GUARDIAN REWATCH - Episode 12

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Beginning of episode: Zhu Hong is drugged by her uncle
Ending of episode: Da Qing trashes Wang Xiangyang's fruit shop

Important scenes/developments:

• Zhu Hong is drugged by her uncle; he wants the Snake Tribe to stay out of the coming conflict
• tense meeting in Shen Wei's office: Zhao Yunlan wants Shen Wei to admit the truth; Shen Wei wants him to let it go
• Tan Xiao invades the SID to steal the Hallows, but Sang Zan's traps as well as Zhao Yunlan's and Shen Wei's arrival stop him
• Da Qing complains about Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei flirting in front of him
• Shen Wei undresses to have his consciousness measured; Zhao Yunlan leans in
• pendant moment: Shen Wei wonders if telling Zhao Yunlan the truth will put him in more danger
• Zhu Hong drugs her uncle, and escapes because all the Snake boys love her
• Zhu Hong is hypnotised, but the SID arrives to take Tan Xiao and Zheng Yi into custody
• first glimpse of the underground fight ring: Zhu Jiu is collecting people's life force
• Tan Xiao explains about Zheng Yi's abusive adoptive father, and is taken away by the Envoy
• Zheng Yi hypnotises Da Qing and makes him give her the Hallows
• Zhao Yunlan figures out the truth about Zheng Yi, but arrives too late
• first look at the Huang/Li wedding: Cong Bo is investigating
• Da Qing has a Kunlun flashback and trashes Wang Xiangyang's fruit shop

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( Thoughts )

Discussion starters:

• What's your favourite moment in this episode? Mine has to be the sequence where Zhao Yunlan catches the Awl, Shen Wei catches Zhao Yunlan, and then swings him around while throwing black energy at Tan Xiao. That is such a fantastically choreographed scene, and they both look amazing. :D


• Did you scream "Just tell him already!!!!" at Shen Wei? Do you feel like you understand why he doesn't?


• Anything you noticed on this rewatch that you didn't before? I don't think I ever realised that Zhu Jiu must have been in touch with Zheng Yi after the Envoy took Tan Xiao away!


• When Lin Jing looks for volunteers to measure the frequency of human consciousness, Zhao Yunlan immediately starts to rub his temple and fakes a headache before he says he'll do it - he's clearly angling for Shen Wei to step up for him again, like he did with the drink in the village. Is he so sure that will work? What result does he hope to get? And likewise, why does Shen Wei agree? To show Zhao Yunlan that not admitting the truth isn't the same thing as actively hiding it? (I mean, that would tally with him afterwards calling ZYL out on his fake headache, making it clear he knows! And heh, Zhao Yunlan's look when he realises he's been caught out!) Any thoughts/theories?
  
  
  
  Most importantly, does neither of them care that they're undermining Lin Jing's efforts to protect them from mind control? What about the science?! *grumbles


• Shen Wei's field of consciousness never fluctuating, as if he were dead: so many questions! a) : a) since when do dead people - in a canon without ghosts! - have any consciousness at all, static or otherwise? and b) what does this mean in drama terms, apart from being a novel call-out?


• Speaking of science: Lin Jing's detector never picks up Shen Wei's black energy. I wonder how that works - can he suppress any emanations so well that they can't be measured, or is he sabotaging detection overall? - My favourite theory is that he has a specific "cannot be detected" Dixing power, which is simply always switched on. What's yours?


• When Lin Jing expounds on Dixing powers going out of control and Dixingren accidentally hurting themselves and others, he explains to Zhao Yunlan that this happens a lot. How does he know, when Zhao Yunlan apparently doesn't?


• And finally, the most important question of all: Comfort lollipop vs. comfort kitty - which would you prefer? :D
  
  

Let's talk about episode 12!
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