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haha... i'm a bit depressed after reading serendipity's post on PP. I really enjoyed the post but I think I have to go to soompi now and get a dose of PP fanaticism to compensate. it's so amazing how PP's thread is still active on soompi. XD
@supah
yeah... school is NO FUN, especially with all these good dramas out there for me to watch while i have to sit and listen to "proportional retributivism" and deontology and all that... -_-"
but I still manage to watch what i HAVE to, at the expense of cutting my school work off a bit. XD
talking about which, LOL at your comments on Giant10. Agree w/ you!
@all my dear twittering friends. Finally Hi from home. Oh and @ nycgrl on twitter I'm archangel444333(because of unknown complications, I ended up two user account but couldn't sign onto celestialorigin one from my iphone so I decided to stick with the old name. I've sent the request from angel account to you.
Anyhow my head is this big and can't really follow much of anything on OT. But @mookie sama. Like momosan said above. Whoochi is not exactly a master piece sweeps your heart, mind and soul away all together like Dream of Red Chamber or One hundred years of solitude for sure. Only the ending, the closure of it reminded me of those two magnificent tales. It's also about a wizard and his sidkick and bunch of 妖怪s, come to think of it, yeah, running across time and space. Anyhow, for me it had a profundly personal moment when Chorangyi, the sidekick said that I was once a horse, and now I'm a dog and if I do well, I'll be born as a human next time. it was like a moment of Deja vu for me. to be continued on twitter, may be.
@Thundie OK, I'll check that one as well, thank you.
@ serendipity
I've come over to the dark side. lol. I remember you tried to get me on to help defend Thank you a while back and I was too scared to. Best revenge to have everyone watch it and convert them.
@celestialorigin
You know I was looking at the invite from you for awhile kind of scratching my head. I took a peep at your disciples to see if I knew anyone and decided you were bona fide.
@V
Haha! Fighting! Now you know why I'm never watching more than two dramas at a time, although school is worse than full-time work I suppose. School = homework. *screams*
*****************GIANT 11 SPOILERS*******************
OK, I neeed to get it out of my system so here goes:
Warning again: MEGA SPOILERS!!!!
I'm so glad Crazy Kid (Lee Sung Mo) is back. He's been reincarnated into The General's Son but he's definitely back. The SM we knew as a kid was so full of frustration -- for being so small amongst giants, but here he is, felling the giants.
I don't care if this drama drags me through the depths of hell and back now, because LSM's presence in it is like a comforting pat on the back saying ''there there, it'll all turn out just fine, just you wait and see.''
Now I see why Park Sang-min is cast as LSM and I'm so in love with the casting director. LSM is meant to be the violent sort and PSM is better known for his violent, fiery action roles back in the 90s, as well as a touch of a soulful, in-control Micheal Corleone, the dude totally has both, and Oh Lord, the eyes.
Otokeh? SM can try bringing Hwang Tae-sung to his knees but it'll never happen as long as his kid brother is loyal to the Hwangs. There is something unsettling abut KM's devotion to them, let's even forget that he's given up searching for his family because he's so in love with a Hwang, or that he's reckless, constantly in fights, fearless and foolish, it's just SO unholy that he's this loyal to Tae-sub.
But I still love KM, enough to feel like killing Min-woo everytime he so much as peaks at JY.
Let's not even go into MW, as much as Joo Sang-wook is hot, MW's behaviour in 10 and 11 was sickening. And he's scary as hell at times. I honestly couldn't give a damn about his shirtless scene -- he's gone ridiculously beyond even his dad's limits.
And speaking of his dad, Cho Pil-yeon still loves the Crazy Kid, alright. There's a scene where SM deathglares straight into Cho's face, which is bold of him (f-ckyeahleesungmo!), Cho glares right back and they continue to have this stare-off until their eyes turn red and tears begin to pool in BOTH their eyes.
There was a sad tinge to that scene, and as much as Cho is a bad person, I've never really hated him.
But his son? WTF - how is HE meant to end up with Mi Joo?
Since it's inevitable anyway, I hope he meets her now, maybe this way he will remember her and respect her, for when they do get into a relationship later.
MJ is such a love right now, Hwang jang-eum has carried forth the enchanting qualities of the kid version. She sings so beautifully, I bawl everytime she does. MJ endures and endures but behind closed doors her tears fall. Which reminds me of when she was little and KM scolded her for performing a song and dance on the street to earn some money and she cried saying ''you think I liked it? You think I wasn't embarrassed?'' That's a lot of depth for a 5yr old and her character's still the same, like when she's too embarrassed to tell people she's a meagre cooking and cleaning maid.
When she clutches onto those red shoes, it's like she's assuring herself saying no it wasn't just a dream, life wasn't always so wretched, she really did once upon a time have two doting big brothers. Now to find them.
And then... this recent episode, the crazy shit that happened involving all three siblings, it was quite the adrelanine rush though.
Now KM and JY I see in a new light, not that the episodes revealed much about it but I see now that JY is more in love with KM than he's in love with her. He has more to lose by staying with her and she has everything to gain from him. She hates MW and we don't have any reason to suspect otherwise but fair enough if she is attracted like she once was, it's just that, attraction - even lust. Maybe? But MW represents a world she already feels trapped inside. KM is like a security blanket, which is both good and bad, well, maybe selfish on her part? OK, Speculation over.
And that's quite enough from me now. *zips mouth*
ahhh theres chun jung myung in it!! i'm soooo tempted to give it a watch! but it sounds like theres a melodrama feel to it. i don't think i can handle another tragic one after CS. im hoping to catch up with personal taste and maybe try coffee house!
OK, not quite enough...
Sorry...
There's some additional observations....
*******GIANT SPOILERS CONT---D***************
There are some pretty insightful comments made by other characters about the two brothers:
The young military doctor on teen SM (back in ep5):
''I hate that you're trapped between two of the most powerful people, Gen. Hampton**** and Major Cho, they scare me. But you know who scares me the most? *he starts trembling* - You.''
Mama Lee on young KM (ep2):
''If there's one person in this world I trust, it's you, Kang-mo-yah.'' -- which speaks volumes about his character. Why didn't she say that about her loving daughter, or her eldest son? Especially surprising given KM was the mischiefmaker.
And that adorable scene back in episode 1 when hyung SM, leans over a sleeping KM (and it's hilariously cute how Mi Joo's foot is in his face) and ruffles his hair lovingly saying ''punk, so it turns out you're better than me.''
And so he is, he's the main character, duh!
But still, why do I feel SM is more trustworthy? Oh well, let's see how the drama unfolds.
Also, the speculation about JY loving KM more than he does, she's so needy of him and that time when she said so heartbreakingly - ''don't ever throw me away Kang-mo.'' We know now KM can adjust anywhere and become something spectacular as he's so gifted. He can leave her, he'll be heartbroken, but it won't kill him. As for JY, well, she already has abandonment issues and MW is still MW even when he's not being a control-freak bastard, she'll always have her guard up around him, her dad's also hit and miss and everyone else around her is filth. KM is perceptive enough to know she'll fall apart without him and so he stays. Why can't she just elope with him instead? Actually no, her father would never allow it. Gah!
*****EFF! Don't even get me started on Gen. Hampton, he was so incredibly funny, my brother's watching Giant too (unprecedented - it's his first kdrama) and he still dies laughing everytime all red in the face, he says he'll consider it payback for the times Hollywood's misrepresented us Asians, Giant's sure leveled things -- bwahahaha! (I obviously didn't notice the first time around as Crazy-Kid-laundry-boy always had me too sweaty palmed and anxious.)
Seriously, check the Americans out in this scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJp783-C7qM
(They can't be any worse than Daniel Henny though!)
So, it's the bitTorrent client and it's running slowly...hmm. Ok, I just tried it with my machine and a torrent that I know should work. It's slow.
Try Vuze or uTorrent. Vuze gives you a lot more settings to tweak. I just tried the same torrent with each and they are whipping right along. As in the difference between 1 day vs 15 minutes. Vuze gives you many many more options for security settings, uTorrent is more stripped down.
