Hu Ge and Liu Shi Shi are Modern and Gorgeous in Latest Magazine Spreads

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• Yes, the re-creation is sad.

  I will give the drama a pass and just focus all of my fondness on the novel.....

• OMG they look terrible in those last two pictures. And OLD! Which is especially disappointing since their characters are (for the most part) teenagers/in their early 20s. Guess we will just have to keep picturing this wonderful novel in our heads =_=

• I have to agree that LSS and HG looks tired and old in the costumes. It's pretty disappointing considering both generally look very good in traditional clothes. I don't think that Hu Ge age very well (even in modern) even though he's still handsome. He's too skinny so that make him appear older than his age. He looks best when he has more meat on his face since he has a very angular face. LSS just gets prettier with age.

  • I don't think that it's more Hu Ge doesn't have bangs more so than he's not aging very well? I'm not familiar with him at all before the start of Koala's posting pictures of him and that is one thing I noticed in all of his pictures. If you dig back to the post where a fan made the DMY cast, I think he did look better (despite being HQB). The middle parting hairstyle fits Wallace Hou better and doesn't age him as bad. But yes, LSS......definitely too old-looking to pass off as youthful and sassy JY.

  • I wonder if the accident has something to do with it. I don't think h is particularly skinny but his face us just more haggard because he has such high cheekbone. He look cuter in cp1and the first half of loch

    • Half and half. He was still adorable in CP3 (looks-wise) even though it was post-accident. But since the accident I did notice in general he's just a lot skinnier and his high cheekbones much more defined. If you look at Tian Wai Fei Xian vs. second half of LoCH it's like he's almost a different person. Poor baby boy. :-(

  • Hu Ge has barely begun to age! He's 29 if I'm not mistaken. That means he's transitioned from teenager to a man. He has a good decade and a half to go before he's 'aging.' haha :)

    I agree the costumes are horrible.

• I'm just fascinated by what's going on with LSS's shoes. They look like they have fabric stuff on the toes standing upright. I just can't figure out what's going on with them.

  • That's just how those shoes look like. You can see the shoes in this painting of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jin_Wu_Di.jpg.

    You can take a look here too: http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_chinaway/2003-09/24/content_29304.htm

    Although LSS's toe caps is abnormally long.

  • Oh, good. I thought it was just me who did a double take on those bad boys.

    I concur with the rest of ya'll. The last two pics are horrific! Thank goodness we all know that Hu Ge is beautiful despite that last creepy pic.

  • LOL... The shoes look like bunnies...

    Arghhh they both looked horrible in their olden customes... such a huge disappointment wrt DMY casting and not so prutty customes.
    What a gargantuas MISS!

    • I just wonder how they don't trip over those shoes and the many layers of clothes.

• OMG! Are you sure they suppose to be in their teens/20s? Cuz for sure they look in the mid-30s to 40s with that costume. Couldn't they have better hair style? better color garments?

• Hmmm....I don't think they look that bad. I mean of course, candid photos won't look as good as photoshoots where they have better lighting, cameras and photoshop. It's not exactly a fair comparison. I think people are just letting bias cloud their judgement.

  • Er....no.

    Here's the gang at the CP3 press conference, again it is not a photoshoot quality, but they are gorgeous and non-fugly.

    That was HongMi and GeShi above.

    Below imma switch up the OTPs. Voila! HongShi and GeMi! Still purty.

    • But that was 3 years ago. Let's remember that Hu Ge is 30 now. Besides, facial expression makes a lot of difference. Like in those two pictures (of the CP3 conference), Hu Ge looks better in the first than in the second. And they still look pretty but not as gorgeous as the photoshoot pictures from above. Like I said, it's not a fair comparison. Also, I've seen better pictures of them during the DMY conference. Picture selection is also the key. Anyway, I, for one, am glad Hu Ge not HQB. Watching some of his latest stuff, he has lost that youthful aura that is necessary for the young general. Eddie is a better fit.

    • The passage of time has nothing to do with the fact that Tangren styled them horribly. They look fuddy-duddy instead of wild/carefree and elegant/dreamy. They can work on their facial expressions all they want, but it has no bearing on my opinion of their costuming fail.

      I'm comparing apples to apples. If I dig up any regular picture of Hu Ge and Shi Shi, non photoshoot, they would still be pretty. And they aren't the slightest bit attractive at the DMY press conference. The magazine pictures are one thing, but don't use it as the sole basis for refuting the comparison.

    • Well, I suppose we have to agree to disagree here. While I don't think they look absolutely gorgeous, but they're not "fugly," either. In fact, they look fine. And I think the costumes look fine too. I still believe that prejudice and anger are clouding some people's eyes. But hey, just my opinion

  • um..I agree wholeheartedly with Koala. No one looked good at that conference. Furthermore, I saw the Eddie Peng-HQB character. He looks like an idiot playing dress up. That is not the cool, sauve and debonair HQB. What Eddie has is a baby-face appeal, but that's not what HQB needs. HQB is so complex and mature, not just youthful looking.

  • Sigh. Let me get one thing straight. I'm one of those who was sorely disappointed with the DMY casting but that does NOT mean I'm blinded by hate or being biased. Please don't assume and judge so much. We all have our own opinions here.

    Casting aside I actually liked the official poster for the drama, it was gorgeous and the people in them too (what we could see anyway). I have no problem admitting when things or people are pretty despite any reservation of the situation surrounding them. But then I saw the conference pictures (back when they were first released) and my eyes almost popped out from utter horror and dismay. They actually look ugly! My beautiful Hu Ge and Liu Shi Shi! What atrocity! The hairstyles are completely wrong for them! Gah my eyes! At least Liu Shi Shi will be having a lot of appearance changes in the drama, let's hope she spends as little time as possible in that getup. No idea of Hu Ge's chances of getting out of his... It takes quite the skill to make two such absolutely beautiful people and making them look so horrible. Even if I hadn't known about DMY to begin, I would still have the same opinion if I saw the conference pics and their costumes out of context.

