Nightly drama ramble...
First off, here is the MV that made me go and order Which Star Are You From from DVDAsian tonight.
OMG. Looks so good.
I am in the middle of ep 10 of Snow Queen and must pause for a minute or else I'll hyperventilate to death.
Wow. Wow. She runs out because people come in and he follows and she tells him she didn't mean to say it then, but she means the feelings.
OMG.
And she is horrified at her 'boldness' and I love how when she gets home she is hiding under a blanket. So irrational, so true.
And poor TW. Poor poor boy. This is everything he's ever wanted but he knows he can't. He is trying to convince himself she doesn't really mean it, that she is confusing her sisterly feelings or that it's a rebound from Geon-Woo, because in part it's his feeling of unworthiness: he can't believe she can love someone like him (as he tells his friend, he is not a nice person his friend thinks he is. All this guilt, which he sholdn't feel, is eating him alive). But in part it's because then he won't be confronted with the fact that he has to push away the happiness he could have had, everything he wanted (because if her feelings aren't true, then he hasn't lost happiness, in pushing her away). And he tells her that it's her sibling-type feelings, rebound etc etc.
But oh poor guy. She tells him it's not that she is comfy with him: she isn't and her heart pounds when she sees him. She tells him her feelings are true. And you know, part of him realizes even then that now he has no way out but to push her away and part of the reason he was trying to haide behind 'this is illusion' is because he isn't sure he has the strength to push her away.
And there he is, pounding the punching bag, thinking of her words to him and who she is and what her father said and oh, poor darling! And then he has a convo with his Mom and breaks my heart because he tells Mom that 'Bo Ra told me she likes me' and he is so near tears and he says he knows it would be really hard on them both, but he really really loves her so he really wants to accept her feelings even though he knows he shouldn't. Poor guy, you are entitled to some happiness, you shouldn't have to negate yourself and atone for a sin you are not guilty of!
And his Mom tells him to tell Bo Ra everything and if after that she still wants to date him, then date her. But she says it would cause Bo Ra pain and she knows he can't bear to see her in pain and OMG OMG OMG. I know. He is going to push her away for her own good even if it kills him and oh no!!!!
It breaks my heart how he was telling Seung-Ri that he can't be with Bo Ra because it will be too hard for her, as if trying to convince himself, because he so has to kill his heart in order to let her go.
I wonder if he'd be as willing to let her go, and not to 'selfishly' fight for her, if he didn't feel like he doesn't deserve happiness: if his friend isn't living neither should he, not really. That is what he feels.
In more cheery news, I am going to die of gleeee!
Pic of Ariel Lin and Joe Cheng from promo activities for It Started with a Kiss 2!!!!
They started filming and have filmed some kissing scenes (heee) and I cannot wait…
Has anyone read Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner?
I’ve started it and it’s amazing, beautifully written. It’s set in Japan in mid 1960s and centers around Barbara, a young lecturer at a University who is left a trunk full of plum wine by her mother-mentor-figure, Michi who has died. In attempting to decipher the writing on the paper that is wrapped around each of the many many bottles, she comes in contact with Seiji, a pottery-maker who helps her translate the papers (which detail Michi’s life) and with whom she embarks on a tender but rather hopeless affair as theirs is a love that cannot be for plot reasons too good to spoil. The book is beautifully written, almost haunting, and deals with alienation and war trauma and connections and everything else. It’s wonderful.
In other news, anyone see My Little Bride? I think you have, fivil, right? Is it worth watching? Normally I’d jump on the badwagon as I love Asian romcoms and Kim Rae Won is a hottie and it seems to have good reviews, but the plot has me a bit taken aback. I certainly don’t mind a bit of an age difference (it’s not like he’s 40, he’s a college boy) but she is 15!!!! Yeah, I know, their parents force them into marriage despite their last ditch efforts to get out of the arranged situation but still. Eeeek. And he becomes her student-teacher (in school not in *ahem* other ways). So, is it cute enough I’ll overlook my slight ick factor? Or no?
You know, random comment? Part of the reason I prefer kdramas is because the guys there are in my age bracket. I don’t feel like a cradle-robber, the way I sometimes do with jdramas :P
OMG. Looks so good.
