I have started a rewatch of one of my all-time favorites
I was in a very bad mood last evening, so I did what every girl will do - bought a dozen-and-a half cupcakes and put in the DVDs of My Girl.
The cupcakes were overly ambitious (I ate 2. Luckily my Lord and Master likes cupcakes as well and we have a fridge) but My Girl was, as always, perfect. I only got through half an ep before needing to go to bed but was cheered up immensely.
Seol Gong Chan would SO be my drama boyfriend if I didn't hate his Grandfather (hilariously, that visceral loathing came upon me as soon as we saw him this time - because I remember his actions) and Joo Yu Rin is beyond adorable and is the reason Lee Da Hae is my favorite kdrama actress. I ship the two of them like mad (despite the presence of one of the most awesome other guys ever) because the drama completely sells me on them as OTP and as utterly right for each other.
My Girl is in my Top 5 kdramas. It is also my favorite of the Hong Sisters' dramas which, seeing that 3 of their 4 dramas made it into my Top 10, makes me Hong Sisters' slave for life.
If anyone has any interest in kdramas and has not yet seen this, you completely must!
My Girl's heroine, Joo Yu Rin is a con-artist but she is a kind one - her lies never really harm anyone and she's had to resort to this sort of thing to survive - her father is a gambler, constantly in debt, and perpetually on the run. She has to take care of herself as nobody else will.
Seol Gong Chan is that rarity among kdrama men - an actual emotional and mental adult who is not utterly screwed up. A manager of a lux hotel and an heir to a rich family, quiet, nobbody's fool, but kind, Gong Chan copes with his traumas without inflicting his miseries on everybody else (such a rarity in kdramas!) His Grandfather is dying racked with guilt over disowning his daughter whose marriage he disapproved of. The daughter and her husband since died, but their only child, a daughter, is missing. Grandpa is desperate to find her and Gong Chan would do anything to make his grandfather's last days easier. He just might be desperate enough to hire Yu Rin as the fake granddaughter, and Yu Rin just might be desperate enough to accept.
Why do I ship them so? It's as hope_fuleigh put it: "Because, despite all the lying and the things that she has seen as a result of the way that she grew up, she is this incredibly innocent, idealistic, childish little girl who really needs someone to look after her - which is something she has never really had...And Gong-chan... he's mature and responsible and a little too serious, but not broken as so many dorama leads are. If Yoo-rin never entered his life, he'd be fine and would probably have lived a moderately happy life; but once he meets her, and gets to know her and starts to fall in love with her, he NEEDS her, even if doesn't yet understand why. She's a light, a joy, that is missing from his life, that he doesn't know is missing until its there." (You should totally read her My Girl meta, it's awesome).
When I first watched My Girl, I marathonned it like a nutter (just click on 'my girl' tag and you'll see how much insane typing I did over that drama). Since then I rewatched fave bits but never the whole thing. But now I am doing so and it's as wonderful as I remember.
The cupcakes were overly ambitious (I ate 2. Luckily my Lord and Master likes cupcakes as well and we have a fridge) but My Girl was, as always, perfect. I only got through half an ep before needing to go to bed but was cheered up immensely.
Seol Gong Chan would SO be my drama boyfriend if I didn't hate his Grandfather (hilariously, that visceral loathing came upon me as soon as we saw him this time - because I remember his actions) and Joo Yu Rin is beyond adorable and is the reason Lee Da Hae is my favorite kdrama actress. I ship the two of them like mad (despite the presence of one of the most awesome other guys ever) because the drama completely sells me on them as OTP and as utterly right for each other.
My Girl is in my Top 5 kdramas. It is also my favorite of the Hong Sisters' dramas which, seeing that 3 of their 4 dramas made it into my Top 10, makes me Hong Sisters' slave for life.
If anyone has any interest in kdramas and has not yet seen this, you completely must!
My Girl's heroine, Joo Yu Rin is a con-artist but she is a kind one - her lies never really harm anyone and she's had to resort to this sort of thing to survive - her father is a gambler, constantly in debt, and perpetually on the run. She has to take care of herself as nobody else will.
Seol Gong Chan is that rarity among kdrama men - an actual emotional and mental adult who is not utterly screwed up. A manager of a lux hotel and an heir to a rich family, quiet, nobbody's fool, but kind, Gong Chan copes with his traumas without inflicting his miseries on everybody else (such a rarity in kdramas!) His Grandfather is dying racked with guilt over disowning his daughter whose marriage he disapproved of. The daughter and her husband since died, but their only child, a daughter, is missing. Grandpa is desperate to find her and Gong Chan would do anything to make his grandfather's last days easier. He just might be desperate enough to hire Yu Rin as the fake granddaughter, and Yu Rin just might be desperate enough to accept.
Why do I ship them so? It's as hope_fuleigh put it: "Because, despite all the lying and the things that she has seen as a result of the way that she grew up, she is this incredibly innocent, idealistic, childish little girl who really needs someone to look after her - which is something she has never really had...And Gong-chan... he's mature and responsible and a little too serious, but not broken as so many dorama leads are. If Yoo-rin never entered his life, he'd be fine and would probably have lived a moderately happy life; but once he meets her, and gets to know her and starts to fall in love with her, he NEEDS her, even if doesn't yet understand why. She's a light, a joy, that is missing from his life, that he doesn't know is missing until its there." (You should totally read her My Girl meta, it's awesome).
When I first watched My Girl, I marathonned it like a nutter (just click on 'my girl' tag and you'll see how much insane typing I did over that drama). Since then I rewatched fave bits but never the whole thing. But now I am doing so and it's as wonderful as I remember.