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

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Was that not the most ridiculously happy ending you've ever seen? They get married! They adopt a small ruffian child! They live in a picturesque house by the sea and he's a schoolteacher and she brings him lunch and their feuding families come together and everyone lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER! I kept expecting someone to get run over by a car in the last few seconds.

Also, watch this and tell me I'm crazy and didn't sleepwalk through 3:17?

I'm looking for another romance too. I've tried about six dramas in the past few days but I keep losing interest because they're not Spring Waltz.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

When the kid woke them up in bed it was ridiculously awesome.

I do not remember that bit in last ep at all. Argharghargh what happened? Where is it? I am sure you and I watched the fansubbed versions, i.e. the ones that aired in Korea. I doubt YA edition had more stuff - they cut things out, not put them in. So whaaaaaa? Maybe it's from deleted scenes or something? No idea! I am going crazy now.

I need a new drama to obsess about, a romance one. Btw, have you tried Snow Queen? I love it and it's angsty and romantic. She is a bitchy deathly ill rich girl who terrorizes everyone and he ends up being her driver...

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

I know! I want it!!! Augh.

Snow Queen is actually one of the dramas I tried, but it failed to grab me. I think I'm in the mood for another angsty bastard/plucky heroine love story too.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Icy bastard plucky heroine...hmmmm. Have you tried Something Happened in Bali (also known as What Happened in Bali/Memories of Bali). I love that one like whoa. The hero is way messed up and bastardy and heroine is poor and plucky. Also, worst kdrama parents ever.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Is that the one you called a grown-up HYD?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. Only more deliciously messed-up.

If you are looking for something more cutesy, how about Who Are You - he is an icy ruthless businessman with ocd possessed occasionally by the body of her dead father. she is a plucky high school grad who thinks he is insane.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

possessed occasionally by the body of her dead father

It's the little things that catch my interest. XD XD

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOLOL. It's not really a romance drama though - more of a comedy/family drama with some romance in it. I enjoyed it though and it does have some cute romance.





Oh, and if you are interested in Bali, here is a rare unspoilery mv:

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

I am currently watching Who Are You and loving it! It won't become one of my favorite dramas of all time, but it's quite enjoyable over all :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah - that is my opinion of it in a nutshell. (Plus, I like Yoon Kye Sang so was easy to please to start with and Go Ara was adorable)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Also, maybe Beautiful Days if you can get past some secondary characters I wanted to strangle. He is an icy bastardy woobie running a music empire. She is a plucky orphan employee who wins his heart (despite his obnoxious stepbrother being her destined childhood love. I loled and loled at that - finally childhood love got the boot). Emo ensues. Here, a little glimpse from the middle of the drama to tempt ya:



it's total crack.

I've also heard promising things about Phoenix and Lovers Lovers in Paris but haven't seen either.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that looks delicious. Thanks for the rec!

Btw, have emailed youtube girl about those missing scenes, I'll let you know if she responds.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

BD has one of the most annoying othet guys ever - I call him "Ugly Brother." I love that the heroine never gives in to his idiocy though, even out of guilt, and that hero always deals with him in a satisfactorily common sense manner. I loved it UB ranted that he can treat the heroine better (debatable) so should be the one to get her and the hero pointed out to him that the issue in the love triangle not who can hypothetically treat her better but whom she actually wants.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

omg

i love the main guy's acting. he always has that lost expression on his face, like hes not sure what he's suppossed to do.. in a way its cute.

Sometimes I love youtube commenters.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

Oh...I love Snow Queen. I hope that you can finish it. :)

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

I didn't really give it a fair shot since it wasn't suiting my mood. I'm sure I'll come back later and love it. *laughs*

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

I never could get through Snow Queen either. I wouldn't call it an angsty bastard/plucky heroine love story, however- I'd call it an icy bitch-queen/angsty plucky hero story. I just could never quite emotionally warm up to the female lead :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Awww, I really adored the heroine - normally I wouldn't but for some reason her loneliness and insecurities just pinged for me. Maybe it's because I love Sung Yuri a lot?

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

probably. I suspect that this is one of those cases where it's really the actress I don't like and not the character she plays. My brother LOVED it - you and he have eerily similar tastes;)

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

OMG

OMG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aFFyWnbIKg

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

*dead dead dead*

Why not include these in the drama, evil people? Instead cut out some of evil secondary girl's eyerolling or whatever.

*dling to keep*