30 Days of Guardian

[extrapenguin]

Announcements banner: I wrote a thing for brush_and_lantern's October theme: Harvest Moon, ~700 words of Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan about festivals of youth and their remembrance and forgettance.

Announcements banner, pt 2: I'm signing up for Writing Rainbow: Orange with the crackiest of sign-ups (it includes asking for a Nirvana in Fire/Vorkosigan saga crossover with Mei Changsu & Miles Vorkosigan with the freeform "Worst Dinner Party in the World", in addition to a bunch of Guardian stuff).

25. What do you love most about the drama?
It's science fiction about aliens and basically an impassioned speech for tolerance for these aliens amongst us. I am a sop for such narratives, it turns out! We have space aliens and time travel and people being friends across species boundaries and people befriending each other and an interspecies queer couple at the very center of it! Did I mention the aliens yet? :P Tonally, it's also actually a pretty cheerful show, especially at the start, and well-lit, with a minimum of "this is grim srs bzns, which you can figure out from the fact that we didn't have a lighting budget" eye-rollery.

(As a side note, basically all the changes from novel to drama that they made ended up with a product more to my interests, save the censoring of queerness and the fact that the ending was sad. I also think that a lot of the weakest bits of writing were where it tried to hew to the novel's plot – axing Ye Zun and having the Regent be the "final boss" would've made for a better show, imo – where the novel-plot blocks had nothing to hang on due to censorship deletions, but as my knowledge of the novel is mostly hearsay, summaries, and unwanted intrusions into fic that's tagged as drama-only, this is more vague waffly vibes. And making it a show about corruption, even corruption of alien bureaucrats, might've been too much for the censors.)

1. Favorite episode
2. Favorite case
3. Least favorite case
4. Favorite Holy Tools arc
5. Least favorite Holy Tools arc
6. Which character would you resurrect?
7. Favorite SID member
8. Favorite guest character(s)
9. Favorite piece of worldbuilding
10. Favorite rarepair
11. Favorite headcanon
12. Least favorite headcanon
13. Favorite main villain
14. Favorite minor character relationship
15. Villain you’d like redeemed or whose redemption you liked
16. Favorite conversation between Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei
17. Favorite bit missed on first watch but picked up on rewatch
18. Least favorite villain
19. Least favorite character
20. Most appealing point for a canon divergence AU
21. Sluttiest dresser award
22. Favorite science moment
23. Which two characters who didn't meet should have, and how might that scene go?
24. The one thing you most wish they'd expanded on because it was a cool idea and needed more details
25. What do you love most about the drama?
26. What Dixing power do you wish would've existed in the show?
27. What minor plot arc should have gotten another episode, and why?
28. Thoughts and feelings on the ending
29. Favorite interpretation of why the Hallows do the things they do
30. Favorite unanswered question (and what you want the answer to be)

Comments

[jo_lasalle]

Tonally, it's also actually a pretty cheerful show

That's something I like about it too. It has plenty of dark stuff in between and at the end but it's not grim or... rolling around in its darkness. I love the tonal mix Guardian has going on. (And it's great for fic, because you can go super serious but also really whacky.)

[extrapenguin]

Yup! It's got humor, it's got dark stuff, it's got levity, it's got pathos – and it never gets bogged down in ABJECT MISERY, which seems to be a bit of a risk for some things.

And it's great for fic, because you can go super serious but also really whacky.
Yep! I love the ability to get whacky and humorous with fic. As, uh, you might've gathered already...