Open Thread #72
February 27th, 2009 // by javabeans
Ack! I’m drowning in dramas. I need a good long weekend (or week?) to catch up on everything. Too bad time just keeps truckin’.
Anyway. What else is going on?
SONG OF THE DAY
The Bird and the Bee – “My Love” [ Download ]
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Monday night cannot come fast enough..I need to see what’s going on with Boys Before Flowers! I watched Hana Yori Dango and I didn’t like it as much..it didn’t seem to progress as logically as BBF is. Not that BBF is logical really but the order seems more correct.
I recently watched I really really like you, a k-drama from 2006(?) and I enjoyed it.
I was watching You are My Destiny but it is getting really old, same mother in law, martyr daughter in law schtick every day. I am looking for another good k-drama to watch. Any suggestions?
Very pretty song…just listening to the various selections you post daily has really exposed me to music I would not otherwise listen to. Thanks.
Other than Boys Before Flowers, what other dramas are you drowning in? I know you are doing recaps for Return of Iljimae (which, btw, are great reading!)
First time I’m going to Mexico for March Break, and I heard on the news this morning that the Canadian government has issued a warning to tourists due to drug-related gang violence…nothing like a caution to dampen my enthusiasm:(
I only need to see the last quarter of the last episode of My Name is Kim Sam Soon, but I can’t find it on Dailymotion! Kinda frustrating because I am a relatively new kdrama watcher who MUST finish every series that I start…but at the same time, I was quite disappointed with the series. It wasn’t as good as I expected. Probably because I don’t really like the main character.
Just dawned on me that BBF has 20 episodes. Only 4 more to go…
I’m going to be home studying for my exams that has been postponed till now. But all I’ve been doing is watching dramas and reading your blog.
I am so productive sometimes.
I’m having a busy week too.
@ 2 Btw, BFF has a total of 24 episodes, not 20.
Have good weekend everyone. Get some rest for our crazy Monday…( You know what I’m talking about ;P )
@Spooksmom -> Return of Iljimae
Return of Iljimae…..Return of Iljimae…..(Sarah, sending you virtual power bars for Return of Iljimae recaps
)
Too bad there’s the real world, and the need to earn a living, especially since our 401(k)’s are down 30%. O.o
TGIF! Wouldn’t it be great to be able to play hooky for a week to catch up on dramas?
BBF has 24 Episodes
ROTFLMAO over Lee Min Ho’s fall on the red carpet. Schadenfreude indeed.
A Love to Kill has got to the point where I know it’s going to turn really angsty so I’ve started re-watching Meteor Garden instead.
I could catch up with East of Eden but given the write ups I might just wait until I can ff all the bits I know will annoy me.
Oh Javabeans *raise the roof* i really do love yer song preference. When I’m in the mood to find a good music I just visit yer blog and voila!!! *faved & D-loaded* TY
Hmmm currently waiting for my BBF AMV to be uploaded *youtube*. Due to tons of school works I wasn’t able to submit my …yunno… on 2nd thought…it’s a good thing i wasn’t able to…coz errr what i did can’t measure up with those well made parodies/vids..hahaha!
So..imma do my thing now…
the download link seems to be broken, at least it is for me….
I’ve started re-watching meteor garden too.
I realised that despite its bad points, it still has redeeming qualities and now it pisses me off whenever anyone go all fancrazy over the korean version. [example: it's the best one out there] Having watched all three, I can’t choose. They’re all really good.
Shancai is by far the prettiest out of the Makino’s
I’m so glad Lee Min Ho won the Best Newcomer Actor title at the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards last night. Well-deserved I might say! Congrats!
I’m ecstatic that my very favorite actor, Kim Myung Min won the Best Actor Award at the BaekSang!
And yeah, he didn’t share it with anyone else!
Yipeee!!!!!!!!!!!
i’ve been rewatching soulmate… obsessed with the soundtrack all over again aaaah!!! XD
wahh I love the song you’ve uploaded today!! it’s so good! except I can’t seem to download it…is anyone have the same problem? >.<
hey I really like this song, thanks
I have to give you GIANT thanks Javabeans for doing Project Runway Korea subtitles. I just happened to be browsing d-addicts a couple days ago, and omo! You had made subtitles! I was just going to watch it without, but the subtitles are a lovely surprise
Anything to help me tide over from my PR withdrawal in the US.
