Vigilante in Masks - eeeee!

[dangermousie]

Yes, am still watching Vigilantes in Masks - I realize it is glacially slow, but I watch it with Mr. Mousie, and coordinating our schedules to watch things together always takes time :)

Anyway, ep 19 was shipper heaven:






Make out and have wuxia babies already!

Also, we are finally getting Li Gexiao's backstory. His wife is kinda high-strung but I can see why someone as righteous as he likes someone so duty-dedicated and straightforward. Whatever - I don't want the flashback to take too long because modern day LGX >>> flashback LGX, even if I do like the latter, plus Sannyang is miles cooler than the dead wife.



Evil dude killed a dog in flashback. A dog! WTF! Not to mention, he keeps wondering why the girl he likes picked someone else - short answer - other guy saved her life repeatedly and is capable on many fronts, fighting included (which is something of a necessity in a violent society) and looks like Wallace Huo. You run away and hide to leave her to die and are as useful as a kitten. Also, you are a psycho who killed a dog!

Comments

[once-a-weaver.livejournal.com]

I remember some nice shippiness in this show. Most of it's flown from my head because it's kind of a breezy thing, but the shippy moments were a lot of fun. And Sanniang was cooler than just about anybody.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I adore her to bits

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The narrative treatment of the wife in the backstory pretty much ruined the series for me, even though there were some very good bits after that. Of the 2 wuxias I watched last year, I ended up preferring Paladins in Troubled times, though I'd expected to prefer Yi Zhi Mei.

ETA: Was it you who was looking for the 2005 Lotus Lantern with Vincent Jiao? If so you can get it from netflix. I'm 20 episodes in. It's pretty fun, though the parts with the human characters aren't nearly as interesting as the parts with the gods for a good while, though that's picking up now that there've been a couple time jumps and they've grown up a lot. It's very obviously one of TaiSeng's earlier wuxia translations, given the awful-yet-still-readable subs.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Can't comment about the wife yet because am only one ep into backstory (the recklessly righteous is not my type but she or the narrative doesn't bother me too much so far. But we'll see).

Yes re: Lotus Lantern. Thank you!!!!!!

[zhuer.livejournal.com]

YZM was so good. Anytime they gave me shippy bits I was over the moon. I'm glad you're still watching!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh God, your icon! I am speechless!