I understand all your complaints (except I'm not crazy about Goong- way too draggy and spent too much time with boring scenes of people talking about the same thing over and over) but I'm just trying to ignore it now and make the best of it.
Apparently they are toning things down now (such as the Jae Kyung "seduction" scene) because of complaints from people that the show is too "wild" or something. WTF? What is there to even tone down? Booo, is all I say.
One more thing I forgot to say! I wasn't that big a fan of Hana Yori Dango 2 either. It was one of the first dramas that I watched as it aired (perhaps THE first one, minus PGSM...I think) and while it was cracky, it was extremely frustrating. Every episode went back and forth of one of the couple wanting to get back together and the other one pulling away. But I still was able to enjoy it, like I can with the Korean version. Maybe because I wasn't a fan of the anime and manga? I read the first volume of the manga back when Viz released it and then saw a couple episodes of the anime but they bored me to tears and the animation was horrible. I think it was just because that was the time I was just becoming bored of anime and manga in general. That's why I moved on to live action entertainment!
I actually loved Hanadan2, maybe because the internal vaccilations of the characters made sense to me - for one thing they gave Dom a hugely compelling reason to try to pull away, and I could see Makino's waivering too. I don't know - it made sense to me. Not to mention, you could still feel not just their love (because I don't doubt they love each other in kdrama either) but their utter compatibility, and I am not getting the latter here. I never wanted to ship Rui with Makino in Hanadan2.
The anime, btw, did have hideous artwork.
Too wild? Ahahahahahahahaaa. Yeah right.
Goong might have been too draggy (I didn't find it so but I can see how other would) but it stayed character consistent throughout. This - I find frustrating how inconsistent it is.
Apparently they are toning things down now (such as the Jae Kyung "seduction" scene) because of complaints from people that the show is too "wild" or something.
I saw some people post about that, but wtf was up with the DRINKING in this episode? Jun Pyo had wine at dinners in Macau, but Yi Jung totally got wasted on that scotch, and Jun Pyo poured himself another glass of wine at the foursome dinner! When I first started and noted the Gossip Girl-Boys over Flowers-Meteor Garden elements, BoF wound up the most innocent because there wasn't drinking.
If they're trying to tone it down, they seem to have made it up in a different direction!
This is much less booze than in any twdrama (including MG, where Daoming Si was pouring Southern Comfort or whatever straight down his throat from the bottle) but yeah - drinking is OK, if violence and sex are not? Booo. That is why I am glad Koreans mainly make dramas about grown-up, those silly restrictions do not come up - East of Eden has rape, torture (I wanted to look away), attempted suicide, and child abuse for God's sake.
Apparently they are toning things down now (such as the Jae Kyung "seduction" scene) because of complaints from people that the show is too "wild" or something. WTF? What is there to even tone down? Booo, is all I say.
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The anime, btw, did have hideous artwork.
Too wild? Ahahahahahahahaaa. Yeah right.
Goong might have been too draggy (I didn't find it so but I can see how other would) but it stayed character consistent throughout. This - I find frustrating how inconsistent it is.
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I saw some people post about that, but wtf was up with the DRINKING in this episode? Jun Pyo had wine at dinners in Macau, but Yi Jung totally got wasted on that scotch, and Jun Pyo poured himself another glass of wine at the foursome dinner! When I first started and noted the Gossip Girl-Boys over Flowers-Meteor Garden elements, BoF wound up the most innocent because there wasn't drinking.
If they're trying to tone it down, they seem to have made it up in a different direction!
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