Slo-Mo Rewatch: Guardian episode 8, 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 8, from 22:19:

Summary: In Dixing, the Regent sends a smoke message. In Haixing, Shen Wei pours his drunk mentor into car and then finds Zhao Yunlan ill on the kerb. He takes him home in a taxi (where he serves as a pillow), then discovers Zhao Yunlan's disaster apartment (featuring: wine bottles, dirty dishes, THE FRIDGE). During the night, Zhu Jiu finds the pillar with the Mountain-River Awl, but can't approach it. Meanwhile Shen Wei discovers that Zhao Yunlan asked Dixing about him and the Regent is ratting him out. He alters the message. In the morning, Zhao Yunlan wakes up to a tidy flat and Shen Wei sitting next to his bed. He tries to recruit Shen Wei for the SID again, but fails again. Wang Zheng sees a newspaper report about an earthquake in the Hanga mountains, passes out and regains her memory. Da Qing comes to tell Zhao Yunlan and finds Shen Wei there in the early morning. The Sundial begins to glow and resonate with the Awl; Lin Jing traces the source to the mountains.



Quote:

Shen Wei: "I suggest you eat regular meals. I don't want to find you on the road again."

Zhao Yunlan: "If you want to know whether I eat regular meals, why don't you just join ourSID, and you'll know?"

Shen Wei: "So your SID doesn't need a consultant, it needs a nanny?"

Detail:

I always notice that when Shen Wei takes off Zhao Yunlan's boots, he accidentally slips one of Zhao Yunlan's socks off his heel and doesn't pull it back up, argh! :p

Questions:

What's going through Shen Wei's head in the taxi? How is Zhao Yunlan feeling about Shen Wei taking him home? What's your favourite detail in Zhao Yunlan's flat? What's Shen Wei's favourite detail? Why do you think Zhao Yunlan keeps trying to recruit Shen Wei after Shen Wei has refused more than once? Do you think Shen Wei is seriously hoping to warn Zhao Yunlan away from leaving Dragon City? Why is Da Qing surprised to find Shen Wei with Zhao Yunlan in the morning? Why does Wang Zheng try to leave the SID? Any thoughts about how any of this compares to the novel? Or about parallels with other parts of the drama?

(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]

The drama is amazing at adding context and connections/parallels and foreshadowing to everything. ♡♡♡

Yes! And it makes rewatching so rewarding. :D :D :D

And I find it really cool that Shen Wei already knows that he shouldn't drink and that it's introduced beforehand, because in the drama that's actually a point

Ooh, yes, that's a great point! It's a completely different context in the novel, and it's really only the specific circumstances there that lead to him yeeting himself out of his body; it's not his standard reaction to alcohol! (Though LOL, it would be very funny if it was!)

Waaait, what is that about Ma Gui? xD xD I don't remember that but it sounds so funny. xD

It's in the flashback in episode 37, where Ma Gui is trying to make a seed sprout for Fu You (the one that turns into the sacred wood). Zhao Yunlan helps him, and it turns out alcohol makes it sprout. Ma Gui says, "I never knew a thing like alcohol existed in this world" - suggesting that Zhao Yunlan taught him how to make alcohol!

oops, friends come with surprise alcohol

LOLOLOL, I love how you put that!

there's one where they talk about Bai Yu unexpectedly flopping his head down while Zhu Yilong tried not to break character, so it had to have been improvised in practice

Oh yes, true, I didn't remember that! And clearly they ran with it from there, yeah.

I think I've only read second-hand accounts (I'm sure there's an actual interview somewhere, I just can't recall one)

Yeah, I don't remember the source either, but I do remember there being one - it's not like some other rumours/filming stories where I never saw an actual source. I remember the same thing you do, that the rain occurred during filming and he thought that made it even better. And clearly that gave them the idea, and they set it up properly for filming. I love that!

I can't believe I never caught it steaming (what a wonderful excuse to rewatch :D :D) - in this part of the scene I'm always focused on how young Shen Wei looks. :D And now I'm wondering if he has kept it hot or if it's just a coincidence that he made it just before Zhao Yunlan woke up. :D

Haha, I always notice the steam! I do like the idea that he periodically reheats it so whenever Zhao Yunlan wakes up it'll be ready.

like, what else would you expect from Zhao Yunlan of all people. xD

Seriously!!!!!

It even has an illustration of what could have been. xD :D

Oh, I had forgotten all about that! :D :D :D

Though tbh I wouldn't in any way trade the drama version of this scene for that - I like it a lot better in so many ways! ♡__♡

Totally with you on that, it's just such a completely lovely scene in the drama in so many ways, and I adore it to pieces. :D

[facethestrange]

"It's a completely different context in the novel, and it's really only the specific circumstances there that lead to him yeeting himself out of his body; it's not his standard reaction to alcohol! (Though LOL, it would be very funny if it was!)"

Lolol omg, it should be! xD Now I need a storyline where the one thing that immediately defeats the King of the Gui is alcohol. xD

"It's in the flashback in episode 37, where Ma Gui is trying to make a seed sprout for Fu You (the one that turns into the sacred wood). Zhao Yunlan helps him, and it turns out alcohol makes it sprout. Ma Gui says, "I never knew a thing like alcohol existed in this world" - suggesting that Zhao Yunlan taught him how to make alcohol!"

Ahhh, thanks!! :D Somehow I completely missed/forgot that! :D

"I do like the idea that he periodically reheats it so whenever Zhao Yunlan wakes up it'll be ready."

Yesss, awww! ♡♡♡

[china_shop]

Now I need a storyline where the one thing that immediately defeats the King of the Gui is alcohol. xD

Hee! <3 <3 <3

[china_shop]

I do like the idea that he periodically reheats it so whenever Zhao Yunlan wakes up it'll be ready.

Awwwwww! a;ldskfjasd;lfka

[trobadora]

:D :D :D