Edshugeo The GodMoor

Yong Chun (I watched it in Mandarin w/subs) is now my least favorite Chinese drama series edging out the dumb Zorro-ish comedy Hero In Black, which was at least very short, and still mostly entertaining.

That the drama to kung fu ratio favored drama sooooo overwhelmingly is an obvious issue for a series named after a martial art*. It's just that the drama was just so fucking bad, I almost couldn't take it. When I got to the second half of the series I found myself fast forwarding through that shit. Sure, some of this stuff comes with the territory; A loves B, but B loves C, while D, and E are secretly in love with A etc., etc. Fine! I can take a little of that, but it's so badly done and then layered with so many other bullshit subplots; Liang Chan's a widower whose sister in law has the hots for him, and somehow he's a dick for acting like there's something wrong with her. Meanwhile Gordon Liu only appears in one episode! What?



I'd seen articles where this series was touted as a sequel to the film Prodigal Son, but I see little connection aside from Yuen Biao reprising his role as Leung Jan (spelling varies) which he had also done recently in the much better series Real Kung Fu (though it was kinda silly). Sammo Hung also appears, and while we get a bit more of him than we do of Gordon Liu, it's not nearly enough. It's great to see him do his thing on the Wing Chun dummy, though. The series is worth watching for scenes like this:



Worth a purchase? No.


*The martial art is named after a person and had the series been about her, that would have been different. More drama, less kung fu might've been okay. However, the people who wrote this series would not be capable of writing drama worthy of Wing Chun herself. Didn't care much for the movie with Michelle Yeoh, either, which deviated very far from the legend (as I understood it, anyway).

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