The switch! The switch has flipped!

[dangermousie]

You all know the switch I am talking about - the one which transforms a drama (or book or movie or...) that you are enjoying into something you simply can't be without and must see more of, all the while being emotionally invested like a lunatic. All of a sudden, they cease to be characters to you and become people, people you love and care and worry for. When that happens, there is no way back - you are hooked, you must continue, and you will love it to the bitter end. Many (most) dramas don't get there, but the ones that do - that is why I watch dramas, after all.

And, you guys, the switch just flipped on for my with Sunny Happiness! Six episodes in, it just went from 'entertaining and well-made, I don't mind watching more' to 'must must must must watch more I love them so much want want want'. I can pinpoint the exact scene it happened, actually - when Yun Jie and Yong Yong (that's Mike He and Janine Chang's characters' names btw - you know it's bad when I learn names) went drinking after YJ met his son. The scene with them talking in the bar, quietly, with Yun Jie having his reserve slowly broken by the double whammy of emotional overload and wine, and thus actually opening up and pouring his heart out about his life and what he hopes for and thinks to Yong Yong in a scene that felt so very real, just - it got me. There is no other way to explain. Suddenly the drama went from fun to loved.

And then the scene with her having to drag him to her home, as the normally control-freak YJ gets to be the funniest, most inconvenient, adorable drunk ever - it's like the cherry on top of the sundae. I giggled my way through that scene. But in a happy, adoring, loving way. Because SH finally got my heart and it is not giving it up any time soon.

If I combine watching this with Young Warriors of the Yang Clan - that's a hell of a twofer.

Comments

[ockoala.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, you're a goner. Welcome to the party. I just recapped that scene last night - my third rewatch and it was still as perfect as ever.

TW dramas sometimes does honest quiet moments with real dialogue like no other. K-dramas veers towards the dramatic speechifying between OTPs or jokey quipping a lot.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes. I am now figuring out exactly how much sleep I am going to get between all the dramas I am watching, especially since I've never been obsessed about two dramas at the same time. Oh, this is going to get sleep-deprived and insane.

Yes, when twdramas get it right, it feels very real. Kdramas with few exceptions (anything written by Noh Ye Kyung) always give a heightened sense - not really a real world but a dramatic version thereof.

[(Anonymous)]

That exactly the scene that flipped though I love the presiding cliffy sunset scene is winning me already. This is my favorite episode.

Noone can escape ockoala's pimping! I might not have cont up to ep6 and a goner w/o her coz the ex wife part is deal breaker.

Welcome to the dark Sunny side.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL, thank you, I shall make myself at home :)

[phoenixbasilisk.livejournal.com]

YAAAAY! mousie has joined the SH club!! *throws confetti*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am so addicted.

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

I love Sunny Happiness rather unlike any other twdrama I have in the past, but its recurring pattern of evil-crazy-career-woman-who-is-a-bitch and...

SPOILER

... gets her comeuppance in a rather disproportionate manner re: lifelong disability, that pattern? It drives me absolutely NUTS. It's like no one knows how to write career women in romances without having them go psycho on everyone. Guys! Newsflash! Not every woman's like that!

/complaining

That being said, this show hit pretty much every 'YAY ROMANCE!!' spot I had. ♥

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I don't think she was a bitch because she's a career woman, she was a bitch because she lied to her kid and her ex for years. Telling kid/ex the truth wouldn't have affected her career one bit.

This said, true, most dramas don't do career women well.

[timescout.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was wondering how long it'd take for you to get fully onboard. Not that long it seems. :)

I've enjoyed SH quite a bit and I'm about to finish it off come weekend as the last two epis seem to be subbed now.

Loved that particular scene/sequence too. It was lovely, funny and yes, felt very real.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

What I love in SH is that wihin the absolutely insane premise (CEO has a child he knew nothing about! In order to get custody he contract-marries his janitor! Eleventy!) this drama is a fairly realistic and low-key exploration of what two normal average people would do in such a situation.

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

i found it a lot easier to just ff everytime crazy ex-wife showed up, and also when the secondary male and/or his crazy fiancee showed up, although, of the 3, i sympathise with the fiancee the most. just wished she would stop being so shrill and self-serving.

off the three, the younger brother was the only one i really disliked. the other 2 women i can understand, but him. ARGH! Where is my trust rusty spoon when i need it?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how happy it makes me feel that I am not the only one not fangirling younger brother. He hasn't yet done anything to annoy me (am on ep 7) but I find both the character and the actor about as interesting as wall paint.

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

... he gets better. Honest. I can say this having watched the whole thing now.

Maybe I should go back and re-watch (which I almost NEVER do ... there's a thought)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Can't wait then :)

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

I was ff-ing through his bits in the first part, lol. So I feel I can speak with authority on this.

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

lol, i have watched the whole thing too, and unfortunately, he did not get any better for me, until perhaps the last 5 mins of the last episode, but by then, it was too late.

i just find the character extremely repugnant. i understand wanting to prove to your family your competency, but i draw the line at using a girl and pretending that you love her and want to marry her in order to do it. heck, if you're actually gonna do this, then play it well. actually treat her well, and he cant even do that.

sigh, if i say anymore, i fear i may be giving spoilers... let's just say, he's very close to the place where i put hanazawa rui.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You don't like Rui??????

*shock*