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

[facethestrange]

"Ahhhh, that was wonderful! Thank you for linking!!! <3 <3 <3 (And haha, this is starting to feel like a card game or a bingo: more YOHE h/c (ZYL gets wounded in battle). Usual disclaimers, etc. <3)"

♡♡♡♡♡!! And thank youuuu, this one was so perfect too, I'm so happily feasting on all the YOHE. :D :D (My addition to the game is art of wounded Zhao Yunlan and worried Shen Wei, which I know you have seen, but in case someone is following the YOHE recs thread I hope they're having a good time, hahah. :D :D ♡)

"And it comes with a kind of disapproval that doesn't even feel bad (unlike ZXC's "you're such a disappointment" schtick)!! What is this magic?? <3 <3 <3"

Omg awwwww! ♡♡♡♡♡ Because Shen Wei never disapproves of Zhao Yunlan himself, he only disapproves of ZYL being in a bad situation, and this time and a lot of the time it happens to be his own doing. And that's so clear that ZYL can see that even when he's not quite conscious. :D

[china_shop]

My addition to the game is art of wounded Zhao Yunlan and worried Shen Wei, which I know you have seen, but in case someone is following the YOHE recs thread I hope they're having a good time, hahah. :D :D ♡

LOLOL! I'm very happy to get to admire it again, so thanks for linking!! <3 <3 <3 (I'm out of YOHE h/c, but I have ZYL and SW visiting SW's men in the YOHE infirmary - does that count? At 4300 words, it might be stretching the bounds of this game, though. ;D)

Because Shen Wei never disapproves of Zhao Yunlan himself, he only disapproves of ZYL being in a bad situation

Yes, exactly!! And the disapproval is practical and for ZYL's own sake, not about status or whatever the hell is going on with ZXC. <3 <3 <3

And that's so clear that ZYL can see that even when he's not quite conscious. :D

100%! Otherwise he wouldn't be half so playful and flirty the next morning. <3 <3 <3

[facethestrange]

"I'm out of YOHE h/c, but I have ZYL and SW visiting SW's men in the YOHE infirmary - does that count? At 4300 words, it might be stretching the bounds of this game, though. ;D"

:D :D :D Thank youuuu, it does sound wonderful and that's the only thing that matters! ;D ♡♡♡

"And the disapproval is practical and for ZYL's own sake, not about status or whatever the hell is going on with ZXC. <3 <3 <3"

Yesss! It's not 'you're not good enough', it's the opposite - 'you're too good for THIS'. ♡♡♡

"Otherwise he wouldn't be half so playful and flirty the next morning. <3 <3 <3"

Hee, indeed! :D

[china_shop]

Yesss! It's not 'you're not good enough', it's the opposite - 'you're too good for THIS'. ♡♡♡

YES! Exactly this!! :D :D :D :D :D