Poll: Suspicious Professor Shen (dramaverse)

[china_shop]

Some discussion on the novel readalong post made me think about the Longevity Dial arc in the drama, how determined Shen Wei is to catch Zhao Yunlan's attention... and how much he inadvertently keeps arousing Zhao Yunlan's, er, investigative instincts. :D So... a poll!

Poll #32598 Suspicious Professor Shen

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What's the most suspicious thing Professor Shen does in eps 1 to 9?

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mentioning Dixingren to the chief of the SID... and knowing about the SID
12 (48.0%)

surviving the fall off the biology department roof
16 (64.0%)

surviving Wang Yike's attack
6 (24.0%)

healing the cut on his arm
4 (16.0%)

being caught at the fake face-stealer crime scene
5 (20.0%)

having a dossier on the SID
8 (32.0%)

not having a cellphone
3 (12.0%)

being unfeasibly good-looking
8 (32.0%)

other
3 (12.0%)

Comments

[china_shop]

Ooh, yes. Good one! What on earth was ZYL supposed to make of that? :-)

[trobadora]

Really it's all a big huge tangle of (delightful) suspiciousness! But that one has to stand out.

[china_shop]

It's only one step away from showing up on ZYL's doorstep and announcing he's moving in, really. (Something that ZYL would be shameless enough to do, but Shen Wei is too polite for -- and also, it would complicate his secret-keeping.) (And also, there's the problem of early-canon!ZYL's ~issues~...)

[trobadora]

Yes, all of that! I love it so much, OMG. Honestly I think out of all the changes they made from novel to drama - and I love so many of them - this is unquestionably the best one: the way Shen Wei is not at all trying to avoid Zhao Yunlan in any way, shape or form, but instead pushes himself into his life and his awareness at every possible opportunity. :D

[china_shop]

It's so good!

novel spoiler

They kept the energy corruption plot point, but made Shen Wei the cure instead of the cause.

[trobadora]

Doesn't the novel also has Shen Wei curing Zhao Yunlan at his own cost? I may be misremembering. But true, the energy corruption plot is a very different thing, and I really love that the drama did away with Shen Wei being in any way, shape or form bad for Zhao Yunlan! ♥ ♥ ♥

[china_shop]

Oh, yeah, you're right, he does, but it's gross and I'd erased it from my mind. ;-p

Plus, the Dial Exchange is so very very good!

[trobadora]

Everything about the Dial exchange is amazing. :D

[facethestrange]

"but it's gross and I'd erased it from my mind. ;-p"

Bwah, such a valid reaction. :D I actually like the gross factor of a lot of things in the novel watch me be weird about wrist-biting when the re-read gets to that, but everything else about this (and a lot of other things) the drama did infinitely better. *nods*

[trobadora]

You know, I don't remember much from the first time I tried to read the novel, but I do remember the wrist-biting and I'm totally here for that.

(IIRC it wasn't as good as the wrist-biting in Faraway Wanderers - priest has favourite tropes, heh! - but it was still very good. :D)

100% agreed about the things the drama did better, though!

[facethestrange]

Oooooh. *EYEING FARAWAY WANDERERS* I had no idea. *eyes it some more* I've been lowkey meaning to read it, but tbh I'm in my "no one looks like Bai Yu = I'm not interested" era, lol, but then again who's gonna stop me from picturing whoever I want. :D The Guardian novel descriptions sure didn't. :D

[trobadora]

Faraway Wanderers is great! And so is Word of Honor, the drama adaptation. Both very much recommended!

Fair enough about Bai Yu, though. Have you watched some of his other stuff?

[facethestrange]

Yeah, new dramas gonna need to wait until some unspecified time when I don't just want to stare at the Guardian cast 24/7 and absolutely nothing else will do. :D :D (Z1L very, very much too, hah, Bai Yu is just my original reason for all of this.) Books on the other hand... :D

I haven't watched anything in full because nothing seems to be my genre much? Guardian was not my genre either, watch this statement change in 3, 2, 1... But I have watched just about everything in bits and pieces. :D

[trobadora]

Guardian lives in my head basically ALL the time, so I feel you! :D

What's your genre, usually, if you don't mind saying?

[facethestrange]

Psychological horror, basically? Childhood trauma, gore, hallucinations, dream logic. Like Yellowjackets or Higurashi When They Cry. That's the usual, but for the last 2-3 months my brain is entirely made of Guardian and I love it this way. :D

[trobadora]

Oh, yeah, that's very not like Guardian! I'm so glad you found your way here anyway. ♥

[facethestrange]

Hah, yes, and no one is more glad than me. :D :D I haven't been this in love with one singular fandom in at least a decade, possibly two decades (depending on the exact criteria, lol). And I just absolutely love when "this is not really my thing in theory" becomes "this is SO MY THING in practice". :D

[china_shop]

Ha, I don't remember the wrist-biting at all...

[facethestrange]

It's brief and probably pretty unremarkable unless it hits you somewhere in the id. xD

[facethestrange]

"It's only one step away from showing up on ZYL's doorstep and announcing he's moving in, really."

Which ZYL would be like "yep, sounds good, you can do that". So that he can investigate him better, of course. :D

[trobadora]

"investigate" :D :D :D

[facethestrange]

[trobadora]

EXACTLY LIKE THAT. ♥ ♥ ♥

[china_shop]

LOLOL! :D :D :D