Too much mystery and vagueness to the purpose of "suspense" with no payoff because either the writers haven't though out the details that much, or want to leave room for future writing, or whatever. -_-
Yup, no confidence in these writers at all.
the arbiter-generals are pretty much on one side
Yeah, basically that's my assumption because that requires less writing skills. Good generals vs evil lords (who are named after the ten underworld gods, so like...evil).
The real question is if this is something that is local to just the Luofu, or if the sentiment is also present among the Vidyadhara leadership of other ships.
Sounds like we never got to see any normal Vidyadhara from other ships? Even 灵砂 was Luofu born. But also I'm presuming each ship's group have their own political fights. Like the Ten Lords are probably 10 different people on each ship with varying friendliness to the arbiter-generals. At the very minimum prison on Yaoqing is set above ground with a very different structure and design philosophy, suggesting there's huge variation.
Taoran thinks he has enough chips to bargain his sentence to the same level as with Dan Feng
Usually the bargaining comes up as political situations change. Like an event flares up, there's a need for manpower/intelligence/human resources or whatever and higher ups are willing to renegotiate. Taoran specifically mentioned the current investigation into Jing Yuan (and Hoolay escape) as a source of political headache and seems to imply his release can help smooth over some of the troubles. (Obviously he was shocked that Hoolay escape was part of Jing Yuan's plan all along -- which is also BS writing -- and that seemed to have thrown a bit of a wrench into his plans.)
Taoran, what has he contributed? His implication seems to be he has enough dirt to eventually exchange for a lighter sentence.
I don't think Taoran was talking about dirt. He mentioned 权衡, so it's more about the fact that his people won't cause even more problems in exchange for not killing him. In the sense of: "If you kill me, my people will bring in even more of Destruction's followers and absolutely wreck Luofu. Even if you win, it'll be a pyrrhic victory. Are you sure you're ready to let so many Cloud Knights die?" Etc.
if this whole patch was Jing Yuan trying to weed out the bad eggs in his government, just stopping at Taoran when there is obviously more corruption behind him, just...I don't want to say failure, but it doesn't feel like it's a success, IMO
I mean it's not a success since it sounds like the conflict isn't remotely settled? Seems like they're trying to tie all three worlds together somehow.... Not that I have any trust in them to do this.
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Yup, no confidence in these writers at all.
Yeah, basically that's my assumption because that requires less writing skills. Good generals vs evil lords (who are named after the ten underworld gods, so like...evil).
Sounds like we never got to see any normal Vidyadhara from other ships? Even 灵砂 was Luofu born. But also I'm presuming each ship's group have their own political fights. Like the Ten Lords are probably 10 different people on each ship with varying friendliness to the arbiter-generals. At the very minimum prison on Yaoqing is set above ground with a very different structure and design philosophy, suggesting there's huge variation.
Usually the bargaining comes up as political situations change. Like an event flares up, there's a need for manpower/intelligence/human resources or whatever and higher ups are willing to renegotiate. Taoran specifically mentioned the current investigation into Jing Yuan (and Hoolay escape) as a source of political headache and seems to imply his release can help smooth over some of the troubles. (Obviously he was shocked that Hoolay escape was part of Jing Yuan's plan all along -- which is also BS writing -- and that seemed to have thrown a bit of a wrench into his plans.)
I don't think Taoran was talking about dirt. He mentioned 权衡, so it's more about the fact that his people won't cause even more problems in exchange for not killing him. In the sense of: "If you kill me, my people will bring in even more of Destruction's followers and absolutely wreck Luofu. Even if you win, it'll be a pyrrhic victory. Are you sure you're ready to let so many Cloud Knights die?" Etc.
I mean it's not a success since it sounds like the conflict isn't remotely settled? Seems like they're trying to tie all three worlds together somehow.... Not that I have any trust in them to do this.