Musings of the Obsessive Kind

No points for guessing they are shippy.



Seriously, how are they so perfectly what I want in OTPs?

( Some really really awesome scenes, or why Lu Bu is the only character in this that is decent husband material )

I have guests all Sunday so no more Three Kingdoms for me until Monday which is probably just as well for my sleep patterns and sanity :)

Also, I am now thinking Summer Desire would have been a lot more entertaining if Peter Ho and Huang Xiaoming showed up as Lu Bu and Yang Guo instead of their SD roles and decided the shippy rivalrly by various fighting bouts to the (almost) death once per episode. And Barbie Hsu would actually be playing her Meteor Garden character and periodically kick both their asses when their battles would destroy her furniture too much. It would be the best drama ever.

Minister: Diaochan, please please please save the Han empire! I will kneel here until you say you will.
Diaochan: WTF? Daddy, OK, anything, please get up. But how on earth can I do that? Last time I looked, I didn't have 100,000 troops hidden behind my skirts.
Minister: I know it will be hard, but please please please please try falling for Lu Bu. I know you probably never saw any men outside your family before, let alone gorgeous and famous generals who saved your life, so I can see this will be a hard task. But please try for me.
Diaochan: *does a dance of joy* Fine, I will martyr myself. Can I seduce him, too? Just in case?

OK, I paraphrase, but seriously, I started laughing like a maniac when the Minister was begging Diaochan to save the Empire by falling for her hot and devoted life-savior who she's totally into. Oh, the hardship! It's like if someone told me to help our economy by devouring vast quantities of ice-cream and cake. Where do I sign up to be the heroine of the nation?

Though his ominous "Daddy will tell you later" when she asks him how on earth this could help is worrying me. Does he plan to lure Lu Bu into his house and slit his throat or something? That doesn't sound too productive because best warrior or not, Old Warlord has got a huge and capable army even without his adopted son. Maybe he hopes Lu Bu will do whatever his girl says and join the rebels for love? Like the Lysistrata plan of "if you love me, you'll join the rebels or no sex for you." Or something. Puzzled.

I probably won't be able to get to any more eps today so I will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.




Meanwhile, have the scene where he rescues her in the middle of battle when her carriage almost careens off a cliff. Or actually the aftermath, as I couldn't cap the rescue itself - it was too fast. Somebody (naming no names) has just rewatched it three times.

( Who needs life insurance when you got psycho Legolas looking out for you? )

Minister: Diaochan, please please please save the Han empire! I will kneel here until you say you will.
Diaochan: WTF? Daddy, OK, anything, please get up. But how on earth can I do that? Last time I looked, I didn't have 100,000 troops hidden behind my skirts.
Minister: I know it will be hard, but please please please please try falling for Lu Bu. I know you probably never saw any men outside your family before, let alone gorgeous and famous generals who saved your life, so I can see this will be a hard task. But please try for me.
Diaochan: *does a dance of joy* Fine, I will martyr myself. Can I seduce him, too? Just in case?

OK, I paraphrase, but seriously, I started laughing like a maniac when the Minister was begging Diaochan to save the Empire by falling for her hot and devoted life-savior who she's totally into. Oh, the hardship! It's like if someone told me to help our economy by devouring vast quantities of ice-cream and cake. Where do I sign up to be the heroine of the nation?

Though his ominous "Daddy will tell you later" when she asks him how on earth this could help is worrying me. Does he plan to lure Lu Bu into his house and slit his throat or something? That doesn't sound too productive because best warrior or not, Old Warlord has got a huge and capable army even without his adopted son. Maybe he hopes Lu Bu will do whatever his girl says and join the rebels for love? Like the Lysistrata plan of "if you love me, you'll join the rebels or no sex for you." Or something. Puzzled.

I probably won't be able to get to any more eps today so I will have to wait until tomorrow to find out.




Meanwhile, have the scene where he rescues her in the middle of battle when her carriage almost careens off a cliff. Or actually the aftermath, as I couldn't cap the rescue itself - it was too fast. Somebody (naming no names) has just rewatched it three times.

( Who needs life insurance when you got psycho Legolas looking out for you? )

Because this:




Be still my heart. Guy saying this in a middle of battle is definitely under the list of "things Mousie didn't know she craved until she got it."

Clearly, best way to survive being in the middle of a brutal civil war is to find the empire's top fighter and make him fall for you. I approve. Diaochan/Lu Bu ftw.

( A bunch of other caps from the recent eps )

I need to sleep yet all I have been doing since the baby went to sleep was marathon this. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!

OK, trying. Good night!

I am sorry, Cao Cao, but for now you have been replaced as my favorite character by the lady above. Her name is Diaochan, she is the first female character we are introduced to, and I have a raging girlcrush on her. Diaochan is not only drop-dead gorgeous (and not afraid to use it), but also razor-smart and ice-cool under pressure. If it wasn't for her, Minister of the Interior and his whole 80-person household would have been gruesomely dead.



I also think she is being set-up as Psycho Legolas' OTP, or at least a crush object. I am all for it because seeing that her adopted father was the mastermind in the assassination attempt on his, this could get really interesting. Plus, when he was around her was the first time he was came across like your normal person and not his usual beyond-scary self. He needs to mellow out. In bed.

( Caps and thoughts on ep 2. Diaochan-centric but with other stuff )

Does Mousie have a new drama obsession? Yes yes and yes.

ETA: I was looking for some stuff and found out that there is a video game involving TK characters and Diao Chan is very much there. Wanna know what she looks like in gamer world?



My eyes are bugging out of my head trying to imagine someone walking around dressed in this in real life, Ancient China OR modern day. Kinda awesome but I think there'd be a mob stampede wherever she went. Plus, Psycho Legolas would probably hyperventilate to death.

I am sorry, Cao Cao, but for now you have been replaced as my favorite character by the lady above. Her name is Diaochan, she is the first female character we are introduced to, and I have a raging girlcrush on her. Diaochan is not only drop-dead gorgeous (and not afraid to use it), but also razor-smart and ice-cool under pressure. If it wasn't for her, Minister of the Interior and his whole 80-person household would have been gruesomely dead.



I also think she is being set-up as Psycho Legolas' OTP, or at least a crush object. I am all for it because seeing that her adopted father was the mastermind in the assassination attempt on his, this could get really interesting. Plus, when he was around her was the first time he was came across like your normal person and not his usual beyond-scary self. He needs to mellow out. In bed.

( Caps and thoughts on ep 2. Diaochan-centric but with other stuff )

Does Mousie have a new drama obsession? Yes yes and yes.

ETA: I was looking for some stuff and found out that there is a video game involving TK characters and Diao Chan is very much there. Wanna know what she looks like in gamer world?



My eyes are bugging out of my head trying to imagine someone walking around dressed in this in real life, Ancient China OR modern day. Kinda awesome but I think there'd be a mob stampede wherever she went. Plus, Psycho Legolas would probably hyperventilate to death.