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After a break, I restarted watching the 2006 version of Return of the Condor Heroes!!!! Gosh, so much love.
You know what I love? How strong XLN is. This is a story where yes, the heroine is raped, but it neither defines her, makes her a victim, or tarnishes her (of course, it’s rape by trick, not force, but it’s still rape). I love that when she finds out (years later), she chases after the man and kills him. And that is the end of the business. She is not made ‘unwhole’ by not being a virgin for Yang Guo (who I love so freakin’ much!).
You know, it takes a really strong man to love a really strong woman. Yang Guo is GUUUUUUH. He has no problem acknowledging her as his master, of being apprentice to her (this is a very feminist story, isn’t it? Not only is XLN Yang Guo’s master, but if we look at the older couple of the story, Guo Jing and Huang Rong, it’s Huang Rong who has the brains in the family). And I love love love LOVE their wedding. He has found her after she just killed the rapist, and she is dying (long story) and OMG, he wants to marry her and he asks her (he has before, as well) and they walk into the temple and even though it’s forbidden (as they are master and apprentice), the monks know they are no match, and OMG OMG, she tells him she is not a virgin and is dying and you know? I love how he doesn’t even pause and acknowledge the virgin issue but addresses her dying one and says however little time they have left they should spend it together and…guuuuuh.
There is a scene where she is weak and he holds her up and tells her, gently, they have two more ritual bows left and aaaaah. Ahhh. So awesome.
Btw, I hate the weak whiny Guo Fu. She lopped off Yang Guo’s arm! But she really doesn’t see anything wrong in doing it to a man who saved her family repeatedly, just because he was cranky at her? She plays the victim, argh. I wish Guo Jing did chop off his stupid daughter’s arm in payment (I am pissed off at Huang Rong for protecting the whiny *****. Huang Rong is someone I appreciate but do not like).
I tried to go cap some favorite scenes from ROCH 2006 and it’s hard! The drama likes a lot of fast, spinny shots, and extreme close-ups, which looks gorgeous but makes caps hard. Still, I managed. Here are some awesome OTP moments (XLN/Yang Guo are the most star-crossed drama couple ever). Check them out even if you don’t intend to watch the dramas, as so beautiful.
So beautiful:
OMG. Love this. Bad guy defeated them by evil trickery and now Yang Guo is tied up and poisoned and will die and Bad Guy is telling XLN that he will give YG the antidote if XLN will go through with marrying the bad guy and being his:
And Yang Guo is begging her not to:
OMG. *love* She decides that if he is in pain and poisoned, she must be too, and rushes to hug him so the poisoned thorns of the flowers also wound her. Mind you, she will still go through with the wedding and trading herself for Yang Guo, she just needs to share his pain no matter what. To say Yang Guo is not happy about her poisoning herself like this is an understatement:
Early on in the series. Is it Cirque de Soleil? Interpretive ballet? Something PG-13? Nah. They are literally practicing a special kind of kung fu. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah.
Disturbed in the exercise with severe consequences:
Being cured because her OTP cuts open his vein as she need blood (don’t ask):
Arguably my favorite sequence, precursor to the above ‘bad guy/poison’ thing. They are reunited after a long time in the middle of some horrible circs and they are about and fight a battle to the death with the baddie, but they are so giddy to be together again, they feel nothing but joy and he spins her about and…*dies* (guuuh, taking spinny caps is really hard!)
Looking at him:
The drama is also filmed in pretty places:
From mid-twenties’ eps. Yang Guo finds XLN after she’s just killed the rapist and they reunite:
Proposal:
Wedding:
When she falters *dies*
Continuing with the wedding:
Credits:
Looking star-crossed and bloody:
x-posted to my lj
You know what I love? How strong XLN is. This is a story where yes, the heroine is raped, but it neither defines her, makes her a victim, or tarnishes her (of course, it’s rape by trick, not force, but it’s still rape). I love that when she finds out (years later), she chases after the man and kills him. And that is the end of the business. She is not made ‘unwhole’ by not being a virgin for Yang Guo (who I love so freakin’ much!).
You know, it takes a really strong man to love a really strong woman. Yang Guo is GUUUUUUH. He has no problem acknowledging her as his master, of being apprentice to her (this is a very feminist story, isn’t it? Not only is XLN Yang Guo’s master, but if we look at the older couple of the story, Guo Jing and Huang Rong, it’s Huang Rong who has the brains in the family). And I love love love LOVE their wedding. He has found her after she just killed the rapist, and she is dying (long story) and OMG, he wants to marry her and he asks her (he has before, as well) and they walk into the temple and even though it’s forbidden (as they are master and apprentice), the monks know they are no match, and OMG OMG, she tells him she is not a virgin and is dying and you know? I love how he doesn’t even pause and acknowledge the virgin issue but addresses her dying one and says however little time they have left they should spend it together and…guuuuuh.
There is a scene where she is weak and he holds her up and tells her, gently, they have two more ritual bows left and aaaaah. Ahhh. So awesome.
Btw, I hate the weak whiny Guo Fu. She lopped off Yang Guo’s arm! But she really doesn’t see anything wrong in doing it to a man who saved her family repeatedly, just because he was cranky at her? She plays the victim, argh. I wish Guo Jing did chop off his stupid daughter’s arm in payment (I am pissed off at Huang Rong for protecting the whiny *****. Huang Rong is someone I appreciate but do not like).
I tried to go cap some favorite scenes from ROCH 2006 and it’s hard! The drama likes a lot of fast, spinny shots, and extreme close-ups, which looks gorgeous but makes caps hard. Still, I managed. Here are some awesome OTP moments (XLN/Yang Guo are the most star-crossed drama couple ever). Check them out even if you don’t intend to watch the dramas, as so beautiful.
So beautiful:
OMG. Love this. Bad guy defeated them by evil trickery and now Yang Guo is tied up and poisoned and will die and Bad Guy is telling XLN that he will give YG the antidote if XLN will go through with marrying the bad guy and being his:
And Yang Guo is begging her not to:
OMG. *love* She decides that if he is in pain and poisoned, she must be too, and rushes to hug him so the poisoned thorns of the flowers also wound her. Mind you, she will still go through with the wedding and trading herself for Yang Guo, she just needs to share his pain no matter what. To say Yang Guo is not happy about her poisoning herself like this is an understatement:
Early on in the series. Is it Cirque de Soleil? Interpretive ballet? Something PG-13? Nah. They are literally practicing a special kind of kung fu. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah.
Disturbed in the exercise with severe consequences:
Being cured because her OTP cuts open his vein as she need blood (don’t ask):
Arguably my favorite sequence, precursor to the above ‘bad guy/poison’ thing. They are reunited after a long time in the middle of some horrible circs and they are about and fight a battle to the death with the baddie, but they are so giddy to be together again, they feel nothing but joy and he spins her about and…*dies* (guuuh, taking spinny caps is really hard!)
Looking at him:
The drama is also filmed in pretty places:
From mid-twenties’ eps. Yang Guo finds XLN after she’s just killed the rapist and they reunite:
Proposal:
Wedding:
When she falters *dies*
Continuing with the wedding:
Credits:
Looking star-crossed and bloody:
x-posted to my lj