Episode 16: And From Ugly Crying to Cinnamon Rolls

[wshaffer]

Lan Zhan remains absent. 

 

 Aw, they're gonna try their hardest to paddle back to Lotus Pier, aren't they? Where's the rudder on this boat? 

 

Noooooooo! Wang Langjiao killed the little moopling archer. His last words are apologizing to his master for still not knowing how to shoot. I cry now. No, wait, I was already crying. I cry harder. 

 

Aw, Fengmian and Yu really did love each other after all. Sorta. I wish they had taken note of my number one relationship rule: If you love someone, maybe mention it to them before you're bleeding out together on the floor having been slaughtered by your mortal enemies. Oh God, no one in this series is capable of taking that advice, are they? 

 

And Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian get back just in time to see the slaughter and then get to overhear Wen Chao and Wang Langjiao trash-talking their dead parents. That is a really shitty way to find out that your parents are dead. I'm sorry, this is the least funny live blog ever. 

 

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."  Wait, what?

 

I kind of get the feeling that Wen Zhuliu is not trying that hard to find Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng. (And where did they leave Yanli in all of this? Oh, Wei Wuxian has just remembered her.)

 

Oh, do I have to watch them break the news to Yanli? No no no. And then it starts raining. Classic pathetic fallacy and I don't care - it's fully justified. 

 

On one level, I'm not really enjoying what a downer this all is. On the other hand, I'm deeply appreciating that fact that our heroes are being allowed to be genuinely messily grieving rather than just getting a brief shot of them staring moodily into the sunset, squaring their jaws, and getting on with glorious revenge. 

 

Uh, oh - Wei Wuxian goes out to buy Yanli some medicine and almost gets busted. And then Jiang Cheng has left the tavern. Because of course he has. 

 

Wei Wuxian sneaks back into Lotus Pier and grabs the first Wen he finds...and it's Wen Ning. I squealed with delight. Wei Wuxian seems less thrilled. I mean, okay, he has reasons to be cross with the Wen Clan right now, but Wen Ning is the least Wen Wen who ever Wen'ed. Like he was probably secretly adopted from Clan Hufflepuff. 

 

Someday, Wen Zhuliu is totally going to snap, and I really hope that Wen Chao is on the receiving end of that snap. 

 

Comments

[swan_tower]

Wen Ning is the least Wen Wen who ever Wen'ed. Like he was probably secretly adopted from Clan Hufflepuff.

Troof.

And yeah, this part of the story is not funny. But I agree, appreciating them taking the time to actually show the grief, instead of just glossing over it.

(Apropos of this, Adrienne was just giving us shit in her liveblog of Rook and Rose 3 for twisting a certain grief knife. But it matters! People should remember the dead!)

[teleidoplex]

OMG Wen Ning is SUCH a Hufflepuff <3

And yeah... it's amazing to me how they made me love Lotus Pier in like an episode and a half, such that I was pretty devastated when the Wens took it.