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callherblondie

We Got Married

Oct 29, 2008 22:24

I've become completely addicted to this South Korean reality show called 'We Got Married.' The concept is very interesting: the show casts eight Korean celebrities and put them together as 'married' couples so they can experience what it's like to live the life of a married. The directors match up the couples so the celebrities don't have any say ( Read more... )

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kitsune714 October 31 2008, 02:51:40 UTC

callherblondie October 31 2008, 03:10:16 UTC

YES THANK YOU I FEEL THE SAME! The concept is like everything I've ever wanted in a reality show but never dared to ask for knowing it would probably never come true. It has all the drama tropes I love but it's more real somehow -- arranged marriage, struggling together and often with each other, and with pretty pretty people who actually have personalities behind their celebrity personas ( ... )

kitsune714 October 31 2008, 03:36:57 UTC

callherblondie October 31 2008, 05:26:36 UTC

I'm already fantasy casting the Japanese version in my head.
Hells to the yes. And if they don't force arranged marriages on Ueno Jurie & Eita and Aoi Yuu & Shugo Oshinari, my ass will be outside the studio of NHK, TBS, Fuji TV or whichever station is airing it, with signs protesting.

I am a sucker for the reality-behind-the-celebrity-veneer trope, because OMG HAUNTED PAST HIDDEN BEHIND RED CARPET FLASHBULBS. It pushes all my buttons, seriously.Mine too SO HARD. When Shin Ae was commenting calmly in a confessional that in the beginning of her career as a model in commercials, they were usually for beauty products and only showed her from the neck up and she suffered a lot of backlash from fans after her first tv drama and they saw her entire body and saw that she was taller and curvier than the stereotypical cute tiny bird-boned Asian girl...man, I teared up because she's freaking gorgeous, all of her, and it was obvious that she didn't think so. And how she would comment upon seeing photo spreads of herself that they didn't look ( ... )

kitsune714 October 31 2008, 23:34:56 UTC

callherblondie November 1 2008, 02:08:19 UTC

I am now also considering seeking out the Hyunjoong episode of "We Got Married" just because SS501's sad little trip to Japan has me a little verklempt.I highly recommend it! I was completely verklempt through all of Hwangbo's surprise visit to her husband and his bandmates in Japan. Everything was just ahhhhhhh poor little pop idols! I got choked up so many times while watching those two episodes, from Hwangbo asking them what they did in the evenings when not performing and the boys excitedly taking her to one of their cramped meager bedrooms and dragging out their little karaoke machine when I was expecting them to be like 'drinking until I pass out in the street! Screwing girls one right after the other until they beg for mercy! Club-hopping and destroying property!' And when the boys threw Hyunjoong and Hwangbo a little congrats on being married party in the hotel room complete with handwritten letters from each of them wishing the couple well ('be good to each other and never ever get divorced please!') and two little stuffed ( ... )

kitsune714 November 1 2008, 02:54:18 UTC

callherblondie November 1 2008, 03:56:05 UTC

I wonder how much of these hijinks are real and how much of it is scripted.
I wonder about that too, in general, when I'm watching WGM. For some reason I can't put my finger on, the stuff that happens on WGM seem more natural and authentic that shenanigans on American reality shows.

I like that these boys find being nice and being pretty mutually exclusive traits in women.
Hehe, yeah, I am so amused that despite their slick boyband personas and tons of screaming flailing fangirls, they're still so clueless and naive about women.

callherblondie October 31 2008, 05:30:53 UTC

Also meant to add (as if I haven't spam replied enough!):

I Totally Agree with you about HYD -- don't care about the manga or anime, LOVE the live actions. I think Hyunjoong will end up being my favorite Rui since I already like him as person from WGM and his personality is pretty different from Rui so it likely won't take much to impress me. I think, so far, Shun is the best Rui but I'm not completely attached to him because Shun is an enigma, the consummate professional, so I have trouble evaluating how good his performance is. It must be excellent though since he pretty much is Rui in my mind.

kitsune714 October 31 2008, 23:39:20 UTC

callherblondie November 1 2008, 02:19:05 UTC

Domyouji and Makino, fraternal twins, separated at birth? BUT WAIT, NOW THEY'RE IN LOVE. Their love can never be!
And lest we forget, one or both of them has an incurable terminal illness that causes them to frolic in the snow and then cough up blood in the snow.

Four good-looking, exceedingly wealthy boys solve all of my problems, and TWO OF THEM ARE IN LOVE WITH ME.
Seriously, WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO MAKE THIS MY LIFE?

kitsune714 November 1 2008, 02:52:33 UTC

callherblondie November 1 2008, 04:13:03 UTC

Or the guy she was screaming OPPA! at grabbing her arm and dragging her around by it so that he nearly yanks it out of its socket. Guys in Kdramas ALWAYS have to do that!

The next time I see a good-looking, arrogant rich boy, I'm going to punch him in the face so he will fall in love with me.
Good plan! I should warm up my puny fists.

kitsune714 November 3 2008, 06:01:18 UTC

calledinvain November 1 2008, 03:15:10 UTC

oh you two. *laughs*

callherblondie November 1 2008, 04:09:24 UTC

You know you are not immune!*points accusatory finger*

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