#yes they ARE heihua biased

[ilgaksu]

PART 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

some more slides from my dmbj presentation, feat. did you know ao3 user ilgaksu ships heihua?

[heymeowmao]

xiao hua: (to wu xie) you have no sense of humor. hei xiazi is more fun. wu xie: /offended/

xiao hua: (to wu xie, while maneuvering a trap corridor) if these drop and i become mince meat, xiazi can take me back and make dumplings.

/watching xiao ge sword-routine his way, shirtless, through a flaming maze/ pangzi: why do i get the feeling zhang family mechanisms were designed so they can show off lao gao (cox’s man): valid

lao gao: (to pangzi) your fingers are too short :(

xiao hua: there’s something there xiazi: (reappearing after having been mia for a bit) i’m such a nice person, how could you call me a “thing”?

[unexpected-nightview]

I see that you post a lot from the lost tomb 2. I'm currently watching ultimate note and I watched the first half of the reboot version (as soon as they went in the warehouse I kind of lost all my interest). Is the lost tomb 2 worth watching? 💗

👀!!!  Welcome to the Daomu Biji Cinematic Universe Hell!! One of us one of us one of us! 🔥 ksksks Short answer : yes! Long answer : I’m obviously biased (for multiple reasons really), but I’ve found myself having a great time with all the adaptations. True, some have better quality than others, but if your goal is to have a better picture of what is going on in general, I would say go for it and give it a try! Just...don’t take it *too* seriously. And if you see something that contradicts UN or Reboot....don’t think too much about it. Go with the flow ksksks I’ll leave a few ramblings in case you are interested (no spoilers I promise)

TLT2 is a bit of a wild ride. Has a higher budget than TLT1 for sure, but the pacing is a bit all over the place? (tomb-research-tomb-research like in UN but the “research” parts are a bit slower?). TLT2 manages to be creepier than UN (which is sad bc in the books, the story that UN covers had the scariest/most unsettling moments).

NOW. About the story. I’m not going to give you spoilers but just tell you that the last 2 arcs of the series are....bonkers. Mayhem. They might feel like you are having a collective hallucination. If you decide to watch TLT2 and find yourself losing interest, I beg you to continue just for the 2 last arcs. I still have virtually no idea of what was going on but I had a great time bc of how utterly stupid and confusing everything was. (And then I began to read the books and got annoyed but still!).

The Iron Triangle dynamics are really enjoyable here too! Altho I would argue that TLT2 Pangzi suffers more from the thirdwheel syndrom when they are the 3 of them together? So I found myself enjoying more when it was 1-1 interactions rather than the 3 of them (not sure if that make sense?). But! Still enjoyable and TLT2 Pangzi is a great Pangzi! If you started with Reboot and UN, you probably will find that TLT2 Wu Xie is more...”traditional Main Lead”/more censorship palatable than the other two? He is more morally “good”, more knowledgeable, more “perfect”. Sometimes Wu Xie is allowed to be bratty and witty, and those moments are fun! But, yeah. It’s possible to feel that he is a different character than his UN counterpart? (It still works great in the general context of TLT2). Now. Xiao Ge. This might be his most “normal” version so far? Even when he keeps pulling the disappearing acts, he is still more approachable, talks way more I think? Great work from Cheng Yi (it’s a joy to watch) And Yes. Pingxie, pingxie~ (nice combos with Pangzi too!). And YES. Dramatic Zhang Ass still applies in TLT2. For secondary characters :  - Xiao Hua : my favourite version so far. If you think UN Xiao Hua is already shady wait until you see TLT2 version. - Sunglasses : barely there. I think he has a bit of winkwinknudgenudge with Xiao Hua but if you are expecting UN HeiHua, you might get a bit disappointed. - Xiuxiu : is....there...I suppose? UN is frustrating bc they built her character and then underuse her. But in TLT2 she has no character or whatsoever? Her whole story is how she is supposed to take over Granny Huo and I still have a bit of a hard time to believe she was even considered able to take over to begin with? (but then again, this is DMBJ so we can’t expect to have full fleshed female characters...).

- Uncle Three : IDK why but it’s my favourite version. You see him and believe that whatever bs he is being accused of, might be real. Shady Uncle Three is shady~

- A-Ning : best one yet (tied with Time Riders A-Ning). UN was great too but I wasn’t too sold on the idea that she was supposed to be this well-seasoned mercenary-ish? And she is more complicated character wise (inner turmoil, you can feel the effect Wu Xie has on her on the long run etc). But then again...she does have more screentime. So that might be it?

-Cox : same actor, same VA (me thinks?), different hairstyle. In TLT2 he is more of an asshole and actual danger than in UN.