(I wonder how long he's locked in there... and if they let him notify his family. The whole thing is so yikes.)
Very yikes! Xiao-Guo saw him in the corridor, so he knows, but since they're not allowed to have phones in there, he presumably wasn't able to tell his aunt ...
They might be off-screen fighting the invaders. Maybe we're supposed to infer that.
I'm pretty sure that if they'd wanted us to believe that, they'd just have added a reference to it somewhere. A line of dialogue doesn't even need a special effects budget. *g*
I guess part of the problem is that the powers are so random. Prof Ouyang would have to keep dosing people until he found enough who had fight-relevant powers
The randomness of powers was always one of the fatal flaws of the project. There's just no guarantee they'll end up with anything usable unless they administer the serum to a very large number of people - and then the very large number of people suddenly having other powers would be their own complication for Haixing!
Ooh, I wonder how long a Ye Zun vs Mi Lu fight would have lasted. If he couldn't see through her illusions, he might have had a little bit of difficulty taking her down? (We don't really see anyone strong enough to challenge him, though, do we?)
No, presumably by design - no one can stand up to him, which means it rings true when the only way to defeat him ends up being self-sacrifice. But I agree it would be fun to see him deal with an opponent that gives him a bit of a challenge, and Mi Lu's maze power could work for that!
Or Minister Gao could have realised that that was an error on his part, and built bridges. Listened. Taken advice. (Seriously, whyyyy isn't there a committee?) (I know, it would make for worse TV.)
Haha, yeah. Seriously!
Yeah, it breaks his image across both vectors, doesn't it? Cruelty--Justice, and Capability--Harmlessness. /o\
Yes, this!
I assumed that he assumed Lin Jing would be listening because everyone was listening -- not that he'd given Lin Jing a specific heads up.
The way Lin Jing turns on his phone when he's in the loo with Guo Changcheng makes it seem like he's expecting it. I guess I'm overthinking this and it's just narrative convenience. *g*
Presumably the syringe he uses on Ya Qing is like the one he uses on Cong Bo after the wedding, then? Some kind of DE-power-breaking sedative?
Oh! I had forgotten about that, but yes, that makes a lot of sense!
Wow. Huh, I hadn't thought of that. It would be a desperate measure indeed, given how disapproving they all are about the serum. Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that -- especially given Zhao Yunlan knows how many non-useful powers are out there.
I think it would work as a "if everything else fails, I can still roll the dice and try this" idea - not as something he expects to work, but something that has some small chance of it?
I wonder if they still have the cuffs they used on Zhu Jiu... But yeah. That still doesn't give them a secure place to keep him, or a longer term solution...
Yeah. It's difficult. (I wonder if Lin Jing could have made a containment field if he'd tried - sort of an inverse SID shield, that won't let people out?
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Very yikes! Xiao-Guo saw him in the corridor, so he knows, but since they're not allowed to have phones in there, he presumably wasn't able to tell his aunt ...
They might be off-screen fighting the invaders. Maybe we're supposed to infer that.
I'm pretty sure that if they'd wanted us to believe that, they'd just have added a reference to it somewhere. A line of dialogue doesn't even need a special effects budget. *g*
I guess part of the problem is that the powers are so random. Prof Ouyang would have to keep dosing people until he found enough who had fight-relevant powers
The randomness of powers was always one of the fatal flaws of the project. There's just no guarantee they'll end up with anything usable unless they administer the serum to a very large number of people - and then the very large number of people suddenly having other powers would be their own complication for Haixing!
Ooh, I wonder how long a Ye Zun vs Mi Lu fight would have lasted. If he couldn't see through her illusions, he might have had a little bit of difficulty taking her down? (We don't really see anyone strong enough to challenge him, though, do we?)
No, presumably by design - no one can stand up to him, which means it rings true when the only way to defeat him ends up being self-sacrifice. But I agree it would be fun to see him deal with an opponent that gives him a bit of a challenge, and Mi Lu's maze power could work for that!
Or Minister Gao could have realised that that was an error on his part, and built bridges. Listened. Taken advice. (Seriously, whyyyy isn't there a committee?) (I know, it would make for worse TV.)
Haha, yeah. Seriously!
Yeah, it breaks his image across both vectors, doesn't it? Cruelty--Justice, and Capability--Harmlessness. /o\
Yes, this!
I assumed that he assumed Lin Jing would be listening because everyone was listening -- not that he'd given Lin Jing a specific heads up.
The way Lin Jing turns on his phone when he's in the loo with Guo Changcheng makes it seem like he's expecting it. I guess I'm overthinking this and it's just narrative convenience. *g*
Presumably the syringe he uses on Ya Qing is like the one he uses on Cong Bo after the wedding, then? Some kind of DE-power-breaking sedative?
Oh! I had forgotten about that, but yes, that makes a lot of sense!
Wow. Huh, I hadn't thought of that. It would be a desperate measure indeed, given how disapproving they all are about the serum. Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that -- especially given Zhao Yunlan knows how many non-useful powers are out there.
I think it would work as a "if everything else fails, I can still roll the dice and try this" idea - not as something he expects to work, but something that has some small chance of it?
I wonder if they still have the cuffs they used on Zhu Jiu... But yeah. That still doesn't give them a secure place to keep him, or a longer term solution...
Yeah. It's difficult. (I wonder if Lin Jing could have made a containment field if he'd tried - sort of an inverse SID shield, that won't let people out?