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Too Many Unneccesary Plot.
What I liked,
-Exploration of Plum Blossom Island Sect
-Feng Heng, her relationship with the disciples of Plum Blossom Island. Love that she became an older sister/mother figure to them and regarded them as her children. Really breaks your heart because you know that in the end, all the disiples get kicked out and Huang Rong, Huang Yaoshi and Feng Heng daughter, grows up alone on the island without her mother, and her many martial Brothers and sisters.
-Huang YaoShi and Feng Heng Cp, love love that they did not go the route of paring Huang Yaoshi and Mei Chao Feng, because i always viewed their relationship as Father/Daughter and not lovers. Huang Yaoshi was devoted to Feng Heng only
-Mei Chao Feng and Chen Xuan Feng cp, I like the dynamic. The playful older senior and the cold junior sister. Her warming up to him ladidah.
-Costumes... were okay but I guess their trying to adapt it more into idol drama style.
What I Did not like.
-unnesssary sub plots to fill in the episodes. I wished they Stick more to the actual plot of the original work (There was already pretty good details from the novel that good have just been faithfully adapted)
-Unnessarry villian ( that weird poison guy from the island down...).
-Mei Revenge arch, which I feel should have been resolved in ep 1 and 2. Yet it dragged all the way to the end, and was the motivational plot point for ( many sub plots as well) having her betray her sect 9 which i did not like). I feel like it should have happend that after taking her revenge ( mind you there was no revenge plot in the original novel) her desire to become stronger grew along with he affections for her senior brother Xuang Feng, I feel like this in itself would have been enough of a motivation for her to steal the manual.
-Huang Yaoshi being a mary sue. I did not like his character, just because I can tell they were trying reallly hard for the audience to seem him as the dutiful protective husband. I felt like it took away the character growth of what the character was suppose to go through in this point of the story. In legend of the Condor hero's, Huang Yaoshi has mellowed a bit from his younger days after the death of his wife, a death that was ultimately caused by his own doing. His ambition to be number 1 and to make his school the best, caused him to be alone, teaching him to appreciate the what was most important in life, which in this case was his only daughter, Huang Rong. Him being already perfect, made less impact to the story.
-Huang Yaoshi being injured and dying as well. I like that the detail of Feng Heng being sick, because it made sense to her fate in the actual novel. But Huang Yaoshi is one of the greats and a doctor himself. He was also at this point in the novel, getting ready for the duel on mount Hua (as he has ambition to become the number 1 martial artist). This is important because it was specifically this desire that cause him to fool Zhou Botong to give up the manual, thus ending the life of his wife and basically destroying the happy family of Plum Blossom Island. I also didn't like how this was the plot device for Feng Heng to try and rewrtie the mantra. In the novel, it was clear she wanted to appease Huang's anger, ( and in a way, this is my opinion, have him forgive his disciples). This would have worked well in this show as it was established how much Feng Heng saw her husband and their disciples as her family and children. Her, the mother figure, trying to save this family from breaking apart would have made sooo much more sense, and again more impactful then the Mer fact fo trying to save Huang yaoshi's life.
what i wanted.
- There should have been a better romance plot. This was not in the origianal work, but was in some revised versions of the story, where alot of the male disiples were all vibing for Mei Chao Feng's affection. Mei played them all, but she secretly was inlove with Cheng Xuang Feng. This would have worked so well, because we could have seen mei, use her charm to learn martial arts from her martial brothers. It would have made her betrayal more devastating to her fellow disciples and add more hurt to their memory of their once happy found family on Plum Blossom Island. In the novel, Cheng Xuang Feng and Mei Chao feng were actually hunted down by their fellow martial brothers, thus causing them to run to Mongolia where they met with the Seven Freaks, causing the death of Xuan Feng and for Mei to go blind. This would have made the story more impactful and full circle.
What I wanted to see was her using their affection for her to learn more martial arts from the different brother but in the end, end up falling for Cheng Xuan Feng.
- I wanted to see more of the disciples of Plum Blossom island out their in the martial arts world. In the novel, it was known throughout that Huang Yaoshi was known to have 6 disciples, all talented in martial arts. In the show, they made it seem like all they did was stay on the island. How would anyone know about them? Huang Yaoshi was known to be very eccentric, and was fiercely protective of his disciples, and people knew not to mess with them. I wished they could have in cooperated this plot. Because Plum Blossom Island, although revered, by the time of Legend of the Condor Hero's, it is pretty much in a weaken school with no true successor. It would have been nice to see the school triumphing the martial art world during its glory days.
