reading the future in leaves and mist

[once_a_weaver]

As I'm on the last disk of Condor Heroes, I'm thinking about what's coming up. I'm still fiercely caught within a need for wuxia, so it looks like some or all of the following might happen soon:

• Sword Stained with Royal Blood
• Chinese Paladin 3
  
• Da Ren Wu (Big Shot)
  
• Patriotic Knights
  
• Romance of Red Dust
  

Comments

[mookiehyun]

RoCH was my least favorite. I hated the book, I hated too many ppl in it, worst offense: it turned my fav LC heroine Huang Rong into a menopausal irrational witch that's lost her mind and wit. Did you try out the RoCH06?! It was so horribly acted I want to burn it and every time I heard of someone loving it. I wept a little inside.

Sword stained with royal blood is LC's middling fare, I've not finished any of its drama adaptation since I haven't heard of one doing it justice. I'll see if u like the one u r trying out later.

You've braved through the clunkiest part of LoCH08. This adaptation is so far fr canon even Yuan Hong had commented many times he's so lost playing his YangKang esp at the arc you've just finished and it transferred to us watching. The characters will then be allowed to stick truer to themselves as...a lot of stuff happens in the last stretch.

[once_a_weaver]

Yeah, it was the ROCH 2006. I tried a bit of disk one and hated it. Then because so many loved it, I tried a bit of disk two... still hated it. Maybe it's just not for me.

I sampled so many shows from netflix I'm having trouble remembering which ones I've tried. It's been a couple of years I guess. But I want to get back to the ones I sort of enjoyed at the time and go further into the stories.

Yeah, this part of LOCH has been a bit odd. Some good things still, but inconsistent.

[mookiehyun]

I've rationalized all the rabid love for RoCH06 on how pretty on the eyes it was back then. And because it's so horribly acted, a lot of the unsavory in the original novel is not translated on screen. I tried reading it 3 times in diff stages of my life and I didnt make it through half of it first 2. It was LC trying to write a sweeping romance but his genius is not in that dept.

In the novel, YangKang is a 2 dimensional scumbag, rotten through and through. The YK/NC bits in first half of this adaptation is all fanfic. So the writer's dilemma is how to convincingly explain all the horrible things he HAD to commit per canon in the latter half and he/she failed at patching the holes. Our dilemma is sorta like NianChi's, we cared about this boy, he HAD some hope and redeeming qualities in him buried very deep down and he's very lost it...but do we really just dump him by the curb, now?!

[once_a_weaver]

"In the novel, YangKang is a 2 dimensional scumbag, rotten through and through"

Adapting that to television sounds like an unhappy job. I have enough to watch as it is, so I think I'll be fine without it :)

[mookiehyun]

But then it made an 'easier' watch because u would never care a thing about a canonYangKang, for example, he is a rapist in the book and Louis Cha used him for the purpose of dumping the bad deeds on his hands to facilitate the plot.

I love what they revised in the beginning, but it comes to a point where they have no leeway but to drag him back to evildom.

[once_a_weaver]

Okay, I see what you're saying. That explains the inconsistencies I've been trying to figure out. Maybe I should try reading one of the online translations sometime, at least a bit, to see how it's different.

And I did love what YH did with the character in the first part.