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Branch ([personal profile] branchandroot) wrote2020-03-01 10:08 pm

Untamed rewatch notes 1-5

Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi do the "communicating plans with a look" thing while fighting the sword spirit at the Mo house. I am 100% writing porn for them.

Jin Ling is a very good archer, which is an interesting connection with his most troublesome uncle.

Wei Wuxian seems to use birth names whenever he wants to be friends with someone his own age (eg Wen Ning, Lan Zhan), only sticking with courtesy names when it's the only one he knows (Nie Huaisang). Which makes it a little heartbreaking that no one in his family calls him Wei Ying. Even Jiang Yanli calls him a-Xian, which is sweet and familiar, but not reciprocal and not the way she calls Jiang Cheng (a-Cheng).

Intimacy, among the Lans seems to be indicated by using given names alone, albeit courtesy names. No diminutives. Good grief, they're so formal. Interestingly, Wei Wuxian seems to try to abide by this, at first, a little, and calls Lan Wangji Ji-xiong.

Jiang, on the other hand, is much more familial and informal. Jiang Cheng introduces Wei Wuxian as his shige. I nearly died of the adorable.

Lan Xichen explicitly thinks Wei Wuxian will be good for Lan Wangji to be friends with, which really makes one wonder about how little he may agree with his uncle's method of raising them and how hard that took on Lan Wangji. And possibly also about his sense of humor, since he clearly thinks it's hilarious that Lan Wangji has an i-dont-know-its-a-crush on Wei Wuxian.

The whole lecture-at-Lan experience is a not-fun one for Jiang Cheng. /Every/ time Wei Wuxian goes larking off with someone else (Nie Huaisang, Lan Wangji, even Wen Ning), he looks like a left-behind puppy.
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[personal profile] rheasilvia 2020-03-03 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yay for rewatching! :-) I must do another rewatch of Guardian soon... I miss them!

Jin Ling is a very good archer, which is an interesting connection with his most troublesome uncle.

Jin Guangyao? Is he an archer? I confess I hadn't taken note of that...

But I do remember that Jin Ling's father was an excellent archer using exactly the multiple-arrow technique Jin Ling uses (my impression was that it was a clan thing).
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[personal profile] rheasilvia 2020-03-03 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, right! That should probably have been obvious. ;-) Yeah, Jin Guangyao can be the most... hmm. I will have to think about exactly what kind of uncle he is, actually. Definitely the kind somebody should have warned the kid about, though!
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[personal profile] rheasilvia 2020-03-03 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! And one who actually shows him a bit of affection every now and again. Maybe the kid will actually get a proper hug one of these days.

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[personal profile] ranalore 2020-03-03 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Jin Zixuan never does a multiple-arrow shoot, though. He shoots from the air, which Jin Ling does several times, but it's Wei Wuxian who does the multiple-arrow shoot at the Baifeng Mountain crowd hunt (in what is, in my opinion, one of the hottest moments of the entire drama).
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[personal profile] rheasilvia 2020-03-03 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see! Thanks for correcting me - I confess I have no memory of that scene, and somehow must have conflated the air shooting and the multiple arrow shooting into a single feat of archery in my mind. :-)