GUARDIAN REWATCH - Episode 1

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Beginning of episode: Opening narration ("Haixing, an ancient planet ..."); then Professor Shen holding a lecture
Ending of episode: the Black-Cloaked Envoy's appearance on the rooftop; then Li Qian and Zhao Yunlan, leaning over the edge of the roof looking for Professor Shen

Important scenes/developments:

• Professor Ouyang tries to recruit Professor Shen
• Guo Changcheng's introduction to the SID
• Shen Wei sees Zhao Yunlan looking out of a window
• Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan shake hands ("Good name!")
• flashback to young Shen Wei and Kunlun
• Li Qian: "Is it really worth giving all you have to protect someone?"
  Shen Wei: "It's worth it."
  
• Zhao Yunlan: "I really don't know why, but the moment I saw you you seemed very familiar somehow."
  Shen Wei: "Who knows, maybe we have indeed met before."
• Shen Wei protects Li Qian from the Shadow Man
• the Black-Cloaked Envoy appears on the rooftop

I hadn't rewatched this episode in one go in forever, only bits and pieces here and there, so I had forgotten just how many important scenes are in this episode already! *flails*

Thoughts:

Rewatching this gave me so much joy! This drama is just perfectly designed to make me go :D :D :D every time. After we finished watching, I was so tempted to just keep going with the next episode! (And lose my whole weekend to watching 40 episodes non-stop, LOL.) So instead I put on up my favourite Guardian vid, Man on a Mission, which it perfectly captures that joy and that energy. ♥ ♥ ♥

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Let's talk about episode 1!
Come and talk about this episode - anything from favourite scenes or lines of dialogue to notes/questions about continuity or translation, most gorgeous (or angsty) smile, or anything else that strikes your fancy! And share links to your own and/or others' episode-related meta, picspams, and fanworks, new or old!