Dorama cornucopia

I've had a day where I tried out a lot of doramas.

I've watched the beginning of Sassy Girl Chun-Hyang which seems funny (and the heroine is spunky and the hero is cool) but which I will watch properly later.

I've watched the first half of ep 10 of Tokyo Juliet which was excellent. ( spoilers for ep 10 )

I've also watched the first six eps of It Started with a Kiss. Too fluffy and angst free for me to watch in huge doses, but in small doses, very fun. I am so totally into Zhi Shu. ( ISWAK thoughts )

I also watched the first episode of Sang Doo, let's go to school, a K-drama starring Rain (yes, I am addicted, why do you ask?) as the titular character, who is a young gigolo with a small sickly daughter who meets the one true love of his life (a girl he loved in high school but who moved away and then he went to jail long story) again and their feelings are still there. It's excellent, excellent, excellent. I highly recommend. In addition to Rain, to whom I am apparently a hopeless dorama slave, it's beautifully shot and the story itself is rather delicately lovely. There is this one scene where he comes out in the rain and sees her asleep in the car, and just the look on his face, watching her through the window, is worth the price of the DVD. I also love how it keeps flashing between their innocent golden past (where they rode on bicycles through idyllic green fields and sat looking at fireflies by the river, and where he was the smart, confident and popular boy) and their tattered present (where they are in a dingy city environment, and he is a overburdened young father with no prospects and a seedy and desperate career as a gigolo and con-artist).

( thoughts on one particular flashback in the ep )

But ultimately, this Labor Day, my heart belongs to Love Contract a Taiwanese dorama starring Mike He and Ariel Lin. I've only watched a little bit (the credits, which are beyond gorgeous) and the ending, but I am going to fall madly in love with it, I can tell. Mike He is unnaturally gorgeous, and I've discovered this already in Devil Beside You, but here, where he has normal hair, has naturalistic acting, and a boatload of angst? He is a weapon of mass female destruction. Just take a look:



And I like Ariel Lin more and more with each dorama I watch. And it's all very pretty.



( More Love Contract pics )

I will post picspams and more meta on both Sang Doo and Love Contract, but for now, time for bed.

Dorama cornucopia

I've had a day where I tried out a lot of doramas.

I've watched the beginning of Sassy Girl Chun-Hyang which seems funny (and the heroine is spunky and the hero is cool) but which I will watch properly later.

I've watched the first half of ep 10 of Tokyo Juliet which was excellent. ( spoilers for ep 10 )

I've also watched the first six eps of It Started with a Kiss. Too fluffy and angst free for me to watch in huge doses, but in small doses, very fun. I am so totally into Zhi Shu. ( ISWAK thoughts )

I also watched the first episode of Sang Doo, let's go to school, a K-drama starring Rain (yes, I am addicted, why do you ask?) as the titular character, who is a young gigolo with a small sickly daughter who meets the one true love of his life (a girl he loved in high school but who moved away and then he went to jail long story) again and their feelings are still there. It's excellent, excellent, excellent. I highly recommend. In addition to Rain, to whom I am apparently a hopeless dorama slave, it's beautifully shot and the story itself is rather delicately lovely. There is this one scene where he comes out in the rain and sees her asleep in the car, and just the look on his face, watching her through the window, is worth the price of the DVD. I also love how it keeps flashing between their innocent golden past (where they rode on bicycles through idyllic green fields and sat looking at fireflies by the river, and where he was the smart, confident and popular boy) and their tattered present (where they are in a dingy city environment, and he is a overburdened young father with no prospects and a seedy and desperate career as a gigolo and con-artist).

( thoughts on one particular flashback in the ep )

But ultimately, this Labor Day, my heart belongs to Love Contract a Taiwanese dorama starring Mike He and Ariel Lin. I've only watched a little bit (the credits, which are beyond gorgeous) and the ending, but I am going to fall madly in love with it, I can tell. Mike He is unnaturally gorgeous, and I've discovered this already in Devil Beside You, but here, where he has normal hair, has naturalistic acting, and a boatload of angst? He is a weapon of mass female destruction. Just take a look:



And I like Ariel Lin more and more with each dorama I watch. And it's all very pretty.



( More Love Contract pics )

I will post picspams and more meta on both Sang Doo and Love Contract, but for now, time for bed.

Dorama cornucopia

I've had a day where I tried out a lot of doramas.

I've watched the beginning of Sassy Girl Chun-Hyang which seems funny (and the heroine is spunky and the hero is cool) but which I will watch properly later.

