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drama writers trying to brainstorm a new, unique, never seen before, first of its kind, about to revolutionalise the drama world type of ML characterisation for a contemporary drama:



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    🤣🤣🤣

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    *steps to the flip chart, grabs pen to write in bold letters*
    Working title: “Lovely Chaebol Trauma”.

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      HAHAHAHHA omg this has me howling 💀 Reply series ❌️ ‘My Lovely’ series ✅️

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        😂 We might still need to rework this to include “midnight” …. Or „piggyback“?! The naming conventions for this year’s productions have not yet been published in its final version!

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          🤣 We can weave it into the Korean title which will be super specific and poetic like ‘Giving A Piggyback To My Lovely Chaebol With Trauma Under The Blossoms of a Moonlit Night’

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            Omo omo omo … you guys are legit giving me a tummy-ache from laughing so hard.

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            🤣🤣🤣 SOLD.

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            But where’s my “impossible” and “queen”???

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            How about Queen Of Piggyback And My Lovely Chaebol Under The Blossoms Of An Impossible Midnight?

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            @claire2009
            Yes, I almost wrote that should include in the trendy word “impossible” somewhere in the title. Forgot about the “queen” though. 👏🤣

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            @claire2009 absolutely brilliant, put my name down as an executive producer for this!! 👏 😂 guaranteed to hit 30%+ in ratings, especially if we split it into a two parter- the first is a melodramatic sageuk ‘past life’ backstory and the second part will be a makjang chaebol crime thriller. And to cover all bases, we’ll make sure there’s a supporting character who’s an idol trainee with supernatural powers whose subplot includes taking down unforgivingly cruel high school bullies.

            Audiences will never want to watch another drama again after feasting their eyes on this masterpiece! A DB magnum opus if you will 🤩🤩🤩

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            @claire2009 This Name a drama is turning out to be a better game than Cast Away!! I’m a fan. 😍😍😍

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            @lapislazulii @seeker
            This drama will really be

            unique, never seen before, first of its kind

            🤣🤣

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            ^^ @claire2009 Absolutely! A never before never after kind of drama. 😊

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    I just watched that moment, but sadly I don’t think the show was being facetious because that is exactly what that show is. It’s not even that good. The acting of the OTP feels forced. Only grandma is worth watching. I’ve been fast forwarding. Except I am watching, so maybe the joke is on me.

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    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    I truly have nothing else to add. Do we add a horse for the timeslip? Or special shoes may be?

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      HAHAHHA 😆😆😆 how could we forget magical shoes!! There’s got to be some kind of fairy tale element too that can function as a link to the past life.

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My current kdramaland activity:

1. Waiting for Shin Sung Rok drama news
2. Watching Queen of Tears

I wish SSR will make a cameo in QoT. Maybe writer can shove Eunsung in jail, where he\’ll meet jail boss Lee Jae Kyung who will greet him with \’Take good care of your health\’ while twisting his nail ring 😂.

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    😆 That would be nice, Kat!

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    He doesn’t have representation right now for television and he is also going a theatre run. I came across him and Kim Jae wook promoting it and he mentioned no rep right now.

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Okay here’s a mini kind of review, kind of set of random thoughts on Best Choice Ever so far, starting with: I like it a lot! I will try keep this as major spoiler free as possible but forgive me if I have inadvertently included some minor spoilers here and there.

I don’t know what the general vibe has been because I’ve not read commentary or reviews on this (yet) but this is a very cutesy lil contemporary drama. I’m like 10 episodes into the 14 that have been released so far and would definitely recommend- BUT with a few things flagged (we will get to that).

