Phoned tonight and was told they couldn't talk for long, as had started ep 9 and needed to finish before the news... I congratulate your sister on her perceptiveness re. Yu, though. Maybe she will speed up eventually.
As someone very insightful said on tumblr "Nirvana in Fire is a very serious political drama that takes a minute in the forty-ish episode out of fifty-four to let us know that our protagonist was at one point a VAMPIRE YETI and this is never really relevant ever."
They're not wrong. The need re. the illenss is nothing that couldn't have been done with "oh the terribly disfiguring bite of a poisonous animal" but minus the yeti part (and the blue ribbon). I wish I knew what the Chinese audience reception of it was. Maybe I'll warn them around episode 40 - they are on the same playlist, but I think they would spot it because of the way they have to click through on the app...
That is a bit timely about the fireworks factory. Come to that, I wonder whether fireworks factories - illegal or otherwise - periodically blowing up is a more commonly occuring industrial hazard in China so that it functions in a Chekhov's fireworks factory way and as soon as it's mentioned that there is one, the knowledgeable audience is instantly wondering how it is going to get blown up?
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Date: 2020-08-17 09:15 pm (UTC)As someone very insightful said on tumblr "Nirvana in Fire is a very serious political drama that takes a minute in the forty-ish episode out of fifty-four to let us know that our protagonist was at one point a VAMPIRE YETI and this is never really relevant ever."
They're not wrong. The need re. the illenss is nothing that couldn't have been done with "oh the terribly disfiguring bite of a poisonous animal" but minus the yeti part (and the blue ribbon). I wish I knew what the Chinese audience reception of it was. Maybe I'll warn them around episode 40 - they are on the same playlist, but I think they would spot it because of the way they have to click through on the app...
That is a bit timely about the fireworks factory. Come to that, I wonder whether fireworks factories - illegal or otherwise - periodically blowing up is a more commonly occuring industrial hazard in China so that it functions in a Chekhov's fireworks factory way and as soon as it's mentioned that there is one, the knowledgeable audience is instantly wondering how it is going to get blown up?