One costuming thing I've always really liked about this episode and 38 is that Shen Wei's necklace begins to escape his ruined shirt, and by this point it's pretty much always visible. I guess, symbolically, he's not hiding anything anymore (or his heart's been ripped out and left on display, if you want to get painful about it, and you know I do.)
I'm pretty sure Zhao Yunlan's reactions to what happens to Shen Wei in this episode are the hardest thing for me to watch in this whole damn show. I'm holding in the urge to wail over just the stills. Damn, Bai Yu, damn.
Ye Zun still has his cough – when he's cosplaying the Black-Cloaked Envoy, he starts coughing when he has the Lantern after he's tossed the barkeep Does Ye Zun maybe just have asthma? There are medicines for that now!
On the subject of Ye Zun's badtouching, and uhh CW: sexual abuse for the rest of this comment: I absolutely thought I was supposed to read sexual abuse into the way Ye Zun was treated by the Rebel Leader. He dressed him up real pretty, in contrast to the rest of the rebels, and talked like Ye Zun was his favorite toy, and he obviously used his power to make Ye Zun compliant. And why the hell else was the Leader out recruiting powerless little boys? And then adult Ye Zun is inappropriate with everyone constantly, and is confused and outraged by Shen Wei's loyalty to the person he's sleeping with. I was sort of surprised to find that this wasn't accepted fanon. I definitely can't unsee it. :(
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I'm pretty sure Zhao Yunlan's reactions to what happens to Shen Wei in this episode are the hardest thing for me to watch in this whole damn show. I'm holding in the urge to wail over just the stills. Damn, Bai Yu, damn.
Ye Zun still has his cough – when he's cosplaying the Black-Cloaked Envoy, he starts coughing when he has the Lantern after he's tossed the barkeep
Does Ye Zun maybe just have asthma? There are medicines for that now!
On the subject of Ye Zun's badtouching, and uhh CW: sexual abuse for the rest of this comment: I absolutely thought I was supposed to read sexual abuse into the way Ye Zun was treated by the Rebel Leader. He dressed him up real pretty, in contrast to the rest of the rebels, and talked like Ye Zun was his favorite toy, and he obviously used his power to make Ye Zun compliant. And why the hell else was the Leader out recruiting powerless little boys? And then adult Ye Zun is inappropriate with everyone constantly, and is confused and outraged by Shen Wei's loyalty to the person he's sleeping with. I was sort of surprised to find that this wasn't accepted fanon. I definitely can't unsee it. :(