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Fiendish Dr. Skuld ([personal profile] doctorskuld) wrote in [community profile] history3_trapped2020-01-02 12:50 pm
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[admin] Welcome and Introductions

Welcome to the HIStory3: Trapped 圈套 Community on Dreamwidth

Even the though the fandom is spread around on various social media platforms, I think there are enough people on Dreamwidth who have seen the show to merit a separate community to celebrate our favorite disaster gangsters and their disaster cop boyfriends.

This is a comm for discussing and sharing the love of Trapped 圈套 and its related content, including:
• All types of discussion, discourse, and squee
• Actor news and spam (RPS and speculation is acceptable)
• Fan works (fanfiction, podfic, art, icons, vids, etc.), including your own work, challenges, recs and fanwork finding, beta requests
• Episode recaps

You are encouraged to post content directly to the community so that discussion can happen in one central place.

The Community Guidelines can be found on the profile page.



To start things off, let's introduce ourselves, tell each other how we came into the fandom, and what our favorite things about Trapped 圈套 are.
no_detective: trapped: shao fei and tang yi laughing cake fight (trapped birthday cake)

[personal profile] no_detective 2020-01-03 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
hi hi! thank you for creating this comm!!!

How I came to watch Trapped
i'm pretty sure [personal profile] bonibaru started tweeting about it, and then a few other people did as well, so i started watching while it was still airing for the first time. it was a bit of a mess, what with episodes cut into 15, 20, or 30min pieces and streaming sites getting taken down (especially toward the end of the run bc viki announced they bought it), but the subtitles were very good and very quick, and it was SUPER ADDICTIVE. it felt like a made-for-Logo-TV-movie: silly and ridiculous and adorable, with lots of heart and passion, somewhat handwavey plot, low budget, and full-on dedication to the portrayal of prettiness and romance and the drama of it all. also it was literally MADE OF FANFIC TROPES and legit queer, which was a spa for the soul just when i needed it :)

(of course, there were cliffhangers and the drama accelerated in the final few episodes, but i had faith and plenty of people to spoil me if things went south/warn me about content, so it all turned out okay.)

My favorite scene in Trapped
this is kind of impossible to answer because "enemies to lovers" is my all-time number one trope, and the show consists of not one but TWO couples who fit this category, so - all of that is my favorite?!?! hmmmmmmm. okay: i love, love, LOVE the birthday scene with MSF and TY which starts out emo angsty, then turns super sweet, then silly, and then sexy - because what a beautiful range, and look how far they've come together! also, the scene with jack and ZZ in the kitchen when jack says he's come to stay if ZZ wants him, and they end up making out on the... island? table? clearly i need to rewatch MORE CAREFULLY. but i love it when a cool and aloof character lays their cards out in such a vulnerable way.

I like Trapped because
see above re: tropes! plus i really like the emphasis on resolving emotional conflicts while building a relationship. there's plenty of chemistry and hotness and mutual attraction, but the team behind this show has done such a lovely job of telling the story that the key component - the trust they end up having in each other - feels truly earned.

You can also find me on...
twitter - [twitter.com profile] no_detective; AO3 - [archiveofourown.org profile] no_detective; and spotify (same username everywhere)
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[personal profile] yantantether 2020-01-03 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
"enemies to lovers" is my all-time number one trope
SAME omg
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[personal profile] no_detective 2020-01-03 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
...omg speaking of enemies i should have included a third scene - andy being the resident vixen in the club
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[personal profile] clevermanka 2020-01-03 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I love all the characters in this show, but Andy is the one I actively want to be friends with.
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[personal profile] no_detective 2020-01-03 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
i love andy SO MUCH <3
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[personal profile] clevermanka 2020-01-04 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
I have known several Andys in my life and I have loved Every. Single. One.
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[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-01-03 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I am always dying for pre-canon fanfic of the two of them, I can just imagine them butting heads and it is so delightful knowing what follows later.

My headcanon is that the incident during the gang arrests in Ep 1 is really one of the first times that MSF and TY interact in person, alone, outside of a structured police interview setting, court setting, or even arrest - that MSF has been watching and tailing and investigating TY forever through official channels (and not always with a clear basis, hence the lawsuits) but is getting more and more frustrated and reckless at his own lack of progress, which makes him careless enough to run in to an armed gang standoff without a warrant and then run out after TY alone leaving the rest of his team behind to arrest all the gangs. That their tension with each other in those early scenes is part and parcel of it not being a common interaction for them yet. That Tang Yi for the previous year allowing himself to develop a regular routine for MSF to follow (as mentioned outside the suit shop in Ep 1) so he could start using the police to catch his own enemies (as deduced by MSF in Ep 1) was a stroke of genius finally brought about by Tang Yi's grief & anger starting to abate enough after 3 years that he could think more rationally through year 4. And also, a strategy entirely possibly proposed or encouraged by Jack, who joined the gang at about the same time if I'm not mistaken (a year before canon starts? IDK where I got that. It might be fanon and I might be wrong). Maybe I just need to write some pre-canon stuff and get it out of my head lol

THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A QUICK POST THAT SAID: WHERE IS MY ANDY SPINOFF SHOW but it kind of spiralled.

