Magic Ring watch continues...
Because much as I love kdramas, I can’t watch them for too long without missing my first true dorama love, Taiwanese dramas, I’ve been continuing with my watch of Magic Ring aka ‘the drama that does have a complicated plot but is really all about Joe Cheng looking scarily hot while angsting.’
The subtitles do continue to be rather pidgin but they do get the gist of what’s going on across and seeing as this is the only way I’d be able to follow the yummilicious angst, I won’t complain too much.
I have to say Juhang (JC’s character) is seriously like some sort of catnip just for me. I mean, the guy is totally dorama-awesome. He is a lawyer! Who works on cases not for money but because they grab his sense of justice! And whose father despises him for a screw-up loser! And who misses his brother very badly and cries or gets emo shouty over it! And he can be mischievious! And (in some rare happy event), so far he is awesomely dressed. I have yet to see an outfit that bugs me! I mean, how can you go wrong with a crisp white shirt and stone-washed jeans? The designer for this one comprehended the simple but apparently novel idea that if you have a tall, lanky guy with a good build and bone structure to die for, you just dress him simply and not work overtime to make him an eye-sore.
Yeah.
I admit that I find the heroine much less than awesome though. In fact, I find her so annoying that I keep wishing for Juhang to not fall for her (as I know he will eventually) but to go for the childhood friend instead. Girl is there on false pretences but doesn’t seem to be consumed by guilt. She did dive for the cell-phone that had his brother’s last message for Juhang, but she shouldn’t have dropped the damn thing in the first place. I think we are supposed to find her endearingly quirky, but I just find her a bit off. Oh well…hopefully I’ll like her better later on.
The subtitles do continue to be rather pidgin but they do get the gist of what’s going on across and seeing as this is the only way I’d be able to follow the yummilicious angst, I won’t complain too much.
I have to say Juhang (JC’s character) is seriously like some sort of catnip just for me. I mean, the guy is totally dorama-awesome. He is a lawyer! Who works on cases not for money but because they grab his sense of justice! And whose father despises him for a screw-up loser! And who misses his brother very badly and cries or gets emo shouty over it! And he can be mischievious! And (in some rare happy event), so far he is awesomely dressed. I have yet to see an outfit that bugs me! I mean, how can you go wrong with a crisp white shirt and stone-washed jeans? The designer for this one comprehended the simple but apparently novel idea that if you have a tall, lanky guy with a good build and bone structure to die for, you just dress him simply and not work overtime to make him an eye-sore.
Yeah.
I admit that I find the heroine much less than awesome though. In fact, I find her so annoying that I keep wishing for Juhang to not fall for her (as I know he will eventually) but to go for the childhood friend instead. Girl is there on false pretences but doesn’t seem to be consumed by guilt. She did dive for the cell-phone that had his brother’s last message for Juhang, but she shouldn’t have dropped the damn thing in the first place. I think we are supposed to find her endearingly quirky, but I just find her a bit off. Oh well…hopefully I’ll like her better later on.