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dangermousie1. 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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Date: 2011-02-06 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 12:07 am (UTC)BRB.
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Date: 2011-02-07 12:39 am (UTC)1. Otomen: it was so adorable. I mean, the transgender father was stereotypically portrayed, but it's Japanese television. But the ending was super cute, and I liked how the two main leads interacted. :D
2. I was watching that trailer a while back, and I was like, everyone gets shot at least once in this show, don't they?? And they don't even have guns. :P
3. As far as I know, there's a book out there with the time-travel-back-to-4th+8th's-time thing, so the two adaptations don't exactly surprise me. LSS's version looks more artsy and hence, is probably more angsty. (Surprisingly, in cdramas, that seems to be an indicator of tears, death and doom.)
I really am surprised that no one's making a drama about #14, who was, well, screwed over, to put it lightly.
4. AAAAAAAHHH GISAENG'S PLOT IS SO SLOW. (It's more obvious, too, with JPLH running sidelong.)
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Date: 2011-02-07 12:45 am (UTC)must watch Taiyou no Uta now..I'd only seen the film before!
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Date: 2011-02-07 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:08 am (UTC)in the post the person mentioned that people thought that this person was k:
but the person noticed this figure ahead [which btw i hadn't XD] and mentioned that maybe this could be k?
and to end mentioned that the person that is holding the picture, aka k, is wearing nail polish?
ignoring ym dream high rant, i really need to finish otomen.
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:08 am (UTC)2. If this was RL, both the leads would be dead long before last ep - I mean, back then to survive the kind of wounds they got (her protecting 4 and with 8's self-inflicted fun) would be pretty darn unlikely. It would take a LOT of work to save them even now and be touch and go. It's not even a knife stab - it's a sword wound - that makes a big hole!
3. Yes - also lots of snow, just in time to artistically perish :P
I read about 14 on wikipedia. I wonder if he really was the heir :)
4. It's not slow when you skip everything but one plotline :)
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 02:23 am (UTC)btw have you seen the new bts and samdong pictures?
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 02:31 am (UTC)sad samdong:
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg7zs7zWlC1qzgtn4o1_500.jpg
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg7zuno3841qzgtn4o1_500.jpg
ost cover:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg85zyjjwj1qddlq5o1_500.jpg
bts:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg85x7lpJb1qzh5sno1_500.jpg
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg866cpCtb1qzh5sno1_500.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/ixtjc2.jpg
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:33 am (UTC)It was actually your blog that spurred to watch Time Between Dog & Wolf, which was so amazing, and I can't believe i skipped over it earlier.
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:40 am (UTC)TODAW really is wonderful and very underrated.
P.S. They started subbing JPLH 6 and 7 :)
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 02:44 am (UTC)so weirdly enough it's possible for him to see, even if is incredible random for that to happen right after they stay right in front of him.
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Date: 2011-02-07 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 02:51 am (UTC)also, i wish i could find some other samdong pictures, his hair is shorter, he now has a earring and looks angry, so my guess is that he'll revolt against the world after he sees jingook and hyemi kissing.
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Date: 2011-02-07 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-07 03:36 am (UTC)dayyyyuuuummm!
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Date: 2011-02-07 03:38 am (UTC)I KEEEEEEEEL YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!
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Date: 2011-02-07 03:39 am (UTC)