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history3_trapped2020-01-11 07:03 pm
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Discussion post - episode 3
The episode starts with Li Zhi De chastising some unfortunate minions for their failure to find Tang Yi. We get the first hints of his conflict with Jack and see the steel under Jack's smile as he warns Li Zhi De not to cross him.
Tang Yi and Meng Shao Fei make it to the road and run into a couple of bad guys. In a fairly odd sequence, Meng Shao Fei imagines trying to get past them by throwing pebbles at them from makeshift catapults, or by stripping down to their pants and flagging down a car. (And then he faints, but we don't see it, and Tang Yi somehow gets them to safety, right? I've always been a bit confused by this bit.)
Zhao Zi is napping on the interrogation room sofa and Jack wakes him up with the application of tickles. Zhao Zi is completely unintimidated by him and offers to trade Meng Shao Fei's number for food: a lot of food
We then see Meng Shao Fei in hospital being attended to by Dr Jiang. It becomes quickly obvious that Dr Jiang and Tang Yi are old friends, and that Tang Yi turning up with a mysterious dude with whom he spent the night on the mountain is probably the best thing to happen to Dr Jiang all year.
Zhao Zi and Jack chat as Zhao Zi eats ALL THE THINGS and Jack is so clearly and immediately charmed by him. And I love how angry and protective Jack gets when Li Zhi De pushes Zhao Zi's noodles to the floor (the yelling at Li Zhi De was what struck me this time, as well as the cuddling.) And, talking of being charmed, Jack's "I'll make it up to you next time" and Zhao Zi's sunny, "Sure" just melted me. Zhao Zi you probably shouldn't trust Jack this much this quickly, but I'm really glad that you do.
Once Tang Yi is back, Jack and Li Zhi De disagree over who kidnapped him, with Li Zhi De trying to pin the blame on Chen Wen Hao. We also get the first hints that Li Zhi De is shady, as he makes a mysterious phone call which Jack overhears.
Next morning, Meng Shao Fei endears himself to Tang Yi by returning the lost Lighter of Significance and they go out for lunch. Jack's look of amusement as the supposed enemies saunter off together is very cute. At lunch, Meng Shao Fei is variously an awkward turtle and a total spicy food + coke reprobate, and you can see Tang Yi being like, oh no, I'm falling for this guy? But it's easy to see why, because Meng Shao Fei's love of food and enthusiasm for life in general is very infectious.
Meng Shao Fei gets chewed out by Captain Shi (casting directors, please cast Captain Shi's actor in every comedy from now on, because he is HILARIOUS.) After they have to go apologise to the extremely rigid Interpol dude, we get a lovely sense of how much they do really care about each other, brought out by them being united against a common enemy.
Meng Shao Fei shows up at the suit shop to tell Tang Yi he believes it was Chen Wen Hao who kidnapped them, and apparently I now have a thing for Tang Yi very drily calling him Officer Meng, oh no.
The police team undertake another hilariously obvious stake out at Andy's bar to try arrest a drug dealer (?) called Big K. There may be no sight as uwu in this world as Meng Shao Fei wearing that frog jumper and holding a cosmopolitan.
Tang Yi comes into the bar to ask Andy for information, and Meng Shao Fei loses all interest in the stakeout as soon as he sees them together. Watching the scene this time I got hit with a lot of feelings about the positivity of the show's depiction of different ways of presenting as queer, and how well this is demonstrated by Andy and Tang Yi's close friendship and obvious huge affection for each other. Also, I think in order for a character to be likeable, you have to also like their friends and how they act towards them, and this is another thing Trapped does very well.
I love how pleased Andy looks that Tang Yi is interested in someone, even as he teases him. And I love that they know each other well enough that all it needs is Tang Yi's, "Help me out" before he kisses him and Andy knows exactly what he's trying to do, and has no objections to being used to make Meng Shao Fei jealous.
Tang Yi and Meng Shao Fei make it to the road and run into a couple of bad guys. In a fairly odd sequence, Meng Shao Fei imagines trying to get past them by throwing pebbles at them from makeshift catapults, or by stripping down to their pants and flagging down a car. (And then he faints, but we don't see it, and Tang Yi somehow gets them to safety, right? I've always been a bit confused by this bit.)
Zhao Zi is napping on the interrogation room sofa and Jack wakes him up with the application of tickles. Zhao Zi is completely unintimidated by him and offers to trade Meng Shao Fei's number for food: a lot of food
We then see Meng Shao Fei in hospital being attended to by Dr Jiang. It becomes quickly obvious that Dr Jiang and Tang Yi are old friends, and that Tang Yi turning up with a mysterious dude with whom he spent the night on the mountain is probably the best thing to happen to Dr Jiang all year.
