Legend of Fuyao | Week 6: Eps. 41-48 Checking in with Beanies (and anyone else!) still keeping up with the show: @linda-palapala, @giocare, @ally-le, @ultramafic, @jozie, @trina, @asianromance, @kimbapnoona, @trinpie, @giegie0384

It was good week for villians to strut and couples to regroup. What were your favorite scenes, costumes and villians last week? Is Fuyao really trying to pass as male—with eyeliner? Are Wuji and Fuyao still just holding hands?

My comments and GIFs in the comments.

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    @tsutsuloo’s Legend of Fuyao | Week 6: Eps. 41-48 observations:

    1. How do Wu Ji (Hot Crown Prince) and Zong Yue (Hot Doctor) keep their whites so white? Wu Ji managed to get scruffed up during his exile in the desert but our golden boy might be wearing robes sheathed with dirt-repelling nanoparticles.

    2. Have you noticed how the appearance of fancy snacks signal impending death or some sort of extreme humiliation?

    3. I loved everything about the the competition fight scene in Ep. 47. The fancy snacks! The tense pre-formance chatter amongst the royalty. The way the finalists rushed to squeeze through the closing doors! Fuyao’s gorgous green ensemble! The choreography! And Wu Ji absolutely slaying it with his flirty eyebrows!


    4. Actor Vengo Gao reminds me of the young Charlton Heston—handsome with the emotional range of a block of wood. My God, look at his face here as Zhan Beiye is registering the news of his mother’s house arrest. Whhaaaaat? I. Am. Upset. !

    5. Even with Vengo Gao’s bulging eyeballs, it was a great week for reaction shots. The bad boys of Tiansha have wonderfully expressive faces. I love Zhang Yicong as King Zhan Nancheng. His like a Chinese Bond villian, compulsively polishing his tchokes while sneering, oggling, pouting, and raging.

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      Your Vengo GIF made me fall off my couch, rolled on the floor laughing, went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, glanced at it again and started choking!!!!!!
      Honestly, at this point I FF all of the Bei Ye and Zhu Zhu’s scene. Probably because of the FFing, it felt really weird that he fell in love so deeply so fast really because she donated her eyesight for his cause.

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        After the noble idiocy that ensued this week, I’m fast forwarding through their scenes too.

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        He can’t act!!! I laugh and cringe every time his eyes bulge lol
        The whole Tiansha storyline bored me tbh I used the ff in Tiansha/ZBY/Blind girl scenes 😅

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      This world has proven to be a lot of fun with Fuyao as an undercover warrior, but it also makes me realize that the all-time biggest suspension of disbelief in dramas will always be a woman pretending to be a man and (almost) no one can identify her as a woman. I mean, c’mon!

      I am surprised how much it makes me happy to have pervy Wuji back, and I love Fuyao and Wuji nighttime rendezvous, but just hugs? I mean c’mon!

      I know this is a story that happened in the olden times in ancient China, but this is also a fantasy that based on nothing that resembles reality. So please, make some babies or just enjoy the fun part……I am sure the Hot Doc can provide you with some sort of tonic or Wuji has some magic armor in his sleeve!

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        I’ve lost track of all the times she coldcocks someone to steal their uniform or armor—and it always fits her! 😀

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      The Vengo character reminds me of the spoof in The Brit production of Lancelot in the Holy Grail. Absolutely hilarious!

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      Wait, didn’t General Fierce diethus week??? I think that’s the only scene I watched.

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        Heh—even being cremated isn’t a guarantee that a character is dead. 😉

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    Thanks – was hoping to hear from you! I’m stuck at 42. Well not stuck so much as just ff thru episodes as a preview and then going back and watching the full episodes. This weekend I’m binging from 41 or 42 thru to present. I did have an absolute favorite scene (but can’t remember exactly where) when he comes back alive and they’re in the desert at night with absolutely gorgeous music, CGI gorgeous, the two birds at night with the fireworks. –I’m getting chills, must go find and re watch that scene!
    I’m sure they doing more than holding hands. Aren’t they married, after all? I don’t remember where, but there is a bed behind them in one scene.

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      Guess that was episode 38. Let me be honest – I ff to their scenes together and watch enough that I’m filled with their story, then I can go back and enjoy the rest of the story. Isn’t that what everyone does??
      I have renamed the drama “The Journey of Fuyao and Wuji”. That’s so much more fitting.

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    Gawd, I love this show!

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      I love it too, @linda-palapala. (I think we also share affection for Love Lost in Time.)

      Keep an eye out for my favorite couple scene early in Ep. 46. It’s a lovely, quiet moment where Wuji puts it all out there for Fuyao. This isn’t a “you’re my woman!” declaration. It’s a “everything—my past, present and future belong to you” moment and the actors are amazing. Their faces are really flushed with emotion and my Grinchy heart went *sproing!*

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        Oh, yes, I remember that scene now. It was beautiful and I’ve watched it several times. Love Lost in Time…yes we do share affection for that show. I’ll probably watch it again next month after Fuyao, though I’m pretty sure I’ll end up watching Fuyao again first.

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        Which brings be to a sticking point,: why so many confessions of love? There was one episode where they confessed twice. In the same place. Within 24 hours of each other. I’m all for telling your significant other you love them often, but this is becoming repetitive. *my grinchy heart is apparently still a rock*

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          I can never hear it enough…with all they’re going thru I’m guessing they need the comforting words.

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    I barely remember the events from 40-48 because I used the ff button a lot (except for WuJi & FuYao scenes…and pretty Doctor Zong Yue). I’ve seen until ep 52 and if 40-48 dragged, the show picked up in ep 49 onwards. I don’t want to spoil it for you but this week’s episode are really good.

    But I’m inlove with the show. No tragic ending hopefully.
    Thanks for mentioning.

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      Online watching has spoiled me. I imagine there are many like me wishing for a FF button (and close captions) at the movie theater!

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        One of the best things about this drama is the fact they’re already together as a team and a loving couple, working to restore the five kingdoms. How often does that happen in dramaland? (Hope I haven’t jinxed it since there’s still 10 more episodes!)
        Every time we see them start to get intimate someone comes in and interrupts. Either we’re not seeing “behind the scenes” or they’re getting really frustrated!

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      It only dragged because you needed more Wuji/FuYao scenes! As I said, to get them out of my system I have to watch all their scenes first, then when I’m satisfied I can go back and watch the other’s stories. Her true story is happening now and I’m guessing next will be his finding out the truth about the Firmament.

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    Nice youtube vid on the meaning of Fuyao and the poem it’s mentioned by Li Bao. “Riding the wind, ascending”.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaf8m2OZ72I

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    Up to ep 58 and I’m so worried about the ending that I’m obsessing. I can’t watch any more until I know the ending. I’ll be devastated if it doesn’t have a “happy” ending for them. Youtube has previews of ep 65 and 66 and it doesn’t look good. But, there’s a glimmer of hope in the preview. I can’t even watch any other dramas because this is all I can think about.

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