If anyone wants to reminisce about the good 'ole times, when fauxcest rocked every other K-drama, it seems, come take a walk down memory lane.
I was gonna post here but then wanted to add pictures (love pictures), then it ended up being my inaugural post. Oh wells. :-D Please be gentle with me.
Thanks for your comments on Giant!! i dont have the time to comment much but i thoroughly enjoyed reading them. hihi... that clip is funny! i'm now on ep 11 of Giant!! but gotta go to sleep!
@v
Dude, take your time with the catch-up, you've obviously got school pressure too and I don't want to be a bad influence, harr harr! But, how addictive is it?
If you have caught up then -- OMG! Did you see the parts with Cho Min-woo? Tell me I'm not the only one who fruckin' jumped out of my skin?
I never thought I could hate MW but now I really do… still have a soft spot his evil daddio though. Just how delicious was it to see a hint of tears in the eyes of Cho? Those too over SM. In your face, MW, your daddy loves KM's hyung way more than you. Y'know KM, the kid you despise? Yeah, his hyung.
And how awesome is PSM?
Janna said something about it being a shame So Ji-sub wasn't available to play an older Kim Soo-hyun as LSM (whether that was just a passing statement or not) but I don't think SJS was suited, even if he had been available, heh! Besides Yoo Seung-ho holds the junior SJS title. I do think Go Soo could've done magnificently in this role, especially in the gleaming, polished Micheal Corleone-esque scenes, and he has the eyes, which can flit between vulnerable, afraid to cold and vicious -- yet can he do the epic-scale action sequences that are required of LSM? I don't think he would've been able to pull them off, but we have yet to see how PSM does them, he's pretty much reprising an iconic role of his from 20yrs ago, and 20 yrs is such a long time. I like what I've seen so far though and he can sure run, oh so fast! Which reminds me, the chase scene was both cool, and funny.
Oookay, I got carried away again, sorry chick.
yes, i tried to DL the same torrent on my PC BitTorrent and it was done in like 20 minutes while my Mac version was stuck on 2 days. I'll try Vuze when I get home - I know other people who use that and they seem to like it. Thanks Mac Guru!! :)
btw, i am revving for a rewatch of Yankee-kun already!! It's not even done yet and I want to rewatch cuz it's so darn cute!! I've liked Hiroki in the past, but this show has made me a bonafide lover of him. :D
We weren't the only ones raging about the unnecessary animal cruelty in K-dramas recently. The C-netizens are in a tizzy with the dog death in Bad Buy, and apprently some cat-shaving scene in Coffee House?
As for Tsuki no Koibito, it is for sure getting euthanized, ending a few episodes less than planned, the first Monday at 9 drama to have its run cut since the 90s. I'm shocked at that statistic, to be honest. I rail at TnK, but there must be more dreck out there. Or is there?
The newspapers have reported that Keiko's spoiled model character is getting lots of love from the viewers, since she may be spoiled, but her acting and her character being rather innocent and naive, makes her one of the standouts in this drama.
I'm waiting for ED to write a review of her beloved KimuTaku's newest vehicle. :-P
And Goodbye Solo is so good I sit and watch it with a dull ache in my chest, the tears building like a leak in the roof and I've a bucket underneath, drip, drip, drip, until the moment comes (I know it will soon) when the bucket overflows and I just let it all out. Utterly beautiful a drama to behold. If the writer and the PD were NOT conjoined twins, I can't image how they complement each other so well.
Ireland got screwed by bad writing, good directing, is all I have to say. Dissonance can have a meaning and purpose.
Any drama that starts out with CJM doing flair bartending to La Vida Loca is headed straight for the win department. 8-) I had forgotten about that. It's the later episodes of GS that are more vivid in my memory, so the rewatch is clearly having a cheering effect on me. 8-)
Yeah, they shaved a cat early on in Coffee House. Having tended a cat or three, I can assume that the cat gave as good as it got. But the dog, that is so totally wrong. It's one of my pet peeves about dramas of any sort.
It is surprising that they axed TnK, since the run was supposed to be short anyway. I have to assume the production costs were just too high to support the ratings that dreck was getting. When a drama manages to make a fan like me try to brain bleach it from my memory, then you just KNOW it's bad. Most j-doramas are short enough that even epic fails have enough redeeming qualities that they last their run. This one...I can't think of one redeeming quality. I can't think of another one this bad...but then I avoid some genres like the plague, so I'm sure there are some out there.
::skips off to watch GS 2 while waiting for a/c repairman::
oddly I've seen quite a few (actually many) doramas which do not last their run, I'm assuming 10 is the standard (I've never heard of say it's a planned 8, 9 ep run, never), and it's inconspicuously finishing at 9, at times 8 eps (really, my jinx)...and the common denominator is always low/lower than expected ratings. Actually every season or so I can name a dorama that's shortened, usu by an episode or so. It's very brutal even w/ such a short run. Unless that's just my assuming and some dorama set out to be 8, 9 eps fr the get go and coincidentally they usu have lower ratings.
Is TnK garnering very low rating? I think it's still not disastrous if we r strictly looking at the numbers. BUT if we add in Kimutaku + renzoku ren'ai + getsuku, then I can understand. Again, I've seen many getsuku having lower ratings in lower teens %.. actually it's no longer relevant as a guanranteed ratings time slot for last 10+ years?
This is probably why I usually limit my dorama fix to 2 per season. That way I get to ignore the rest of the field and anything spectacular that flew under my radar I can pick up later.
I just finished reading Ender's Girl's epic review of Nobuta. Someone ::cough:: has dangled TnK in front of her. So I delurked and offered her sake, because taking up sake again would sure be the only way I'd watch it! She's a brave brave girl indeed! LOL!
She needs sake AND makjulli (and maybe some Xiao-xin) to watch TnK and write a coherent review (if she so elects) afterwards. :-P
You're not talking 'bout me, are you? I tried to "warn" her, is all.
Last night, while watching FOL ep 6 it finally clicked why I can't get past ep.1 of Giant. Unlike Thundie's issues with the retreading of things so familiar, mine was a subconscious screaming in my head that "this is so mediocre and overwrought" simply BECAUSE I am watching the majesty of how the script and writing in FOL (doing the same thing) is so superior it's rendered me unable to accept Giant at face value.
Contrast the confrontation between Hyun Bin and Kim Min-joon in ep 1 of FOL (I couldn't breathe, those two sucked the aired out of the TV) with the confrontation between Lee Bum-soo and the dude in bad prothetic makeup in Giant (so Dramatic! and Meaningful!), I couldn't help but be laughing and the rest is history.
It pisses me off actually, Giant is bound to be better than EoE (nothing can be worse for an epic-wannabe like EoE), and that stuff is a near and dear genre for me. I wish I could just enjoy it at face-value. Ergh, that's just me.
@ thundie, thanks for burning me 3 eps of Giant, have fun subbing it! Lemme know if Giant DOES throw in fauxcest. That might entice me to re-start it. :-D
though I enjoy fauxcest as guiltily as all those pink shoujo mangas growing up, what irked me most was 1. how prevalent it really is/was. 2. How it's elevated to this pedestal of O T P as if this is THE biggest hurdle in the history of romance and it's a necessity for the pair to overcome it to EARN their ONE freaking True Pairing status. It's romanticized as if it's the purest finest form of love. and the only ppl that can spit at it r those parents who r usu useless/evil anyways. I DONT GET IT!! I do get it's an easy gold mine of angst for the couple and we'll see manpain and hot angsty shower or flow of pretty tears on our heroines as a direct result...but really...nobody has REAL issues w/ it EVER!
HAHA who do I think I'm?! if I can have manpain and hot angsty shower guaranteed I have no morals or principles, give me fauxcest, realcest, formalcest, whatever cest (or hm...a close sounding word?!) yes CU I still miss u, and really while we're at it, writer (I still hate u), forgot your fauxcest in your pile of cliches?!...on top of all the grudges I'm having w/ ya I'm ROBBED a PIE HOT ANGSTY SHOWER!
