Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Legend of the Condor Heroes - 射雕英雄传 2008

Originally posted on Blogger.



Legend of the Condor Heroes/The Eagle Shooting Heroes is a 2008 wuxia series out of China. 50 episodes of madness I tell you. The story does deviate from the previous ones from 1994 and 2003. I can't really remember the 1983/1984 too well now.

But the characters and elements of this story from 金庸 was quite amazing. Even with the deviations, the story turned out ok.

Ariel Lin was a great 黃蓉. I thought was both cute and devious at the same time. 楊康 was actually correctly cast as opposed to the 1994 and 2003 ones. I really bought into it that he was evil but had that tint of wanting to reform.



This drama really played up the "soap opera" parts. 歐陽克 and 歐陽鋒's father/son relationship was played up the maximum and helped drive some of the emotional aspects of the serious. I was actually sad for 歐陽克 and was pulling for him at the end.

In all, this was a memorable drama that I'll watch again in the future.

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