I've watched the first half of ep 10 of Tokyo Juliet which was excellent. ( spoilers for ep 10 )

I've also watched the first six eps of It Started with a Kiss. Too fluffy and angst free for me to watch in huge doses, but in small doses, very fun. I am so totally into Zhi Shu. ( ISWAK thoughts )

I also watched the first episode of Sang Doo, let's go to school, a K-drama starring Rain (yes, I am addicted, why do you ask?) as the titular character, who is a young gigolo with a small sickly daughter who meets the one true love of his life (a girl he loved in high school but who moved away and then he went to jail long story) again and their feelings are still there. It's excellent, excellent, excellent. I highly recommend. In addition to Rain, to whom I am apparently a hopeless dorama slave, it's beautifully shot and the story itself is rather delicately lovely. There is this one scene where he comes out in the rain and sees her asleep in the car, and just the look on his face, watching her through the window, is worth the price of the DVD. I also love how it keeps flashing between their innocent golden past (where they rode on bicycles through idyllic green fields and sat looking at fireflies by the river, and where he was the smart, confident and popular boy) and their tattered present (where they are in a dingy city environment, and he is a overburdened young father with no prospects and a seedy and desperate career as a gigolo and con-artist).

( thoughts on one particular flashback in the ep )

But ultimately, this Labor Day, my heart belongs to Love Contract a Taiwanese dorama starring Mike He and Ariel Lin. I've only watched a little bit (the credits, which are beyond gorgeous) and the ending, but I am going to fall madly in love with it, I can tell. Mike He is unnaturally gorgeous, and I've discovered this already in Devil Beside You, but here, where he has normal hair, has naturalistic acting, and a boatload of angst? He is a weapon of mass female destruction. Just take a look:



And I like Ariel Lin more and more with each dorama I watch. And it's all very pretty.



( More Love Contract pics )

I will post picspams and more meta on both Sang Doo and Love Contract, but for now, time for bed.

Hot guys make it all better.

It's a dreary rainy Tuesday. But I have something to brighten it up.

Vic Zhou. With good hair (first two are from Silence):



( A couple more )

Hot guys make it all better.

It's a dreary rainy Tuesday. But I have something to brighten it up.

Vic Zhou. With good hair (first two are from Silence):



( A couple more )

Hot guys make it all better.

It's a dreary rainy Tuesday. But I have something to brighten it up.

Vic Zhou. With good hair (first two are from Silence):



( A couple more )

Woe for the multiply obsessed

I have managed to get hooked on Sang Doo, let's go to school (gorgeously shot, angsty Rain, and nifty romance), It Started with a Kiss (hilarious, fluffy, and with an OTP that makes me SQUEE not to mention Zhi Shu is my fictional crush) AND Love Contract (beautiful blues, feeling of a grown-up fairy-tale, Ariel Lin at her most adorable and Mike He with gorgeous hair, angsting AND without a shirt).

Great, right?

But I got hooked on them AT THE SAME TIME.

I can't watch them at the same time (duh) and as I watch one, I get upset I am not watching the others. Hopeless!!!!

I really need a Mike He icon.

Woe for the multiply obsessed

I have managed to get hooked on Sang Doo, let's go to school (gorgeously shot, angsty Rain, and nifty romance), It Started with a Kiss (hilarious, fluffy, and with an OTP that makes me SQUEE not to mention Zhi Shu is my fictional crush) AND Love Contract (beautiful blues, feeling of a grown-up fairy-tale, Ariel Lin at her most adorable and Mike He with gorgeous hair, angsting AND without a shirt).

Great, right?

But I got hooked on them AT THE SAME TIME.

I can't watch them at the same time (duh) and as I watch one, I get upset I am not watching the others. Hopeless!!!!

I really need a Mike He icon.

Woe for the multiply obsessed

I have managed to get hooked on Sang Doo, let's go to school (gorgeously shot, angsty Rain, and nifty romance), It Started with a Kiss (hilarious, fluffy, and with an OTP that makes me SQUEE not to mention Zhi Shu is my fictional crush) AND Love Contract (beautiful blues, feeling of a grown-up fairy-tale, Ariel Lin at her most adorable and Mike He with gorgeous hair, angsting AND without a shirt).

Great, right?

But I got hooked on them AT THE SAME TIME.

I can't watch them at the same time (duh) and as I watch one, I get upset I am not watching the others. Hopeless!!!!

I really need a Mike He icon.

In love with Love Contract

I am about episode and a half into Love Contract and am more in love with it since I've been with anything since...last thing I was in love with :)

Love Contract centers around Xiao Feng (played by Ariel Lin in my favorite of the three things I've seen her so far) and Ken (played by Mike He who has never looked better). Xiao Feng is a tomboy (she wears loose, baggy clothing and even an unpretty short wig to school so as to get less attention) and is a president of the college kendo (type of fighting) club. She runs it with a strict strict hand, and two of the members rebel and decide to join the swim team instead, only to find out too late that the swim team captain is just as strict and perfectionist as Xiao Feng herself. The captain in question is Ken, who is a quiet loner, the strong and silent type. Well, the friends decide to make life easier for themselves and offer Ken a deal. In exchange for finding a coach and swim team members (no one really want to join), he would have to take Xiao Feng out for a movie. That way (reason they) maybe both of them will mellow out. And it goes from there.

