Red Moon, Blue Sun mini rant Part 2/2:

It’s even sadder the lengths Sun-Ah had to go through to get attention on the other cast members. She made headbands for the cast to wear that she blatantly said were meant to be bait for the reporters to take more pictures and give them good press. She also kept telling Yi Kyung to put his hand on her shoulder for poses, did heart poses with him, and would cuddle up to him to get the photographers to go wild since they otherwise paid little attention to him. Then the real heart-breaker was how Yi Kyung’s closing remark was basically saying that he’s regretful that he’s already 30 but has zero star power to contribute and that he’ll do his best to just not detract from the show.

I was always a shipper of Ji Heon and Woo Kyung, although I would be okay if they just became good friends, but now I really wish the writer would give them a passionate noona romance love-line, not in the least because I’m 200% convinced they’d have no problem pulling it off. I’ve got a suspicion that underdog Lee Yi Kyung whose looks don’t make the cut for ideal male leads romancing the great Kim Sam Soon would be good fodder for buzz and consequently ratings. Too bad having a police officer engage in a hot romance with one of his murder suspects would turn this into a very different show though lol. It’s just hard to believe that Yi Kyung, an acting major, has been in the industry for 7 years now, been part of 30+ projects, isn’t in anyway considered a bad actor, and yet pretty much the only way he’s been able to get recognition from the general public is by making people laugh.

So what’s the deal, MBC? If Yook Sung Jae could get a New Star Award for starring alongside Moon Geun Young in Achiara’s Secret even though it was practically his first lead role and the ratings weren’t great, why on earth can’t Yi Kyung get some kind of award for Red Moon, Blue Sun? It’s not like anyone expected the ratings to be great for it anyway since dark thrillers about child abuse are just generally not the kind of drama a lot of people want to wind down to right before going to bed, and everyone knows that ratings are not always an indicator of quality. The year-end awards were the perfect opportunity to get his name out there as a serious drama lead, but I feel like MBC shafted both Yi Kyung and the rest of the drama team by only giving an award to Kim Sun-Ah…