Wu Xie and Pangzi are the emotional heart of the show Yes, exactly. Not knowing how these things work, I wonder if it was that way from the start or if they chose to emphasize it on seeing ZYL and Chen Minghao's friend-chemistry together?
As I was saying in another comment, I don't have the gift for comedy needed to write Wu Xie and Pangzi encountering the fuck-or-die trope, but man it would be fun.
She's slightly older than him if I've got it right, but she plays much younger, and he plays much older, than their actual ages, and it works so well on screen! Seriously. I'm curious to see her in something else now, since right now I can't imagine her as anyone but Xiao Bai... . I've decided playing older is a good look on ZYL; assuming we all live so long, I'm looking forward to twenty or thirty years from now, watching him play the Wu Erbai or Zhao Xinci-type characters, you know?
It's a very pervasive theme indeed, and they're not doing too terribly with some of it? It's funny--I mean, all the things I listed are treated as either action-adventure plot points or (like Hei Yanjing's thing) weird character notes, but with surprisingly little rearrangement, you could end up with a show about people dealing with the ways their bodies fail them, how love and family and work interact with disability/illness, and similar themes.
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Date: 2020-11-09 07:52 am (UTC)Yes, exactly. Not knowing how these things work, I wonder if it was that way from the start or if they chose to emphasize it on seeing ZYL and Chen Minghao's friend-chemistry together?
As I was saying in another comment, I don't have the gift for comedy needed to write Wu Xie and Pangzi encountering the fuck-or-die trope, but man it would be fun.
She's slightly older than him if I've got it right, but she plays much younger, and he plays much older, than their actual ages, and it works so well on screen!
Seriously. I'm curious to see her in something else now, since right now I can't imagine her as anyone but Xiao Bai... . I've decided playing older is a good look on ZYL; assuming we all live so long, I'm looking forward to twenty or thirty years from now, watching him play the Wu Erbai or Zhao Xinci-type characters, you know?
It's a very pervasive theme indeed, and they're not doing too terribly with some of it?
It's funny--I mean, all the things I listed are treated as either action-adventure plot points or (like Hei Yanjing's thing) weird character notes, but with surprisingly little rearrangement, you could end up with a show about people dealing with the ways their bodies fail them, how love and family and work interact with disability/illness, and similar themes.