Things wuxia taught me

[dangermousie]

If there is one thing watching wuxia dramas taught me it is that if there is some sort of famous saying about your martial prowess, you might as well make out your will. In Three Kingdoms, there was one about Lu Bu and his horse, and Lu Bu met a grisly grisly death (though his horse fared much better). Now there is one about beggar guy and fugly cousin in DG&SD so I am pretty sure both of them are toast. Unless one of them turns into a horse, that is.

In other news, was checking my downloads, and DG&SD promises me the below. I have no idea what is going on, but I do believe these are the bodies of sibling makeouter's parents. I foresee epic angst. Am I a bad person for saying I cannot wait?





Clearly, in wuxia world, if you are parents and you have a hot heroic kid, you are doomed to die in a grisly fashion to provide him with some character-building misery and possibly a vendetta.

Oh, and another thing I learned from wuxia. All parents are insane. This is from Heaven Sword & Dragon Sabre. That is a hell of a motherly dying advice to give to your little kid as he's freaking out over the murder of his father, not knowing his mother is about to follow suit. Way to screw him up for life, lady!




Of course, none of these are as cool as the one about the fact that having a hot female master means you simply must practice kung fu naked in a field of flowers, that I learned years ago, courtesy of ROCH.



Yeah, kung fu practice. That's what all the cool kids are calling it these days :P

I think I need a wuxia break, I am sort of overdosing. I am going back to Romantic Red Rouge.

Comments

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

LOL about naked martial arts in a field of flowers!

Other than that, RRR is rotting my brain! I get annoyed but I can't seem to make myself stay away!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I was laughing so hard when they said they needed it for their kungfu to be nekkid. Ahahahahahha. I should try this line on Mr Mousie.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, HSDS mom is a beautiful villainess and skilled (and smart!) liar who just happened to fall in love with a hero, so there is some personal experience there...

(I wanted a series all about the parents! I would have eagerly watched a show all about the parents having adventures!)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

HSDS is just not clicking for me, however beautiful it is. Not sure if it is the drama's fault or just my period/wuxia cdrama overload.

I am going to do a strict schedule from now on, for my sanity. First catch up on Jade Palace Lock Heart (which is something you'd love imo) and then limit myself to just 3 cdramas simultaneously (Warriors or Yang Clan, Four Women and Red Rouge). And then only when I am done with them, do the Demi Gods, Men and Legends and the Book and the Sword trio.

Otherwise, I am going nuts.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It is gorgeous. And I appreciated that they didn't even pretend they were trying to not make it look fake.

I think it's the show itself, though, as I certainly wasn't going through wuxia overload when I tried to watch it. It was my first to try out after not watching a wuxia series (a few movies, yes-more than a few, actually-but not series) in quite a while. (I think I've said it already, but I liked the parents and was bored by the rest, and actually found the kid more annoying than wee!Yang Guo, so I ditched it after reading up a bit on the plot when it looked like they were about to die.) I actually wonder if it's because, between ROCH and this ZJZ did more serious, politic-y shows that were considerably less fantastical? I mean, fantastical as compared to reality, totally, but Sword Stained With Royal Blood and what I've seen of Paladins in Troubled Times are less fantasy and side adventures, and more politics-driven plot with wirefu, with fewer fantastical elements. There was also Duke of Mount Deer in between, I think, but I haven't seen it, and am not overly interested in it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I like the kid OK (certainly more than bratty YG who almost made me understand the evil monks :P). And I love ROCH, which was just as elabroate. But it's just smothered in visuals or something. I don't know, I want to love it but I don't.