#ep 731

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[roccinan]

Snowfall 冰雪谣 (Uncut)

Translating/sharing some things I saw on this Douban thread for anyone interested. It includes details about important plot points that were cut/edited based on evidence and speculation from netizens. Some things were more obvious than others.

The takeaway was that Tencent could have had a really special show (and it would have been waaay more popular on the platform) if they weren't forced to cut out so many things :'D

^Starting with this. One of the MOST important plot points was edited out: Shen Zhiheng is afraid of sunlight, hence the umbrella + hat + sunglasses getup. As the thread points out, he's never seen in sunlight without some kind of covering. As the show goes on, he would have become more and more sensitive to the light.

This is why he had that random wound on his face in ep. 24. The sun burned him, but he went to rescue Mi Lan anyway.

Other changed/removed things below the cut:

Ep 10 originally had footage of Shen Zhiheng revealing his fangs and sucking the blood of all those soldiers. Remembering all the blood he took is what caused his breakdown later. His wounds healed so quickly because he gorged on so much human blood here. Around 20 min. were removed.

Whenever Situ Weilian visited Shen Zhiheng, he was carrying blood in his bag. He only does it in the nighttime because doing this in the daytime draws too much attention. All of this was removed.

In ep 1, when Mi Lan originally meets Shen Zhiheng, there's a scene of Shen Zhiheng being tempted towards sucking her blood and resisting. That was removed, but you can still see a shot of him opening his mouth.

The scene where Mi Lan rescues Shen Zhiheng in jail by "kissing" him should have been longer. He apparently reached out to cup her head, but that was removed. --> Later in the thread, someone adds on to this: in one of the original shots, there was blood on Mi Lan's lips, further implying she bit herself. This is guesswork, but it's very probable- since she gains sight briefly in a later ep/scene, it means she also bit Shen Zhiheng after he couldn't resist biting her through the kiss.

A scene of Li Ying Liang staring down at Shen Zhiheng from another floor was removed.

Shen Zhiheng didn't recover from his wounds in ep1 by sleeping. That was an excuse Situ made up. Originally, Situ gave him blood instead of just doing surgery, but the blood part was removed.

After healing, Shen Zhiheng goes to meet Li Ying Liang and shouts loudly when talking to him (My note: I think we all remember this part). It wasn't a random choice. Shen Zhiheng felt too close to Li Ying Liang's neck and wanted to drink his blood, so he gave that shout to distance them.

Situ Weilian is the second male lead (this is confirmed!). But it feels like all his scenes revolve around Jingxue because the majority of Situ's scenes revolve around blood and vampirism, so when they cut all that out, the only thing remaining was his subplot with her.

When Situ's dancing with Jingxue during their first meeting, a part was deleted (so the show skipped directly to them already dancing). Situ likes her so much because he's a pureblood vampire and doesn't understand human emotion, so every time he comes across an emotion he doesn't understand, he goes to her.

Miss Mu (the villainess) and the corrupt officer guy (Li Ying Liang's boss) were originally Japanese. They wanted to capture Shen Zhiheng for the 731 experiments (fair warning: project 731 was a real atrocity that happened, where the Japanese medically experimented on Chinese prisoners). This was all edited out.

A lot of lines were changed in post, so that's why sometimes the dialogue doesn't match the lips

When the stepmother (Meng Ziyi's character) slaughtered the Shen family: the reason the grandmother wanted her burned was likely because she was caught feeding on human blood (the show changed it to "chicken" blood). If you look carefully at her speaking to little Situ, you can see her fangs.

In ep14, Situ and Shen Zhiheng say the stepmother's death had to do with the blood stone. Their lines don't match their lips so the dialogue was originally completely different. Op notes that in the novel, the stepmother was a pureblood vampire who died after her loved one (Zhiheng's father) died and she lost the will to live.

The conversation Shen Zhiheng has with Mr. Mo about the blood stone was also different in the original cut. Again, their lines don't match their mouths.

When Shen Zhiheng finds the blood stone in his grave, there was originally a shot of him opening his mouth and showing his fangs. That was removed.

