The best way to watch The Untamed is to play a game where you try to guess as quickly as possible if the music in any given scene is diegetic. Surprisingly hard. People be playing a lot of flutes and whatnot.
Sometimes people will be playing an instrument, and other characters will react to them playing that instrument, but the actual sound is of multiple instruments, leading to the question of whether the soundtrack entirely non-diegetic or if, for example, Wei Wuxian actually is playing the flute music we hear and then additionally there’s also soundtrack, OR (and I do think this is the best) there are other people playing more instruments slightly offscreen and we just can’t see them.
Guys I can’t stress enough how fun this game is. Lan Wangji walked off screen and then music started playing, and me and Cyrus were clenched to see if the music was actually happening or not, and when it was we screamed. People on this show love playing a little song about their problems and whatnot.