Not wanting to have one-eyed, club-footed, twelve-fingered grandchildren is a very valid objection for the parents to have.
But when its clear that its fauxcest, then their objections becomes objecting for the sake of objecting. And probably to assuage their guilty consciences that (1) they didn't notice their "children" giving each other the sex-eye during dinner every night for 15 years, and (2) they didn't allow their children a healthy social life to go out and meet other peeps of the opposite sex (I mean, total Flowers in the Attic, right?).
If I were a parent, I would be objecting that the person is a douche/bitch, can't earn a living worth crap/doesn't want to help out in whatever capacity they can in the marriage (i.e. useless provider for the apple of my eye), short and/or ugly (I want my gene pool to be upwardly mobile, don't you?) - and I wouldn't be objecting for the "incesty" vibe, cuz that's just superficial crap. The marriage is gonna fail not cuz they are "related but not related" in some way, but because one party snores too much, forgets to put the toilet seat down after 10 plus years of marriage, has moochy friends, and a whole host of other gripes I have. ;-)
@twin You are talking like your true, caring, sane, wise parent self. :) How MANY do we usu get in Kdrama?! The parents who really deserve to have offsprings r quite often offed too soon to wring our cheap tears!
HAHA come to think of it, they r playing this angle of OTP to the max w/ not allowing them to have ANY social contact w/ other humans of the opposite sex SINCE childhood and trap them in this fantasy fauxcest island where the other faux sibling is their one and only choice when the hormones hit. haha it saves all the teaming and shipping for sure!
fauxcest fascinates me because of its own meta fascination of fauxcest in Kdrama. I'm just so fascinated by how obsessed w/ this trope Kdrama is as opposed to other Asian dramalands. W/ the filial/ confucius influences common in all our cultures, y is it most prevalent in kdrama?!?!
@janna *HUG* u deserve hugs. GANBETTE! dramas can wait. rest up, unwind after the crazy.
What about Who Are You? Isn't that a kind of fauxcest -- starting to fancy the man who is sometimes your father? Not to mention, er, necrophilia? Mind you, for all that the icky-level in WAY was surprisingly low.
I know what else your blog can do which doesn't fall into the TP k-drama parameters -- an Ode to Pi!!
@supah
lol. dont worry about being a bad influence...or writing long comments. if i had anyone to blame for my lack of self-control, it's would be myself. but yeah, it's addictive!! my life would be much easier if it wasnt.. XD
well, i'm hoping that MW will change... i jumped out of my skin in his scenes too... and hands off JY! she belongs w/ KM! or does she??
but yeah, the relationships between Cho daddy and SM is really interesting and fascinating to watch. but yeah, i think Go soo could have suited the role, altho his gaze is rather strong gentle than strong-fierce tho.. but i dont care cuz im go soo biased and really want to see him in a project soon!
ok, dont have time to comment more!
I thought the directing was rather lovely and melancholy in Ireland. It was by no means stellar or a standout, but it had a purposeful disjointed air that worked for the subject matter. I found the writing was the crutch. But the more I think about it, Ireland is just one giant pile of FAIL except for Hyun Bin, let's not think about it anymore. Back to savoring GS we all go!
@ serendipity
Are you directing me to blog about Pi? That would be a slippery slope to insanity. I may rag on Pi, but my adoration of him is boundless, and I shan't subject you all to droolsome picture after droolsome picture of him. Well, I guess I can sneak him in on occasion....
I hate the directing in Ireland, maybe coz the writer did RoYOW and I gave her brownie points and I do like some dialogues there. I didnt see a lot of thought, I saw many straight fr pages literal takes of scene I wished can be done w/ more subtly in Ireland, it was a big complaint of mine.
@v
Hee hee! Not to worry, there won't be any episodes next week (of Coffee House or Bad Guy either! Eeeep!) so there will be less temptation.
Lulz! You have to love KM's reaction as he walked in and casually flicked him off in that scene.
I've recently been mulling over MW's character. Yes, he's disturbing and so very bad, but I often feel MW can't help his own nature. He's often worn a resigned/regretful face, reading ''yeah, I'm a rotten bastard but what to do?'' Or like when offering bread to KM in their school days, even when they were in the thick of their rivalry, he had these little moments where you felt maybe he means well, just that he doesn't know how to go about it? That even in his trying-to-be-nice moments he winds up insulting the other party and not lightly, but really cuts. His intentions don't seem so bad, it's the way he executes them. He is very different to his dad in that sense. His dad is a delusional bastard, yet he has a notable charm, he's tactical and can bend people to his will. MW doesn't even have Sam-shik anymore, how lonely it must be.
MW reminds me of the scorpion, in a story I once heard in my childhood. Here goes: *clears throat*
There was once a niceguy sat at a beach. He saw a scorpion by the shore looking like it was stuck, so he tried to save it from drowning when the tide rolled in, but everytime he grabbed hold of it, in the best way he could to avoid the sting, it kept cutting him with its claws. He wouldn't give up but eventually the nice guy asked; I'm only trying to save you, why do you keep on cutting me? The scorpion replied ''I'm sorry, it's in my nature'', to which he asked - ''why won't you just let me drown instead, why save me even when I cut you?'' to which the nice guy replied ''I'm sorry, it's in my nature''.
Call it silly but it kind of stayed with me. So niceguy is kinda stupid, but the scorpion is the real tragic one I'd say.
It’s also like Bidam, with Munno calling him a handleless sword. (Ouch.) Except Bidam and Min-woo are so many worlds apart.
It’s hard to see how that cutting-those-near-to-him aspect of MW will change. Aw, Mi Joo, you poor, poor creature. Are you his stupid niceguy? This is so going to end in tragedyyyyyyy! Ommaaa!
I love Go Soo myself, he could have aced it as LSM but then this role has far too many prerequisites other than being intense and complex, a grown-up version of Crazy Kid and well, dashing -- which he can do most incredibly well, except...
He has to also look older than Lee Bum-soo and Joo Sang-wook, that includes being someone the latter looks up to and is a little humbled by (yeah, I saw the hints), then there are the subtle undertones of power play between him and his 'father' Cho/Jung Bo-suk, where they alternate playing the vulnerable party and then there's the action and violence. I can't see GS doing these bits, everything else, yes. Plus, to look older in later years he'll need some serious wrinkle treatment like they gave Jung Bo-suk in ep 1's flash forward.
Besides, I think we generally see Go Soo as a heartthrob, where LSM is meant to have sworn off normal things, like love and family in order to excecute his plans and if Go Soo ever played a character who had zero romance, it'd be a real crying shame, haha!
(And LSM, please, any kind of romance in Giant is doomed, avoidavoidavoid!!)
@v
Er, Cho Pil-yeon is tactical? Really, tactical? *scratches head* I'm sure I meant tactful. It is tactful when they're perceptive and also self-aware and stuff, right? That's the one.
And MW was (shudder) so, so wrong. As a major character I hope he can redeem himself, and soon. I've realised I can't hate him as he's quite pitiful. And Tae-sub isn't helping matters, ahem, between him and KM.
Oh and I loaave, loooave how they've humanised TS's rival, I'm rooting for his rival and loving it, he's a great little evil guy, with a nice side. There have been some rare moments where I've admired... ok, even loved TS and seen him as KM does, but then I promptly default back to hating on him. TS is a snake. Period.
Aaarrgh... I can't stop! Must stop...
Who Are You? is adorable (so far of what I have seen). Fauxcest is THE LEAST of its out-there elements, when her dead daddy's spirit is loitering on earth and possessing another guy's body!
I don't even call it fauxcest, because, from what I know of WAY, she doesn't find out or really suspect daddy's possessing Yoon Kye-sang until long after she likes him. And possession of body does not fit into any fauxcest related-not-related predicament.
My decree: WAY is not fauxcest.
I may eat my words if she ends up making out with YKS WHILE daddy is possessing him. Ew, kissing daddy in another man's body. Only in a K-drama, people.
