Dream High ep 11 - get off the emo train, emo boy!
As you could tell by the fact that I haven't posted about it until now, it took me a couple of days to get to Dream High ep 11. And yes, while I had a busy week, I had time to fit in eps of other dramas, so it wasn't really due to my schedule.
It was due to the fact that I knew this was the ep where Sam Dong went emo and wallowed in it and that didn't really particularly excite me.
My feelings after the ep bear it out - stop the emo, emo boy! I don't have a problem with the acting (KSH really is the best actor in the young cast) or even the writing - it's a pretty realistic behavior for a teen. But I haven't been a teenager in quite a long time and perhaps that was why I spent the whole episode exasperated at him. The only thing that pity party lacked was baloons and streamers.
I just don't like emo - I want to smack martyr emoer upside the head and tell him/her to get over it. I was just as annoyed when Jin Gook boarded the martyr-emo mobile in ep 7, but at least that was largely off-screen, interspersed with other characters doing their normal stuff. Here, SD's behavior was front and center and it irritated me beyond belief.
Blah blah nobody loves me I am going deaf wallow wallow should as well die this is the worst ever so overdramatic I am such a teen but nobody understands me! earring is a sign of my rebellion mope mope mope glower.
You know what might help with the hearing issues? Going to the doctor! Sculking in dark corners and swimming in self-pity has never been proven a cure for anything I am aware for. Yeah, sure, that's awful - so try to do something about it! And by that I don't mean get a haircut!
As for the whole "OMG Hyemi doesn't love meeeeeee!", I have much less sympathy there than I do for the hearing loss thing. Hyemi is not a thing. She's entitled to her own feelings - if she likes a different guy who likes her back, that's her prerogative. Nor is it a betrayal of any sort - not only did she never claim to see you anything but a friend (other than ep 3 but they cleared that up since and SD knows it was a silly ploy to get him to Seoul), she told you she liked Jin Gook (while you try to blot out hearing it). And she certainly always acted as someone who liked Jin Gook "that way" and just saw you platonically. The only way she could be clearer was if she tattooed it on her face. I mean, does it suck she likes someone else? Yes. Is it in any way a surprise? Only if you reside on planet Neptune. It's as if I got mad at high school at that hot guy I crushed on who always talked to me nicely while checking out my friend and then started dating a friend of mine, both of whom then continued nice to me - I fail to see either any surprise or wrong-doing there. Prevalent soompier attitude that Hyemi "owes" Sam Dong to fall for him or is an evil bitch, drives me nuts.
It took me a long time to get over Jin Gook doing his irresponsible, hurting Hyemi, emo thing. I was even thinking that maybe Sam Dong would be a better choice for her and hoping she'd fall for him, because he wouldn't behave irresponsibly and foolishly like that. But it turns out that Sam Dong is worse in that department than Jin Gook could ever be. Get off that emo horse, emo boy! Before my desire to strangle you becomes overwhelming.
It was due to the fact that I knew this was the ep where Sam Dong went emo and wallowed in it and that didn't really particularly excite me.
My feelings after the ep bear it out - stop the emo, emo boy! I don't have a problem with the acting (KSH really is the best actor in the young cast) or even the writing - it's a pretty realistic behavior for a teen. But I haven't been a teenager in quite a long time and perhaps that was why I spent the whole episode exasperated at him. The only thing that pity party lacked was baloons and streamers.
I just don't like emo - I want to smack martyr emoer upside the head and tell him/her to get over it. I was just as annoyed when Jin Gook boarded the martyr-emo mobile in ep 7, but at least that was largely off-screen, interspersed with other characters doing their normal stuff. Here, SD's behavior was front and center and it irritated me beyond belief.
Blah blah nobody loves me I am going deaf wallow wallow should as well die this is the worst ever so overdramatic I am such a teen but nobody understands me! earring is a sign of my rebellion mope mope mope glower.
You know what might help with the hearing issues? Going to the doctor! Sculking in dark corners and swimming in self-pity has never been proven a cure for anything I am aware for. Yeah, sure, that's awful - so try to do something about it! And by that I don't mean get a haircut!
As for the whole "OMG Hyemi doesn't love meeeeeee!", I have much less sympathy there than I do for the hearing loss thing. Hyemi is not a thing. She's entitled to her own feelings - if she likes a different guy who likes her back, that's her prerogative. Nor is it a betrayal of any sort - not only did she never claim to see you anything but a friend (other than ep 3 but they cleared that up since and SD knows it was a silly ploy to get him to Seoul), she told you she liked Jin Gook (while you try to blot out hearing it). And she certainly always acted as someone who liked Jin Gook "that way" and just saw you platonically. The only way she could be clearer was if she tattooed it on her face. I mean, does it suck she likes someone else? Yes. Is it in any way a surprise? Only if you reside on planet Neptune. It's as if I got mad at high school at that hot guy I crushed on who always talked to me nicely while checking out my friend and then started dating a friend of mine, both of whom then continued nice to me - I fail to see either any surprise or wrong-doing there. Prevalent soompier attitude that Hyemi "owes" Sam Dong to fall for him or is an evil bitch, drives me nuts.
It took me a long time to get over Jin Gook doing his irresponsible, hurting Hyemi, emo thing. I was even thinking that maybe Sam Dong would be a better choice for her and hoping she'd fall for him, because he wouldn't behave irresponsibly and foolishly like that. But it turns out that Sam Dong is worse in that department than Jin Gook could ever be. Get off that emo horse, emo boy! Before my desire to strangle you becomes overwhelming.