有辱斯文 - or - A disgrace to scholars

I'm in both camps: grateful the show existed so we got the absolutely phenomenal casting so we have perfect actors in our minds for the characters, but also equally furious that we didn't get the full-court press treatment. In a weird way, as mad as I am about being ripped off the full penetrative reality of the relationship, I'm even angrier about stripping out the supernatural components of the story, which are so essential to the narrative and so deeply CHINESE, too. Infuriating. But also a gift that I have to like. So like an Instapot -- but in puke green.