ZXC: Zhao Yunlan, you've made me so disappointed. 赵云澜 你太让我失望了
I think the most ZXC about this is that he really still seems to think he can reach ZYL with phrases like that ...
(I like the way ZYL just nods and turns away to look out the window instead of at ZXC!)
There's a fractional delay as (I think?) Zhang Shi takes over and answers in a slightly higher register than Zhao Xinci's deeper, firmer one(?).
Yeah, that's exactly what it sounds like to me; Zhang Shi's voice is audibly different!
Zhao Yunlan is surprised -- by the tone or the choice to keep this unofficial?
Both, I think. Especially since this decision clearly comes out of nowhere for Minister Guo as well.
Zhao Yunlan flicks on the light, throws his keys on the side-table with the (empty?) goldfish bowl, and unceremoniously plants himself on the couch, propping his foot on the coffee table and crossing his legs.
I love how he's doing the impression of a sulky teenager, except it's all much more serious and fraught. *pets him* His father really brings it out in him.
Sitting on the couch, Zhao Yunlan cleans earwax from under his fingernail.
Love this image description, and this little detail! :D
Do you agree Zhang Shi takes over in the car? If so, it's pretty subtle.
I think it's pretty clear, actually!
Is Guo Ying surprised by the direction to take Zhao Yunlan back to the flat, and the implicit decision not to officially intervene? Does he agree with it? He, too, must have mixed feelings about the whole situation, given his position at the DoS and (I presume) career aspirations versus hearing praise of the SID from Changcheng.
I think he's 100% surprised; he initially expects ZYL to be taken to Xingdu Bureau, as he says at the start of the scene. But it looks to me like he's glad ZXC seems to be de-escalating instead.
At what point does Zhao Yunlan realise Zhao Xinci is not himself? Is it in the car and he bides his time to make the challenge, or do his suspicions crystalise when he hears Zhang Shi talking to Guo Ying?
IMO he notices something is off in the car, but the conversation with Guo Ying is when he really knows it's not ZXC.
This scene always strikes me as evidence that however much Zhang Shi claims to have been a sort-of-parent to Zhao Yunlan and was there for his childhood, he can't have been actively involved or said much -- otherwise his speaking now (and on the roof during the kidnapping, and in the scene during the blindness arc) wouldn't strike Zhao Yunlan as definitively OOC.
Yeah, if it happened more frequently it wouldn't be "you are not my father," it'd be "what suddenly put you into this rare mellow mood?" ZYL not recognising Zhang Shi as ZXC means to me that he doesn't know Zhang Shi at all. IMO Zhang Shi can't have been interacting with younger Zhao Yunlan. Which doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't involved in parenting him - he may well regularly have pushed (or attempted to push) ZXC in certain directions, even if he didn't take over and speak or act himself.
I wonder how differently Zhao Yunlan would be reacting if a large portion of his brain weren't busy screaming with worry about Shen Wei.
This is a VERY good question! I think it really contributes a lot to how tightly wound he is in this scene, and how close he seems to snapping. *pets him*
And speaking of Shen Wei, the flat is so tidy! I feel like Zhao Yunlan has been making a real effort to respect and preserve Shen Wei's standards of cleanliness in his absence. asdklfa;dslkf
Either that, or he essentially hasn't been home since Shen Wei left. (Because it's not home without Shen Wei any more? ♥)
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I think the most ZXC about this is that he really still seems to think he can reach ZYL with phrases like that ...
(I like the way ZYL just nods and turns away to look out the window instead of at ZXC!)
There's a fractional delay as (I think?) Zhang Shi takes over and answers in a slightly higher register than Zhao Xinci's deeper, firmer one(?).
Yeah, that's exactly what it sounds like to me; Zhang Shi's voice is audibly different!
Zhao Yunlan is surprised -- by the tone or the choice to keep this unofficial?
Both, I think. Especially since this decision clearly comes out of nowhere for Minister Guo as well.
Zhao Yunlan flicks on the light, throws his keys on the side-table with the (empty?) goldfish bowl, and unceremoniously plants himself on the couch, propping his foot on the coffee table and crossing his legs.
I love how he's doing the impression of a sulky teenager, except it's all much more serious and fraught. *pets him* His father really brings it out in him.
Sitting on the couch, Zhao Yunlan cleans earwax from under his fingernail.
Love this image description, and this little detail! :D
Do you agree Zhang Shi takes over in the car? If so, it's pretty subtle.
I think it's pretty clear, actually!
Is Guo Ying surprised by the direction to take Zhao Yunlan back to the flat, and the implicit decision not to officially intervene? Does he agree with it? He, too, must have mixed feelings about the whole situation, given his position at the DoS and (I presume) career aspirations versus hearing praise of the SID from Changcheng.
I think he's 100% surprised; he initially expects ZYL to be taken to Xingdu Bureau, as he says at the start of the scene. But it looks to me like he's glad ZXC seems to be de-escalating instead.
At what point does Zhao Yunlan realise Zhao Xinci is not himself? Is it in the car and he bides his time to make the challenge, or do his suspicions crystalise when he hears Zhang Shi talking to Guo Ying?
IMO he notices something is off in the car, but the conversation with Guo Ying is when he really knows it's not ZXC.
This scene always strikes me as evidence that however much Zhang Shi claims to have been a sort-of-parent to Zhao Yunlan and was there for his childhood, he can't have been actively involved or said much -- otherwise his speaking now (and on the roof during the kidnapping, and in the scene during the blindness arc) wouldn't strike Zhao Yunlan as definitively OOC.
Yeah, if it happened more frequently it wouldn't be "you are not my father," it'd be "what suddenly put you into this rare mellow mood?" ZYL not recognising Zhang Shi as ZXC means to me that he doesn't know Zhang Shi at all. IMO Zhang Shi can't have been interacting with younger Zhao Yunlan. Which doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't involved in parenting him - he may well regularly have pushed (or attempted to push) ZXC in certain directions, even if he didn't take over and speak or act himself.
I wonder how differently Zhao Yunlan would be reacting if a large portion of his brain weren't busy screaming with worry about Shen Wei.
This is a VERY good question! I think it really contributes a lot to how tightly wound he is in this scene, and how close he seems to snapping. *pets him*
And speaking of Shen Wei, the flat is so tidy! I feel like Zhao Yunlan has been making a real effort to respect and preserve Shen Wei's standards of cleanliness in his absence. asdklfa;dslkf
Either that, or he essentially hasn't been home since Shen Wei left. (Because it's not home without Shen Wei any more? ♥)