But first, to our leads. FL is of the hardworking Cinderella variety, but wait don’t roll your eyes just yet because she’s not the naive, ‘use me as a doormat’ kind of Cinderella. She’s steadfast to her values and principles, which means she knows how to stand up for herself and can also see through other people’s BS – refreshing!! Yang Zi here reminds me a bit of her character in Oath of Love but minus Zhixiao’s penchant for childishness. I know for some, the fact that our FL is a little too good might be a sticking point but I vibe with her a lot – she’s not without compassion or kindness but she’s also strong, wilful and independant, so it’s a best of both worlds situation. I’d go so far as to say, this is who I wanted Hyo Shim to be in Live Your Own Life (though granted I only watched like a third of that drama so idk what happened to her character arc in the end). She’s also got the cutest affordable chic type outfits here so A+ to the stylist.

Our ML is kind of tsundre adjacent. He’s no nonsense, has trust issues of the born into corporate wealth kind, is somewhat conniving, but not completely devoid of warmth. He’s also kind of like there but not really there for most of the first few episodes (the plot really starts to pick up around the ep 8 point) but I’m not complaining because every time Xu Kai is on screen, he’s serving (see below).

Exhibit A-D:

OKAY so to the bit I want to flag – this is a very family centered drama, and the families are messy. Our FL and her family are in the centre stage of the plot and a lot of the major plot points occur around dynamics within this family, as well as the frictions encountered because of differences in family class/station/societal standing etc between characters. Which leads me to what I think might be the main thing that people will likely find leaving a bitter taste in their mouth – the FL’s mother. She’s not malicious but she’s very ‘I know what’s best for my family’/‘I only want the best for my kids’/‘I’m pinning the entirety of own hopes and failures on the shoulders of my children’/‘what will everyone think about us’ to the extremes kind of ethnic mother, which then spills into a fair few toxic traits and patterns of behaviour. The FL doesn’t exactly bend to all her mothers whims but she is very much caught between a rock and a hard place thanks to the expectations placed on her and her mothers actions. I objectively can see why this mother is very eye twitchingly annoyingly, but unfortunately for better or worse I’ve been surrounded by many reminiscent maternal figures in my own family so at this point I’m kind of desensitised to it. Also, her character is developed in a fairly nuanced way so she’s not the main antagonist – you can see that she genuinely thinks that she’s doing what’s best for her daughter/her family in her own warped way and there’s a fair bit of generational and cultural context that feeds into why she acts the way she does. Which isn’t to say I’m condoning that kind of behaviour or not calling it out for what it is, but I do sympathise with the FL to an extent because I understand her position somewhat. And that projection is what’s stopping me from outright ‘hating’ the mum or find her annoying to the point where I want to stop watching the drama, but I thought I’d flag that in anyways because I can understand that it might be a deal breaker for some.

The FL’s brother also, I have mixed feelings about, because I think he’s written to be someone you pity as the underdog but he kind of comes across a little too pouty/sad sometimes and I think that might be because of the actors execution. Overall though, I vibe with the realistic-ish portrayal of a family who are messy, flawed but genuinely love and have each others backs. It reaffirms my own experiences, as I’m sure is the experience of many, which is that family is complicated and you can’t really always neatly compartmentalise or label just how you feel about each other. Kind of reminds me of that TIkTok meme where it’s like ‘I won’t share a cookie with my sibling but I’d give them my kidney without thinking twice if they needed it’. It be like that sometimes 😆🤷‍♀️

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    What a lovely write up and awesome exhibits in support. 😊

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    Thanks for your initial review! Appreciate it.
    I have had no luck with Yang Zia’s dramas. I am fine as long as she plays a mature character. But I really want to try this for Xu Kai. Those gifs 🥰
    Why did the gifs remind me of King the land 😂
    Cdramas trying trauma trope for ML??

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      YES KTL I also did think that, but the similarities realky start and end at the basic premise imo. Also yeah, I reckon this is Yang Zi’s most mature role yet (that I’ve seen), but she’s like a poster child for filial diligence and upstanding citizen, which I know might have some people’s eyes twitching because the character is so, SO righteous and it’s like how are you not broken by the pressures of late stage capitalism and intense Confucian family ideology 😂 Xu Kai is 👌 tho, he’s sauve and frosty but without stepping into arrogant and mean jerk territory imo, hahahahah honestly a pretry melo rendition of traumatised CEO by Kdrama standards 😂😂😂 So all in all, I’d say give it a shot! Let us know what you think in one of the weekly threads or your wall!

