Picspam: Shen Wei's Pendant

[trobadora]

For an object with such significance (both for Shen Wei and for the drama *g*), we actually see very little of it!



Our first glimpse is in episode 2, when Shen Wei heals himself from the claw wounds the Shadow Man gave him. For the most part, we only see the cord - the pendant itself is only visible briefly and from a distance:





There is a promo pic that shows it more clearly, but the pendant has the wrong colour! I wonder at what point they changed it, and whether the healing scene being filmed with the wrong colour is why we never see it up close. (They might have coloured it after the fact for the wide shot?)



At any rate, I quite like that we first see it only from a distance, with no emphasis and no hint that it might be significant!

In episode 3, Shen Wei touches the pendant after burning the thank you message from Zhang Ruonan and Wang Yike:




But the next time we see the pendant itself is in episodes 6/7, during the mugging - where Shen Wei is willing to let the muggers have their way rather than fight them right until they try to touch his pendant:





And later in episode 7, he'll once again touch the pendant through his shirt, after administering ointment to Zhao Yunlan's arm:



Episode 9 gives us two tantalising glimpses that remind us of the pendant without letting us see it directly - one time Shen Wei's shirt isn't fully buttoned, and one time we can see the bump of the pendant through his shirt:







Episode 12 again lets us see the pendant clearly and in close-up as Shen Wei, after letting Lin Jing measure his brainwaves, contemplates whether telling the truth to Zhao Yunlan would put him in more danger:







I'd like to note that the close-up here is the first time we can sort of, almost see the pendant is made of two halves!

After that, for a while there's not much pendant at all. However, in episode 26 we get another contemplative scene after Shen Wei covers a sleeping Zhao Yunlan with his jacket and sits on the couch table to watch him:






Again, at least if you already know, it's pretty visible in the close-up here that the pendant has two halves. *g*

In episode 39, as Shen Wei jumps in front of Zhao Yunlan to take Ye Zun's black energy hit for him, the pendant is again visible - in a bit of a continuity error:






The pendant goes from hanging free to being tucked under Shen Wei's shirt to hanging free again. *g*

But the most significant pendant pics are of course the ones at the very end, in episode 40 - where it's Zhao Yunlan with the pendant.

First, there's the gorgeous scene in which Shen Wei, already dead, still sends Zhao Yunlan his pendant as a final gesture, and Zhao Yunlan opens it and learns what Shen Wei has been carrying with him all this time, and they share a moment of perfect understanding as Zhao Yunlan quotes exactly what Shen Wei quoted too as his last lines:






And then, as Zhao Yunlan prepares for his own sacrifice, he takes out the pendant again, remembering:






And here, for what I think is the first and only time, and even then really only briefly, we can see the swirl of the lollipop wrapper through the closed pendant! (I never noticed this until the recent rewatch!)

Talk to me about the pendant! Which is your favourite pendant scene? Did I forget any important moments? Please share! ♥

Comments

[anne]

Dixing glass! Perfect!