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Woxin rewatch- ep 21
We're- what?- less than ten minutes into disk 5, ep 21, and already I can't decide which is more wearisome: Wu Zi Xu mistreating Gou Jian or Fu Chai mistreating Gou Jian. (And in fact the person we see mistreating people most is the unlovely bwah-ha-ha! Brute 2.5 in the prison camp.) WZX is obsessed, and boring in his obsession (did I not comment on this trait of his before, likening it to Proust's narrator?) while Fu Chai is just... full-fed bumptious dork. If only he'd been beautiful and suave: if only *he'd* been the obsessed one: how much better it would all go down.
There'd at least be something to do yaoi with, since yaoi is what one does when the action gets so boring nothing will save it but making the characters screw.
Maybe instead of writing matey!Fu Chai I should be writing yin!Fu Chai, all dark eyes and smouldering glances and leading his chancellor a merry dance.
(Edited for borked pinyin. You-all do realize that Cow Cow and Cow Pee is Heaven's retribution for thinking you can do Humpty-dumpty Rule on someone else's alphabet? 'When I say a letter,' said Humpty-dumpty proudly, 'it sounds exactly as I say it does, neither more nor less.' Right, Woozy Exu-Gesundheit!)
There'd at least be something to do yaoi with, since yaoi is what one does when the action gets so boring nothing will save it but making the characters screw.
Maybe instead of writing matey!Fu Chai I should be writing yin!Fu Chai, all dark eyes and smouldering glances and leading his chancellor a merry dance.
(Edited for borked pinyin. You-all do realize that Cow Cow and Cow Pee is Heaven's retribution for thinking you can do Humpty-dumpty Rule on someone else's alphabet? 'When I say a letter,' said Humpty-dumpty proudly, 'it sounds exactly as I say it does, neither more nor less.' Right, Woozy Exu-Gesundheit!)
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It's the adorably dorky (not quite adorkable) expression on that round face coupled with the
chunkymesomorph build and slurred accents. (Which, alas, remind me of nothing so much as the construction workers from China who get admitted for dengue fever whenever the season rolls around.)pretend-smug-over-nagging-insecure
And thus oddly (or not) the Chinese fanfic that works features insecure-and desperately-trying-to-hide-it!Fu Chai/ambiguously-broken!Gou Jian.
interested in what he does do, unlike Uncle Ming.
Their *interaction*, OTOH? ^_~
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the Chinese fanfic that works features insecure-and desperately-trying-to-hide-it!Fu Chai/ ambiguously-broken!Gou Jian
I can see how it would. Though I suppose you could also do serenely secure but intellectually (he thinks) intrigued Fu Chai.
Their *interaction*, OTOH? ^_~
Frustrates me immensely. Hu Jun's range of facial expressions isn't in the same league even as Uncle Ming's. So where Gou Jian shows me everything- even if I don't know what some of it is- Fu Chai shows me virtually nothing, presenting what seems an emotionally stunted character.
The surrender scene, when Gou Jian walks away and Fu Chai looks after him, what's he thinking? 'What a gurrly, crying like that' is just as likely as 'Henh, call that a surrender, we'll see about that!' and infinitely more likely than 'Be still my trembling heart, what is this strange emotion that thrills through all my veins at sight of my enemy and captive's exquisite glistening eyes?'
I want more expression, more emotions, and more subtlety from Fu Chai, and I'm not getting it. No doubt I'm missing the Fu Chai everyone has seen in various Chinese dramas through the ages (to say nothing of Moral Ed) and so not appreciating what a departure this one is, but still. What I see isn't *enough*. So I must create my own version.