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        I know exactly this type of character you are talking about. I remember watching ‘The Bond’ and I was getting so frustrated with Bai Yu’s character situation. Like the guy can’t catch a break. His family wasn’t even toxic. Just a lot to handle as a elder son.
        Ok. Will give it a try for Xu Kai because he looks good in those shirts. 😂

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    Thank you for this write up! Now I can be more prepared as I dive into this one. Like you, I’m also desensitized to a lot of stuff that my mum (and only mum, cuz I never grew up with a dad since 8, I’m turning 33) has projected on me and whenever I see it on screen, I’m like, meh, so in this front, I think I’ll be okay. Hopefully.
    I’ve been a fan of Yang Zi for a while now—from her idol drama days to her bouts of random serious dramas, to her moments of idol but poignant dramas— to now, wherein there’s definitely been a shift in her career to choose dramas which I think are more fitting for her, and fitting for her career trajectory (if she’s going to stay long term, and I think she will, since she’s done this since she was 10, and both her parents are also in the biz). It’s roles like these from Yang Zinthat make me excited to see what else will come of her career as it matures and as SHE also matures as she grows and comfortably sinks her teeth into her 30s, a period and time in life many women in East Asian culture— especially in China, where it’s so fast paced— think that it’s the start of a decline in a woman’s life and career, but I think otherwise ♥️

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      Oh yeah absolutely – I’m nearing 30 now and the doomsday conversations around me have started to pick up traction, so it was oddly comforting somehow to see the FL here go through the same thing where her mum is like you need to settle down and have a kid nOW. I think what I appreciate the most here though is that they make a point to not demonize the mum too much for her projection and antics, and the FL makes the point on several occasions that she knows her mum is crossing lines oftentimes but she also recognises – and struggles with the knowledge that – her mum loves her dearly and sacrificed a lot to bring her up. I feel that with my own mother, where on a surface level I’m like uRGH but deep down I’m like her approach might be wrong but for better or worse, I understand why she’s acting the way she is and there is a lot of love there. I guess it’s a mixed bag of recognising generational trauma cycles and trying my best to side step those whilst also accepting that my parents are a product of their time and there’s some things that won’t change, so it’s just compromising where I can to forge my own path and placating my mother’s frantic worrying on the side hahaha

      On Yang Zi – I need to check out some of her earlier stuff still but like you I’m also excited to see what kind of roles she takes on as she matures along with her longstanding career as you pointed out and I’m grateful she has picked quite a level headed and mature character to play here because it’s a fitting next step!

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    I think you just sold me to take this up.

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Carry Sun-Jae and Run

I\’m drama ready … are you!!
*checks the clock for the ♾ time*
 

 
PS – I should also start wearing a wrist watch ⌚ like uri @Kurama 😍♥️🤗

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    It’s funny because for Christmas 2022, my parents and my sister wanted to offer me a watch. We had to choose it together during the holidays. But I broke my left elbow and I couldn’t wear a watch for months. So we kinda forgot about it. But in January, we went buy my watch! So I have a new watch that I can’t wear anymore now because of the new operation 😅 It’s very frustrating to search for my phone everytime I want to know the time.

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Please return to dramaland 🥲
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Missing Crown Prince

It\’s moony, it\’s swoony, it\’s loony. But I\’m all in. 😊♥️👏

Hwaiting Suho!!
 

 

 

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Listen up y\’all. If you enjoy sageuk, Missing Crown Prince is worth a try imo. There\’s a sly tongue-in-cheek approach to the way the story is being presented that suggests it has some potential to be an unusual watch. Kind of like a picture that\’s not hanging straight on the wall. 😏

Some interesting things about this drama:

1 – Although it\’s a sageuk, it\’s not quite fusion nor is it quite traditional. The story and the characters aren\’t quite typical either. Sort of. But not. It\’s all very familiar… until you realize it\’s different. 🙃 There\’s plenty going on to keep your attention.

