Heh, you know how I feel about the ending myself, but I still prefer what we got to the alternate. I could've found a workaround for it (the easiest being Zhao Yunlan nopes out of there for a couple decades and comes back when it's not so creepy!) but just as soon we didn't have to...
But no, the meeting in the void was definitely meant to happen along with the schoolboy ending -- or part of it, anyway; during the schoolboy ending (the cut we have), Zhao Yunlan actually flashes back to the void meeting. Which confirms, I think, that the void meeting was originally intended to refer to reincarnation (to me it pretty clearly did anyway, but it's technically more ambiguous in the aired version? Same as WeiLan is technically a good communist bromance in the show...)
Honestly I'm confused why the whole "burning endlessly" thing with the Lantern was put in at all. What's the purpose, narratively speaking; isn't someone dying for the thing enough of a sacrifice? Especially when we don't see Zhao Yunlan suffering at all; we just see him die. And then that he's in the void and doesn't seem to particularly be in pain...it's odd!
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Date: 2019-04-06 11:21 pm (UTC)But no, the meeting in the void was definitely meant to happen along with the schoolboy ending -- or part of it, anyway; during the schoolboy ending (the cut we have), Zhao Yunlan actually flashes back to the void meeting. Which confirms, I think, that the void meeting was originally intended to refer to reincarnation (to me it pretty clearly did anyway, but it's technically more ambiguous in the aired version? Same as WeiLan is technically a good communist bromance in the show...)
Honestly I'm confused why the whole "burning endlessly" thing with the Lantern was put in at all. What's the purpose, narratively speaking; isn't someone dying for the thing enough of a sacrifice? Especially when we don't see Zhao Yunlan suffering at all; we just see him die. And then that he's in the void and doesn't seem to particularly be in pain...it's odd!