@ 4 KTV and 6 roxyelias,
Thanks for filling me in…EIGHT more episodes instead of four for BBF. Yeah!!!
im watching empress chun chu.. I still need to pick up return of iljimae (I really like reading the recaps) again… ^^
@ Yin: Nobody seems to agree with me, but I actually think Jandi is the prettiest. Shancai has that awesome hair, but I don’t think Barbie looked especially pretty at all. Makino/Mao I like, but I think she’s very plain. So that leaves Goo Hye Sun, who isn’t exactly pretty, but she’s way cute, and has looked pretty in other places.
I’m watching jdrama Mei-chan no Shitsuji; it’s AMAZING. Every girl in this school has her own butler: a hot guy in a tux following you around all day, who’s duty is to ‘protect their bodies and their hearts’. WTF, it’s like one long wet dream. And Mizushima Hiro, who is too sexy to be alive. <3
I love Dramabeans, but I wish there was such sensible commentary on Japanese and Taiwanese dramas, too, somewhere.
@ Jo: ZOMG, Lee Min Ho tripped on the red carpet? <3 AWESOME.
I just love love love your music selections! Sometimes I wish all your songs were on imeem or like my ipod for instant gratification all at once, hahah.
March is almost here…which means BBF is almost over!
I read somewhere that they’re in negotiations for extending the series from 24 to 26…not that I completely agree by adding insult to injury by overworking the already overworked actors but I selfishly also love having a reason to look forward to Mondays…slash isn’t the creator also a stickler for keeping with the prescribed agreement of 24? So does anyone know if it’s 24 for real?
And GAH health care sucks away my soul. Anyone else in the health care industry?
@ xiahkixiri
Check out K-Pop they have action photos and it’s hilarious.
I like the sound of Mei-chan no Shitsuji is anyone doing subs?
It’s finally Friday! Looking forward to catching up on BBF & Cain & Abel episodes this weekend.
I think Shancai is the prettiest out of the Makino’s as well. She’s plain yet pretty. I don’t like Goo Hye Sun all that much, she’s just ok. She tried way too hard to act cute.
I’m sad too BBF is almost over, why can’t good things last???
O__O DYING. His endless, endless legs sprawled everywhere, and that adorable grin after, hahaha. Too into character? I can imagine Jun Pyo doing that. EEEE. Man, who needs dignity when you’re fangirling or fangirled?
@Jo: It’s being subbed! Ep 7 subs will be out in the next day or two, 11 eps total. Jdramas are disappointingly too short to get fully involved, usually, which makes me sad, but it’s truly win.
Oh, the PRK subs are out already? Heh. I should make a post about that. Someday. Soon. And, also get back to subbing the next episode.
I think the song is downloadable now? Sometimes mediafire has brief periods of glitching, but it usually comes back.
Oh, Iljimae is next on my list! My problem is I really, really want to watch the next episodes, but I don’t watch one till I’ve recapped the one before (I’ve learned that if I watch a bunch, it’s not as fun recapping an earlier ep)…. Weekend project!
I am so sick of being sick – cold then turn into a sinus infection. On Saturday is March 1st – new month – new everything. I can’t wait to get better.
The weather has been pretty good so I probably try to get some sun and rest up for the week.
Have a great week
It has been a long week… was getting so use the 3 day weekends due to all the holidays.. at least here in the US.
Looking forward to a nice weekend.. Have tons of dramas that I need to finish..
Maybe I’ll finish White Tower… or Gourmet… or catch up on EOE…
Better yet, I should start Return of Iljimae… been wanting to read the recaps… but I can’t until I’ve seen it.
Thanks Javabeans for all the effort and time you put in this blog.
It’s the BEST.
Thanks for all the music on your site!
C’mon, enough w/ the “who’s the prettiest” of all the Makinos and talk about the character acting. In my opinion, the closest to personifying the manga Makino, by rank:
1. Shancai
She was funny in an over the top natural kind of way.
2. Makino
3. Jandi – She doesn’t even come close (writer can share this fault) although the first time I really liked her was as the undercover spy
*Shancai and Makino are a close call but Barbie added the perfect combination of niceness, profundity w/ the ‘determined, hardworking, stubborn, don’t mess w/ me – and I really mean it!’ spark; all the basic “weed” ingredients that are necessary for someone who is from a working-class family.
