How did you first get into Guardian fandom? The evil rheasilvia posted a really compelling Guardian primer at a time when I was apparently vulnerable. Within the first 15 minutes of episode one, I was toast.
What is one thing you love about the show? It's very earnest and it tries hard to do a good job. I find the visibility of this comforting. I also love how openly the entire show as well as Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong embrace the intense commitment between Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei. (I know you asked for one thing, but... ) Plus I'm a sucker for both the fun romance tropes the show trades in (e.g., cooking dinner for each other) with the meatier, angstier themes of a love so enduring it transcends time.
What is your favourite terrible special effect? There are many to choose from, and they're all wonderful, but I continue to be impressed by the pretty sequence where the sky darkens when the BCE makes his first appearance, and all the smokey fanfare when he arrives during the early episodes. Zhu Yilong looks so badass in that cloak against those stormy clouds and/or emerging from smoke!
What is (one of) your favourite relationship(s) on the show (either romantic or friendship) and what do you like about that relationship? Look, I'm here for Weilan. I love them to pieces with a fiery passion. But since that is obvious, I really adore the cozy found family of the SID, and I'm really *interested* in Zhao Yunlan's relationship with his father and the effect that has had on him (and how he's managed to become a very different person from his father despite that influence).
Do you have a favourite character? I feel very warm and fuzzy about most of the main characters, and I couldn't choose between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan if I tried. They're both wonderful characters in their own ways and perfect for each other. The characterizations are one of the best things about this canon.
Do you have a favourite villain? I like complex, shades-of-grey villains, and I thought the show made some noble attempts at that. I would have loved them to more fully explore the greyness of Ye Zun especially. I think they carried off the moral greyness of the Regent most successfully. I find it difficult to put a finger on what's going on with him. I can't entirely condemn or excuse him, and I like that.
Talk to us about one (or more!) of your favourite Guardian-related canons: I'm not very good at watching TV, so I've never seen another of their shows outside of an episode here and there. I do, however, immensely enjoy the gifs. :D
Do you like RPF? YEp
Do you have a favourite ad campaign (such as Bai Yu's rentboy photoshoot or Zhu Yilong's ReFa ads)? For sure it's Bai Yu's rentboy photoshoot. It took me a really long time to assimilate those images. I'm probably ok now, but it was a near thing.
What other fandoms are you in or have you been in? At the moment I'm also fairly taken with Nirvana in Fire and Sha Po Lang, although nothing is as intense as Guardian for me. I'll probably always think about Merlin as being my forever fandom home, and I was also active to some degree in XMFC and Teen Wolf. I was very fannish (but not active) in a few others, including Inception and Eagle.
What are some of your general fanwork likes: In fic, I like to be swept away by the writer, so I forget myself or that I'm even reading something. How the writer achieves this is a very mysterious thing to me. The specifics of plots, tropes, etc. don't matter as much because I've found this can be achieved with almost anything, although I'm here for romance so I do like the romance to be central.
Where can we best find you to squee more about this thing or other things? Dreamwidth!
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2020-03-01 04:26 pm (UTC)Pronouns: she/her
Language(s): English, studying Chinese
How did you first get into Guardian fandom? The evil rheasilvia posted a really compelling Guardian primer at a time when I was apparently vulnerable. Within the first 15 minutes of episode one, I was toast.
What is one thing you love about the show? It's very earnest and it tries hard to do a good job. I find the visibility of this comforting. I also love how openly the entire show as well as Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong embrace the intense commitment between Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei. (I know you asked for one thing, but... ) Plus I'm a sucker for both the fun romance tropes the show trades in (e.g., cooking dinner for each other) with the meatier, angstier themes of a love so enduring it transcends time.
What is your favourite terrible special effect? There are many to choose from, and they're all wonderful, but I continue to be impressed by the pretty sequence where the sky darkens when the BCE makes his first appearance, and all the smokey fanfare when he arrives during the early episodes. Zhu Yilong looks so badass in that cloak against those stormy clouds and/or emerging from smoke!
What is (one of) your favourite relationship(s) on the show (either romantic or friendship) and what do you like about that relationship? Look, I'm here for Weilan. I love them to pieces with a fiery passion. But since that is obvious, I really adore the cozy found family of the SID, and I'm really *interested* in Zhao Yunlan's relationship with his father and the effect that has had on him (and how he's managed to become a very different person from his father despite that influence).
Do you have a favourite character? I feel very warm and fuzzy about most of the main characters, and I couldn't choose between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan if I tried. They're both wonderful characters in their own ways and perfect for each other. The characterizations are one of the best things about this canon.
Do you have a favourite villain? I like complex, shades-of-grey villains, and I thought the show made some noble attempts at that. I would have loved them to more fully explore the greyness of Ye Zun especially. I think they carried off the moral greyness of the Regent most successfully. I find it difficult to put a finger on what's going on with him. I can't entirely condemn or excuse him, and I like that.
Talk to us about one (or more!) of your favourite Guardian-related canons: I'm not very good at watching TV, so I've never seen another of their shows outside of an episode here and there. I do, however, immensely enjoy the gifs. :D
Do you like RPF? YEp
Do you have a favourite ad campaign (such as Bai Yu's rentboy photoshoot or Zhu Yilong's ReFa ads)? For sure it's Bai Yu's rentboy photoshoot. It took me a really long time to assimilate those images. I'm probably ok now, but it was a near thing.
What other fandoms are you in or have you been in? At the moment I'm also fairly taken with Nirvana in Fire and Sha Po Lang, although nothing is as intense as Guardian for me. I'll probably always think about Merlin as being my forever fandom home, and I was also active to some degree in XMFC and Teen Wolf. I was very fannish (but not active) in a few others, including Inception and Eagle.
What are some of your general fanwork likes: In fic, I like to be swept away by the writer, so I forget myself or that I'm even reading something. How the writer achieves this is a very mysterious thing to me. The specifics of plots, tropes, etc. don't matter as much because I've found this can be achieved with almost anything, although I'm here for romance so I do like the romance to be central.
Where can we best find you to squee more about this thing or other things? Dreamwidth!
Anything else you want to say? Yay!