Top 10 things whose popularity in the drama world I don't get
1. Boys over Flowers kdrama - badly written, often badly acted, with character progression for the leads that makes no sense. Sure it's sparkly and addictive but so is crystal meth and I don't see rabid teen fangirls for the latter.
2. Ikuta Toma. His nose is too big for his face, he needs to have a meal, he lacks charisma and his acting isn't enough to compensate for it.
3. Moronic cutesy heroines - what is so appealing about a grown-up woman who has the brain power of a 6 year old and who one always needs to extricate from everything, including household appliances and the neighborhood dog? They make Mrs. Bennett look like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Can you imagine how annoying it would be to be with someone like that day after day, no matter how chirpy they are? If you want something so cute and helpless, just get a baby - at least they have an excuse.
4. Baby conceived after one time - sure it happens occasionally, but the chances of that are pretty slim. Those drama men must be pretty potent despite their skinny, 'circulation and other things cutting off' jeans.
5. Hana Kimi - Japan. It's a textbook lesson in how to ruin a decent manga - cast a bunch of starved effeminate-looking boys, a male lead who is slumming and acts like it, and a female lead who is incredibly miscast. Get rid of any semblance of plot or human relatability and substitute zoo antics. Voila - big hit.
6. Yoona. Her existence in the dramaworld at all is incomprehensible to me - she cannot act, she looks scary, and she has no charisma. Yes she has dramas as a leading lady under her belt.
6a. Gu Hye Sun. See above.
7. Devil Beside You - there is cute and fluffy and then there is brainless, cavity-inducing, making overacting seem subtle, drama like this. It's horrible, horrible, horrible.
8. Gokusen franchise - Sure the first one was excellent, but with each successive one it made less and less sense. How many 'tough teacher reforms hoodlum students' plots can you have? Apparently an infinite amount.
9. 70+ episode period dramas - Sorry, Korea, I don't care if the main character did 34,687 exciting things in his life, visited every continent, and lived to be 125. You still do not need triple digit number of episodes to depict it.
10. DEAD FISH KISSING - you know what I mean - the two actors kiss by pressing lips together very gingerly and holding very still, often looking like they'd rather be eating rotten shrimp from the floor of the fish market. Why? If you find kissing so awkward to show or for your actors to enact, just skip it, thanks - it's better than this bizarrely positioned disgustathon.
What are yours?
2. Ikuta Toma. His nose is too big for his face, he needs to have a meal, he lacks charisma and his acting isn't enough to compensate for it.
3. Moronic cutesy heroines - what is so appealing about a grown-up woman who has the brain power of a 6 year old and who one always needs to extricate from everything, including household appliances and the neighborhood dog? They make Mrs. Bennett look like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Can you imagine how annoying it would be to be with someone like that day after day, no matter how chirpy they are? If you want something so cute and helpless, just get a baby - at least they have an excuse.
4. Baby conceived after one time - sure it happens occasionally, but the chances of that are pretty slim. Those drama men must be pretty potent despite their skinny, 'circulation and other things cutting off' jeans.
5. Hana Kimi - Japan. It's a textbook lesson in how to ruin a decent manga - cast a bunch of starved effeminate-looking boys, a male lead who is slumming and acts like it, and a female lead who is incredibly miscast. Get rid of any semblance of plot or human relatability and substitute zoo antics. Voila - big hit.
6. Yoona. Her existence in the dramaworld at all is incomprehensible to me - she cannot act, she looks scary, and she has no charisma. Yes she has dramas as a leading lady under her belt.
6a. Gu Hye Sun. See above.
7. Devil Beside You - there is cute and fluffy and then there is brainless, cavity-inducing, making overacting seem subtle, drama like this. It's horrible, horrible, horrible.
8. Gokusen franchise - Sure the first one was excellent, but with each successive one it made less and less sense. How many 'tough teacher reforms hoodlum students' plots can you have? Apparently an infinite amount.
9. 70+ episode period dramas - Sorry, Korea, I don't care if the main character did 34,687 exciting things in his life, visited every continent, and lived to be 125. You still do not need triple digit number of episodes to depict it.
10. DEAD FISH KISSING - you know what I mean - the two actors kiss by pressing lips together very gingerly and holding very still, often looking like they'd rather be eating rotten shrimp from the floor of the fish market. Why? If you find kissing so awkward to show or for your actors to enact, just skip it, thanks - it's better than this bizarrely positioned disgustathon.
What are yours?