Notes on my rewatch of The Untamed, episode 14

     *sigh*  At this point, I've missed enough days that I either can't miss any more days if I want to finish by August 20, or I'll have to have some days where I do two episodes.  After I'm far enough past my AU point, I hopefully won't need to take many more notes, though, which would at least make everything go faster, I guess?

    Anyway, everything past the read more tag is just rambling and incoherent, me jotting down notes about various things in the episode as I watch it, much of it geared towards eventually editing my stupidly long fanfic.  There will be spoilers in among the nonsense.  (Spoilers for MDZS, that is.  There may also be spoilers for my fanfic, but who really cares?)

Notes on my rewatch of The Untamed, episode 13

     More rambling, incoherent, spoiler-laced notes follow the read more tag.  Not really intended for others' eyes, but not actually unsuitable for them, I suppose?

Notes on my rewatch of The Untamed, episode 12

     Hmm.   I wonder if these episodes have actual titles that Netflix didn't bother to translate?  Something appears on the screen at the start of each, but they don't tell us what it says.  For all I know, it really does just say "Episode" and the number of the episode.  Or maybe it's an actual title.  Huh.  Maybe next time I should use the Google Translate app on my phone to find out.  Yeah, maybe I'll do that.

    Anyway, rambling and incoherent notes follow the read more tag.  They'll contain some spoilers in and among the random thoughts to myself, so read with caution if you read at all.  (You probably won't, ofc.  Most of these posts have precisely one view, which is definitely some kind of bot that scans every single post once.)

Notes on my rewatch of The Untamed, episode 11

     Took a day off because yesterday I was just not feeling it.  (Also, it's only been a few days since I finally got my PS5 home, so I wanted to spend more time gaming. 😅)  And partially that was because a lot of unfun things happen in this episode (not as bad as some later ones, though!) and yet I also knew I was going to need to take a lot of notes, because this is stuff that has a heavy impact on my fic.

    Anyway, as usual with these posts, everything past the read more tag is incoherent rambling reactions filled with spoilers, which I've put in a blog post mostly because that's going to make it easier for me to find it again.  If you actually want to proceed in reading further, then do so with caution.

Notes on my rewatch of The Untamed, episode 10

     Running out of things to say before the read more tag.  😅  Spoilers below, in amongst random and incoherent rambling.  Also a lot of detailed little nitpicks of things that aren't really...things that don't detract from just the watching experience but are frustrating me a lot as someone who's become more familiar with Mo Dao Zu Shi novel canon and is now trying to fix up a stupidly long fanfic that uses The Untamed's canon.

Notes on my rewatch of The Untamed, episode 9

     As always, what's beyond the read more tag is my rambling and incoherent thoughts as I'm taking notes on watching the show in order to be able to edit a massive fan fiction based on the drama's version of canon.  Don't click through to the rest if you haven't seen the show and/or read the novel, because it won't make sense and might contain spoilers.  (Technically it likely won't make sense even if you do know MDZS, just because I'm simply jotting things down as I go, and merely using my blog so that it's all in one place where I can find it more easily than like a Google doc or something.)

Notes on my rewatch of the Untamed, episode 8

     Hopefully today's episode won't take as long as the last two days' episodes have, now that the scenes describing what the Yin Iron is (as well as its history) are over, and instead most of the Yin Iron content will just be the voyage of the leads hunting for the pieces of it.  Considering how much I dislike the basic concept of the Yin Iron plot all around, it frustrates me that I had to incorporate it this heavily into my fic.  (Though at least by removing Wei Wuxian's demonic cultivation altogether, I got rid of the largest problem with the addition of the Yin Iron subplot, in that Wei Wuxian's new techniques are no longer copying things the villains have done.)  There's a new wrinkle in my rewriting process, though, in that what the art book had to say about the Yin Iron is actually very different from what the subtitles have had to say about it, which I...I'm not sure if the art book is basing its text on design documents that got changed later on, or if the subtitles on Netflix are that bad in their attempts to avoid "confusing" the Western audience.  Unfortunately, I feel like it could go either way.  *sigh*

    But that's a worry for later on!  Right now, it's time to move on to the next episode, and continue my incomprehensible, random note-taking!