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elvesofnoldor · 4 years ago

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humm i may have gone unhinged and finished watching all 23 episodes of mdzs last night/early this morning (ok i didnt finished ALL of them in one day. it was from episode 8 to episode 23 and i started watching 2-3 episodes a day a couple of days when i was trying to compare and contrast it with the untamed, and well shit started to hit the fan starting around episode 10 and i just kept going until the very end lmao)

#mae overshares #the anime sort of spoiled the live action a little bit. but in a good way bc i have expectations abt certain current and future plot points #but i dont know enough that i know everything that will happen next in the live action #i feel expectedly lukewarm abt this series. it was entertaining but that was pretty much it #i cant believe i'd say this abt a chinese tv drama in my life but i believe the live action has way more to offer in terms of quality #but even then. im just not crazy abt the world building. which is to be expected. i grew up watching countless xianxia/wuxia bullshit on tv #and i dont remember? any of the plot lines to any of the dramas i saw 10-15 minutes of at the time?#i am however. very interested in source materials (chinese mythology/ urban lengends)#i just generally dont care for what chinese modern media/literature did with the said source materials.#i gotta say the more i watched mdzs the more i understand why so many silm fans i follow/see on tumblr r into mdzs #even tho they are decidedly Very Different story content inspired by Very Different cultural myths/legends. the vibes are just so similar #and mdzs character design tho (i actually like the art style. the eyes are bit too big but im not necessarily complaining)#when i first got into tolkien/silmarillion. i was on the chinese part of the internet. about ten years ago.#and the way people draw elves back then (and still do now)..............yeah i still remember a couple of feanor. fingolfin and finwe fanart #and i like them still lmao. i call the art style 'i grew up watching chinese fantasy on tv and i have unconsciously absorbed the aesthetic'#i mean. what ARE you supposed to do with these sword wielding noldors with long dark hair?#there was a post i reblogged recently that says you can imagine the noldors as east asian (not necessarily what i did but still)#the concept artist/costume designer behind the hobbit wanted to dress thranduil in what they described as 'oriental' clothing style #now i dislike their choice of word 'oriental' but what they meant is basically clothings that bear vague reminiscence of #rope-y traditional clothings from a few of east asian/chinese/japanese dynasties #and u gotta admit the historically accurate saxon/european medieval clothings just dont suit the grace of tolkien elves #side note: there is a piece of backstory regarding wei wuxian and his father figure jiang fengmian that took me by surprise #like i know jiang fengmian basically unofficially adopted him but i didnt know jiang fengmian had a unreciprocated feeling for his mom!!!#now wei wuxian's backstory SORT of coincides with what i planned for feanor's backstory in this self-indulgent star wars au lmao #cause there was a rumour that wuxian is actually mr jiang's (illegitimate) son (god the drama of it all)#and in this star wars au of mine feanor isnt actually finwe's child but he found and raised feanor anyways #and it was partially due to discovering feanor was miriel's child and he and miriel fell in love but didnt get together #and i remember i reblogged a fanart of wuxian (before knowing the fuck is a mdzs) saying the guy gave off feanor vibe lmao #guy is decidedly Not Feanor. but jiang fengmian mdzs gave off big finwe energy tho. i said what i said #what can i say. family drama involving half-brothers/sisters just never fail to fuel entertaining drama in fiction

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