Drama stuff and a badfic comment

[dangermousie]

1. OK, Still Wants to Marry, it's just ridiculous of you to tease me with this:



When I won't get subs for at least a week.

Also, the blatant fanservice for (presumably older lady viewing audience) is pretty amusing. I thought the college badboy rocker fantasy sort of dies with leaving college but it seems not. I mean, yeah, it's OK for a 20-yr-old to want that sort of thing, but for a 30+-yr-old professional heroine? Bizarre. Seriously. How is he going to support you? I am both amused (because Kim Bum = automatic awwww) and a little skeeved out - I kinda want him to hook-up with an age-appropriate college girl instead.

2. I watched ep 2 of Wallflower over the weekend and it is official:

(a) I am really enjoying this drama
(b) They watered down the weirdness/made it more serious than the manga but not badly so
(c) They weakened Sunako a bit but she's still pretty awesome.

As far as adaptations go, it's pretty good. There is not much to meta about this drama but it's a fun watch.

They are going to give me my Takenaga/Noi. YESSSS.



Seriously, you have no idea of my glee that they have Noi in this!



Without weird fringe and bizarro mannerisms, actress who plays Sunako is quite gorgeous.



I am probably heartless but I was sort of LOLing while Kyohei was angsting about being repeatedly sexually harrassed by men and women because He! Is! Too! Pretty! Mainly because I just cannot buy Kame as inspiring any sort of hormonal frenzy in the entirety of the population of Japan. He's not even good-looking, let alone irresistable. Oh well. There there, Kyohei, I am sorry, I do feel bad for you. Now don't head-butt me, k?



I wonder if they are going to bring in the story with Kyohei's crazy mother (and Sunako's solution which is food).

Anyway, it's a great deal of fun.

3. Dear Amazon reviewer, if you start your 1-star review by saying that maybe you've been spoiled "by the literary prowess of Diana Gabaldon", you have just ensured I cannot take anything you say seriously. (Btw, the review was for 'Confessions of an Austen Addict' - no great book but at least it did not have pages and pages of graphic s&m rape meant to titillate the viewers). Gabaldon - archenemy.

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[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Gabaldon - archenemy.

HAHA! OMG, YOU TOO! I am mystified by the popularity of those books >:|

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't get those books. Leaving aside the s&m obsession, the writing style is clunky - with random historical facts plopped in blocks in the middle of the text, and the characters painfully anachronistic.

I got Outlander by mistake - it was shelved in general fiction - oh boy, did I regret it!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

with random historical facts plopped in blocks in the middle of the text, and the characters painfully anachronistic.

I KNOW! I actually read the first two because people on a Dunnett list I was on were very into them and I just ... WHAT???? (I even read two to make sure I wasn't misled by the first one. Heh!) The painfully clunky "I DID MY HISTORICAL RESEARCH" stuff annoyed me no end too!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Dunnett fans liked them? Oy vey.

The way she absolutely failed to integrate her research into the fabric of her writing or the behavior of her characters was pretty terrifying. But I guess it must be hard to have a good integrated flow of the story when you must interrupt the narrative with sex scenes every 20 pages which was another pet peeve. I have nothing against explicit and recurring sex scenes if they make sense in context/add something to the story - Teresa Batista by Jorge Amado is one of my favorte books - but her scenes were just stuck there for questionable 'hotness' factor. After the first one I just started flipping the pages when another one appeared because it added nothing and instead killed any flow of the story dead.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Mainly because I just cannot buy Kame as inspiring any sort of hormonal frenzy in the entirety of the population of Japan. He's not even good-looking, let alone irresistable. Oh well.

He is so very the opposite of my type -- I'm even doing him the favor of leaving out his personality and considering his looks objectively -- but every time he leaves me cold. Maybe if he put on about twenty pounds.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Pssst, ep 3 of Chuno is out of VIA. And eps 5-6 are available on viikii (4 wasn't as last I checked yesterday and on via in withs2 but that could have changed since I last looked).

Re: kame. I know nothing about him outside seeing him in dramas - I like him in dramas quite a lot but lookwise - Good God. I mean, I crushed on his characters in Sapuri and Tattakoi but it certainly wasn;t because of looks but of personalities. Objectively, he is too skinny, girly-looking and with horrific Farrah Fawcett haircut. So no. I mean, I can see hordes of women chasing after Takeshi Kaneshiro or Nagase or (going for younger bunch here) Takki but Kame? No way.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Oooh, shiny! I may hold off until 4 comes out of VIA so I can have a big omnomnom fest. (I've also been distracted by Invincible Lee Pyung Kang OMG SO ADORABLE AND SQUISHY AND I LOVE THEM ALL AND I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY POCKETS AFJDSFJSDFSDF)

Objectively, he is too skinny, girly-looking and with horrific Farrah Fawcett haircut.

And he takes himself SO SERIOUSLY. I had secondhand embarrassment watching him dance in the opening credits.

[biases.livejournal.com]

've also been distracted by Invincible Lee Pyung Kang OMG SO ADORABLE AND SQUISHY AND I LOVE THEM ALL AND I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY POCKETS AFJDSFJSDFSDF

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. *high fives*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

PK is sooooo cute

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

"Still wants to marry" has two of my fave actresses (from "Money Warfare" and "Fly High") - I am so on this bandwagon. A bit confusing that they had a drama with the exactly same name in 2004.

They are going to give me my Takenaga/Noi. YESSSS.

Decided, I am d-ling this. But isn't that girl with the strange haircut Noi (the first Wallflower screencap) ? But I am still giggling imagining Kame-as-women-magnet and a bit worried that they weakened Sanako.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's Noi. Her hair looks nice enough in the drama :)

Sunako is still cool, IMO, but MMV. Re: Kame. I know. LOLOL.

Re: Marry. This one is supposed to be a sort of AU of the 2004 one.

[biases.livejournal.com]

See, I'm attracted to Kame against my will. Like, objectively I can see that he's not that beautiful, and he needs to eat an entire cow (or three) but there's something about him that just makes me love him anyway. I have the first episode of Wallflower lying around somewhere, I just haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Soon!

And Noi looks SO CUTE. I love Noi SO MUCH. I love that she's so single-minded in her pursuit of Takenaga and their little romance makes me so happy every time I read. Uchi looks surprisingly excellent as Takenaga, as well.

OH, and I hated the Gabaldon books as well. I got through three, I think, but I was a bit perturbed that all the villains had no interest in Claire and only wanted to touch Jamie inappropriately. I was like, "...is this really historically accurate?!"

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Wallflower is silly silly fun.


I adore Noi. Awwww.

Gabaldon - it was basically 'careful there, lady, your id is showing.'