Personal Taste and a re-organization of my viewing list

[dangermousie]

Instead of catching up on my ginormous backlog, I have been rewatching parts of Personal Taste ep 10 and taking come caps. I am not even in the mood to watch anything else, no matter how good. I just want to wallow in PT.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow]

I have never managed to keep up with any airing Kdrama - maybe that's because I love the melodramas and like you prefer to get all the angst in one giant dollop than in tiny bits. Also, I like to know in advance if the ending will be of the 'rocks fall, everyone dies' type.

[dangermousie]

Yeah, I want to control my angst dozages, not have weekly schedule control it. And yes, I like knowing ending in advance (hence romcoms are great to follow as they air) and with melodramas you never know. I am fine with everyone in CU dying in the snow at once, but I'd like to be warned of that in advance.

Btw, Personal Taste is from the screenwriter of Stairway to Heaven and Stained Glass. I keep expecting car wrecks and amnesia, but so far no luck. It does explain why it only good good when it got angsty. I bet the writer wouldn't know a fluffy comedy if it punched him in the face and told him it was in love with a stepsibling.

[lesbiassparrow]

Well, at least now you must be guaranteed one terminal illness. Which may or may not be magically cured.

[dangermousie]

LOL. I can't see terminal illness in this drama but with this writer, I am guaranteed at least one scene like this:

[dangermousie]

I think if she was gorgeous it would look wrong for PT but I've seen SYJ before - in Summer Scent and in A Moment to Remember. She was supposed to be pretty in those but I didn't find her so - her looks aren't really my thing at all. I do think she's a great actress.

Re: White Night. Nope, it's a remake of a jdrama which I really really didn't like. The story is very much not my thing. Pity, because her and Go Soo in the same thing is pretty cool.

[boginje]

If anyone wants to read Yankee-kun to Megane-chan manga here is the link:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/yankee_kun_to_megane_chan/
Or if you wanna download you can do it here:
http://www.mangatraders.com/manga/series/2508

If you read the scanlated chapters of the manga there is no need for the subs!!

The 2nd episode is available here: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/Q7TEekLp9JE/

It was Chiba-kun`s episode(which means one of my favorites)
It was PERFECT (a little bit different, but it`s OK cuz there are 16 volumes of manga so far(9 are scanlated)-on the other hand there are only 11 episodes of the drama)

BTW As I thought ,the production of the drama decided to replace the restroom with the roof(Shinagawa-kun`s favorite hanging out spot in the manga version is the restroom ).

[dangermousie]

Thank you for the links!

[ambergold]

yay!!! I utterly utterly approve of all your choices- your chosen top 3 are the exact three that I've chosen to watch and keep up with these season so woot:) all the others I'm not watching(putting off Down with Love too) but if I were they would be ranked exactly as above.

I still can't get over Personal Taste's about turn. I'm actually really sad that it had such a crappy first few episodes because it's still coloring my overall feeling about this drama - I love love love it but am wondering if it would have become one of my favorite dramas if I hadn't started out hating it.

[dangermousie]

If it keeps up, it will become one of my favorite ones anyway - I'd rather the drama started out shoddy and got excellent as it progressed than the other way around (Powerful Opponents and BOF and Iljimae, I am looking at all of you!) This isn't the first drama I've seen that started slowly/meh-ishly but then picked up speed (My Girl actually comes to mind, for me, and it's one of my favorites) but usually I don't notice it as much because I watch it all at once, with ff-ing where necessary.

We are so lucky with dramas this season!

[ambergold]

We are so lucky with dramas this season! agreed!

[issy_chan]

oh no. pitty that you are dropping Dong Yi because i just can see you obsessing about it the same way here if you continue watching. i'm totally hooked by it right now. the best drama to make my missing Chuno less. but to keep up with 8-9 airing drama is not an easy job.
i watched ep1 of personal taste and somehow did not grab me much. maybe i try again later because you really making me curious ;-)

[dangermousie]

PT has pretty rough first 3-4 eps, just warning :)

I plan to catch up with DY later.