Lost Tomb - ep 5 and ep 6

[marycrawford]

Lost 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:

Comments

[naye]

AAAAAAAAAA THOSE EPS!! I totally get the delight of savoring these - they bring so much goodness! ♥

I particularly loved Kylin (do we call him that? these names, help)
Since Wu Xie and Pangzi call him "Xiaoge" I like using that...it's less confusing than a character called Zhang Qiling being romanized "Kylin". ^^;;

Sometimes it feels a lot like watching someone play Skyrim for the first time, very badly
100% agreed. (And then someone has brought their super leveled character in to help their less experienced friends and he can totally clear most dangers that would've killed them.) Which is part of the charm! IDK, I do love my competence porn but there's something charming about the way these dorks keep putting themselves in harm's way. Oh wait the thing is that the harm is delicious!

That scene in 5/6!! Wu Xie's literal worst nightmare being seeing his friends die in front of him! AAAAAAAAA!!!! The way he keeps shaking Xiaoge telling him he can't be dead...and staring at the blood on them? The way he's actually crying and trembling without even noticing? AHHHH. Yes. So good.

[marycrawford]

Since Wu Xie and Pangzi call him "Xiaoge" I like using that...it's less confusing than a character called Zhang Qiling being romanized "Kylin". ^^;;

Ha yes thank you, I could call him Qiling instead, or Xiaoge (that is just the sweetest). It's funny because I don't know anything about Mandarin, but typing Kylin does feel wrong, like, that's not a combination of letters that looks right to me anymore! Also, if you will indulge me: when Wu Xie is running through tunnels yelling for Pangzi, what he calls out doesn't sound like Pangzi at all - it sounds like "Pao da?" sort of? Is he saying something else?

Oh wait the thing is that the harm is delicious!
LOL yes that helps, and Wu Xie manages to be competent enough (theorizing about the murals, etc) that I don't get embarrassed by how they're giant dorks a lot of the time. Plus, as you said, they have their supernatural ninja Qiling to bail them out. :D

Wu Xie's literal worst nightmare being seeing his friends die in front of him! AAAAAAAAA!!!! The way he keeps shaking Xiaoge telling him he can't be dead...and staring at the blood on them? The way he's actually crying and trembling without even noticing? AHHHH. Yes. So good.
Hi yes now rolling around in this with a big happy sigh! SNIFF. I have a feeling that saying "poor Wu Xie" would be premature at this point...