Last episode!
Rambling and incoherent spoilers follow the read more tag.
I really do need to reread the book. I don't think Jin Guangyao lived long enough to start accusing Nie Huaisang of anything in the book, did he? (Though this way may be better for poor Lan Xichen's conscience...)
And then of course they had to engineer a temple collapse because they couldn't just use the enraged fierce corpse to drag the villain to his death like in the novel because they removed all the undead. *sigh* Somehow, villains being taken out by buildings falling on them is very rarely satisfying.
That...that was a particularly heartless thing to say.
I feel deeply ashamed.
Aw, it's sweet how worried Ouyang Zizhen is about Wei Wuxian's injury when everyone else arrives at the temple in the aftermath. He's not a really big character in show or novel, but they've done their best to make him stand out despite how much of his role was more in the narration than the actual action. (If that makes sense?)
People who don't wear glasses have a real advantage in watching this show.
Interesting. In one of the myriad epilogue scenes (which apparently were shown in a different order in the special edition so as not to end on the fake-out going their separate ways bit), we're told what Lan Wangji's wish was back in the lantern scene. And it was "to curb the violent and assist the weak." Which is definitely on-brand for him. 🤣 But also fits neatly with Wei Wuxian's wish, being basically the same sentiment in different words.
It's both odd and also somehow very fitting for the drama to change it so that Lan Wangji becomes the new xiandu instead of the book's implication that Nie Huaisang will obtain the role. If there has to be one person who all the clan leaders answer to, it only makes sense that he shouldn't be a clan leader himself, because if he has a clan of his own to lead, then he could take all the advantages and honors for his clan, and bully the other clans with his men. Plus he's a good choice for the role because he's so relentlessly morally upright. On the other hand, it's kind of odd because Lan Wangji is not the sort to seek out power over others, or even to associate with others when he doesn't have to, which makes it very odd. (Though at least it's commented on as surprising, anyway, which is something.) The scene with Nie Huaisang in the epilogues is a bit more accusatory than I remembered it being, but still less so than his last interaction with our two leads in the novel.
The fake-out separation makes very little sense. Like, they go up onto a mountaintop to go their separate ways? Wouldn't they do that, you know, on a road somewhere? It's very weird. But of course that was done for the censors so it wouldn't end on "happily gay ever after." Though it still does, just with half of it off-screen. 😅
Anyway. Final tallies (though I kind of dropped off adding to them after a while, so many of them should probably be much higher) are:
Things Added to Highlight the Romance: 11
Crazy Wei Wuxian Powers: 10
Cultivator Powers: 17
Mistranslations of "shufu": "Grand Master" "Clan Leader"
Cast Members with Obviously Pierced Ears: Meng Yao, Lan Wangji, Nie Mingjue, Jin Ling, Lan Xichen, Lan Sizhui
Anyway, I still need to rewatch the spin-off movie Fatal Journey (or at least watch the talking parts of it; I may skip the spelunking and the combat), but then I will have no further excuses to delay the rewrite of my 500k garbage fanfic. 😭 I think when I post it I'll turn the comments off so no one can tell me just how bad it is. Because I already know how bad it is, but I spent 11 months writing it, so if I don't post it, then that was nearly a year of my life simply thrown away.
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