When a legendary general met a legendary beauty...Mousie's perfect drama was born

[dangermousie]

OMFG EVERY OTHER DRAMA IS ON HOLD



asjsunjujrcfgvuhjdkrujfkmhjgfkgjhfkhgkfhg I am literally making barely human noises because I just got my hands on The Stories of the Han. What is it? It's a 50 ep cdrama from 2005 all about Xiang Yu (and Liu Bang, of course). My obsession Hu Jun (OMG have you seen him in Demi Gods and Semi Devils) plays Xiang Yu. And there is a lot of shippy stuff with him and Consort Yu. Check out this MV (spoils for ultimate fate of Consort Yu in case you didn't know it already).

Horse-riding! Her riding to his battles! Rescues from fiery death! Coed naked bathing! Hurt/comfort! Swords everywhere! OMFG it's everything I want in an otp.

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I have been obsessed with them as an OTP since I saw them as the secondary pairing in The Myth (scene which literally gave me hysterics bad enough to make me puke involved them). To have a whole drama where it's a big part of the storyline - I am going to die of hyperventilation!

For anyone who needs a quick primer - Xiang Yu was a legendary general who overthrew the Qin Empire. Eventually he and his one-time ally Liu Bang became fell out about who should rule China and got into a major civil war. Considering that Liu Bang is styled "Father of the Han," you can figure out who won that one. Concubine Yu was Xiang Yu's consort and a legendary beauty. Their love story is the basis of a lot of art, including "Farewell My Concubine," the opera which gave the title to the famous movie.

Here is a VERY spoilery scene from the drama. OMFG this is going to be my obsession, isn't it? I am already sniffling just from the clip.

This is going to tide me over nicely until the Feng Shao Feng/Liu Yi Fei movie airs. And the Chen Jian Bing drama. And the Daniel Wu/Yang Mi movie. (Not that I am complaining, but why the sudden movie/drama obsession with Xiang Yu?).

Comments

[kainee.livejournal.com]

I think what's going on is they're treating Palace as a franchise and Palace 2 will have the original love triangle reappearing but Dong Li Ya (she played the girl who loved Si Ah Ge) won't be in it from what it looks like.

Ming Dao is still the lead in Palace but it's Palace the Movie. So Yang Mi's character isn't Qing Chuan and Ming Dao is actually playing General Nian. So it's like an AU adaptation that happens to share the same name with completely different story and characterizations. From the sense I get, it's supposed to be a bit more comedic.

But this could change once they're actually released since my info is secnd or thirdhand since it's from following the news as repeated/leaked to the Chinese media. I do understand the fans going hulk smash though if the movie with Ming Dao in it was the only follow up to Palace and there was no continuation of the story. I just hope Palace 2 will have a good plot and doesn't fall prey to curse of the sequel a la Meteor Garden 2.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

They are still going forward with Palace 2? I thought only the silly movie was going to be made (I loathed Gen. Nian in the drama btw, so no interest in his story, whoever plays him). If there is Palace 2, I feel cautious but marginally better.

[kainee.livejournal.com]

Yeah Palace 2 started filming recently. This is for the TV series. I haven't heard too much about the movie version of Palace which is the one Ming Dao is attached to. The movie version's General Nian will be completely different from the series so it's better to treat it as another time travel related story that happens to share the franchise name.

I really do hope Yu Zheng and Feng Shao Feng are ok since that'll affect the writing but I haven't heard any news about it. We'll see.

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

Oh, they've actually gotten as far as filming now? I'm so behind on news. Has there been any spoilers about what Palace 2 will involve? There was so much speculation on Baidu that I don't know what to believe anymore.

[kainee.livejournal.com]

Yeah I still have no idea on the plot. I only know they did the ceremony to kick off shooting where they pray for safety/success and all that. I'm worried about the plot too since I really really don't want to needlessly rehash the love triangle because in my mind, FengMi win. I have the feeling there'll be time travel because I saw a vid where Yu Zheng got interviewed on the day they started filming where he was saying FSF had to film his modern day scenes first because he couldn't shave his head yet but Mickey He was available so he could.

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

What I originally heard was that 8 Ah Ge went to the modern day with Qing Chuan, but couldn't handle the changes and ended up running away. Qing Chuan chases after him, and both of them end up back in the past again, somewhere midway during Yongzheng's rule.

That would fit in with BOTH the need for FSF to film modern day scenes AND shave his head (if he goes back to the past), but frankly that plot would severely piss me off - I totally agree that there's no need to rehash the QC/8 Ah Ge thing after it was wrapped up in the first season. I'd actually rather they do an AU version or something so that it doesn't run the risk of ruining the story.

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

Nah, apparently they're going forward with Palace 2. Or at least they plan to. I remember Yu Zheng said something on his Weibo; can't quote or anything now since it was too far back, but he definitely separated the two (Palace 2 and Palace the Movie) as completely different things. There's still a HUGE potential for disaster, but at least no Ming Dao?