Daily obsessive post

[dangermousie]

1. I had a really long and complicated dream about the end of IRIS. Can you say 'obsessed?' Subs are out through ep 18 so I am debating whether to save them until this week's final eps so I know how it ends, or goble it now.

2. Someday reminded me of my Kim Min Joon love so next drama to check out is In-soon is pretty. Yeah, I know about the bipolar script, but I am used to that with Bollywood and any drama that has both KMJ and Lee Wan in it would have to be beyond horrific for me not to check it out at least.

3. Still obsessing over Someday. My discs for eps 13-16 aren't due from Netflix until Wednesday and I can't wait that long so...yup, am obsessed. I loved this scene with Haeyoung and Seokman. I loved that Seokman's self-destructive breakdown is finally over and he is back to a (modified) version of himself. I feel for Haeyoung and her anger - her artist is incapacitated and her writer has just come to quit. That is why they say dating in the workplace never works :)




I got shudders when Seokman said that he is willing to go into debt if he needs to pay damages to her. Argh not again. I am sure that won't be necessary but - yikes. And of course he believes he should not see Hana again because of what happened when he was on his little trip to insanityland - you know, it was a horrible scene, but if he was less nice and had more self-esteem (or at least some self-esteem - hopefully he is going to regrow it) then he'd just find Hana and apologize - grovel if necessary. But he is so used to think of himself as nothing that he sort of automatically jumps into the morass of guilt and viewing himself as undeserving of even seeking forgiveness.

Oddly, I don't feel angry at Go for not telling Seokman of Hana's injury. It's not because he is carrying out Hana's wishes (since when did it ever stop him) or even to prevent them from meeting again, I think, but because he wantt to share some very personal experience with her that Seokman hasn't. And that's a bit sad.

Comments

[mishane.livejournal.com]

OH GOD. Good luck with In-Soon. Seriously, if you decide to watch it, go in knowing that the whole point of the drama (convict gets placed back into society ) gets erased by the 8th episode I believe. I don't like to give up on dramas, I almost always watch until the very very end, but I had to stop at 8. It just got ridiculous. Like someone took two VERY DIFFERENT IDEAS and smooshed them together, but not smoothly at all. In very very jagged pieces.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes - doesn't she become a celebrity or something? I am willing to tolerate a lot in a drama that gives me Kim Min Joon as a male lead (and a bonus hotness of Lee Wan - he's the only younger guy I go all obsessive-noona for :P).

But we'll see - I see a great deal of judicious ff-ing and I suppose at least I know the bipolarness going in - must have been jarring otherwise!

[mishane.livejournal.com]

Yeah. She finds her celebrity mom who also has bipolar syndrome in whether or not she actually wants her. I liked the secondary OTP better (the sister and Lee Wan) but I didn't watch far enough to see it develop.

It was jarring! I was so in love with the concept which is probably why it hurt more that they didn't go through with it. I mean, it had so much angst potential! Girl goes to prison for killing another girl (if I remember correctly) and has to be re-integrated into society. Meets childhood friend who had a huge crush on her but doesn't know what happened. I mean, that's perfect! But then, it's like, WHOOP ERASE ERASE, LET'S MAKE HER INTO A CELEBRITY! NOW SHE'S FAMOUS! AND WE'VE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT HER PAST!

Ugh. I guess I'm still bitter.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That is bizarre. The only drama I've seen do such a weird switcheroo was Loveholic, which went from teacher-student love affair, ooooh, forbidden, he has awful home life etc etc. to "she runs a restaurant and he's a former prisoner" somewhere between eps 5 and 6. I ended up enjoying Loveholic but that was freaky as heck. (Also, after eps 1-5 it was on track in my top 10, and then by the end it was in the "I liked it but no way is it going into faves" category).

[mishane.livejournal.com]

which went from teacher-student love affair, ooooh, forbidden, he has awful home life etc etc. to "she runs a restaurant and he's a former prisoner"

Wait what? Did their interactions/power play stay the same?

Weird.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. If by "the same" you mean "even more angsty."

Basically, it goes like this.

She's a high-school teacher engaged to this hottie prosecutor. She starts at a new school and he's her student/grandson of her landlady. He has huge family trauma/worthlessness issues blahblah she takes an interest in him, he gloms like limpet, they have awesome unhealthy OTP. She's a narcoleptic (really!) who gets episodes from stress but in a kdrama world it means she also doesn't remember what happens right before her episodes.

Anywho, she accidentally kills someone in one of her fits and he takes the blame for it and goes to jail for her (she doesn't know she didn't do it). And breaks up with her for her own good.

Fast-forward 5 (?) years, he's out, nobody wants to hire an ex-con angst angst angst then he gets hired in a restaurant at an assistant cook and she is the manager/boss (being a smart woman, after that whole ep, she decided teaching was not for her) and she's still engaged and aaaaaaangst of awesomeness ensues.

I have never seen so many mutual 'break ups for his/her own good' in my entire life. It was pretty nifty and angsty, even if the pace slowed down like hell after the jail stuff.

Oh, and she gets married after all.

But that's OK, that's why God invented divorce.

Anyway, it's super overwrought.

[mishane.livejournal.com]

She's a narcoleptic (really!) who gets episodes from stress but in a kdrama world it means she also doesn't remember what happens right before her episodes. Anywho, she accidentally kills someone in one of her fits and he takes the blame for it and goes to jail for her (she doesn't know she didn't do it). And breaks up with her for her own good.

My face went O_O

It sounds very very angsty.

But that now prepares me for my daily lunchtime viewing of Byaku Yaku (sp?).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's all deliciously angsty. I eat that stuff up.

Yeah, Byakuyakuyu (I can never remember the spelling - I think it's that?) is super-dysfunctional.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

In-soon is pretty: I wonder what you'd think of this one. It is totally OTT - might be your thing. I am not sure how the main herouine will fare with you, though. She is very "I am the lowest of the lowest". And then the celebrity thing is totally odd.

I loved the secondary couple, though. lee Wan - I lurve you!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I'll see how Insoon goes - I love Lee Wan and KMJ but yeah, I've heard it's problematic. Oh well, if I don't like it, I can always stop.