Look at this awesome (angsty, Jo Guk-centric) City Hall MV that I found

[dangermousie]

And apparently it's Jang Geun Seok singing?????? Of course I knew from YAB but the boy does have a pretty incredible voice for someone who is not a singer but an actor.

One of the things I love the most about City Hall is that the characters are grown ups. Most kdramas aren't big on teenybopper stuff (BOF and YAB being rather exception than the rule) but dramas like City Hall and Last Scandal take that even further - the leads of City Hall won't ever see 35 again (or 40 in the hero's case) and guess what - they still get to be drama leads!

I so need a City Hall icon.

The leads' chemistry is out of this world btw.

Comments

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

I hated City Hall - it was another BOF for me - but I do agree that Cha Seung won and Kim Sun Ah's chemistry was amazing.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

CH is one of those dramas on which we disagree (but we have different 'triggers') but mmmmm...the chemistry is yay.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Something else I loved about CH was that there is actual charater transition and growth, while he learns to be more human and discover his heart, she wizens up. They are equals in the end.

Jang Geun Seok is one fine talented young man :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes - I really do love that they both had to grow and change - it was really fun to watch.

[joonni.livejournal.com]

How come no one told me that there was so much silent tears, quiet looks of angst and longing in this drama??? Hee. There is goes on list of dramas to watch. I'm never going to catch up on this list.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay! It really is so very good. They have killer chemistry.

[moth5dream.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's his version of the main song from Beethoven Virus. Still haven't seen that one btw.
The original is sung by Tae Yeon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGL7Ce4bChU

He does sing pretty well, but did you ever see that Toucholic CF? LOL forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YgoAS9DI4

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh God, am blind.

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

Oh me and my bro love this!

<333

[clairiere.livejournal.com]

One of the things I love the most about City Hall is that the characters are grown ups. Most kdramas aren't big on teenybopper stuff (BOF and YAB being rather exception than the rule) but dramas like City Hall and Last Scandal take that even further - the leads of City Hall won't ever see 35 again (or 40 in the hero's case) and guess what - they still get to be drama leads!

You're right kdramas aren't that big on teenybopper stuff (yet), but all the ongoing speculations & plans for manga/manhwa remakes & adaptations makes me think the landscape isn't that favorable for those who're 'getting on.' And it probably says more about my age that I find the male leads on IRIS so scrumptious than it does about the dominant trends:







All I can do is just sit back & enjoy the remaining two weeks of 'maturity & competence are so hot!'.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

all the ongoing speculations & plans for manga/manhwa remakes & adaptations makes me think the landscape isn't that favorable for those who're 'getting on.

This makes me worried too, sometimes. I wonder if kdramas are going to go the way of jdramas where, if you watch 1990s stuff, all the leads are grown-ups and now most dramas are all these manga teenybopper things and it's getting hard to find a good, grown-up, 'down to earth' jdramas.

And it probably says more about my age that I find the male leads on IRIS so scrumptious than it does about the dominant trends

Thank you for the mini-picspam! *feels very satisfied* I agree - I am rather too old to swoon over leads of e.g. You're Beautiful (I want to give them sandwiches and tell them not to forget to wipe their feet) but also I find that the concerns in those types of dramas often don't interest me too much because of where I am/am not in life. E.g. in Last Scandal - one of the reasons I loved it so is that I could really understand the leads - do I have a cheating useless husband? No, but Sun Hee's place in life and grown-up concerns (marriage, support of daughter, getting money etc) is something I can understand very well. I am a grown up and I want to watch dramas about grown ups. There is nothing wrong with teenybopper dramas but it's not my thing.

I do think that as long as period dramas get good ratings, I am at least guaranteed adult stories that way.