Ahh, I love your choice of quotes. So many good bits! :D
I'm going to do my notes first and then answer some of the questions.
The Emissary’s hood fell back and revealed the elegant, refined features of Professor Shen—features that seemed wildly out of place in the current circumstances.
This made me go, what should the Emissary's face look like? Why shouldn't he be elegant and refined? *puzzled*
Love the description of the healing, and how it translates into dark energy in the drama. <3
I know that slaying a whole bunch of ghosts was necessary and only in defence of ZYL and the others, but I'm still like, does that mean those souls are just gone now? Because they weren't choosing to attack, right? They were driven by an appetite they couldn't control. So this is just more of the cosmology being bullshit. ;-p
I like the handcuff line so much more now that autodach has pointed out the parallel with primordial Shen Wei's dialogue.
“Yunlan, I beg you, stop tormenting me so. In all my existence, my greatest regret is my carelessness in becoming entangled with you and lacking the self-control to keep from making mistake after mistake. I… I think perhaps I’m simply not good enough. I’m too weak and lack the necessary willpower.”
Ahh, these two are in such an impossible situation. And SW has made a promise and set himself an eternal task that goes against every fibre of his being (to keep away from Kunlun). On the one or two occasionas he inevitably slips up (in the entirety of history), he just beats himself up about it and uses it as proof that he's not ~good enough~ AKA not perfect.
Also, his whole "I'm bad for you" reason is so different from the drama, and I'm So Glad About That. ;-p
He’s mine. If the two of us have a problem, it’s between us, no matter who’s in the wrong.
This is so unhealthy (I feel) and so sweet at the same time. ;-p And aww, Zhu Hong being so upset about being called an outsider. *pets her*
YAY! I love novel!ZYL's catalogue of flaws almost as much as drama!ZYL's one! (Ha, they had to switch mother to father for the drama.) <3 <3 <3
Sometimes I don’t have the first clue how he stands me.
Aww! I love that both ZYL and SW think the other is too good for them, even if it's in such wildly different ways. <333
He folded Shen Wei’s coat neatly and set it down in the boat.
Two responses:
Awwww!! The coat! The care for the coat! I love this!
ZYL can fold. He just (usually) chooses not to.
Unafraid, he dove further down.
That "unafraid" made me !!!! Zhao Yunlan!! Don't you know how to spell 'fear'? So much trust in random magic objects! (And did Fourth Uncle foresee this? Maybe he can see the future, and that's how he knew about the SID case when he was talking to Zhu Hong before.)
Aww, I love Chu Shuzhi cutting his holiday short to come to Zhu Hong's going away party. <3 <3 <3
If he’d had a tail, it would’ve been wagging hard enough to resemble an electric fan.
Aww! *loves*
He felt it was best not to bother the bodhisattvas unnecessarily.
LOL! No wonder his family don't know any of his goings on, if even praying feels like an imposition.
Everyone knew merits and sins were bullshit when it came to The Book of Life and Death , but did the Netherworld really need to flout it so blatantly?
Yes! I feel vindicated in my dislike of this stupid system. ;-p (Also, awww, CSZ's indignation! <3)
I'd forgotten Zhu Hong had already given ZYL the pearl, and I kept waiting for him to get it. I thought she was going to have to go after him to give it to him. (I also vaguely remembered him giving it to her or someone else to protect them, but that might come later, or I might have imagined it. Don't tell me. :-)
Chu Shuzhi's delayed Emissary-reveal reaction is such a thing of beauty. I love everything about it! :D :D :D
The young King of the Gui didn’t understand why Kunlun-jun was looking down on him. But he thought Kunlun-jun would not say anything without reason, so he dropped his gaze in shame.
This made me go, "Oh, shit." Like, Shen Wei is so young and impressionable, with no context for anything, and Kunlun-jun has carelessly taught him shame (for no reason), and that lesson sticks. /o\
From your quotes, in particular:
the same man who, once upon a time, she'd feared so much that she'd been scared to even open his letters.
I love this reminder! :D
for he was yet unmarred by principles and morality.
I guess that's one way to look at morality?
What is your favourite Weilan bit in this?
The coat, the coat, the coat. :D :D :D It's such wonderful displacement -- caring for Shen Wei himself is complicated and involves tensions and disagreements and too many conflicting emotions, but ZYL can at least express his tenderest feelings by protecting and caring for this coat. <333
How do you like Zhao Yunlan's handling of Zhu Hong's feelings here?
I think he does pretty well, especially given how messed up he is at the time. He's upfront about his feelings for Shen Wei, while trying to make her feel better.
Do you think Guo Changcheng is doing the same kind of volunteering in the drama?
I honestly never gave it a thought. His goodness in the drama is kind of expressed through being kind to the elderly (Li Qian's granny, and the fake-doddering Regent) and the ill (Dong Nan). I'm agnostic about whether there's more than that going on. :-)
Do you think Zhao Yunlan is being reckless?
