Reading and Watching

[dangermousie]

In a little vacuum after Legend (and before it took over, as well), in-between watching the airbrushed angst of Beautiful Days (seriously, Hero. Just ditch the family and move to Canada, Australia, or Brazil. You’ll be much happier), I have also tried watching/reading various things that I haven’t posted about before, with various degrees of

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[fivil]

Hee, Stephen Chow films usually are LOLtastic.

Legend of Hyang Dan has a Suju member and dramabeans.com (whose taste I can agree with 80% of the time) really liked it so I'm def checking it out. But sometimes timing is everything. Watching something you're not in the mood doesn't work out for me at all, ever (unless whatever I'm watching turns out to be something I *am* in the mood for).

[dangermousie]

See, dramabeans prefaces her liking for HD with

I say this as someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy Korean historical dramas or films, no matter how good they are purported to be But that is the thing, I do. (Browsing dramabeans' site, we don't seem to have very many dramastastes in common though. I love my angst and she doesn't seem to

[fivil]

I think I'm 50-50 with dramabeans' taste.. I'm more prone to enjoying slapsticky comedy than her but not into typical kdrama angst like her.

Her ratings are here, btw: http://www.dramabeans.com/about/ratings/

She intro'ed me to Que Sera Sera and Flowers for My Life, both of which I loved (though haven't finished yet), for which I'm very grateful.

Regardless I get what you're saying.

[dangermousie]

Thanks for the links! Yeah, makes sense.

Did you ever finish QSS btw? I am sort of considering starting on it next week.

[fivil]

I read summaries of 11 and 12 and of course, spoiled myself for the ending, but I never made it through those final 6-7 episodes. lesbiassparrow finished it - I think - and hated the hero and basically everybody but the poor, poor heroine. I agree that the heroine is the most sympathetic character but I kind of liked the fact the hero was mind-blowingly hot Eric Mun who can kiss me in elevators any time totally aware of his assholeness and tells the heroine right off the bat that he's not a nice guy. Not sure if it's enough to excuse the things he ends up doing, but he definitely goes through shit himself. It's a very hurty drama all around.

I think lesbiassparrow's posts made me unsure whether I could go through the emotional pain of the last eps, but I'm still semi-determined to finish it, because Eun-soo/Tae-joo as an OTP took my breath way (such a wonderful confusing mix of cute/hurty) and Eric Mun is hot and the drama also had a lovely dark humor edge to it.

I think what I said in my last post about QSS still applies:

And whilst I don't