After a week that turned out to be a total parcel of crazy (other peoples') I watched the episode of Cinderella's Sister and it looks like it might be the perfect antidote. It is great! Poor Heroine (who has totally awesome hair that featured in an amazing scene with hero)* and her useless awful mum. I know that new stepfather and stepsister will ( Read more... )

I am finally back watching kdramas, starting with Last Scandal in which I want to smack almost everyone. I know it's unfair but that includes the doormat heroine. I can only get through it by leaning on the FF button very hard ( Read more... )

dangermousie is watching Spring Waltz which makes me want to rewatch it. That Kdrama has everything: evil parents, children being sold into slavery, classical piano recitals, evil and crazy other girl, evil dads, and cute heroine. And Daniel Henney. I should dig out my discs with the crazy subtitles and enjoy the pretty, pretty people suffering beautifully.

I've been slowly catching up on the Korean version. Hmmmn. I'm not sure: some things I quite like about it - they've certainly got the best Domyouji incarnation (and he can do intimidating plus besotted plus quite bonkers which is a hard combo) but... I really find the more I watch the less I like the girl playing Jandi. Admittedly, she is ( Read more... )

I might have to give up on this, I think. Basically it's the same every episode: Icy Hero is icy, Ugly Brother is ugly, Annoying Sisters combine to make me think that the author clearly had issues with their siblings, Heroine is enduring, and no one is dies of terminal illness that makes you both wan and strangely attractive. Plus, Hero really ( Read more... )

1. Younger 'sister' of heroine is an actual techno singer in real life. Last night I watched some of her videos in entranced horror. She really is that bad of a singer in actuality as well as in Kdrama. That's got to be some of the worst techno I have ever heard. And I've heard a lot of bad techno so I know whereof I speak ( Read more... )

So far I am quite delighting in Beautiful Days though may not for all the reasons the creators intended. In particular, I find it hard to believe that little 'sister' of the heroine (they're not related but grew up in an orphanage) could be considered a decent singer by anyone no matter how tone deaf or whatever hatred of decent music they had. ( Read more... )

I should be reading [insert boring book here] but instead I am watching Beautiful Days a Kdrama which promises delicious angst. Already in (halfway through episode one) there's been a murder, bastard children being brought home, step-sibling hatred AND an orphanage. I hope it keeps up the pace ( Read more... )

I am up to episode 10 now and agog at the screenwriter's one track desire to beat the living daylights out of the heroes as much as possible. Their writing strategy for every episode seems to be ( Read more... )

Honestly, I don't think I could love this more. At the end of episode 11 I even rather enjoy emo prince.

I shall cut this for calixa even though she has a wrong view of OTPs in the show.

( cut for spoilers up to episode 11 )