[The following blurb is extremely long, extremely opinionated, partly in chinese, and will likely offend Liu Yi Fei fans.]

For all me fellow chinese people who might know this classic story: 神鵰俠侶!!!!! I wuv this series ;v; First watched it in Elementary school, rewatched time and time again afterwards. I'm slowly reading through the translated novel now. But recently Bassara went and rewatched the whole series, so I went and fell into this giant fandom pit again D:

(Sorry english speakers, you probably won't understand much of this blurb.)
Roughly translated --> this is the 2nd novel in a classic Wuxia trilogy, called Return of the Condor Heroes. There's several TV drama series based off of it (and the other 2 books). There's an anime of it too but yuck. Don't watch it.

楊過x小龍女 are the only OTP for me!! >w<~~~~
(and you don't see me fangirl over anything romantic ever)

My specific fanarts are for the 1995 TVB cantonese drama. I'm a loyal hardcore fan of this version D<!! Carmen is the only 小龍女 for me! Carmen Lee > Liu Yi Fei 10000000000x!

I can't stand the 2006 version D: At all D: It's corny and badly-CG-ed and everything has an unnatural glow O_o Like a n00b given cheap photoshop filters and dodge tools. The scenes, script, everything is BAD. What's this Tarzan-like vine-swinging?? Why are they FLOATING???
Liu Yi Fei cannot act. And I don't see why anyone thinks she's pretty >8( I swear she's crosseyed. Gah. Bleck.
As picky as I am about my 小龍女s, what aggravates me most is that 楊過 LOOKS LIKE A HOBO. WHY?! WHY?? I'm not choosy with 楊過; as long as he looks like a regular guy I'm fine with it, but this one broke my eyes D8

I'm not just being picky >C We (bassara and I) watched a LOT of random clips from it. (All of them made us scream.)

Somehow I don't find the 1995 version cheesy though, even though it really is one giant love story D8 (This is the only kind of love we like. Americanized bitchy selfish jealous shit is shit.)
My only complaint is the lack of a younger cast for the early bits. (But it's still better than the weird fat kid they used for 楊過 in '06 version, who graced us with his nude butt on camera.) I hate that they made 小龍女 more emotional too. I like her super-stoicness that slowly slowly warms up. I love Carmen-小龍女!! (especially in her wedding garb!)

I do love the rest of the '95 cast too. 郭靖, 黃蓉, and 郭襄 are my faves. (郭芙 is of course hated but her actress was good xD) Even 李莫愁 was very likeable (and amusing) 8D

Of course I love the fighting too :3 Nothing beats Chinese martial arts series!! (The 2006 version ruined this too! With their lameass computer effects and lack of cool flappy-sounds-created-by-baggy-clothes.) I wished we got to see 小龍女 kick ass more, but she was always poisoned by something and we almost never get to see her in top form ;_;

I adore the opening theme song as well *___* it's on repeat now.

I don't mind whatever bits of the 1983 canto version I saw. I can't say anything about the other mandarin versions cuz I didn't try them due to my craptacular mandarin


Now I wanna find the 1994tvb version of 射鵰英雄傳, but I can't ;___;



(This was more of a 2006ROCH-bash than of a fangirling rant....)





Anyway... these are just crummy doodles drawn while I waited for episodes to load or when I got tired of reading the novels.

The show is live action, so I can't draw them right
I'm sorry 小龍女!! My drawings don't do your beauty justice!! 楊過 too ;_;!