The Untamed - Nickname Edition

[rheasilvia]

It took a surprisingly long time, but solo and I finally finished watching The Untamed. I really enjoyed it! So of course, there is a pressing issue I must adress: NICKNAMES.

For the purposes of clever (?) commentary, solo and I came up with a number of nicknames while watching. We replaced some with actual names in due course, but others stuck around till the very end. ;-) (I should add that few of them are complimentary - but my surprise fave is among those with a really bad nickname, so...)

• Stoneface


• Jin Douche


• Canary Guy


• Sulkmeister


• Pretty Evil Guy, or PEG for short - also known as Cray Evil Guy by solo (who failed to appreciate his charms)


• Jin Douche.2, or JD2


• Slimeface, also Slimedude or Slimer


• Cute Baby Cultivator, or CBC


• Jim, also known as Golden Guy - named Jim because of solo's passionate non-spellchecked outbursts of "I really hate jim"


• Bonus nickname I came up with too late, but that I wish I had though of in time: Soup Girl

I now have a number of burning questions for all of you. Namely:

1. Can you tell who these people are?*

2. Do you have nicknames for The Untamed characters?

3. Why does nobody appreciate my darling properly?

So many qestions!


*If anyone guesses all of the nicknames, I will write a drabble for them. ;-)

ETA: Unsurprisingly, there are spoilers in the comments! Just in case anyone is even slower than I in watching this. ;-)

Comments

[marycrawford]

SWEET POTATO yes of course! Perfect! I do love him so.

I have no memory of Chief Yao, but then given that I can't remember about 90% of the more important people's names that's hardly surprising.

I like the character a lot in concept, but he's not an easy sell in the drama for me, either.

Yeah, agreed - I think I mostly got spoiled by Zhu Yilong's microexpressions on the one hand (I mean, not that he's in the Untamed, though that would be amazing), and WWX's effervescence on the other.

[rheasilvia]

Sweet potato it is, then! It's a good thing they don't have any more siblings. What would we do then??

Chief Yao is really just a blustery mouthpiece for the annoying group of ignoramuses that like to flow with the uninformed tide. He even ends up on WWX's side at the end, because that's the way public opinion is going. It doesn't make him any more palatable.

I think I mostly got spoiled by Zhu Yilong's microexpressions on the one hand (I mean, not that he's in the Untamed, though that would be amazing), and WWX's effervescence on the other.

Yeeees, OMG, I thought of Zhu Yilong so often when I watched Stoneface. If an actor of his caliber had been playing him, he could have conveyed *so much* while still being every bit as stoic and sternly reserved. It would have been amazing. I felt that the actor got a lot better as the drama went on, and I think people like LWJ are actually the most difficult to act - so I in no way want to put down the actual actor.

Even so, I think if a different actor had played Shen Wei, I might never have warmed to the character *or* his relationship with Zhao Yunlan at all. And if a different actor had played Stoneface, I might now be just as passionate about The Untamed as I am about Guardian.