Lost Tomb - ep 5 and ep 6
Jul. 25th, 2020 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycrawfordLost Tomb is really fun - I see ppl are racing through it but I am plodding behind, and I just watched ep 5 and just enough of ep 6 to see the cliffhanger resolved. Sometimes it feels a lot like watching someone play Skyrim for the first time, very badly:
I want to yell, don't step on the trapped tiles, no don't poke the undead in the face, leave the statues alone already! That bit with Pangzi trying to smuggle the statue out under his coat did make me laugh though. A lot of the humor is too broad for me, just like in Guardian, but that was fun, mostly because Wu Xie is treating him in such an indulgently fond way.
AND THEN both his friends got killed right in front of him - or at least he thought so at the time, and wow, that felt like they just opened up a whole big bag of delicious tropes and shook some out to please me. I particularly loved Kylin (do we call him that? these names, help) shoving Wu Xie away and taking the hit for him, and then giving him that little smile. I am a giant sucker for self-sacrifice, especially this noble heroic kind, I eat it up with a big spoon. So many gorgeous closeups on Zhu Yilong, AND all the angst, I am delighted and I expect both to continue!
ETA some spoiler-free screencaps from ep 6 just For Reasons:
I want to yell, don't step on the trapped tiles, no don't poke the undead in the face, leave the statues alone already! That bit with Pangzi trying to smuggle the statue out under his coat did make me laugh though. A lot of the humor is too broad for me, just like in Guardian, but that was fun, mostly because Wu Xie is treating him in such an indulgently fond way.
AND THEN both his friends got killed right in front of him - or at least he thought so at the time, and wow, that felt like they just opened up a whole big bag of delicious tropes and shook some out to please me. I particularly loved Kylin (do we call him that? these names, help) shoving Wu Xie away and taking the hit for him, and then giving him that little smile. I am a giant sucker for self-sacrifice, especially this noble heroic kind, I eat it up with a big spoon. So many gorgeous closeups on Zhu Yilong, AND all the angst, I am delighted and I expect both to continue!
ETA some spoiler-free screencaps from ep 6 just For Reasons: