Man hard cold woman and a sweet good guy? sounds like my kinda thing plus i've been watching nothing but rom coms lately so i figure i can do one dark drama but question when you say dark how dark are we talking? murder? rape? child molestation? I need to know some things really upset me so I either need to be prepared or know about it so i can stay away. Aside from that though this sounds like its just for me (I do wish the main guy was cuter though but oh well, he'll do)
I think she was coerced into prostitution to pay off debts, and she got molested by a sicko executive in ep 1 (but she hit him etc) so not as dark as a jdrama can get (I mean, remember Byakuyakuyu? Eeeek). I think that's about the worst.
Re: male lead. I don't think Yoochun is good-looking in stills, but I swoon for him like mad in action (and unlike 95% of his fangirls, I know close to zip about DBSK/JYJ, so it's not recidual kpop fangirling).
I can handle that. and yes I DO remember byakuyako and it was the most fucked up thing i'd ever seen, well until I Saw zeni geba but even that was less disgusting.
Ahhh I know the kind, there are just some guys you have to see in motion to appreciate. I'll take your word then and I didnt even know he was in Dbsk. I know as much about korean pop idols as I do about ancient chinese manuscripts.
Hong sisters' male leads are aging backward. I noticed with Tae-kyung and it's even worse here. I was about ready to give up on them when they created one of the most dumb (literally) and dishrag heroines ever in YB, but it appears they've now switched to their heroes. *groan*
When I think that their earlier creations were Hong Gil Dong and that marvelous, rare, mature lead of My Girl...!
I don't like Lee Da Hae at all but I will say she is one of the most gorgeous women alive.
I don't get it - it's like it's all downhill after Hong Gil Dong. We get the well-adjusted, mature, wonderful hero of My Girl (one of the rare kdrama heroes I'd love to date in RL), we have the rebel-with-a-cause who bleeds awesomeness HGD (and he's a good proof you can have humor and even a bit of immaturity and still create an amazing, adult hero). We had Jae Hee's character in DGCH who grew up so wonderfully (but even at the start was about 10x more mature than their recent heroes, even if he was romantically dense). Abd OJH's character in FC wasn't my thing but he was obviously a functioning citizen.
Exactly. I wasn't thrilled at the maturity level in YAB but it was at least concievable that two barely-20 kids would be this way and would, hopefully, eventually grow up. Here, the leads are almost old enough to be YAB characters' parents and they are less mature. That is the opposite of appealing but also stretches the bounds of any credibility (AJ is less extreme of the two but the way she reacts to possibility of a kiss even is the way nobody her age should unless they just escaped from a period drama
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The Hong sisters need to step it upspazzy06May 31 2011, 02:56:23 UTC
I'm a bit sick of the Hong sister dramas myself. They have been using the same plot devices for years now (noble idiots, forced separations, etc). I wish they'd take more chances(like they did with Hong Gil Dong- what an ending). I think their formula has become a little predictable. I don't think their "twists" can really be considered twists any more- you can see them coming a mile away.
Best Love doesn't do it for me either and like you it's because of the characters. Ae Jung in particular, it's like her inner clock stopped working the minute her band/career fell apart and she's never gotten past it. That in itself could work in a romance if she was paired with someone who was on a level where he could break her out of it, but Jin is SO not that person. Moreover, I find the trials of "showbiz romance" so unbearably boring. I get that it could DESTROY THEIR CAREERS!!!!111 but to me it never seems like the stakes are high enough. Maybe if it would destroy FAMILIES or EMPIRES, yeah. I mean, I just don't care that much about the secret love lives of celebs :P
So... basically, I can't get past the third episode :/
Actually if you talked about SCANDALS in Korea Entertainment Circuit the stakes are pretty high. Its very conservative society and the fans are not very forgiving. We are not taking about Hollywood or Bollywood(in my side of the world, a place where a rape offender can still get a movie offer) where we are use to seeing our stars F*#k up their life. If you are following K Pop, you will be shock at the silly things that can rock a star career.
That's true enough in reality but in a romcom it seems unlikely that someone will be ostracized by society and commit suicide in despair. I'm just not interested in whether or not a fictional celebrity career is destroyed or not. I might be more interested despite my dislike of showbiz settings if I cared about the characters but as it is I'm in the same boat as mousie - not emotionally invested in these characters at all.
Some people may have biases against Lee Da Hae or may have presumptions about her or about her usual performances... but gone is that Lee Da Hae. It is not Lee Da Hae, it is Jang Miri. And she is just such a fascinating character... she will drag you to hell and back... kind of performance.
Lee Da Hae not only immerses herself in this role but completely DROWNS herself both in the sweetness and toxicity of a character like Jang Miri. She makes us believe that she can be a sexpot one minute and then turn into someone relating to a kid in a train, in the next.
She is effective when she is erratic but just as powerful when she is quiet and nuanced. There is a reason she is getting good reviews in this.
Seriously. Forget the Lee Da Hae you know... this is Jang Miri.
and to add on... Yutaka and Miri need to have a hot love scene.
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Re: male lead. I don't think Yoochun is good-looking in stills, but I swoon for him like mad in action (and unlike 95% of his fangirls, I know close to zip about DBSK/JYJ, so it's not recidual kpop fangirling).
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Ahhh I know the kind, there are just some guys you have to see in motion to appreciate. I'll take your word then and I didnt even know he was in Dbsk. I know as much about korean pop idols as I do about ancient chinese manuscripts.
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When I think that their earlier creations were Hong Gil Dong and that marvelous, rare, mature lead of My Girl...!
I don't like Lee Da Hae at all but I will say she is one of the most gorgeous women alive.
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I don't get it - it's like it's all downhill after Hong Gil Dong. We get the well-adjusted, mature, wonderful hero of My Girl (one of the rare kdrama heroes I'd love to date in RL), we have the rebel-with-a-cause who bleeds awesomeness HGD (and he's a good proof you can have humor and even a bit of immaturity and still create an amazing, adult hero). We had Jae Hee's character in DGCH who grew up so wonderfully (but even at the start was about 10x more mature than their recent heroes, even if he was romantically dense). Abd OJH's character in FC wasn't my thing but he was obviously a functioning citizen.
And then, it's as if something broke. WTF!
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So... basically, I can't get past the third episode :/
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Plus, the leads' combined mental age is 5.
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Some people may have biases against Lee Da Hae or may have presumptions about her or about her usual performances... but gone is that Lee Da Hae. It is not Lee Da Hae, it is Jang Miri. And she is just such a fascinating character... she will drag you to hell and back... kind of performance.
Lee Da Hae not only immerses herself in this role but completely DROWNS herself both in the sweetness and toxicity of a character like Jang Miri. She makes us believe that she can be a sexpot one minute and then turn into someone relating to a kid in a train, in the next.
She is effective when she is erratic but just as powerful when she is quiet and nuanced. There is a reason she is getting good reviews in this.
Seriously. Forget the Lee Da Hae you know... this is Jang Miri.
and to add on... Yutaka and Miri need to have a hot love scene.
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MISS Ripey......... I am in Love : )
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And yes, she's amazing. If it keeps up, I hope she wins a slew of awards.
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