When Shen Zhiheng turns Mi Lan, there was originally a shot of him coming close to her neck with fangs. That was removed and replaced with shadows.

With all of the above in mind, this is why a lot eps were only around 30 or so minutes when they should have all been 45. This is also why it feels like Li Ying Liang has a disproportionate amount of screentime, because they likely had to make up for all the lost time with his scenes (or maybe he was always meant to have that many scenes, but the loss of Situ's scenes just makes it more obvious). And unfortunately, why Situ Weilian has so little screentime, which I personally think is a shame because he was amazing in the role.

As you can imagine, everyone in the thread was NOT happy about this. My favorite comment was someone going, "So they think if they remove all references to blood drinking, we won't know he's a vampire? Do they think we're stupid?" Lots of people rightfully disappointed we never got to see Shen Zhiheng vampiring.

Also, apparently the final cut of Snowfall we got takes place in a timeline where WWII never happened(???) since they were forced to remove all references to it and all references to the Imperial Japanese. It's a little murky, but I think the reason has less to do with trying to do pretend Japanese war crimes never happened (most "serious" Republican era c-dramas are about defeating the Japanese or KMT anyway) and more to do with the fact that the censorship bureau has a rule about not mixing history with "fiction." So you can't have vampires with the Republican era, a time grounded in history. But you can have all the immortals and demons you want in stories that take place in "unspecified" ancient times.

*I still think that's Stupid because nobody is currently living in the Republican Era, come on. It's as much in the "past" as your average xianxia, and nobody's going to watch this and think "oh yeah, vampires existed in 1930s China!". Someone at the censors just has too much time on their hands imo!

*I can't tell if that whole mess with the gemstones was part of the original cut or added in as a backup plan though. On one hand, if you have the Japanese and vampirism, they don't need that subplot anymore. But Mu's minions were very clearly "ninja" coded, and that crazy lava scene was apparently always part of the original cut (but they removed a fight between mind-controlled Li Ying Liang and Mi Lan for some reason). It'd also be very odd to give Li Ying Liang a redemption arc if his whole schtick was selling out his own people to imperial Japan. Plus, someone in the thread also mentioned an IMPORTANT plot hole- "If Shen Zhiheng is this powerful, why doesn't he just kill the Japanese army?" They're not wrong! I think the idea of corrupt Kuomingtang officers makes more sense in that context.

Some of Mi Lan and Shen Zhiheng's "romantic" shots were cut, maybe to play down the romance(?). Personally, I might be in the minority, but I think this edit worked in the show's favor- the repression elevated the relationship to something more memorable and graceful.

People pointed out that the last scene in ep24 felt abrupt, like the ending should have been something else and that the director likely shot something different originally. I think it's still 50/50 on who to blame for That ending lol, the director or the censors.

Lastly, I'll say that not everything can be blamed on the censors. For instance, the weird cinematography during the "fast" fight scenes would still have been the same. The writers could still have come up with something less clunky than the gemstone drama and lava climax. Li Ying Liang (I think he did a decent job, not fantastic but decent, and I wasn't bored during his subplots but there really was too much time spent on him) would likely still have all those scenes irrelevant to the main trio. And I doubt it was the censors who told the director, "hey make the last scene as abrupt as possible so you can piss off all your viewers lol!"

But IMAGINE what could have been :'D Who knows, maybe one day they'll release the uncut version or somewhere else will buy the rights and release it. At least we now have more context thanks to the netizen detectives.

[scullysexual]

Guess The Ep (10/05)

[belo-abismo]

ok I've had my wife watch ftf, a smidge of syzygy and like half of how the ghosts stole christmas, and she's said she's not as into the fantasy-ish kind of eps and is more into the government conspiracy eps. I'm thinking maybe she would like Nisei & 731, maybe Wetwired. thoughts?

[aceseonghwa]

Exactly 731 days ago, on September 1st, 2022, I made one of the best decisions of my life: I chose to stan ATEEZ.

