Beanie level: Loan shark with a heart of gold

1: Who are you and what have you done with the Korean?

2: OK, at least there’s one around somewhere.

(Chief Detective 1958, day 3)
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The full write-ups should be required reading for everybody in Kdramaland. Also, I hope the 2024 edition lists Experimental Brain Cancer Treatments as a cause.

(Midnight Photo Studio, ep 12)
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1: Beanie watching Queen of Tears a few weeks ago.

2 / 5: Watching this week’s episodes.

(Queen of Tears, ep 14)
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Viewers to writer?

(Queen of Tears, ep 14)
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So what? People in Kdramaland lose their memories like we lose our pens.

(Queen of Tears, ep 13)
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1: How to tell the person dreaming of a better world is a Korean.

2 & 3: Let us know how that works out.

(Chief Detective 1958, day 1)
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Does everybody who watched Koryeo Khitan War remember the time the Khitans had about a zillion trebuchets saturation-bombing a Korean fortress with flaming projectiles?
Well, Tod Cutler just did an excellent video about medieval fire arrows and mentions he trebuchets shooting fire balls. So that part of the KKW scene wasn\’t wrong, but they still had too many trebuchets and if I remember correctly they were shooting too rapidly, too far and too accurately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNCU4WndtYk

Also, medieval chemists and alchemists don\’t get enough credit.

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    sigh, I don’t think KKW is coming to my geography ever. may have to find the dark side, flaming trebuchets sound great! I guess it was all CGI though…

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Another one for the archive.

All those times I say “Who are you and what have you done with…?”

Now one picture will be worth a thousand three words.

(Queen of Tears, ep 11)

Also, sigh, kdrama.
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The version I watched tended to drop the final letter of the subs. But since they literally said “Your are a gif”, someone with the right skills need to make a gif of this.

(Lovely Runner, ep 1)
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    😂 Unfortunately (?) it was correct on the version I watched or I would have giffed it!

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    Yes, I have seen that subtitle system, it is great brain training trying to watch the scene, read the subtitle and guess the original word 😬 I have been trying to work out why it happens, my latest theory is the font is too big to fit the subtitle screen space.

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1: Another 30-ish person playing a high school student, but it’s Seo Hye-Won (Alchemy of Souls, Business Proposal, etc) so it’s ok. But, what freckles?

Also, I didn’t recognize her at first — always look up the cast someplace like Asianwiki.

(Lovely Runner, ep 2)
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Oh dear. Secret divorce papers. Almost thought I was watching that other show.

(Midnight Photo Studio, ep 8)
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1 / 3: Who are you and what have you done with the Koreans?

4: She understands.

(Queen of Tears, ep 10)
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Show seems to have a rather non-standard kind of time warp. Adult Da-hye is supposed to be 5 years older than adult Soo-cheol, but then they met as kids she sure didn’t seem that much older. And Asianwiki thinks the child actors were both born in the same year.

(Queen of Tears, ep 9)
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    But wouldn’t it be funny if this was one thing that Soo-cheol actually is good at, and Da Hye has her age wrong because of a mix up at the orphanage or while changing identities?

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1: So you’ll fit in nicely in Korea where hardly anyone reproduces anyway 🙂

2: Yes, for F’s sake turn the darn lights on for the action scenes.

(Parasyte: The Grey, ep 2)
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CNN: Groundbreaking ‘blended-wing’ demonstrator plane cleared to fly

Me: Great. Now they\’re working on planes that will crash so hard they break the flippin\’ ground.

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\”Team Grey put together a team to control media access and have been strictly controlling all information about this parasite\”

Pretty much second nature in Korea, and very easy to do. Every chaebol has a team that can do that in their sleep.

(Parasyte: The Grey, ep 1)

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    Which didn’t make sense since the parasite was shown to be all over the world. It’s not like people don’t have access to internet.

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Sorry if I’m getting too spoilery too early. Some things just can’t wait once a show startles me into waking up and paying attention.

1: Yes, wait for the amnesia to kick in. Oh wait.
2: Beanies discovering how tropey their new show is?
3 / 4: Beanie in the 2nd half of almost any show?
5: Well what do you expect in kdramaland?

(Parasyte: The Grey, ep 1)
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    I think this was a topic of discussion on the Fan Wall not too long ago:

    The Fan Wall is sort of free for all in terms of “spoilers” for dramas but recaps are definitely not. The only thing that people have requested is that if the person who is posting things that are potentially spoiler-y on the Fan Wall to kindly just add a disclaimer at the top of their posts ♥️
    Not sure if that makes sense 😘

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1: Does following a religion have any more effect than following a Beanie?

2: Uh…

3: Very reassuring that he has to tell her not to get possessed.

4: So reassuring that I’m sure she will have no trouble getting to sleep 🙂 👻

(Midnight Photo Studio, ep 6)
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Han Groo has changed so much in the past 13 years, I would never have recognized her. Also, Girl K would just kill the bastard. Easily.

(Midnight Photo + Girl K)












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1: Someone understands kdramas.

2: Gee, where have I heard that?

3: Right. Every time we see the same-old things.

4: It that really a thing? Just switch the “a” & “r” and put it on the shelf next to the poop wine.

(Wedding Impossible, ep 12)
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