Absolutely, 100%. I think he's entirely run out of fucks to give about anything except Shen Wei.
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Ahh, I love your choice of quotes. So many good bits! :D
I'm going to do my notes first and then answer some of the questions.
The Emissary’s hood fell back and revealed the elegant, refined features of Professor Shen—features that seemed wildly out of place in the current circumstances.
This made me go, what should the Emissary's face look like? Why shouldn't he be elegant and refined? *puzzled*
Love the description of the healing, and how it translates into dark energy in the drama. <3
I know that slaying a whole bunch of ghosts was necessary and only in defence of ZYL and the others, but I'm still like, does that mean those souls are just gone now? Because they weren't choosing to attack, right? They were driven by an appetite they couldn't control. So this is just more of the cosmology being bullshit. ;-p
I like the handcuff line so much more now that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
autodach has pointed out the parallel with primordial Shen Wei's dialogue.
“Yunlan, I beg you, stop tormenting me so. In all my existence, my greatest regret is my carelessness in becoming entangled with you and lacking the self-control to keep from making mistake after mistake. I… I think perhaps I’m simply not good enough. I’m too weak and lack the necessary willpower.”
Ahh, these two are in such an impossible situation. And SW has made a promise and set himself an eternal task that goes against every fibre of his being (to keep away from Kunlun). On the one or two occasionas he inevitably slips up (in the entirety of history), he just beats himself up about it and uses it as proof that he's not ~good enough~ AKA not perfect.
Also, his whole "I'm bad for you" reason is so different from the drama, and I'm So Glad About That. ;-p
He’s mine. If the two of us have a problem, it’s between us, no matter who’s in the wrong.
This is so unhealthy (I feel) and so sweet at the same time. ;-p And aww, Zhu Hong being so upset about being called an outsider. *pets her*
YAY! I love novel!ZYL's catalogue of flaws almost as much as drama!ZYL's one! (Ha, they had to switch mother to father for the drama.) <3 <3 <3
Sometimes I don’t have the first clue how he stands me.
Aww! I love that both ZYL and SW think the other is too good for them, even if it's in such wildly different ways. <333
He folded Shen Wei’s coat neatly and set it down in the boat.
Two responses:
Unafraid, he dove further down.
That "unafraid" made me !!!! Zhao Yunlan!! Don't you know how to spell 'fear'? So much trust in random magic objects! (And did Fourth Uncle foresee this? Maybe he can see the future, and that's how he knew about the SID case when he was talking to Zhu Hong before.)
Aww, I love Chu Shuzhi cutting his holiday short to come to Zhu Hong's going away party. <3 <3 <3
If he’d had a tail, it would’ve been wagging hard enough to resemble an electric fan.
Aww! *loves*
He felt it was best not to bother the bodhisattvas unnecessarily.
LOL! No wonder his family don't know any of his goings on, if even praying feels like an imposition.
Everyone knew merits and sins were bullshit when it came to The Book of Life and Death , but did the Netherworld really need to flout it so blatantly?
Yes! I feel vindicated in my dislike of this stupid system. ;-p (Also, awww, CSZ's indignation! <3)
I'd forgotten Zhu Hong had already given ZYL the pearl, and I kept waiting for him to get it. I thought she was going to have to go after him to give it to him. (I also vaguely remembered him giving it to her or someone else to protect them, but that might come later, or I might have imagined it. Don't tell me. :-)
Chu Shuzhi's delayed Emissary-reveal reaction is such a thing of beauty. I love everything about it! :D :D :D
The young King of the Gui didn’t understand why Kunlun-jun was looking down on him. But he thought Kunlun-jun would not say anything without reason, so he dropped his gaze in shame.
This made me go, "Oh, shit." Like, Shen Wei is so young and impressionable, with no context for anything, and Kunlun-jun has carelessly taught him shame (for no reason), and that lesson sticks. /o\
From your quotes, in particular:
the same man who, once upon a time, she'd feared so much that she'd been scared to even open his letters.
I love this reminder! :D
for he was yet unmarred by principles and morality.
I guess that's one way to look at morality?
What is your favourite Weilan bit in this?
The coat, the coat, the coat. :D :D :D It's such wonderful displacement -- caring for Shen Wei himself is complicated and involves tensions and disagreements and too many conflicting emotions, but ZYL can at least express his tenderest feelings by protecting and caring for this coat. <333
How do you like Zhao Yunlan's handling of Zhu Hong's feelings here?
I think he does pretty well, especially given how messed up he is at the time. He's upfront about his feelings for Shen Wei, while trying to make her feel better.
Do you think Guo Changcheng is doing the same kind of volunteering in the drama?
I honestly never gave it a thought. His goodness in the drama is kind of expressed through being kind to the elderly (Li Qian's granny, and the fake-doddering Regent) and the ill (Dong Nan). I'm agnostic about whether there's more than that going on. :-)
Do you think Zhao Yunlan is being reckless?
Absolutely, 100%. I think he's entirely run out of fucks to give about anything except Shen Wei.