GUARDIAN REWATCH – Episode 35

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Beginning of episode: On a YOHE clifftop, Zhao Yunlan gives the Envoy his name.
Ending of episode: Back in Dragon City, Zhao Yunlan tells Shen Wei he's not just a knife, and "Professor Lin" arrives at the DoS security check to confiscate Guo Changcheng's baton.

Important scenes/developments:

• Zhao Yunlan fixes Shen Wei's name and asks about his past and his brother.
• Ye Zun brings the Hallows to the Rebel Leader and gets kicked in the chest, mind-controlled and abused until his power manifests and he commits involuntarily cannibalism; he becomes the new Rebel Leader.
• Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan talk in the moonlight some more; Da Qing runs up to say the Rebels have declared war.
• Clash #1: Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan reclaim the Hallows, and Zhao Yunlan shoots a bunch of guys.
• For the first time in months, Zhao Yunlan fails to activate the Hallows (but at least he doesn't have visions, collapse or go blind).
• Da Qing chooses Zhao Yunlan as his master, and Zhao Yunlan fastens the bells around Da Qing's neck.
• Clash #2: Ye Zun & co attack, Ye Zun's mask comes off, and the brothers reunite... until Ye Zun knocks everyone down.
• The Hallows' wormhole swallows Zhao Yunlan, and he meets present-day Shen Wei inside.
• From there, they watch as:
  • Ye Zun falls into the energy seal, and Shen Wei follows after
  • the Treaty is signed and the Allied Forces disbanded
  • Da Qing leaves in search of his memories
  • 10k years later, the Regent sends Ding Dun to Haixing to investigate the energy seal and look for the Hallows
  • Ding Dun's mission finds the newly waking Envoy
  • the Regent and Shen Wei agree on their roles
  • Shen Wei talks to pillar!Ye Zun, then returns to Haixing and catches some petty Dixingren crooks.
• Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan leave the wormhole and land in the SID lab, where Da Qing is waiting.
• Da Qing says Dixing has declared war on Haixing; cue flashback to Ye Zun impersonating the Envoy and burning the treaty.
• At the DoS security check, Changcheng gets stopped because of his baton, and the guard sends for Professor Lin.
• In the street, Zhao Yunlan tells Shen Wei that he's not a knife, and says the big problem for the moment is humans.
• Lin Jing comes to the DoS security check and takes Changcheng's baton.

( Thoughts )

Discussion starters:

• What's your favourite scene in this episode? Favourite line of dialogue? For me, it's the entire clifftop conversation, and especially Zhao Yunlan asking Shen Wei not to blame him for leaving. It says so much!!


• How do you feel about YOHE Ye Zun? Do you have thoughts about his terrible circumstances? Do they make you pity him?


• Any thoughts or feelings about Fu You and Ma Gui? Do you ship them? Do you think Fu You was right to leave?


• At the end of the episode, Shen Wei seems to think he could have defeated Ye Zun in YOHE. Why do you think he thinks this?li
  
• What exactly does Shen Wei feel about Ye Zun using the Envoy's image to start a war?


• We know that, among other things, the treaty places some restrictions on the Envoy. Does burning it change anything?


• Does the Regent have any redeeming features?


• The first time you watched, did you think Lin Jing had gone to the dark side, or did you recognise his no-nonsense attitude to Changcheng as a ruse?

Let’s talk about episode 35!
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