GUARDIAN REWATCH – Episode 28

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Beginning of episode: Zhao Yunlan asks Sha Ya if Wang Xiangyang has more enemies he's pursuing.
Ending of episode: Zhao Xinci tries to escape his kidnapping, and Sha Ya zaps him.

Important scenes/developments:

• Zhao Yunlan continues interviewing Sha Ya; she offers a trade.
• Chu Shuzhi and Guo Changcheng search Dragon City for Hua Yuzhu.
• Lin Jing talks to Sha Ya alone, and we get her backstory.
• Lin Jing gives Sha Ya a ring, and she's happy for a moment.
• Hua Yuzhu and Sha Ya both separately hear news of a building development and run to the site. Zhao Yunlan recognises Hua Yuzhu's earring and follows her; Lin Jing takes Sha Ya to the site.
• More backstory: Sha Ya and Hua Yuzhu are in an Extremely Amicable Love Triangle. Ye Zun tempts all three to go to Haixing. Romantic misunderstandings. Then Gu Ban is shot, and Sha Ya thinks Zhao Xinci did it.
• Hua Yuzhu arrives in the forest, Sha Ya attacks her, and Lin Jing de-escalates.
• Sha Ya blows up a digger and burns the construction site and possibly also the construction workers. /o\
• The SID lose Sha Ya.
• Team Merit Brush kidnap Zhao Xinci, Minister Gao, and their driver.
• Wang Xiangyang decides to play another game with the SID.
• Vice Minister Guo brings news of the kidnapping to the SID. Zhao Yunlan is shaken; Shen Wei steadies him.
• Cong Bo and Lin Jing do hacking.
• Zhao Yunlan tries to induce a vision with the Sundial and collapses.
• At the flat, Shen Wei silently scolds Zhao Yunlan while he sleeps off the Dial's effects.
• Wang Xiangyang is dying. Flashback to him and Bai Suxia being cute in a phone box.
• Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan fight some Crow soldiers; Shen Wei doesn't immediately heal.
• They find the missing driver in the phone box.
• Zhao Xinci wakes up and tries to escape, but Sha Ya intercepts him.

( Thoughts and screencaps. )

Discussion starters:

• What's your favourite scene in this episode? Favourite line of dialogue?


• If Sha Ya had genuinely changed sides at the SID, and Lin Jing had appealed to the Envoy, do you think Sha Ya would have been allowed to stay in Haixing? For that matter, what would it have taken for Sha Ya to let her vengeance go and work with the SID?


• What did Ye Zun gain by sending Sha Ya and co to Haixing? Was interfering just a hobby at that point?


• Hypothetically, could Hua Yuzhu have become a Flower-Yashou healer?


• Did Zhao Yunlan's vision actually warn of this kidnapping? If so, why are the circumstances so different?


• When Shen Wei tells Zhao Yunlan, "You are the Chief of the SID, the Lord of the Guardians. If you are in disarray, the whole city will be as well," is he speaking metaphysically, or is it more prosaic cause-and-effect deal (ie, we can't stop bad guys if you're freaking out)?


• How torn is Shen Wei about keeping the Hallows at the SID, given that ot1h, it's the safest place for them, but otoh, Zhao Yunlan has a reckless, self-sacrificial streak a mile wide and apparently never learns?

Let’s talk about episode 28!
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!