and I feel like most of the flashbacks in the show work as memories?
Off the top of my head, there's the one where Sha Ya's friend finally tells her what happened and why her revenge is wrong, Lao Li explaining his history to Da Qing, Zhang Shi explaining to ZYL how he met Zhao Xinci, and the twins' flashbacks in ep 40 (though arguably, in the afterlife, they're actually sharing memories somehow rather than explaining? Idk). Likely more. But then other times, it's just a memory, like a lot of Shen Wei's -- most notably, I think, the one where Minister Gao asks how ZYL recruited him to the SID. Actually, that one makes me think that it's the context (and characters' reactions afterwards) that tells us whether it was an out-loud explanation or just a memory. And we don't get any clues from Zhu Jiu's one because the scene cuts away.
It may well have been Shen Wei who gave him the scar, I just don't really see how that scene holds together as is, or why Shen Wei would be that emotional.
Yeah, I've never understood that either. It almost works for me as a trauma response/lashing out at Zhu Jiu as a proxy for the Rebel Chief, but it's so different from any other time we see him acting as the Envoy, afaicr, plus we don't get that context for it until the final episode.
That would make some sense, though I'd be confused as to why his years of imprisonment aren't something else shown to fuel Zhu Jiu's resentment of Heipaoshi.
Because the imprisonment is all the Regent's fault?
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Off the top of my head, there's the one where Sha Ya's friend finally tells her what happened and why her revenge is wrong, Lao Li explaining his history to Da Qing, Zhang Shi explaining to ZYL how he met Zhao Xinci, and the twins' flashbacks in ep 40 (though arguably, in the afterlife, they're actually sharing memories somehow rather than explaining? Idk). Likely more. But then other times, it's just a memory, like a lot of Shen Wei's -- most notably, I think, the one where Minister Gao asks how ZYL recruited him to the SID. Actually, that one makes me think that it's the context (and characters' reactions afterwards) that tells us whether it was an out-loud explanation or just a memory. And we don't get any clues from Zhu Jiu's one because the scene cuts away.
It may well have been Shen Wei who gave him the scar, I just don't really see how that scene holds together as is, or why Shen Wei would be that emotional.
Yeah, I've never understood that either. It almost works for me as a trauma response/lashing out at Zhu Jiu as a proxy for the Rebel Chief, but it's so different from any other time we see him acting as the Envoy, afaicr, plus we don't get that context for it until the final episode.
That would make some sense, though I'd be confused as to why his years of imprisonment aren't something else shown to fuel Zhu Jiu's resentment of Heipaoshi.
Because the imprisonment is all the Regent's fault?