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Most anticipated kdrama for 2011 and its runner-up

Mar 16, 2011 20:20

Aaaand - we have a winner! Goodbye Miss Ripley starring Lee Da Hae (a.k.a. Mousie's favorite kdrama actress) and Micky Yoochun (a.k.a. Mousie's true love from SKKS) which airs after The Duo is over. Apparently this is going to be based on a true-crime scandal about a woman who got hired by a prestigious college institution after showing these ( Read more... )

lee da hae, gong hyo jin, micky yoonchun, discovery of affection, goodbye miss ripley, cha seung won, doramas4

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your_insomnia March 17 2011, 04:20:01 UTC

You're Beautiful and Gumiho Girlfriend felt stale, emotionally shallow, and featured characters where to call them immature and weak would be kind

I understand that it just might be your preferance in not liking Gumiho Girlfriend, but I don't understand how you can call a guy who gives up his life to save the person he loves more than anything in the world weak. To me that's kind of brave and all kinds of awesome.
Yeah, he's kind of pathetic in the beginning. But that's why wathching him transform into someone who proves that humanity is not weak and shallow and that love is not an illusion makes it that much better.

your_insomnia March 17 2011, 04:23:47 UTC

Argh, sorry for editing this like 20 times just trying to get my point across better >.>
Sorry, didn't mean to come off offensive or anything like that, but I love MGIAG with mad mad love exactly because both Won Ah and Miho turn out to be such incredibly awesome and brave people. And I just wanted to point out that making such a harsh judgement about a character that you don't know very well since you haven't watched the drama fully is a bit unfair .

dangermousie March 17 2011, 05:00:32 UTC

making such a harsh judgement about a character that you don't know very well since you haven't watched the drama fully is a bit unfair

But to me, LSG's character in GG is the crux of my problems with Hong Sisters' latest dramas and pacing. It's not as if I ditched GG after watching twenty minutes of first ep. I watched either four or five episodes. It's a 16 episode drama, judging the drama's overall quality or appeal on 25-30% of it that I have seen is, IMO, fair enough. By that point, in any event, you should provide me with some character development in the desired direction (I am going to give more slack to a 95 ep cdrama - 4 eps is barely prologue - but this is not 95 eps). By the end of ep 1, I was convinced that LSG's character was the most pathetic and off-putting drama hero I have ever seen (no exaggeration, I honestly thought and still think that). I still stuck around for 3-4 more episodes hoping for something to change my mind, nothing happened and I finally bailed. I wasn't going to sit through a 16 ep drama again on ( ... )

ETA dangermousie March 17 2011, 05:26:14 UTC

Btw, I hope I didn't offend you. I don't like GG but I understand everyone has their own preferences and, as I said, I don't dispute hero might have become awesome at the end, it was just taking too long for my tastes. That's it.

Re: ETA your_insomnia March 17 2011, 18:22:17 UTC

Yes, I understand your point completely. If I don't get hooked on the OTP in the first 5 episodes I won't watch the drama but in that case I would just say "well it's just not my taste" or "the story and characters don't appeal to me" but maybe I won't say "This drama is stale and the characters are so weak". Idk, maybe I'm just getting emotional because it's one of my favorite dramas of all time, but I just feel its unfair to label a drama in a way that it definitely is not. Usually if I drop a drama it's because I'm bored or it doesn't appeal to me, but I can't make a final judgement about why it is so bad because well I haven't seen it fully. Sometimes, I understand that you can make a judgement like "well this character is a loser in the first five episodes and I don't like it" but to say he is simply a loser and weak and that it was the problem with the drama? I think it's a bit offensive to the fans of the drama, and it also might give a bad impression to someone who potentionally wants to see it. Because that drama is not about ( ... )

Re: ETA dangermousie March 18 2011, 12:41:59 UTC

Usually if I drop a drama it's because I'm bored or it doesn't appeal to me, but I can't make a final judgement about why it is so bad because well I haven't seen it fully.

Really? I guess it's a different approach. I have no problem making snap judgments. As long as I don't hide the fact that I haven't seen all of it (which I never have) I say fair enough to put it out there.

So, I guess my point is technically MGIAG is not a worse drama than Brilliant Legacy, just maybe you perhaps didn't like the main character as much that's why it didn't appeal to you. Well, to go all meta, since it's art, there is by no definition objectively good or bad just whatever works for each person and a collective opinion on quality is as close as it comes to determining 'objectivity' but it's still not objective in any way :) One man's best drama ever is another man's horrible nightmare ( ... )

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