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dangermousieHave finished ep 6 and have only one thing to say - I have fallen madly for the secondary OTP in Swallow the Sun.
He is a mercenary and she is a suicidal stripper!
OMG you guys, they wrote it just for me!
It can't be more perfect! He can take on 20 men unarmed but falls apart when she tries to kill herself - he freaks out in the ambulance as the doctors fight to save her! She is the daughter of the biggest moneylender in Korea and totally messed up! He is no fountain of sanity himself! Her father hires people to kill him because he blames him for his daughter's condition! He finds her father after that and breaks in to tell him he will take care of the guy's daughter, bows, and walks off as moneylender threatens death! She is a stripper in a seedy Las Vegas club and he comes in to watch her strip! She sees him and doesn't pause even a millisecond in her performance! He tells her he is going to get a bodyguarding job so she should stop stripping! She responds that she can't - what if he takes off (he is a total gypsy), what will she live on? And then they clutch each other!
OTP OTP OTP OTP OTP!
This Jackson, the mercenary, about to take on a bunch of thugs hired by Amy the Stripper's Dad to kill him.
After a lot of awesome butt-kicking on his part, things don't go too well for him but he's rescued by Hero.
Amy tries to kill herself:
Jackson flies all the way back to Korea just to track Amy's dad down and tell him he will take care of Amy, bow, and walk off (I am not sure if they previously broke up or what - I don't think so as they were living together. I wonder if moneylender thinks Amy wouldn't have become a stripper if not for Jackson. But I am not sure why as Jackson clearly dislikes her stripping. Hmmm. Maybe she ran away from home to be with him and then the rest followed? No idea).
Amy is kinda gorgeous, btw.
She invites heroine and roomie over for dinner (they live in the same apartment complex) and when they exchange pleasantries and the girls tell her they are studying she tells them she is a stripper :)
There she is performing (I think she invited the girls to watch).
OMG, I totally died during this scene!
He waits for her after her show.
He tells her he is back for good and is going to get a job being a bodyguard so can she stop stripping. But she replies, matter-of-factly that she can't - what if he leaves again (obviously he is a pretty peripatetic person not to mention adventuring isn't a stable profession) - she doesn't want to depend on him, she wants to be sure she can support herself. And then she tells him she loves him and that now she won't be despondent when he goes away because she'll be sure he'll come back. They are so dysfunctional, I love it!
On a less incoherent note - you know what is one of the biggest things I love about Swallow the Sun? So far it has three major female characters and they are all allowed to be complex, strong, complicated women. And even weirder in kdrama context? They are 'full' of sexuality and none of it is viewed as a horrible thing at all.
The heroine knocks boots more than once with hero (though I haven't gotten to that point yet) and there is no bones made about it - they love each other, so of course they will be physical with each other. Did I mention that she is strong-willed and works for success on her own terms and her own merit only - she rejects Rich Boy's offer to make her success dreams to come true repeatedly because she says she wants to build her own kingdom, not be a queen in someone else's.
And the heroine's best friend - I call her Roommie - is a gorgeous, good-natured girl who clearly enjoys serial boyfriends (or maybe dating more than one guy at a time) and sex with them. The drama does not view her as a slut at all for this - just someone with a healthy sexuality. The scene where heroine walks in on her with boyfriend-of-the-day is remarkably normal - a sort of 'let me know next time please' thing, not a judgey thing on the part of the characters or makers at all.
And then there is Amy (I blank on her Korean name) the Stripper. Even more remarkably the drama does not look down on her either - she is presented as a gorgeous, fragile woman every bit an equal of anyone else. (She is a stripper in part because she is messed-up, not messed-up because she is a stripper, if the distinction makes sense). In fact, when her boyfriend asks her to quit her work and offers to support her, the drama clearly sides with her when she says she cannot rely on him but needs to support herself.
But then it's by the same people who made All In, Jumong, The Kingdom of the Winds, Lobbyist, and IRIS. These dramas may be different from each other in many aspects but in one they never deviate - they are chock-dull of strong complex women, every bit as interesting and challenging as the men.
Proper recap of eps 5-6 to come btw - never fear, I still adore hero and heroine to bits!
He is a mercenary and she is a suicidal stripper!
OMG you guys, they wrote it just for me!
It can't be more perfect! He can take on 20 men unarmed but falls apart when she tries to kill herself - he freaks out in the ambulance as the doctors fight to save her! She is the daughter of the biggest moneylender in Korea and totally messed up! He is no fountain of sanity himself! Her father hires people to kill him because he blames him for his daughter's condition! He finds her father after that and breaks in to tell him he will take care of the guy's daughter, bows, and walks off as moneylender threatens death! She is a stripper in a seedy Las Vegas club and he comes in to watch her strip! She sees him and doesn't pause even a millisecond in her performance! He tells her he is going to get a bodyguarding job so she should stop stripping! She responds that she can't - what if he takes off (he is a total gypsy), what will she live on? And then they clutch each other!
OTP OTP OTP OTP OTP!
This Jackson, the mercenary, about to take on a bunch of thugs hired by Amy the Stripper's Dad to kill him.
