Slo-Mo Rewatch: Guardian episode 7, part 2

[trobadora]

Hi, welcome to this week's instalment of the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch! Watch half an episode a week, 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 7, from 24:30

Summary: The SID finds Lai Su's house and confronts him. He reveals that someone promised him fame and fortune if he published webnovels, and he kept at it despite knowing about the murders. Lin Jing is disappointed and furious at his idol. Lai Su writes a final chapter to end his webnovel career, and ends up dying his character's death. Zhu Jiu tries to break into the SID and discovers the black energy shield. And Zhao Yunlan visits Shen Wei to talk about the case. Shen Wei is very touched that he sympathises with a Dixingren.



Quote:

Lin Jing: "If you can't take responsibility for every word you write, you don't deserve to be called an author. You don't even deserve to be called a person!"

Detail:

Lin Jing describes the final chapter of the webnovel with the monster's death as follows: "He was engulfed by guilt for his many crimes. In the end, his own reflection in a lake scared him to death."

Since we actually see the text of the chapter on screen, I thought it'd be fun to plug the screencaps into Google Translate - here's the result:

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Questions:

Do you have a favourite line in in this half of the episode? What do you think about Lin Jing's angry words to Lai Su? How great is Lai Su's house? Any parallels between this case and the drama's overall plot? Any parallels with the novel you can think of? Why is Zhu Jiu only now discovering the SID's shield? What's your favourite part of the final scene between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan?

(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

[facethestrange]

Ahhh, thank you so much for writing this up! ♡♡♡

I was so curious about the differences when you first said that, but I didn't end up trying to dig though the discussion posts (this was before I started participating in the readalong) - I appreciate the summary so much! ♡♡♡ And wow, that's fascinating, and it makes so much more sense after the changes (Zhao Yunlan's self-destructiveness is really important in this scene imo; drinking like this for no reason, after he just scored his dream date, doesn't really follow? and Shen Wei not rejecting him at all is pretty off too in the novel context), and it is so much closer to the drama, and now I'm even more curious which one came first. :D

Since the drama doesn't spell out the reason why Zhao Yunlan is acting like that, I'd say maybe they worked with both texts? But then again it doesn't need to be spelled out to be an inspiration to make ZYL beat himself up in the novel, so in the end idk, but it's all super cool either way! :D

[trobadora]

It's such a fascinating difference, yeah! Totally agreed that it makes much more sense in the later version. I was so surprised to discover that originally his drinking and getting hung over was just a random weekend activity with no character relevance beyond him generally being a mess. It's so much better when it's tied into his relationship with Shen Wei.

True that the drama doesn't spell it out - that could mean they were referencing that version of the novel! Damn, I really wish I knew which version(s) the drama writers had/when all these different versions were published!

ETA: The drama also has SW finding ZYL with a gastritis attack, which isn't in the original version of the novel, so thinking on it, yeah, they must have had that version too!