that whole scene would've worked better if they don't go along with Taoran's line of conversation
Well, the problem I'm seeing is that the writers are cribbing from court drama plot. Think classic "the border is getting invaded by nomads, spies and traitors are in our midst, the evil civilian ministers are putting their personal interests over the interest of the kingdom and trying to destroy the loyal generals" type of story. Like, yeah, that shit's popular, but there's zero explanation of the political structure, everything is guess work... Plus they have to somehow tie this to apparently the space travel shit that's happening on other planets. It's nonsense.
just threaten to exile him and his cohorts to join Phantylia if they think teaming up with an agent of Destruction is such a great idea
I mean that doesn't address the root of the problem, which is there is severe disunity in the alliance. Getting rid of Taoran won't disuade the seditious faction from backstabbing the alliance/Luofu (seems like this is a localized Luofu problem for some reason?).
Why does she only get to snipe at Jing Yuan, who at most let them get exiled out of neglect, but more likely out of protection...
Er, wasn't Lingsha's master involved in the definitely illegal usage of the memory potion on Dan Heng? That seems to be what the screencaps were saying. I doubt it was neglect so much as more of Jing Yuan's struggles to keep slowly chipping away at the seditious faction while trying to ensure things don't get too crazy or accidentally get Bailu killed in the process. He clearly didn't feel like he could go on a corruption weeding spree and needed to pull the threads carefully because there were too many intertwined interests. At least that seems to be the implication.
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Date: 2024-09-12 07:33 (UTC)Well, the problem I'm seeing is that the writers are cribbing from court drama plot. Think classic "the border is getting invaded by nomads, spies and traitors are in our midst, the evil civilian ministers are putting their personal interests over the interest of the kingdom and trying to destroy the loyal generals" type of story. Like, yeah, that shit's popular, but there's zero explanation of the political structure, everything is guess work... Plus they have to somehow tie this to apparently the space travel shit that's happening on other planets. It's nonsense.
I mean that doesn't address the root of the problem, which is there is severe disunity in the alliance. Getting rid of Taoran won't disuade the seditious faction from backstabbing the alliance/Luofu (seems like this is a localized Luofu problem for some reason?).
Er, wasn't Lingsha's master involved in the definitely illegal usage of the memory potion on Dan Heng? That seems to be what the screencaps were saying. I doubt it was neglect so much as more of Jing Yuan's struggles to keep slowly chipping away at the seditious faction while trying to ensure things don't get too crazy or accidentally get Bailu killed in the process. He clearly didn't feel like he could go on a corruption weeding spree and needed to pull the threads carefully because there were too many intertwined interests. At least that seems to be the implication.