It's as if these characters are now tattooed on my chest like I was branded (almost like Wang Ling Jiao does), and I cannot stop thinking about them. The Untamed touched me on a deeper level than I was prepared for ( okay, more like sucker punched me in the face.) Clearly, I was an unsuspecting victim of this show. Yeah, sure there are few token females but other than Wen Xing, and Yanli they were either caricatures, miserable, whiny women or annoying stereotypes (but that’s for another article). What was left, was the most incredible display of humanity played out by a few dozen men. Because of my inexperience with this type of literature and my love of fantasy in general, I’m left watching this show with my own preconceived notions and perceptions.
And yes, I’m not a complete idiot, there is obviously more than friendship between Wei Ying (aka Wei Wuxian or the Yiling Patriarch) and Lan Zhan (aka Lan Wangji or Hanguan Jun) and several other couples as well. Yes, I understand there are undercurrents and stuff that as a hopeless heterosexual, I just don’t understand and often miss. Yes, I know that the genre of this book is LGBT and yes, I know that the creators of The Untamed had to change some of the story to get by censors. Its like “The Starry Night” by Van Gogh or Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” but ever so much more!Īh, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji… I just can’t get enough of these two. May I mention that the C-drama The Untamed ( no, not the book Mo Dao Zu Shi – I haven’t read it) is one of the most FLAWLESS representations of the human condition I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing in technicolor with subtitles? I’m just giddy thinking about it. What may surprise you is my viewpoint on The Untamed is probably unique and maybe even a little controversial.
Again, it was no great shock that The Untamed would have me tormented night after night until I finally completed ALL fifty episodes (as I write, I’ve started the show again.Well what do you expect? It's just insanely SPECTACULAR). As a huge fan of anything Wuxia, it was no surprise that I would eventually surrender to the tide of popularity and binge watch The Untamed.
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