Btw, folks, if I end up shipping YKS in Road #1 more than SJS, don't disown me, all righty? I love that boy to bits, after WAY and MSIL is 19.
And I thought its time for me to list my order of preference of the dimpled hunks:
1. Binnie
2. PIE
3. Lee Seo-jin.
But in terms of their performance that I loved the most:
1. LSJ in Damo
2. PIE in F70s
3. Binnie in Ireland
A stone chisel is pecking away at my heart, taking chunks of it away as I watch more and more of FOL. I definitely need therapy later. I'm up to ep.8 and Dong-su has come back from his seafaring ways.
DongSu took my heart and bruised it, broke it to pieces and never gave it back around ep 11, 12. There were no lines, but it broke me. I lost goodwill towards mankind.
I read up on the twitter 'short story' awards in Japan over lunch. It brought me to places I've never been w/ 140 characters. (sorry it's in Japanese/ Chinese)
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151 serendipity
June 7, 2010 at 11:46 PM
@ nycgrl
Yay! *cartwheels* Honey, it's when you figure out how to lock Twitter onto your iPhone that you will *truly* be lost forever, mwahaha!
I'm going to need all the Twitter friends I can find because I'm on the verge of publishing a suicidal review... ;-)
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152 thunderbolt
June 8, 2010 at 3:29 AM
For all PP fans (and foes), here's the "suicidal review" that serendipity alluded to:
http://thundie.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/prosecutor-princess-the-curious-case-of-the-near-miss/
ENJOY! :D
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153 supah
June 8, 2010 at 5:30 AM
@janna
Hey, I hope you found your cat?? You have me worried now...
And I'm totally a cat person so I understand your pain hun.
@V
Oh bummer! School's a bitch. Haha!
Hope it's not infringing too much on your drama-viewing. Mwah!
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154 v
June 8, 2010 at 3:15 PM
haha... i'm a bit depressed after reading serendipity's post on PP. I really enjoyed the post but I think I have to go to soompi now and get a dose of PP fanaticism to compensate. it's so amazing how PP's thread is still active on soompi. XD
@supah
yeah... school is NO FUN, especially with all these good dramas out there for me to watch while i have to sit and listen to "proportional retributivism" and deontology and all that... -_-"
but I still manage to watch what i HAVE to, at the expense of cutting my school work off a bit. XD
talking about which, LOL at your comments on Giant10. Agree w/ you!
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155 celestialorigin
June 8, 2010 at 3:45 PM
@all my dear twittering friends. Finally Hi from home. Oh and @ nycgrl on twitter I'm archangel444333(because of unknown complications, I ended up two user account but couldn't sign onto celestialorigin one from my iphone so I decided to stick with the old name. I've sent the request from angel account to you.
Anyhow my head is this big and can't really follow much of anything on OT. But @mookie sama. Like momosan said above. Whoochi is not exactly a master piece sweeps your heart, mind and soul away all together like Dream of Red Chamber or One hundred years of solitude for sure. Only the ending, the closure of it reminded me of those two magnificent tales. It's also about a wizard and his sidkick and bunch of 妖怪s, come to think of it, yeah, running across time and space. Anyhow, for me it had a profundly personal moment when Chorangyi, the sidekick said that I was once a horse, and now I'm a dog and if I do well, I'll be born as a human next time. it was like a moment of Deja vu for me. to be continued on twitter, may be.
@Thundie OK, I'll check that one as well, thank you.
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156 nycgrl
June 8, 2010 at 5:18 PM
@ serendipity
I've come over to the dark side. lol. I remember you tried to get me on to help defend Thank you a while back and I was too scared to. Best revenge to have everyone watch it and convert them.
@celestialorigin
You know I was looking at the invite from you for awhile kind of scratching my head. I took a peep at your disciples to see if I knew anyone and decided you were bona fide.
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157 supah
June 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Waah... why this place be'z so dead, yo!?!?
@V
Haha! Fighting! Now you know why I'm never watching more than two dramas at a time, although school is worse than full-time work I suppose. School = homework. *screams*
*****************GIANT 11 SPOILERS*******************
OK, I neeed to get it out of my system so here goes:
Warning again: MEGA SPOILERS!!!!
I'm so glad Crazy Kid (Lee Sung Mo) is back. He's been reincarnated into The General's Son but he's definitely back. The SM we knew as a kid was so full of frustration -- for being so small amongst giants, but here he is, felling the giants.
I don't care if this drama drags me through the depths of hell and back now, because LSM's presence in it is like a comforting pat on the back saying ''there there, it'll all turn out just fine, just you wait and see.''
Now I see why Park Sang-min is cast as LSM and I'm so in love with the casting director. LSM is meant to be the violent sort and PSM is better known for his violent, fiery action roles back in the 90s, as well as a touch of a soulful, in-control Micheal Corleone, the dude totally has both, and Oh Lord, the eyes.
Otokeh? SM can try bringing Hwang Tae-sung to his knees but it'll never happen as long as his kid brother is loyal to the Hwangs. There is something unsettling abut KM's devotion to them, let's even forget that he's given up searching for his family because he's so in love with a Hwang, or that he's reckless, constantly in fights, fearless and foolish, it's just SO unholy that he's this loyal to Tae-sub.
But I still love KM, enough to feel like killing Min-woo everytime he so much as peaks at JY.
Let's not even go into MW, as much as Joo Sang-wook is hot, MW's behaviour in 10 and 11 was sickening. And he's scary as hell at times. I honestly couldn't give a damn about his shirtless scene -- he's gone ridiculously beyond even his dad's limits.
And speaking of his dad, Cho Pil-yeon still loves the Crazy Kid, alright. There's a scene where SM deathglares straight into Cho's face, which is bold of him (f-ckyeahleesungmo!), Cho glares right back and they continue to have this stare-off until their eyes turn red and tears begin to pool in BOTH their eyes.
There was a sad tinge to that scene, and as much as Cho is a bad person, I've never really hated him.
But his son? WTF - how is HE meant to end up with Mi Joo?
Since it's inevitable anyway, I hope he meets her now, maybe this way he will remember her and respect her, for when they do get into a relationship later.
MJ is such a love right now, Hwang jang-eum has carried forth the enchanting qualities of the kid version. She sings so beautifully, I bawl everytime she does. MJ endures and endures but behind closed doors her tears fall. Which reminds me of when she was little and KM scolded her for performing a song and dance on the street to earn some money and she cried saying ''you think I liked it? You think I wasn't embarrassed?'' That's a lot of depth for a 5yr old and her character's still the same, like when she's too embarrassed to tell people she's a meagre cooking and cleaning maid.
When she clutches onto those red shoes, it's like she's assuring herself saying no it wasn't just a dream, life wasn't always so wretched, she really did once upon a time have two doting big brothers. Now to find them.
And then... this recent episode, the crazy shit that happened involving all three siblings, it was quite the adrelanine rush though.
Now KM and JY I see in a new light, not that the episodes revealed much about it but I see now that JY is more in love with KM than he's in love with her. He has more to lose by staying with her and she has everything to gain from him. She hates MW and we don't have any reason to suspect otherwise but fair enough if she is attracted like she once was, it's just that, attraction - even lust. Maybe? But MW represents a world she already feels trapped inside. KM is like a security blanket, which is both good and bad, well, maybe selfish on her part? OK, Speculation over.
And that's quite enough from me now. *zips mouth*
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158 annieee
June 8, 2010 at 6:18 PM
@nycgirl
ahhh theres chun jung myung in it!! i'm soooo tempted to give it a watch! but it sounds like theres a melodrama feel to it. i don't think i can handle another tragic one after CS. im hoping to catch up with personal taste and maybe try coffee house!
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159 supah
June 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM
OK, not quite enough...
Sorry...
There's some additional observations....
*******GIANT SPOILERS CONT---D***************
There are some pretty insightful comments made by other characters about the two brothers:
The young military doctor on teen SM (back in ep5):
''I hate that you're trapped between two of the most powerful people, Gen. Hampton**** and Major Cho, they scare me. But you know who scares me the most? *he starts trembling* - You.''
