什麼是朋友?朋友永遠是在你犯下不可原諒錯誤的時候,仍舊站在你那邊的笨蛋。~ 王亞瑟
和諧唔係一百個人講同一番話,係一百個人有一百句唔同嘅說話,而又互相尊重 ~ - 葉梓恩
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I don't understand why YG is bad.
Because he wasn't chivalrous enough ? He loved ONLY woman in his whole life ?
I don't understand what is Ken arguing about. No point for me at all.
Most of the main characters in JY's stories start off as lonely kids. It's kinda odd that so many guys single out YG as the character that they most associate with. I think those people just want to imagine themselves as the chick magnet that YG was.
Oh of course, of course. I love her looks, her personality leaves a lot to be desired though.
Ken, how do you feel about Little Dragon Girl "equal in beauty" Miss Wang Yu Yan. It seems you hate LDG much more so than WYY even though they seem to be replicas of each other, although LDG can kick WYY butt any day.
Is this merely because LDG is paired up with YG, and that you dislike YG more than DY.
Wong Yu Yin can be just as bad as Little Dragon Girl in some ways. Her "cousin" myopia on Mo Yung F'uk was every bit as annoying as Little Dragon Girl's "Gor-yee" fixation. Although I'm not much of a Deun Yu fan, I never liked the way Wong Yu Yin treated him (OK, admittedly, she didn't treat him badly, but she was a bit clueless about the poor bastard's dedication to her for the longest time).
Wong Yu Yin benefits from my not having to see her very often (as I don't go through DGSD as often as I do the CONDOR HEROES TRILOGY), so I don't complain about her as much. I do remember that Wong Yu Yin was one of the most unpleasant aspects of DGSD for me.
Come to think of it, most of the DGSD girls were rather annoying in their own way (but none like Little Dragon Girl). I found Ah Chu and Chung Ling tolerable, but the others...meh.
There aren't a whole lot of wuxia females I like as characters. Wong Yung is one of them. Sheun Siu Hung from SENTIMENTAL SWORDSMAN, RUTHLESS SWORD is another (although I couldn't get her teenage fixation on a man in his forties). Beef Soup from the LUK SIU FUNG stories might be my favorite wuxia female (her name is cool as all hell).
Beef soup was cool initially. But she becomes very tiring and annoying when she kep bringing out her beef soup again and again and again and again and again in the book. By the end of the book, she isn't cool anymore. Can't believe your favourite wuxia girl is Beef Soup.
什麼是朋友?朋友永遠是在你犯下不可原諒錯誤的時候,仍舊站在你那邊的笨蛋。~ 王亞瑟
和諧唔係一百個人講同一番話,係一百個人有一百句唔同嘅說話,而又互相尊重 ~ - 葉梓恩
I agree with Ken's choices, except for Beef Soup who I haven't read much about. I'll like to add Ren Ying Ying to that list. The only drawback is that she's somewhat like HR, which makes her a less fresh character.
Don't forget about WYY's ability to pick apart almost any martial arts. It could possibly be more handy for a guy than XLN's high level of MA. That special ability of WYY pissed me off so much. I just want her to shut the hell up whenever she breaks down some expert's MA. It was simply ridiculous that WYY was able to break down the MA of people that were exponentially more advanced in MA than her.
The way JY portrayed her as some kinda martial arts encyclopedia, I wouldn't be surprised if she knew those too. Even if WYY had read about an expert's martial arts before, it still seems ludicrous that she is skilled enough to analyze what they're doing. If martial arts were that simple to grasp, everyone would become an expert once they finish reading a manual.
I think that Wong Yu Yin didn't have any physical talent for martial arts. She was a genius at figuring martial arts out at the theoretical level, but fights aren't fought out theoretically.
Put Wong Yu Yin's grasp of martial arts theory into Kiu Fung's body, however, and get ready for some MAJOR hurtin'...
What Wu Wudi said. A person with piano fingers and who can read music and has memorized a lot of scores will still be a crappy piano player without practice.
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actually, i thought the "pre leaving the tomb" XLN was rather cool. but once she entered the "world" she became rather...bleh (except when she beat up GWM & company at the QZ temple).
maybe that explains it...YG didn't have a dad (nor much of a mom for that matter's sake)
YG is probably a lot easier to relate to as compared to most other major JY characters, especially for the younger people b/c he has the rebellious attitude, emo swings, pride, etc. his flaws are much more tangible.
Take GJ...really, how many people can be THAT honest & loyal? Would you ditch HR for Hua Zhen just b/c you made a promise?
ZWJ? How many people are really THAT "nice"? Is it really easier to relate to XF, DY, or XZ?
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