Majo No Jouken: are they TRYING to kill me?
Actually, since I watched all of MnJ through eps 10 this weekend, here is the rest of the write-up.
OK, Episode 8 was going to give me a heart-attack ( If this OTP was a puppy, a truck would run it over. Three times. On a good day )
OK, Episode 8 was going to give me a heart-attack ( If this OTP was a puppy, a truck would run it over. Three times. On a good day )
That was another fabulous moment - the two hands just instinctively come together and we see those rings side by side. So lovely!
And then they find each other and there is running which I LOVE
I love that moment so much, too - and Michi crying on his shoulder and asking him to promise that he'll never leave her again. *cries*
I told you - the angst in the second half is not to be believed. I don't know what I would have done if I couldn't watch the last 5 episodes straight through. I would have had a heart attack several times over.
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Though I have to say, the angst was par for the course for the Taiwanese ones :)
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Which makes me very wary of them. So much angst is not very realistic, and I prefer something a little less likely to kill me each time. That's why the next dorama I watch will have to be something a bit lighter. I wish all the subs for My Boss My Hero were out because that is total crack! :)
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I (and actually both lesbiassparrow and autumn_yaar both of whom I seem to have gotten hooked. *pumps fist*) come to doramas from being Bollywood lovers, so angst is clearly something we specifically revel in. Delicious, over-the-top, dramatic angst :P
I think it also depends on how it's presented. In something like Mars or Meteor Garden (interestingly, even though both of those are Taiwanese, they are based on Japanese manga) the angst is high but the story itself is formatted differently. The angst in MnJ was so heavey because it was little, low-key, realistic things, just pileups of them. I don't know if I am explaining it well, but it felt different. The angst of Mars (e.g.) makes me feel bad for the lovers, but the story itself is formatted as a melodrama so the genre feels different than the very real feel of MnJ (actually I think MnJ was the angstiest dorama I've seen by far, even though other doramas might have had more angsty 'events'). I have no idea if I am explaining it at all ( ... )
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Like I always say, I'll try anything. If I don't like, I'll put it aside, but eventually I come back to it, because I believe in finding the "right moment" for something to grab me.
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