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I feel as if I entered an odd parallel world with City Hall. This is hero and secondary guy:
Or as more lurid imagination of heroine paints it:
Interesting.
I have finished 7 eps of CH and it continues to be watchable but unmemorable. I think I will give it a break for a bit. Part of it, to be fair, is that I am exhausted and part that it has to follow Worlds Within, which unexpectedly turned out the best piece of television (except for Farscape) I have ever seen from any country.
But another part is my fundamental problem with Mi Rae, our heroine, played by Kim Sun Ah. I am one of five people in the Universe who really despised the huge-super-mega hit Kim Sam Soon that she starred in: I loathed most anything about that drama. But I did want to give KSA another chance because it was mainly her character who drove me up the wall - KSA herself appeared decent enough, if not stellar, actress. So yeah, while a little wary because of KSS, I was willing to give her another chance (the male lead of KSS, even if he also played a character I disliked, was played by Hyun Bin whom I have seen prior to KSS in Snow Queen, one of my favorite dramas, and has made excellent dramas in general, so I just try to pretend he didn't star in KSS and continue my adoration in peace).
Problem: Mi Rae is, in many ways, a Sam Soon by different name. She reminds me of those romcom heroines played by Renee Zellwegger (Kim Sun Ah even looks a bit like Renee) - the ones we are supposed to find cute and adorable even though they are clumsy, not too educated, and act as if they are 17. It might be cute to be little-girlish naive, clumsy, and disregarding of social situations as a high school student but it is rather a nuisance in a 36-yr old. By that point, shouldn't you know better? The cute act gets old at some point! Once again, watching Worlds Within right before it, with the heroine that was actually supremely competent and not trying to be a silly cute cartoon girl didn't help.
You are a grown woman, act like it! UGH.
I have heard that starting in ep 8 the story shifts and Mi Rae becomes more of a power, so I am looking forward to it, but honestly, that is a long time to wait for the story to kick in. Odd.
Anyway, meanwhile I am watching the hilarious Britcom Coupling and reading the equally hilarioud Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks, a non-fiction account about a stand-up comedian trying to hitchhike around Ireland, with a refridgerator, in a month, as a result of a drunken bet. It's wonderful. I was literally laughing out loud twice per page.
Or as more lurid imagination of heroine paints it:
Interesting.
I have finished 7 eps of CH and it continues to be watchable but unmemorable. I think I will give it a break for a bit. Part of it, to be fair, is that I am exhausted and part that it has to follow Worlds Within, which unexpectedly turned out the best piece of television (except for Farscape) I have ever seen from any country.
But another part is my fundamental problem with Mi Rae, our heroine, played by Kim Sun Ah. I am one of five people in the Universe who really despised the huge-super-mega hit Kim Sam Soon that she starred in: I loathed most anything about that drama. But I did want to give KSA another chance because it was mainly her character who drove me up the wall - KSA herself appeared decent enough, if not stellar, actress. So yeah, while a little wary because of KSS, I was willing to give her another chance (the male lead of KSS, even if he also played a character I disliked, was played by Hyun Bin whom I have seen prior to KSS in Snow Queen, one of my favorite dramas, and has made excellent dramas in general, so I just try to pretend he didn't star in KSS and continue my adoration in peace).
Problem: Mi Rae is, in many ways, a Sam Soon by different name. She reminds me of those romcom heroines played by Renee Zellwegger (Kim Sun Ah even looks a bit like Renee) - the ones we are supposed to find cute and adorable even though they are clumsy, not too educated, and act as if they are 17. It might be cute to be little-girlish naive, clumsy, and disregarding of social situations as a high school student but it is rather a nuisance in a 36-yr old. By that point, shouldn't you know better? The cute act gets old at some point! Once again, watching Worlds Within right before it, with the heroine that was actually supremely competent and not trying to be a silly cute cartoon girl didn't help.
You are a grown woman, act like it! UGH.
I have heard that starting in ep 8 the story shifts and Mi Rae becomes more of a power, so I am looking forward to it, but honestly, that is a long time to wait for the story to kick in. Odd.
Anyway, meanwhile I am watching the hilarious Britcom Coupling and reading the equally hilarioud Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks, a non-fiction account about a stand-up comedian trying to hitchhike around Ireland, with a refridgerator, in a month, as a result of a drunken bet. It's wonderful. I was literally laughing out loud twice per page.