Btw, can someone advise me on how to watch anything on D-Addicts if I have a mac?
Thanks!
OMG…Javabeans you would be the GREATEST if you sub Iljimae.
yeah.. there are streaming sites with the subs… but the quality of the videos can’t do it justice!!!! They are so bleary that it hurts ><.
Can’t wait to see it in HD with your subs.
@ #25 Sherrie in HB: i have a cold too!!!! it’s either a cold or allergies, i’m not too sure which one it is but either way it sucks to have a stuffy-but-leaky nose.
and i just read your twitter comment Javabeans. uh oh… who got into an accident this time?!?! O_o
i also love the song!!
I too watched Meteor Garden again… I love that story but I find Boys Before Flowers to be refreshing…
Cain and Abel is getting better and better. In the meantime, So Ji Sup’s character gets tortured, shot at point blank range, andis wearing a real crap sageukstache. This is not a coincidence. As much as I wish SJS would be in a lighter drama where he isn’t, you know, dying, there is something compelling about So Ji Sup getting his ass kicked royally by life. The Passion of So Ji Sup has been going on since 2003, but it’s still a wonder to behold.
Storyline is really picking up, and the camera work is pretty stylish. It’s a little bit like watching the Lobbyist, minus Choi Wan Kyu’s love of Chuck Norris histrionics. And SJS is doing a great job bringing immediate fear and desperation into his role.
SoCal TV:
Pretty psyched that in SoCal, Channel 18.1 is broadcasting SBS now. (Though watching On Air in Mandarin is kinda . . . huh.) We get SBS, KBS, and MBC (24/7!!) all free now. We even have a South Korean Shopping Channel(?) Why do we bloody have a SK Shopping Channel?!?
Not feeling the new 18.2 UTB channel. I like getting NHK programming (and NHK World News is a lot like watching BBC News), but all the otaku/gaijin-exchange student stuff is kinda irking me. It’s just uncomfortable to me.
HanaDan Talk:
Inoue Mao’s Makino is the definitive one for me, and it’s not really close. Within 45 seconds, I was like “OMG!! She IS Makino.” Even the manga facial expressions are uncanny, yet still realistic.
Shancai was Barbie’s (as well as the rest of MG F4) first shot at acting, and that did show. But Meteor Garden was, for me, kind of a warmup drama for Barbie/Vic’s show Mars, and I absolutely absolutely loved them in that show
Koo’s good in the heavier scenes with Jandi, but the “comical” Jandi was a bad, bad misfire. Like Lee Ji after a few lines of coke. Having said that, the Jandi/Jun Pyo chemistry reminds me of the BiKyo vibe. Without expressing it, there’s a strong, natural noona vibe and, while not canon, it’s absolutely lovely.
@ Javabeans – thanks for the heads up about Casker’s latest album . I just got a hold of it and I really like it (maybe not as much as Between, but it’s still excellent). Which reminds me, I need to get Clazziquai’s Metrotonics also. Happy weekend everyone!
hey, Javabeans, will you be recapping Cain and Abel? I hope Koo Hye Sun is ok….have a good weekend everyone!!
I am quite possibly the only person in the world who loves winter, especially overcast cold days, and weeks without sunshine. Now that spring is almost here, I find myself feeling depressed. First sign of spring-y weather: neighborhood kids playing in the streets. GET OFF MY LAWN, DAMN KIDS!
This is random. But it’s something that has puzzled me a couple of times. I know that the term for older sister in Korean is “noona.” And I thought it is pronounced the way it is spelled: noon-na (as in afternoon). But Sometimes I hear guys say “doona” and they pronounce it “do-na” as in “just do it”. I remember the latter was pronounced in Episode 7 of Boys Before Flowers; when Jun-hee, Jun-pyo’s sister, dragged him by the ear out of the principal’s office. It was prominent for me because he said it a couple of times in a row. As I’m not Korean and I definitely don’t speak it (although my level of basic Korean has improved because of watching so many kdramas!), I’m confused and I would appreciate it if someone could explain it. So is something wrong with my ears or is there two ways of saying it? If not, then which one is correct? Thanks!
(That was such a long “question.”)
