Starlit: it's everything I watch dramas for :)

[dangermousie]

I am only ten minutes in into Starlit, Jerry Yan's new drama, and I know I am going to love it. Taiwanese dramas are my first love and when done right (as this promises to be) can be more delightful than anything else. I prefer the more serious ones to the OTT comedy ones and luckily this is the former, as it's all about tragic angsty love between a guy who can't continue with his career as a pianist due to injury (Jerry Yan) and a reporter who may or may not have a terminal illness (Terri Kwan).

So far we have had:

* pretty cinematography
* Jerry Yan looking YUMMY and angsting gorgeously (Jerry Yan is an OK actor but few actors look as scrumptuous angsting)
* Credit sequence with shippiness and kissing. Proper kissing, not touch-lips-together variety that kdramas and jdramas are fond of.
* Classical music
* Hero saving heroine's life
* Finding out heroine might have a terminal illness (or at least something that will make her a cripple)
* Did I mention Jerry Yan looking yummy and angsting gorgeously?

One thing: so far the heroine rather irritated me. Let's see: when a guy saves you from being run over by a car (an eventuality which would not have occurred if you did not stand leisurely taking phots in the middle of the road!!!) and ends up seriously injured, enough that he has to be operated on, you don't just leave him because OMG your plane to Beijing goes in a couple of hours. WTF???? Yeah, you left your cell and an apology note and told his friend where he was. Great. Not enough in any way. Seriously? Has she been brought up by wolves? You stick around to make sure he is OK and apologize profusely in person. Duh! But Terri Kwan is so darn lovable, I am not TOO annoyed. :)

Comments

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

Do you know if it's only on streaming sites? I haven't been able to find it otherwise... As much as I adore Jerry Yan and Terri Kwan, I really hate watching streaming video, and probably won't watch it until I can have an actual file.

I'm glad to hear it's so good though! I adore Taiwanese dramas above all others, so I'm glad there's some good new ones out.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I've found it subbed only on viikii but if you don't need subs, soompi has torrent links and asiafanatics.net has detailed ep summaries.

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

Yay, thanks for the info!

[timescout.livejournal.com]

I sort of thought this might be your thing when I read the synopsis. :) I may actually go as far as check it out myself....

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's quite neat so far.

[valkyriesailor.livejournal.com]

WHAT? She leaves him there??? If I was
- saved
- by a handsome guy
- having a life-threatening experience
I couldn't move from his side, even if I needed to.

Oh, and thanks for writing about this! I'll be sure to watch it too. ^.^

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. Exactly. That's what I'd do :)

[je12-vz09.livejournal.com]

i've been lurking like a crazy fangirl searching for this drama since i don't have PTS in my cable. i'll watch it in a bit. found a really good site for MU links!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

How many episodes is this?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

22 episodes - 45 minutes each :)

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

I will confess to not being able to feel the Jerry-love here...lol, but the plot seems good enough for me to check out, and you never know, i just might start getting the Jerry-love thing after a while! :)

And besides, i really need to watch a taiwanese drama soon, they always give me room to multi-task (need to read Lian Hearn, OMG, the Otori trilogy, i wish someone would do a drama adaptation, it is just screaming out for it!!! swords, angsty heroes and heroines, revenge, secret organisation... what more can one ask for!!!???) as i don't have to sit there glued to the screen!

Wasn't Terri Kwan in Why Why Love or some such thing?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I love Lian Hearn books! If not drama, then a movie definitely is in order!

Terri Kwan was in Wish to see you again.

[coronanl.livejournal.com]

ah yes, proper kissing, one of those things Taiwanese drama's are often very much better at ^^;

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

One of many reasons Taiwanese dramas are my favorite.