#the moment when they are interogating son lang's spirit and wei wuxian ask who is controlling him and he answer: the one behind you

[friedwizardwhispers]

Is this an unpopular opinion ? Who knows.

I didn't really like how Yi city was adapted in the untamed.

Disclaimer: I read the book first and I had expectations for the untamed version which probably didn't help.

I'm not sure how much of what I'm going to talk about is censorship. I know they were clearly avoiding ghostly things (which is....something when the main character of a show is supposed to control and use ghosts' energy as his main power).

I feel like A-Qing got screwed over the most in this arc: we don't get the fact that she has been saving people and making Yi city so creepy for all those years to protect the living. We don't get the fact that she is an amazing actress who actually managed to get Xiao Xingcheng alone by acting/bluffing to get Xue Yang out of the house (and we don't get the implications that he is softening to her with his advice on how to deal with bullies which again leave it more ambiguous as to why he just let her do anything at all in Yi city after her death).

Also she just dies ? No spirit pouch for her I guess, which means no Xue Yang trying to get both pouches back during the battle and no potential second chance for her with Xiao Xingcheng and Song Lan.

I felt like A Qing as the pov character of the arc was incredibly important (also incredibly fun, I love her so much) and The Untamed which usually does really well with other female characters really dropped the ball on that one.

Also with that loss, the psychological horror of it all and the building of the tension is very much lost too. It is such a creepy and scary arc in the books.

#the untamed #cql #yi city #ah qing #a-qing #a qing #xue yang #xiao xingchen #song lan #mdzs #mo doa zu shi #mo dao zu shi #the moment when they are interogating son lang's spirit and wei wuxian ask who is controlling him and he answer: the one behind you #is genuinely the creepiest and scariest moment for me #it's so cinematic it gave me chills #in the books #i know it feels like i'm just complaining about the untamed.... but i did really love it