First off, because it needs to be stated: Mike He is FRELLING hot! Seriously, it's unreal. In fact, between this and Devil Beside You, if you want to check him out, I'd rec this one. I like the story better but also he looks much better in this one, and the acting is natural (not OTT the way DBY was) and hey, I find his character more appealing.

But now, for meta. It obviously is spoilers for the first ep and a half, but it's all set-up anyway so I don't reall think it's spoilery. Still, bits pertaining specifically to the eps are under the cut.

I love the way this is shot. It's beautiful. I love that whenever XF chats on the computer she is literally in a rectangle of light tubes (I am not sure how to explain it, but it's really cool). Blues predominate and the images of water are really really prevalent. Both XF and Ken relate to water in different but very crucial ways. When we first see XF, she is in the aquarium, and she seems the most relaxed and at peace I've seen her so far (and there is another acquarium at home). And the one shot of her i the shower makes her look as if she is cleansing herself in the water, not just cleaning. ( spoilers for ep 1 )

In love with Love Contract

I am about episode and a half into Love Contract and am more in love with it since I've been with anything since...last thing I was in love with :)

Love Contract centers around Xiao Feng (played by Ariel Lin in my favorite of the three things I've seen her so far) and Ken (played by Mike He who has never looked better). Xiao Feng is a tomboy (she wears loose, baggy clothing and even an unpretty short wig to school so as to get less attention) and is a president of the college kendo (type of fighting) club. She runs it with a strict strict hand, and two of the members rebel and decide to join the swim team instead, only to find out too late that the swim team captain is just as strict and perfectionist as Xiao Feng herself. The captain in question is Ken, who is a quiet loner, the strong and silent type. Well, the friends decide to make life easier for themselves and offer Ken a deal. In exchange for finding a coach and swim team members (no one really want to join), he would have to take Xiao Feng out for a movie. That way (reason they) maybe both of them will mellow out. And it goes from there.

First off, because it needs to be stated: Mike He is FRELLING hot! Seriously, it's unreal. In fact, between this and Devil Beside You, if you want to check him out, I'd rec this one. I like the story better but also he looks much better in this one, and the acting is natural (not OTT the way DBY was) and hey, I find his character more appealing.

But now, for meta. It obviously is spoilers for the first ep and a half, but it's all set-up anyway so I don't reall think it's spoilery. Still, bits pertaining specifically to the eps are under the cut.

I love the way this is shot. It's beautiful. I love that whenever XF chats on the computer she is literally in a rectangle of light tubes (I am not sure how to explain it, but it's really cool). Blues predominate and the images of water are really really prevalent. Both XF and Ken relate to water in different but very crucial ways. When we first see XF, she is in the aquarium, and she seems the most relaxed and at peace I've seen her so far (and there is another acquarium at home). And the one shot of her i the shower makes her look as if she is cleansing herself in the water, not just cleaning. ( spoilers for ep 1 )

In love with Love Contract

I am about episode and a half into Love Contract and am more in love with it since I've been with anything since...last thing I was in love with :)

Love Contract centers around Xiao Feng (played by Ariel Lin in my favorite of the three things I've seen her so far) and Ken (played by Mike He who has never looked better). Xiao Feng is a tomboy (she wears loose, baggy clothing and even an unpretty short wig to school so as to get less attention) and is a president of the college kendo (type of fighting) club. She runs it with a strict strict hand, and two of the members rebel and decide to join the swim team instead, only to find out too late that the swim team captain is just as strict and perfectionist as Xiao Feng herself. The captain in question is Ken, who is a quiet loner, the strong and silent type. Well, the friends decide to make life easier for themselves and offer Ken a deal. In exchange for finding a coach and swim team members (no one really want to join), he would have to take Xiao Feng out for a movie. That way (reason they) maybe both of them will mellow out. And it goes from there.

First off, because it needs to be stated: Mike He is FRELLING hot! Seriously, it's unreal. In fact, between this and Devil Beside You, if you want to check him out, I'd rec this one. I like the story better but also he looks much better in this one, and the acting is natural (not OTT the way DBY was) and hey, I find his character more appealing.

But now, for meta. It obviously is spoilers for the first ep and a half, but it's all set-up anyway so I don't reall think it's spoilery. Still, bits pertaining specifically to the eps are under the cut.

I love the way this is shot. It's beautiful. I love that whenever XF chats on the computer she is literally in a rectangle of light tubes (I am not sure how to explain it, but it's really cool). Blues predominate and the images of water are really really prevalent. Both XF and Ken relate to water in different but very crucial ways. When we first see XF, she is in the aquarium, and she seems the most relaxed and at peace I've seen her so far (and there is another acquarium at home). And the one shot of her i the shower makes her look as if she is cleansing herself in the water, not just cleaning. ( spoilers for ep 1 )