#c'mon link click this is the LOWEST bar

[snorlaxlovesme]

i'm torn between what i want to happen and what i THINK is going to happen. ever since season 2 link click has a way of convoluting the plot to the point of incomprehension and then somehow managing to stick the landing, so I guess I'm expected more of that. i think the majority of this episode will be spent NOT tying up any of the loose threads, but then have a particularly juicy ending that will make me feel like it's all worth it

as for things i'd like the last episode to address:

in the first episode, we never see the conclusion of Vein vs. Lu Guang. Lu Guang somehow ends up injured despite the fact that Vein is the shittiest shot in the world. i want to see an expansion of that scene, (hopefully) with added context when we (hopefully) finally find out WHY Vein is hunting them in the future to begin with. i think it would be a good circular moment to return to the scene we started with

i guess this should be number one, but we absolutely NEED to learn SOMEONE'S motive in this episode. Liu Xiao, Vein, Xia Fei, anyone. we need someone to look directly into the camera at me and say "I am being shady for this reason" because it's been five episodes and these weird dudes framed as villains have been WEIRD but not particularly villainous. so like, lmao what are we doing here

you know what, i'm not even going to keep going with this list because I highly anticipate that 15 minutes of the episode is gonna be burned on Wang Qing, of all people. so yeah. hoping there's some sort of tie-in/clarification of the fight in ep 1 and I hope one of the Hot Heads actually does something more antagonistic than *checks notes* mild stalking? that'd be great