2 – The cinematography has a somewhat 1930\’s Hollywood vibe. I know, that sounds impossible, right? There\’s also unusual orchestral background music, again reminiscent of that era, with tension building drums, angsty violins, and even operatic choruses. In particular, flashbacks are shown in a tinted black and white, film noir-esque style.

Here\’s a scene from episode 2 that will give you a sense of the tone. However, you need to watch it with the sound ON. Given the length, I had to divide it into 4 parts.

Watch it here:
https://imgur.com/a/UU71boI

3 – This filming style is also reflected in the fight scenes, which have a bit of that 1930\’s swashbuckling style choreography. For the modern viewer this creates a thin veil of campiness to the whole production. It\’s also one way they\’re melding the serious parts of the story with the comedic ones.

4 – Suho may not be the greatest actor ever, but I don\’t agree with the heavy critiques. I CAN agree that it might have been better if the leads were more seasoned actors. But these two were chosen for a reason, and given the rest of the production so far, I\’m willing to give them a chance. Both are better here than I\’ve seen them before. And it\’s only episode 2. I\’ll give the director time to work his magic on them. They even have some decent chemistry. Not mind blowing, but it works. Partly because the direction is allowing for a wee bit more risqué connection between the two.

I wish I could describe this drama more clearly, but I think it can only really be appreciated by watching the first two episodes with a curious mindset.

It\’s not perfect, of course. There are some clunky parts. There are some questionable parts. But there\’s something here that makes me want to continue. I\’m definitely in for next week\’s episodes.

After watching these gifs, tell me what you think! Do you see how it\’s a mash-up of serious and romcom? Intrigued? Repelled? Wondering if I\’ve lost all sense of discernment? hehehe

BONUS POINTS if you can tell me why the MUA should be fired 😂👇

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    Thank you for a perfect review! 😊♥️

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      Thanks! This is more fun for me than writing a scene-by-scene recap. 😊

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    It’s a drama where everything is turned up to 11.

    I wondered if the mismatch above was intentional — just cuz subtlety is a word that doesn’t exist in this drama’s universe. Maybe the brows are as meaningful as the dowager’s sun logo.

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      Definitely turned up to 11 (Why didn’t they just make it a 10? Because this one goes to 11. 😂)

      The mismatch may have been intentional. I also looked for some pictures of the actor because it’s quite possible that it’s his actual brow color. But it’s was delightfully distracting in this scene!

      Re: The Dowager’s sun logo… LOL. I wanted to gif that too, but I didn’t think it would come out well. It’s that kind of ridiculous, leading repetitiveness that tells me the production team is quite unserious beneath the serious.

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        💯 It’s like the production team’s response to anyone who thinks this will be “Bossam 2” is to twirl their mustache (or wispy sageuk beard) and give their best evil cackle. That’s enough to keep me curious about what will happen next.

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    Oooh interesting. Thanks for the mini review! And the clips with the sound = wow, the orchestral music was certainly dramatic.

    XD It took me a moment. I was looking at the foundation first, lol. THE EYEBROWS! 😂

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      The orchestral music is almost a character in itself in this drama 😂

      Bingo on the eyebrows!

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    I definitely want to start it once I finish Bossam (11 episodes out of 20 so far).

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      By then we may have a better idea of whether this is worth the watch! 👍

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    You make me want to try it!

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the: \”thank you for being alive\” bit of MY LOVELY RUNNER hit a bit too close to home. I cried but I needed this cry. planning to finish ep 2 today and join in on the disscussions!

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I\’m all over the place. Working on Lovely Runner gifs before the new episodes come out. ^^

EP 1

The stuff of fangirl dreams! sdjfkfj;sjjflk



This drama is so gifable.

