It's actually Day 2 already
I mostly missed the first day of the year, having been sidelined by horrible cramps, which began around 11 pm on New Year's Eve and totally ruined my enjoyment of what up till then had been a very nice evening, complete with an inexpensive yet delicious sparkling wine from Alsace (Willm Crémant Brut).
I spent much of New Year's Eve catching up on "School 2013" via Dramafever. It's a lot of fun and the guy who had a rather unconvincing crush on Oska in Secret Garden (Lee Jong Suk) is totally adorable and believable as a HS sophomore with a troubled gangster past trying to go straight. Although I don't see how HS sophomores are 18 or 19 in Korea, but maybe that's a translation issue. All the actors playing highschoolers are in their early 20s, of course. As the parent of a highschooler myself, I think that's wise. Plus, not everyone can be Yoo Seung Ho or Yeo Jin Goo.
This is not the first year I've been watching Kdramas but it's the first year I've got into all the ancillary stuff, like learning actors' and writers' and directors' names, and following recap sites. I even signed up for a Dramafever subscription! Which is probably about the level where I will remain, since as fannishness goes I am not really a very good fan. I don't like to meta, I don't like to watch things over and over (well occasionally, but if that happens the last thing I want to do about it is discuss) and basically I get bored easily.
That said, I can generally be counted on to have good, if occasionally offhand and offbeat insights, and I will continue to share them, OK? Deal? Deal.
So a word on 2012 kdramas: It's been fun reading the end of year wrap-ups, since for once I have seen most of the dramas under discussion. Even the ones I didn't see all of, like Gaksital, I at least started. Well, except for Shut Up Flower Boy Band, which I started watching around the time of the the Great MegaUpload Disaster when for a few brief weeks there it was almost impossible to procure raws. But I totally plan to watch it, and Capital Scandal, on Dramafever Pro, or Premium, or what they are calling it! However, I am kind of disgusted that two of the series that keep getting mentioned favorably by the Korean speakers, A Wife's Credentials and I Live in Cheongdam-Dong, don't seem to be available with subs :-( Well, perhaps not quite so disgusted as chagrined. I Live in Cheongdam-dong is 170 episodes long though, so maybe it's just as well.
I don't know how long my thing for Kdramas will last, really, since the more I learn about something the less enchanted I tend to be with it.
I spent much of New Year's Eve catching up on "School 2013" via Dramafever. It's a lot of fun and the guy who had a rather unconvincing crush on Oska in Secret Garden (Lee Jong Suk) is totally adorable and believable as a HS sophomore with a troubled gangster past trying to go straight. Although I don't see how HS sophomores are 18 or 19 in Korea, but maybe that's a translation issue. All the actors playing highschoolers are in their early 20s, of course. As the parent of a highschooler myself, I think that's wise. Plus, not everyone can be Yoo Seung Ho or Yeo Jin Goo.
This is not the first year I've been watching Kdramas but it's the first year I've got into all the ancillary stuff, like learning actors' and writers' and directors' names, and following recap sites. I even signed up for a Dramafever subscription! Which is probably about the level where I will remain, since as fannishness goes I am not really a very good fan. I don't like to meta, I don't like to watch things over and over (well occasionally, but if that happens the last thing I want to do about it is discuss) and basically I get bored easily.
That said, I can generally be counted on to have good, if occasionally offhand and offbeat insights, and I will continue to share them, OK? Deal? Deal.
So a word on 2012 kdramas: It's been fun reading the end of year wrap-ups, since for once I have seen most of the dramas under discussion. Even the ones I didn't see all of, like Gaksital, I at least started. Well, except for Shut Up Flower Boy Band, which I started watching around the time of the the Great MegaUpload Disaster when for a few brief weeks there it was almost impossible to procure raws. But I totally plan to watch it, and Capital Scandal, on Dramafever Pro, or Premium, or what they are calling it! However, I am kind of disgusted that two of the series that keep getting mentioned favorably by the Korean speakers, A Wife's Credentials and I Live in Cheongdam-Dong, don't seem to be available with subs :-( Well, perhaps not quite so disgusted as chagrined. I Live in Cheongdam-dong is 170 episodes long though, so maybe it's just as well.
I don't know how long my thing for Kdramas will last, really, since the more I learn about something the less enchanted I tend to be with it.