Zhao Zi and Jack chat as Zhao Zi eats ALL THE THINGS and Jack is so clearly and immediately charmed by him. And I love how angry and protective Jack gets when Li Zhi De pushes Zhao Zi's noodles to the floor (the yelling at Li Zhi De was what struck me this time, as well as the cuddling.) And, talking of being charmed, Jack's "I'll make it up to you next time" and Zhao Zi's sunny, "Sure" just melted me. Zhao Zi you probably shouldn't trust Jack this much this quickly, but I'm really glad that you do.
Once Tang Yi is back, Jack and Li Zhi De disagree over who kidnapped him, with Li Zhi De trying to pin the blame on Chen Wen Hao. We also get the first hints that Li Zhi De is shady, as he makes a mysterious phone call which Jack overhears.
Next morning, Meng Shao Fei endears himself to Tang Yi by returning the lost Lighter of Significance and they go out for lunch. Jack's look of amusement as the supposed enemies saunter off together is very cute. At lunch, Meng Shao Fei is variously an awkward turtle and a total spicy food + coke reprobate, and you can see Tang Yi being like, oh no, I'm falling for this guy? But it's easy to see why, because Meng Shao Fei's love of food and enthusiasm for life in general is very infectious.
Meng Shao Fei gets chewed out by Captain Shi (casting directors, please cast Captain Shi's actor in every comedy from now on, because he is HILARIOUS.) After they have to go apologise to the extremely rigid Interpol dude, we get a lovely sense of how much they do really care about each other, brought out by them being united against a common enemy.
Meng Shao Fei shows up at the suit shop to tell Tang Yi he believes it was Chen Wen Hao who kidnapped them, and apparently I now have a thing for Tang Yi very drily calling him Officer Meng, oh no.
The police team undertake another hilariously obvious stake out at Andy's bar to try arrest a drug dealer (?) called Big K. There may be no sight as uwu in this world as Meng Shao Fei wearing that frog jumper and holding a cosmopolitan.
Tang Yi comes into the bar to ask Andy for information, and Meng Shao Fei loses all interest in the stakeout as soon as he sees them together. Watching the scene this time I got hit with a lot of feelings about the positivity of the show's depiction of different ways of presenting as queer, and how well this is demonstrated by Andy and Tang Yi's close friendship and obvious huge affection for each other. Also, I think in order for a character to be likeable, you have to also like their friends and how they act towards them, and this is another thing Trapped does very well.
I love how pleased Andy looks that Tang Yi is interested in someone, even as he teases him. And I love that they know each other well enough that all it needs is Tang Yi's, "Help me out" before he kisses him and Andy knows exactly what he's trying to do, and has no objections to being used to make Meng Shao Fei jealous.
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Ah-de is pretty crap as a gangster. He gets beaten up (twice) by MSF and never looks intimidating. He mainly seems to spending his time moaning to TY about stuff.
When Ah-de knocks over ZZ's bowl of noodles, my first thought was who does the gang HQ carpet cleaning? Followed by wondering who gets blamed for the mess. TY has an extremely neat, spartan aesthetic and I can't imagine he'd condone noodley carpets in his home.
Clevermanka may be pleased to hear that my initial negative view of Hong-ye is improving. I think it’s the slightly shrill delivery of some of the lines rather than what she actually says that bothers me. I'm coming around.
Does TY really mean it when he promises HY to steer clear of MSF in future?? :-) If so, he lasts less than 24 hours before he's straight off to lunch the very next day!
Given the slight awkwardness to start with in the lunch scene, it's a good job this is the fastest restaurant kitchen ever! And I LOVE all the little bemused/indulgent expressions on TY’s face thought the meal. The music choice for this scene is inspired. It matches the mood so well.
I'm impressed by MSF’s super low bows to Interpol. The first one is with the captain’s hand on his neck for added joy! And then the lovely moment between them in the corridor after the scolding (ahem meeting) affirming their relationship. Nice.
Final thought re: the stakeout: surely if one of the undercover cops is a bartender then Andy must know about the police operation? I love the whole scene, though, so I really don't care if there's a tiny plot issue.
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I also like her point when she says, "Not every 'I'm sorry' can be exchanged for a 'It's okay.'" I felt that was a very realistic communication thing for her to point out, particularly in a relationship where it's clear that Tang Yi is still seen by people in the syndicate as 'The Boss' and she's still seen as below him in the hierarchy, particularly with the way that Gu Dao Yi keeps her at arm's length. It is true that in a lot of situations where men will just go about doing stupid things and saying sorry afterward and expecting women to clean up the mess for them, I liked Hong Ye pointing this out and still being mad at him.
I find Huang Yu Qi much more shrill/whiny than Hong Ye, who seems to be able to handle herself, but who is just driven to wit's end by Tang Yi's poor choices.