Comments | timeripple: Here I am: Subversion and the Secondary OTP in Secret Garden

timeripple

Here I am: Subversion and the Secondary OTP in Secret Garden

Nov 30, 2011 12:43

I’m just gonna stick this post up here and edit it later, maybe with some pictures, because I have to run to work. Geez, work, why you gotta get in the way of the important things? ;P ( Read more... )

squee, somebody please stop me, kdramas

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idiosyncreant December 1 2011, 20:24:07 UTC

Yay! I just finished watching this for the first time, no skimming involved ( ... )

timeripple December 3 2011, 02:42:10 UTC

SO CUTE is right. THEY JUST ARE.

I wasn't crazy about Hyun Bin in My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, but he sort of hit me over the head with a brick, as it were, in Secret Garden. Uh, an intense, weird, neurotic, committed-to-the-crazy-of-the-character brick. XD

Agreed about the evil mothers, definitely. Although I found the evil mom sisters competition they had going on pretty hilarious.

Oska and Seul instead have to work out a relationship that failed.

Exactly. This made them such a great contrast to Ra-im and Joo-won, who are trying to figure out how to even approach a relationship that they're both convinced would be doomed to fail.

I really didn't get where she was coming from for the first half of the show before it reveals how much she still feels for him, in hatred.I do think this could have been signposted better (or at all)--often drama ladies suddenly get less awesome for no apparent reason (*cough*Ra-im, even you*cough*). If only character inconsistency was in the MORE AWESOME direction more often! That said, there was a ( ... )

idiosyncreant December 3 2011, 04:02:59 UTC

I'm glad you agree about the amnesia ( ... )

timeripple December 8 2011, 02:34:47 UTC

See how Ra-im and Joo-won sucker us into talking about them anyway? *laughs*

Our hero already has amnesia, and when the recall kicks in, he's actually adorable. I could kiss this drama just for that subversion right there. Though I would have love love loved more badass Ra-im. (THE BANTERING THOUGH!!! OMG THE OSKA BANTERING. OSKA SOCKS.)

One day I will get around to Protect the Boss. Really!

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satakieli January 11 2012, 05:05:14 UTC

(Perversely disappointed that this isn't a snarky timeripple take on a Burnett story.)

timeripple January 21 2012, 01:17:03 UTC

(Sorry for the late reply... may be time to think about getting comment notifications!)

Ahahahaha, no, I love that book with an irrational childhood love that prevents me from snarking on it. ♥