I have watched the first ep of Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, the 2009 version. It was gorgeous but made no sense - I am totally lost as to what is going on or who these people are. I am going to stick with it for a few eps because Return of the Condor Heroes 2006, made by the same people, had the same problem - first couple eps were odd and left ( Read more... )

I have watched all the parts of ep 1 of Next Stop Happiness that are subbed and most of the unsubbed parts ( Read more... )

Yes, I know, I am still working on my 5 favorites meme thing.

( Here are my 5 favorite drama OTPs behind the cut )

Twdramas were my first drama loves (Mars and Meteor Garden were my first and second drama, respectively) and you never forget your first love, do you?

That is why, much as I might love the slickness of kdrama and the understatedness of jdrama, few things will get me as giddy or emo as a well-done twdrama.

So, after I’ve done my Top Dozen Jdramas ( Read more... )

Finished ep 14 of Black and White which is it - 15 and 16 seem to have disappeared from viikii :( It continues excellent and it also made me hunt for a MV of Mars, my first, and arguably favorite drama - all of you who either love or loathe my drama babbling have Mars and its Chen Ling and Qi Luo to blame (otpotpotpotp!!!)

This MV is wonderful:

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Two episodes in, and it's official: I adore To Get Her the way I haven't adored a twdrama since last year's Why Why Love. The plots of the two are quite different but both share more than just the leading lady. They also have this delightful combination of a sea of fluffiness with a perfectly mixed in underpinning of angst, and an easy, friendly ( Read more... )

You know that I did "Top" lists for My Top 10 dramas: Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese. But what's the fun in separating them, the fun is how they compare, right? So I bring you my Top 10 overall dramas, which consists of 3 kdramas, 2 twdramas and a whopping 5 jdramas. And yes, it's a threeway tie for the first place ( Read more... )

I didn't get much further into Winter Sonata because filmi-girl came over last night and we ended up watching more Mars. Still love it, after all the rewatches. ( Spoiler through ep 13 )

filmi-girl came over today and we decided, somewhat spontaneously to watch Mars, which she had never seen.

EEEEEEE! This must be my fourth time watching it but I love it as much as ever. It was really hard to keep my mouth shut about spoilers (we got about four eps in) because she is unspoiled...

We plan to watch more tomorrow. tatterpunk, do you want to come over ( Read more... )

Yes! I am going to be showing Mars to filmi-girl soon. I am always looking for new victims viewers.

So because of that (do I really need a reason though), here is a Mars MV, which is unspoilery (a rarity):

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Oh, Ling/Qi-Luo, my ultimate drama OTP!