Magister of Misery

Long time no see! :') Trying to catch up on the rewatch, so without further ado, some notes on episode 3:

( Notes )

Not a lot of worldbuilding in this episode, but our first Weilan parallel! Loving a monster indeed~

I've been meaning to do a close-watch of Guardian forever. Since my initial watch/binge of Guardian back in March/April 2021, I haven't come back to rewatch the whole thing. I've seen the first 3 episodes multiple times, attempting to lure friends in, but none of those attempts stuck. Otherwise, I only watched bits and pieces for fic research purposes, until I fell sick in December and needed something to watch. (I only made it to episode 12 though, so I'm starting over now to follow along with the sid_guardian group rewatch xD)

Goals

My focus in this rewatch is on two categories: worldbuilding and villains.

For worldbuilding, I'm looking at Haixing-Dixing politics, the peace treaty, Dixing-Yashou biology, history of YOHE and its inconsistencies, the SID and its tasks, and similar things.

On the topic of villains I want to track what they do and why, and how effective they are in reaching their goals. As well as other miscallaneous facts about their lives. I'm particularly interested in Zhao Xinci | Zhang Shi, Professor Ouyang, the Regent, and Zhu Jiu here. Probably Ya Qing and Wang Xiangyang once they show up, too, though to a lesser degree admittedly.

trobadora started us off with a great post for the Guardian Rewatch!

( Notes on Episode 1 )

General observations:
I adore Zhu Hong pranking Lin Jing with the dried fish, it shows off their almost sibling-esque relationship and the humour at SID perfectly. Also, Shen Wei's Innocent Wide Eyes TM when Zhao Yunlan confronts him with the topic of Dixingren. ROOF SCENE MY BELOVED. Guo Changcheng playing with geometry tools in the office while Zhao Yunlan interrogates Li Qian. Makes me wonder if they stole an office of the architecture department at DCU xD also the way Li Qian quickly puts Shen Wei between her and Chief Zhao 🥺 and the way he protects her when the shadow man shows up! Ready to reveal his secret on the roof, too, if the SID had been just a moment later *hearts*

Also also, just the way Li Qian's outfits match Shen Wei's? *squees* I'm having so many feelings for them and their mentor-mentee relationship rn... and Shen Wei interferes with Zhao Yunlan's investigation of her not just once, but twice, going to grab her from the office and then again at the bench scene <3 <3 <3 (I'm very tempted to do a scene discussion of the bench scene now...)