Mama Lee on young KM (ep2):
''If there's one person in this world I trust, it's you, Kang-mo-yah.'' -- which speaks volumes about his character. Why didn't she say that about her loving daughter, or her eldest son? Especially surprising given KM was the mischiefmaker.
And that adorable scene back in episode 1 when hyung SM, leans over a sleeping KM (and it's hilariously cute how Mi Joo's foot is in his face) and ruffles his hair lovingly saying ''punk, so it turns out you're better than me.''
And so he is, he's the main character, duh!
But still, why do I feel SM is more trustworthy? Oh well, let's see how the drama unfolds.
Also, the speculation about JY loving KM more than he does, she's so needy of him and that time when she said so heartbreakingly - ''don't ever throw me away Kang-mo.'' We know now KM can adjust anywhere and become something spectacular as he's so gifted. He can leave her, he'll be heartbroken, but it won't kill him. As for JY, well, she already has abandonment issues and MW is still MW even when he's not being a control-freak bastard, she'll always have her guard up around him, her dad's also hit and miss and everyone else around her is filth. KM is perceptive enough to know she'll fall apart without him and so he stays. Why can't she just elope with him instead? Actually no, her father would never allow it. Gah!
*****EFF! Don't even get me started on Gen. Hampton, he was so incredibly funny, my brother's watching Giant too (unprecedented - it's his first kdrama) and he still dies laughing everytime all red in the face, he says he'll consider it payback for the times Hollywood's misrepresented us Asians, Giant's sure leveled things -- bwahahaha! (I obviously didn't notice the first time around as Crazy-Kid-laundry-boy always had me too sweaty palmed and anxious.)
Seriously, check the Americans out in this scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJp783-C7qM
(They can't be any worse than Daniel Henny though!)
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160 momosan
June 8, 2010 at 7:56 PM
@50 lovenyc52
So, it's the bitTorrent client and it's running slowly...hmm. Ok, I just tried it with my machine and a torrent that I know should work. It's slow.
Try Vuze or uTorrent. Vuze gives you a lot more settings to tweak. I just tried the same torrent with each and they are whipping right along. As in the difference between 1 day vs 15 minutes. Vuze gives you many many more options for security settings, uTorrent is more stripped down.
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161 ockoala
June 8, 2010 at 8:01 PM
If anyone wants to reminisce about the good 'ole times, when fauxcest rocked every other K-drama, it seems, come take a walk down memory lane.
I was gonna post here but then wanted to add pictures (love pictures), then it ended up being my inaugural post. Oh wells. :-D Please be gentle with me.
http://ockoala.wordpress.com/
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162 v
June 8, 2010 at 9:58 PM
@supah
Thanks for your comments on Giant!! i dont have the time to comment much but i thoroughly enjoyed reading them. hihi... that clip is funny! i'm now on ep 11 of Giant!! but gotta go to sleep!
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163 supah
June 9, 2010 at 4:24 AM
@v
Dude, take your time with the catch-up, you've obviously got school pressure too and I don't want to be a bad influence, harr harr! But, how addictive is it?
If you have caught up then -- OMG! Did you see the parts with Cho Min-woo? Tell me I'm not the only one who fruckin' jumped out of my skin?
I never thought I could hate MW but now I really do… still have a soft spot his evil daddio though. Just how delicious was it to see a hint of tears in the eyes of Cho? Those too over SM. In your face, MW, your daddy loves KM's hyung way more than you. Y'know KM, the kid you despise? Yeah, his hyung.
And how awesome is PSM?
Janna said something about it being a shame So Ji-sub wasn't available to play an older Kim Soo-hyun as LSM (whether that was just a passing statement or not) but I don't think SJS was suited, even if he had been available, heh! Besides Yoo Seung-ho holds the junior SJS title. I do think Go Soo could've done magnificently in this role, especially in the gleaming, polished Micheal Corleone-esque scenes, and he has the eyes, which can flit between vulnerable, afraid to cold and vicious -- yet can he do the epic-scale action sequences that are required of LSM? I don't think he would've been able to pull them off, but we have yet to see how PSM does them, he's pretty much reprising an iconic role of his from 20yrs ago, and 20 yrs is such a long time. I like what I've seen so far though and he can sure run, oh so fast! Which reminds me, the chase scene was both cool, and funny.
Oookay, I got carried away again, sorry chick.
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164 lovenyc52
June 9, 2010 at 8:56 AM
@ momosan
yes, i tried to DL the same torrent on my PC BitTorrent and it was done in like 20 minutes while my Mac version was stuck on 2 days. I'll try Vuze when I get home - I know other people who use that and they seem to like it. Thanks Mac Guru!! :)
btw, i am revving for a rewatch of Yankee-kun already!! It's not even done yet and I want to rewatch cuz it's so darn cute!! I've liked Hiroki in the past, but this show has made me a bonafide lover of him. :D
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165 ockoala
June 9, 2010 at 9:40 AM
@ momosan
We weren't the only ones raging about the unnecessary animal cruelty in K-dramas recently. The C-netizens are in a tizzy with the dog death in Bad Buy, and apprently some cat-shaving scene in Coffee House?
As for Tsuki no Koibito, it is for sure getting euthanized, ending a few episodes less than planned, the first Monday at 9 drama to have its run cut since the 90s. I'm shocked at that statistic, to be honest. I rail at TnK, but there must be more dreck out there. Or is there?
The newspapers have reported that Keiko's spoiled model character is getting lots of love from the viewers, since she may be spoiled, but her acting and her character being rather innocent and naive, makes her one of the standouts in this drama.
I'm waiting for ED to write a review of her beloved KimuTaku's newest vehicle. :-P
And Goodbye Solo is so good I sit and watch it with a dull ache in my chest, the tears building like a leak in the roof and I've a bucket underneath, drip, drip, drip, until the moment comes (I know it will soon) when the bucket overflows and I just let it all out. Utterly beautiful a drama to behold. If the writer and the PD were NOT conjoined twins, I can't image how they complement each other so well.
Ireland got screwed by bad writing, good directing, is all I have to say. Dissonance can have a meaning and purpose.
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166 momosan
June 9, 2010 at 10:48 AM
@65 ockoala
Any drama that starts out with CJM doing flair bartending to La Vida Loca is headed straight for the win department. 8-) I had forgotten about that. It's the later episodes of GS that are more vivid in my memory, so the rewatch is clearly having a cheering effect on me. 8-)
Yeah, they shaved a cat early on in Coffee House. Having tended a cat or three, I can assume that the cat gave as good as it got. But the dog, that is so totally wrong. It's one of my pet peeves about dramas of any sort.
It is surprising that they axed TnK, since the run was supposed to be short anyway. I have to assume the production costs were just too high to support the ratings that dreck was getting. When a drama manages to make a fan like me try to brain bleach it from my memory, then you just KNOW it's bad. Most j-doramas are short enough that even epic fails have enough redeeming qualities that they last their run. This one...I can't think of one redeeming quality. I can't think of another one this bad...but then I avoid some genres like the plague, so I'm sure there are some out there.
::skips off to watch GS 2 while waiting for a/c repairman::
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167 mookie
June 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM
@momosan
oddly I've seen quite a few (actually many) doramas which do not last their run, I'm assuming 10 is the standard (I've never heard of say it's a planned 8, 9 ep run, never), and it's inconspicuously finishing at 9, at times 8 eps (really, my jinx)...and the common denominator is always low/lower than expected ratings. Actually every season or so I can name a dorama that's shortened, usu by an episode or so. It's very brutal even w/ such a short run. Unless that's just my assuming and some dorama set out to be 8, 9 eps fr the get go and coincidentally they usu have lower ratings.
Is TnK garnering very low rating? I think it's still not disastrous if we r strictly looking at the numbers. BUT if we add in Kimutaku + renzoku ren'ai + getsuku, then I can understand. Again, I've seen many getsuku having lower ratings in lower teens %.. actually it's no longer relevant as a guanranteed ratings time slot for last 10+ years?
and WC fans!! this gave me a good lol:
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5548/61add42at88926851275069.jpg
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168 momosan
June 9, 2010 at 3:17 PM
@67 mookie
This is probably why I usually limit my dorama fix to 2 per season. That way I get to ignore the rest of the field and anything spectacular that flew under my radar I can pick up later.
