Nirvana in Fire ep 42-44 (and first 10 min of 45)

[cahn]

WHAT EVEN JUST HAPPENED

like I was still watching avidly but I was thinking, hmm, 41-beginning-of-42 is getting a little bogged down in tying up conspiracy and I hope it's not like this for the rest of the series

WELL

that will sure teach me to think things like that

Prince Yu rebelled????
(I legit did not think he was actually going to go through with it!) Also, the actor who plays Prince Yu is totally amazing -- Prince Yu is a pretty complicated character and I really like how the guy sells all of it

(also, surely Jingyan is getting a clue by now as to who MCS is?? now that MCS has just randomly drawn his sword??)

I can't believe this show had me CHEERING FOR THE EMPEROR after I've been side-eyeing him for practically the entire thing (now that the danger's past I am no longer cheering for him, haha)

I can believe I was CHEERING FOR MARQUIS YAN because I do every time he has a speaking role

I started actually sobbing when Nihuang showed up SHE IS SO GREAT and I was wondering why she hadn't showed up for a while

I'm now in the beginning of 45 and Jingyan has just said "please don't kill everyone, it would make the royal family look bad!!" and I'm all, awwww, you've learned something from MCS while still being your awesomesauce self!

Comments

[schneefink]

I really thought, when I was watching for the first time and basically unspoiled, that the story was going to involve MCS painstakingly waking up his sense of right and wrong and shaping him into a decent person. You can almost see how it would be possible, it makes me very sympathetic to how Marquis Yan and Lin Xie decided to put the Emperor on the throne, if Prince Yu is what he was like as a prince.

That would be a great AU, and probably what would have happened if Jingyan had died at some point in the last few years.