Stop me from watching Autumn Tale, anyone!
Somebody with common sense please talk me out of watching Autumn Tale (otherwise known as 'Endless Love' or 'Autumn in my Heart').
AT is a Korean drama which is credited with starting the Hallyu wave (the craze for Korean dramas etc that swept Asia in the early years of the decade). And in fact, I think it's responsible for a lot of common tropes you see in kdramas: the death of a main character from cancer (which is a trope that seems to have finally gone away. YES). The strong childhood love/connection between the OTP, going as far as to be quasi-insestuous.
It's sort of to Kdrama what Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was to Bollywood of the 90s.
And from the vids I've seen, it's romantic and gorgeous. See:
The plot revolves around Eun-Suh (heroine) and Joon-Suh (hero). The two grew up as siblings (aha, I see where kdrama fixation with quasi-incest comes from) until the parents discovered that Eun-Suh wasn't their biological child but was switched at birth at the hospital. Being kdrama parents, they decided that all those years raising her didn't matter and just swapped her with their real daughter. They then moved, leaving poor Eun-Suh living in squalor with her birth family. Years later, Joon-Suh and Eun-Suh meet again, and this being kdrama, fall in love. But of course, tragedy looms over them, and not just from society boggling at their love. Terminal illness (aha, now I know where that one is from, too) awaits...
So, what's the problem?
Are you kidding? It's the one which is responsible for the really depressing kdramas! It's supposed to be totally heart-breaking. And I am already watching MISA (another famous example of that 'cheery' subgenre of romantic tragedy). Two at a time will make me need medication. So, stop me. Please.
AT is a Korean drama which is credited with starting the Hallyu wave (the craze for Korean dramas etc that swept Asia in the early years of the decade). And in fact, I think it's responsible for a lot of common tropes you see in kdramas: the death of a main character from cancer (which is a trope that seems to have finally gone away. YES). The strong childhood love/connection between the OTP, going as far as to be quasi-insestuous.
It's sort of to Kdrama what Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was to Bollywood of the 90s.
And from the vids I've seen, it's romantic and gorgeous. See:
Click to viewThe plot revolves around Eun-Suh (heroine) and Joon-Suh (hero). The two grew up as siblings (aha, I see where kdrama fixation with quasi-incest comes from) until the parents discovered that Eun-Suh wasn't their biological child but was switched at birth at the hospital. Being kdrama parents, they decided that all those years raising her didn't matter and just swapped her with their real daughter. They then moved, leaving poor Eun-Suh living in squalor with her birth family. Years later, Joon-Suh and Eun-Suh meet again, and this being kdrama, fall in love. But of course, tragedy looms over them, and not just from society boggling at their love. Terminal illness (aha, now I know where that one is from, too) awaits...
So, what's the problem?
Are you kidding? It's the one which is responsible for the really depressing kdramas! It's supposed to be totally heart-breaking. And I am already watching MISA (another famous example of that 'cheery' subgenre of romantic tragedy). Two at a time will make me need medication. So, stop me. Please.