AGH! Time keeps truckin’ and my feet are frozen solid.
@IcanhazGooJun-Pyo
You are not alone. Every time it warms up (i.e. spring threatens), the pollen just ambushes my sinuses and it’s torture!
It’s the weekend and I have my elder bro and brood in town. Relatives. Hmm.
Inoue Mao is Makino! Spunk and guts in a cute-without-cutesy package. Though HYD 2 was more focused on Domyouji’s rites of passage, Makino was quietly growing up too, which paid off in the last ep’s denouement!
Thanks, Sarah! Sending you kimbap rolls, dduk, and your favorite crackers/chips, too.
@Aye, it’s noona, with an “N” – what a boy calls his older sister/sister figure
heya sarah, i gots a sorta blashphemous question.l.. do you ever get tired of dramas.. recapping and subbing and stuff… especially when it piles on like this?
*gasp* whoa whoa YO.
LOL
@ belleza:
Do you really find that Cain and Abel is getting better and better? I know they”re only in the initial stage of the drama where they have to set the story up, but with only four eps in, this show is way too overly dramatic atm.
But, I do think that this show is beautifully shot, which is something I sorely miss after having watched nothing but Boys Over Flowers for the past two months. My brain missed the pretty.
Finally get to sleep in tomorrow , Thank God.
Excited for BBF on Monday, too!
I honestly think that Inoue Mao is the real Makino, because of the impression she left on me. I saw her as spunky, fresh, funny-cute, and indpendent, but capable of accepting help — which to me is who Makino is. Also, since she was actually called Makino in HYD, it made me think it was really her.
Barbie was alright, and yes she is very pretty, but that doesn’t really amount to much in the long run
And Gu Hye Sun, in my opinion, is having a hardtime fitting into the role of Jandi. It seems quite forced to me. And she can sometimes be pretty, but mostly she looks like a clueless, awkward mushroom to me. Harsh, yes, but I’ve seen her on another drama a couple years back where she was just the same, but with a diff hair do.
19 xiahkixiri, I agree with you. I really like Jandi. GHS brings a freshness to it^_^ Heard GHS’s car accident, bruises on face, mouth need stitches and now BBF delay because ep. 17 and 18 not all parts filmed yet. PD should really learn from this mistake and not work the actors to death.
I’ve found it easier to accept BOF now that I’ve made my peace with the fact Jun Pyo and Jandi just aren’t good representations of their manga counterparts. MinHo is a good actor and it’s his presence that’s winning my over but he’s no Tsukasa, he was de-fanged right from the outset and a pretty standard kdrama spoilt brat.
BOF is going down as my least favourite Hanadan adaptation. Its saving grace is Yi Jeong and Ga Eul, the freshness of their storyline keeps me tuning in each week and a leading man who has great charisma.
i really liked the song
loved lee min ho’s pic with kim bum- the one that seems like a ‘candid shot.’ he looked like he was having a blast. awwww.
i’m also juggling 4 kdramas at the moment. i used to have a policy of one drama at a time. now, my sense of drama loyalty has flewn out the window and ran down by my neighbors red old school ford truck. ugh.
can anybody point me to a site or share a link to where i can watch all episodes (if possible w/ english subs that won’t make my head spin) of “Why Did You Come To My House?” please. i’m desperate.. from one kdrama addict to another.. hahaha.
@Amy,
“his show is way too overly dramatic atm.”
Cain and Abel’s kinda gotten all the hallmarks of a classic SBS superstar vehicle/event drama. Good actors, oodles of money in the first 4 episodes, and a “wtf?” plotline. I love it.
A lot of SBS event dramas are what I call “blue screen dramas.” It’s not so much a realistically concieved story with an overarching theme, but a collage of storyboards that the top-end actors kinda emote “in front of.” (i.e. “In this scene Shin Hyung Joon, you’re going to have a bittersweet moment with your ex-love. . . . and then you’re going to have a seizure as soon as she turns around. And you’re going to do this in pretty Suzhou. Yes, it makes no sense. Yes, your paycheck bonus is coming this afternoon!”) All behind some really gorgeous (yet irrelevant) scenery. It’s so awesome it’s almost like watching an actual story! 
