GUARDIAN REWATCH - Episode 8

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Beginning of episode: Guo Changcheng becomes a permanent member of the SID
Ending of episode: the Sundial activates, and Lin Jing traces the resonance to the mountains in the Northwest.

Important scenes/developments:

• Xiao-Guo becomes a permanent member of the SID, and gets his fear stick
• Zhao Yunlan tries and fails to con Shen Wei with old books
• Wang Zheng gets an anonymous letter which sparks her memory
• the Envoy asks the SID to find Ding Dun for him
• Shen Wei talks to Ying Chun and fights Zhu Jiu
• the Regent sends a smoke message to Zhao Yunlan and betrays Shen Wei's identity; Shen Wei alters the message
• Shen Wei pours his drunk mentor into a taxi and finds Zhao Yunlan ill on the kerb
• Zhao Yunlan passes out in a taxi and uses Shen Wei's shoulder as a pillow
• Shen Wei discovers Zhao Yunlan's disaster flat, tidies it and stays all night
• Zhao Yunlan tries to recruit Shen Wei for the SID again, and fails again
• Zhu Jiu finds the pillar with Sang Zan and the Mountain-River Awl
• Wang Zheng sees a newspaper report about an earthquake in Hanga territory, passes out and regains her memory

( thoughts )

Discussion starters:

• What's your favourite line from this episode? Mine is"So you don't need a consultant, you need a babysitter?" :D


• And which of the many iconic scenes and moments is is your favourite? I find it almost impossible to choose, but if I absolutely had to, I'd probably pick Shen Wei's fight with Zhu Jiu. *g*


• If you're rewatching, did you notice anything you hadn't noticed before? For me, the invisible stamp being said to be in case a SID member gains other powers, so that they can still pass through the shield, was something I don't remember ever thinking about before. Fascinating!


• Speaking of, the stamp seems more like something from Dixing than the kind of tech Lin Jing works with, but the connection with the shield makes me wonder - did Lin Jing invent it because he knows about Professor Ouyang's plans, and he just decided that nope, even if he ended up getting superpowers one day, there was no way he'd risk getting locked out by his own shield? :p


• When Shen Wei walks away from Zhao Yunlan and the books, what do you think he's thinking? How does he reconcile this guy with the Kunlun he knew? And the guy with the disaster flat, who can't be trusted to take care of himself and apparently needs a nanny? *g* It would be so easy for him to just be disappointed that Zhao Yunlan isn't like Kunlun (yet), but despite all the frustration, there's such a huge amount of fondness in Shen Wei's reaction to Zhao Yunlan being a disaster ...


• How did the girl get the books Shen Wei donated? Did she steal them from the library? Did the library toss them? Did she buy them cheap in a library sale? (But if so, why? because from the phone call it sounds like she was already selling them when Zhao Yunlan first got in touch - on the phone she says, roughly, "I heard you wanted to buy my family's book collection" ...) Theories? :D


• Before Ying Chun leaves, Shen Wei asks her to tell him first where that thing he was looking for is, since he believes she knows. And he's right - next thing, he's planning a trip out of the city. *g* So here's my question: How does Ying Chun know where the Mountain-River Awl is? Also, does she genuinely believe it would be better for Shen Wei to not take the risk of trying to get it? Shen Wei doesn't say that if he doesn't, Zhu Jiu certainly will, and they can't risk him getting the Awl, but that would have been my first counter-argument! (Instead the scene makes it all personal to Shen Wei, about losses he doesn't want to suffer again - a fascinating choice!)


• In the flashback of finding Wang Zheng, Da Qing explains to Zhao Yunlan about energy bodies. How does he know? Has he seen this happen before? In YOHE, or in the years in between that he's forgotten?


• When Shen Wei warns Zhao Yunlan not to leave the city, do you think that's a genuine warning, or is he trying to tempt Zhao Yunlan into going where he is also going? I've seen both opinions; personally I think that even though he knows Zhao Yunlan won't listen to the warning, he does genuinely mean it ...

Let's talk about episode 8!
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!