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Specifically Lin Nansheng, Chen Moqun, Wang Shi’an, and their respective actors.
My views may change in future as I’ve only watched up through episode 21—half an episode a day seems to be just about right for me, in terms of the intensity of the content and also how much Chinese my brain can cope with at once. ( Japan/Japanese stuff )
The acting is so good I don’t know where to start. (If I’m not as tightly focused on Zhu Yilong as I’d expected to be, it’s only because everyone is just that good.) Wang Yang is stunning. I don’t even like Chen Moqun, but he’s mesmerizing, larger than life but never overacted. Most of his scenes are immensely fraught, and he does terrible things and is himself victimized in some ways—and then in episode 21 we see him cut loose dancing to jazz like there’s no tomorrow, which is both very sexy and, because the release of his tension shows just how much he is normally wound up in, deeply sad.
( On Wang Shi’an )
( I have a lot of feelings about Lin Nansheng and Zhu Yilong, in case you didn’t notice )
finally the thing that hit me hardest so far, holy shit, the second half of episode 20, that incredible intensity. Honestly I don’t think there was anything there that wouldn’t have been played just the same way if Chen Moqun and Lin Nansheng had been lovers...? “I told them to have you come alone.” “I’ve never doubted you.” Oh my God. Up until this point I could see why some people have dwelt on CMQ/LNS, but I didn’t think of it as more than a suggestive dynamic; after this episode...okay, I give. Lin Nansheng and Zhu Yizhen, a sweet, doomed youthful romance (“for the sake of what lay between us when we were innocent,” from a very different canon). Lin Nansheng and Chen Moqun, painful fucked-up vibrating intensity and tragedy.
I’m sorry that got so long, I seem to have had 21 episodes worth of thoughts piling up, funny how that happens. And I haven’t even thought about Lan Xinjie or the Communist mastermind uncles or... Anyway, come talk to me about all this if interested.
My views may change in future as I’ve only watched up through episode 21—half an episode a day seems to be just about right for me, in terms of the intensity of the content and also how much Chinese my brain can cope with at once. ( Japan/Japanese stuff )
The acting is so good I don’t know where to start. (If I’m not as tightly focused on Zhu Yilong as I’d expected to be, it’s only because everyone is just that good.) Wang Yang is stunning. I don’t even like Chen Moqun, but he’s mesmerizing, larger than life but never overacted. Most of his scenes are immensely fraught, and he does terrible things and is himself victimized in some ways—and then in episode 21 we see him cut loose dancing to jazz like there’s no tomorrow, which is both very sexy and, because the release of his tension shows just how much he is normally wound up in, deeply sad.
( On Wang Shi’an )
( I have a lot of feelings about Lin Nansheng and Zhu Yilong, in case you didn’t notice )
finally the thing that hit me hardest so far, holy shit, the second half of episode 20, that incredible intensity. Honestly I don’t think there was anything there that wouldn’t have been played just the same way if Chen Moqun and Lin Nansheng had been lovers...? “I told them to have you come alone.” “I’ve never doubted you.” Oh my God. Up until this point I could see why some people have dwelt on CMQ/LNS, but I didn’t think of it as more than a suggestive dynamic; after this episode...okay, I give. Lin Nansheng and Zhu Yizhen, a sweet, doomed youthful romance (“for the sake of what lay between us when we were innocent,” from a very different canon). Lin Nansheng and Chen Moqun, painful fucked-up vibrating intensity and tragedy.
I’m sorry that got so long, I seem to have had 21 episodes worth of thoughts piling up, funny how that happens. And I haven’t even thought about Lan Xinjie or the Communist mastermind uncles or... Anyway, come talk to me about all this if interested.