I think what’s going to eventually kill Cain and Abel is its high concept. Fusing a medical soap with an international thriller piles on the “game over man!” moments early on, but it also starves the foundation of each genre. Meaning, it’s not really a great poltiical thriller (”uhhh? how did Lee Cho In survive all those shots?!?”) and it’s not really an interesting medical drama (intrigue, but who cares?) Then when the narrative eventually must cross that fork in the road and commit to being just one thing, it’ll struggle to finish out.
All the same, while watching C&A, I realized how much I missed watching Him. And it’s pretty. Pretty matters!!
I want to watch Cain and Abel because I loved So Ji Sub in Misa, and Han Ji Min in Capital Scandal. That said, emo dramas are hit and miss; I either love them with a fiery passion, or hate their guts. I guess I’ll try it somewhere down the line…
I like Inoue Mao, but I don’t think she’s as brilliant as everybody say. Also, I reallllly despised the way she says ‘BAKA janai?’, especially to Kaede. That’s why I loved that scene where Jandi was telling Kang Mama to screw it, but in a polite and respectful way.
Honestly, I’m just ready for this BBF craze to be over. I have nothing against the drama, I’m just sick of hearing 2489895893 news about them every single day.
@xiahkixiri,
“That said, emo dramas are hit and miss; I either love them with a fiery passion, or hate their guts. I guess I’ll try it somewhere down the line…”
Two words describe Cain and Abel so far: AMNESIA PLOT.
Belleza loves amnesia plots (and SBS sure loves ‘em!) Also, Belleza loves how 3 of the 4 characters has potentially fatal afflictions. Remember when Stalin said one death is a tragedy, but a bunch is a statistic? This could be THAT drama!!
Japanese filmmakers, in general, do an excellent job of translating mangas into live action films.
With that said, for everyone who commented on the Makino character acting, I’m in agreement w/ your analysis regarding Inoue Mao. However, what’s lacking in her portrayal of Makino that I also found missing in Matsumoto Jun’s Domyoji is the depth of character and layers of emotion that’s so prevalent in the manga. They imitated not personified. I thought their acting, look and posture (all obvious things) matched the closest to the manga but the more subtle characterization was missing. Lee Min ho actually does a good job of adding that complex layer as well w/ his, when needed, retrained acting; you could sense a lot going on underneath the surface w/o him having to say or physically doing a lot. And whether the actress is cute or not is totally irrelevant to me. I want to be convinced someone is in character and, it certainly wasn’t perfect all the time, but Barbie got the job done; she convinced me she was “weed”.
“However, what’s lacking in her portrayal of Makino that I also found missing in Matsumoto Jun’s Domyoji is the depth of character and layers of emotion that’s so prevalent in the manga. They imitated not personified.”
I feel every Doumyouji has been different in their own right. Which is fine. However a show adapts him ends up defining how the show should go. For me, Jun Pyo is probably the least like the manga in canon characterization. In fact, he’s a bit like a cross between Douymouji and Rui, in the way he can be intelligent, seductive, etc. as well as caddish and cruel.
Makino’s characterization is most spot on in the J-drama version, mostly because she really seems like a high school girl who’s trying to survive. Also, Inoue Mao was the one who carries the drama, playing straight man to all the weirdness around her. In that regard, she was the breakout starlet in the same way Lee Min Ho is for this drama. Makino is actually very insecure/indecisive in the manga, and she actually did want to fit in somehow. The drama did a good job of that. The J-drama kinda fast forwards through the emotions developing between M&D, compared to Meteor Garden and BBF(which is also fast.) In that regard, BBF does a more thorough job developing the romance, even though this “Rui” is kinda made obsolete by Jun Pyo’s all encompassing persona.
And apparently we got a Mando-HYD on the way too. Yay?
@ Belleza: hahaha, ZOMG, good ol’ Stalin! Amnesia plots can be crazy hot fun, i.e. Save The Last Dance For Me, which had flawed/weird story flow, but DAMN was the amnesia bit HOT AS HECK. Ahhhh, I wish you hadn’t said that, now I’m edging. And I do not have time to edge! Waiting for new eps for 2 dramas already is bad enough! Ohhhh, but if So Ji Sub makes emo!stoned face a la Misa, I am SO there. Does he do emo!stoned face????
