30 days of Guardian: Day 1 - Favourite episode

[frith_in_thorns]

tassosss made a 30 days of Guardian meme! Since I have been talking about Guardian nonstop for way more than 30 days so far, let's see if I can do it in a structured way. You can find their original list here. I made a couple of changes (4, 5, 10, 11, 18, 19).

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!"



(gifs by naye)


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

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

Looking at your list, I see I forgot to put in one of my own edits I said I was going to make (favourite headcanon). Gosh, I'm competent.

[jo_lasalle]

You could say I'm a very efficient thief, stealing things that aren't there! ^-^

(I just assumed you changed your mind, actually, I liked your other changes too!)

[frith_in_thorns]

I've changed 18+19 now in my list, I think I'm also no so interested in talking about least favourite villain + character. I've got more to say about other things :)

[jo_lasalle]

HMMMMM! That new one looks tempting too... (Yeah, 'least favourite' is not usually that exciting unless one has a really entertaining hateboner; it would make for a short posting day, probably. *ponders*)