Lost Tomb ep 7 and 8

[marycrawford]

I am still enjoying the Iron Triangle's shenanigans a lot, but it's okay if I just


fast-forward through Sunglasses Guy's entire subplot right? ...right? I'm not feeling it, and the various hinky stereotypes aren't helping.

OTOH I'm particularly loving the dramatic irony moments where we get SO CLOSE to Wu Xie confessing his secret to Pangzi - first with the sudden drunken poisoning and then again with the "energy pills". Wu Xie reassuring Pangzi by saying "Trust me, I will die before you" is, uh, not to cross the streams or anything, but that is a peak Shen Wei moment. That is about as reassuring as "Luckily, I am used to pain". His little FACE!

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[marycrawford]

Ah thanks for the details! That's good to know, and I will gladly keep fastforwarding through the rest of the B plot except for the moments you mention, because yikes. I hope it doesn't take up much if any of the remaining episodes.

[naye]

The way I cope with this B-plot is by being grateful that they had entire things to shoot that didn't involve Zhu Yilong, because if he'd been in all the plots (as much as I would have loved that) then he would probably have keeled over from overwork. Apparently he had over 1000 scenes to film as Wu Xie which is more than any role he's previously had, so...yeah, I'm just watching the B-plot go by seeing breathing space for Zhu Yilong. It helps. A little. ^^;; (I hope future B-plots are less racist though because y i k e s.)

[marycrawford]

Less racist and homophobic feels like such a low bar, and yet - sigh. I really hope so too.

And man, that's a good point about Z1L's work schedule. Especially as the scenes are all so active, jumping and crawling and so on, and I know stunt doubles exist and I assume he had some, but even so, what a workload. (I still really want a whole long scene where nothing happens except the Triad eating hotpot...)

[naye]

...ooooh The Iron Triangle! I read "Triad" as "Chinese Mafia" and was only vaguely confused because Erbai does seem to have some shady business going on but OHH. And yes I would 100% watch 45 minutes of the three of them having hotpot and going to karaoke. ♥

yet - sigh
An excellent summary.

[marycrawford]

Hahaha woops sorry, I will try and remember not to use the word triad when talking about this show (or other chinese contemporary shows, really, if I ever watch more), I can see that could be super confusing.

But yes let us have the Iron Triangle just goofing off and eating all the best hotpot, and oh yes karaoke! Wu Xie and Pangzi's little song/dance moment while they were drunk-poisoned was just adorable.

[naye]

Wu Xie and Pangzi's little song/dance moment while they were drunk-poisoned was just adorable.
Shellfish hands that get you high is a very nice narrative touch. Good job tomb builders! They really wanted those prospective tomb raiders to...uh...party on?