In the news of the amusing in the drama world...
Bwahahahahaaaa...apparently two fashion-themed upcoming dramas Style and Magazine Allo are wrangling about plagiatrism and copycatting and God-knows-what. (The former is claiming the latter is stealing...)
Ehhh, I couldn't care less if they both air or neither - I'd rather watch a drama about boils. The only way a fashion-themed show would be palatable to me would be if it was run by an angsty set of stepsiblings secretly in love with each other. And maybe not even then, unless the male half of the stepsibling duo liked to angst in the shower and run around shirtless in the streets.
Plus, according to dramabeans (where I got all these nuggets), Style would be going head to head with Swallow the Sun and Triple. I am madly excited for both (StS more than Triple: it has the cast/production team I love and a topic that is a narrative kink, while Triple is exciting but I still am upset that Kang Ji Hwan isn't doing it any more. I am not familiar with Lee Jung Jae at all even if he is famous...Still, PD of Coffee Prince, Yoon Kye Sang and figure-skating, even if it looks like less focus on figure-skating than I initially hoped for, so still pretty good.)
So yeah - hahahahahahaa.
In Spring Waltz news, this drama is total addictive crack. One thing that I am immensely amused by, however - the Psycho Secondary Girl keeps trying to blackmail Hero (not very successfully as he doesn't give a damn) and his adoptive parents (much more successfully) with revealing his backstory unless they let her marry him. This elicits a total WTF from me! First off, it's not as if he murdered someone as a backstory. He got illegally adopted as a 10-yr-old (i.e. small child!) by some crazy people. I can't see how that is his fault and thus I don't think he is blackmailable. But even if it is scandalous or whatever, why does it matter? He is not a Korean pop idol with a squeaky clean image, he is a classical pianist! Have you seen some of the nutcases that are famous classical pianists? There is this really famous Polish one who travels with his own piano and recently interrupted a concert in New York to give a lengthy anti-American diatribe and then continued his tour. There is the guy on whom Shine was based who was a schitzophrenic. Etcetcetc. As long as a classical musician is good, nobody cares if they have a problematic background or personality, short of them being a criminal and thus in jail. Even in the unlikely event Korean lovers of classical music are different from the rest of the world, come on! Korea must be a teeny-tiny classical music market. He won't lose a thing - I mean, are you telling me people in Austria, UK, France, US or wherever else would care and not go to his concerts because he was illegally adopted or his birth father was a crook? Bwahahahahahaaaaaaaa.
I do love how he is completely matter-of-fact about not marrying Psycho Girl. They throw an engagement party? He shows up with Heroine and announces she is the one he loves. They plan a wedding and even in the midst of his breakdown he tells them (repeatedly) he is not going through with the wedding (clear corrolary being he ain't going to participate but if they are insane and want to plan a groomless wedding, go ahead). I really wish Boys Over Flowers' gutless wonder Gu Jun Pyo had about a tenth of this emo fragile pianist's spine.
Ehhh, I couldn't care less if they both air or neither - I'd rather watch a drama about boils. The only way a fashion-themed show would be palatable to me would be if it was run by an angsty set of stepsiblings secretly in love with each other. And maybe not even then, unless the male half of the stepsibling duo liked to angst in the shower and run around shirtless in the streets.
Plus, according to dramabeans (where I got all these nuggets), Style would be going head to head with Swallow the Sun and Triple. I am madly excited for both (StS more than Triple: it has the cast/production team I love and a topic that is a narrative kink, while Triple is exciting but I still am upset that Kang Ji Hwan isn't doing it any more. I am not familiar with Lee Jung Jae at all even if he is famous...Still, PD of Coffee Prince, Yoon Kye Sang and figure-skating, even if it looks like less focus on figure-skating than I initially hoped for, so still pretty good.)
So yeah - hahahahahahaa.
In Spring Waltz news, this drama is total addictive crack. One thing that I am immensely amused by, however - the Psycho Secondary Girl keeps trying to blackmail Hero (not very successfully as he doesn't give a damn) and his adoptive parents (much more successfully) with revealing his backstory unless they let her marry him. This elicits a total WTF from me! First off, it's not as if he murdered someone as a backstory. He got illegally adopted as a 10-yr-old (i.e. small child!) by some crazy people. I can't see how that is his fault and thus I don't think he is blackmailable. But even if it is scandalous or whatever, why does it matter? He is not a Korean pop idol with a squeaky clean image, he is a classical pianist! Have you seen some of the nutcases that are famous classical pianists? There is this really famous Polish one who travels with his own piano and recently interrupted a concert in New York to give a lengthy anti-American diatribe and then continued his tour. There is the guy on whom Shine was based who was a schitzophrenic. Etcetcetc. As long as a classical musician is good, nobody cares if they have a problematic background or personality, short of them being a criminal and thus in jail. Even in the unlikely event Korean lovers of classical music are different from the rest of the world, come on! Korea must be a teeny-tiny classical music market. He won't lose a thing - I mean, are you telling me people in Austria, UK, France, US or wherever else would care and not go to his concerts because he was illegally adopted or his birth father was a crook? Bwahahahahahaaaaaaaa.
I do love how he is completely matter-of-fact about not marrying Psycho Girl. They throw an engagement party? He shows up with Heroine and announces she is the one he loves. They plan a wedding and even in the midst of his breakdown he tells them (repeatedly) he is not going through with the wedding (clear corrolary being he ain't going to participate but if they are insane and want to plan a groomless wedding, go ahead). I really wish Boys Over Flowers' gutless wonder Gu Jun Pyo had about a tenth of this emo fragile pianist's spine.