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Finally! Lie To Me (k-drama), finally.
That's the kind of ending note that will have fangirls tearing their hair out, because a week is so long...
Doesn't hurt that it includes one of the most naturally set-up kiss scenes *I* have ever seen in a K-drama, anyway. It was also just a good one, but the beats of it were fantastic.
I suppose that would be the director, not writer. I must say, they're doing good working with what they've got, too.
I'm posting much more about this show at suitdistraction, one riff on how the set-designer is outshining the costumer, and a digression on the hero's trademark fashion statement, with another set-profiling to come...
NGL, that is a fine suit. But look at those DOORS.
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Tangent on Nursing-the-Sick-Bonding
Once upon a time, I was a wee tyke writing myself running night-time-plays in my head (recent experience tells me it was the sugar keeping me up, now I'm mostly not having any, when I do sleeping is a chore).
Since then I've loved the possibilities presented by injuries and illness to get characters up-close with each other, self-sacrificing. K-Drama overuses it, especially sequences where people are staying up all night to reduce a fever, looking anguished, when really. Really.
oh Boys Before Flowers. You never fail me
(Stellar exceptions: You're Beautiful, where Mi-Nam is clearly delirious and yet is realistically dead set against going in and being found out, a way she wouldn't be unless she WAS feverish. The way she yells at Tae-Kyung. Gah. So good. Also, cliche or not, Kyoko attending Ren all night in Skip-Beat makes *me* feel a little feverish.)
The one in Lie to Me is okay: food poisoning's not as well-worn, having private doctors come and put him on an IV kind of cute, and that push-pull moment of them connecting when he wakes up, and then having to ignore it IS serving it's purpose. But it more made me reflect on this propensity, and how to make it fresh
fabricalchemist will agree with me sometimes getting characters feverish is the only way, and I hope rhinemouse will back me up when I say there are some tropes you can never get tired of....
I'm afraid Vigil Assistance is going rely primarily on sports-type injuries and psychological trauma to get ANYWHERE.
That's the kind of ending note that will have fangirls tearing their hair out, because a week is so long...
Doesn't hurt that it includes one of the most naturally set-up kiss scenes *I* have ever seen in a K-drama, anyway. It was also just a good one, but the beats of it were fantastic.
I suppose that would be the director, not writer. I must say, they're doing good working with what they've got, too.
I'm posting much more about this show at suitdistraction, one riff on how the set-designer is outshining the costumer, and a digression on the hero's trademark fashion statement, with another set-profiling to come...
NGL, that is a fine suit. But look at those DOORS.
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Tangent on Nursing-the-Sick-Bonding
Once upon a time, I was a wee tyke writing myself running night-time-plays in my head (recent experience tells me it was the sugar keeping me up, now I'm mostly not having any, when I do sleeping is a chore).
Since then I've loved the possibilities presented by injuries and illness to get characters up-close with each other, self-sacrificing. K-Drama overuses it, especially sequences where people are staying up all night to reduce a fever, looking anguished, when really. Really.
oh Boys Before Flowers. You never fail me
(Stellar exceptions: You're Beautiful, where Mi-Nam is clearly delirious and yet is realistically dead set against going in and being found out, a way she wouldn't be unless she WAS feverish. The way she yells at Tae-Kyung. Gah. So good. Also, cliche or not, Kyoko attending Ren all night in Skip-Beat makes *me* feel a little feverish.)
The one in Lie to Me is okay: food poisoning's not as well-worn, having private doctors come and put him on an IV kind of cute, and that push-pull moment of them connecting when he wakes up, and then having to ignore it IS serving it's purpose. But it more made me reflect on this propensity, and how to make it fresh
fabricalchemist will agree with me sometimes getting characters feverish is the only way, and I hope rhinemouse will back me up when I say there are some tropes you can never get tired of....
I'm afraid Vigil Assistance is going rely primarily on sports-type injuries and psychological trauma to get ANYWHERE.