Wherein I ruminate on my perfect entertainment ideas...
I confess. After swearing I won't watch stuff on the tinyscreenland of youtube or crunchyroll, unless it wasn't available elsewhere, I betrayed my principles :D In this case, the DVDs will be here next week, but I can't wait and so I started despite my efforts to hold out :)
Cause of my downfall? Handsome Siblings.
Handsome Siblings is a Chinese drama that is based on a simple premise:
One hottie with sharp implements is good, true. But you know what’s better? Two hotties with sharp implements. Also, if you throw in some women fighters to the mix, that’s the best.
And you know what? I am totally on board with that idea. In fact, I think it’s sheer genius and writers past, present and future should be mandated to utilize it. Come on, you know that a romcom would be better with swords. You can feel that the dating reality show should be settled with battle axes instead of cattiness and coy answers. Right? Right?
Anyway.
HS has a protagonist for every taste. If you like your guys laid-back, funny, and prankerish, there is sibling number 1, Little Fish as played by Dicky Cheung. He is cute enough and I like him well enough, but I admit that my heart belongs to…
Sibling number 2. If you are like me and you like your heroes angsty, intense, reserved and with an impossibly doomed OTP, then Nicholas Tse’s character is your man.
In RL, Dicky Cheung is a much better choice, as he is...easy-going, well-adjusted. In fiction? Heck no. That's why it's fiction. In fiction I drool over angsty woobies, especially when portrayed by Nicholas Tse.
His character's name? Flawless Flower. Yeah. Not really a great name for a swordsman. I bet at least some of his angst stems from the name (which smacks of ‘but I always wanted a girl, and already came up with a name, too!’ naming).
What kind of a psycho would name a kid thus, you may well ask.
Weeee-eeee-eell. The lady who brought him up is a somewhat overracting woman who would easily kill the kid’s parents because the father dared to fall in love with mother instead of her. (I bet the mother was most likely less nutty). And then take the kid in to raise him as a little automaton, to train him to kill his brother. Oh, and did I mention that Ms. Psycho, head of a pretty bizarro group, kept all the men around who weren’t FF in cages?
Understandably, FF has a whole bunch of intimacy with ladies issues. Nothing a good dose of therapy wouldn’t cure but therapy hasn’t been invented back then, so he has to content himself with fighting things (YAY) and falling madly in love with Orchid, an awesome awesome female fighter played by the gorgeous Fan Bing Bing (DOUBLE YAY). I gotta say if they beat the odds and end up living together happily, those family fights would really be pretty destructive as they can each probably dismantle a house with their weapons :D
And herein lies my favorite (and meganbmoore’s favorite) part of the story. Because his evil masters want him in love as much as they would welcome advent of pacifism, so a lot of angst and impossible love and angst and angst follows.
I mean, how could you not love a story where (according to my spoiler guru meganbmoore, as I haven't gotten there yet) they put him in a cage and mandate him to kill her and when he refuses they inject her with a poison that would slowly kill her. And that is only the beginning of the angst, small fry relatively, in the first dozen eps!
Heh.
Rock on, Handsome Siblings (well, to be honest it should be entitled 'One nice looking and one bloody gorgeous sibling' but accuracy in advertising has never been a drama strong point). Soon, we shall take over the world.
Oh, and Mr. Mousie and I watched Shrek the Third tonight. I had a great time, it was very funny. It was also quite forgettable. Which basically sums up my opinion on the first two as well.
Cause of my downfall? Handsome Siblings.
Handsome Siblings is a Chinese drama that is based on a simple premise:
One hottie with sharp implements is good, true. But you know what’s better? Two hotties with sharp implements. Also, if you throw in some women fighters to the mix, that’s the best.
And you know what? I am totally on board with that idea. In fact, I think it’s sheer genius and writers past, present and future should be mandated to utilize it. Come on, you know that a romcom would be better with swords. You can feel that the dating reality show should be settled with battle axes instead of cattiness and coy answers. Right? Right?
Anyway.
HS has a protagonist for every taste. If you like your guys laid-back, funny, and prankerish, there is sibling number 1, Little Fish as played by Dicky Cheung. He is cute enough and I like him well enough, but I admit that my heart belongs to…
Sibling number 2. If you are like me and you like your heroes angsty, intense, reserved and with an impossibly doomed OTP, then Nicholas Tse’s character is your man.
In RL, Dicky Cheung is a much better choice, as he is...easy-going, well-adjusted. In fiction? Heck no. That's why it's fiction. In fiction I drool over angsty woobies, especially when portrayed by Nicholas Tse.
His character's name? Flawless Flower. Yeah. Not really a great name for a swordsman. I bet at least some of his angst stems from the name (which smacks of ‘but I always wanted a girl, and already came up with a name, too!’ naming).
What kind of a psycho would name a kid thus, you may well ask.
Weeee-eeee-eell. The lady who brought him up is a somewhat overracting woman who would easily kill the kid’s parents because the father dared to fall in love with mother instead of her. (I bet the mother was most likely less nutty). And then take the kid in to raise him as a little automaton, to train him to kill his brother. Oh, and did I mention that Ms. Psycho, head of a pretty bizarro group, kept all the men around who weren’t FF in cages?
Understandably, FF has a whole bunch of intimacy with ladies issues. Nothing a good dose of therapy wouldn’t cure but therapy hasn’t been invented back then, so he has to content himself with fighting things (YAY) and falling madly in love with Orchid, an awesome awesome female fighter played by the gorgeous Fan Bing Bing (DOUBLE YAY). I gotta say if they beat the odds and end up living together happily, those family fights would really be pretty destructive as they can each probably dismantle a house with their weapons :D
And herein lies my favorite (and meganbmoore’s favorite) part of the story. Because his evil masters want him in love as much as they would welcome advent of pacifism, so a lot of angst and impossible love and angst and angst follows.
I mean, how could you not love a story where (according to my spoiler guru meganbmoore, as I haven't gotten there yet) they put him in a cage and mandate him to kill her and when he refuses they inject her with a poison that would slowly kill her. And that is only the beginning of the angst, small fry relatively, in the first dozen eps!
Heh.
Rock on, Handsome Siblings (well, to be honest it should be entitled 'One nice looking and one bloody gorgeous sibling' but accuracy in advertising has never been a drama strong point). Soon, we shall take over the world.
Oh, and Mr. Mousie and I watched Shrek the Third tonight. I had a great time, it was very funny. It was also quite forgettable. Which basically sums up my opinion on the first two as well.