a sense of joy and then a panic

yeah, i s'pose i do sort of know your mom. and of course our prof was familiar w/ it. and no, i haven't seen the original Monkey King series or The Forbidden Kingdom. This was like my introduction to the whole thing (unless DBZ counts), and as such was really weird/confusing, because Part 1 starts when he's (Monkey King = Sun Wukong) reincarnated or whatever 500 years in the 'future' as a robber, and two demon sisters are coming to visit him, one of whom wants to marry him, and he doesn't know he's the Monkey King (or will be, once he gets his birthmarks 500 years in the past) or that they're demons and the subtitles do not do the Chinese justice. At all. Because Chinese puns are untranslatable. And we were just like 'wtf why is there a giant spider and this dude with hairy feet?', but eventually the Buddhist dude came and made it make a little bit more sense. We had to look up the Journey to the West on Wikipedia to make it make more sense. And Alexei explained more when we were presenting. Part 2 has what happens 500 years in the past. Go figure. My partner didn't even think he was the Monkey King until the very end (when he gets his birthmarks and such), but that much, at least, I did get pretty early on.