Having somehow pulled my calf muscle rather badly over the weekend sometime back (it turned out to be worse than a pulled muscle but that's another story), I decided to go see the doctor and rest the leg for the day and took two days of leave from work. At that point in tiem, I thought, this would be the perfect opportunity for me to talk about one of the shows I'm currently watching. Unfortuanately, that post languished unpublished and in a draft format for weeks on end till I decided to just amend it and publish it anyway.
But before I get to the series, let me just say.... god, what an unweildy title. A buddy and I were joking about it the other day and we concluded that that title could easily be construed as a bondage type porn flick. =D TVB seems to have a knack of coming up with the strangest English titles for their series. But that's something I'll leave for another post. =)
I'm not done with LWOLAP yet. I'm only up to disc 5 (ep 13-15) of a 40 episode series but so far I find this series rather entertaining. It has unsual storyline and is rather different from many of the typical wuxia series we've seen.
The setting is in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the peasant Emperor Hongwu aka Zhu Yuanzhang. What is of particular interest here is the take the production team had on this period in history. Zhu Yuanzhang lead a popular peasant rebellion to overthrown the unpopular Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty.
Hmmmm.... I left this comment unfinished and saved as a draft for sometime but have left LWOLAP unfinished for a while so can't quite remember what I wanted to say. I'll post this up first and when I get around to finishing it I'll add more comments in a later post.
Meanwhile I'm trying to finish a lighter and surprisingly watchable series, Always Ready, and if I've time and the inclination, I'll also also trash The Biter Bitten in a separate post.
rgds
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