao Yunlan is very, very exasperated.
Shots from afar!
Zhao Yunlan yelling at his superiors for letting a taxi driver escape custody. Shen Wei helping by talking to the Regent in his civvies.
Zhao Yunlan doing kung fu while tied up!
It was super effective!
The episode's mandatory hand close-up is of alpha asshole Guo Changcheng brushing off Chu Shuzhi's hand:
Zhao Yunlan jacket watch
Four! The black affair seen last episode, a black leather jacket, a nice brown coat, and another black leather jacket.
The jacket of interrogation + Guo Changcheng day, the jacket of Zhu Hong day. The jacket of Chu Shuzhi day + captivity, the post-case jacket he goes to Shen Wei's apartment with.
Shen Wei shoe watch
Brown bootlets, against Kong Jing's arm!
Did Shen Wei remove his glasses?
No.