For me, Ye Zun's absolute power seems very deus ex machina; Shen Wei's powers are so undefined as well, so Ye Zun being undeniably more powerful than him feels like an arbitrary storytelling decision to force the tragic end. Shen Wei pulling a crazy unseen power out to defeat Ye Zun because Zhao Yunlan is threatened wouldn't feel any more or less plausible to me than the actual end -- or Zhao Yunlan gaining a Dixing power from the serum strong enough to fight Ye Zun, or Ye Zun deciding at the last moment that he can't kill his brother after all, or a host of other things; the only reason they don't have those options is because the writers don't let them?
But it's all subjective! For me, tragic endings are a tough sell -- I do like them sometimes, but it takes a lot to satisfy me; while I'm more likely to go easy on a happy ending. For me, for what the Guardian show is to me and how I relate to it, the ending doesn't work. But that's what fanfic is for!
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Date: 2019-03-30 09:39 pm (UTC)For me, Ye Zun's absolute power seems very deus ex machina; Shen Wei's powers are so undefined as well, so Ye Zun being undeniably more powerful than him feels like an arbitrary storytelling decision to force the tragic end. Shen Wei pulling a crazy unseen power out to defeat Ye Zun because Zhao Yunlan is threatened wouldn't feel any more or less plausible to me than the actual end -- or Zhao Yunlan gaining a Dixing power from the serum strong enough to fight Ye Zun, or Ye Zun deciding at the last moment that he can't kill his brother after all, or a host of other things; the only reason they don't have those options is because the writers don't let them?
But it's all subjective! For me, tragic endings are a tough sell -- I do like them sometimes, but it takes a lot to satisfy me; while I'm more likely to go easy on a happy ending. For me, for what the Guardian show is to me and how I relate to it, the ending doesn't work. But that's what fanfic is for!