Question on Mystery of Condor Heroes by JY

[Question]

Hi, I recently watch Mystery of the Condor Heroes of TVB, starting Fionna Leung and David Keung and Julian Cheung, well I think most of you guys watch this before.

Huang Rong mother, which Fionna Leung play, she was "Jin" people, the same people that raise YK, Yang Guo father. So that leave Huang Rong half Jin then?

Was this true to the novel? or was this something TVB add in?

[Suet Seung]

That series is just something TVB created out of their box of imagination and ideas.

Huang Rong's mother was never jin. Besides if I recall correctly, Fiona's character was adopted by that Jin royalty, so she wasn't really jin either.

But as for the novel, HR's mother was not jin.

[Question]

Wait, I thought Mystery of the Condor Heroes was a book JY wrote, so TVB don't really make it out of the blues, they just add stuff into it?

Anyways, so Huang Rong is not half Jin?

k thanks

[Ken Cheng]

Originally posted by Question
Wait, I thought Mystery of the Condor Heroes was a book JY wrote, so TVB don't really make it out of the blues, they just add stuff into it?

Anyways, so Huang Rong is not half Jin?

k thanks

MYSTERY OF THE CONDOR HEROES was a TVB creation. There is no official Jin Yong "prequel" to LOCH (unless you count DGSD). Writers assuming Jin Yong's name have written faux bookend "prequel" and "sequel" novels to LOCH, but they are not authentic and generally held in low regard by wuxia fans.

[Suet Seung]

Originally posted by Question
Wait, I thought Mystery of the Condor Heroes was a book JY wrote, so TVB don't really make it out of the blues, they just add stuff into it?

Anyways, so Huang Rong is not half Jin?

k thanks

Mystery of the condor heroes is not a novel written by Jin Yong. In fact, I believe TVB just took whatever information they had of Wong Yerk Si and Au Yeung Fung and just added more stuff. I think it was discussed before that the background on the Greats were not totally in detail, and TVB just created those series in the 90s, like a series on Zhang San Feng, Wang Chong Yang, Xie Xun, Huang Yao Shi, and Au Yeung Fung but about 98% is not true at all esp to the Condor Heroes Trilogy.

No, Wong Yung's mother was not part of Jin people. Need I repeat?

[rabadi]

There was even an adaptation starring Felix Wong as DGQB. All these *creative* producers...

[Suet Seung]

Thanks Rabadi for reminding me, yeah that series too. I didn't think it was too bad.

TVB just took the little information of those characters and made up a story for them, but those so called prequel stories were never included in the novels Jin Yong wrote. I meant we never heard of those characters before LOCH and ROCH, and the other novels that JY wrote.

For more answers - refer to this thread that Kamii posted
http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthre...&threadid=7223

[Ardor]

Fake DGQB adaptation? How come I have never seen it before?

[superboy]

Originally posted by Ardor
Fake DGQB adaptation? How come I have never seen it before?

Maybe because it was too long ago. 1989. It's okay, but I think the p0lot is too plain.

[Ardor]

Originally posted by superboy
Maybe because it was too long ago. 1989. It's okay, but I think the p0lot is too plain.

it'b be kinda boring too, you know he's gonna beat everyone, everytime and for a good chunk of his life they'd have to have him wipe the floor with people ala Sweeper to show that he is that damn powerful
It's a show to yawn at...

[superboy]

Actually, it's a story of how a guy that was a nobody eventually becoming DGKB.

[Suet Seung]

Originally posted by Ardor
it'b be kinda boring too, you know he's gonna beat everyone, everytime and for a good chunk of his life they'd have to have him wipe the floor with people ala Sweeper to show that he is that damn powerful
It's a show to yawn at...

I watched it years ago, it starred Felix AND Hugo as the villan. It was the story of the youthful DGKB, oh yeah Maggie Siu was in there too but she died and so Felix ended up with that other girl. He was the son of some unorthodox cult leaders that the good sects were against, his mom switched him with a villager's baby son and so his parents weren't dead but i think, his dad was captured and his mom was injured? i don't remember that much but he was raised by his foster mom, and I think he went to work at Hugo Ng's manor and Hugo played a spoiled gong zi, so when his family was killed he blamed felix somehow I forgot. They both weren't good at martial arts but later Felix got better because he learnt it in a cave or somewhere that he went into and everyone thought he had drown and died but he went there and learnt some martial arts that are better than he was taught before he got to that place...I think. So no he wasn't great and undefeated all thru out the series. But who knows, this was just TVB's creation and imagination run wild.

[rabadi]

So, not everyone thinks DGQB is undefeatable?

[Suet Seung]

Huh? I meant to say he eventually became undefeated. The series was his life story from baby to teenage youth and adult.

I thought it could've been better, for them to create a story about him, if they could have followed the different stages/phases of swords he had used thru out his life, which I thought would've been interesting but they didn't.

[rabadi]

I was being sarcastic

[Ken Cheng]

If you set aside the fact that MYSTERY OF THE CONDOR HEROES skews Jin Yong's work, it's actually not a bad series...one of TVB's better post-1980s efforts.

[rabadi]

Side Stories

[- L1n -]

te one thing i have agaibst this prequels r y do they always use the god damn same cast eg Wayne Leung starred as zbt in Mystery of condor hero's, Rage and passion(wong Zhong yang story), Condor hero returns (about Sotuht emperor and northern beggar) and also bloddy roch 95 if i recall correctly, was he in loch 94. But anyways what the heck this guy played all the zbt's. And fiona played in 2 of those, while Ekin Chan played in r&p and CHR. I mean is it really that god damn hard to pik 1 person to suit the roles.sighs it's a real turn off whenu see the sdame person playing in so many side stories that should relate to the jy condor hero's trilogy.

[Jian Shen]

What do you think about "Ashes of Time"? It was a story about young WYS,H7G and OYF.

Cast
WYS = Tony Leung Ka Fai
OYF = Leslie Cheung
H7G = Jacky Cheung

[rabadi]

Originally posted by Jian Shen
What do you think about "Ashes of Time"?

Ashes of Time? Sounds similar to Sidney Sheldon's "The Sands of Time"