I had just started my freshman year in college. Funnily enough, I don't remember exactly what made me get into them. It may have been a reaction video, or perhaps a music video of theirs popped up on my recommended page -- the specific details are fuzzy. Regardless, I always like to say that the universe brought them to me. I wouldn't even consider myself as someone who believes in fate, but I can say with certainty that becoming an ATINY strangely just felt like it was bound to happen. ATEEZ came into my life when I was entering a new era -- adulthood. College was so new to me, and it was so overwhelming, nerve-wracking, and scary; but ATEEZ uplifted me, and kept me afloat. I have so many fond memories of staying up well until the early morning watching compilation videos of them and smiling and laughing until my cheeks hurt. I'll never forget slowly going through their entire discography and just being blown away by every single album, many songs moving me to tears because of the beautiful lyricism and instrumentals. I remember listening to THE WORLD EP 1: MOVEMENT for the first time and just thinking "where has this music been all my life?"

I fell in love with ATEEZ so rapidly; day after day, my love for them just continued to grow as I learned more about them. It was honestly a little surprising to me just how quickly it all happened. I can safely say that in my several years of being a k-pop fan, I have never fallen in love with a group so deeply and intensely. ATEEZ pulled me in with their amazing artistry and performance abilities, and when I discovered how sweet the members were, how kind and respectful and humble, I knew pretty early on that I would be an ATINY for a long time.

ATEEZ have gotten me through so many rough patches. Listening to their music heals me. Even just putting on a random YouTube live of theirs puts me at ease when I want to calm my mind down. It didn't even matter if there were no subs, just hearing their voices was enough for me. ATEEZ have also helped me grow as a person. Their acceptance and outspoken love for the queer community means the entire world to me as a queer person. They make me feel so safe and at home. I feel like I can truly trust them and that they are just genuinely good people. I have gained so much more confidence because of them in terms of expressing my queerness, my gender identity, and just my personality in general.

I also want to mention that not only has it officially been two years since becoming an ATINY but also since becoming a shinestar! To think that I have been biasing Park Seonghwa for 2 years now is unreal. I have so much that I want to thank him for, and I won't get into everything because then this letter would be longer than it already is, but I will say this. Thank you to Seonghwa for leaving a positive impact on my life. You will always hold a special place in my heart. I've been biasing you for 2 years now and I will continue to for a very long time. ❤

To end this very long post, I just wanna say thank you to ATEEZ for finding me when I really needed them ❤

I'm an ATINY today, tomorrow, yesterday, and forever.

[agent-troi]

731 is such a lowkey brilliant ep bc one of the syndicate head honchos themselves personally shows Scully only the parts of the whole truth that she would believe and that would also convince her to discount aliens entirely

[benoitblanc]

Episode ask game!

Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead (DW)

The Wedding of River Song (DW)

Irresistible (TXF)

Nisei/731 (TXF)

Demons (TXF)

:)

silence in the library/forest of the dead (doctor who 4.08/4.09):

scum on earth | will not rewatch | pretty bad | not great but charming | objectively not good but i had fun | listen it's complicated | neutral | no complaints | this is great | this is fantastic | one of my favorites | actually a divine work nothing will ever top this PERFECT sci-fi. absolutely no notes. the character work is horrific (affectionate), the monster is terrifying, and the premise is so fucking weird. give catherine tate an emmy

the wedding of river song (doctor who 6.13):

scum on earth | will not rewatch | pretty bad | not great but charming | objectively not good but i had fun | listen it's complicated | neutral | no complaints | this is great | this is fantastic | one of my favorites | actually a divine work nothing will ever top this i think i've only seen this one once so i don't remember it super well, but i love every river song feature so i'm sure i liked it. i remember it being very very very strange

irresistible (the x-files 2.13):

scum on earth | will not rewatch | pretty bad | not great but charming | objectively not good but i had fun | listen it's complicated | neutral | no complaints | this is great | this is fantastic | one of my favorites | actually a divine work nothing will ever top this in my top three txf eps easy. i LOVE that there's no paranormal element and yet it's the most horrifying episode of the whole show. tattoo the scene at the end onto my eyeballs. it's about her not wanting to feel like he has to protect her but him wanting desperately for her to let him in because he cares!!! she doesn't want him to think she's weak but she's the strongest person he knows!!! sometimes chris carter actually really gets scully

