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Patriotic Knights: the end
Sep. 30th, 2007 04:39 pm 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?
Patriotic Knights: the end
Sep. 30th, 2007 04:39 pm 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?
Bones: CAM!!!!
Sep. 30th, 2007 11:02 pmI have watched the first ep. of S2. I am sure I shall have both pertinent and squeeing things to say later, but for now: CAM!!!!
Seriously. I had heard that there was a new female boss replacing Goodman(though hopefully he's not completely gone...) who was of the dreaded 3rd party variety, but I didn't know much about her.
I love her. My sophomore season shows are being so amazingly kind to me in terms of giving me new female characters to like (please tell me she doesn't fall victim to rabid fandom hatred like Jo did...) Cam is that rarest of rare character: a truly likable, entertaining bitch. Best thing of the character type since Cordelia Chase(though, of course, a very, very different character....I feel a confrontation between those two would be the most entertaining thing I'd see for years...) She's no nonsense and takes no prisoners and will cheerfully devour you alive if you cross her, but she's utterly loyal to her people, even the ones who don't like her yet.
I'm actually a bit bitter that she's being used as a third party, as that NEVER fares well. Still, sometimes these characters come out ahead once that storyline runs its course. I shall hold out hope.
My one complaint is that the "I intimidate people" conversation with Booth felt a little forced...it did a good job of helpong to establish her attitude, and his parting line was ace, the bulk of the actual exchange felt shoehorned in to establish a rapport between the two, which I think was handled better in their other scenes together.
Oh, here's a Bones/Booth vid I like:
Seriously. I had heard that there was a new female boss replacing Goodman(though hopefully he's not completely gone...) who was of the dreaded 3rd party variety, but I didn't know much about her.
I love her. My sophomore season shows are being so amazingly kind to me in terms of giving me new female characters to like (please tell me she doesn't fall victim to rabid fandom hatred like Jo did...) Cam is that rarest of rare character: a truly likable, entertaining bitch. Best thing of the character type since Cordelia Chase(though, of course, a very, very different character....I feel a confrontation between those two would be the most entertaining thing I'd see for years...) She's no nonsense and takes no prisoners and will cheerfully devour you alive if you cross her, but she's utterly loyal to her people, even the ones who don't like her yet.
I'm actually a bit bitter that she's being used as a third party, as that NEVER fares well. Still, sometimes these characters come out ahead once that storyline runs its course. I shall hold out hope.
My one complaint is that the "I intimidate people" conversation with Booth felt a little forced...it did a good job of helpong to establish her attitude, and his parting line was ace, the bulk of the actual exchange felt shoehorned in to establish a rapport between the two, which I think was handled better in their other scenes together.
Oh, here's a Bones/Booth vid I like:
Bones: CAM!!!!
Sep. 30th, 2007 11:02 pmI have watched the first ep. of S2. I am sure I shall have both pertinent and squeeing things to say later, but for now: CAM!!!!
Seriously. I had heard that there was a new female boss replacing Goodman(though hopefully he's not completely gone...) who was of the dreaded 3rd party variety, but I didn't know much about her.
I love her. My sophomore season shows are being so amazingly kind to me in terms of giving me new female characters to like (please tell me she doesn't fall victim to rabid fandom hatred like Jo did...) Cam is that rarest of rare character: a truly likable, entertaining bitch. Best thing of the character type since Cordelia Chase(though, of course, a very, very different character....I feel a confrontation between those two would be the most entertaining thing I'd see for years...) She's no nonsense and takes no prisoners and will cheerfully devour you alive if you cross her, but she's utterly loyal to her people, even the ones who don't like her yet.
I'm actually a bit bitter that she's being used as a third party, as that NEVER fares well. Still, sometimes these characters come out ahead once that storyline runs its course. I shall hold out hope.
My one complaint is that the "I intimidate people" conversation with Booth felt a little forced...it did a good job of helpong to establish her attitude, and his parting line was ace, the bulk of the actual exchange felt shoehorned in to establish a rapport between the two, which I think was handled better in their other scenes together.
Oh, here's a Bones/Booth vid I like:
Seriously. I had heard that there was a new female boss replacing Goodman(though hopefully he's not completely gone...) who was of the dreaded 3rd party variety, but I didn't know much about her.
I love her. My sophomore season shows are being so amazingly kind to me in terms of giving me new female characters to like (please tell me she doesn't fall victim to rabid fandom hatred like Jo did...) Cam is that rarest of rare character: a truly likable, entertaining bitch. Best thing of the character type since Cordelia Chase(though, of course, a very, very different character....I feel a confrontation between those two would be the most entertaining thing I'd see for years...) She's no nonsense and takes no prisoners and will cheerfully devour you alive if you cross her, but she's utterly loyal to her people, even the ones who don't like her yet.
I'm actually a bit bitter that she's being used as a third party, as that NEVER fares well. Still, sometimes these characters come out ahead once that storyline runs its course. I shall hold out hope.
My one complaint is that the "I intimidate people" conversation with Booth felt a little forced...it did a good job of helpong to establish her attitude, and his parting line was ace, the bulk of the actual exchange felt shoehorned in to establish a rapport between the two, which I think was handled better in their other scenes together.
Oh, here's a Bones/Booth vid I like: