I don't know why more of an effort wasn't made in the script to indicate Zhao Yunlan was in YOHE longer than 24 hours, but I figured the filming everything at once was probably because it's cheaper to do that than to pause even for tiny adjustments of wardrobe, etc. And since it's wartime 10K years ago, following an extinction event that somehow miraculously did not cause the extinction of the Haixingren, Dixingren, or Yashouren, I find it easy enough to wave away same clothes and hair. I mean, it would be nice to get a little more help from the props department (like changing out Zhao Yunlan's lollipop and letting the candles burn down--or swapping them out--to show the passage of time), but I've always been good at spackling on the fly, so sometimes I don't even catch what's missing until a few rewatches in.
I do rather like the freedom we have to build our own headcanons of what happened, and to build completely different headcanons for different stories. The contradictions can be frustrating, but they can also be opportunities for creative interpretation (I never take Da Qing's "you just got here" literally, for instance; now that he's warmed up to Zhao Yunlan, of course no amount of time is long enough to spend together), and what we see on-screen can be separated out in myriad ways.
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Date: 2019-08-11 05:24 am (UTC)I do rather like the freedom we have to build our own headcanons of what happened, and to build completely different headcanons for different stories. The contradictions can be frustrating, but they can also be opportunities for creative interpretation (I never take Da Qing's "you just got here" literally, for instance; now that he's warmed up to Zhao Yunlan, of course no amount of time is long enough to spend together), and what we see on-screen can be separated out in myriad ways.