nisei/731 (the x-files 3.09/3.10):

scum on earth | will not rewatch | pretty bad | not great but charming | objectively not good but i had fun | listen it's complicated | neutral | no complaints | this is great | this is fantastic | one of my favorites | actually a divine work nothing will ever top this this is my favorite mytharc ep/two-parter. it's funny, it's suspenseful, it's got the first insights into the fact that the government is really the ones behind all the alien crap (i choose to ignore the later mytharc stuff where they go back on this because GOD is it incredible storytelling and it fits in SO well with the themes of the show). it's got mulder jumping on top of a moving train and losing his phone as scully begs him not to. it sets up the cancer arc to a t. it's even got rob bowman

demons (the x-files 4.23)

scum on earth | will not rewatch | pretty bad | not great but charming | objectively not good but i had fun | listen it's complicated | neutral | no complaints | this is great | this is fantastic | one of my favorites | actually a divine work nothing will ever top this listen to me demons isn't about samantha and the smoking man it's about mulder and scully and her illness and how they both feel like they're losing control of their lives along with each other. you have to listen to me i'm begging please

send an ep for a ranking!!!

[azure-firecracker]

ahhh I'm still OBSESSED w flight and sanctuary and I was wondering if there's anything specific about an episode that makes you write about it? (also what's ur fav ep so far?)( I'm onto season 9 now!)

Aah thanks for the ask! And thank you🥺 Flight and Sanctuary is one of my favorites too!

What inspires me to write varies by episode, but in broad generalizations there’s two categories:

-Category one is an episode that either moved me a lot (Irresistible) or presented a scenario that I thought would be fascinating to explore further (The Erlenmeyer Flask, 731). These are episodes I loved as they were and wanted to expand upon.

-Category two is an episode that I could very clearly see going differently. Either I loved the episode but wanted to consider a cool alternative (Ice), or I took issue with the episode but saw a lot of potential in it that I wanted to capitalize on (Our Town). These are episodes I wanted to change, fix, or explore an alternate ending.

Favorite ep so far is Irresistible! There’s probably about 80,000 posts on this blog explaining why, but it says a lot that I’m Tumblr’s number one complainer about Scully getting kidnapped too much and this is my favorite anyway.

[rockmiyabideusexmachina]

Megaman Production Art Scan of the Day #731:

Ruby Spears Mega Man Close Up Head Shot Cel

Yes, this is a temporary set to post, while I have been on hiatus for all of 3 days...XD But after 4 more days of this, back on a real break.

Yet another Double Buster campaign cel set was recently up for auction, and I was able to acquire it. This time, finally, I have a set that has the actual certificate to accompany it! 2 of the 5 cels are essentially sequential dupes of Dr. Light from the last set I bought. But there are 3 new ones, so today I start with this cel of Mega Man.

While I was legit hoping this was a frame of Mega Man from Ep. 3 when he said, "Oh no, he's about to blast President Lincoln!," and started running, I knew that would be too good to be true.

Instead, it is another frame from Episode 9, Bot Transfer. This one comes from the beginning of the episode, when the Light family is on a plane heading to the International Science Conference.

"I'm pretty relaxed right now. (Passengers screaming as Guts and Cut appear) Did I say something about being relaxed?!"

Once more, there is a little bit of paint damage stuck onto this cel, and he lost a chunk of his eyebrow. So, with the power of editing, I also present a fixed scan once more.

Scanned from: My Production Art Stash

Full Resolution Scan: https://imgbox.com/1eKcb2Rp

Edited/Touchup Repair Scan: https://imgbox.com/95Lp0iBr

[shallowrambles]

Finished! Sorry I got quiet during the beheading and-- Some stuff:

- elitism -> rando switch to southern accent = evil

- anti-semitism -> mr sheffield's golem went into a furnace 😬 Maybe SPN needs more Stefferson Starship type monsters

- so, mr sheffield is an evil british nazi who experiments like an angel of death wwII trope, he adopts a southern accent when he goes evil (because that's code for monster-hating bigot), and he's nazi, hooo boy it's mishmash with your fave "evil" tropes, I guess

Like, to a degree I expect bad WWII-unit 731 human experimention references and "let's shit on 2d southern sap" in my american media, but it's eeeh. It undercuts a bit the more natural-flowing dialogue and improved performances. (I'm just so relieved the main characters weren't walking-taking therapy dolls this time though. It's been killing me slowly on this show.)

