Personal Taste - worst heroine in a while
You know one thing I cannot stand in kdrama heroines?
When little-girl-behavior is combined with big heart (or in common parlance - lack of spine and letting every jerk in history walk all over you while you smile at them and ask for more).
The thing that drives me crazy is that we are supposed to think the former is cute and the latter admirable.
NOTE: Being a doormat is not on. Being goodhearted = helping kids and puppies or volunteering in a soup kitchen. It is NOT allowing everyone to fool you and then apologizing to them for the inconvenience they must have felt.
I believe we were supposed to find Kae In so very awesome and good-hearted because when she catches the man who attempted to rape her and also swindled her out of her house, she...takes him out to eat because he must be hungry. And when he says he needs to go to the restroom she lets him go (and is shocked he ran away). Just as we are supposed to find it touching that when her boyfriend dumps her telling she was pathetic, she apologizes to him for not recognizing his feelings earlier. ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE, WOMAN? Ugh. (When I think what the heroines of 3 other kdramas I am watching would have done to either of the creeps I cheer up immensely...suffice it to say there would be no pieces left to pick up.)
But then this drama intends us to find cute that Kae In still dresses like a 10-year-old for every occasion and has never brushed her hair in her life (I don't care what she wears inside the house or shopping, just as I don't care her house is messy, but when you are going to work you dress appropriately for said work). We are supposed to find it cute that she demands a bus driver divert a rush hour bus full of people to a police station because someone grabbed her accidentally (by all means, report the guy - call the cops - or are you not bright enough to figure it out?)
We are supposed to think it's funny that she repeatedly outs someone despite promising not to. Harhahahahar. See me die laughing. The joke is supposed to be -- ooooh, it's so embarassing for this guy who is actually stright -- but all I keep thinking is that outing someone (falsely or not) in conservative Korea can be a huge career and social life killer and why can't she keep her damn mouth shut?
Did I mention she is needy, codependent and rude?
She doesn't seem to be an idiot savant either - as far as I can see she is not good at anything, to compensate for her nightmare of a personality. Forget competence at life - she can't even run without twisting her ankle.
Ugh. I really loathe her but even more so whoever came up with her character.
Korea, you give me so many awesome kdrama women. But sometimes? Sometimes you screw up.
ETA: I loathe the hero of this drama as well. But I find him boring even more than I loathe him. So boring, in fact, that I can't muster any enthusiasm for even a rant about him. Ugh. He is like one of Kae In's furniture pieces - with about that level of interest to him.
You know, from now on I make a rule - I am going to avoid every Lee Min Ho drama ever. I think the guy is good-looking and talented but the dramas he picks make me want to claw my eyes out. (Son Ye Jin is safe because I've seen her in multiple awesome things. I am going to view this as an aberration and pretend it didn't happen).
When little-girl-behavior is combined with big heart (or in common parlance - lack of spine and letting every jerk in history walk all over you while you smile at them and ask for more).
The thing that drives me crazy is that we are supposed to think the former is cute and the latter admirable.
NOTE: Being a doormat is not on. Being goodhearted = helping kids and puppies or volunteering in a soup kitchen. It is NOT allowing everyone to fool you and then apologizing to them for the inconvenience they must have felt.
I believe we were supposed to find Kae In so very awesome and good-hearted because when she catches the man who attempted to rape her and also swindled her out of her house, she...takes him out to eat because he must be hungry. And when he says he needs to go to the restroom she lets him go (and is shocked he ran away). Just as we are supposed to find it touching that when her boyfriend dumps her telling she was pathetic, she apologizes to him for not recognizing his feelings earlier. ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE, WOMAN? Ugh. (When I think what the heroines of 3 other kdramas I am watching would have done to either of the creeps I cheer up immensely...suffice it to say there would be no pieces left to pick up.)
But then this drama intends us to find cute that Kae In still dresses like a 10-year-old for every occasion and has never brushed her hair in her life (I don't care what she wears inside the house or shopping, just as I don't care her house is messy, but when you are going to work you dress appropriately for said work). We are supposed to find it cute that she demands a bus driver divert a rush hour bus full of people to a police station because someone grabbed her accidentally (by all means, report the guy - call the cops - or are you not bright enough to figure it out?)
We are supposed to think it's funny that she repeatedly outs someone despite promising not to. Harhahahahar. See me die laughing. The joke is supposed to be -- ooooh, it's so embarassing for this guy who is actually stright -- but all I keep thinking is that outing someone (falsely or not) in conservative Korea can be a huge career and social life killer and why can't she keep her damn mouth shut?
Did I mention she is needy, codependent and rude?
She doesn't seem to be an idiot savant either - as far as I can see she is not good at anything, to compensate for her nightmare of a personality. Forget competence at life - she can't even run without twisting her ankle.
Ugh. I really loathe her but even more so whoever came up with her character.
Korea, you give me so many awesome kdrama women. But sometimes? Sometimes you screw up.
ETA: I loathe the hero of this drama as well. But I find him boring even more than I loathe him. So boring, in fact, that I can't muster any enthusiasm for even a rant about him. Ugh. He is like one of Kae In's furniture pieces - with about that level of interest to him.
You know, from now on I make a rule - I am going to avoid every Lee Min Ho drama ever. I think the guy is good-looking and talented but the dramas he picks make me want to claw my eyes out. (Son Ye Jin is safe because I've seen her in multiple awesome things. I am going to view this as an aberration and pretend it didn't happen).