I just finished reading Ender's Girl's epic review of Nobuta. Someone ::cough:: has dangled TnK in front of her. So I delurked and offered her sake, because taking up sake again would sure be the only way I'd watch it! She's a brave brave girl indeed! LOL!
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169 ockoala
June 9, 2010 at 3:39 PM
@ momosan
She needs sake AND makjulli (and maybe some Xiao-xin) to watch TnK and write a coherent review (if she so elects) afterwards. :-P
You're not talking 'bout me, are you? I tried to "warn" her, is all.
Last night, while watching FOL ep 6 it finally clicked why I can't get past ep.1 of Giant. Unlike Thundie's issues with the retreading of things so familiar, mine was a subconscious screaming in my head that "this is so mediocre and overwrought" simply BECAUSE I am watching the majesty of how the script and writing in FOL (doing the same thing) is so superior it's rendered me unable to accept Giant at face value.
Contrast the confrontation between Hyun Bin and Kim Min-joon in ep 1 of FOL (I couldn't breathe, those two sucked the aired out of the TV) with the confrontation between Lee Bum-soo and the dude in bad prothetic makeup in Giant (so Dramatic! and Meaningful!), I couldn't help but be laughing and the rest is history.
It pisses me off actually, Giant is bound to be better than EoE (nothing can be worse for an epic-wannabe like EoE), and that stuff is a near and dear genre for me. I wish I could just enjoy it at face-value. Ergh, that's just me.
@ thundie, thanks for burning me 3 eps of Giant, have fun subbing it! Lemme know if Giant DOES throw in fauxcest. That might entice me to re-start it. :-D
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170 mookie
June 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM
@twin
though I enjoy fauxcest as guiltily as all those pink shoujo mangas growing up, what irked me most was 1. how prevalent it really is/was. 2. How it's elevated to this pedestal of O T P as if this is THE biggest hurdle in the history of romance and it's a necessity for the pair to overcome it to EARN their ONE freaking True Pairing status. It's romanticized as if it's the purest finest form of love. and the only ppl that can spit at it r those parents who r usu useless/evil anyways. I DONT GET IT!! I do get it's an easy gold mine of angst for the couple and we'll see manpain and hot angsty shower or flow of pretty tears on our heroines as a direct result...but really...nobody has REAL issues w/ it EVER!
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171 mookie
June 9, 2010 at 4:29 PM
BLAH!
HAHA who do I think I'm?! if I can have manpain and hot angsty shower guaranteed I have no morals or principles, give me fauxcest, realcest, formalcest, whatever cest (or hm...a close sounding word?!) yes CU I still miss u, and really while we're at it, writer (I still hate u), forgot your fauxcest in your pile of cliches?!...on top of all the grudges I'm having w/ ya I'm ROBBED a PIE HOT ANGSTY SHOWER!
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172 ockoala
June 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM
@ twin
Not wanting to have one-eyed, club-footed, twelve-fingered grandchildren is a very valid objection for the parents to have.
But when its clear that its fauxcest, then their objections becomes objecting for the sake of objecting. And probably to assuage their guilty consciences that (1) they didn't notice their "children" giving each other the sex-eye during dinner every night for 15 years, and (2) they didn't allow their children a healthy social life to go out and meet other peeps of the opposite sex (I mean, total Flowers in the Attic, right?).
If I were a parent, I would be objecting that the person is a douche/bitch, can't earn a living worth crap/doesn't want to help out in whatever capacity they can in the marriage (i.e. useless provider for the apple of my eye), short and/or ugly (I want my gene pool to be upwardly mobile, don't you?) - and I wouldn't be objecting for the "incesty" vibe, cuz that's just superficial crap. The marriage is gonna fail not cuz they are "related but not related" in some way, but because one party snores too much, forgets to put the toilet seat down after 10 plus years of marriage, has moochy friends, and a whole host of other gripes I have. ;-)
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173 janna
June 9, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Between my two jobs and lack of sleep looking for my still missing cat I have had no time to watch any dramas. :( Sorry everyone.
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174 mookie
June 9, 2010 at 4:47 PM
@twin You are talking like your true, caring, sane, wise parent self. :) How MANY do we usu get in Kdrama?! The parents who really deserve to have offsprings r quite often offed too soon to wring our cheap tears!
HAHA come to think of it, they r playing this angle of OTP to the max w/ not allowing them to have ANY social contact w/ other humans of the opposite sex SINCE childhood and trap them in this fantasy fauxcest island where the other faux sibling is their one and only choice when the hormones hit. haha it saves all the teaming and shipping for sure!
fauxcest fascinates me because of its own meta fascination of fauxcest in Kdrama. I'm just so fascinated by how obsessed w/ this trope Kdrama is as opposed to other Asian dramalands. W/ the filial/ confucius influences common in all our cultures, y is it most prevalent in kdrama?!?!
@janna *HUG* u deserve hugs. GANBETTE! dramas can wait. rest up, unwind after the crazy.
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175 supah
June 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM
@janna
Oh hun! So sorry to hear it. Hope he or she comes back soooon! *hugs*
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176 serendipity
June 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM
@ ockoala
What about Who Are You? Isn't that a kind of fauxcest -- starting to fancy the man who is sometimes your father? Not to mention, er, necrophilia? Mind you, for all that the icky-level in WAY was surprisingly low.
I know what else your blog can do which doesn't fall into the TP k-drama parameters -- an Ode to Pi!!
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177 nycgrl
June 9, 2010 at 8:23 PM
@Ockoala
"Ireland got screwed by bad writing, good directing, is all I have to say. Dissonance can have a meaning and purpose."
not the other way around? I think implementation may be the biggest problem in this drama.
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178 v
June 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM
@supah
lol. dont worry about being a bad influence...or writing long comments. if i had anyone to blame for my lack of self-control, it's would be myself. but yeah, it's addictive!! my life would be much easier if it wasnt.. XD
well, i'm hoping that MW will change... i jumped out of my skin in his scenes too... and hands off JY! she belongs w/ KM! or does she??
but yeah, the relationships between Cho daddy and SM is really interesting and fascinating to watch. but yeah, i think Go soo could have suited the role, altho his gaze is rather strong gentle than strong-fierce tho.. but i dont care cuz im go soo biased and really want to see him in a project soon!
ok, dont have time to comment more!
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179 ockoala
June 9, 2010 at 8:42 PM
@ nycgrl
I thought the directing was rather lovely and melancholy in Ireland. It was by no means stellar or a standout, but it had a purposeful disjointed air that worked for the subject matter. I found the writing was the crutch. But the more I think about it, Ireland is just one giant pile of FAIL except for Hyun Bin, let's not think about it anymore. Back to savoring GS we all go!
@ serendipity
Are you directing me to blog about Pi? That would be a slippery slope to insanity. I may rag on Pi, but my adoration of him is boundless, and I shan't subject you all to droolsome picture after droolsome picture of him. Well, I guess I can sneak him in on occasion....
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180 mookie
June 9, 2010 at 10:46 PM
@Ireland
I hate the directing in Ireland, maybe coz the writer did RoYOW and I gave her brownie points and I do like some dialogues there. I didnt see a lot of thought, I saw many straight fr pages literal takes of scene I wished can be done w/ more subtly in Ireland, it was a big complaint of mine.
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181 Serendipity
June 9, 2010 at 10:49 PM
@ockoala
it's your blogy & you'll spazz if you want to, spazz if you want to...
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182 supah
June 10, 2010 at 5:43 AM
@v
Hee hee! Not to worry, there won't be any episodes next week (of Coffee House or Bad Guy either! Eeeep!) so there will be less temptation.
Lulz! You have to love KM's reaction as he walked in and casually flicked him off in that scene.
