#that bingge and shen qingqiu are the only two characters who have seen the entirety of the other's story (discounting airplane)
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read Living With a Tiger by x_los !
#ty jacks pyrzqxyl for betaing my comicmaking#sorry to drop you guys in the middle of the scene but i just really love the dialogue here#i beg you to go read this fic#watched a lot of melts' bingqiu wedding extra storyboard and jo and laurie's proposal scene from the 2019 little women while working on thi#also--it occurred to me while rereading living with a tiger#that bingge and shen qingqiu are the only two characters who have seen the entirety of the other's story (discounting airplane)#shen qingqiu read all of PIDW and bingge watched all of sqq's memories#so even though their actual interactions are limited to that day#sqq has been insane about binghe/bingge this whole time#and bingge has a lifetime to be insane about sqq#it really makes you think#it makes you want to turn into a void of nothingness#cheers to xlos' writing the gift that keeps giving#living with a tiger#svsss#scum villain#bingqiu#binggeqiu#shen qingqiu#sqq#luo binghe#lbh#luo bingge#long post
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Scumbag System (SVSSS donghua) Episode 10 Thoughts (spoilers)
(covers SVSSS chaps 24 - 26, BC Novels Translations)
And thus the first season of the SVSSS donghua comes to an end...rather weirdly abruptly to be honest, but more on that later. Obviously I love the donghua. It was not perfect, but it still exceeded my expectations. I truly appreciate what they were able to do within their budget constraints and I think they captured the spirit of the source material perfectly, which is really all I hope for when it comes to adaptations.Ā The writing was strong, the humor hit the spot always (for example, when poor Shizun got motion sickness from sword riding, I guffawed), and they also gave us some of the most beautiful characters Iāve ever seen on screen, especially with Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe and Liu Qingge. I really, really hope they release official figurines for them. Iām going to start saving my money now just for that possibility.
Even though their time together in this episode was short, the BingQiu love was definitely strong. They gave them a combo move that was not in the source material: for someone like me who grew up watching Cantonese dramas, two characters who have a combo sword move (āéååē§ā!) are usually a couple so I was especially tickled by this addition. I am always thankful to the donghua team for the little Easter Eggs they give us for BingQiu, like the way Binghe's eyes lit up when he sees SQQ...Ā
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or when SQQ touches him...
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Once again, for those not in the know, it can easily be interpreted as a disciple just being devoted and filial to his Shizun. But for those of us who have read the novel, of course we know itās indication of Bingmei falling in love with SQQ. I love how subtle yet significant these little expressions of Bingheās are, and I hope they continue on with these little touches even in the next season.Ā
Of course then there are the more obvious gestures, like that HUG:
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It lasted for a good 15 seconds and oh my God look at the Bingheās hand placement!Ā There was totally nipple groppage happening there! This wasnāt in the book by the way...SQQ didnāt get woozy and Binghe most definitely didnāt have to catch him like some fainting damsel, so we have the donghua team to thank for this wonderful moment of (sexy) physical contact between the two of them.Ā
The donghua team was also especially generous in this episode since not only did we get some BingQiu love, but we got a pinch of LiuShen and QiJiu love too.
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LQGās eyes were on SQQ the entire time! And then Yue Qingyuan as usual took any opportunity he got to touch his Qingqiu.Ā So all shippers were fed. Hell, they even threw in some more straight-baiting again so peeps who are watching the show for theĀ āstraightā romance between Luo Binghe and his never-to-be-future-wife Qin Wanyue were fed too since the scene where Binghe gives her the handkerchief to wipe away her tearsĀ were not in the chapters of the book for this episode, and racking my brain I donāt even think it was in the book, period. Iām trying to remember if that handkerchief even holds any significance but even if it does, itās all for naught since we know Qin Wanyue is at most just a minor side character. She does pop up again later on but then is mostly forgotten, so...not quite sure what that moment was all about other than to, I donāt know, throw off the censors?
Iām also not sure why we spent so much time with Liu Mingyan and Gongyi Xiao in this episode. Nothing against them personally, I like both characters very much (despite my previous complaints about GYXās character design), and itās not that they donāt deserve more screen time, but this was the season finale! Even though the next season has been announced, God knows when weāll see it next year and how many episodes it would be, so every minute of screen time matters! Thatās why I was a bit puzzled that they used up half of the episode showing LMY basically facing the same perils with her group of fellow disciples as before and GYX just running from that huge serpent. Even if that thing DOES turn out to be Zhuzhi-lang, it was still a bit much. They werenāt exactly character building scenes either so...why? Budget reasons? Didnāt have enough money to pay SQQās voice actor (Wu Lei-laoshi) so they had to stick in miscellaneous scenes to lessen his screen time?Ā
Iām kidding of course. God I hope that wasnāt the reason because that would just be sad.
