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History 3 - Trapped; random
May. 21st, 2019 12:48 amMore squee/thoughts on Trapped:
1) That curl of hair on the side of Meng Shao Fei's head. It's almost exactly like the one on Guoguo (Ella Chen) in Down With Love where she acted opposite Jerry Yen's character, and... maybe it's a thing in Taiwan to have a ridiculous curl, but I find it adorable.
2) My wild theories on Jack and Zhao Zi's backstories proliferate like whoa. Can I go Infernal Affairs on them?
3) Also on the ending(s). I guess it's a happy ending all round for all three pairings, but how do they get there...?
4) Is Tang Yi in fact Tang Guo Dong's secret son? Tang Yi was remarkably unfazed at Chen Wen Hao's reference to TGD's marriage and children comment, but it's never addressed thereafter. Either TY already knew of his mentor's secret family and pointedly did not comment on it, or knew it was rubbish right off, ditto. I mean, either it's a reference to TY himself or not at all?
5) Really, really wondering about Meng Shao Fei's backstory. Apparently top of his class at the police academy. Don't see him giving that up for love, unless he absolutely had to. And then it'd break something in him.
6) Also the Trap episode trailer/teasers. Damn it! It was delicious to see how the actual episode was so very different from what was implied in the teaser. Well played, Trapped team, well played.
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Went to the temple for Vesak Day (they had free food) and a fun(!) exercise to copy scripture (only the Heart Scripture, as it's pretty short) and really actually read it for myself(1). It's a little like Ozymandias, except with more reiterations on emptiness.
Also today/yesterday, discovered a Youtube video that proceeded to compare Dream of Red Chamber with Louis Cha's Gods and Semi-devils (aka 天龙八部), and also another that explicates the religious and philosophical meanings in it that totally went over my head (because I'm an unlettered oaf who just understood the surface narrative) AND another with references to Journey to the West, which pretty much made my day.
(1) The way my parents propagate Buddhism in my home (and most of my friends' homes) is: "hold these joss sticks, put three in the urn"; "bow to Buddha/Guan Yin"; "say your prayer. How? Just say it!" Unless you were actively curious about religion, you didn't really learn much, you just copied whatever the adults did... without knowing how or why.
1) That curl of hair on the side of Meng Shao Fei's head. It's almost exactly like the one on Guoguo (Ella Chen) in Down With Love where she acted opposite Jerry Yen's character, and... maybe it's a thing in Taiwan to have a ridiculous curl, but I find it adorable.
2) My wild theories on Jack and Zhao Zi's backstories proliferate like whoa. Can I go Infernal Affairs on them?
3) Also on the ending(s). I guess it's a happy ending all round for all three pairings, but how do they get there...?
4) Is Tang Yi in fact Tang Guo Dong's secret son? Tang Yi was remarkably unfazed at Chen Wen Hao's reference to TGD's marriage and children comment, but it's never addressed thereafter. Either TY already knew of his mentor's secret family and pointedly did not comment on it, or knew it was rubbish right off, ditto. I mean, either it's a reference to TY himself or not at all?
5) Really, really wondering about Meng Shao Fei's backstory. Apparently top of his class at the police academy. Don't see him giving that up for love, unless he absolutely had to. And then it'd break something in him.
6) Also the Trap episode trailer/teasers. Damn it! It was delicious to see how the actual episode was so very different from what was implied in the teaser. Well played, Trapped team, well played.
***
Went to the temple for Vesak Day (they had free food) and a fun(!) exercise to copy scripture (only the Heart Scripture, as it's pretty short) and really actually read it for myself(1). It's a little like Ozymandias, except with more reiterations on emptiness.
Also today/yesterday, discovered a Youtube video that proceeded to compare Dream of Red Chamber with Louis Cha's Gods and Semi-devils (aka 天龙八部), and also another that explicates the religious and philosophical meanings in it that totally went over my head (because I'm an unlettered oaf who just understood the surface narrative) AND another with references to Journey to the West, which pretty much made my day.
(1) The way my parents propagate Buddhism in my home (and most of my friends' homes) is: "hold these joss sticks, put three in the urn"; "bow to Buddha/Guan Yin"; "say your prayer. How? Just say it!" Unless you were actively curious about religion, you didn't really learn much, you just copied whatever the adults did... without knowing how or why.