#unknown ep

[mintbees]

One thing that keeps confusing me is that they claim ghost files costs several hundreds of thousands of dollars per season. I’ve tried to wrap my head around this ever since the announcement because flying a crew of 6 or so people out for two days and renting out the location COULD NOT be costing that much unless they’re either lying or blowing money on first class flights and expensive food/accommodations and even THEN do I not see them breaking 100k on a single episode. Dear lord hire an accountant I’m half convinced someone’s laundering money

[hoziercriespower]

Hozier making Unknown / Nth

❝ Where you were held frozen like an angel to me. ❞

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Comfort

[ueasking]

You haven't even tried. What are you scared of?

Unknown Episode 10 [for @lurkingshan]

[justgivemeabookplease]

I’m thinking about how Wasteland, Baby was a call to action and a tongue-and-cheek acceptance of the end of the world. And how Eat Your Young and Unreal Unearth are about the nine circles of Hell, about the afterlife, about the consequences after death. I’m thinking about one album cover being under water and another being buried under earth, about NFWMB “ain’t it like thunder under earth the sound it makes”, about Unreal Unearth and unearthing something, un-burial, about Like Real People Do “what did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth.”

I’m thinking Eat Your Young, about Kronos’ mythology, about hunger for and to keep power, about gluttony. I’m thinking about Swan Upon Leda, about the lust Zeus had for Leda, about the greed of man over bodies, about who is the sinner. I’m thinking about angels, about their lack of power in Swan Upon Leda “could never belong to angels”, about their fall from grace in the “Unknown” song “I thought you were like an angel/going unknown as any angel/you called me angel.”

I’m thinking about Hozier.

[djeterg19]

God this line? This line killed me. I'll be on the floor if anyone needs me.

[one-of-tankhuns-neurons]

I love this scene and the way it's blowing up the internet bc to me its PROVING the importance of NC scenes but also WHY THE FUCK THEY'RE THERE. The reason these scenes need to bee included is because they show things that you wouldn't see. The characters dressed head to toe in their vulnerability, in their desire, in their love for one another. This scene is the culmination of so much pent up love, heartache, hurt, longing, and it shows. It shows what's important, not what's explicit. It has dialogue, it has intimate shots. The purpose of GOOD and WELL PLANNED sex scenes IN ANY PIECE OF MEDIA NOT JUST BL is to tell something, to show us something. NC scenes are part of the plot, and the fact that its THIS ONE everyone is talking about shows it... or maybe I'm deep in my internet bubble and I don't notice what else is going on but my point stands. This whole show is masterfully directed, and its brilliance extends to all aspects of it. This scene heals. This scene is necessary. This scene is great

[chicademartinica]

Yuan : *Loses his patience and his entire mind after years of yearning, aggressively declares his undying love and drags Qian to bed almost screaming I’LL SHOW YOU ROMANTIC LOVE *

Qian : Shouldn’t we go on a date first ? I didn’t even tell you my fantasies yet !

[lurkingshan]

Underrated moment in this week’s Unknown: Qian shoving that food in his mouth as quickly as possible because the sexual tension was killing him and he just wanted it to end

[tinesleftnipple]

this line here is chefs kiss because coupled with that tinge of jealousy in his voice, qian is calling yuan by his full name. Wei ZhiYuan, the "yuan that belongs to wei"

[poisednihil]

"not all men"

well, you're right my dude. Hozier would never.

[thisonelikesaliens]

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Yuan, aren't we moving to fast? I've been waiting all my life. This isn't fast at all.

[ueasking]

Unknown Episode 8 for @thisonelikesaliens

[djeterg19]

Awww Qian took so long to get here but now that he's here he's so soft for Yuan

[doyou000me]

There's so many great scenes this week. Qian coming home drunk and, still unaware that he is the one that Yuan likes, tries to comfort Yuan; "Isn't it tiring to love him?" The work party, where Qian sorts things out with Ms Feng. Qian noticing that something is wrong with Yuan and immediately going to find him. The confrontation in the storage room. So, so many great scenes, but my favourite was this one:

"If he wants me to leave, the sooner the better, right?"

Yuan has always done what Qian has told him to do, be it joining activities at school or the running club - and now Qian wants him to leave, because Qian needs time and space to come to terms with the realisation that he is the one that Yuan has liked all along, and so Qian sends him away - and Yuan goes, becuase this is what Qian wants, it's what Qian needs, and it's what Qian asks of him. Yuan sacrifices himself by going, alone, to a foreign country across the world, where he knows noone, leaving behind his family and the promising future he's already started building with the game they developed - all so that Qian won't be the one to leave.

That's why the next scene hurts so much, because Yuan has already accepted that he's going to leave for New York - not for his own sake, not to move on, but for Qian. With Yuan out of the house, Qian can come home again, can stop sleeping at the office and can, hopefully, take better care of himself (thought Yuan has always been the one to stay by Qian's side and take care of him).

And so Yuan is the one who gets between them when Lili confronts Qian, Yuan is the one who protects Qian and the desicion to send Yuan away, Yuan is the one who pushes Qian to go on upstairs to spare him Lili's anger - because Yuan knows that Qian is suffering too, and wants to spare him any more pain.

When Qian gets to escape upstairs, Yuan stays with Lili and tries to comfort her, tries to turn the whole thing into something positive - for Lili and Qian both, so that at least the two of them will hopefully reconcile, to keep their little family from falling apart entirely, and to make sure that Lili will be there, with Qian, while Yuan is sent away.

"Qian is doing this for our sake."

And then the cut to the dark bedroom and crying and are you crying with me yet???