I've recently been mulling over MW's character. Yes, he's disturbing and so very bad, but I often feel MW can't help his own nature. He's often worn a resigned/regretful face, reading ''yeah, I'm a rotten bastard but what to do?'' Or like when offering bread to KM in their school days, even when they were in the thick of their rivalry, he had these little moments where you felt maybe he means well, just that he doesn't know how to go about it? That even in his trying-to-be-nice moments he winds up insulting the other party and not lightly, but really cuts. His intentions don't seem so bad, it's the way he executes them. He is very different to his dad in that sense. His dad is a delusional bastard, yet he has a notable charm, he's tactical and can bend people to his will. MW doesn't even have Sam-shik anymore, how lonely it must be.
MW reminds me of the scorpion, in a story I once heard in my childhood. Here goes: *clears throat*
There was once a niceguy sat at a beach. He saw a scorpion by the shore looking like it was stuck, so he tried to save it from drowning when the tide rolled in, but everytime he grabbed hold of it, in the best way he could to avoid the sting, it kept cutting him with its claws. He wouldn't give up but eventually the nice guy asked; I'm only trying to save you, why do you keep on cutting me? The scorpion replied ''I'm sorry, it's in my nature'', to which he asked - ''why won't you just let me drown instead, why save me even when I cut you?'' to which the nice guy replied ''I'm sorry, it's in my nature''.
Call it silly but it kind of stayed with me. So niceguy is kinda stupid, but the scorpion is the real tragic one I'd say.
It’s also like Bidam, with Munno calling him a handleless sword. (Ouch.) Except Bidam and Min-woo are so many worlds apart.
It’s hard to see how that cutting-those-near-to-him aspect of MW will change. Aw, Mi Joo, you poor, poor creature. Are you his stupid niceguy? This is so going to end in tragedyyyyyyy! Ommaaa!
I love Go Soo myself, he could have aced it as LSM but then this role has far too many prerequisites other than being intense and complex, a grown-up version of Crazy Kid and well, dashing -- which he can do most incredibly well, except...
He has to also look older than Lee Bum-soo and Joo Sang-wook, that includes being someone the latter looks up to and is a little humbled by (yeah, I saw the hints), then there are the subtle undertones of power play between him and his 'father' Cho/Jung Bo-suk, where they alternate playing the vulnerable party and then there's the action and violence. I can't see GS doing these bits, everything else, yes. Plus, to look older in later years he'll need some serious wrinkle treatment like they gave Jung Bo-suk in ep 1's flash forward.
Besides, I think we generally see Go Soo as a heartthrob, where LSM is meant to have sworn off normal things, like love and family in order to excecute his plans and if Go Soo ever played a character who had zero romance, it'd be a real crying shame, haha!
(And LSM, please, any kind of romance in Giant is doomed, avoidavoidavoid!!)
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183 supah
June 10, 2010 at 11:09 AM
@v
Er, Cho Pil-yeon is tactical? Really, tactical? *scratches head* I'm sure I meant tactful. It is tactful when they're perceptive and also self-aware and stuff, right? That's the one.
And MW was (shudder) so, so wrong. As a major character I hope he can redeem himself, and soon. I've realised I can't hate him as he's quite pitiful. And Tae-sub isn't helping matters, ahem, between him and KM.
Oh and I loaave, loooave how they've humanised TS's rival, I'm rooting for his rival and loving it, he's a great little evil guy, with a nice side. There have been some rare moments where I've admired... ok, even loved TS and seen him as KM does, but then I promptly default back to hating on him. TS is a snake. Period.
Aaarrgh... I can't stop! Must stop...
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184 ockoala
June 10, 2010 at 11:25 AM
@ serendipity
Who Are You? is adorable (so far of what I have seen). Fauxcest is THE LEAST of its out-there elements, when her dead daddy's spirit is loitering on earth and possessing another guy's body!
I don't even call it fauxcest, because, from what I know of WAY, she doesn't find out or really suspect daddy's possessing Yoon Kye-sang until long after she likes him. And possession of body does not fit into any fauxcest related-not-related predicament.
My decree: WAY is not fauxcest.
I may eat my words if she ends up making out with YKS WHILE daddy is possessing him. Ew, kissing daddy in another man's body. Only in a K-drama, people.
Btw, folks, if I end up shipping YKS in Road #1 more than SJS, don't disown me, all righty? I love that boy to bits, after WAY and MSIL is 19.
And I thought its time for me to list my order of preference of the dimpled hunks:
1. Binnie
2. PIE
3. Lee Seo-jin.
But in terms of their performance that I loved the most:
1. LSJ in Damo
2. PIE in F70s
3. Binnie in Ireland
A stone chisel is pecking away at my heart, taking chunks of it away as I watch more and more of FOL. I definitely need therapy later. I'm up to ep.8 and Dong-su has come back from his seafaring ways.
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185 mookie
June 10, 2010 at 1:57 PM
