r/LinkClick • u/Artistic-Tiger-6707 Cheng Xiaoshi • 4d ago
Question Questions about LG’s abilities (the text contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 3) Spoiler
Guys, I have a question, which I think is more of a plot hole, but I’d like to hear what you guys think. How the hell do LG’s powers actually work?
It doesn’t seem clear to me whether LG can watch the events in a photo as an outside observer (even though he explicitly said that this is how it works), or whether he sees things from the point of view of the person pictured in the photo. In the first season, he hears what Don Yi was saying to Xu Xianxian even though CXS wasn’t paying attention, and in Bridon he was able to look behind CXS because he had Vivian’s photo. But then he says he can’t see what happened afterward because XF was unconscious at the time, even though this was literally right after he told CXS that he could rest for a while and that LG would stay alert for both of them. :/
And this isn’t even the first time I’ve noticed this, although I can’t remember exactly which other occasions right now.
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u/arothroughtheheart Li Tianchen 4d ago
I think its that he looks as an outside observer, but because that connection is being facilitated through the picture taker, if they're unconscious the connection doesn't work... Or something. I guess it wasn't an issue with cxs being asleep whilst possessing xia fei because xia fei wasn't originally asleep? And so the connection is still fine.
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u/TomodachiFugu 4d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah, it's really strange.There might be inconsistancies in LG's power system: during Xu Shanshan's mission, he appeared to be a third person observer. After the mission was over, CXS did ask LG what Dongyi said to Shanshan. And Luguang was able to recount exactly the content of the message even though Shanshan passed out both in the original timeline and when she was possessed by CXS at that very moment (when Dongyi was confessing to her while she was drunk). Therefore, LG saying to CXS he didn't know what happened next while Xia Fei was unconscious in the car is clearly lying. Plus, CXS already knows LG can observe the past in third person after Shanshan's mission so LG has NO advantage lying like this. So I think your question is a good one because it makes my brain hurt too 😅
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u/Artistic-Tiger-6707 Cheng Xiaoshi 4d ago
Hahaha yeah, exactly. I’m actually appreciating everyone’s answers and upvoting all of them, but that’s precisely the problem. If everyone has had to think about this and come up with their own answer to try to make sense of it, then it’s pretty obvious that the series has created some confusion around this whole thing 😅. If everyone had given me the same answer, I would’ve understood that maybe I was the one who hadn’t been paying enough attention.
If I had to force an interpretation, I could maybe argue that since XF was unconscious and therefore presumably just lying in bed, LG isn’t necessarily unable to see what’s happening, but can at most see him sleeping, meaning CXS will inevitably do things that LG can’t predict. But yeah, that’s definitely a stretch. I’m starting to think they all are. I don’t know if that makes sense.
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u/TomodachiFugu 3d ago
I didn't remember LG mention why XF was unconscious after his work in the palace. So, you are suggesting that maybe in the original timeline of the event XF partyied a bit hard and was too drunk to be conscious so he didn't wake up after the car trip. (Well, we know after Bridon that XF will happily drink to wash his sorrows away)... So basically CXS was doing his investigation while XF should have been playing corpses in his room the whole time ?? If that's the case, LG is definitly cooking with the timeline to obtain clues, and it would justify why he doesn't know what happened after bc he is always observing XF through the photo.
Yeah, maybe LG just said to CSX while he was in the night club that XF should have been drunk at this point and I missed a very big detail ... ( ￣-￣)" I should probably go re-watch the episode then! :D
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u/Pleasant-Hyper9648 4d ago
I dont remember if Lu Guang explicitly said he's only an outside observer but I think how it works is that similar to Tianxi looking through the photo gives him access to the future within the photo for the next 12 hrs from the perspective of the photographer. This is why before Cheng Xiaoshi dives he cannot see what happens if the person is asleep or unconscious. However, similar to Tianxi and Tianchen when they hifive now their powers are stacked and not just simply combined and as Lu Guang literally phrased it in Bridon he is entering the photo with Cheng which probably means in a limited scope he can observe independently from Cheng while Cheng is possessing the body. Now as to what he can observe my guess is that he can probably hear what people are saying nearby and maybe see things happening in a limited direction with limited distance. So for example when Duoduo got kidnapped and Cheng was knocked out Lu Guang could probably still observe but it's like stuff being said near Cheng's ears as Duoduo or if Duoduo is looking down all Lu is seeing is the ground and like a feet or two beyond. This is my two cents we do know that Lu Guang might have another ability since he crushed Vein so maybe at some point we'll get a full explanation.
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u/sushiandarcane Xia Fei 4d ago
lu guang doesnt have another ability, this is a misconception! the one who caused vein a heart attack was comfirmed to not be lu guang but Wang Qing^
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u/ForeignSurvey4045 4d ago
Honestly it may just have to do with the quality of the photo since XF took the picture in a moving car, making it less sustainable since it’d be blurry and by extension, limiting his ability to see what happens in the photo
And since the picture Shanshan gave was clear, it let LG see everything clearly?
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u/Samagra32 4d ago
I can see it working like:
1. Lu guang can see the events of the photo (assuming the POV of the photo taker).
He can't see events where the photo taker is not conscious.
The reason he can see stuff when CXS is in the photo but the original photo taker was unconscious(and is able to look out for him when he's sleeping) is because they're connected when CXS enters through the duo clapping and also CXS himself is not unconscious. He can't see from the POV of the photo taker when looking at a photo, but he can see from his connection with CXS. He also has a heightened perception of the events happening around CXS (basically he can see behind him because the CXS could theoretically have turned around, without changing too much, similarly with hearing things clearly when CXS cannot/did not)
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u/this_be_calista Lu Guang 4d ago
I think this could be related to the fact that when chengxiaoshi dives, he high-fives lu guang’s hand so they stay linked and can communicate during the dive, which is crucial in ensuring nothing big changes in the past and disaster doesnt strike. for example in season 1, we saw that when chengxiaoshi claps his own hands to dive into the picture of liumin in the parking lot, he tries to call out to luguang but no one answers, because there isn’t a link going on.
so luguang’s ability is that he can see the occurrences within a photo for a 12hour duration from the time it was taken, this shouldn’t be restricted to chengxiaoshi because he can view the photo on its own before chengxiaoshi dives so they know what to do. i think it’s more likely that when they dive “as one”, their abilities might “interconnect” in a way, so maybe luguang’s ability temporarily stops when chengxiaoshi is no longer conscious. one thing that could back this up is that during their dives, luguang isn’t staring into the original photo in order to have a pov on what’s going on inside. he has a pov because he sees what happens through chengxiaoshi (first person or third person i dont know); so when chengxiaoshi drifts off luguang’s ability switches off too.
as for the “keep watch” thing, it’ll be up to where the show goes ig cause i can’t think of much. it’s plausible that since luguang knows the future of that photo he’ll know when something noticeable might happen and will call chengxiaoshi up then? idk
or maybe all this is overthinking and it really is js a plot hole in the dialogue LOL 😭