    Well what's pretty and what's ugly is subjective, so let's just agree to disagree on this particular point.

    • Umm...that's what I said. If you read the first sentence on my last post, I did say let's agree to disagree. And I didn't say that EVERYONE who think the conference pictures were ugly are "blinded by hate or being biased." What I said was "I still believe that prejudice and anger are clouding some people’s eyes." SOME people, not EVERYONE, and clouded not blinded. And then I reiterate that it's just my opinion. Like you said, we all have our own opinion here, right? So I really don't see how I'm judging or assuming too much. I still stand by my statement. I believe that SOME of the fans are determined to hate everything about DMY because they didn't like the casting. I'm not saying that you're one of those fans; I'm just saying that they exist. It's rather quite ironic that you said that we all have our own opinion when you disregarded mine by saying that I "ssume and judge so much."

      Oh, well. I suppose opposing views are not welcomed here. I shall take my opinions where they are respected even if people don't agree with them. So long people.

    • Disagreeing is fine. Differences of opinion are absolutely welcome here. But you can't expect to make a veiled generalization like "some people are clouded by prejudice and anger" and then expect such a passive-aggressive sweeping and unsubstantiated comments not to garner responses. No? And then to chalk up people taking offense to it, which clearly was implicit in your statement ("anger and prejudice" are not exactly complimentary adjectives), as your opinions are not welcome is rather the pot calling the kettle black.

      You could have easily offered your opinion, refuted others, without throwing in a statement that was couched in words like "some" in order to lessen it's impact. It's like walking into a pro-choice rally and saying "some people who believe in pro-choice are clearly okay with killing unborn babies and don't want to take responsibility for having unprotected sex". And then following it up with "Oh, I didn't mean YOU, didn't you see I used the word "some people"?" Also, your first statement in the first comment did not use the modifying word "some" people. You said people were letting bias cloud their judgment. Then later you backtracked.

      What you said was perfectly legitimate as your opinion, but then don't get your druthers up when it's implied meaning is called into question and people take offense.

    • Lol, Kay. You should go to spcnet. People are much open minded and respectful there. This blog is basically a dictatorship. People only respect your opinion if it coincides with theirs (aka the blog owner's)

  • i actually agree with you.

    i think the outfit looks very pretty. hu ge definitely does not look good with a mid-part (very few people do)...side swept bangs work better for him. however, i can't imagine a great general having side swept bangs....
    the only thing i don't like about liu shi shi here is her hair...it's too BIG, especially from the side view. a simpler hairdo would've been better.

    i do find all the antagonism against casting eddie peng quite annoying. poor guy...i really hope he does a great job.

    also, i may be of minority opinion here, but i find LSS's dress in CP3 pretty fugly. puffed up shoulders and high collar? i think i'll take that pink outfit anyday.

    • With the CP3 conference they look like their at a cosplay conference.

• “(Hu Ge) looks sooooo pervie druggie as M9 and this is depressingly new and so wrong for a M9, and (Shi Shi) looks like a Han dynasty Stepford wife.
  Omg! Hilarious!....

• HuGe does age well - i'm glad bc his younger years kinda creeped me out for some reason... but now he looks like a MAN!!! sigh that was basically how i saw HQB.. not going to watch the drama because HQB wont look swoon worthy in anyone else besides HUGe or YuanHong. oh well Okoala please cntinuing recaping so my imagination can continue to picture the right man as HQB!

• OMG, I thought I was the only one who thought Hu Ge looked awful in that DMY hairstyle.However, I accepted it as they had to uglify him so as not to outshine the supposedly "handsome" HQB. Unfortunately for Tangren, he still did and so did Han Dong. This is the 2nd time they did this to him - first time in LOCH as people were saying he was too good-looking to be a convincing Guo Jing.
  Anyway, looking at the interviews with Karen, Li Guoli and others, seems like thery protest too much - all trying to convince us Hu Ge insisted on being MJ. Yeah, sure, he spent months preparing for the role of HQB (thinking that Wallace wld be MJ) and now, he suddenly wants to be MJ less than 2 weeks before filming starts ? They really take us for fools.It's obvious HG compromised. Tangren's next step wld be to drum up publicity for LSS and Eddie in order to raise his status as he's being outshone left and right by his fellow main and supporting casts. Have you seen the supporting casts ? They are all good-looking.

• Err... We have LSS photoshoot earlier as YE (not here) n she looked good. But... Here... @_@ not to mention 9Y.. He was depicted as beautiful as a moon in the novel.. But here... @_@ perhaps should let down his hair, that's how I imagine my 9Y. Even though 9Y sicks, but he is still beautiful and graceful..(sigh)

  • "He was depicted as beautiful as a moon in the novel.." Oh yeah, Hu Ge sure looks like he's "flying high" with glazed eyes and all at the press conference.

  • After pondering about these pics, LSS outfit seems to represent her as businesswoman in Chang An. With her acting chop, she can get away as perfect YE. As for 9Y, this look suit when he tried to help HQB regain his consciousness in the steamed room. However, please dun look like this the whole time. It's sad enough he didn't get the girl, but this look would not gain further sympathy. He is supposed to look pale and beautiful like the moon. This pic doesn't serve 9Y justice. (from ahjuhmma who tries to cheer up herself).