Anyway, I wasnt crazy about original SPN's Thule and Oz stuff because it always struck me as too meta, like it leaned a little too much in to bragging about story mechanics. I tend to dislike Dorothy's about-face, brainless orientation to Charlie, "you're a genius!" (Like, it's so meta, right? Charlie's got main character syndrome teehee). And the grouchy golem was always cringey to me because he was like a puppet to such a degree that his free will disappeared (he's a mechanistic support character / protector, just like a dark shadow of our attack dog monster support characters. He doesn't get to be complex, ofc. So meta. *pats self on back*) These were bad doylist pyrotechnics in the original. The only one allowed to do bad meta and stereotype is my love, Metatron, who gets a pass for all the struggle and despair with God. And what eorked sbout Metatron's meta is he failed to execute it, ergo it was so much better bybthe end he was yelling at Chuck.

Also, I get that lobotomies are relevant to free will theme, buuuuut... sigh.

But on the QC: The dialogue and pacing/production was better the last 2 eps. I'm so relieved because I genuinely thought the early eps were verbose and weird.

The "therapy talk" was a little less stilted, and when it does occur, it comes from kindness, not preaching. (For example: Roxy decided to keep her memories as opposed to Lata lecturing / pressuring her to keep them. Small detail, but very important.) All the core characters continued to sound better, more like people. I'm glad to see Carlos get some much-needed neuroticism around his relationship; dude seems too well-adjusted and "feisty" all the time, and that can occasionally ring hollow because of it. (Luckily for them, the actor's charismatic. But no one always says the right things, especially under duress.)

The themes on grieving without self-annialation were GOOD this time, and there was some great Jary foreshadowing that stood on it's own for once instead of coming off preachy. Roxy's confrontation of violation was well-acted. I liked Millie's face at the end when she thinks John's murdered someone--too unsurprised!

The bit about Mary ruminating on love and selfishness? Fantastic!

I do think a lot of GA will not recognize the golem and Jewish cultural iconography and sidestep the WWII discomforts, because the show wrapped Mr. Sheffield in the drawling language of "southern white bigot" at the end 'thar. And if there's one thing that modern TV audiences agree on, it's that evil southerners Deserve Their Stereotype and What's Comin' to 'em. 🤷‍♂️ Smokescreens not to look deeper.

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[gothicpsychovampirewannabe]

tagged by @setyourfireonme thank you rooooose <3

last song: pap test - a colors show by saya gray

favourite colour: purple

last book: hmmmmm i think it was fireseed by jove chambers. i adored it and immediately ordered a physical copy.

last movie: oof. um. right! rewatched interview with the vampire.

last show: rewatching the terror ofc, but i have once against stalled at ep 9 and will likely just start back at the beginning to avoid it. oops.

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet, always sweet.

relationship status: single^eternity (keeping rose's answer bc yeah. i'm feeling pretty hopeless at present lol)

last thing i googled: unit 731 :(

current obsession: the terror but also reinventing my sense of style.

looking forward to: the rest of my winter break. love my students, but lordt. i need a break lol.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

Heyyy you have impeccable vibes hope ur week goes well. Also what's ur fave xfiles ep so far? 👀

thanks so much! first day went pretty well, so fingers crossed the rest of the week carries a decent energy!

i have my top 15 episode list here, although now that i am almost finished with s4, i would take the blessing way off of the list and replace it with memento mori. but a top episode overall? hmm...

i'm going to say it's revelations!! if you had told me that there was going to be an episode that dives into scully's belief system and relationship to god, i would have laughed and said that is something i'd expect in a fanfic tailored entirely to my interests. but it happened. and it's canon. and it's SUCH a joy that it is.

