CGI tears will be easy enough.

Look closely — what at first looks like dew will in fact be tears….

… or, a flower that doesn’t want you to know it’s crying will wait till someone is watering it.

She will need irrigation at some point.

Pot plants have been gracing our screen for years. But up until now, they’ve whitewashed them by casting humans for their parts. It’s about time pot plants got the representation they deserve – at least until screenwriters decide to write parts for the humans.

Yes and after that ridiculous “head of the household” nonsense.

Her new ducking sweater. Yes. I’ve seen a photo. It is very yellow.

Unfortunately, I can’t gif it with the sound. The music is just weird and random and perfect. Like the first one has I Will Always Love You. The show starts with Michael Jackson’s Beat It.

Oh I’m glad you liked it too. I’m hopeful! We might make it a weekly thing unless real life gets in the way.

Aw, I didn’t know there had been one!
Did anyone tear up when he teared up on ep 2? My feelings (and this was when we still didn’t know what had happened) caught me by surprise! Such a freakingly good actor <3

36 beans + 11 Chinese and Taiwanese dramas. And that’s just the 2018 dramas.

I might have a problem.

I’d be there if I hadn’t dropped a few.

I managed to drop dramas at the end of this year. It’s a new thing I’m trialling. I still remember gritting my teeth and forging stoically towards the end of Switched, About Time, Cross and Jugglers even though they objectively sucked. But my pathological need to finish is just too much. I’m just glad I’m Learning to Drop.

If they doing our bean counts for dropped dramas, bet our numbers wont be too shabby. lol

I’m just glad I made a definitive, enforced decision to drop Feel Good to Die and Clean With Passion because otherwise it would be 36.

Ask Rabbit if I sleep*

*I sleep.

Sorry, this is a joke about the fact that I need like 8 hours every night and people complain I’m always trying to get to bed even if it’s really early. I love my sleep. I was watching a normal amount of dramas but I’m a pathological finisher and then in May or June I got a bad flu and picked up every airing drama. At one point I was watching 10 and over June/July I managed to finish about 20 dramas. That’s why I took a post-Chuseok hiatus for new shows – I was flipping exhausted.

I did finish it. What a disappointment! That show started off so well. Did you get to the end too?

Man, I didn’t even count Chinese and Taiwanese shows. I also finished Moonshine and Valentine and that was hilariously awful. And I took a detour into Thai BL as well.

Silly. The first bout of unconsciousness doesn’t lead to an IV. That comes later.

I expect a shoutout during the inevitable IV. It’s coming.

I really want to peer into this writer’s psyche and ask her why she renders her female lead’s unconscious all the time.

As long as she doesn’t end up hooked up to an IV or conveniently unconscious at important moments of action then I’ll take it. But I’m sure their inevitable romance will be a driver for his determination to succeed at some point.

She annoyed me in the first episode a bit but I had girded my loins in anticipation. This writer has never written a female lead the didn’t annoy me. I was surprised she annoyed me as little as she did. Also I felt a lot of her reactions were understandable. She’s running a guesthouse and an older Korean man shows up and behaves like this. She’s under a lot of social pressure to give him what he wants. I admit I didn’t like her dissolving into tears but the scene of him working with her sobbing in the kitchen wouldn’t have worked otherwise.
God it was brilliant.
It’s actually eerily similar to a scene in an episode of Buffy where Giles dreams he’s being a busy and important Watcher while a pregnant wife sobs in the background.
I wish I could find it but I only have it on DVD.

Yes she’s someone who can’t handle sudden conflict but needs time to regroup. I can get behind that because a lot of people are like that. I admit I rolled my eyes when she found out he was rich and thought his behaviour was suddenly fine. Like… why does that change anything? That makes it worse that he refused to go to a hotel.

Having seen the other three episodes now I unfortunately agree with you. She’s nothing more than a Candy and he’s the Chaebol jerk hiding his man pain.

But to clarify my point – I was saying that even in a situation where the woman has the greater power, the man still has the power in a patriarchy. Which was what the framing of that scene was about. She has the power but by making sure she doesn’t know it, he keeps it. The fact his first response was to gaslight her shows that.

My problem is the same one I always have with this writer – she seems aware of these issues but she still sees no problem with a romance plot line in these circumstances. So the fact he’s a manipulative douche is no impediment to romance.

As for who was right or wrong in that scene – he was. She runs a hostel. It is what it is. She told him to go to a hotel and he refused. Him freaking out about how awful the hostel was for being a hostel is on him, not her.

Apart from the title and the basic premise of a person changing, I think the drama was supposed to be completely different vehicle. But, no, I’m not interested in watching it. I wasn’t even before I saw the movie because the whole “woman changing every month thing” is just too problematic from the get-go.

I watched the first four episodes and I honestly don’t know. It’s so sad and that’s before we get to the fact it’s called Imaginary Cat. So I can’t imagine it gets less sad. I watched it with LS though and she was positively non-verbal through most of it. YSH really is a class act.

*sudden realisation that Footloose would make an AWESOME kdrama*

I always think of Shrek 2 with this song, if they ever remake that into a k-drama I just hope the cgi is better than Mama Fairy’s lol

I’m not familiar with Pete Sieger so feel like you’re maybe making a tongue-in-cheek reference I’m not getting. 😉

The song was performed by Bonnie Tyler for the 1984 film, Footloose. I believe the song was written by Dean Pitchford who wrote the screenplay.

It is. I am really digging it.

Yes. This. I loved W pretty well from beginning to end. If I had a problem, it was around some philosophical issues with the OTP and her role in creating her perfect man. But I felt those questions added to the drama rather than detracted from it. It may not have asked them loudly enough but those questions were still there, especially since her father was also his own antagonist.

Ditto. The only thing that disappointed me was the very lack-luster final scene. At least in comparison to the rest of the drama.

As much as I loved LOVED W (loved loved loved it), it was despite the infantilised female lead and the sausage fest. And I’m sensitive to those things at the moment. Even in Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter, the female lead has become so damn bland. But whereas that didn’t bother me with W, I’m worried it will with Alhambra because I’m so jaded and cynical and bah humbug about everything these days. I feel like W me was just accepting of the gender shit but late-2018 me is over it.