Nobuta Wo Produce and Green Rose
Hmmm. I think it's a bit weird that the two dramas I'd love to mainline are Hana Kimi and Hana Yori Dango 2, but I can't do that as they are currently airing.
While the two dramas I am actively watching and have all the eps for, Nobuta Wo Produce and Green Rose, I have no desire to marathon as I like them but don't love them.
NwP is a drama I admire more than I love. It's intelligent and well-acted but it lacks a strong narrative drive so I am perfectly fine with watching an episode here and there. There is no urgency to the characters and their situation so there is no urgency to my watching of them. I also confess to ffing on 2x (so I can read the subs) a lot of scenes that don't have Yamapi in them because Shuji and Nobuko are well acted but fail to really grab me. I guess NwP confirms it. I adore romantic angst (just look at my top dramas: e.g. Mars, Pride, My Girl, A Love to Kill, Meteor Garden, Goong). I love sword-fighting and period intrigue. And I really enjoy cracky comedy, if romantic comedy, all the better, but it's fine even if not. If the drama is not one of the above? I might like it, but it will fail to really obsess me. And thus it is with NwP. Though how much did I love the bit with Akira holding Nobuko's hand to show her it's not dirty. OMG. *dies* *dies* *is briefly resurrected* *dies again* He can be so quiet and tender and grown-up with her. (Btw, why did she freak out that her date didn't want to touch her hand? It was clearly because of the old man.) Or the bit where he tells Shuji he doesn't want to produce Nobuko any more, and he is dead serious and he says it's because he wants her to be only his, and it hurts too much, and he doesn't want anyone else to even look at her. *dies* Oh Akira. I get the sense that Nobuko (insofar as she has preferences) prefers Shuji and that is just confusing to me because...hello? How?
And then there is Green Rose. I have finished ep 10 out of 22. I am enjoying it a lot, even if no marathonning because it's 22 eps, so like a lot of Korean dramas after a bang-up start it settles towards a somewhat slow middle. I don't mind, but because of the more leisurely pace, by urgency is also lessened. And there is a lot of boring business talk, and a bunch of secondary characters I couldn't care less for. But the OTP? OTP makes up for it all.
When there is OTP interaction, I die and squee and go to heaven, but I want more. But what there is, is stellar. When Jung-Hyun first sees Soo-Ah again, giving a speech, and he keeps his hand to his mouth as a little disguise but OMG his eyes, they are just drinking her in. And then he gets into her hotel bedroom while she is asleep, and his hand is at his mouth again, but for a different reason, and his eyes are wet, and his hand is shaking, and he thinks that he loves her more than his life and when he saw her again, so pretty and confident, he couldn't even breathe. And he reaches out to almost touch her, and he wants it so badly, but he can't and GUUUUUH.
And then he hides and watches her leave on the plane. *dies*
Or when he calls her office and doesn't say anything, but just to hear her voice.
And then we get the time jump so beloved of kdramas, and there we are three years later, he's changed his identity and is successful and 'Chinese' and he comes back as head of this corporation, to clear his name and seek revenge and OMG when she sees him and is heedless of everything but he has to pretend not to recognize her and she runs after him and sees him just slumped in the elevator (and earlier, he could barely walk. She is the only one who has the power to affect him physically, like a punch). And there is a long stare between the two. They have crazy chemistry. And Go Soo can do intense crazy well (and looks rocking in sharp suits and black shirts!). But he has to keep on pretending but he can't help but want to be around her and he comes to the hospital where her Dad is, and there is another painful yet awesome staring scene. And there is also the bit where he checks their webpage and sees she's been leaving messages anyway and he just crumples.
YES.
His character isn't driven entirely by love like a lot of drama characters in dramas I watch. He has goals and identity and not just all about the girl. But oh boy, when it does get to the OTP part, the screen smoulders.
While the two dramas I am actively watching and have all the eps for, Nobuta Wo Produce and Green Rose, I have no desire to marathon as I like them but don't love them.
NwP is a drama I admire more than I love. It's intelligent and well-acted but it lacks a strong narrative drive so I am perfectly fine with watching an episode here and there. There is no urgency to the characters and their situation so there is no urgency to my watching of them. I also confess to ffing on 2x (so I can read the subs) a lot of scenes that don't have Yamapi in them because Shuji and Nobuko are well acted but fail to really grab me. I guess NwP confirms it. I adore romantic angst (just look at my top dramas: e.g. Mars, Pride, My Girl, A Love to Kill, Meteor Garden, Goong). I love sword-fighting and period intrigue. And I really enjoy cracky comedy, if romantic comedy, all the better, but it's fine even if not. If the drama is not one of the above? I might like it, but it will fail to really obsess me. And thus it is with NwP. Though how much did I love the bit with Akira holding Nobuko's hand to show her it's not dirty. OMG. *dies* *dies* *is briefly resurrected* *dies again* He can be so quiet and tender and grown-up with her. (Btw, why did she freak out that her date didn't want to touch her hand? It was clearly because of the old man.) Or the bit where he tells Shuji he doesn't want to produce Nobuko any more, and he is dead serious and he says it's because he wants her to be only his, and it hurts too much, and he doesn't want anyone else to even look at her. *dies* Oh Akira. I get the sense that Nobuko (insofar as she has preferences) prefers Shuji and that is just confusing to me because...hello? How?
And then there is Green Rose. I have finished ep 10 out of 22. I am enjoying it a lot, even if no marathonning because it's 22 eps, so like a lot of Korean dramas after a bang-up start it settles towards a somewhat slow middle. I don't mind, but because of the more leisurely pace, by urgency is also lessened. And there is a lot of boring business talk, and a bunch of secondary characters I couldn't care less for. But the OTP? OTP makes up for it all.
When there is OTP interaction, I die and squee and go to heaven, but I want more. But what there is, is stellar. When Jung-Hyun first sees Soo-Ah again, giving a speech, and he keeps his hand to his mouth as a little disguise but OMG his eyes, they are just drinking her in. And then he gets into her hotel bedroom while she is asleep, and his hand is at his mouth again, but for a different reason, and his eyes are wet, and his hand is shaking, and he thinks that he loves her more than his life and when he saw her again, so pretty and confident, he couldn't even breathe. And he reaches out to almost touch her, and he wants it so badly, but he can't and GUUUUUH.
And then he hides and watches her leave on the plane. *dies*
Or when he calls her office and doesn't say anything, but just to hear her voice.
And then we get the time jump so beloved of kdramas, and there we are three years later, he's changed his identity and is successful and 'Chinese' and he comes back as head of this corporation, to clear his name and seek revenge and OMG when she sees him and is heedless of everything but he has to pretend not to recognize her and she runs after him and sees him just slumped in the elevator (and earlier, he could barely walk. She is the only one who has the power to affect him physically, like a punch). And there is a long stare between the two. They have crazy chemistry. And Go Soo can do intense crazy well (and looks rocking in sharp suits and black shirts!). But he has to keep on pretending but he can't help but want to be around her and he comes to the hospital where her Dad is, and there is another painful yet awesome staring scene. And there is also the bit where he checks their webpage and sees she's been leaving messages anyway and he just crumples.
YES.
His character isn't driven entirely by love like a lot of drama characters in dramas I watch. He has goals and identity and not just all about the girl. But oh boy, when it does get to the OTP part, the screen smoulders.