Re: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!oyceterApril 16 2008, 00:08:43 UTC
EEEEEEEE! I have been waiting to squee over this with someone! But yes! It is so awesome and made me so happy! And I love post-trip Dal Ja, which makes me forgive the time skip.
Her unni is called Soon Ae.
I thought so! But d-addicts had another name listed. Ha, that's the last time I trust them.
Re: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!oyceterApril 16 2008, 00:24:07 UTC
Yay review! And oh man, even though there are some plot points that drive me crazy (CP is good in that is has less of them, but CP messes up the ending a bit), I like how pretty much all of the female characters turn out. Even Soo Jin gets included in the end montage (although in my imagination, she claws her way up to CEO and rules over the firm ruthlessly and passive-aggressively).
I also didn't expect to like Tae Bong's mom so much, and yet! I love so much that Tae Bong's dad was all, "Oh, I'm glad she's getting out and playing cards with friends while I stay home and cook the midnight snack." And Tae Bong's intro to the last episode!
It is indeed from Alison Bechdel... I think if you google, you can find the original comic strip (though she says she got the idea from one of her friends). It's basically a test to see if 1) there's more than one woman, 2) and they talk to each other 3) not about men.
Very much agree with the relationship strengths you note here. I spent a few hours burning DJS for my mother to watch because she'd been watching sageuk series and whatever chirpy thing happened to be on AZN--she sat through all 36 eps of Really, Really Like You because they were there--and I thought she might like the +/- her-generation secondary characters. In what I've seen of other kdramas, most people over 45 are terribly caricatured and/or borderline invisible; in DJS I'd say that only Tae Bong's mother is really a caricature, and she recovers. :) (The boss is certainly a personality dialed up to 11, but she doesn't match a common type that one pokes fun at, whines about, etc.)
(RRLY has its share of interesting 45+ characters, but dude, they're the ONLY interesting characters and they don't get much airtime.)
Eeeeee! More people watching DJS! Man, I really wish Netflix would stock more kdramas. They've got Palace Hours/Goong now, and some others, but it's only a handful, and most of them look like the cancer/incest/tragic misunderstanding ones.
I started out hating Tae Bong's mom, thanks to personal issues, and ended up really liking her. It made me so happy! And I really love that the show takes Jung Ae very seriously as well.
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Her unni is called Soon Ae.
I thought so! But d-addicts had another name listed. Ha, that's the last time I trust them.
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I also didn't expect to like Tae Bong's mom so much, and yet! I love so much that Tae Bong's dad was all, "Oh, I'm glad she's getting out and playing cards with friends while I stay home and cook the midnight snack." And Tae Bong's intro to the last episode!
OMG SO CUTE!
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--anything to do with Alison Bechdel?
--academic concept I should have learned years ago?
--a term you'll kindly elucidate?
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Very much agree with the relationship strengths you note here. I spent a few hours burning DJS for my mother to watch because she'd been watching sageuk series and whatever chirpy thing happened to be on AZN--she sat through all 36 eps of Really, Really Like You because they were there--and I thought she might like the +/- her-generation secondary characters. In what I've seen of other kdramas, most people over 45 are terribly caricatured and/or borderline invisible; in DJS I'd say that only Tae Bong's mother is really a caricature, and she recovers. :) (The boss is certainly a personality dialed up to 11, but she doesn't match a common type that one pokes fun at, whines about, etc.)
(RRLY has its share of interesting 45+ characters, but dude, they're the ONLY interesting characters and they don't get much airtime.)
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I started out hating Tae Bong's mom, thanks to personal issues, and ended up really liking her. It made me so happy! And I really love that the show takes Jung Ae very seriously as well.
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