About those bears

[branchandroot]

You know, on reflection (and the cherry-picking edition of Guardian rewatch), it occurs to me to wonder just how much of the Trolling With Bears interlude was a way to (somewhat) subtly discourage Zhao Yunlan from involving the rest of SID in his 'consultations' with Shen Wei. I can't help feeling there's a definite thread, in there, of "send a minion with a computer to communicate with me and I will troll you mercilessly in front of them; remember that".

And you notice, Zhao Yunlan never tries that again.

Comments

[branchandroot]

Oh wow, seriously. She's so /young/ about it. You can totally see why Shen Wei is really very gentle with her, when they start having to interact more directly.

[winter_blossom]

Right? Shen Wei and Zhu Hong's evolving interactions were really interesting to watch. The way she went from suspicion to open hostility to resignation to acceptance was nicely done, imo. You can really see the natural progression of her falling first more deeply, and then slowly out of, love with Zhao Yunlan and coming into her own at the end, there, and I disagree with the popular opinion that her crush was "unnecessary" or that it detracted from her character development somehow; I personally thought it was integral. (I liked how you took it a step further in Changes, too, btw!)