If you are a singer - sing. Please don't pollute my screen with your 'acting', kthnks.
Oh God.
WHY DO THEY KEEP CASTING IDOLS WITH NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN MAJOR ROLES IN KDRAMAS?
Another drama has been afflicted with idolmania - apparently one of the members of boyband 2AM (or is it 2PM? I can't keep them straight) has been cast in Personal Taste as a secondary guy.
Whyyyyyyyyyyy? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Is it some sort of a Lee Min Ho curse, to be a leading man in a drama saddled with a wooden idol as his rival. The hell?
With every day, my interest in that drama diminishes.
Seriously.
Kdramas are starting to turn into jdramas (which I have almost given up by now in part because of this), casting good-looking idols who have never acted before in major roles, regardless of any acting ability. Someone like Siwon, who is about to star in a drama of his own, is fine - it's his first leading role in a drama but the boy has been working up to it for years - in a short drama and a bunch of minor roles. But this is not what's going on.
With the exception of Lee Seung Gi in Brilliant Legacy, I cannot think of a single idol cast in a major role as a starting point who did in any way a decent job. And yet they keep trying!
Kim Hyun Joong in Boys over Flowers - so good-looking, so wooden, so derailing the entire drama because the writer wanted into KHJ's pants.
U-Know Yunho (the name says it all) in Heading to the Ground - a more apt name for a drama or his acting has never been invented.
Sonbi in Dream - I have seen more charismatic hunks of wood than this leading lady.
Yoona - I see her name in the credits, I run.
And the list goes on and on and on. I don't care if they stick them in teenybopper dramas, I don't watch those anyway. But now they are beginning to infiltrate things I want to watch - Cinderella Unni has another idol attempting to act. It will be interesting to see him opposite Moon Geun Young, Seo Woo, and Chun Jung Myung - he is going to be eaten alive. There is going to be some scary-looking boybander in What's Up - a boybander in a drama written by the Legend/Sandglass/Slingshot writer. Yeah.
And don't get me started on the Personal Taste guy. Son Ye Jin passed on IRIS and starring opposite Lee Byung Hun to be involved in a love triangle with a flower boy (I love you, Lee Min Ho, but Lee Byung Hun you ain't) and a boybander? Hah.
The rate this is going, I am going to have to stick exclusively to period dramas. I have yet to see a boybander/girlbander in one, thank God.
ETA: Now that I think about it, I think Yoon Eun Hye and Sung Yuri started as singers? And Yoon Kye Sang? And I love them all. OK, maybe it's the recent crop that looks particularly insipid then. Except for Seung Gi I hated every idol they tried to inflict on us acting-wise in the last 4 years.
WHY DO THEY KEEP CASTING IDOLS WITH NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN MAJOR ROLES IN KDRAMAS?
Another drama has been afflicted with idolmania - apparently one of the members of boyband 2AM (or is it 2PM? I can't keep them straight) has been cast in Personal Taste as a secondary guy.
Whyyyyyyyyyyy? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Is it some sort of a Lee Min Ho curse, to be a leading man in a drama saddled with a wooden idol as his rival. The hell?
With every day, my interest in that drama diminishes.
Seriously.
Kdramas are starting to turn into jdramas (which I have almost given up by now in part because of this), casting good-looking idols who have never acted before in major roles, regardless of any acting ability. Someone like Siwon, who is about to star in a drama of his own, is fine - it's his first leading role in a drama but the boy has been working up to it for years - in a short drama and a bunch of minor roles. But this is not what's going on.
With the exception of Lee Seung Gi in Brilliant Legacy, I cannot think of a single idol cast in a major role as a starting point who did in any way a decent job. And yet they keep trying!
Kim Hyun Joong in Boys over Flowers - so good-looking, so wooden, so derailing the entire drama because the writer wanted into KHJ's pants.
U-Know Yunho (the name says it all) in Heading to the Ground - a more apt name for a drama or his acting has never been invented.
Sonbi in Dream - I have seen more charismatic hunks of wood than this leading lady.
Yoona - I see her name in the credits, I run.
And the list goes on and on and on. I don't care if they stick them in teenybopper dramas, I don't watch those anyway. But now they are beginning to infiltrate things I want to watch - Cinderella Unni has another idol attempting to act. It will be interesting to see him opposite Moon Geun Young, Seo Woo, and Chun Jung Myung - he is going to be eaten alive. There is going to be some scary-looking boybander in What's Up - a boybander in a drama written by the Legend/Sandglass/Slingshot writer. Yeah.
And don't get me started on the Personal Taste guy. Son Ye Jin passed on IRIS and starring opposite Lee Byung Hun to be involved in a love triangle with a flower boy (I love you, Lee Min Ho, but Lee Byung Hun you ain't) and a boybander? Hah.
The rate this is going, I am going to have to stick exclusively to period dramas. I have yet to see a boybander/girlbander in one, thank God.
ETA: Now that I think about it, I think Yoon Eun Hye and Sung Yuri started as singers? And Yoon Kye Sang? And I love them all. OK, maybe it's the recent crop that looks particularly insipid then. Except for Seung Gi I hated every idol they tried to inflict on us acting-wise in the last 4 years.