Legend of Condor Heroes
Apr. 22nd, 2008 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieEeeee! Is anyone else excited about the upcoming wuxia drama Legend of the Condor Heroes with Hu Ge and Ariel Lin?
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I am psyched!
Seeing that this is the adaptation of the first part of the loosely interconnected trilogy of which Return of the Condor Heroes was the middle part makes me eeeee! ROCH, after all, remains the only wuxia I’ve finished so far (though if Handsome Siblings was about Nic Tse instead of Dicky Cheung, it would have been the first, instead. Why any sane TPTB would think that a story with assassins, blindness, crazy evil cult run by two mad women who keep men in cages and dedicate themselves to ruining the life of their ‘protégé’, brainwashing, deathless lurve, most kickass heroine in ever, scary-cunning future Empress, not to mention Nic Tse angsting and wanting to die while wearing white, should be secondary to the story of an annoying freak with a mohawk and the stupidest practical jokes ever, escapes me. Still, will finish ASAP).
I adore Ariel Lin, have recently discovered the coolness of Hu Ge (he can’t act, but he s so adorable, you don’t care) in Chinese Palladin (need to finish), and the story sounds awesome, with a super-kickass heroine.
The plot revolves around Guo Jing, a rather dim (heeee) guy who learns all sorts of martial arts and also has been brought up to avenge his dead father. While not the swiftest, GJ is good at fighting and is also incredibly nice and honorable (perhaps too much so). Luckily for him, his paths cross with Huang Rong, a strong-willed, clever girl who disguises herself as a boy to go adventuring…and the story goes from there, with many many fights, lots of politics, and hairstyles of doom.
(Both GJ and HR appear as secondary characters in ROCH, while the protagonist of ROCH is actually the son of GJ’s sworn brother).
YAY! I don't think I'll love it as much as ROCH, with its angstolicious forbidden lovers thing, but it will probably be pretty darn nice.
I think it’s coming in May.
Shorter:
Longer:
I am psyched!
Seeing that this is the adaptation of the first part of the loosely interconnected trilogy of which Return of the Condor Heroes was the middle part makes me eeeee! ROCH, after all, remains the only wuxia I’ve finished so far (though if Handsome Siblings was about Nic Tse instead of Dicky Cheung, it would have been the first, instead. Why any sane TPTB would think that a story with assassins, blindness, crazy evil cult run by two mad women who keep men in cages and dedicate themselves to ruining the life of their ‘protégé’, brainwashing, deathless lurve, most kickass heroine in ever, scary-cunning future Empress, not to mention Nic Tse angsting and wanting to die while wearing white, should be secondary to the story of an annoying freak with a mohawk and the stupidest practical jokes ever, escapes me. Still, will finish ASAP).
I adore Ariel Lin, have recently discovered the coolness of Hu Ge (he can’t act, but he s so adorable, you don’t care) in Chinese Palladin (need to finish), and the story sounds awesome, with a super-kickass heroine.
The plot revolves around Guo Jing, a rather dim (heeee) guy who learns all sorts of martial arts and also has been brought up to avenge his dead father. While not the swiftest, GJ is good at fighting and is also incredibly nice and honorable (perhaps too much so). Luckily for him, his paths cross with Huang Rong, a strong-willed, clever girl who disguises herself as a boy to go adventuring…and the story goes from there, with many many fights, lots of politics, and hairstyles of doom.
(Both GJ and HR appear as secondary characters in ROCH, while the protagonist of ROCH is actually the son of GJ’s sworn brother).
YAY! I don't think I'll love it as much as ROCH, with its angstolicious forbidden lovers thing, but it will probably be pretty darn nice.
I think it’s coming in May.
