Defeated Queen: Rocking my world since... 12 days ago!
Holy crap! The subbing is going REALLY fast for My Queen episode 10!! I can't wait to get home tonight to watch it... again (but this time, actually FULLY UNDERSTAND it
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The twdrama that I know people on my flist are watching is To Get Her, and honestly that's the one I am following as well without having much interest in My Queen - I like quirky more than I do something set in an office (the only drama set in an office I managed to like is Sapuri) and TGH has Rainie, who a lot of people love and Jiro who is in Farenheit both of which probably explain the relative popularity of it on my flist.
I actually find ratings success domestically rarely seems to translate into what people on-line rave about - I am mainly familiar with kdramas, and I know that recent ratingspowerhouses like Yi San and Jumong and even East of Eden weren't really watched by anyone on my flist much (and soompi threads for Yi San and Jumong are kind of runty) and there are some lower-rated dramas a lot of flisters watched which I find interesting.
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I like Superstar Express a lot, but not enough to live watch it (I like very few dramas enough to live watch. The only one I've managed so far is BBF, and I'm behind on that even). I'll wait until the full series is out before I watch it seriously. I'm easily distracted, so watching stuff on viikii where I'll have to click to a different page to view the next part is not good; I almost always take random web surfing breaks in between, which leads to me losing interest fast.
For me, I like SE plenty, it's cute and adorable and everything (Rainie! JIRO! Squeeee!), but as much as I LOOVE idol dramas, I get sick of them occasionally. In fact, my favorite dramas ever are not typical idol dramas (stuff like Love Contract, Wish to See You Again, Summer Snow, etc). I think My Queen is a nice break from that. It's technically an idol drama, but not really. (I don't know if I'd call it an office drama per se, but then I don't know what you'd categorize as office drama. It's kinda like Hotaru no Hikari, where the office plays a definite role, but most of the action is outside of the office)
You know, I never thought of that; the combo if Rainie and Jiro, who are both well known outside of people who follow twdramas... that IS probably why there's a big response to it, as opposed to My Queen (Cheryl Yang isn't a huge star, and a lot of people dislike Ethan after Fated to Love You)... hmmm... interesting!
I haven't really followed drama ratings ever, so I'm unfamiliar with it. I know with American tv, at least, it tends to be the higher rated shows that get exported...
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