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[dangermousie]

New trailer for Chuno (Slave Hunters) is out:

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Seriously. Am incoherent.

It looks like a movie!

And we finally get to see Lee Da Hae (only my favorite kdrama actress ever :P)

Oh God.

The one thing I love more than Aristocrat Lady/Slave OTP is Aristocrat Lady who used to be a Slave/Nobleman who is now a slave (or alternatively, little better than...)

GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH

Comments

[timescout.livejournal.com]

Oh, hai there Jang Hyuk m'dear! 2010 will start out fine with this one. *let it be as good as it looks, DramaGods!* A bit of something for everyone before rocks fall and everyone dies. Good thing IRIS has already killed us all by then so we should be nicely set for more agonising angst when Chuno starts, ha.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't see this ending well for anyone involved (seeing that the three leads have a stiff competition for most screwed-up backstory. Though I think Lee Da Hae wins that one). But I don't care - this looks glorious! I went into this expecting to ship LDH with Jang Hyuk and be pissed off if they are not the OTP but I find myself not caring because it looks awesome either way (plus - Oh Ji Ho - swooooon).

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

oh. my God. *expires*

it looks like Gladiator!(which is one of my favorite movies of all time) only a shippy, angsty, long Gladiator!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it? That's what I was thinking of too - this looks so ridiculously good! What with Christmas starting this week, Chuno in the beginning of January and Summer Bubbles in March, first half of my year is covered.

[joonni.livejournal.com]

we can all just say "oh shit!"

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes we can :P

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

Ohhh *dazzled*!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing?

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

oooh, this just might break me out of my current kdrama funk!

seriously though, i need to know OTP pairings in this as well. cos i cannot stand muddled pairings! muddles otp pairings with death all round would be my worst nightmare!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am sure there is death all around.

I think it's going to be a pairings progression.

Basically, I think it goes like this:

Jang Hyuk and Lee Da Hae are the initial OTP but it's not exactly one with happy prospects because she is a slave and he's the master's son. (At some point she also gets dragged off by rampaging troups despite his efforts to protect her, so I am betting even more "fun" things happen). In any event, love's young bloom comes to an abrupt end when his family decides the hussy must be punished for hooking up above her station - they whip her and are going to sell her. Her older brother (also a slave) ain't pleased with it, so he sets the aristo house on fire (YES! Up with the people!), takes Lee Da Hae and runs away with her. Meanwhile the house burns down to the ground, all of Jang Hyuk's family dies in the blaze (good riddance, IMO) and he's basically family-less and penniless so he takes up slave-hunting as a means of making $$$ (and because he now has issues with slaves :P)

He's still, however, totally fixated on and in love with LDH and is searching for her (in all fairness, if you were a straight guy and had LDH for your own to lose her, I can see you going a bit nuts :P)

Meanwhile, a few years pass and LDH (who is now passing for upper class) is running away from an arranged marriage and bumps into Oh Ji Ho, who was once a General but got framed for a crime and was made into a slave but is now on the run to stop a nasty political conspiracy. They travel together and begin to fall for each other.

So I think OJH/LDH are the final OTP but I am sure they are all doomed.

[uhmbrr.livejournal.com]

ok. i lied. i jumped ship. i'm shallow.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes - I am so glad I am not the only one!

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

holy shit that looks super cool *___* I dunno who that guy swinging the sword around is but he is a sexy mofo.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the first guy in the trailer? That's Jang Hyuk, one of my huge crushes. Is it this one?



Or do you mean the other one (with the kissy face?) That's Oh Ji Ho - I don't like him as much as Jang Hyuk but he's still pretty awesome.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Oooh *__* I meant the first one yes. Jan Hyuk. I need to remember that name for the future. Perhaps there is a google image search in my future.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He sort of specializes in playing bastards with a heart.

He's in one of my all-time fave kdramas, Thank You, where he plays this asshole surgeon with issues whose girlfriend dies and who meets this single mother on a remote-ish rural island (she is under a double stigma, as both an unwed mother and a woman whose child has HIV (from a screwed up transfusion)). It's so very awesome - I started out wanting to smack him and ended up with having him as my drama boyfriend. Post he holds to this day. It has happy endings for everyone and everything! SO GOOD.

He was also in Robbers as this gigolo conman who swindles his marks out of $$$ and eventually sets his eyes on a widow (played by Lee Da Hae) as his next mark but of course his being kdrama, love and loads of manpain happen :P

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Those both sound really interesting actually, especially the latter one. They make me think of romance novels, but the good kind that's set in modern day and doesn't involve aristocrats or rapes or imperialism.
I want to ask if these dramas have a sense of humor in them, cause if so I am definitely putting them on my growing kdrama list. My only issue with kdramas in the past has been (aside from the eps running a little long for me) is the utter dead seriousness found in some of them, to the point that it is tiring and draining to watch them. I dont mind serious at all but there is serious and then there is DEAD serious. A little levity can go a long way in enhancing my drama experience is all I'm sayin. Coffee prince was great for me cause it had angst AND humor and a kickass heroine and lots of hot dudes. so far it's my fave kdrama but I've only ever seen 3 all the way through lol. the other two being Capital scandal and Goong.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

There isn't any aristocrats, rapes, or imperialism in these ones.

As to humor, they both have funny moments (and all the characters get funny on occasion) but they do have oodles of angst (more in Robbers than in TY though the former is also funnier, if it makes sense - the second half of Robbers though descends into major angst for a bit).

I did really detailed recaps of Thank You, btwm if you check out the thank you tag, in case you want to see if it's something for you, btw.

In conclusion:

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Yay! no rape or imperialism!

Ok cool, they sound totally watchable then! I will ask though how do they end? I mean tone wise. Sad endings dont rule out me watching just so long as it feels like a logical conclusion to the story rather than melodramatic and emotionally manipulative. I am checking out Damo since you said the ending makes sense and I can buy it considering the setting. (plus the heroine sounds so awesome!)

thanks for the heads up about Thank You recaps, will def check those out :) I love reading drama recaps.

Just found this comment, sorry

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Happy end in both :)

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[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

sweet!