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I must be in a candy shop cuz all I see are sweets!






#eyecandy

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With this insane success, I worry korea will go
Back to its favourite 2000\’s trope of dying first love lady romance movies…

Lol.. Just had too much of those already

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    One of the QOT’s attractions (at least to me) is the old school drama feel although I can surely do without any terminal illness. The writer and the production team has so far done an excellent job in re-packaging and re-imagining the all too familiar tropes with fresh strokes to propel it into another blockbuster, underpinned by an excellent cast.

    I am not going to compare this to Call It Love or My Liberation Notes or My Ajusshi – but simply enjoying it as another CLOY. Injecting a cancer into any new drama is not the formula to repeat QoT’s success.

    Creating a box office hit is never as simple as what we think it to be.

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QoT
This weekends episode felt more like fillers with very little plot. The long run time felt so unnecessary. I don’t get why we are so focused on a secret slush fund when a person is dying??? Agreed they needed those funds to get their life back to even afford treatment. But I wish we saw some progress in her treatment. So is she going to be magically cured or are the writers ready to kill her character?

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    magically cured. No doubt. Maybe have another baby also.

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    I don’t think she’ll die by the end of the series, but I don’t think she’ll be cured either. It will be open ended kinda like Marriage Contract.

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    I enjoyed both episodes but yup, it’s a tad long to focus on the slush funds when Hae In is getting worse! Did their medical consultant go on leave or something? I highly suspect the magic cure ending but I’m hoping to be wrong (in a good way though, not the i will burn all your writing pens if Hae In dies way)

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Okay, this is pretty creative, kudos to the art department for this drama production and their attention to detail and consistency:
The poster announcing that the drama (tentatively named “Cang Hai Zhuan”, trans. “Sea Searching Tale”) now has surpassed 1 million reservations (even before the drama has finished filming) has a little part of it that is reminiscent and mirrors the very first poster and animation the drama’s production released back when the drama was announced as filming started (back in late-December 2023).
Fun fact:
In C-dramaland, a “reservation” people pace for a drama before the drama’s release is basically a track record of people who have bookmarked it to watch once it’s released, it’s also a marketing tactic to attract investors— the more investors, the faster the drama may air after it passes the censorship board for review, and the faster the ROI comes back)






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    It’s really cool (and I already have this one on my 2025 watch list 😉)

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      Yea, many think—hope— for a late 2024 release, but I doubt it’ll be that soon. I also hope it isn’t THAT soon because I want production to take their time in post-production with the editing and perfecting of the drama after filming is wrapped. Rumours are saying the drama is slated to wrap filming in May. Other rumours are saying after filming wraps, Xiao Zhan will be heading to London for the Gucci Cruise fashion show as the brand’s Global Ambassador, before he heads back to China and starts filming his next project (which I’ve already read 2 rumours about just this past week)

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    Interesting marketing strategy. I always learn so much from you. 😊👏

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      I definitely don’t know everything, it’s all just things I’ve also learned along the way in years of watching Cdramas and observing how things work in their system 😅

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        I’m grateful for your insightful comments. The behind-the-scenes challenges that the cast and crew face and overcome to bring us our favorite dramas are truly inspiring.

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          ♥️♥️
          Yea, I’ve been asked why I care about the behind the scenes aspect of the things I watch, and it’s because I find that it helps me to see and feel things on a more human level, that the actors/actresses/entertainers/production crew are—at the end of the day— still just humans like you and I and everyone else. That they also deserve love and respect like and other human being on earth does, that their hard work on a production should be appreciated and seen and not left as “just boring behind the scenes/off camera stuff”. If juicy gossip about a celeb’s lifestyle and what they WANT ppl to read online is what the masses like and is what keeps them interested, then I am not afraid to admit that I am not of the masses, and am more interested in the quiet off camera/behind the scenes stuff that show to me the things that are not staged and that are not set up and that are not all that interesting or pretty to look at, the more down-to-earth stuff for lack of a better word

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            💯 Exactly that!! You manage to put in words what I deeply feel but perhaps cannot express so beautifully! ♥️♥️♥️

            Some people feel that the magic of showbiz gets diluted by knowing more about off-screen efforts but I feel otherwise.

