Upcoming Taiwanese Dramas 2009: Updates!

[uisceros]

Thanks so much for all the good wishes re work! I'll try to get back to everyone tonight (unless I manage to fall asleep, which is looking more and more probable by the minute). It's been a long day, and I won't go into it more, but it's left me exhausted

Comments

[airplanemusic]

Haha! Assassins! If I wrote a story like that, I would have a scene where the assassins are still trying to kill her, but he's changed his mind, so he protects her (and if I wanted to make it tragic, he would die).

It sucks how iffy TW dramas are! You'd think they wouldn't announce stuff until they're more concrete.. But I guess maybe tabloids get ahold of the news and report too early?

[uisceros]

I know! It's a pretty awesome plotline!
Ah, but then it would be a kdrama. Twdrama almost always end happily, so unless the bullet gets stopped by an old medicinal herb book she gave him, there probably won't be killings.

Man, I know. It's like, why can't they make up their mind and stick with it... It's not just tabloids either. They often have press conferences announcing dramas that later get canceled/postponed.

[airplanemusic]

Hehehe that would be good! Do TW dramas do the "oh no someone's gotten into an accident! QUICK DRAMA" and then like ten seconds later everything's fine? (Obvious attempt to boost the ratings). Japanese dramas do that ALL THE TIME.

That sucks!! I know that sometimes things happen, but if it's such a problem, they need to hold off on the press conferences for a while!
Sometimes Japanese dramas will get canceled because of a scandal or something, but that's pretty rare.

[uisceros]

They do it sometimes, but not like jdramas! The accidents/illnesses/etc tend to be more serious (like in one, a character got super sick, and needed a liver (?) transplant, and so his brother (another major character) was going to give him part of his, but then at the end they made you think they both died, but in reality, they both lived. Because twdramas MUST end happily (I can only think of three that don't). The illness/accident plotlines are usually more drawn out too. Like 2/3rd of the drama will be happy, then SUDDENLY the illness/accident, which takes up the last third (until the last episode when everything is happy again). Also, twdramas are weird graphic. in that department.

Exactly, jdramas only get called off for special circumstances. Not because the television companies are bullshitting, like with twdramas...