sweet love, creepy love
I don't know what it is about scenes of lovers riding on horseback together. They're everywhere, of course. You can't gaze out across a windswept prairie without seeing several pairs of lovers riding hither and yon. It's just one of those romantic things that never gets old. For me, anyway.
The Princess' Man used this trope in a very interesting way, showing several such rides in different parts of the story, each bearing completely different emotions, light to darkness to light.
Back to Condor Heroes. During part of their journey to find healing for Huang Rong, she's riding with Guo Jing. I'm just... enjoying it. Go ahead, keep riding, I can wait for story. And I mean that. I'm ready for a drama called Lovers Riding Horses, Pretty Much. Then plot happens, each is willing to die for the other, to sacrifice in other ways, to make the world wait while they speak to one another. If they were parted for awhile (and for all I know, they might yet), their reunion would probably be overwhelmingly sweet, with promises of endless devotion and horseback riding.
Which brings us to... another kind of love. Where lovers separated for a long, long time (I actually don't know how much time has passed) are reunited. He is embittered, power-hungry, and supremely damaged (in so many ways, self-inflicted). He's also a liar. She believes him.
MNC: You're back!
YK: Oh how good it is to see you, pardon me while I guilt-trip you into helping me murder someone.
MNC: Did you say something, I was distracted, with all the hugging.
YK: Say..... what do you think of this nefarious plan?
The scene in which she urges OYK to keep drinking the drugged wine... I found that very intense. His realization, the staring. He drinks again. Yang Kang appears with a dagger. OYK laughs madly and gives up.
Then our pair make love while the man they just killed lies on the floor of the next room. Which... is a little disturbing. Afterward, she traces YK's face in the half-light, then sits up. When she's not looking, his eyes open, staring, calculating.
His voice choked with convincing emotion, he sends her away with another lie. She rides off on a horse, alone.
The Princess' Man used this trope in a very interesting way, showing several such rides in different parts of the story, each bearing completely different emotions, light to darkness to light.
Back to Condor Heroes. During part of their journey to find healing for Huang Rong, she's riding with Guo Jing. I'm just... enjoying it. Go ahead, keep riding, I can wait for story. And I mean that. I'm ready for a drama called Lovers Riding Horses, Pretty Much. Then plot happens, each is willing to die for the other, to sacrifice in other ways, to make the world wait while they speak to one another. If they were parted for awhile (and for all I know, they might yet), their reunion would probably be overwhelmingly sweet, with promises of endless devotion and horseback riding.
Which brings us to... another kind of love. Where lovers separated for a long, long time (I actually don't know how much time has passed) are reunited. He is embittered, power-hungry, and supremely damaged (in so many ways, self-inflicted). He's also a liar. She believes him.
MNC: You're back!
YK: Oh how good it is to see you, pardon me while I guilt-trip you into helping me murder someone.
MNC: Did you say something, I was distracted, with all the hugging.
YK: Say..... what do you think of this nefarious plan?
The scene in which she urges OYK to keep drinking the drugged wine... I found that very intense. His realization, the staring. He drinks again. Yang Kang appears with a dagger. OYK laughs madly and gives up.
Then our pair make love while the man they just killed lies on the floor of the next room. Which... is a little disturbing. Afterward, she traces YK's face in the half-light, then sits up. When she's not looking, his eyes open, staring, calculating.
His voice choked with convincing emotion, he sends her away with another lie. She rides off on a horse, alone.