more Guardian
So I have been watching Guardian whenever I get a spare moment, and wow, I really am enjoying how it doesn't spare the tropes. An episode without half a dozen delicious protective affectionate moments between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan - well, that hasn't happened yet. Some highlights from what I've seen so far:
- the MUGGING! with the careful treating of minor wounds afterwards, holy shit
- SHEN WEI KNEELING ALL NIGHT IN THE RAIN. His EXPRESSION before he kneels down, almost certainly the first time he has knelt down to anyone in 10,000 years.
- Zhao Yunlan insisting that Shen Wei accept his coat
- Zhao Yunlan falling asleep on Shen Wei's shoulder TWICE (so far). The first time Shen Wei tries to make him stop, and fails. The second time he just settles back to make him comfortable and his face is like so this is my life now, okay
- after carrying an ill Zhao Yunlan home, Shen Wei tucks him into bed, washes his dishes, puts away his clothes and cooks for him. I watched in awe. I've read that fic many times, but I've never seen it actually done in the canon at full blast
- xiao-Wei, OMG. I am glad this is not my first Chinese drama so I understood why Shen Wei just sort of froze up and stared at him when he said that
I am really enjoying the careful balance between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan. You'd expect the rugged motorbike-riding special investigator would overpower the soft-spoken very pretty and nattily dressed professor, and for a while he seems to, but then it tips over and you realise that the professor is sublimely powerful and has a will of diamond and Zhao Yunlan is almost playing a court jester role beside him, that Shen Wei is permitting him to be informal with him, and then you see that he holds Shen Wei's heart in his hand. It's nicely complicated, is what I'm saying.
The plot is governed entirely by the Rule of Cool and is held together with paperclips and puffs of black smoke, everyone has one (1) superpower except Shen Wei whose superpower is being able to learn all the other superpowers, which is the cheekiest get-out-of-jail-free clause I've ever seen a writer try, the special effects and occasionally the acting are pretty impressionistic, but I do not care in the slightest about any of these things because I am watching it to see what Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan do next, and the people who made it know this and fulfil expectations delightfully. I also adore Lao Chu and his overwhelming crush on the Envoy, and his complicated thing with xiao-Guo: the HUDDLING FOR WARMTH! I mean it when I say the people who made this know their tropes and are not holding back and I cannot wait to see what trope they're going to take out of the box next.
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- the MUGGING! with the careful treating of minor wounds afterwards, holy shit
- SHEN WEI KNEELING ALL NIGHT IN THE RAIN. His EXPRESSION before he kneels down, almost certainly the first time he has knelt down to anyone in 10,000 years.
- Zhao Yunlan insisting that Shen Wei accept his coat
- Zhao Yunlan falling asleep on Shen Wei's shoulder TWICE (so far). The first time Shen Wei tries to make him stop, and fails. The second time he just settles back to make him comfortable and his face is like so this is my life now, okay
- after carrying an ill Zhao Yunlan home, Shen Wei tucks him into bed, washes his dishes, puts away his clothes and cooks for him. I watched in awe. I've read that fic many times, but I've never seen it actually done in the canon at full blast
- xiao-Wei, OMG. I am glad this is not my first Chinese drama so I understood why Shen Wei just sort of froze up and stared at him when he said that
I am really enjoying the careful balance between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan. You'd expect the rugged motorbike-riding special investigator would overpower the soft-spoken very pretty and nattily dressed professor, and for a while he seems to, but then it tips over and you realise that the professor is sublimely powerful and has a will of diamond and Zhao Yunlan is almost playing a court jester role beside him, that Shen Wei is permitting him to be informal with him, and then you see that he holds Shen Wei's heart in his hand. It's nicely complicated, is what I'm saying.
The plot is governed entirely by the Rule of Cool and is held together with paperclips and puffs of black smoke, everyone has one (1) superpower except Shen Wei whose superpower is being able to learn all the other superpowers, which is the cheekiest get-out-of-jail-free clause I've ever seen a writer try, the special effects and occasionally the acting are pretty impressionistic, but I do not care in the slightest about any of these things because I am watching it to see what Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan do next, and the people who made it know this and fulfil expectations delightfully. I also adore Lao Chu and his overwhelming crush on the Envoy, and his complicated thing with xiao-Guo: the HUDDLING FOR WARMTH! I mean it when I say the people who made this know their tropes and are not holding back and I cannot wait to see what trope they're going to take out of the box next.
Crossposted at https://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/162764.html. There are