DWA: Dating Agency Cyrano eps. 3-4

[lastingdreams8]

Episode 3
So last week, we discussed how it was surprising that the show didn't wrap up the first love operation within two episodes. We get the ending to it here, and I think I'm satisfied with how the love went from 'fabricated' to 'real,' even though she still thinks he's a secret detective on the side of being a vet.

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[tokeruyouna]

I sort of found that I didn't care how the love went from 'fabricated' to 'real' because I didn't care about the characters. What exactly did the vet see in that library girl anyway? Especially when he met her AT the library, where she is so clearly unenthusiastic and rude.

This drama isn't really making me interested in the couples that are getting set up at all. I am interested in the setting up side of it, but the drama seems to be slacking off there to the point where I'm not sure I care how anything goes anymore.

I was confused by that jacket situation too.

Actually I was thinking about how she is all giddy over Ray and perving on him and stuff but thinks Ah Rang is better looking. What makes her think Ray is so great then just because he's an idol?

I like that we get to see behind-the-scenes of the love operation . . . it makes me think that that's the same method other media productions use as a way of creating that kind of scene.
I agree with the idea but feel like the drama doesn't take it far enough. If they want to show the 'production' aspect, I feel like they are doing a half-assed job.

I see the mirroring between this story and the main guy's too. To me it makes it feel as if this operation is sort of a throw-away with no independent value.

I liked the two perspectives on the band-aid thing too. I think two perspectives on interpretations/memory is a really powerful thing to show. Though I felt this was a rather trivial event to use in showing it. But "love makes everything sparkly" lol. XD

I agree it is best to reject/be rejected immediately and clearly like in Ah Rang's case. I honestly can't understand why she thought otherwise myself.

Yeah those compressed fish stick things are totally gross. Every time I see one I'm torn between feeling sick and wanting a cheese string. XD

See, I wouldn't really care if Ray was a rebound love or if the girl was/seemed fickle. I'd just be like, okay Cyrano another one in the bank. I don't really know who I'm supposed to be rooting for in this drama. The client? The target? The agency? But really, going back to what I said at the beginning of the comment, the drama isn't really making me care either.

I suppose after being involved and around love and those who want to find love, that can rub off on you too.
Lol my interpretation was that they needed to make some other love stories for the plot.

What exactly is this CHEMISTRY people always speak of?! I can count on one hand the number of times I've thought "this couple must have what they call chemistry," yet there are have been tons of times where people said there was no chemistry but I felt like the relationship made sense (and tons of times where people said there was chemistry and I felt like the relationship didn't make sense). What elements make for good chemistry, and why is having them a good thing?

I broke the comment box, so the notes I had made when watching will have to go into another one.

[lastingdreams8]

I like the idea of the show; but with it being continually episodic, I see why we'd have little investment in the characters, so it makes me wonder if the movie was the best format in which to tell this story.

Even though these two episodes worked as a mirror of then and now, I still think it has value. I liked that Ah Rang got involved -kinda shows that unexpected crushes/love can throw a wrench in even the best made plans. Or maybe the show was just trying to keep it interesting xD

Lol my interpretation was that they needed to make some other love stories for the plot.
Also true, lol.

I like compressed fish, like in meatballs, but I don't know if I could eat it in that format, cold :/

I feel like I should be rooting for the agency, who is rooting for the client. I think I'm rooting for the target to fall in love...but maybe there will come an episode where I'm not rooting for the agency? I wonder what that'll be like.

And chemistry -idk, it's this inexplicable, otherworldly, feeling that two actors give off when they get along really well despite hardly knowing each other before the drama. It could be due to good acting, but it's like their characters have such ease with the relationship that it must be due to some unknown factor =chemistry xD lol

[tokeruyouna]

True, I can understand not being invested in the couples, sort of like not being invested in the cases in episodic cop dramas. But then I feel like I need to be interested in the story of the main characters, but I'm not invested in them either.

Ah Rang getting involved is what I kind of found pointless other than for mirror purposes. Maybe they will draw more meaning out of it in the next episode, but at this point I found it kind of weak as a storytelling tool.

Compressed fish in meatballs? Like there are chunks of it . . . in meatballs? Or they are . . . fishballs?

I'm not really rooting against anyone either. I think that would be better than nothing though. Now that you mention it, I kind of want to root against the agency too.

So in other words, chemistry is this appearance of characters being unnaturally close and playful and at ease even though in real life people wouldn't be like that? If that's the case, I've found it a lot, but I don't usually find it a good thing.

[lastingdreams8]

They are fish balls, heh xD I don't know why I call them fish meatballs, maybe 'cause I envision fishballs as fish's balls >.>

lol, yes.