Yeah, as I said, I have no points, just pictures. :D I totally agree with pretty much everything, and your analysis is beautiful. ♡♡♡
"because of who they are to each other up and down the timeline"
!!! and
"he laughs (at their fate and at his former lack of understanding, and the fact that now he knows what Shen Wei meant when he said it)"
AW!! ♡
I think the one thing that I have specific feelings about is the one I started with - he still looks really sad to me when he says these specific words. After the look of realization and the laugh and the smile, he's just sad. (And his expression switches between the far crop and the close crop - I would love to see the progression of this instead!) But at the same time I can definitely also see the acceptance of it (the sadness and the sacrifice both, I guess, and the love too) vs the resistance to it in the kitchen scene! ♡
"*watches this sequence, like, six billion more times* alksdfjalkdsfja;sdklfjas;dkfjas;dlfkjasd;fk"
SAAAAAME. ♡♡♡
"(And then I compared YOHE!SW with kitchen!ZYL, and they're also different -- SW doesn't look upset like ZYL does; SW is just pure confusion.)"
Yeah, I looked at that too and decided they're very different from the beginning - ZYL is the most confused after he's already super agitated, and I think the only time anything could even be comparable at all is before that.
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"because of who they are to each other up and down the timeline"
!!! and
"he laughs (at their fate and at his former lack of understanding, and the fact that now he knows what Shen Wei meant when he said it)"
AW!! ♡
I think the one thing that I have specific feelings about is the one I started with - he still looks really sad to me when he says these specific words. After the look of realization and the laugh and the smile, he's just sad. (And his expression switches between the far crop and the close crop - I would love to see the progression of this instead!) But at the same time I can definitely also see the acceptance of it (the sadness and the sacrifice both, I guess, and the love too) vs the resistance to it in the kitchen scene! ♡
"*watches this sequence, like, six billion more times* alksdfjalkdsfja;sdklfjas;dkfjas;dlfkjasd;fk"
SAAAAAME. ♡♡♡
"(And then I compared YOHE!SW with kitchen!ZYL, and they're also different -- SW doesn't look upset like ZYL does; SW is just pure confusion.)"
Yeah, I looked at that too and decided they're very different from the beginning - ZYL is the most confused after he's already super agitated, and I think the only time anything could even be comparable at all is before that.