Haha cool, we both posted our episode 2 the same evening! Oops! Uh, I'm glad I could provide extra eye candy. Be sure to check out the imgur album?
Do you really think he bought that food for Yunlan originally? I read it as truly being meant for Li Qian. He said he'd brought extra food, and was disappointed that Zhao Yunlan wasn't there. I suspect his original intent was to feed Li Qian and Zhao Yunlan as well, so they could bond over food as a family. (Shen Wei definitely had very paternal feels over Li Qian.)
Shen Wei also has a mentor, Professor Zhou, whom he's pretty close to – we'll soon see him escort a drunk Professor Zhou out of an alcohol-serving establishment while Professor Zhou tells him he should practice his drinking, it's only civilized – so I suspect that he got halfway adopted by Professor Zhou when he was but a wee lost student, and thinks academic mentor relationships are just like raising children or something. It can also be pretty intense as a relationship, definitely akin to a parent-child one, since it's about raising the younger one into a respected member of the scientific community, and teaching them all the necessary life skills for that.
I thought they were almost the same height? The show goes out of its way to make Zhao Yunlan sit down, stand on the downhill side of the slope, etc, and occasionally even tilts itself a few degrees (like in that shot through the blinds with the Envoy) to make Shen Wei look taller. (The actors' height gap is officially only 3 cm, but there are unsubstatiated rumors that Zhu Yilong is secretly a few cm shorter than his official 180 cm due to his height complex, and that Bai Yu is secretly a few cm taller than his official 183 cm due to there being a maximum height for male lead roles.) Also, the Envoy persona has a small slouch.
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Date: 2019-02-28 21:53 (UTC)Oops! Uh, I'm glad I could provide extra eye candy. Be sure to check out the imgur album?
He said he'd brought extra food, and was disappointed that Zhao Yunlan wasn't there. I suspect his original intent was to feed Li Qian and Zhao Yunlan as well, so they could bond over food as a family. (Shen Wei definitely had very paternal feels over Li Qian.)
Shen Wei also has a mentor, Professor Zhou, whom he's pretty close to – we'll soon see him escort a drunk Professor Zhou out of an alcohol-serving establishment while Professor Zhou tells him he should practice his drinking, it's only civilized – so I suspect that he got halfway adopted by Professor Zhou when he was but a wee lost student, and thinks academic mentor relationships are just like raising children or something. It can also be pretty intense as a relationship, definitely akin to a parent-child one, since it's about raising the younger one into a respected member of the scientific community, and teaching them all the necessary life skills for that.
The show goes out of its way to make Zhao Yunlan sit down, stand on the downhill side of the slope, etc, and occasionally even tilts itself a few degrees (like in that shot through the blinds with the Envoy) to make Shen Wei look taller. (The actors' height gap is officially only 3 cm, but there are unsubstatiated rumors that Zhu Yilong is secretly a few cm shorter than his official 180 cm due to his height complex, and that Bai Yu is secretly a few cm taller than his official 183 cm due to there being a maximum height for male lead roles.) Also, the Envoy persona has a small slouch.