Never apologize for Untamed spam, we love it! :D I am really glad you enjoyed the show. Who is your favourite character? What moment did you enjoy the most?
Thank you! I doubt I could stop myself from posting about this wonderful show even if I tried, but now I don’t feel as bad about it. I have quite a few reblogs queued up for the coming weeks. :D
Also, thank you for being an enabler and asking me to talk about this more.
Favourite moments? You mean like when Wen Chao makes Wei Wuxian recite the Wen sect rules, but Wei Wuxian quotes the Lan sect rules instead, expressing his not so subtle support for Lan Wangji whose home has just been destroyed while at the same time giving the middle finger to the Wens (this is, incidentally, the moment I fell in love with him, I think)?
Or when Wangji tells him not to flirt with people unless he means it (a line which goes completely over Wei Wuxian’s head, of course)?
Or the very first sword fight they have on the rooftops?
Or when Wei Wuxian makes his oath to live without regrets as they let the lanterns go and you can see from Lan Wangji’s expression that he’s hopelessly in love?
Or Mianman ripping off her uniform and leaving Jin sect?
Or any time Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui interact?
Or the supremely silly sequence of the paper talisman sneaking into Jin Guangyao’s treasure chamber as a heist movie soundtrack starts playing (this show is very camp and it KNOWS it and that’s what makes the camp bits so good instead of embarassing)?
Or any time Xichen is supportive of his brother and Wei Wuxian and he smirks like that?
Or any reference to the single-plank bridge?
Or the bit when Wei Wuxian pretended to bury A-Yuan in the raddish field?
Or that bit very early in the show when Xichen plays his (first) flute solo and takes the kids’ swords away when Wen Chao makes trouble and he’s implicitly like “(◕ᴗ◕✿) I could spank y’all’s asses, but I won’t (◡‿◡✿)”.
Or when Lan Wangji walks up the steps of that Wen outpost, overhearing the soldiers gossiping about what the Wens did to Wei Wuxian and the (very, very short) fight that follows?
Or when A-Yuan met Lan Wangji for the first time and random strangers started giving Wangji tips how to raise this child right?
Or every time Wei Wuxian pulls out his flute and you know the creepy-good stuff is about to start?
Or every time the Jiang siblings are cute in the 30-episode flashback?
Or any time Lan Wangji is a badass protecting Wei Wuxian?
Or any time the chaos squad of youngsters do anything at all post time skip (good to know that every generation in this universe produces such a chaos troop)?
Or any time Wei Wuxian interacts with a member of said chaos squad of youngsters or – even better – all of them (also WHEN will somebody give Jin Ling a hug???)?
As you may be able to glean from this I love Wei Wuxian a lot (and the kids and their meddlesome dog … where’s my scooby-doo!AU?) – which is a new experience for me, because I’m the kind of person who obsesses over secondary characters and often has trouble caring all that much about the main character. But Wei Wuxian is just so likable? With any other character some of his more outgoing, quirky traits would be obnoxious to me, but he’s just genuinely a nice, compassionate person – unless he’s confronted with a genuine asshat, in which case, god rest that asshat’s soul. He also has a spirit summoning flute which is hella stylish, 10/10, will continue to stan. Not to mention, all of his more tender scenes with Wangji just make me so soft. When I first read that they couldn’t show the romance because of censorship laws I was disappointed. But now that I’ve finished watching the show I don’t think I could have been more satisfied with how their relationship was developed. I love the slow build up. I love how the show relies on glances and metaphors and very brief touches to convey that which remains unsaid. It’s incredibly satisfying to watch.
I also adore Lan Wangji for being a stone-cold, deadly badass who has a lot of emotions when nobody’s looking. His character development – starting to question the rules and beliefs he was raised on and taking an interest in the world at large and how to improve it – is beautiful. He also has the best sword fighting scenes on the show, which endears him to me greatly since the pretty sword fights are a large part of what originally attracted me to the show.
That said, my heart belongs to Lan Xichen, even though he makes me sad with how ineffective he is. He’s just so … *waves arms helplessly and sighs heavily*