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nnozomiEpisode 36: Zhao Yunlan’s worldwide livestream. (Subtitles via Solo/QC, many thanks; I’m sorry I’m so bad at screenshots, and so prolix.)
( The livestream and surrounding events )
Not going to lie, I find this whole scene immensely moving, even if half of it is Zhao Yunlan being sneaky; he’s using his whole personality to draw everyone in the city in, giving them a framework they can understand and act upon, one that is based essentially in his own compassion and decency. He gets the necessary information to Lin Jing and Xiao Guo in the process, but you can see from Shen Wei’s face—and Zhu Hong and Da Qing, Lao Chu and Ye Huo and even Zhao Xinci—how much the whole of his message means.
Questions
1. What was Zhao Yunlan’s main purpose—to get the message to Lin Jing and Guo Changcheng, or to spread clear information about Dixingren, or both at once?
2. How much effect did his discussion of Dixingren have on the general public?
3. Was Zhao Xinci’s “Don’t bother” sponsored by Zhang Shi, or was it Zhao Xinci himself?
4. What did Zhao Yunlan have in mind when he was teasing Shen Wei about needing another ten thousand years plus to understand electronics? Making light of the amount of time that’s passed in Shen Wei’s life, to show that he’s assimilated the situation and is okay with it? Just trying to lighten the atmosphere? And why doesn’t Shen Wei, normally ultra-Zhao-Yunlan-sensitive, react to him?
5. What is going through Shen Wei’s mind while he listens?
(I couldn’t think offhand of any fanworks explicitly referencing this scene, but please rec and/or self-rec and/or write some?)
( The livestream and surrounding events )
Not going to lie, I find this whole scene immensely moving, even if half of it is Zhao Yunlan being sneaky; he’s using his whole personality to draw everyone in the city in, giving them a framework they can understand and act upon, one that is based essentially in his own compassion and decency. He gets the necessary information to Lin Jing and Xiao Guo in the process, but you can see from Shen Wei’s face—and Zhu Hong and Da Qing, Lao Chu and Ye Huo and even Zhao Xinci—how much the whole of his message means.
Questions
1. What was Zhao Yunlan’s main purpose—to get the message to Lin Jing and Guo Changcheng, or to spread clear information about Dixingren, or both at once?
2. How much effect did his discussion of Dixingren have on the general public?
3. Was Zhao Xinci’s “Don’t bother” sponsored by Zhang Shi, or was it Zhao Xinci himself?
4. What did Zhao Yunlan have in mind when he was teasing Shen Wei about needing another ten thousand years plus to understand electronics? Making light of the amount of time that’s passed in Shen Wei’s life, to show that he’s assimilated the situation and is okay with it? Just trying to lighten the atmosphere? And why doesn’t Shen Wei, normally ultra-Zhao-Yunlan-sensitive, react to him?
5. What is going through Shen Wei’s mind while he listens?
(I couldn’t think offhand of any fanworks explicitly referencing this scene, but please rec and/or self-rec and/or write some?)
