Surely not everyone in Taiwan gets hit by cars.

And yet, I see that theme in almost every single movie or drama.

I'm not going to bother extolling the virtues of My Queen, because honestly, I've said it 8 million times already. I will say this though; BEST CURRENTLY AIRING DRAMA.

And Cheryl is freaking gorgeous! Seriously, massive girlcrush.

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I'm trying not to make comments on / cap BBF, because everyone has probably already watched them.

BUT that dude totally took out Jun Pyo Taiwanese-style! (Randomly hit by cars = MAJOR Twdrama cliche)

So I'm watching the show, and this happens;


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For three days and eight episodes I have contained my intense, insane, amazingly love for this drama, but I cannot hold it anymore. I wanted to watch all of the released episodes before I commented. And I JUST finished them ( Read more... )

I watched part 1 of second episode of Superstar Express (mysoju is only showing about half of the episode... I'm youtubing the rest currently... but as far as I can tell it hasn't been subbed. So yeah. Mandarin. Thankfully I know enough Mandarin so I'm not totally confused all the time). Still love it. It's super super cute. Honestly, I forget just ( Read more... )

Oh, and the more I think about, the more I realize that Why Why Love is EXACTLY like Full House. Except instead of getting married, she becomes his nurse. But basically everything else is the same. Seriously. It's uncanny.

Plot points that are the same!1. Girl meets Boy, Girl ruins Boy's shirt, Boy hates Girl. OTHER BOY finds Girl charming ( Read more... )

Updating my list of Twdrama themes/etc.

1. Drinking/getting drunk (almost always the female lead)
2. Motorcycles
3. The setting is Taipei
4. Bad boy/good girl
5. Rich boy/poor girl
6. Set in College (a lot of dramas are based on Japanese mangas, which are usually set in high school. The Taiwanese always set them in college instead)
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I make the best pseudo chinese food ( Read more... )