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dangermousie) wrote2011-02-06 06:08 pm
dangermousie) wrote2011-02-06 06:08 pm
Everything under the sun
1. I am sure anyone who's interested has found it by now, but in case you haven't,
So gooooood! This is providing me with new criteria for boyfriend-picking - is the guy going to be willing to gut-stab self in days before modern surgery and antibiotics to save my life? If so, he gets into my skirts. (Other criteria - please pick someone whose relatives are not homicidal in their efforts to get on the throne - that way you won't have to be in danger in the first place). You know, the more I watch JPLH in general, the more I realize how well Hanadan framework works in a period drama - it raises the stakes to life-and-death levels and makes some actions and general personalities more realistic.
2. In news of dramas other than JPLH, I am really enjoying New Tales of the Gisaeng. It's a typical family drama with a billion storylines and I skip them all except for those involving Saran and Damo (individually and together) but their story I love so much! Also, love that he's mouthy to his awful father. I hate when characters are filial to bastards.
It must be love seeing how smitten he is to see her chug :P
Adorableness!
His face on hearing his friend talk about how he (friend) liked Saran but he won't date her because she's poor.
3. I finished Taiyou no Uta. So good. My favorite scene was this one in ep 7.
4. Checked the ending of Otomen to make sure it ended to my liking (jdramas tend to do annoyingly open endings) and yay!
5. In case there is any doubt about which couple I ship in Dream High, guess which scene I rewatched the most in ep 9?
6. In case you can't get enough of the "woman travels through time and ends up in love triangle with future emperor Yongzheng and Yinsi (aka guys I refer to as Four and Eight in my JPLH posts), may I alert you to Bu Bu Jing Xin, coming out later this year and starring Liu Shi Shi as the time-traveller and Nicky Wu and Kevin Cheng as the princes. I love LSS, not familiar with two male leads but they seem fine enough. It's supposed to be an angsty take on all of it (to which I want to say "only in period cdrama would JPLH be considered anything but an angstfest." Heh).
My, my, Four, is that what you have under those robes? Come to Mama, Emperor!
Without knowing anything about this story's take, I rec LSS to go for future emperor. I mean, from what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hollyxu told me, historical version of Eight ended up being tortured/poisoned in prison, which isn't really a great marriage prospect.
So gooooood! This is providing me with new criteria for boyfriend-picking - is the guy going to be willing to gut-stab self in days before modern surgery and antibiotics to save my life? If so, he gets into my skirts. (Other criteria - please pick someone whose relatives are not homicidal in their efforts to get on the throne - that way you won't have to be in danger in the first place). You know, the more I watch JPLH in general, the more I realize how well Hanadan framework works in a period drama - it raises the stakes to life-and-death levels and makes some actions and general personalities more realistic.
2. In news of dramas other than JPLH, I am really enjoying New Tales of the Gisaeng. It's a typical family drama with a billion storylines and I skip them all except for those involving Saran and Damo (individually and together) but their story I love so much! Also, love that he's mouthy to his awful father. I hate when characters are filial to bastards.
It must be love seeing how smitten he is to see her chug :P
Adorableness!
His face on hearing his friend talk about how he (friend) liked Saran but he won't date her because she's poor.
3. I finished Taiyou no Uta. So good. My favorite scene was this one in ep 7.
4. Checked the ending of Otomen to make sure it ended to my liking (jdramas tend to do annoyingly open endings) and yay!
5. In case there is any doubt about which couple I ship in Dream High, guess which scene I rewatched the most in ep 9?
6. In case you can't get enough of the "woman travels through time and ends up in love triangle with future emperor Yongzheng and Yinsi (aka guys I refer to as Four and Eight in my JPLH posts), may I alert you to Bu Bu Jing Xin, coming out later this year and starring Liu Shi Shi as the time-traveller and Nicky Wu and Kevin Cheng as the princes. I love LSS, not familiar with two male leads but they seem fine enough. It's supposed to be an angsty take on all of it (to which I want to say "only in period cdrama would JPLH be considered anything but an angstfest." Heh).
My, my, Four, is that what you have under those robes? Come to Mama, Emperor!
Without knowing anything about this story's take, I rec LSS to go for future emperor. I mean, from what
hollyxu told me, historical version of Eight ended up being tortured/poisoned in prison, which isn't really a great marriage prospect.
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Each ep of Gisaeng takes me about 10 minutes max. Heh.
Spoilers for ep6 of Gisaeng
Re: stepmom. Yeah, ep 6 has a moment where she's buttering up to Saran because she thinks SR is dating Adamo. (Oh god, what a name.) So she gets his license plate number and finds out who he is, and TO BE CERTAIN THEY'RE DATING, SHE SETS PIs ON THEM AND UUUUUGGGGH.
Re: Spoilers for ep6 of Gisaeng
I only care about that one plotline. I'd never get through Gisaeng otherwise because I'd die of boredom.
And speaking of dying, in JPLH, I am amused/amazed that the maids keep playing their 'pranks' on QC seeing that this stuff can get her beheaded. I mean, it's not 'she gets kicked out or pelted with vegetables" a la Hanadan, that's death. Eeek.
Re: Spoilers for ep6 of Gisaeng
Mmm. Well, Saran is the hospital director (Rara's adoptive dad)'s illegitimate daughter through the chief cook, so once they figure it out things ought to get more interesting. Esp because Rara is set up to fail in so many different ways.
Re: Spoilers for ep6 of Gisaeng
Re: maids. I can see why they bully her when they think they can get on the princes' good side by doing so (and she's pretty independent and has special privileges which are bound to piss them off) but I am with you - the second she mentioned 8 wants her for a concubine, they really should have stopped everything cold. "But she told him no" wouldn't really hold much water as a reason for go-ahead for anyone with half a brain because they should see the way this is going to play out before screwing with her some more (because let's face it - if they got her killed after he started liking her, their fate wouldn't have been too good). I guess they are just dumb.