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

[naye]

They are having ALL the h/c tropes I AM SO HAPPY.

Things I adore that they've done:

- The presumed dead! The presumed SEEING YOUR FRIENDS DIE! And with extra guilt!
- The blindess with the trust between the three (and the banter when Wu Xie went blind too)
- The bugs that get you through all stages of being blackout drunk in five minutes OMG
- PANGZI TALKING DOWN A FERAL WU XIE aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that bit was SO GOOD when he couldn't even take the punch because he knows his Tianzhen isn't doing it on purpose and then he made Wu Xie stop mid-swing skjfshgkjfhghsjkh MY FEEEEEEEEEELS

[frith_in_thorns]

So many good h/c tropes!! And aaaaaaaaa yes Wu Xie having a breakdown and then being completely out of it and attacking Pangzi and then just sitting in the water looking so wrecked.

The smashing his head against the wall to signal to Kylin! The aftermath of the first long hallucination scene where he was struggling to focus! The crawling through tunnels and all the bits of Wu Xie suffering from plot-disease-consumption! And we haven't even got to any of the scenes from the trailer where his face is constantly covered in blood and bruises yet!!

[naye]

I am frothing at the thought that we still have MORE TO COME including him being captured by bad guys? I think??

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

But yeah I am SO happy about the fact that the worst imaginable scenario for Wu Xie is being unable to save his friends from dying and how shaken he was when he was snapping out of it...

And then when he's blind and sitting around fumbling with things - I'm glad he had a blanket and hot noodles because he needs SUCH a break right now.

I really hope there will be some manly hugs at the start of 11 to help Wu Xie get over almost killing Pangzi.

Oooh yes and bashing his skull against the rock wall to signal was also quite lovely.

I'm so glad none of the dungeon crawls or monsters are setting off my fear of horror, because so far I'm just thoroughly enjoying that whole storyline even if it makes very little sense. (Clearly it makes more sense if you just go MAGIC or CURSE but...sure...a crab piloted corpse is VERY scientific...?)

[frith_in_thorns]

Oh yeah I am loving how they are justifying things SCIENTIFICALLY. The murals make you hallucinate because of tiny bugs in them that go into your eyes! The leather people are steered around by hand-crabs! Kylin's knife set a rock wall on fire because he's Just That Awesome!

Wu Xie really needs some hugs right now. I am utterly delighted by how woobie he is. I have spent the last few episodes kind of half-expecting him to keel over at any moment given how much he's already been through. And this is less than a third of the season!

[naye]

There's a whole meta on It Was Aliens All Along waiting to happen. (No, seriously - the god of thunder coming from the sky to tell you secrets? Very Stargate. And since magic is forbidden...well.)

The leather people are steered around by hand-crabs!
Skuld and I laughed SO HARD at this and then Skuld said:

Crabatouille

And I haven't been able to stop snickering. (It's funny cuz it's true!!)

I am utterly delighted by how woobie he is.
A brave woobie! A fighty little toaster! He needs hugs and his Third Uncle back but also I'm happy there's another many episodes of this to go.