OMG, the schoolboy ending. I hate it so much - it's such a "ick, ick, get it away from me" thing for me. I think if that had been the actual ending it would have completely soured me on the drama - no amount of brain bleach could have got that aftertaste out. I mean, I love the ending we did get, but literally anything would have been better than that. One of them surviving while the other was dead for good would have been better! And that's usually my worst-case scenario. /end rant
Anyway, this is really interesting speculation! I can see what you mean about the one-year-later scene. But, hm, there is foreshadowing for Zhao Yunlan ending up as the wick - did you notice the lanterns in his apartment? So I'm not sure Guo Changcheng was ever more than a red herring for that, in the drama. *ponders*
(I'm not bothered by the "not burning endlessly" thing - Zhang Shi claims that's what happens to the wick, but how would he know? Unless someone already did it once and came back ...)
Oh, and I don't remember where I got that from, but I thought that ending was supposed to happen instead of the meeting in the void, rather than in addition to it ...
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Date: 2019-04-06 11:55 am (UTC)Anyway, this is really interesting speculation! I can see what you mean about the one-year-later scene. But, hm, there is foreshadowing for Zhao Yunlan ending up as the wick - did you notice the lanterns in his apartment? So I'm not sure Guo Changcheng was ever more than a red herring for that, in the drama. *ponders*
(I'm not bothered by the "not burning endlessly" thing - Zhang Shi claims that's what happens to the wick, but how would he know? Unless someone already did it once and came back ...)
Oh, and I don't remember where I got that from, but I thought that ending was supposed to happen instead of the meeting in the void, rather than in addition to it ...