i love that she confronts mulder about how the way she sees the world matters (but what about what i've seen?), i love her connection with kevin (and sue me, i want to see them domestic and with kids every now and then, okay?), i love the ending with her going to confession. the plot itself was fine but it was the scully analysis that made it THE episode for me.

while revelations takes the cake, i had a hard time choosing between that episode and the nisei/731 arc because i was at the edge of my seat during those episodes and had so much fun and excitement during them! so those are tied for second <3 and my other top two are probably ice and beyond the sea. something so special about how quickly they became ride or dies in s1.

so, tl;dr: revelations is number one, but nisei, 731, beyond the sea, and ice are all somewhere in second place, because again i refuse to ever make a solid choice <3

[scullysexual]

Guess The Ep (09/03)

[springsheep]

In The Name Of The Brother Notes Ep. 32 - 35

Ep 32 -> SZW investigates Hu Bin's whereabouts.

GX: as long as it's about Xiao Kai, I can't think straight.

Dr. Shi writes a goodbye note.

Hu Bin brings GX a wedding dress... GX dgaf.

Lao Qian find out squirrel (the mole) l, he is loyal to Manchuria, not Han.

SZW searches for the gun in Hu Bin's cousin's house.

GX in a blue dress on the bed... Poor baby... Wtffff asano wants to attend the wedding, things are complicated asgdjdbfjdjsbd.

GX picks up the phone, hu Bin is a piece of shit.

GK feels guilty. Fuckkkkk

GX in a wedding dress!!!!

SZW is searching, still searching.

GX carving a fruit.

Wedding... GX ready to shoot

SZW crashes a wedding.

GX says no to the wedding...

GX: I won't marry anyone, so don't feel wronged.

GX: No man can marry me.

GX walks out of the wedding happily, victorious

GX flashback to her uncle??? (Was he grooming her omg?!?!!)

Ep 33 -> Hu Bin looks at the gun... GX in a wedding dress looks at the gun.

Hu Bin: If I didn't do this, you would never marry me.

Hb: I know you still like SZW. He likes Xie Yue.

GX crying in the car.

GX: if you were me, what would you do?

Xie Yue: I wanted to see GX get married to Hu Bin. You (SZW) helped her again.

The squirrel guy is the son of SZW's housekeeper.

GX in a net hat and trousers, so shuaiii

GX in a blue skirt shuai

Big operation coming up!!

Pan Yue scheming again, GX visits Pan Yue, apologizes and offers him a drink.

SZW buying 100 hats is exposed... But they don't know it's SZW yet...

GX in sunglasses and blue coat... On the phone, so pretty

Operation to catch Lao Qian...

GX: 心动。

SZWu is saving lao qian. Hehehe.

Lao Qian is laughing hehehe. Ding Peng is chasing them argh. Ding Peng kinda recognizes SZWu....

Ep 34 -> SZWu evades Ding Peng. Ding Peng and Pan Yue scheme in the hospital.

Pan Yue is back in action.

Oh my god... GX and Hu Bin surround the communists, massive shootout happening...

Lao Qian and SZWu and the other guy escape... Massive car chase and shootout, Lao Qian is wounded.

GUAN XUE SAW SZWU'S FACE OMGGGG

Lao Qian and SZWu hides in SZW's house. Xie Yue held at gunpoint by SZWu.

Pan Yue and GX face off.

GX likes to play with her hat.

GX: we are all monkeys.

SZW: we don't have to be.

Ep 35 -> Guan Xue eating dumplings. GX and Uncle Jin talking about the future, should they run away to Japan?

GX in a silk pj

GX smoking and listening to Pan Yue and Hu Bin's conversation.

GX: let's start with Pan Yue.

Uncle Jin: What about SZW?

Pan Yue talks to Hu Bin about his suspicions regarding SZW (that he has a twin), GX is listening.

Flashbacks to Cui Anping

Pan Yue meets a Kuomintang member.

SZW and Lao Qian plan to steal the "drafts" for 731