Click to viewI am in the middle of ep 10 of Snow Queen and must pause for a minute or else I'll hyperventilate to death.
Wow. Wow. She runs out because people come in and he follows and she tells him she didn't mean to say it then, but she means the feelings.
OMG.
And she is horrified at her 'boldness' and I love how when she gets home she is hiding under a blanket. So irrational, so true.
And poor TW. Poor poor boy. This is everything he's ever wanted but he knows he can't. He is trying to convince himself she doesn't really mean it, that she is confusing her sisterly feelings or that it's a rebound from Geon-Woo, because in part it's his feeling of unworthiness: he can't believe she can love someone like him (as he tells his friend, he is not a nice person his friend thinks he is. All this guilt, which he sholdn't feel, is eating him alive). But in part it's because then he won't be confronted with the fact that he has to push away the happiness he could have had, everything he wanted (because if her feelings aren't true, then he hasn't lost happiness, in pushing her away). And he tells her that it's her sibling-type feelings, rebound etc etc.
But oh poor guy. She tells him it's not that she is comfy with him: she isn't and her heart pounds when she sees him. She tells him her feelings are true. And you know, part of him realizes even then that now he has no way out but to push her away and part of the reason he was trying to haide behind 'this is illusion' is because he isn't sure he has the strength to push her away.
And there he is, pounding the punching bag, thinking of her words to him and who she is and what her father said and oh, poor darling! And then he has a convo with his Mom and breaks my heart because he tells Mom that 'Bo Ra told me she likes me' and he is so near tears and he says he knows it would be really hard on them both, but he really really loves her so he really wants to accept her feelings even though he knows he shouldn't. Poor guy, you are entitled to some happiness, you shouldn't have to negate yourself and atone for a sin you are not guilty of!
And his Mom tells him to tell Bo Ra everything and if after that she still wants to date him, then date her. But she says it would cause Bo Ra pain and she knows he can't bear to see her in pain and OMG OMG OMG. I know. He is going to push her away for her own good even if it kills him and oh no!!!!
It breaks my heart how he was telling Seung-Ri that he can't be with Bo Ra because it will be too hard for her, as if trying to convince himself, because he so has to kill his heart in order to let her go.
I wonder if he'd be as willing to let her go, and not to 'selfishly' fight for her, if he didn't feel like he doesn't deserve happiness: if his friend isn't living neither should he, not really. That is what he feels.
In more cheery news, I am going to die of gleeee!
Pic of Ariel Lin and Joe Cheng from promo activities for It Started with a Kiss 2!!!!
They started filming and have filmed some kissing scenes (heee) and I cannot wait…
Has anyone read Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner?
I’ve started it and it’s amazing, beautifully written. It’s set in Japan in mid 1960s and centers around Barbara, a young lecturer at a University who is left a trunk full of plum wine by her mother-mentor-figure, Michi who has died. In attempting to decipher the writing on the paper that is wrapped around each of the many many bottles, she comes in contact with Seiji, a pottery-maker who helps her translate the papers (which detail Michi’s life) and with whom she embarks on a tender but rather hopeless affair as theirs is a love that cannot be for plot reasons too good to spoil. The book is beautifully written, almost haunting, and deals with alienation and war trauma and connections and everything else. It’s wonderful.
In other news, anyone see My Little Bride? I think you have, fivil, right? Is it worth watching? Normally I’d jump on the badwagon as I love Asian romcoms and Kim Rae Won is a hottie and it seems to have good reviews, but the plot has me a bit taken aback. I certainly don’t mind a bit of an age difference (it’s not like he’s 40, he’s a college boy) but she is 15!!!! Yeah, I know, their parents force them into marriage despite their last ditch efforts to get out of the arranged situation but still. Eeeek. And he becomes her student-teacher (in school not in *ahem* other ways). So, is it cute enough I’ll overlook my slight ick factor? Or no?
You know, random comment? Part of the reason I prefer kdramas is because the guys there are in my age bracket. I don’t feel like a cradle-robber, the way I sometimes do with jdramas :P