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One-stop English news resource for the lovely Charmaine Sheh 佘诗曼. Occasionally, I'll post about C-Ent and K-Ent as well.
Happy New Year sehseh!
ReplyDeletehey seh seh, awesome blog uve got here, great to come here and get an opinion on how the series is going rather than the usual- "I love Ray but he looks like he's gained weight recently", or "omg the series is so sad!!!!!" on the forum.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't too keen on the series when i started watching it, Charmaine and Sonjia paired with Ray seemed like a nightmare and the earlier episodes felt like some awful awful sappy daytime soap drama- but i'm warming to the Raymaine story line, slowwwllly.
Ray as the heir to the mongolian throne in the dark plotting the demise of the Ming (is it ming?) dynasty and betraying the trust of all his loved ones- gaaah, it's dripping with angst. How delicious.
What i love abt the series the most is the fact that there isnt an evil and a good side blatantly obvious, the mongolians are the mistreatedand oppressed minority in China. FHL HAS to accept his responsibility or he'd be a coward and he would've forsaken all those who'd dies to protect him.
The Chinese emperor can be cruel and ungrateful and a tyrant to even his most loyal subjects, but like Hon Pak says in episode 22, he's just a very lonely elderly man.
BTW, I've just watched up to ep. 24, and Charmaine's si fu almost found out where Pong Ban and Gum Big Wan were hiding out so FHL had no choice but to hold her as prisoner. Interesting stuff.
Cindy