@ JiHwan: It’s awesome, but IS starting to get a tad overkill. It’s just been a really long time since a drama has inspired such mania. It’s clearly the most flawed/inconsistent adaptation by a mile, but at the same time, it’s hit the most squee spots, and when it gets it right, it KILLS.
^For you guys in general who watched the jdrama version movie: wasn’t it the crappiest thing ever?/??? I couldn’t believe what they did do it, ZOMFG. My favourite part was the last 5 minutes, when Domyouji said ‘Unbelievable’ like her. ><”
@ xiahkixiri
I was disappointed w/ the HYD j-movie. Matsujun was the only redeeming factor for me.
@xiahkixiri,
“but if So Ji Sub makes emo!stoned face a la Misa, I am SO there.”
He not only does the stoned face (starting episode 4), he does it with a sageukstache. Kingdom of the Pineapple Express? I LOVE HIM.
“Ahhhh, I wish you hadn’t said that, now I’m edging.”
The highlight for me is hearing Han Ji Min speak Mandarin with a thick Korean accent (the intonations come out all kinda strange, so I can imagine that to a mainlander , Han Ji Min’s words would be extremely difficult to understand), and then Korean with an exaggerated North Korean accent. It’s adorable.
After watching 4 episode, you can see where Cain and Abel might have been a terrific international thriller, focusing on North Koreans refugees surviving in China. Done right, that would be one hell of a drama. Of course, I don’[t think the budget could sustain that kind of location shooting. And, so, the medical soap genre.
“but at the same time, it’s hit the most squee spots, and when it gets it right, it KILLS.”
In total agreement.
Wait! Is there really Suzhou in Cain and Abel? I’ve been there lots of times!!!
@@belleza,
I *believe* it’s Suzhou. In episode 3, when Lee Cho In and Oh Young Ji are touring together, they go through a Venice-style town with a lot of gondola-style rides under stone bridges and white faced buildings. Also, the local Mando dialect is unusually soft or “cultured” sounding, more befitting Suzhou. I can’t definitively say it’s Suzhou because Lee Cho In doesn’t sight see the gardens and doesn’t buy things like clay tea kettles. If not Suzhou, then he was definitely around the Yangtze.
Taking a stab at this . . IF it’s Suzhou, then I think Oh Young Ji shouts goodbye to Lee Cho In while she’s on the Xishi bridge.
I’ve been there lots of times!!!”
Mmm!! My mom and I agree that Suzhou would be the place we’d love to have a home in China. Lil like Venice, lil like Kyoto, and oh what a beautiful dialect! But my dad tells me that we think that way because we haven’t experienced the polution, crowding, and other good stuff.
@ Snikki: Thank you. God… Makino’s doubts came out of nowhere, and were really idiotic, and the memories that made her realise were also pretty stupid. GRRR.
@ belleza: ZOMG, STONED!EMOFACE!!!! <3 Just… just… He’s so BIG, and Han Ji Min is sooo tiny, is it really like I’m thinking? God I did NOT want to get dragged into this. Also, haven’t even seen it yet but agree, that would have been one hell of an epic drama, I don’t usually gel with medical dramas… =/ DAMN THE TEMPTATION.
@ #51 belleza
Characterization doesn’t really have to do w/ a high schooler trying to survive though – that’s more along the lines of direction, sceen play, overall tone and editing. Same goes for insecurity/indecisiveness. Both HYD and MG provided those for me (in their own way) but MG took me on the emotional journey w/ them, as in the manga, rather than HYD. Even though HYD developed the story very quickly, they did a mighty fine job w/ transition and editing! Even I was impressed.
I actually really liked all the Domyouji’s regardless of my Matsumoto Jun comment. They all had a lot of presence. GJP is definitely the least like Domyouji in obvious characters but he compensates that for expressing the most in depth of feelings and hidden emotions, which I would say is not b/c he shares both Doumyouji AND Rui personalities. Rather, those are ALL the qualities (intelligent, seductive, etc. as well as caddish and cruel) that Doumyouji has in the manga, which is what I loved! On the surface – cruel (and it’s not even that he’s cruel w/o reason; he had a crazy upbringing that affected his psyche), on the inside – intelligence and sensitivity
Btw, what’s Mando-HYD?
@ #44 Jo
Yeah, BOF is my least fav adaptation but I really like GJP and Woo bin
@ #47 xiahkixiri
Agreed!
