Renowned author Jin Yong revises his novels

• Syusaku

  17 Jul 03, 09:47

  as written on Life! today, here are some of the edits appearing in the revised novels:
  
  1. In the condor trilogy, Huang Rong's father is now no longer 100% devoted to his deceased wife. It will be hinted that he likes his disciple Mei Chaofeng
  
  2. The Guo Jing-Huang Rong pairing will now be revised from a seemingly elder sis-younger bro r/s to a more equitable standing
  
  3. The standoff at Xiangyang city will now be moved to Qingzhou city after Jin Yong has realised that the mongols had not laid siege to the former in any of their wars
  
  IMHO, new ones may not be better than old works. By intending to fix some loopholes in the stories/adding spice to the plot, the author has unwittingly added new flaws. Here are some of my views:
  
  1. To point 1, Jin Yong has slightly added more insight into Huang Yaoshi's personality. Perhaps this new teacher-student r/s will explain why he is supportive of Yang Guo's r/s. However, such a move make him as deplorable as Wu Santong, considering that his wife was alive back then.
  
  2. Not much comment on pt 2, except that i liked the old r/s back then; would prefer to keep it that way.
  
  3. Finally after so many yrs, Jin Yong's realised that he'd made a historical mistake on XY city and decides to to relocate the siege to QZ. So how is Guo Xiang gonna get her namesake if they weren't there in the 1st place? Sure he could have altered the plot again to compensate for this loophole, but the character will lose some monumental value. Given the excellent plot depicted on the sieges at XY, i think many readers would prefer to leave it that way,
  
  To change or not to change, that is the author's decision. However i'm sure that many readers will share this same thought: If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
• Moosmooer

  17 Jul 03, 10:27

  Originally posted by Syusaku:

  2. The Guo Jing-Huang Rong pairing will now be revised from a seemingly elder sis-younger bro r/s to a more equitable standing
  

  You mean Huang Rong is older then Guo Jing in the original version? I've always thought it's the other way round.
• leexiancikevin

  17 Jul 03, 10:41

  Originally posted by Moosmooer:

  You mean Huang Rong is older then Guo Jing in the original version? I've always thought it's the other way round.

  dun think huang rong is older.. just tat guo jing veri gong gong type... tats y huang rong always in control... henpeck.. LOL
• millennium

  17 Jul 03, 10:49

  Wonder Huang Yao Shi likes Mei Chao Feng before she blind or after.
  
  Than how to link Chen Xuan Feng, Mei Chao Feng Huang and Yao Shi r/s.
• Moosmooer

  17 Jul 03, 22:43

  Originally posted by leexiancikevin:

  dun think huang rong is older.. just tat guo jing veri gong gong type... tats y huang rong always in control... henpeck.. LOL

  That's what I think too. If not how come she call him Jing Ge Ge? Syusaku please clarify!
• wuming78

  17 Jul 03, 22:49

  Originally posted by Moosmooer:

  That's what I think too. If not how come she call him Jing Ge Ge? Syusaku please clarify!

  in the book she calls him jing ge ge as well? cant remember... only can remember the very old condor heros serial very vividly.
• nismoS132

  17 Jul 03, 23:06

  i'd rather he write a new novel instead than trying to milk his cows for every bit of milk they can produce.
• Syusaku

  18 Jul 03, 10:58

  at the beginning of the story, guo jing is supposed to attend to a duel 16yrs later. Assuming his mentors took no more than a year to find him, he should be around 16,17 yrs old when he left the steppes.
  
  when guo jing first met huang rong, she was described as a lad of 13,14 yrs old. As such, the reader is given an impression that the guy is older by 1,2 yrs. sidenote: very young couple. u would think that in today's society they would be discouraged from going steady by their mentors,parents etc
  
• nismoS132

  19 Jul 03, 00:12

  must be true to history mah, last time 10-12 yrs old get married liaoz
• GenX

  19 Jul 03, 01:19

  Yes, if it is not broke why fix it,most of his novels are just works which use a certain historical era as a back ground with frictional characters.In this way all the events are already not true history, so why does he need to clarify certain portion.
  
  At least for me,it is the good interaction of his various characters in the novels that make his novels such classic. By changing part of the story to accomadate history is just like taking away a certain portion of some of the characters. In this way history gain a point but it really has done nothing for that portion that has captivates so many people to like his novel. May even make it worse off in the end.