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hilsIt is uncomfortably hot today which is unfortunate as Tuesdays are one of my go to the post office for work days. Thought I was going to burst into flames when I stepped outside. Could also have done without the woman who wore a mask to go into the post office and took it off as soon as she was inside. Like...that's the opposite way of how it should work.
Wrote another 900 words yesterday evening and my fic is progressing nicely. I'm not entirely sure I've fully covered the prompt but that is a problem for future!Hils to deal with. Emotional hurt/comfort is harder for me to write than physical hurt/comfort. Oh well I shall see how it progresses. It made sense when I wrote the plot outline...
I started The Lost Tomb Reboot last night and so far it is exactly what I expected and wanted. Some general flailing can be found in the Twitter livetweet thread I started last night here.
Some (slightly) more coherent thoughts under the cut
As I mentioned on Twitter last night I haven't been actively avoiding spoilers for this show. I've been enjoying the gifsnaye and others have been posting but in spite of all that I realised that going in I knew very little about what the show was actually about.
Things I knew:
* Wu Xie has terminal lung cancer which mostly means he faints a lot and occasionally coughs up some blood like a Victorian with consumption
* When he's not going through the above he gets whumped in a variety of other ways
* There's a very pretty emo looking guy that seems to perpetually wear a black hoodie with the hood up
* Hoodie guy might be immortal?
* Something about thunder
* Something about crabs (actual crabs I think not the STD)
* There's a warehouse? That might be evil? I'm not sure.
* Presumably there's a tomb that may or may not get found
* Strong OT3 vibes with Wu Xie, Pangzi and hoodie guy
So I was going in mostly blind.
Immediately I could tell this show has a budget. The opening scene has a big sweeping shot of an excavation site which looks more like something out of a movie. Having watched a few smaller or lower budget shows before this makes it really stand out. I think the last high budget c-drama I watched was The Untamed which was also the first one I watched.
The first couple of episodes were mostly about setting things up and introducing all the characters. I was delighted to see an actor I recognised from SCI in a small role.
I think what stood out most for me in the first couple of episodes, though, is how delightful the friendship between Wu Xie and Pangzi is. The actors both do a wonderful job of portraying two people who have clearly been friends for a long time and feel safe and comfortable around each other. Even without seeing any of the previous shows that shone through.
I also wasn't expecting it to be as funny as it is. Wu Xie and Pangzi have some fantastic comedy moments in the first couple of episodes and I hope that continues.
Plan is to watch a couple more episodes after dinner. I'm not at the point where I'm feeling the urge to binge it (yet) so a couple of episodes an evening will do me fine for now. Tbh I haven't binged anything since Guardian. That show really sunk its claws into me.
Wrote another 900 words yesterday evening and my fic is progressing nicely. I'm not entirely sure I've fully covered the prompt but that is a problem for future!Hils to deal with. Emotional hurt/comfort is harder for me to write than physical hurt/comfort. Oh well I shall see how it progresses. It made sense when I wrote the plot outline...
I started The Lost Tomb Reboot last night and so far it is exactly what I expected and wanted. Some general flailing can be found in the Twitter livetweet thread I started last night here.
Some (slightly) more coherent thoughts under the cut
As I mentioned on Twitter last night I haven't been actively avoiding spoilers for this show. I've been enjoying the gifs
naye and others have been posting but in spite of all that I realised that going in I knew very little about what the show was actually about.Things I knew:
* Wu Xie has terminal lung cancer which mostly means he faints a lot and occasionally coughs up some blood like a Victorian with consumption
* When he's not going through the above he gets whumped in a variety of other ways
* There's a very pretty emo looking guy that seems to perpetually wear a black hoodie with the hood up
* Hoodie guy might be immortal?
* Something about thunder
* Something about crabs (actual crabs I think not the STD)
* There's a warehouse? That might be evil? I'm not sure.
* Presumably there's a tomb that may or may not get found
* Strong OT3 vibes with Wu Xie, Pangzi and hoodie guy
So I was going in mostly blind.
Immediately I could tell this show has a budget. The opening scene has a big sweeping shot of an excavation site which looks more like something out of a movie. Having watched a few smaller or lower budget shows before this makes it really stand out. I think the last high budget c-drama I watched was The Untamed which was also the first one I watched.
The first couple of episodes were mostly about setting things up and introducing all the characters. I was delighted to see an actor I recognised from SCI in a small role.
I think what stood out most for me in the first couple of episodes, though, is how delightful the friendship between Wu Xie and Pangzi is. The actors both do a wonderful job of portraying two people who have clearly been friends for a long time and feel safe and comfortable around each other. Even without seeing any of the previous shows that shone through.
I also wasn't expecting it to be as funny as it is. Wu Xie and Pangzi have some fantastic comedy moments in the first couple of episodes and I hope that continues.
Plan is to watch a couple more episodes after dinner. I'm not at the point where I'm feeling the urge to binge it (yet) so a couple of episodes an evening will do me fine for now. Tbh I haven't binged anything since Guardian. That show really sunk its claws into me.