@ #52 xiahkixiri
Ah! Loved Saved The Last Dance! That was the 2nd drama I ever watched and I loved the last scene
Finally got to watching the infamous We Got Married episode with Jun-jun and Lee Si Young. I can safely say this is the best thing I’ve seen from Korean TV all year.
@new-s,
“Btw, what’s Mando-HYD?”
There was an announcement last year that they were going to make ANOTHER Chinese Hana Yori Dango, with Rainie Yang as the lead female. Presumably not Meteor Garden 3 or Meteor Garden: The Next Generation. I personally don’t see the point, unless they do a mainlander version of the story. But, then, Rainie shouldn’t be in it?
(Though I’d LOVE to see Zhang Ziyi play Sakurako. It uhh plays itself
)
@xiahkixiri,
“, I don’t usually gel with medical dramas…”
This is the first time I’ve seen where the doctors are more terminally ill than the patients. This hospital is an epic fail
@ new-s: The last scene.. with the crutches? I actually thought the whole wheelchair/accident/1 year later AGAIN smushed into the last episode was pretty unnecessary… especially since yeah, its not like the disability stayed so it was even more contrived and basically pointless. =/ The story was random like that.. but Ji Sung is GORGEOUS, and the bit when he was mean to her and started to like her was AWESOME awesome awesomeness. Oh, and the soundtrack is gorrrgeous, too.
Ahh Mondays (or in the case of this week) Tuesdays is so long to wait for BBF. Catching up on so many shows in the weekends because I’ve been behind on animes, dramas, mangas that are taking up so much space in my computer. Yet I still get the urge to rewatch older shows because I get bored with the new ones easily.
ZOMG, Belleza, you’re KILLING me. I’m sold. BUT, I will wait til it’s all subbed. Angst is all well and good but prolonged angst just ain’t fun.
Also, ZOMG, I never knew they wanted Rainie? She was Yuki/Ga Eul! Weird! And they planned a Filippino version too, right? Jeez… but the mangaka wants to stop any more adaptations for 2 years…
@ belleza
What?! Another Taiwanese HYD version w/ Rainie? I wouldn’t mind seeing HYD versions from different countries since that would be kind of interesting, but not another one from the same country. I also don’t think Rainie would make a good Tsukushi; her face is too cute and adorable to pull it off.
Zhang Ziyi would make a perfect Sakurako! I first saw her in Crouching Tiger and The House of Flying Daggers but didn’t think her acting was great until I saw her in The Road Home.
@ xiahkixiri
Yeah, STLDFM for sure had random and transition issues, esp. w/ Yoon Soo-jin’s suicide attempt. It totally disrupted the flow. But I loved the last scene b/c of the dialogue…well, at least I hope they translated it as close as possible b/c I was crying
I’m sure it’s better in Korean. And YES!!! (Ji Sung is GORGEOUS, and the bit when he was mean to her and started to like her was AWESOME awesome awesomeness. Oh, and the soundtrack is gorrrgeous, too). I’ve actually been listening to the soundtrack this week 
@ goldlilys
Ooh! Let me know what animes and mangas you’ve been watching!
@new-s,
I looked around, and hmm I guess we’re really getting a Mainlander F4.
http://seoulbeats.com/2009/02/korean-netizens-protest-against-the-chinese-f4/
I don’t think it’s called “Meteor Rain” (i.e. the article) though. Meteor Rain was already done . . .
And the Filipino F4 . . .
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Philippines-is-the-next-country-to-have-its-own-F4-talk624795.html
I can’t wait for the North Korean F4. Kim Jong Il would make an awesome Doumyouji. He already has the curls!!
FWIW, even though it seems HYD remake-nia is out of control, Betty La Fea has been remade zillions of times all around the world.
Wow belleza! You’re totally in the know…thanks for the info and links…how interesting. I haven’t seen dramas from other countries besides Korea, Japan and Taiwan. Hmmm…it certainly makes me curious to check out what other countries are doing. HYD IS totally out of control…but if everyone feels like they have something to say about it, well, I can accept that, just as long as their adaptations are good (minus the hotness factor
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hi,
i was wondering where can i watch or download full metal alchemist the 2nd episode 11 been searching for it…
no of the links are working….