Nirvana in Fire for the first time
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marycrawfordI started watching Nirvana in Fire! Things I found useful to know about (no spoilers edition):
-- the guy in white with long hair who has the nightmare and wakes up in ep 1 is NOT the guy in white with long hair who is doing some extremely acrobatic katas a little bit later.
-- lots of people are called Xiao, which in this case is an actual surname and not a diminutive. (Except for when Ancient Empress Grandma or Handsome Warrior Friend call our hero Xiao Shu and I melt - that's the kind of Xiao I already knew about!)
I am going in mostly blind otherwise, though I have friends to ask questions if needed, and a link to the Nirvana in Fire starter kit. I don't usually like a lot of spoilers for a show - small tips like the 'guy in white' thing are helpful, but otherwise I figure I will have more fun if I don't know every last detail about who is related to whom and who murdered whose grandfather and so on, because the show will presumably tell me. Knowing that this is a 'Count of Monte Christo' kind of story does help a lot to get me hooked in, too.
When I started watching Guardian, the main thing I needed to hear was that despite the editing in ep 1, Xiao Guo is not the protagonist - it really looks like he is for a hot second, and that would have thrown me out immediately - and then I got told about the tropefest that is episode 8, like a lure to draw me in.
And similarly, Prince Yu gets such a lavish introduction scene (complete with assassination attempt!) that even when you sort out the two guys in white, you could still think that this guy is the actualfax hero. Until Our Hero gets his epic "gliding in on a boat, playing the flute, to face down warships" moment, and then we know where we are.
So far, after the first four episodes, Warrior Princess Nihuang is my favorite, but I feel like that's a given, she would be anyone's favorite. She kicks ass, commands armies and has the best hair ornaments, I mean come on! She tells our hero after he held her hand a little too long For Reasons, "On a normal day, I would have cut off your hand"! I luv her.
-- the guy in white with long hair who has the nightmare and wakes up in ep 1 is NOT the guy in white with long hair who is doing some extremely acrobatic katas a little bit later.
-- lots of people are called Xiao, which in this case is an actual surname and not a diminutive. (Except for when Ancient Empress Grandma or Handsome Warrior Friend call our hero Xiao Shu and I melt - that's the kind of Xiao I already knew about!)
I am going in mostly blind otherwise, though I have friends to ask questions if needed, and a link to the Nirvana in Fire starter kit. I don't usually like a lot of spoilers for a show - small tips like the 'guy in white' thing are helpful, but otherwise I figure I will have more fun if I don't know every last detail about who is related to whom and who murdered whose grandfather and so on, because the show will presumably tell me. Knowing that this is a 'Count of Monte Christo' kind of story does help a lot to get me hooked in, too.
When I started watching Guardian, the main thing I needed to hear was that despite the editing in ep 1, Xiao Guo is not the protagonist - it really looks like he is for a hot second, and that would have thrown me out immediately - and then I got told about the tropefest that is episode 8, like a lure to draw me in.
And similarly, Prince Yu gets such a lavish introduction scene (complete with assassination attempt!) that even when you sort out the two guys in white, you could still think that this guy is the actualfax hero. Until Our Hero gets his epic "gliding in on a boat, playing the flute, to face down warships" moment, and then we know where we are.
So far, after the first four episodes, Warrior Princess Nihuang is my favorite, but I feel like that's a given, she would be anyone's favorite. She kicks ass, commands armies and has the best hair ornaments, I mean come on! She tells our hero after he held her hand a little too long For Reasons, "On a normal day, I would have cut off your hand"! I luv her.