#everything about this ep was *chef’s kiss* Magnifique

[coquelicoq]

the untamed ep 19 & 20, aka: THE GOOD SHIT

wow i was just...really impressed with these two episodes you guys!!

before i get into that i just need to give a lil lxc update which is that he’s back (!!!!) with the lan disciples at cloud recesses again according to one throwaway line, but we don’t even get to see him which is some kinda bullshit frankly. i’ve waited so long. let me see him. please??

okay now the good stuff:

the PACING! everything was so slow and long but in this totally delicious and suspenseful way? it worked so well??

the HORROR! oooh fellas we got some CREEPY AMBIANCE up in here today! wwx crawling through the burial mounds! the wens and their ghost of christmas past moment! that malevolent flute action!!!

the infamous KNEEL scene! hoo boy. woah nelly. we haven’t seen lwj in a minute so this was basically a reintroduction to his character and it was. very impressive. super badass. plus all the shit with him getting wwx’s sword and having MINUTE FACIAL EMOTIONS about it ugh fuck me UP

jiang CHENG!!! all the jc content was just...*chef’s kiss* bellissimo. magnifique. for your consideration: 

the lotus pier flashback which managed to be incredibly touching without being overwrought

jc joining together with lwj in search of the loved one they both lost (lowkey the odd couple vibes but also highkey the cooperation? the respect??)

wen qing and that symbolic af comb (do i ship jc/wq now? ugh i think i ship it now, gdi)

the REUNION with his BROTHER holy shit the arm punch? the embrace? defending him from lwj?? 

...wang zhuocheng and jc’s voice actor did the most and i’m so grateful to both of them

speaking of brothers, the SHIJIE feels!! her reunions with both of her brothers! asking jc to bring ah xian back! calling wwx xian xian! wwx going to the ancestral hall and telling jiang fengmian and madam yu that he had kept jc and shijie safe for them!!! my heart you guys. my HEART!

and most of all...the reintroduction of wwx after three months in the burial mounds was so good. creepy, intriguing, heartbreaking, the works. 

when he called lwj by his titles instead of his name, and then as the conversation progressed he started getting kinda flirty but you could tell something was off about it...i mean, damn. wwx over here acting like a shadow of his former self, using tactics we’ve seen him use before in happier times but now they just ring hollow and corrupted......a mockery of his former energy, of their former connection..... 

hello yes train station? i’ll take a one-way ticket on the midnight train to heartbreaksville if you please.

"how would other people know the true nature of my heart? and what does it have to do with outsiders?” ?!!?!?!?! EXCUSE?????

every wangxian misunderstanding fic is hashtag valid based on this scene alone

when he tells lwj to leave because it’s jiang family business and then he watches lwj walk away with this look of profound but almost distant sorrow...

almost like he can’t turn away from what he has to do but regrets how he’s getting it done...

almost like he’s in mourning for the life he could’ve had if things had just been different...if the jiangs hadn’t been killed...if he hadn’t lost his core...if he were capable of other forms of cultivation...if lwj were with him instead of against him...

but it can’t be helped...he has to do this and nothing will get in his way, not lwj or anyone else...it’s better not to cling to what could have been or what he once had...it’s better to be removed...to stay apart...to push him away...

ughguhgughhhhhhlKXjdvnadskjdlkzdjcklfdsjhnKLJFHSDrieoufndskj

legit i could not look away y’all, so pumped for whatever terrible angst is coming my way in the next episode. like i’m know i’m gonna die, but i think i’m gonna be happy about it??

[xwynn]

THE LATEST HQ EPISODE WAS SO GOOD I LOVE THE BOYS