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[angelscat]

Last night I spent 2.5 hours browsing through this TV series for the nobody-knows-how-many time. It had been one of the first few romantic stories I came across, and I was quite crazy about it during 2001-2003. Later I got to watch the original (1986 version), and even though it was simply gorgeous and in many ways better (fewer silly fights and no artificial-looking war scenes--and of course, it is hardly possible to act better than Liu Xuehua), the remake is by no means overshadowed. After all, it was the first time (and by some standards, the only time yet) that I had grown so attached to a fictional person. I wanted to read other people's reviews of the show, yet the many negative comments about her hurt me so much, as if they were accusing me of being selfish, manipulative, and "having the heart of a snake". Oh, how much did I wish that natural language processing technologies had been advanced enough to group the reviews by opinion, so that I could read only the ones I like to read!

Ah, a classic is a classic. There is always some reason why something becomes immensely popular, while others don't.