Sometimes the day just ends.
I finished The Myth.
Not pictured: what actually happened.
The finale was actually a bit underwhelming, mostly because by that point I had gone numb. I'd reached my limit of death and despair and just couldn't process any more heartbreak beyond a bleak acceptance of the misery on my screen. Remember when I first started this? And it was light and funny and happy? Hahahahaha.
Part of my emotional void can be blamed on ep 48, which had one of the most gutting scenes I think I've ever watched in a drama. Anything coming after that was just asking to be sold short, because... Jesus.
Scene: a secondary OTP takes their final stand on the battlefield. They're outnumbered and pretty much dead before they begin, but they fight anyway.
You can see where this is going.
She collapses in his arms as he looks on in horror. Tearfully, she says that she wants to spend more time with him, that she isn't ready to go (!!!!! sobbing started here, never stopped).
He can only cry and tell her she'll be fine, that he isn't letting her leave. He sobs, "You can't leave me."
She slips away, and he howls -- and understand he's a righteous warlord who bleeds duty and is always stout or stoic but never vulnerable. Then his wife dies in his arms and he loses it and I do too.
Xiao Chuan (the hero) stumbles over and collapses with them. Xiang Yu looks up at him in an aching, destroyed kind of way and says "I haven't taken good care of her."
XC tries to convince him to leave, because he knows this is where his friend dies in history. He asks Xiang Yu to retreat and gather the troops somewhere else, anywhere else.
Xiang Yu says, "The only place I want to go is where she went."
He carries her to XC's boat because he doesn't want her body in enemy hands. For added anguish, they rest her head on her wedding dress, which she was still carrying with her. There's also a heartbreaking moment where he gently, gently turns her face like he wants her to be comfortable on the trip. Oh my god.
His duty done, Xiang Yu turns back to the field of soldiers (!!!!)...
...and then he utterly demolishes them, ENDING WITH CLIMBING ON TOP OF A PILE OF THEIR CORPSES.
What's extra shocking is that until this point the drama had mostly only used discreet violence -- I mean there was war and death but they relied on blood spatters and bloodied faces to suggest the really gruesome things, it wasn't gory at all. I was lulled into thinking they wouldn't (or couldn't) go any further.
And then they have one of the heroes go on a slaughtering rampage and climb onto a pile of enemy corpses.
*(O^&*^%&^#%^@%$@!!!
LOOK AT HIS FUCKING CARNAGE. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Did I mention the three of them are sworn brothers? No?
Defeated and dying, he looks to the sky and says "Xiao Yue, I'm coming."
Then he slits his throat.
The drama could have ended here for all I cared. It wasn't like I had ANY HAPPINESS LEFT.
Not pictured: what actually happened.
The finale was actually a bit underwhelming, mostly because by that point I had gone numb. I'd reached my limit of death and despair and just couldn't process any more heartbreak beyond a bleak acceptance of the misery on my screen. Remember when I first started this? And it was light and funny and happy? Hahahahaha.
Part of my emotional void can be blamed on ep 48, which had one of the most gutting scenes I think I've ever watched in a drama. Anything coming after that was just asking to be sold short, because... Jesus.
Scene: a secondary OTP takes their final stand on the battlefield. They're outnumbered and pretty much dead before they begin, but they fight anyway.
You can see where this is going.
She collapses in his arms as he looks on in horror. Tearfully, she says that she wants to spend more time with him, that she isn't ready to go (!!!!! sobbing started here, never stopped).
He can only cry and tell her she'll be fine, that he isn't letting her leave. He sobs, "You can't leave me."
She slips away, and he howls -- and understand he's a righteous warlord who bleeds duty and is always stout or stoic but never vulnerable. Then his wife dies in his arms and he loses it and I do too.
Xiao Chuan (the hero) stumbles over and collapses with them. Xiang Yu looks up at him in an aching, destroyed kind of way and says "I haven't taken good care of her."
XC tries to convince him to leave, because he knows this is where his friend dies in history. He asks Xiang Yu to retreat and gather the troops somewhere else, anywhere else.
Xiang Yu says, "The only place I want to go is where she went."
He carries her to XC's boat because he doesn't want her body in enemy hands. For added anguish, they rest her head on her wedding dress, which she was still carrying with her. There's also a heartbreaking moment where he gently, gently turns her face like he wants her to be comfortable on the trip. Oh my god.
His duty done, Xiang Yu turns back to the field of soldiers (!!!!)...
...and then he utterly demolishes them, ENDING WITH CLIMBING ON TOP OF A PILE OF THEIR CORPSES.
What's extra shocking is that until this point the drama had mostly only used discreet violence -- I mean there was war and death but they relied on blood spatters and bloodied faces to suggest the really gruesome things, it wasn't gory at all. I was lulled into thinking they wouldn't (or couldn't) go any further.
And then they have one of the heroes go on a slaughtering rampage and climb onto a pile of enemy corpses.
*(O^&*^%&^#%^@%$@!!!
LOOK AT HIS FUCKING CARNAGE. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Did I mention the three of them are sworn brothers? No?
Defeated and dying, he looks to the sky and says "Xiao Yue, I'm coming."
Then he slits his throat.
The drama could have ended here for all I cared. It wasn't like I had ANY HAPPINESS LEFT.