Slo-Mo Rewatch: Guardian episode 1, part 2

[trobadora]

Hi, welcome to our second instalment of the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch! Join us to watch half an episode a week (at your leisure) and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!

Here is last week's half-episode. On to the second half!

Episode 1, from 22:28

Summary: Guo Changcheng is having a day! After being dangled from a window and falling, now he fails at tailing Shen Wei and Li Qian, takes a lost grandma home, and promptly runs into a shadowy attacker! But action hero Chu Shuzhi comes to the rescue. Shen Wei studies Zhao Yunlan's file, and we get our first YOHE flashback. Zhao Yunlan, who has concluded the attacker mistook Lu Ruomei for Li Qian, tails Li Qian and has another intense encounter with Professor Shen. The Shadow Man attacks Li Qian at the university, but Shen Wei protects her - until he's thrown off the roof, just as the SID arrives. The team meets the Black-Cloaked Envoy for the first time.



Quote:

Zhao Yunlan: "Tell you the truth, I really don't know why, but from the moment I saw you, I've had this feeling like we've known each other a long time."

Shen Wei: "Who knows, maybe we really have met before."

Detail:

One of my favourite details in this half of the episode is the Envoy's very dramatic arrival on the rooftop - storm clouds and lightning and time stoppage and all. The best part about this is something a first-time viewer can't know - that this is clearly a choice on Shen Wei's part. He's looking to make an impression, hee! :D

Questions:

What's your favourite moment or line in this half of the episode? Anything you noticed that you'd completely forgotten about, or never noticed before? How literally do you take Shen Wei's "I've searched for you for 10,000 years"? What do you think Zhao Yunlan is thinking when Shen Wei just gives away that he knows about Dixingren? If you were on that rooftop when the Envoy took the Shadow Man away, would you speak up like Xiao-Guo? And if you're familiar with the novel, any thoughts about how this compares?

(These are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in!)

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Comments

[trobadora]

Heee, yep, I'm pretty sure anyone would notice GCC tailing them

Fair, LOL.

What do you mean by affecting their surroundings? (That the box attracted the Shadow Man, or something more?)

Somehow the Shadow Man knew the box was relevant to his interests, which I think is because the Sundial left something of its energies behind.

I love how it's not just right there - this flashback is ALL about the lollipop, merging the other scene into this one, and then there's also the extra footage. They maximized the anachronistic lollipop as much as they could. :D

YES! I love it. :D

(It is the Shadow Man's lair, and he ran off because GCC was loud, this much I understood. But no idea how the fish got them there. :P)

Do you mean the Shadow Man was there, and GCC's noise gave him the time to get away? Huh, I always just figured the place was empty when the SID arrived. (I mean, they're not exactly inconspicuous, even without GCC doing anything.) *ponders*

Thank you again for linking it! :D

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Yesss, he's both solid and not solid in ways that make sense and look really cool. :D

Yes! I love how he goes back and forth between different states.

THESE SONGS, srsly. ♡♡♡

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