Um. Wow. I am pretty speechless.

[dangermousie]

It takes a really special kind of evil to tell the man who had just lost pretty much his entire family - his father and all his brothers - that with his own two hands he has to kill the woman he loves or else he's not getting the antidote for the poison with which you poisoned his soldiers.

aaaaaa


aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

My jaw.

Floor.

Pan Ying, I believe you may have just claimed the crown of the worst human being I've seen in a drama.



I mean, the term psycho bitch is in no way adequate to describe it. Especially since she seems to be operating from "I know you can't love me, but if I can't have you, your OTP can't either and I will make you suffer for all eternity in the worst way, too." That would be a psycho attitude under any circumstances, but seeing that Six was always nice to Psycho and that he has just lost his entire freaking family in battle, who does that? AAAAARGH.



So basically, long story short. Pan Ying poisoned all the Yang soldiers and tells Six he can get the antidote only if he kills Princess Chai (who's with him and is also poisoned) in front of her. She says she'll have company in Hades either way. Nice.

Six tries to reason with her and to plead with her but since she's a murderous satan-like being, it's not working. And he's basically going insane because that's a choice he can't make, so Princess Chai takes matters into her own hands and stabs herself with his sword, Psycho Bitch exclaims how happy she is and gives them the antidote and Princess Chai uses her last strength to drive that same sword through Psycho Bitch. Who falls to the floor and grins and goes "did you think I gave you the real antidote?" God, she was going to make Six do that and then laugh in his face that is was for nothing? Ugh DIAFFFFFFFFFF.

























































(Do not worry, they do get the real antidote and Princess Chai miraculously survives. I am not sure how it makes sense anatomically but by then I didn't care if it was through magic sparkles or something, I couldn't take any more tragedy).

As you can guess, I skipped ahead to ep 42. Basically, I watched them through ep 35 which was so happy it was unbelievable and made me cry from joy and will get its own post. And I know what happens after so I decided to take a break. But not without peeking into ep 42 for whatever reason.

Seriously, what is it with Hu Ge playing characters who get tortured by psychos who insist it's his fault?

Comments

[lady-wu.livejournal.com]

Please tell me they kill that bitch off on screen in this show...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, they do. It was most satisfying.

Btw, you are safe through ep 35. In fact, 35 was one of the most amazingly happy things I've seen in a long time. It made me sniffle from happiness.

[lady-wu.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to get there! I wish I weren't so obsessive about watching everything in its entirety and can skip over all those Pan Ying parts (now on Pan Ying sucking up to the Yangs and making some kind of unholy pact with her dad). To think that once upon a time I thought Pan Bao was the scummiest of the lowest scum of the world. Good job, Pan Renmei, in beating your own record of producing the most psychotic low-life of an offspring.

On another note, I finally realized why I didn't fall for Six before. It's his silly outfit (plus the worst hat in the Yang family...). Looking at your screenshots, especially with him in armour, I'm starting to find him cute.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

See, I skip the Pans for my own sanity and am much happier this way :)

Re: Six. True. I mean, Hu Ge is a good-looking man in any event, but I only truly started finding Six hot when he started loosening his hair and wearing armor :P

[singing-tree.livejournal.com]

I must see this.
I watched Chinese Paladin 3 for a while and I confess I like this smart, capable Hu Ge more than that airhead from CH3.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Hu Ge in CP3 - well, all I can say is that the sole reason I didn't hate the character was because he was played by Hu Ge.

OTOH, Hu Ge in Young Warriors:



Or Legend of Condor Heroes 2008:



Or The Myth:



is an entirely different matter altogether. My best friend, who has zip interest in dramas, despite my repeated tries, and normally doesn't find Asian men particularly to her taste, went rabid for him in The Myth, which remains the only drama she watched from beginning to end.

I can't wait for his Shangri-La coming out later this year - he plays a nomad horse thief, mmmm. Sadly, it seems he's transitioning into modern dramas which is obviously his prerogative but I am going to miss him in epics because he suits them in a way few others do.

[hamster428.livejournal.com]

!!! aww shiet, now i have to find time somehow somewhere between Big Bang Theory and IW to watch this. how do you watch 10 dramas at the same time? that's not physically possible is it?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, I am currently bedridden from post-surgery so have plenty of time (don't recommend that method though :P) Plus, I ff a lot and it does take me a long time to get through them.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Seriously, what is it with Hu Ge playing characters who get tortured by psychos who insist it's his fault?



Well, this is the guy who, in his first major role, had virtually every person he knew die horribly, carried around his wife's corpse for a while, and then wandered off to travel a now severely depopulated ancient China with a newborn baby. And most of his series since have been by the person who came up with that...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I remember CP1 ending. CP1 wasn't a drama that really worked for me so I wasn't invested in his character but I still went - whaaaaaat at the ending.

Hey, he doesn't fare any better when he does dramas with others. I think The Myth only ended because they ran out of awful things to do to him, physically or mentally or emotionally.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for CP1 because it was either my first or second cdrama. (I can't remember if I saw it or Seven Swordsmen first.)

The Myth's ending sounds similar to Little Fairy. IIRC, they throw in some torturing of Ariel Lin at one point there, too.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ariel Lin is allowed to be tortured even less than Hu Ge is. Though at least LF ends on hopeful reincarnation note and The Myth is just bleak despair.

Speaking of Hu Ge and Ariel, have you watched LOCH yet? Because you'd love it.