Speaking of miscellaneous scenes though, what was going on with these two dudes?
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I gotta admit, Iām a bit salty that these two mob characters got to do what our main couple canāt. Whatās their story? Why do they get special privileges? Damn these nobodies. XD
All kidding aside, I have to say, of all the episodes this season, this might be the weakest one, not only because of the āfillerā scenes, but also, the way the episode ended was so odd, especially for a season finale. The season basically ended on a scene transition. Not a cliffhanger, just a scene transition, and then cut to credits. What?? Why??? Itās almost as if they just ran out of time so had to stop the show all of a sudden. And then as if to make up for it, they added post-credit scenes which, honestly blew me away because it was so unexpected. It was indeed almost enough to make me completely forgive the weakness of the episode as a whole and that weird-ass ending.
I teared up!Ā The scene was kind of chopped up, didnāt even flow that smoothly, but I still got emotional! Iām sure when I see this scene in its entirety next season I am just going to be destroyed. I think they made it even more gut-wrenching than it was in the novel. Looks like the donghua team really arenāt gonna hold back when it comes to delivering the BingQiu knives.Ā
We also got to see Mobei-jun appear in the post-credits scene; I guess they had to stick him in there since he was featured in the poster for this season, so it would have been weird if he didnāt at least make an appearance.
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I immediately thought of him as Sephirothās younger cousin when I first saw him on the poster and I still feel that way. Anyone related to Sephiroth, I will approve and instantly have affection for. For the MoShang shippersā sake, I hope the Shang Qinghua they create for him will be just as pretty. I think I can now safely discard my guess from last time and also that moon-faced bearded ojisan others have guessed. We actually got a glimpse of the real deal in this sequence:
They strategically made him blurry so you canāt really make out his features, but what we still can tell from there is that he does not have facial hair (hence, he cannot be the ojisan) and the hair crown heās wearing is silver and different from the twinky sect leader. So I guess weāll be getting a fresh out of the microwave Airplane Bro instead of any of the no-name potential cannon fodder weāve already seen.Ā
Weāll probably get the abyss opening up in maybe even the first episode of next season but thatāll still leave a lot of ground to be covered in just 10 episodes (rumored). There havenāt been any talk about a third season, but I really hope itāll happen, even though it might take them a while to make it. I know itās premature to even think of a third season when we havenāt even gotten an actual release date for the second, but Iām greedy because I already miss the donghua. This season was over so quickly, Iām already mourning the lack of new episodes. I hope we get the second season in the first quarter of next year and then by some miracle, a third or even fourth to properly finish out the story. I know we will never get the FULL story, but as long as they keep the spirit of BingQiuās love and continue to hint at it like theyāve been doing this season, I will be more than satisfied.Ā
And while Iām wishful thinking for new seasons, I hope we also get a BingQiu duet and character songs. I love the opening and ending theme this season, if they want to save money I totally donāt mind if they just use the same OP/ED themes in the next season as well, but I hope they throw in a good BingQiu insert song and then release some individual character songs as well. Iām still not a fan of Bingheās voice, but maybe they can have someone else do his vocals for the songs. SVSSS is the older son of MXTXās works, I feel like it already got short-shrifted in terms of adaptation since it got the lesser budget compared to MDZS and TGCF. Hopefully with how popular the donghua is this season, it will be given a bigger budget next season so they can bring to life all the subsequent proceedings from the book properly. And whatever theyāre paying Wu Lei-laoshi, SQQās voice actor, they should double it because that man is just amazing. I worship his voice and performance. I wish he would read the audiobook version of the the novel. I would listen to the hell out of that.Ā I have always loved SQQ, but if Iām going to be honest, IĀ came into the show just a little more excited about seeing Bingge being brought to life. I still love Binghe of course, in all his phases, however, now,Ā because of Wu Lei-laoshiās stellar voice performance (and of course SQQās beautiful looks), Iām leaving this season absolutely head over heels about SQQ/Shen Yuan. Also thanks to the show, Iām completely obsessed with Liu Qingge as well.Ā So for those two reasons, I will eternally be grateful to the donghua team.Ā Ā
#SVSSS#Scumbag System#Scum Villain donghua#Scum Villain Self-saving System#BingQiu#LiuShen#QiJiu#MoShang
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