Comments | meganbmoore: doramas: Devil Beside You, The Little Fairy, Hu Ge

meganbmoore

doramas: Devil Beside You, The Little Fairy, Hu Ge

Jun 26, 2007 13:30

DBY info is actually dated, as I typed this up at work last night but couldn't post it until now. Commentary is through ep 8, I'm up to 14 now(hey, there's not much to do out there except watch something, stroke the cats and read, and reading makes it difficult to stroke the cats)

Eight episodes into Devil Beside You now, and liking it much more. ( Read more... )

twdrama: devil beside you, cdrama: the legend and the hero, twdrama, cdrama: the little fairy, cdrama, dorama, wuxia

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dangermousie June 26 2007, 19:14:22 UTC

I love your write-ups!

You know, I think I finally understand your attitude to Goong because it's exactly mine to DBY. I like it well enough, find it cute etc etc, but I don't love it like everyone else seems to and actually I don't really get why they do. It's nice but I don't see the awesomeness ( ... )

meganbmoore June 26 2007, 19:35:42 UTC

Aye. I don't DISLIKE Goong and I don't really dislike Chae-Gyung, though I know it can come across that way...if I don't like it, I don't finish it...even if I don't care about the main stuff, there has to at least be SOMETHING I like for me to finsish it, and if I actively dislike a lead, I won't finish it. Both Goong and DBY I get that they're popular and I can kinda get why, but they don't click as much for me. DBY is much closer to clicking for me because i've latched onto the secondary OTP(even moreso than when I typed the post...I've had the tournament and new years eve and such since then) I mean, yeah, Rainie's cute and Mike He is nice to look at and they work well together, but I'm not overly attached to them(but, somehow, I adore the parents...I think it's because they both remind me of Xhi Shu's mother in ISWAK...really silly and seemingly incompetent, but really a very good, responsible parent) I don't care for Mike He's evil grin though...anytime he does it, I flash to Zhi Shu's evil smirk, and there's just no ( ... )

dangermousie June 26 2007, 19:43:03 UTC

Re: ISWAK. Interestingly, I like it, but for me it's in the 'flawed though fun' category. I used the ff a fair bit and got annoyed with Ariel Lin's character now and again because I wanted her to have a spine :) Also, most of the secondary characters held no interest for me and the families actively bored me. And yet, I still liked it because it was so cute :) Especially the OTP.

I get the distinction between MG and Mars/ISWAK. I don't know which is more complicated though.

I like Rainie and Barbie, I think Ariel Lin is the most appealing of the Taiwanese actresses I've encountered

For me, it's the other way around: Barbie, then Rainie, then Ariel (though I love all three) :)

Re: evil smirk. That just cracked me up in DBY. DBY is so incredibly shoujoishly over the top :D

meganbmoore June 26 2007, 19:57:30 UTC

She had a spine, she just had blinding, tunnel vision focus and wasn't bright enough to think of other ways to go about reaching her goals. But her sheer perseverance paid off.

The actual stories and characters in Mars and MG are more complicated, but, IMO, the ISWAK OTP was harder to pull off because the OTP is just so incredibly unlikely.

Oh, the evil smirk cracks me up, I just can't help but compare the two though, and Zhi SHu's wins(Ah Meng's is getting kinda old, though)

This whole discussion is very classic us: we almost always like the exact same thing but at different levels and for different reasons. I think the only real exceptions are Damo and Buffy(well...except the awesome of Cordelia, but then, most of my adoration comes from the first 2 1/2 seasons of Angel, which I THINK you've said you never really watched Angel much? Or am I thinking of someone else?)

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kitkat_cat June 27 2007, 16:53:35 UTC

erm, just thought to contribute my 2 pence worth here...

I prefer Zhi Shu over Ah Meng. Zhi SHu came across as a genuine person who for the life of him, couldn't understand why there was this annoying girl in his life, and so reacted accordingly. Ah Meng on the other hand, just kind of pretended to be a bad boy with hair pins and bad hair, not to mention the Harry Potter reading. But he also came across as being selfish when he decided unilaterally to go live with his mom. I understand why, but there are better ways of telling your girlfriend!

I think that in as far as XiangQin and QiYue are concerned, I think that QiYue is the one with a bendier spine. XiangQin did have a spine and was determined to forget ZhiShu on more than 1 occasion, but what's a girl to do when he blows hot and cold! I just didn't like how teary QiYue became at the end when Ah Meng basically announced that he was leaving.

meganbmoore June 27 2007, 19:51:14 UTC

Oh yes...ity's so easy to see why Zhi Shu is like that...I mean...there he was, minding his own business, and this random girl who he had NO idea who she even was tried to give him this love letter, and then suddenly everyone is talking about it, and then she moves in with him? Oyyy.

And yeah, XQ definately had more spine. She fought back instead of just complaining and letting him do whatever, it's just that all she wanted was him, so it may not always come across that way.