It brings it home to me how much more angsty the present day is than so much of the Old Haixing interlude--the dark tension of modern!Shen Wei's knowledge that he's heading toward a tragedy, and if he's lucky might be able to prevent it by being the only one who dies, versus the sense of hope for the Alliance's victory and happy coexistence under Ma Gui and Fu You?
Yes! Everything in YOHE is so compressed, too: Zhao Yunlan doesn't go through weeks or months of being held at a distance. (Not that he would -- he'd just bulldoze on in there. *g*) (Oh, now I'm wondering what happens if you flip the whole show -- make the past the main story, and give it more texture and range, and have modern-day be sweet and easy and falling-into-each-other... except that doesn't really work, does it? The existential threat with the unknown outcome has to be at the end of the timeline. And the YOHE sequence can only be this sweet because it's set against a terrible background of war and deprivation. /rambly thinking out loud)
That is also an excellent parallel--VERY SUGGESTIVE sweet-eating--except that, as I pointed out before, Zhao Yunlan knows exactly what he's doing and little!Shen Wei (probably) doesn't.
Yes! Very agreed. *g*
For the record, I don't think Li Qian is immortal--I think her grandmother dealt with that issue during her well-timed posthumous appearance.
Oh, that's a nice thought. So there are no ongoing repercussions for Li Qian? (That would explain why we never see any. :-)
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It brings it home to me how much more angsty the present day is than so much of the Old Haixing interlude--the dark tension of modern!Shen Wei's knowledge that he's heading toward a tragedy, and if he's lucky might be able to prevent it by being the only one who dies, versus the sense of hope for the Alliance's victory and happy coexistence under Ma Gui and Fu You?
Yes! Everything in YOHE is so compressed, too: Zhao Yunlan doesn't go through weeks or months of being held at a distance. (Not that he would -- he'd just bulldoze on in there. *g*) (Oh, now I'm wondering what happens if you flip the whole show -- make the past the main story, and give it more texture and range, and have modern-day be sweet and easy and falling-into-each-other... except that doesn't really work, does it? The existential threat with the unknown outcome has to be at the end of the timeline. And the YOHE sequence can only be this sweet because it's set against a terrible background of war and deprivation. /rambly thinking out loud)
That is also an excellent parallel--VERY SUGGESTIVE sweet-eating--except that, as I pointed out before, Zhao Yunlan knows exactly what he's doing and little!Shen Wei (probably) doesn't.
Yes! Very agreed. *g*
For the record, I don't think Li Qian is immortal--I think her grandmother dealt with that issue during her well-timed posthumous appearance.
Oh, that's a nice thought. So there are no ongoing repercussions for Li Qian? (That would explain why we never see any. :-)