HeadInTheClouds:
The blood faucet was so bad. I burst out laughing while watching that scene. Talk about killing the mood. They should have kept it like in the novel - passing blood through the mouth and sucking the poison from her neck ;-). I blame censorship >:(
I can't even give censorship all the credit to the terrible portrayal of the 37 years. There many ways to portray the intimacy in these years without running into issues of consent etc. Plus, if its all censorship then talk about double standard --XY feeding Jing medicine should be censored too!
I just really think TH is a terrible screen writer and the director herself didn't intervene which is unfortunate.
In replace of the blood faucet, XL should been portrayed to pull the energy (make it red) out from his heart and tranfered it to her etc...in Wuxia, energy are always transfefed from the back, so after he finishes transfering, they both could fall next to each other, or even have her back fall in to his arms.
While shes in his arms, he can tilt her head towards him and transfere out the poison like how they did in the drama, no lips touching. It would still maintain the intimacy without any lips touching and embarrassing cgi.
They could have XL moving flyaway hairs hair whike talking to her. Like so mamy things TH couldve wrtitten to show the intimacy that was censored out.
And XY ghost monologue, I would axed that ? out.