On various dramas
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....Cain and Abel is delayed. Grrrrrrr...I want my angsty mob assassins in love, darnit. Don't tell me So Ji Sub is baulking at dying on-screen again. :D Kim Rae Won's Gourmet about a chef is not the same. Do chefs shoot people and angst in suits? No. BOO.
Has anyone on my flist seen the recently ended (and completely subbed) Lobbyist? It's one of the rare non-romance (though of course it does have a love story) dramas I am interested in, largely because sometimes I like violence/gritty stuff, and because it stars Song Il Gook, who after Jumong can do no wrong in my eyes and can read the telephone book and I will watch. Also, apparently they filmed in Washington DC (lost stalking opportunity! :D) and Kyrgyzstan (!!!!).
The story: Our heroine Maria (Jang Jin Young) grows up in a quiet fishing village with Harry (Song Il Gook). Yes, every kdrama is required to have a childhood love. Through various plot developments, both end up moving to America while children (separately), and both suffer some severe trauma: Maria's father is shot during a mugging, and eventually Maria's bright, driven older sister is murdered and is implicated in the theft of government secrets. Meanwhile, Harry's sister is molested in his new home by an Uncle who has odd notion of family values, and Harry grabs his sister and goes on the run. Can we say both grow up to be extremely tough and self-sufficient individuals?
Fast-forward to adulthood, and both Maria and Harry's paths cross once again, not necessarily smoothly. Maria is now a lobbyist for an international munitions manufacturer and Harry is a prosperous arms dealer. Both are involved in arms-dealing, vengeance and other exciting things. Lots of stuff blows up. There is a love story (duh) but it's not primarily that. I think. You can never be sure, with kdramas.
All I know is, Song Il Gook better not die in this one.
Any drama that begins this way (to go into flashback) wins brownie points already:
Mmm, SIG at some press conference. I am unused to seeing him sans beard and sword:
We are Tough! And love guns!
*drooool*
There is always time for smouldering UST:
More hotness. You know, I think this is one of the shallow reasons I prefer kdramas. They are a lot more prone to have men and not boys as their stars. 35-year-old SIG, who looks like he eats regularly is a lot more my thing than a 20-year-old JE boy who looks like he's forgotten the meaning of food.
More posters:
Men and their guns:
Women, too:
In other news, apparently Korea finally picked up its own drama Bichunmu (previously shown in China, it was a co-production). I hope they will have original actors' voices as that would be awesome. The version I own is dubbed into Mandarin. Which reminds me, it's an awesome drama, I must finish it. Angsty, and romantic, and funny, and with swords.
Last but not least, I am through ep 10 of Snow White and it continues to be awesome.
I really really adore the OTP of this one. They are just so compatible and have fun together and are always there for each other, almost instinctively )him for her when Jin-Woo gets engaged, her for him with his Mother). I never thought I would feel like crying to see a guy fix a microwave, or when they went grocery shopping (because she wanted to do it with Jin-Woo and Sun-Woo knew it and took her, pretending it was a coincidence). Or the way they went to the beach, and he kissed her, and the whole day and night they spent together. And the way he ran to her side when he found out his brother got engaged because he knew how she would feel.
I adore Jin-Woo, who is sweet if dense as a thick plank (everyone can tell Young-hee is crushing on him except for him) but I have to say I felt rather satisfied to see him see SW/YH talk on the roof and admit they want to be more than friends, and SW hugs YH and she hugs him back.
JW deserves a bit of his own back, but mainly, it's because I so love SW/YH together.
Still no Kame/Nun. This kills my soul :) Or at least that part of it which fangirls.
Has anyone on my flist seen the recently ended (and completely subbed) Lobbyist? It's one of the rare non-romance (though of course it does have a love story) dramas I am interested in, largely because sometimes I like violence/gritty stuff, and because it stars Song Il Gook, who after Jumong can do no wrong in my eyes and can read the telephone book and I will watch. Also, apparently they filmed in Washington DC (lost stalking opportunity! :D) and Kyrgyzstan (!!!!).
The story: Our heroine Maria (Jang Jin Young) grows up in a quiet fishing village with Harry (Song Il Gook). Yes, every kdrama is required to have a childhood love. Through various plot developments, both end up moving to America while children (separately), and both suffer some severe trauma: Maria's father is shot during a mugging, and eventually Maria's bright, driven older sister is murdered and is implicated in the theft of government secrets. Meanwhile, Harry's sister is molested in his new home by an Uncle who has odd notion of family values, and Harry grabs his sister and goes on the run. Can we say both grow up to be extremely tough and self-sufficient individuals?
Fast-forward to adulthood, and both Maria and Harry's paths cross once again, not necessarily smoothly. Maria is now a lobbyist for an international munitions manufacturer and Harry is a prosperous arms dealer. Both are involved in arms-dealing, vengeance and other exciting things. Lots of stuff blows up. There is a love story (duh) but it's not primarily that. I think. You can never be sure, with kdramas.
All I know is, Song Il Gook better not die in this one.
Any drama that begins this way (to go into flashback) wins brownie points already:
Mmm, SIG at some press conference. I am unused to seeing him sans beard and sword:
We are Tough! And love guns!
*drooool*
There is always time for smouldering UST:
More hotness. You know, I think this is one of the shallow reasons I prefer kdramas. They are a lot more prone to have men and not boys as their stars. 35-year-old SIG, who looks like he eats regularly is a lot more my thing than a 20-year-old JE boy who looks like he's forgotten the meaning of food.
More posters:
Men and their guns:
Women, too:
In other news, apparently Korea finally picked up its own drama Bichunmu (previously shown in China, it was a co-production). I hope they will have original actors' voices as that would be awesome. The version I own is dubbed into Mandarin. Which reminds me, it's an awesome drama, I must finish it. Angsty, and romantic, and funny, and with swords.
Last but not least, I am through ep 10 of Snow White and it continues to be awesome.
I really really adore the OTP of this one. They are just so compatible and have fun together and are always there for each other, almost instinctively )him for her when Jin-Woo gets engaged, her for him with his Mother). I never thought I would feel like crying to see a guy fix a microwave, or when they went grocery shopping (because she wanted to do it with Jin-Woo and Sun-Woo knew it and took her, pretending it was a coincidence). Or the way they went to the beach, and he kissed her, and the whole day and night they spent together. And the way he ran to her side when he found out his brother got engaged because he knew how she would feel.
I adore Jin-Woo, who is sweet if dense as a thick plank (everyone can tell Young-hee is crushing on him except for him) but I have to say I felt rather satisfied to see him see SW/YH talk on the roof and admit they want to be more than friends, and SW hugs YH and she hugs him back.
JW deserves a bit of his own back, but mainly, it's because I so love SW/YH together.
Still no Kame/Nun. This kills my soul :) Or at least that part of it which fangirls.