Check-in: End of Week Four!

[tokeruyouna]

Hi everyone! There are two and a half weeks left in the challenge. Do you have a plan for reaching your goal? I have been enjoying dramas as usual, but the best part of this challenge for me has been discussing drama things with all of you! Feel free to share your experiences with this challenge, thoughts on dramas, or any other ramblings here

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[quaggy_mire]

Sorry for not checking in sooner. As of Tuesday night I was laid low with the flu. Today is the first day I've felt even the slightest bit back to normal. :-P I haven't been able to do anything productive, but I have been able to catch up on my drama. I've watched more episodes since Wednesday than I have since the drama challenge begins! :-P Still have a long way to go before the last episode and least I'm much closer than I thought I'd ever be last week. Too bad I had to be sick for it to happen!

I do have a question for you guys... What do you think of fast forwarding through certain scenes? I mentioned last week that there's a character I dislike. The thing is, he keeps hitting every single one of my pet peeves and after watching like 4 episodes back to back, watching those pet peeves happen over and over and over again... I can't even appreciate the scenes where he's being sweet. I'm okay if he's part of a group scene, but when he's carrying the storyline my enjoyment of the show plummets. Do you guys think I should just keep on powering through the scenes? If I keep with it, maybe he'll grow on me? Right now, he's the ONLY thing I dislike about this show! All the rest of it is amazing.

So to now end on a bad note... do I have a favorite character from Reply 1994? With one glaring exception, I absolutely love them all! However, my favorite, hands down, has always been Na-jung. She's smart and dependable. She's loyal, protective friend and daughter. And for all of her brash mouth, she had a wonderfully big heart. Plus her competitive streak is actually pretty hilarious, because she get so INTO it. Go Ara has really done an impressive job conveying Na-jung's feelings at any given moment and she's brings joy me every time she's on the screen.

[tokeruyouna]

I'm glad you're starting to feel a little better at least. :)

Personally I am totally fine with fast-forwarding scenes that I absolutely can't watch and aren't important for the drama anyway. This is usually limited to medical/torture types of scenes where once I know that A is having surgery or B is being tortured, seeing the actual content of the scene will make me sick and won't further enhance my understanding of the drama. If those scenes are still too much or if they are sprung on me so quickly that I can't skip them without being traumatized, I drop the drama. On the other hand I don't skip any other type of scene where I just find it irritating or whatever. If it is irritating enough that I want to skip it, I drop the drama. Obviously whether you skip, drop, or keep watching normally is up do you, but I doubt that guy will grow on you.

[quaggy_mire]

You make me feel better. Normally, I don't have a problem fast forwarding through certain scenes, but it felt a little wrong to do so when I was watching as part of a drama challenge. Like I hadn't really watched the whole episode or something. :-)

[tokeruyouna]

Oh I don' t think anyone here has a problem with that. This is about drama fun and not a competition, and it's not like you're skipping entire episodes just to say you met your goal either.

[lastingdreams8]

Ooh man, I don't have any qualms about fast-forwarding through scenes if it helps get you through the drama overall.
Or I may multi-task doing something when he shows up, lol.