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dangermousieAll the wuxia watching has caught up with me and I am going to bed at this ungodly early hour. But not before leaving you with one last for the night Young Warriors of the Yang Clan post.
I think the reason I love it so much is because it combines the family drama with wuxia/period epic - we have battles and politics but within a family framework with its interpersonal relationships and conflicts. Romantic relationships are important in YWotYC, sure, but in narrative importance and impact they are secondary to the sibling and parental relationships. I especially love it because the Yangs are such a close and functional family - they are not perfect and they have conficts but they are good people genuinely caring for each other. I am by no means a wuxia expert, but a lot of them seem to feature a parentless/lone existence for the hero as his background as a handy shorthand for both his suffering, loneliness and independence (I always think of Yang Guo from ROCH with dead parents and horrible childhood being abused by evil monks). But YWotYC is full of wuxia heroes who are a product of a loving, close, well-adjusted family and function within that paradigm. The closest the drama comes to the loner/outsider background for a Yang is with Four but even there the driving point of his narrative is that he initially had a loving family and how he moves on past his abandonment to become a part of one once again. This family-heroic combo is basically irresistible to me.
Anyway, enough of my blabbering, a few caps from eps 23-24.
I really love Four and Six's interactions. Six is the smartest of the siblings but Four is the only one who can sort of keep up with him that way.
Six and Princess Chai make a teeny forward step in their relationship.
I really love Four and Lady Doc. Also, is it just me or does she have a thing for hand-feeding him? :P
Four rocking those bizarro (but presumably historical) helmets.
ETA: I lied. Am currently watching ep 24. Oh, I am such an idiot but the scene with Papa Yang and Four when Papa Yang tells him how much he missed him and how guilty he felt made me cry. Papa Yang, ILY. And also, this was something Four desperately needed to hear.
Also have a MV made by the awesome![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calixa which showcases how, despite their prowess on the battlefield, the Yang men are utterly hopeless when it comes to wooing.
I think the reason I love it so much is because it combines the family drama with wuxia/period epic - we have battles and politics but within a family framework with its interpersonal relationships and conflicts. Romantic relationships are important in YWotYC, sure, but in narrative importance and impact they are secondary to the sibling and parental relationships. I especially love it because the Yangs are such a close and functional family - they are not perfect and they have conficts but they are good people genuinely caring for each other. I am by no means a wuxia expert, but a lot of them seem to feature a parentless/lone existence for the hero as his background as a handy shorthand for both his suffering, loneliness and independence (I always think of Yang Guo from ROCH with dead parents and horrible childhood being abused by evil monks). But YWotYC is full of wuxia heroes who are a product of a loving, close, well-adjusted family and function within that paradigm. The closest the drama comes to the loner/outsider background for a Yang is with Four but even there the driving point of his narrative is that he initially had a loving family and how he moves on past his abandonment to become a part of one once again. This family-heroic combo is basically irresistible to me.
Anyway, enough of my blabbering, a few caps from eps 23-24.
I really love Four and Six's interactions. Six is the smartest of the siblings but Four is the only one who can sort of keep up with him that way.
Six and Princess Chai make a teeny forward step in their relationship.
I really love Four and Lady Doc. Also, is it just me or does she have a thing for hand-feeding him? :P
Four rocking those bizarro (but presumably historical) helmets.
ETA: I lied. Am currently watching ep 24. Oh, I am such an idiot but the scene with Papa Yang and Four when Papa Yang tells him how much he missed him and how guilty he felt made me cry. Papa Yang, ILY. And also, this was something Four desperately needed to hear.
Also have a MV made by the awesome
calixa which showcases how, despite their prowess on the battlefield, the Yang men are utterly hopeless when it comes to wooing.