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DongSu took my heart and bruised it, broke it to pieces and never gave it back around ep 11, 12. There were no lines, but it broke me. I lost goodwill towards mankind.
I read up on the twitter 'short story' awards in Japan over lunch. It brought me to places I've never been w/ 140 characters. (sorry it's in Japanese/ Chinese)
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エントリーID:18 Twitterアカウント名:bttftag
応募作品 http://twitter.com/bttftag/statuses/5551912562
町の小さな郵便局に今週も彼女は現れた。局員たちに水曜日さんと呼ばれる彼女が今日差し出した手紙にはしかし宛名がない。「これじゃ届きませんよ」苦笑しながら顔を上げた彼の目に映ったのは、うつむき加減できゅっと口元を引き結び、真っ直ぐに彼を見つめる真摯な瞳だった。
她每周三都会来这所镇上的小邮局。邮局的人管她叫星期三小姐。今天她又如约而至……“对不起，这样写无法投递的”，拿着没有写对方姓名的信封，邮局的小伙子苦笑着抬头看了看她。 只见她微微低着头、抿着嘴，双眸闪烁着热切的目光，紧紧地盯着他。
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评委会特别奖作品奖金2万日元
エントリー ID:793 Twitterアカウント名:6key
応募作品 http://twitter.com/6key/status/6569637665
幼い頃の事故が元で、妹は3人の人間しか記憶できない。内訳は僕と両親。妹の16の誕生日に僕は言った。好きな人が出来たら、僕を忘れてその人を心に刻め。やだよ、と妹は笑った。翌年のある日、恋人の男と共に現れた妹は泣きそうな顔で僕に言った。「お兄ちゃん。あたし、誰？」
小时候事故的关系，妹妹只能记得三个人——父母和我。在她16岁生日那天，我对她说：“如果你有了喜欢的人，就把我忘了、将那个人记在心里吧。”
“我才不会呢”，妹妹笑了。
第二年的某一天，妹妹和她的男友一起找到我，她带着哭腔对我说：“哥哥，我是谁啊？”
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优秀作品赏 奖金1万日元
エントリーID:1103 Twitterアカウント名:tahtaunwa
応募作品 http://twitter.com/tahtaunwa/status/7267808746
12月の深夜のゴミ捨て場。明日は粗大夢の日。誰もが、ボロボロになった夢を捨てにくる。今夜も、ある男が野球選手になる夢を捨てにきた。やがて一人の老人が現れた。「まだ使えそうだ」老人は大きな袋にその夢を入れた。「どの子の枕元にこの夢を置こうかの」老人はトナカイの耳元に囁いた。
一个初冬的深夜，空旷的垃圾场。明天是丢弃大型梦想的日子。每个人都会到这里来，丢弃自己伤痕累累的梦想。今夜，一个男子来到这里，与他成为棒球选手的梦想诀别。 过了不一会儿，一个老人出现了，“这个看上去还能使”，老人一边将那个梦想装入大口袋，一边朝着驯鹿的耳边喃喃道，“你们说，把这个梦想放在哪个孩子的枕边呢？”
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エントリーID:1195 Twitterアカウント名:riconv
応募作品 http://twitter.com/riconv/status/7293241179
親指にささくれができた。引いてみると、するする剥ける。指の付け根にたどりつき、手首も肘も剥けていく。首も顔もきれいに剥ける。とうとう全身剥いてしまうと、皮膚は人の形になった。私は急に怖くなる。肉から汗がにじみ出る。皮膚はふわりと立ちあがり、涼しい顔で歩きだす。
大拇指上有一根肉刺，不小心越剥越长，哧溜一下剥到了指根。进而一直剥离手腕、肘部、甚至到了脖子和脸。就这样一直蔓延到了全身，剥离的皮肤成了一个人的形状。我突然感到了恐惧，从肉里渗出汗滴。而皮肤则晃悠悠地站了起来，自顾自迈步走去。
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エントリーID:1633 Twitterアカウント名:wakegiorino
応募作品 http://twitter.com/wakegiorino/status/4104207130
仕事がねえ。飯食う金もねえ。友だちがガムをくれた。腹の足しにもならねえが、とりあえずくちゃくちゃ噛んだ。とことん味がなくなるまで噛んで、ぷっ、と吹き出したら、仏様の形をしていた。もう一度試すと､千手観音になった。そうやってガム仏師になったのよ、俺。ほんとほんと。
找不到工作。没有钱吃饭。朋友给了一片口香糖，虽然不足以果腹，但不管三七二十一嚼了起来。嚼着嚼着，一直嚼到没有一点滋味，“噗！”地吐了出来，居然成了一尊佛像。又试了一次，这次变成了千手观音。于是，我就这样成了口香糖佛像师。真的哦！
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エントリーID:2177 Twitterアカウント名:hal024
応募作品 http://twitter.com/hal024/status/6892545092
日：頭数だった合コンで一目惚れ 月：親友に頼み込んで連絡先をもらった 火：意を決して電話したが何をしゃべったか覚えてない水：彼女から掛かってきて心臓が飛び出た 木：約束のランチで親友を好きだと相談された 金：会社を休んだ 土：一生二人の親友でいることを誓った。
周日：被拉去联谊凑人数，结果对她一见钟情。
周一：千方百计从朋友那里要到了她的电话。
周二：下定决心打电话过去结果自己都不知道说了些什么。
周三：她打电话过来了！心脏快跳出了胸腔。
周四：赴约一起用午餐，但她却跟我倾诉说喜欢我的那个朋友。
周五：请假。
周六：发誓一辈子当这两个人的好朋友。
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佳作奖
エントリーID:245 Twitterアカウント名:jun50r
応募作品 http://twitter.com/jun50r/status/5943975282
俺は美容整形医。今、少女に告白されている。「好きです。先生好みの顔にして下さい」こんな要望は初めてだ。数時間後、麻酔から覚めた少女は言った。「先生、私の顔どこも変わってません」「そうさ。俺も前から君が好きだったんだ」俺たちは抱き合った。と、少女が呟いた。「…私の胸大きくなってる」
我是整形医生。现在，女孩正向我告白。“我喜欢你，把我的脸整形成你喜欢的样子吧。”这样的要求还是头一回听到。数小时后麻醉渐渐消除，她醒了，说：“我的脸怎么什么都没变？”我回答：“没错。我从以前就喜欢你了。”我们拥抱在了一起。“啊”，她自言自语，“我的胸部变大了”。
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エントリーID:247 Twitterアカウント名:jun50r
応募作品 http://twitter.com/jun50r/status/5944552841
妻がおにぎりを作ってくれた。「何が入ってるの？」「私の気持ちよ」ドキリとした。既に妻との仲は冷えきっていたからだ。これから妻との関係を修復しようと考えていた矢先。中身が空だったらどうしよう。だが、中身は大好物の鮭だった。俺は嬉しくて妻に礼を言おうとしたが、舌が痺れて言えなかった。
妻子给我做了饭团。“里面放了什么？”“我的感情哦。”我的心猛然一跳，因为夫妻之情早已淡薄如水。正想着如何修复两人的关系，可转念一想，万一里面是空的……还好，饭团里是我最爱吃的鲑鱼。 我开心得很，正想跟妻子说声谢谢，舌头却麻痹了，什么也没说出口。
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エントリーID:444 Twitterアカウント名:PK_
応募作品 http://twitter.com/PK_/status/6632332294
さんたさんえ。ぼく、ことしわなにもいりません。でも、おねがいがあります。ぱぱとままのゆめのなかえつれてってください。ぼくがてんごくにいってからふたりはないてばかりだから、あいしてくれてありがと、もうなかないでっていいたいんだ。ずっとずっとだいすきなぱぱとままにわらってほしいんだ。
亲爱的圣诞老人。我今年，什么礼物也不要。但是，我有一个请求。请把我带到爸爸妈妈的梦里去吧。 自从我去了天国，爸爸妈妈就一直在哭，谢谢你们这么爱我，请不要再为我哭泣了。 我希望我最喜欢的爸爸妈妈能够一直、一直笑着。
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エントリーID:641 Twitterアカウント名:yosirabi
応募作品 http://twitter.com/yosirabi/status/6449188173
さすがに１０年も同じ机で仕事していると私物も仕事の物も一緒くた。さて、荷物をまとめるか。うわっ、これフロッピーだよ。大事なデーターかな？出ないボールペンは何本も出てくるし。このお菓子、賞味期限が２０世紀だよ。これなんだ？婚姻届？そうだ、結婚しようと思ってたんだ！
10年都在同一张桌子上办公，这私人物品都跟工作物品混一块儿了。来整理一下吧。
啊，这不是软磁盘嘛，该不会是什么重要的资料吧。还有好几支不出水的笔。这、这糖果保质期是上个世纪咧！ 哎，这是……结婚证书？我，已经结婚了啊……
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エントリーID:658 Twitterアカウント名:simmmonnnn
応募作品 http://twitter.com/simmmonnnn/status/4471829130
寝たまま死を待つ男は妻に頼む。お前の好きなアロマとやらをやりたい。妻は少し喜び、道具を用意し毎日オイルを補充した。だが、男はそれを焚くことはなかった。男は深夜1人それを飲み続けた。味覚などとうにない。翌年、男は死んだ。火葬場を包んだ香りは、妻以外の参列者も癒した。
男人在床上等死，他跟妻子说，想点支她喜欢的芳香精油。妻子略喜，准备好了道具，每天补充精油。 但是，男人并没有用来点燃，而是每天深夜独自一人偷偷喝掉了。他早已没有了味觉。第二年，男人死了。 一阵浓香包围了火葬场，抚慰着追悼会上除妻子外的每一个人。
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エントリーID:1110 Twitterアカウント名:another_signal
応募作品 http://twitter.com/another_signal/status/7268810035
立ち止まった彼女の前には、ダンボール 箱に入った捨て猫がいた。連れて帰ろうとする彼女に「家には僕達が暮らす分のお金しかない」と言ったら、「じゃあ、あなたを捨てて、この子を連れて帰るわ。新しい飼い主が見つかるといいわね」と言って、その猫と帰った。残された僕はダンボール箱に入った。
女友停住了脚步，站在一只装有弃猫的纸箱前，想抱回去养。我说，家里只有供我们两人生活的钱；她说，那就把你扔了，自己带着猫回去。“祝你找到新的主人哦~”，她丢下这话，跟猫回家了。剩下的我，只好茫然爬进了纸箱。
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エントリーID:268 Twitterアカウント名:poly_propylene（ご応募時）
病室のベッドの上。彼は末期癌だった。 その彼が不意に「明日世界が終わるとしたらどうする？」訊ねられた私は答えられなかった。「そしたら僕はね、明後日まで生き延びてみせるよ」とても綺麗な微笑だった。その夜、彼は息を引き取った。彼は明後日の、その先の世界へ行けただろうか。
病床上的他，已是癌症晚期。
突然他问道： “如果明天世界就要完结，你怎么办？”，我无言以对。
“如果那样的话，我就要拼命活到后天。”他笑着说到。
那夜，他就停止了呼吸。 不知道他是否成功到达了后天以后的世界。
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