I have been catching up with Will It Snow on Christmas and it's such a lovely, undestated gem of a drama.

The notable thing is the plot development that bothered me so when I first learned of it (Ji Wan's mother, due to psychological trauma, represses and regresses and believes Kang Jin is her dead son and Kang Jin goes along with it for 3 years) ( Read more... )

(For those not familiar with kdramas, Noona = the way a younger guy refers to an older girl he is friends, family or is close with).


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I don't know how many of you have been following the Cover for the novel Liar controversy. (Short version: the narrator is black but is shown as white on the cover ( Read more... )

Watching Last Scandal brought something I've been wondering about back to mind ( Read more... )

I have been thinking while walking today, about Iljimae and Hong Gil Dong and its approach to outsider protagonists and societies and class. (None of the below is spoilery, btw).

Iljimae follows a traditional (and beloved) trope in having its protagonist being someone who is unjustly displaced from his proper place in society. He is not an ( Read more... )

Subtitles for episode 21 of Hong Gil Dong are out. YAY ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make ( Read more... )

This post arises mainly out of a joking discussion I've been having with lesbiassparrow. But joking or not, it IMO hit on something very interesting to me ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned, I've been rewatching Fushigi Yuugi lately. It really holds up well on repeat viewings, even though I now know the plot twists. It's interesting I love it so much, because objectively, I know it doesn't have the jaw-dropping visuals of RahXephon and it doesn't have the complex philosophy (though more on that below). But what it ( Read more... )

OK, now that I've discovered a thing for Hana Yori Dango, you'll have to put up with a few posts about it ( Read more... )