Mars: Episode 3
Mmmmm. I LOVE ep 3 of Mars. I do find it really cool how Ling brings QL out of her isolation: she feels comfortable enough with him to tell him something is none of his business (on the roof. I can't see her doing it with anyone else) and she stands up for him to his Mom and by the look on Mom's face it's not anything QL has done before. And she stops hunching herself in as much. By the end of the ep she is the one who says 'hi' to Ling first. And earlier she tells him about her feelings. And of course there is the desperate quiet stubborness when Quin Mei threatens her to make her give up Ling. Underneath all the layers of mess there is a pretty steady person.
The Da Ye/Qi Luo date is funny, with neither of them saying a word and Ling sitting there exasperated in the middle. Total proof that while Da Ye is a sweet guy, he is not the guy for QL, all wrong for her. I do love the startled look on Ling's face when QL agrees to try to date Da Ye. He doesn't realize his feelings for her yet, but they are there, and he is none too happy even though he doesn't understand it himself and hides it quickly. And of course, QL has nothing much to talk about but she comes alive when they discuss Ling. No wonder Da Ye realizes how things are really quickly.
I love that neither of the other options is portrayed horribly. Da Ye is a sweet guy, probably a better person than Ling. But he is too quiet to break through to QL. She needs someone who will make her have fun and not be put off by the shyness. And Qing Mei is a bitch to QL true, but the fact is Ling slept with her and now she's gone obsessive about him and it's not too unrealistic.
How much do I love Ling finding out she's been taken and running like crazy everywhere, to find her, just bolting out of the classroom. And finding her and just holding her and she sobs in his arms as Da Ye looks on. It's so instinctive. And then taking her to the nurse, and then finding Qing Mei and telling her, dead serious, that if she does anything to QL he will kill her. This show is hitting all my kinks, fraking consistently.
I love the scene where he stops by to check if she is OK. And we really see that (even though he expresses it as a joke) he rather sees himself as unworthy of anything much (I had a lengthier post about this somewhere when I first watched Mars in the early spring). The fact that she sees him so differently, and sees past his defences (when she says that he just needs a lot of love and he doesn't want to feel things so he just has these fly by night women etc etc) is one of the reasons she throws him so off kilter.
And I love that she confesses her feelings to him in the same breath as she tells him she knows it's hopeless and she tells herself to stay away. And he is so lost and so can't help it and leans in to kiss her and we later find out it's her first kiss ever and it's one of my Top 10 TV kisses and then they are both so clumsy and confused and overwhelmed. And the next morning he is so scared, emotionally, because he is in such foreign territory. Eeee. I love Da Ye punching Ling and telling him this means he (Da Ye) gives up on QL and telling him that disaster or not, Ling is QL's choice. Finally, a man who respect a woman's emotional choice. Go Da Ye!
My favorite shot is her looking at the good luck charm he gave her while lying in bed and smiling and pulling the blanket up. EEEEE!
Also, dimples.
The Da Ye/Qi Luo date is funny, with neither of them saying a word and Ling sitting there exasperated in the middle. Total proof that while Da Ye is a sweet guy, he is not the guy for QL, all wrong for her. I do love the startled look on Ling's face when QL agrees to try to date Da Ye. He doesn't realize his feelings for her yet, but they are there, and he is none too happy even though he doesn't understand it himself and hides it quickly. And of course, QL has nothing much to talk about but she comes alive when they discuss Ling. No wonder Da Ye realizes how things are really quickly.
I love that neither of the other options is portrayed horribly. Da Ye is a sweet guy, probably a better person than Ling. But he is too quiet to break through to QL. She needs someone who will make her have fun and not be put off by the shyness. And Qing Mei is a bitch to QL true, but the fact is Ling slept with her and now she's gone obsessive about him and it's not too unrealistic.
How much do I love Ling finding out she's been taken and running like crazy everywhere, to find her, just bolting out of the classroom. And finding her and just holding her and she sobs in his arms as Da Ye looks on. It's so instinctive. And then taking her to the nurse, and then finding Qing Mei and telling her, dead serious, that if she does anything to QL he will kill her. This show is hitting all my kinks, fraking consistently.
I love the scene where he stops by to check if she is OK. And we really see that (even though he expresses it as a joke) he rather sees himself as unworthy of anything much (I had a lengthier post about this somewhere when I first watched Mars in the early spring). The fact that she sees him so differently, and sees past his defences (when she says that he just needs a lot of love and he doesn't want to feel things so he just has these fly by night women etc etc) is one of the reasons she throws him so off kilter.
And I love that she confesses her feelings to him in the same breath as she tells him she knows it's hopeless and she tells herself to stay away. And he is so lost and so can't help it and leans in to kiss her and we later find out it's her first kiss ever and it's one of my Top 10 TV kisses and then they are both so clumsy and confused and overwhelmed. And the next morning he is so scared, emotionally, because he is in such foreign territory. Eeee. I love Da Ye punching Ling and telling him this means he (Da Ye) gives up on QL and telling him that disaster or not, Ling is QL's choice. Finally, a man who respect a woman's emotional choice. Go Da Ye!
My favorite shot is her looking at the good luck charm he gave her while lying in bed and smiling and pulling the blanket up. EEEEE!
Also, dimples.