After a lot of awesome butt-kicking on his part, things don't go too well for him but he's rescued by Hero.
Amy tries to kill herself:
Jackson flies all the way back to Korea just to track Amy's dad down and tell him he will take care of Amy, bow, and walk off (I am not sure if they previously broke up or what - I don't think so as they were living together. I wonder if moneylender thinks Amy wouldn't have become a stripper if not for Jackson. But I am not sure why as Jackson clearly dislikes her stripping. Hmmm. Maybe she ran away from home to be with him and then the rest followed? No idea).
Amy is kinda gorgeous, btw.
She invites heroine and roomie over for dinner (they live in the same apartment complex) and when they exchange pleasantries and the girls tell her they are studying she tells them she is a stripper :)
There she is performing (I think she invited the girls to watch).
OMG, I totally died during this scene!
He waits for her after her show.
He tells her he is back for good and is going to get a job being a bodyguard so can she stop stripping. But she replies, matter-of-factly that she can't - what if he leaves again (obviously he is a pretty peripatetic person not to mention adventuring isn't a stable profession) - she doesn't want to depend on him, she wants to be sure she can support herself. And then she tells him she loves him and that now she won't be despondent when he goes away because she'll be sure he'll come back. They are so dysfunctional, I love it!
On a less incoherent note - you know what is one of the biggest things I love about Swallow the Sun? So far it has three major female characters and they are all allowed to be complex, strong, complicated women. And even weirder in kdrama context? They are 'full' of sexuality and none of it is viewed as a horrible thing at all.
The heroine knocks boots more than once with hero (though I haven't gotten to that point yet) and there is no bones made about it - they love each other, so of course they will be physical with each other. Did I mention that she is strong-willed and works for success on her own terms and her own merit only - she rejects Rich Boy's offer to make her success dreams to come true repeatedly because she says she wants to build her own kingdom, not be a queen in someone else's.
And the heroine's best friend - I call her Roommie - is a gorgeous, good-natured girl who clearly enjoys serial boyfriends (or maybe dating more than one guy at a time) and sex with them. The drama does not view her as a slut at all for this - just someone with a healthy sexuality. The scene where heroine walks in on her with boyfriend-of-the-day is remarkably normal - a sort of 'let me know next time please' thing, not a judgey thing on the part of the characters or makers at all.
And then there is Amy (I blank on her Korean name) the Stripper. Even more remarkably the drama does not look down on her either - she is presented as a gorgeous, fragile woman every bit an equal of anyone else. (She is a stripper in part because she is messed-up, not messed-up because she is a stripper, if the distinction makes sense). In fact, when her boyfriend asks her to quit her work and offers to support her, the drama clearly sides with her when she says she cannot rely on him but needs to support herself.
But then it's by the same people who made All In, Jumong, The Kingdom of the Winds, Lobbyist, and IRIS. These dramas may be different from each other in many aspects but in one they never deviate - they are chock-dull of strong complex women, every bit as interesting and challenging as the men.
Proper recap of eps 5-6 to come btw - never fear, I still adore hero and heroine to bits!
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Date: 2010-03-24 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-24 06:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-24 12:43 pm (UTC)He crushed on her when they were little (though clearly got over it by now - he falls for her 'properly' as an adult) but she doesn't even remember him and certainly wasn't crushing on him back then. It's one of those 'tough messed-up guy worships the ground the girl walks on' OTPs.
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Date: 2010-03-24 12:51 pm (UTC)I have to say, I've seen things in this drama I have never seen in a kdrama before (including strippers :P).
This is Heroine's best friend with her boyfriend. Did I mention the guy is *gasp* white?????
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Date: 2010-03-24 03:17 pm (UTC)The actess that plays the lead male characters old girlfriend has to be one of the pretties women I have ever seen (Jung Ryu Won)
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Date: 2010-03-24 05:57 pm (UTC)JRW is indeed gorgeous. She starred in Princess Ja Myung Go, a period drama, recently. it's pretty good if you can find it.
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Date: 2010-03-24 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-24 06:07 pm (UTC)I hope A-1 is good - I haven't seen nearly enough HK stuff.
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Date: 2010-03-24 06:12 pm (UTC)Not a lot of period stuff, or at least the sreious period stuff, lots of, romances, comedies and romatic comedies
Lotus lantern -BSG Link-Namely- Non -Human Heroine, played by Shu Chang, who is very conflicted between her love and her quest for revenge, not to mention which side she in on, being in love with a human. Add super powers and CGI effects and it wasn't bad.
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Date: 2010-03-24 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-24 06:33 pm (UTC)At some point you feel, since the two leadds are Shu Chang's character and the male lead, that the story is almost as much about her conflict love and loyalities as it is about his quest to reunite his family.
She is a "Fox Fairy"
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Date: 2010-03-24 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-24 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 04:41 am (UTC)LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
But kidding aside, you REALLY KNOW HOW TO MESS UP MY KDRAMA ROSTER! haha! Now, I'm THIS close to watching this drama which has been thrown at the back of my list a while back.
The secondary OTP intrigues me. :)
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Date: 2010-03-25 02:15 pm (UTC)