Side Story of Fox Volant Episode 13

Drama-preserving handicap trope & Noble idiocy trope

This episode starts off with the writers threatening to use the ever-annoying 'drama-preserving handicap' trope. It's been ages already since we've had a fully healthy Hu Fei (way WAY back in episode 7 !!!!! And now, just when there is a pathway to him finally getting fully healed (and maybe able to start pulling his weight in their relationship) ... the writers yank that away so we think we will have to endure watching handicapped Hu Fei for a bit longer ... and then just when they provide a solution to that ... they threaten us with the freaking Noble Idiocy plot trope as we see Ziyi promising to her master to go back to the temple and seclusion once his leg is healed in order to 'pay back karma'???? This is SO STUPID I want to throw something. The All-Knowing Nun accusing Ziyi of being 'greedy' is such broken logic. She's not 'greedy' for wanting to help people. Feng Tianman was a villain and didn't become one just because Ziyi went down the mountain. Hu Fei was headed to Foshan independent of Ziyi and almost certainly would have clashed with Feng anyway and probably would be dead if not for Ziyi. So to make her feel like all the tough things that happened are her fault for 'going down the mountain' is just stupid. And it makes me very suspicious of the Nun that maybe she has some ulterior motive. Now, even if they don't actually follow through with the noble idiocy trope, it's very annoying that they are yanking us around with the threat of these tropes.

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