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frith_in_thorns) wrote2019-08-28 11:55 pm
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30 days of Guardian: Day 1 - Favourite episode
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Day 1: Favourite episode
I'm glad there will be lots of chances to talk about specific favourite moments later, but for favourite entire episode I'm going to pick episode 8. Which was the episode when I fell utterly and deeply in love with the show. Also it is consistently great the entire way through.
The episode title, btw, is "Zhao Yunlan fails at impressing Shen Wei with antique books". Yes. Yes, he did. So much fail. I was screeching out loud watching this and wailing "oh nooooooo", especially when Shen Wei just... walks off. AND ALSO this is then the episode where Shen Wei first has a fight with Zhu Jiu and then rescues an unwell Zhao Yunlan and brings him home and tucks him into bed and then cleans his apartment and it's generally the episode of him realising in despair what a disaster he has fallen in love with. IT'S ALL SO GREAT. Also I just watched all these scenes, for research, and I adore Zhao Yunlan flirting so utterly shamelessly after he wakes up and finds Shen Wei in his apartment. "If you keep on rejecting me it'll be my life's greatest failure!"


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1. Favorite episode
2. Favorite case
3. Favorite Hallows arc
4. How you started watching the show
5. Favourite set
6. Favorite character
7. Favorite SID member
8. Favorite guest character(s)
9. Favorite ship
10. Favorite worldbuilding detail
11. Missed opportunity
12. Favorite rarepair
13. Favorite Yashou tribe
14. Favorite villain
15. Villain you’d like redeemed or whose redemption you liked
16. Favorite conversation between Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei
17. Favorite Dixing power and/or power you want to have
18. Moment you'd like to take AU
19. Favourite headcanon
20. If /when do you think Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei get together?
21. Favorite character moment
22. Favorite badass moment
23. Favorite soft moment
24. Favorite team moment
25. Thoughts and feelings on the ending
26. Rec a fanfic
27. Rec a vid
28. Rec a fanart
29. Rec a meta post
30. Prompt for a fanwork
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it's generally the episode of him realising in despair what a disaster he has fallen in love with
How have I never realized that? Oh my gosh, he was so star-struck by Kunlun--Zhao Yunlan must have been such a shock. Definitely incorporating that into future SW POV fic, thank you.
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Yeah, loads happens in this episode! It also features Shen Wei altering important messages* and talking to a terrible CGI tree and Zhu Jiu yelling at a creepy pillar.
*I've just realised that the Regent sends a message saying that in the "ancient texts" there's reference to a senior official using the alias Shen Wei. Except he obviously knows damn well who Shen Wei is, so this is him being genuinely tactful for once, maybe?
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And oh ep 8 is so good. The taxi ride scene is one of my all time favorites... And then Shen Wei sighing and cleaning up the apartment. And also the way Zhao Yunlan jumps back when he realizes Shen Wei is sitting beside his bed when he wakes up - and then switches immediately to flirting!
...ooo research for what? The just posted fic or another one? ^^
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The research was for writing this post, sorry nothing more exciting :P I love all those scenes so much. The shameless flirting was definitely a highlight. And Shen Wei's face through... literally everything. I think this episode was where I fell head-over-heels into love with the ship too.
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I followed your comment from
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My feelings for Weilan are an extreme anomaly for me, I usually barely notice ships and don't have feelings for them beyond "yeah, cute". And then Weilan came along and I am all I WOULD DIE FOR THIS SHIP, I still have no idea what happened there 0_0
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(I just assumed you changed your mind, actually, I liked your other changes too!)
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I do love the taxi ride a lot :)
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The taxi ride is the sweetest thing. I just kept watching and I could not believe that we got all those tropes in the canon -- leaning, tucking into bed, tidying up, staying all night... so excellent.
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