            I have zero interest in celeb gossip … my only take on it is sadness that our favorite actors who give us so many relationship goals on-screen cannot even imagine to do these things off-screen.

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    **HASN’T finished filming

    Geez, multiple hours after publishing this post and I’m seeing ALL of the typos and errors about it now 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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Not Eun-delulu thinking he\’s gonna get the girl solely on trauma and childhood connection. 😂
No one told the bro we don\’t do that anymore? And even if we did, he would need to be the ML.

Hae In looked so confused, she was like \”Wait. He made my family go bankrupt because I gave him a necklace 27394836 years ago?\”

Dude is so 2010\’s. LMAO

#QoT12

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Queen of Tears EP 11

The swooniest confession.


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    And the way she says it in such a weak voice TT

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    Arghhh i loved the whole scene! Thank God she said it instead hiding again

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    There’s discussion on another thread (this week’s rating?) about IU being offered the FL role initially. She has played well in icy roles before, eg as Cindy in Producers co-starred KSH which was also written by Park Ji-eun. It is however a scene like this one that convinces me that Kim Ji-won is a better fit.

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      Yeah I like IU, but I’m very happy to see Kim Ji Won in this role. Really showing off her acing chops.

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        Yup! Specially the way she depicts Hae In’s vulnerability who is a seemingly emotionally detached person, is top notch. Honestly I can’t imagine anyone nailing those scenes like her.

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QoT ep 12
I saw that coming, grandpa Hong. Also, Hae In\’s condition is seeminglly getting out of hand to the point even a deus ex machina seems impossible. Should I be prepared for another K- trauma?
And Eun Sorry-excuse-of-a-second-lead, please get out of your delululand, we\’ve got enough problems to deal with.

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    I was hoping Grandpa would be able to come out of her clutches. 😪
    Well we are promised a miracle for Hae-in.
    Eun-liar just get out of the drama. Park Sung Hoon please please please play a swoony ML we can root for. It is disorienting to *hate* Eun-such-and-so while we love you so much.

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Queen of Tears: No shit, I haven\’t cried this much in a long long time. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Queen of Tears

Episode  12
 
Are those ketchup hearts he made!! I can\’t even …!! 😭

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REALLY, QoT? We didn’t already have enough childhood connections for you? 😂😂

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    It’s a fairy tale! Lean into it 🙂
    (I loved it. Now we just need to find they were next to each other in hospital as babies…Or that they have the same fairy godmother.)

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    Oh my, @vienibenmio, but the connections were there from the very beginning when Hae-in had the flashbacks as the wild boar was about to attack. And the clues (red shirts/mp3 player) were spread around as well.

    The key take-away (I hope you don’t consider it to be spoiler because Ep. 12 provided the final puzzle pieces): Hyun Woo rescued her and heard her name (Hae-in) as her mother frantically called for her. Hyun Woo sees her name tag (Hong Hae-in) when he helps her at the highschool. Bingo- he connected the dots and began to search for her. When Yang-gi asks “would you recognize her (the highschool girl), Hyun Woo says “right away.” Which he did the moment she started to kick the copier.