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[personal profile] clevermanka 2020-01-03 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I TOO WOULD LIKE AN ANDY SHOW AND ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO BE CAST IN A SUPPORTING ROLE BECAUSE I LOVE HIM AND WANT TO BE HIS FRIEND SO HARD
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[personal profile] clevermanka 2020-01-03 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Please help me figure something out? Is it implied at the end that Andy and doctor (whose name I don't remember help) are together? I didn't notice that on earlier watches, but on my fourth (I love that I can say that here with nobody judging me) I was like "wait what?"

And I kind of hope that isn't accurate? I like the idea that they're those two mutual friends of Person A and they just can't stand each other but recongize it's just a personality conflict not a disagreement of morals or something. So they still complain at length to a fourth friend about each other, knowing full well that Fourth Friend is getting the dirt from both sides and not caring because hearing it all would drive Person A up a wall or hurt their feelings AND I WANT TO BE THAT FOURTH FRIEND OKAY

I feel like I just wrote a self-insert fic there and I should probably go back to the sexy times I just left off writing to respond to this comment XD
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[personal profile] clevermanka 2020-01-03 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no no my mistake, I'm sorry I got that mixed up. When you said "somebody might be trying to steal Jin Tang's boyfriend, who is in Mali" it reminded me what I was actually worried about was that I thought Andy was trying to steal Jin Tang's (thank you) boyfriend but knowing that's in Mali (that part I missed) puts me at ease.

an honorary member of Tang Yi's Gay Posse
Can you imagine the parties? the drama? the CONSTANT SPECTACLE? oh god it'd be my 20s all over again except with better clothes and hair SIGN ME UPPPPPPP
no_detective: andy pulling in tang yi by the tie (cropped) (trapped andy tang yi tie crop)

[personal profile] no_detective 2020-01-03 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
22-year-old Tang Yi and his Gay Posse partying it up in Taipei's gay nightclub scene - yeah, this is getting pasted right into the plot bunny farm :)
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[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-01-03 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I thought I remembered - that Ah De brought up the newness & set the time frame. I don't think that's meant to be coincidence since it's close in sequence to MSF telling ZZ that Tang Yi's routine suddenly became predictable a year ago and now MSF knows where he is every day at any given time. For TY to have made a change like that which, I remember thinking at the time, borders on carelessness for a mob boss (I watched a lot of The Sopranos back in the day) - there had to be a reason, and to open the series with MSF trying to bust up their gang meeting and not even being patient enough to wait for a warrant and Tang Yi knowing almost to the minute when he'd arrive - TOO MUCH COINCIDENCE.
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[personal profile] no_detective 2020-01-04 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
hi hi i'm so happy to be here! *rolls around* also i love how beautifully your layout evokes the show's official artwork. SO PRETTY!

It's also the first kiss that Jake and Chris filmed together, which somehow makes it extra cute. - i think i knew this, but i totally forgot until you mentioned it? and if i remember correctly, they were also kind of excited to be eating sweets FOR WORK. awwww <3

From the very first moment that he goes, "You like me, don't you?" and ZZ's response is to literally run away. And Jack keeps going back, and even says that if ZZ rejects him his heart will break. - you know, as much as i adore jack's openness with zz in retrospect, when i watched back in the spring i was... pretty weary. as in, i was already shipping them, but it also felt like jack might be just courting someone who could prove to be useful next time he's in trouble or whatever. he was SUCH a dark horse that i couldn't take for granted any of the "work" he put in with zz, because i couldn't be sure how it would turn out for the two of them? (esp. since it is very strongly suggested that he at least knew about, or even had performed the assassination of... the gangster dude whose name i can't remember, but his death made cwh return to taiwan). so jack came across as a piece of superhot, fascinating, and potentially very bad news, and i kept hoping that maybe, even if he's being charming to a naive young cop for the wrong reasons and setting a safety net for himself in case things go south in cambodia, that he might end up falling for him anyway?

AND THEN jack shows up with a suitcase and has literally given up his past life for zz, and WOW, did that action speak louder than words. it made quite an impact, lemme tell you!
Edited 2020-01-04 00:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] her_cool_aunt 2020-01-05 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Quick little thought: does the Trapped pink come from Meng Shaofei’s frog sweatshirt worn for the bar undercover job?
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[personal profile] her_cool_aunt 2020-01-05 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the energy of the scenes with frog-sweatshirted MSF. I’ll save further comments on this topic for the rewatch postings, though.