Lost Tomb eps 11-12

[frith_in_thorns]

Thank you, first half of ep 11, for giving me almost everything I want re hurt/comfort that I usually only get in fic.


- Pangzi pulling Wu Xie up and Wu Xie beginning to fold and Pangzi and Kylin supporting him together! And then he continues hanging onto Pangzi after that!

- Big fight! I enjoyed it!

- Very convenient rescue in the nick of time! And Wu Xie being heroic and self-sacrificing and saving Liu Sang (why are they calling him Jinx now??) and everyone being Very Stressed (I loved xparrot's description of him being super hard to keep alive, like an orchid or something)

- EXPLOSION! And Wu Xie half-conscious like that, and then he DID get tucked up in bed, which I something I very much needed for him after everything he's gone through lately. Loved literally everyone standing around waiting for him to wake up. And then he wanted to talk about preserving the artifacts, omg you dork.

- Can't wait for the Scientific Explanation of the princess. More crabs? Surely even this show can't try and pin everything on the hand crabs.

- Some stuff happened in the village. Ok.

- Loved everyone getting to hang out and relax in the bar! That was such a sweet scene, it felt super real, almost like a BTS but for the characters.

- The veeeeery looooong flashback turned out to be even less fun to watch than the village plotline. We finally get some more women? They make bad decisions because of being in a boring love triangle with Sanxing? We really needed THIS MUCH of it?? At least they cut back every now and then to kind-of-drunk Wu Xie.

- Then I went back and watched the first half of ep 11 again.

Comments

[xparrot]

Overly long and boring flashbacks were the biggest problem with Lost Tomb 2. This one at least timed it better (in LT2 they were put in the middle of the tomb raid, bringing the action to a screeching halt, and they showed stuff that had already been related in detail - like if 2nd Uncle had to his story verbally to Wu Xie, and then they showed the flashback.) So yeah when this one started we moaned with dread, but at least it seems like it will be over next episode!

I've been very curious about what sign language they were using, I don't know enough to recognize anything! Very interesting that CSL might be like BSL...

Oh interesting, according to wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Sign_Language they're not directly related but they do have a bunch of grammar and elements in common?

[frith_in_thorns]

Yeah, lots of the vocab words have been the same as BSL, although I'm not good enough to follow what they're saying without also using the subs. I'm pleased I was right about the grammar too, because I'm not very strong on that at all, mostly I know a lot of keywords. (This is how we use signing at my school, as a reinforcer of the key points you're verbally making in another format, rather than speaking BSL.)

We seem to have pretty much caught up on the flashbacks to where the tape recordings showed, so hopefully not much more to go. They are DIRE and I hate this catty love competition so much. (The flashbacks are also the main things that mar Detective L for me, just waaaaay too much.)

[xparrot]

One thing about the flashback that amuses me is that like, no shots of it are in any of the previews or promo materials? (A couple brief action shots from it, that's it). Likewise Sunglasses' plotline is barely there. They totally know no one cares or wants to see this stuff. But given the shooting schedule they needed to do something that didn't involve the stars!

The awful love triangle though, ugh. More female characters would be good, but not like this!

And so far they seem to be making the effort to have the Iron Triangle together in at least one scene (even if they needed a hallucination to do it!) So here's hoping that continues! At any rate there is definitely more to come...like, the spoiler pic I got that is still killing me slowly is not a scene in any of the previews (they're in different outfits!)

[frith_in_thorns]

I'm really curious about your spoiler pic but I'm STAYING STRONG!

[xparrot]

Ahahah sorry, I really am! Except also not because fannish pain (honestly it's probably just me, you'd see it and go "... That's it?" ^^;)(basically, just, ep 11 is not the last time Wu Xie gets held 😄)

ETA: but honestly if it's bothering you to be hearing it I will stop now, I know this kind of thing can get really annoying, and I get not wanting spoilers and wanting the joy of being surprised in the show! Sorry for any frustration, I'll try to be good!)