GUARDIAN REWATCH - Episode 27

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Beginning of episode: Lao-Li apologises to Da Qing for what he did ten years ago
Ending of episode: Zhao Yunlan asks Sha Ya if Wang Xiangyang has more enemies he's pursuing

Important scenes/developments:

• Lao-Li explains his backstory with Da Qing; Da Qing forgives him
• Da Qing talks to Shen Wei about ending up with the SID
• the SID confronts Wang Xiangyang; Ya Qing takes him away
• Lin Jing dreams of Sha Ya calling him a traitor, and destroys the syringe from Kong Jing's place
• Sha Ya attacks the lab again
• Prof Ouyang visits Li Qian in hospital and decides on a dangerous course with their research
• Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei and Da Qing sneak into the lab; Shen Wei reconstructs what they've been working on
• Sha Ya says she's leaving soon; Lin Jing tries to bug her
• Guo Changcheng and Chu Shuzhi happen on Guo Ying and Yu Jinlan being attacked by Sha Ya; she gets away but loses an earring
• Zhao Yunlan calls Cong Bo and tells him to investigate certain people, then discovers Shen Wei talking to Zhao Xinci
• Shen Wei and Zhao Xinci talk about the experiments at the lab and about Zhao Yunlan
• Zhao Yunlan confronts Shen Wei about keeping more secrets from him
• at the SID, Zhao Yunlan deduces that the attacker is Lin Jing's girlfriend
• Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan try to capture Sha Ya at the club
• Lin Jing confronts Sha Ya outside; she lets herself be captured
• Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan interrogate Sha Ya

( thoughts )

Discussion starters:

• What is your favourite scene in this episode? (I'm having a hard time choosing between the Da Qing and Shen Wei memory scene and the Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei confrontation.) What's the best line? (I quoted my favourite above.)
  
• Which use of Dixing or Yashou powers in this episode was the most fun, or the most unexpected? I'm voting for Sha Ya zipping off into the sky! :D


• Anything you didn't remember? I had entirely forgotten about the Regent sending out a siege squad, and also about the ring Lin Jing already has in his pocket in this episode ...


• What is the point of Sha Ya's second invasion of the lab? She tells Li Qian she's there to destroy the research, but just like the previous time, she can't get into the safe, and that doesn't seem to bother her. How can they be sure she's destroyed everything?


• How do you think Zhao Yunlan suspects Lin Jing so quickly? When he discovers the syringe missing, he immediately looks at Lin Jing's desk ...


• When Sha Ya's power zaps the bug Lin Jing is trying to plant on her, he says: "Tell me the truth, are you ...", but she stops him with a finger on his lips. Is he about to ask if she's Dixingren? Or does he already have a suspicion about her electric powers and the connection to Team Merit Brush?


• When Zhao Yunlan tells Cong Bo to check out some people (plural), who do you think is included? Who else, apart from Lin Jing, is getting investigated? Everyone? Only some of them?


• What did Shen Wei hope to get from the meeting with Zhao Xinci? Do you think he got it?


• Why do you think, when Zhao Yunlan confronts him after the meeting with Zhao Xinci, Shen Wei stays silent for so long? What's his reasoning for keeping this particular secret from Zhao Yunlan?


• When Lin Jing confronts Sha Ya at the end, is he doing this on his own, or is he part of Zhao Yunlan's plan? That is, did Zhao Yunlan leave him out of the operation to capture his girlfriend, or did he, despite suspecting him of being a traitor, nevertheless bring him in on this?


• Interesting to me: during the confrontation in the alley, Zhao Yunlan accuses Wang Xiangyang of hiding behind others, goading them into avenging him - which is very similar to what Sha Ya says about him at the end of the episode when she's being interrogated. Is she doing that deliberately for subconscious appeal to Zhao Yunlan, or are they really on the same wavelength regarding Wang Xiangyang?

Let's talk about episode 27!
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!