I can't seem to get mail to work, so I'll take nineveh below as permission to post it here:
I am actually reluctant to watch this, somewhat in the manner I always put off entering the Mines of Moria when I read LOTR, because I know something horrible is about to happen to a character I care about.
And I haven't even seen it yet to know what that is.
Jingrui and Yujin being conspicuously happy and winding each other up is a setup for tearing my heart out later. I can see *that* one coming a mile off.
[MCS arrives] This really is framing him and Xie as gunmen squaring up at opposite ends of Main Street.
Surely, surely MCS is not planning on poisoning everybody at the banquet and then having the antidote available for the ones he doesn't want to die? It would be inelegant.
Unusually persistent gatecrashers rank this alongside one of the Great Socially Awkward Dinnerparties of literature
ON HIS BIRTHDAY. MCS, YOU ABSOLUTE BASTARD.
... oh hell it gets worse
"Oh, yes, that's right, where *is* Fei Liu?" Hah!
ARRGH CLIFFHANGER.
...That was amazing. But will somebody *please* give Jingrui a hug and the era-appropriate equivalent of a stiff whisky?
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Date: 2020-09-12 05:26 pm (UTC)I am actually reluctant to watch this, somewhat in the manner I always put off entering the Mines of Moria when I read LOTR, because I know something horrible is about to happen to a character I care about.
And I haven't even seen it yet to know what that is.
Jingrui and Yujin being conspicuously happy and winding each other up is a setup for tearing my heart out later. I can see *that* one coming a mile off.
[MCS arrives] This really is framing him and Xie as gunmen squaring up at opposite ends of Main Street.
Surely, surely MCS is not planning on poisoning everybody at the banquet and then having the antidote available for the ones he doesn't want to die? It would be inelegant.
Unusually persistent gatecrashers rank this alongside one of the Great Socially Awkward Dinnerparties of literature
ON HIS BIRTHDAY. MCS, YOU ABSOLUTE BASTARD.
... oh hell it gets worse
"Oh, yes, that's right, where *is* Fei Liu?" Hah!
ARRGH CLIFFHANGER.
...That was amazing. But will somebody *please* give Jingrui a hug and the era-appropriate equivalent of a stiff whisky?