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Apr. 26th, 2020 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onemuseleftOkay, so I just watched 27 and 28 and I don't know what to do with the cafe scene. I'd gone with the assumption that Zhao Xinci didn't know the BCE's identity, but apparently he does? And he's been meeting with the guy, possibly reporting on ZYL to him, behind ZYL's back all this time? Like, this is the one secret he's been keeping that I'm having a hard time justifying. It just screams of a lack of respect?
And it makes his three year absence all the more confusing then. So he worked with ZXC, told him his identity, tolerated him hunting Dixingren like dogs - but the second ZYL takes over he bails entirely and doesn't look back long enough to even get a glimpse of the guy? What the hell? I'd been working on the idea that he left during the change of command because he couldn't stomach the SID's methods anymore and took the disruption as an opportunity to remove himself from it, but this kind of throws that out the window?
The fact that there's no follow up to this, to ZYL and SW's conversation afterwards, is possibly the most frustrating thing in the world. ZYL's clearly feeling betrayed - his words to Lin Jing are very clearly meant for himself as well, but it feels like Shen Wei's got nothing? He mostly just stood there in silence, which, I get it, is kind of his default but holy shit, dude.
The fact that the Ministry evidently knows who he is just makes it worse, too, when I remember ZYL risking his carreer to cover for him at the wedding with Gao.
I just... the look on his face when he saw them together. His voice when he said he thought they were friends, that he's made the choice to trust Shen Wei over and over... I know he's choosing to do it again, but damn. I wish we'd gotten to see them really have it out, I wish we'd gotten some answers aside from "I've been talking to him behind your back because I knew you wouldn't like it"
And it makes his three year absence all the more confusing then. So he worked with ZXC, told him his identity, tolerated him hunting Dixingren like dogs - but the second ZYL takes over he bails entirely and doesn't look back long enough to even get a glimpse of the guy? What the hell? I'd been working on the idea that he left during the change of command because he couldn't stomach the SID's methods anymore and took the disruption as an opportunity to remove himself from it, but this kind of throws that out the window?
The fact that there's no follow up to this, to ZYL and SW's conversation afterwards, is possibly the most frustrating thing in the world. ZYL's clearly feeling betrayed - his words to Lin Jing are very clearly meant for himself as well, but it feels like Shen Wei's got nothing? He mostly just stood there in silence, which, I get it, is kind of his default but holy shit, dude.
The fact that the Ministry evidently knows who he is just makes it worse, too, when I remember ZYL risking his carreer to cover for him at the wedding with Gao.
I just... the look on his face when he saw them together. His voice when he said he thought they were friends, that he's made the choice to trust Shen Wei over and over... I know he's choosing to do it again, but damn. I wish we'd gotten to see them really have it out, I wish we'd gotten some answers aside from "I've been talking to him behind your back because I knew you wouldn't like it"
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Date: 2020-04-26 06:48 pm (UTC)And you're right, it makes no damn sense, but that's part for the course when I watch the second half of the show; it feels like it would need at least ten more episodes (and a bigger budget, alas that it got ripped away from them) to do it right.
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Date: 2020-04-26 07:28 pm (UTC)(Now, does Dad approve I wonder?)
Bai Yu did such a great job with this scene, I thought, every expression on ZYL's face was amazing, his voice was amazing, his body language - he was so clearly upset but controlling it. And when he said that line like "I've chosen to trust you every time" - I got super emotional.
It's reassuring that I'm not the only one who felt that was weird. You're not the first one to says osmething about the second half feeling rushed or incomplete. I'm honestly probably going to handwave some of the details and just live off the intensity of that interaction.