I think I'm in the midst of wildly lowering my expectations for the rest of this season so that I can watch it without waiting for it to be more like the earlier stuff. I do not understand what possessed them, right when they'd hit the dramatic payoff for a bunch fo the stuff they'd set up and had loads of momentum, to completely stall out the Thunder City storyline (Xiaoge and Sunglasses and Wu Erbai and the rest just hanging out in that village...doing nothing for weeks on end...WHY? Where's Liu Sang, is he even still there?) and send Wu Xie off on his own to waste time on some mysteries that he doesn't have great reasons to think are related in any way (with THREE. MONTHS. TO. LIVE.) and...Piaopiao, just Piaopiao. There's nothing wrong with her, personally, there's just no point.
To be honest, I like Pangzi better than Xiaoge - the foundation for the PingXie ship and for liking Xiaoge as a person are both there for me, but he needs a lot more speaking lines or chances to emote in order for me to really bond with him. He has the Lan Wangji disease! Though I like him more than LWJ, partly because his fighting style makes every action scene 10x cooler. I do love Pangzi, but you're right about the highkey cringe with Piaopiao, and I can see where his bumbling could be annoying.
The Warehouse 11 arc is quite bad plot-wise, for sure. ...But it hit me in some kinky places, so I can't say I didn't enjoy it. Um, this is the most promising thing I have heard from anyone about this arc, haha. I really hope it gives me something to perv about at some point! That would help!
Weilan derivative pairings mostly whistle past me a bit, I think because I know I'm not going to watch most of the shows the other zhubai characters are from and I usually need to know a character to get shippy about them. But Luo Fei is such a precious beautiful floppy-haired genius goober and I really do want him to have a nice Xiaoman-approved boyfriend. (With Zhu Yilong's face? Bonus points.) I read your Shen Wei-in-the-French-Concession fic and there are SUCH possibilities there, whew. I worry for Shen Wei. In that scenario and just as a general statement.
I'm sure you can pull off "shorter, sillier fics" if that's what you want to do! Hee, thanks. A leetle break from the level 11 intensity PLEASE. That "please" is directed at myself.
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Date: 2020-08-20 08:39 pm (UTC)To be honest, I like Pangzi better than Xiaoge - the foundation for the PingXie ship and for liking Xiaoge as a person are both there for me, but he needs a lot more speaking lines or chances to emote in order for me to really bond with him. He has the Lan Wangji disease! Though I like him more than LWJ, partly because his fighting style makes every action scene 10x cooler. I do love Pangzi, but you're right about the highkey cringe with Piaopiao, and I can see where his bumbling could be annoying.
Um, this is the most promising thing I have heard from anyone about this arc, haha. I really hope it gives me something to perv about at some point! That would help!
Weilan derivative pairings mostly whistle past me a bit, I think because I know I'm not going to watch most of the shows the other zhubai characters are from and I usually need to know a character to get shippy about them. But Luo Fei is such a precious beautiful floppy-haired genius goober and I really do want him to have a nice Xiaoman-approved boyfriend. (With Zhu Yilong's face? Bonus points.) I read your Shen Wei-in-the-French-Concession fic and there are SUCH possibilities there, whew. I worry for Shen Wei. In that scenario and just as a general statement.
Hee, thanks. A leetle break from the level 11 intensity PLEASE. That "please" is directed at myself.