Untamed

[issenllo]

Takeaways from watching The Untamed:

1. The most entertaining part is the Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji's Day Out with the Ducklings. (If it isn't too mean to count WWX running away from dogs.)

2. Japanese music is majorly evil. Ah, China. Never change.

3. You can apparently invent a whole new discipline in demonic arts within 3 months of being trapped in a ditch with no food, no water, and no means of research. Props to WWX.

4. All of the big bad ('cept for the Wen family, they're just power-hungry) have class issues. Ah, China. Never change.

5. The source of wealth of major sects (like wuxia sects) is a total mystery. (Well, I always speculate that they're wealthy landowners, since they don't seem to be good at trading and there's no industry. When this universe enters its equivalent of steampunk/silkpunk industrialisation, watch out.)

6. Guqin totally sounds like guzheng. Not.

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[larryhammer]

Guqin totally sounds like guzheng. Not.

Heh.

[issenllo]

On the upside, there are guzheng scores for the music on the intarwebs. ^_^

[schneefink]

I thought the major sects are paid taxes by the minor sects under their protection, but that might just be something I made up.

And yes, so many class issues - when what's-his-name, Jin Guangyao's minion, explained his reasons for joining them I sympathized.

[issenllo]

Except he's such a louse.

I know! I'm so totally a product of our capitalist society because I can't stop wondering about this, haha. Who's making all that pretty cloth for those sweeping robes? Who's building those giant temples, because that takes major cash?

RL feudal China had to deal with this so much (cue all the scholarly admonishments to know your place) that I can't believe there hasn't been a peasant uprising or three. They can't be that grateful to exorcists. Or if we're feudal enough, there should have been a land-grab by aristocrats. -_-;;