    I don’t usually like “destiny” stories – but primarily because they are contrived like “Destined with You” or even the latest “Midnight Studio”. Queen of Tears? It’s subtle and meaningful – he was born to love and protect her and it’s not because of any childhood connection, it simply IS. My gosh, that IS their story. Or, should I say, that’s the story I have watched from Episode 2 (boar attack flashbacks) and episode 1 and 2 Epilogues. As @mazarin suggests, it’s a fairy tale. Writer-nim may disappoint, but I don’t think Hyun Woo’s prayer scenes are going to be throw-away scenes either. 😊

    Now, if the writers give us some half-assed dying in his arms (the prayers, gosh darn it! the prayers!) or even worse, he dies in her arms. I’ll . . .riot. Hell hath no fury. . . .etc. etc.💕

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      I love Queen of Tears but nothing is subtil in this childhood connections. At least, Destined with You and Mignight Studio are fantasy dramas, so we expect this kind of things, and in DwY it was literally the theme.

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      I would have liked the story to be just as you described, knowing how much she will need her from now on with her disease ( a big possibility is that it will not be neither a miracle nor a death but a stop in the progression of the disease with the hope that there are new research that is promising and writernim will have her usual endings where the leads are together but separated, this time by her memory loss and he will be the one that would help her remember alas notebook). But if he remembered her name since the beach incident and searched for her after the high school one then he would have known that she was rich when they met at the company. And that would change the whole story.

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        I’ll have to rewatch to confirm, but I believe he said he searched everywhere AT the highschool, not realizing it was her last day. He didn’t say he kept searching for her after that – only that he would recognize her immediately if he saw her again – and he did, When she returned to Korea, she had been gone at least 10 years. At the Department store, she was working anonymously – none of the other employees knew who she was either. But he recognized her as the girl at the highschool.

        Alas, I’m also afraid of some sort of “notebook” ending which I consider manipulative and unimaginative. The drama is hitting on all cylinders with an unusual romance (marriage in crisis that doesn’t involve revenge); the two families, the irredeemable villains who will be punished appropriately (death, death) and a bit of thriller antics with the stock take-over and counter-attack. It just doesn’t need additional tragedy and I’ll knock my rating down if it does.

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          Right, this has been so much like a fairy tale in other respects that a downer ending, while maybe more realistic, wouldn’t really fit the rest of it. And it would be wildly unsatisfying.

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      It’s not gonna detract from my enjoyment of the drama, but it’s just way too coincidental. Him saving her from drowning was coincidental enough, but then years later they run into each other as teenagers and later he works for her family’s company, not knowing anything about how she’s connected to it? There are so many connections around the characters (Hae-in, Soo-cheol, Eun-sung, Dae-hye, etc) but at least that one is explained through the common link of the orphanage. It’s a bit like Crash Landing on You where they JUST happened to run into each other in Switzerland of all places.

      I dunno, I love “fated to love you” and that’s why I adore supernatural dramas with past life connections, but sometimes I think choosing to love someone is beautiful too, and I wish Kdramas would show more of that.

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        I’ve re-thought some of my original comment. I already noted that I don’t like “destiny” plots and one reason I gave up on Destined for You was because sometimes the viewer was supposed to believe in the magic and other times they were not. Too many plot holes in the cosmic logic. So, I am more than happy to forgo the “they are destined for each other” from birth or past lives.

        But back to “Queen of Tears” – I’m simply good with the thought that when he rescued her, some sort of connection/bond was created. She has never consciously recognized the connection, but sub-consciously she did as witness her flashback when the boar attacked. It’s a bit fairytale-ish, but from the beginning, their love story was described as “miraculous”. KSH said that “fantasy” is one element of the drama. So, miracle, fantasy, the power of faith and prayer – after all the tears shed thus far, viewer deserves a happy, not bittersweet ending.

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    Hahahaha. I don’t understand why FL-ML need to be connected too much. I prefered if eunsung saved her, so I can blame his delulu-ness on him having saviour complex 🙃. Also eunsung is delulu and egositical, it’s weird he would claim he saved FL when he didn’t. I’m starting to think writer forgot the plot a bit and shoved in another childhood connection for FL-ML 😅.

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Queen of Tears

Episode  12
 
Hong Hae-in just ignore the liars.


 
Look around carefully.


 
And choose the guy with the Bvlgari wedding ring.


 
And that is how you win in life.

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