#yby is freaking hilarious

[sarawatsaraleo]

[maeflower]

some thoughts after watching the shl finale ~

1. the last few episodes absolutely don't make sense in terms of writing sdjkdkl. like all logics kinda flew out of the window after ep 31 (the last good episode, i stand by this statement. ep 34-36 have their moments including the beginning of ningxiang's wedding but points got taken off bc of Pain)

i mean it's good that wkx's plan finally worked out for once (and i'm glad that chengling was part of the ploy; he didn't actually make his dad #2 fall from a cliff sdjkl) but man i absolutely didn't buy the fact that he managed to convince people in the heroes conference to just. let him go. like that. they got help from yby sure but it still felt too easy :( (plus the way they condemned zhao jing was also kinda stupid)

2. i get that the show didn't have much budget so they had to reduce the episodes from 50 to 36 and that's probably why we don't get really detailed scenes for every side characters. but i felt like shl suffered from this the most on the last few episodes. like we don't even see xsg's death :(( or wkx mourning (or at least acknowledging) the other ghost valley residents' death. most things that happened are just mentioned off screen. which also kinda ruins the pacing for me :(( like i don't get it, if they could make it work in the earlier episodes, the writing not having to suffer from the episode cut, why not keep it up until the last few episodes??

also ep 36 wtf. even if you couldn't show an explicitly happy ending, it was still a weird way to conclude the series..? if people didn't know the special ep exists, it'd be a very confusing & unsatisfying ending

3. i already knew that i would cry in the wedding ep but i didn't expect it would be cwn's death that set it off :(( like the prev ep just showed all the precautions taken by xsg and the other ghost valley ladies to make sure ningxiang can have a happy wedding. still, still it didn't work out. also i felt so bad for cwn's shifu 😭😭 (the kind one not the murderous one obv) gx looks so pretty in her wedding dress tho

4. also i absolutely love it when wenzhou went on a murderous although slightly self-destructive rampage for their loved ones <3

5. btw xie wang managed to go from my top 5 characters to idc-about-him-anymore in the span of 1 episode sdjklf. i can accept murder (and pseudo incestuous relationship ig ew 🤢) but i draw the line at him indirectly murdering ah-xiang 😤

6. the hairpin plot twist totally blew my mind!! my sister was having the time of her life watching me freaking out every time zzs is shown wearing the hairpin after wkx put it on his hair, whispering 'how did this go pass censorship?' only for that hairpin to be revealed as the key. which made me freak out even more bc. he entrusted the key, the thing his parents had protected with their life to zzs, his zhiji. like uwdjfdv 😭😭 also absolutely hilarious that turn out the key the whole jianghu has been searching for was safely pinned to zzs's (and prev wkx's) hair all this time

don't have much to say about what happened after that. it was painful but my annoyance at the weird ending topped my sadness of watching zzs thinking he's losing wkx for the 2nd time. kinda regret not watching the series when it first came out tho bc people's reaction must've been fun :D