-Exploration of Plum Blossom Island Sect
-Feng Heng, her relationship with the disciples of Plum Blossom Island. Love that she became an older sister/mother figure to them and regarded them as her children. Really breaks your heart because you know that in the end, all the disiples get kicked out and Huang Rong, Huang Yaoshi and Feng Heng daughter, grows up alone on the island without her mother, and her many martial Brothers and sisters.
-Huang YaoShi and Feng Heng Cp, love love that they did not go the route of paring Huang Yaoshi and Mei Chao Feng, because i always viewed their relationship as Father/Daughter and not lovers. Huang Yaoshi was devoted to Feng Heng only
-Mei Chao Feng and Chen Xuan Feng cp, I like the dynamic. The playful older senior and the cold junior sister. Her warming up to him ladidah.
-Costumes... were okay but I guess their trying to adapt it more into idol drama style.
What I Did not like.
-unnesssary sub plots to fill in the episodes. I wished they Stick more to the actual plot of the original work (There was already pretty good details from the novel that good have just been faithfully adapted)
-Unnessarry villian ( that weird poison guy from the island down...).
-Mei Revenge arch, which I feel should have been resolved in ep 1 and 2. Yet it dragged all the way to the end, and was the motivational plot point for ( many sub plots as well) having her betray her sect 9 which i did not like). I feel like it should have happend that after taking her revenge ( mind you there was no revenge plot in the original novel) her desire to become stronger grew along with he affections for her senior brother Xuang Feng, I feel like this in itself would have been enough of a motivation for her to steal the manual.
-Huang Yaoshi being a mary sue. I did not like his character, just because I can tell they were trying reallly hard for the audience to seem him as the dutiful protective husband. I felt like it took away the character growth of what the character was suppose to go through in this point of the story. In legend of the Condor hero's, Huang Yaoshi has mellowed a bit from his younger days after the death of his wife, a death that was ultimately caused by his own doing. His ambition to be number 1 and to make his school the best, caused him to be alone, teaching him to appreciate the what was most important in life, which in this case was his only daughter, Huang Rong. Him being already perfect, made less impact to the story.
-Huang Yaoshi being injured and dying as well. I like that the detail of Feng Heng being sick, because it made sense to her fate in the actual novel. But Huang Yaoshi is one of the greats and a doctor himself. He was also at this point in the novel, getting ready for the duel on mount Hua (as he has ambition to become the number 1 martial artist). This is important because it was specifically this desire that cause him to fool Zhou Botong to give up the manual, thus ending the life of his wife and basically destroying the happy family of Plum Blossom Island. I also didn't like how this was the plot device for Feng Heng to try and rewrtie the mantra. In the novel, it was clear she wanted to appease Huang's anger, ( and in a way, this is my opinion, have him forgive his disciples). This would have worked well in this show as it was established how much Feng Heng saw her husband and their disciples as her family and children. Her, the mother figure, trying to save this family from breaking apart would have made sooo much more sense, and again more impactful then the Mer fact fo trying to save Huang yaoshi's life.
what i wanted.
- There should have been a better romance plot. This was not in the origianal work, but was in some revised versions of the story, where alot of the male disiples were all vibing for Mei Chao Feng's affection. Mei played them all, but she secretly was inlove with Cheng Xuang Feng. This would have worked so well, because we could have seen mei, use her charm to learn martial arts from her martial brothers. It would have made her betrayal more devastating to her fellow disciples and add more hurt to their memory of their once happy found family on Plum Blossom Island. In the novel, Cheng Xuang Feng and Mei Chao feng were actually hunted down by their fellow martial brothers, thus causing them to run to Mongolia where they met with the Seven Freaks, causing the death of Xuan Feng and for Mei to go blind. This would have made the story more impactful and full circle.
What I wanted to see was her using their affection for her to learn more martial arts from the different brother but in the end, end up falling for Cheng Xuan Feng.
- I wanted to see more of the disciples of Plum Blossom island out their in the martial arts world. In the novel, it was known throughout that Huang Yaoshi was known to have 6 disciples, all talented in martial arts. In the show, they made it seem like all they did was stay on the island. How would anyone know about them? Huang Yaoshi was known to be very eccentric, and was fiercely protective of his disciples, and people knew not to mess with them. I wished they could have in cooperated this plot. Because Plum Blossom Island, although revered, by the time of Legend of the Condor Hero's, it is pretty much in a weaken school with no true successor. It would have been nice to see the school triumphing the martial art world during its glory days.
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