Done with Spring Waltz and desperately seeking more icy woobie dramas...

[dangermousie]

Finished Spring Waltz. What will I fixate on now?

I adored the first 18 and a half eps and loved the sweet ending, but the ep or so in-between I was meh about. It got too kdramaish not in an excellent way.

Still, the OTP was awesome, the design gorgeous etc etc etc...It's definitely going on my favorites list.



* The reunion on the island and their night together and playing in the ocean lovelovelovelovelove.

* I totally loathed his adoptive parents. WTF - when they tell his birth dad that the secret being out would harm Jae Ha so he has to conceal it. Sorry, it won't harm Jae Ha, they will just harm evil parents. Or when Daddy Evilest is all "it's your fault, you disappointed us" to Jae Ha. WTF? Did nobody point out to him they were the one who engaged in illegal, evil acts? Jae Ha didn't do a thing wrong. And then at the end we were supposed to buy them being happy and OK - nope. Want them to be eaten by bears.

* Too much forgiveness going around overall. Nope, still not buying Secondary Girl was not insane. Hell, it was her fault Jae Ha injured himself and can't play. Also, Phillip's comment about Jae Ha forgiving birth Daddy (i.e. he should, it's a good thing). BLEH.

* The bit where he was injured and yet insisted on playing with blood dripping on keys? I ate it up like emo candy.

* Why did Jae Ha not want Eun Young to know about his injury or went away for her sake? Huh? Was he worried she'd feel guilty? That was sort of a logic lapse. Oh well, he was a total mess by that point, I forgive him.

* GUH REUNION IN AUSTRIA ON BRIDGE SCARF SMILE RUNNING HUGGING DEAD AM DEAD AM DEAD

* I love that they ended up living on that island she is from, blissfully happy in their adorable house, cooking together, with his kid brother, and him teaching and just adorableness. Oddly, I don't think it was a tragedy that he can't be a professional pianist any more - he was excellent at it and I think on some level liked it, but not only can he still write music, it was forced on him and so tangled with his identity issues.

Now I need another icy woobie/spunky girl romance. Someone recommend? PLEASE?

Hmmm, maybe I'll just rewatch that ultimate bad boy/good gal kdrama All In. I mean, he is an ex-convict and she is an ex-nun. Mmmm, I love this MV:

I never really metaed about it properly because I gulped it down in 3 days on the way to Italy and at jet-lagged nights. But suffice it to say I love it and not just because of the insane leading couple chemistry.

Hmmm. I think I will rewatch. Or at least cap the sex scene :D

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the separation at the end is the low point of the series for me because it makes nothing resembling any kind of sense and is just there to add angst and then have a reunion.

ETA: Interestingly, I just finished a book about an icy assassin heroine with a nice, supportive guy, but it's (a) YA (though moderately dark for the genre) and (b) fantasy (though extremely light on the fantasy) so probably not your thing. And not a drama.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was all "oooh, we have eps left over, what shall we do?" type of stuff. All they needed was another 15 minutes to resolve everything after the island reunion not more stuff. I was glad evil birth daddy got hit by a car, though.

The book sounds nice, even if I prefer the trope to be gender reversed (i.e. icy male assassin, nice supportive guy). What is it called?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Graceling by Kristen Cashore. It's a first book and the prose is rather flat, but with indications that later books by the author will improve on that front, and the ideas of the characters and plot are strong enough to overcome it. The only real claim to magic in this book is that certain people are born with an ability to exceed normal human levels (the heroine's is killing and manifested when she accidentally killed someone she felt threatened by as a child, causing the king to raise her as his assassin).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll check it out!