Help me lure them in!

[mecurtin]

I'm writing a post for my slasher friends about Why Guardian Could Be Your Next Fandom. *rubs hands evilly* I could use some help!

First, I need some visuals--finding or making my own will take forever:

1. A gif of the episode 2 wound-healing scene

2. An image of the whole team putting their hands together, or of everyone present for a holiday meal. Something to illustrate the concept "Found Family".

3. (Separate) images of Kun Lun and BB!Shen Wei taken from the first few episodes.

Then, some decisions about spoilers:

A. Does the fact that Zhu Yilong plays a double (or triple?) role count as a spoiler? Does the existence of Shen Wei's twin brother count as a spoiler?

B. I don't want to spoil the ending, but I DO want to warn people that they'll want to fix it, and that tears may be involved. RL is too tense these days to sucker my friends into something that will make them cry if they're not emotionally prepared for it. How do I do this?

Help, please!

Comments

[jo_lasalle]

If you can read Chinese, the credits give the triple role away. I can't read Chinese and I watched it and didn't even know he was the Black Cloaked Envoy, and had Quite The Moment when Ye Zun showed up the first time - I would go the 'avoid spoilers as much as possible' route, because I personally enjoyed that ride very much.

As for handling the ending vs spoilers, I recently recommended the show to someone and said that the show, despite being my happy place, wasn't 100% happy sunshine, and whether she thought she might want or need warnings about less happy elements. (She didn't.) Whether that's useful for the kind of intro format you're thinking of, IDK!

[mecurtin]

When did you figure out Shen Wei=BCE? Do you remember?

[qwerty]

I got in via a friend mentioning in chat that she'd been sucked into some Chinese series, and I looked it up and found on youtube, all casual "so what's this anyway?" and then "aaarghh why can't I stop watching?"

Unfortunately, Chinese series being what they are, although I love the theme songs, the opening and ending credits are pretty spoilery, so that might be something to tell people to skip for initial watch.

Apart from that, I thought SW falling off the roof and BCE showing up was a pretty big signpost, but then I consume secret superhero type media, so that might not raise the same flags to everyone.

[mecurtin]

Since I'm writing for (e.g.) my friends from Smallville and MCU fandom, I'm using "identity porn available here!" as one of my lures.

[jo_lasalle]

By the end of the second episode due to eyes and mouth recognition.