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

[trobadora]

Oooh, that is an excellent point. :D

[china_shop]

Ha! That's a great reading of it. <3

The bears happen after Chu Shuzhi delivers the thank-you banner on Zhao Yunlan's behalf, don't they? Maybe that was what prompted Shen Wei to have convenient bear pictures to hand.

[recessional]

99% of my list uses "Guardian" solely to refer to the newspaper. I thought I would share this in case the image of how confusing this made trying to parse the first sentence was until I realized you meant a show. >.>

[umadoshi]

Shen Wei using trolling as a Teaching Moment does seem very in character. *g*

[winter_blossom]

I never thought about it that way before, but this is a nice headcanon! That scene is one of my favourites, anyway (at least halfway because of the jealous faces Zhu Hong was making and Da Qing's teasing), and now there's a different perspective to be added to the mix the next time I watch it!

[amara1783]

I can absolutely see this :D