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dangermousieTwo episodes in, and it's official: I adore To Get Her the way I haven't adored a twdrama since last year's Why Why Love. The plots of the two are quite different but both share more than just the leading lady. They also have this delightful combination of a sea of fluffiness with a perfectly mixed in underpinning of angst, and an easy, friendly chemistry between the leads. Mmmmmm. In fact, I might end up liking it more than WWL, depending on how it goes, as Jiro > Mike, for me.
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ambergold who said this is like a fluff version of Mars and I can so see that. Of course, Mars was incredibly dark, dealing with child abuse, and suicide and violence issues, and TGH is in another universe from any of that, but I can definitely see where she is coming from: Momo is quiet and in her own world, but the opposite of a pushover. In fact, she is probably the strongest character in this, and won't budge from what she thinks she ought to do. The girl might be tiny but she has the spine of steel. Also, how could I not adore a manga-obsessed character who reads when she walks? And Mars (the character) is loud and outgoing and outwardly very confident (not to mention twice Momo's size) but in reality he is rather a big kid who is incredibly insecure about being liked and has no idea how to cope with his fall from grace. And under the brattiness he seems rather a nice guy and the way he always looks like he can't believe when Momo does something nice for him, in her off-hand, no-nonsense way, is rather adorable.
Did I mention that I adore Momo's friend? I haven't seen something like that in a drama before. Is it me or is he somewhat retarded? I mean not in the insulting sense but a clinical one - stuck at 7 or 8 or so.
Also, I have never seen a twdrama (except for Smiling Pasta) which deals with the drama world/idols before, so this is quite interesting - I can't say it paints a pretty picture, but they should be considering themselves lucky they aren't working for JE - at least in this one the casting couch was ran by a lady :P
I also love the very pretty way it's filmed. Oh, and Rainie's hair, which gives her an almost spaceman image. She is so awesome in this, btw - both odd and closed in and yet warm and human. And Jiro is equally good at goofy and intense.
Anyway, this is a keeper.
But if my crush on Jiro gets any bigger, he'll overtake Wu Chun as my favorite member of Farenheit and I don't know if that's legal.
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ambergold who said this is like a fluff version of Mars and I can so see that. Of course, Mars was incredibly dark, dealing with child abuse, and suicide and violence issues, and TGH is in another universe from any of that, but I can definitely see where she is coming from: Momo is quiet and in her own world, but the opposite of a pushover. In fact, she is probably the strongest character in this, and won't budge from what she thinks she ought to do. The girl might be tiny but she has the spine of steel. Also, how could I not adore a manga-obsessed character who reads when she walks? And Mars (the character) is loud and outgoing and outwardly very confident (not to mention twice Momo's size) but in reality he is rather a big kid who is incredibly insecure about being liked and has no idea how to cope with his fall from grace. And under the brattiness he seems rather a nice guy and the way he always looks like he can't believe when Momo does something nice for him, in her off-hand, no-nonsense way, is rather adorable. Did I mention that I adore Momo's friend? I haven't seen something like that in a drama before. Is it me or is he somewhat retarded? I mean not in the insulting sense but a clinical one - stuck at 7 or 8 or so.
Also, I have never seen a twdrama (except for Smiling Pasta) which deals with the drama world/idols before, so this is quite interesting - I can't say it paints a pretty picture, but they should be considering themselves lucky they aren't working for JE - at least in this one the casting couch was ran by a lady :P
I also love the very pretty way it's filmed. Oh, and Rainie's hair, which gives her an almost spaceman image. She is so awesome in this, btw - both odd and closed in and yet warm and human. And Jiro is equally good at goofy and intense.
Anyway, this is a keeper.
But if my crush on Jiro gets any bigger, he'll overtake Wu Chun as my favorite member of Farenheit and I don't know if that's legal.
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Date: 2009-03-01 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-01 04:24 pm (UTC)But yeah, Jiro really is my favorite Farenheit member - I think it's OK, seeing how popular Wu Chun is, he won't be too upset.
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Date: 2009-03-01 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-01 04:26 pm (UTC)I guess I am beginning to need some twdrama icons.
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Date: 2009-03-01 09:19 pm (UTC)I need subs :(
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Date: 2009-03-01 05:18 pm (UTC)and yes, George Hu's character, her swimming friend, according to the plot synopsis IS supposed to have the mental capacity of an 8-year old(which is another interesting quirk I haven't seen in a drama before. although I'm not gonna lie, I'm glad she ends up with Jiro instead. He's very endearingly arrogant/insecure)
y'know, I"ve never liked Wu Zun. So Jiro stands easily first in my book :)
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Date: 2009-03-01 09:20 pm (UTC)It's funny, I adore two members of Farenheit (Chun and Jiro) and couldn't care less about the other two.
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Date: 2009-03-01 05:24 pm (UTC)The saddest thing is, from what I can tell, what the drama is portraying is basically how the Taiwanese entertainment industry is; it's a pretty cutthroat place.
And I HATE Rainie's hair. I wouldn't mind if it were short, but it honestly looks like they tucked her hair under. In the back it looks like a giant puff ball.
Wu Zun is amazing (and I do think he's gotten a LOT better at acting, he outplayed Shun-kun as Sano), but Jiro's always been my favorite! I'm getting the new Fahrenheit album soon, and I'm soo going to post hot Jiro pictures from it!
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Date: 2009-03-01 09:21 pm (UTC)I love Wu Zun - *swoony sigh* Have you watched Butterfly Lovers? He is to die for in that - hot and angsty and with a sword!
Re: agoraphobia. LOL. Drama medicine never made sense to me.
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Date: 2009-03-03 04:55 pm (UTC)Noooo! I need to watch it though! *puts it on massive list* I've recently been really into Taiwanese movies, so I'll totally have to watch it.
Plus, since it's Taiwan, you've got all sorts of crazy Chinese medicine / folk remedies going on!
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Date: 2009-03-01 06:23 pm (UTC)I really need to find good pictures of Rainie and Jiro so I can make myself icons. Well, since this is my first working day after two weeks of vacation, and Sunday evening shifts are always very slow, I have plenty of time to go through the AsianFanatics Gallery :D...
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Date: 2009-03-01 09:22 pm (UTC)It's such a cute drama so far, but I like that it's not purely fluffy.
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Date: 2009-03-02 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-01 07:09 pm (UTC)He's veeery easy on the eyes (nice bod young sir!), she's pretty and her 'swimming friend' is cute.
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Date: 2009-03-01 09:46 pm (UTC)Look for the channel for To Get Her
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Date: 2009-03-02 12:07 am (UTC)BLASPHEMY! The mullet is ALWAYS watching, and he knows what you just said.
:)
and i TOTALLY have to check this out. Rainie, plus strong girl, PLUS a secondary character who is developmentally delayed? YES PLEASE!
im going to wait until a few more eps are subbed before i start watching..i wondering if my realplayer downloader works on viikii? *ponders*
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Date: 2009-03-02 04:32 pm (UTC)Evidence (from DBY)
http://www.spcnet.tv/taiwan2005/devilbesideyou/devil02.jpg
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Date: 2009-03-02 04:00 pm (UTC)Insoon is pretty, while good, and oddly uplifting is experiencing the kdrama disease of DRAAAAAG!
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Date: 2009-03-02 04:32 pm (UTC)