Guardian Body Language Highlights: Episode Eight

[qikiqtarjuaq]

The Mountain-River Awl Case develops in the background, while Zhao Yunlan tries to court Shen Wei with antique books, and Shen Wei takes care of Zhao Yunlan when he suffers from stomach problems. Featuring: The Taxi Scene™ and Hurt/Comfort Domesticity.

Gifs and Commentary here!

Zhao Yunlan's clothing & shopping habits as indicated by the Hanga arc jacket

[jo_lasalle]

I just went down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to chase up Zhao Yunlan's black jacket from the Hanga arc and what it probably cost, in case that kind of detail is relevant to other people's interests!

I also recently posted about some of my early watchfail in watching Guardian - in case anyone wants to be amused or has fail to share. *g*

ETA: And looking for specific recs if anyone wants to help a fangirl out!

Return of the Food Obsession

[forestofglory]

Here's another update on my project to list all the food and drink in the drama. I started out with a preliminary list based on skimming, my memory and other people's rewatches. I'm now slowly working through a full rewatch. I've been doing 2-3 episodes a week and posting here with updates every couple of weeks. The master post has now been updated through episode 24. I’ve added about 15 new events between 19 and 24 inclusive. I am now over halfway through my rewatch!

Here are my notes and questions form episodes 19 to 24:

Can anyone read the sign in the background in episode 19 at 34:30? It looks like an ad for a local restaurant but I can’t quite make out the picture and I don’t read Mandarin.

I'm not including drinking vessels that don't get used in the write up but I'm enjoying some of the mugs. Dr Cheng has one with zebras one her desk.

( spoilers through episode 24 )

More Guardian Excerpt - Part 6

[in_the_bottle]

Just posted more translated excerpts from the novel, which you can find in this post here.

Its going a bit slow as I got distracted with actually writing fic for the fandom and getting sucked into other Chinese novel reading that I didn't have time to continue with the re-read, but its still going! Just a little slower than I was going before...

This time its Chapters 42 to 44 of the novel.