Lost Tomb eps 5-10

[frith_in_thorns]

A screaming post!


- I have noticed cdramas seem to be good for the hurt/comfort, but this is ON ANOTHER LEVEL. It is amazing. I am legit worried for Wu Xie and need him to be tucked up in bed for a good long while after this. At least he got a coat tucked around him and fed last episode. For a bit.

- This is a very scientific show with scientific explanations for everything. Like how the corpses are piloted around by hand-crabs. SCIENCE.

- I seriously can't believe the amount of h/c tropes packed into this show. I appreciate them all, and especially I appreciate how many are focused on Wu Xie. And I very much enjoy Kylin looking Extremely Concerned at him all the time.

- That whole bit in ep 10 with Wu Xie having a breakdown and then hallucinating and then fighting Pangzi and trying to snap out of it, aaaaaaaaaaaa SO GOOD. Him rolling on the floor in agony was also very good.

- I have literally no idea what the point of Sunglass Guy's plotline is.

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

I am a biologist (well I was before I decided small children were more fun and quit my job at a pharma company a year out of uni) but I completely Do Not Care about fictional science. If it's entertaining I'll go with it! And ANIMATED BY CRABS is definitely entertaining.

As you say, Zhu Yilong's face is the Most Important thing in this show anyway!

[wrote_and_writ]

In the first series there are “blood men” — aka zombies aka men/robbers who have been killed and “paper men” — like the tomb guardians in the reboot. Although I can’t remember what animates the paper men. I just let it go. It may have been tomb bugs, which look more like horseshoe crabs in the first series.

Whatever, it’s not magic, that’s for sure! Oh, I finished up a Chinese police procedural last night, and there was an episode set in a “haunted” hotel, and one character says, when asked if he believes in ghosts, “We are police officers and party members! We don’t believe in ghosts!” -_-