Patriotic Knights: the end
Sep. 30th, 2007 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmoore I have finished. v There were many fights, many rescues, romantic declarations at imopportune times, random poisoning and recoveries, kidnappings, and at least 4 cases of non-fatally falling off cliffs.
Much fun was had by all. Well...by me at least. I am sure other wuxia fans on the f-list who watch it shall also enjoy it.
I am especially amazingly fond of all the parody/homages of wuxia throughout...I don't mean like in Handsome Siblings, where they apparently completely gutted the original story and rewrote it to cater to Dicky Cheung making fun of wuxia, but little "we love wuxia, but let's face it...it can be absurd." I'm especially fonf of Yan Yan acting out(and failing at) virtually every "scorned other woman" storyline within five minutes, and the amazing sendup to the whole "poisoned wedding/cave" bit from Return if the Condor Heroes. For that matter, Zhu Liu himself is kinda there to show that you can have a Yang Guo/Little Fish-like character without making him an annoying brat and prankster who needs to be punched in the face (removing the pranks and always trying to one-up and shame everyone you meet makes the character type amazingly endearing...though Chen long himself helped a lot)
I also love how virtually every hero is a former villain, related to a villain, or gets mistaken for a villain. Plus, Hong Ying and her brother? The Vale family in ROCH has NOTHING on these two.
Quasi related: I have found the far more faithful(I'm told) Jimmy Lin/Alec Su Proud Twins(aka, Handsome Siblings) on crunchyroll, as well as a translation of the novel(supposedly complete, but I haven't checked yet) As I'm very curious to see what the story should be(as I understand it, only the parent's backstory and most of Nic Tse's storyline-which would be the good parts-were really left in the Dicky Cheung/Nic Tse version.) Do I feel like committing myself to one of those? And if so, which?
Much fun was had by all. Well...by me at least. I am sure other wuxia fans on the f-list who watch it shall also enjoy it.
I am especially amazingly fond of all the parody/homages of wuxia throughout...I don't mean like in Handsome Siblings, where they apparently completely gutted the original story and rewrote it to cater to Dicky Cheung making fun of wuxia, but little "we love wuxia, but let's face it...it can be absurd." I'm especially fonf of Yan Yan acting out(and failing at) virtually every "scorned other woman" storyline within five minutes, and the amazing sendup to the whole "poisoned wedding/cave" bit from Return if the Condor Heroes. For that matter, Zhu Liu himself is kinda there to show that you can have a Yang Guo/Little Fish-like character without making him an annoying brat and prankster who needs to be punched in the face (removing the pranks and always trying to one-up and shame everyone you meet makes the character type amazingly endearing...though Chen long himself helped a lot)
I also love how virtually every hero is a former villain, related to a villain, or gets mistaken for a villain. Plus, Hong Ying and her brother? The Vale family in ROCH has NOTHING on these two.
Quasi related: I have found the far more faithful(I'm told) Jimmy Lin/Alec Su Proud Twins(aka, Handsome Siblings) on crunchyroll, as well as a translation of the novel(supposedly complete, but I haven't checked yet) As I'm very curious to see what the story should be(as I understand it, only the parent's backstory and most of Nic Tse's storyline-which would be the good parts-were really left in the Dicky Cheung/Nic Tse version.) Do I feel like committing myself to one of those? And if so, which?