Life is better with plastic surgery

The drama season seems to be gearing up, thank God! We have the starriness of IRIS and the crackiness of You're Beautiful to look forward to.

Soompi, while going gangbusters in anticipation of both of those, seems singularly unconcerned with another drama starting next week, Angel's Temptation - the poor little thread for that drama stands at a pitiful 7 posts.

But that's alright, AT - I will love you if nobody else will.

Starring Lee So Yeon (best known as crazed other girl in Spring Waltz) and Bae Soo Bin (best known as the adorable, gorgeous, and inevitably loser-in-love Junse Oppa from Brilliant Legacy), AT deals with those wholesome topics - revenge, murder, and plastic surgery.

If you like revenge, that might be the drama for you, as in watching AT, you get double! Our heroine marries her husband due to wanting revenge on his family. Why she doesn't just hire a hitman to take them out instead remains a mystery - unless she has major STDs, how she will achieve revenge by sleeping with their son, I am unable to fathom. But then I always knew that Spring Waltz girl was one step from the loony bin.

Her unfortunate husband finds out her schemes but meets with an accident - voila, prestochange-o, and he is back with the help of some plastic surgery and looking like Bae Soo Bin (those are some awesome surgeons, right there).

Yes! The aggrieved, but improved in looks, husband is back. And now HE wants to wreck revenge on his wife! This drama would be so much shorter if just one of them decided to convert to Christianity and turn the other cheek. Bring on the hatesex.

How can you top this insanity? This is written by the same woman who did Wife's Temptation (about a woman whose husband fails to kill her so she comes back...*gasp* wait for it...wait for it...with a new face via plastic surgery and a thirst for revenge - this writer knows what she does well, apparently) which was apparently insane and a big hit.

Bring it on!

Trailer (though no, I do not think she literally drowns him in the bathtub in the drama :P):

WITHS2 is subbing.

Life is better with plastic surgery

The drama season seems to be gearing up, thank God! We have the starriness of IRIS and the crackiness of You're Beautiful to look forward to.

Soompi, while going gangbusters in anticipation of both of those, seems singularly unconcerned with another drama starting next week, Angel's Temptation - the poor little thread for that drama stands at a pitiful 7 posts.

But that's alright, AT - I will love you if nobody else will.

Starring Lee So Yeon (best known as crazed other girl in Spring Waltz) and Bae Soo Bin (best known as the adorable, gorgeous, and inevitably loser-in-love Junse Oppa from Brilliant Legacy), AT deals with those wholesome topics - revenge, murder, and plastic surgery.

If you like revenge, that might be the drama for you, as in watching AT, you get double! Our heroine marries her husband due to wanting revenge on his family. Why she doesn't just hire a hitman to take them out instead remains a mystery - unless she has major STDs, how she will achieve revenge by sleeping with their son, I am unable to fathom. But then I always knew that Spring Waltz girl was one step from the loony bin.

Her unfortunate husband finds out her schemes but meets with an accident - voila, prestochange-o, and he is back with the help of some plastic surgery and looking like Bae Soo Bin (those are some awesome surgeons, right there).

Yes! The aggrieved, but improved in looks, husband is back. And now HE wants to wreck revenge on his wife! This drama would be so much shorter if just one of them decided to convert to Christianity and turn the other cheek. Bring on the hatesex.

How can you top this insanity? This is written by the same woman who did Wife's Temptation (about a woman whose husband fails to kill her so she comes back...*gasp* wait for it...wait for it...with a new face via plastic surgery and a thirst for revenge - this writer knows what she does well, apparently) which was apparently insane and a big hit.

Bring it on!

Trailer (though no, I do not think she literally drowns him in the bathtub in the drama :P):

WITHS2 is subbing.

Life is better with plastic surgery

The drama season seems to be gearing up, thank God! We have the starriness of IRIS and the crackiness of You're Beautiful to look forward to.

Soompi, while going gangbusters in anticipation of both of those, seems singularly unconcerned with another drama starting next week, Angel's Temptation - the poor little thread for that drama stands at a pitiful 7 posts.

But that's alright, AT - I will love you if nobody else will.

Starring Lee So Yeon (best known as crazed other girl in Spring Waltz) and Bae Soo Bin (best known as the adorable, gorgeous, and inevitably loser-in-love Junse Oppa from Brilliant Legacy), AT deals with those wholesome topics - revenge, murder, and plastic surgery.

If you like revenge, that might be the drama for you, as in watching AT, you get double! Our heroine marries her husband due to wanting revenge on his family. Why she doesn't just hire a hitman to take them out instead remains a mystery - unless she has major STDs, how she will achieve revenge by sleeping with their son, I am unable to fathom. But then I always knew that Spring Waltz girl was one step from the loony bin.

Her unfortunate husband finds out her schemes but meets with an accident - voila, prestochange-o, and he is back with the help of some plastic surgery and looking like Bae Soo Bin (those are some awesome surgeons, right there).

Yes! The aggrieved, but improved in looks, husband is back. And now HE wants to wreck revenge on his wife! This drama would be so much shorter if just one of them decided to convert to Christianity and turn the other cheek. Bring on the hatesex.

How can you top this insanity? This is written by the same woman who did Wife's Temptation (about a woman whose husband fails to kill her so she comes back...*gasp* wait for it...wait for it...with a new face via plastic surgery and a thirst for revenge - this writer knows what she does well, apparently) which was apparently insane and a big hit.

Bring it on!

Trailer (though no, I do not think she literally drowns him in the bathtub in the drama :P):

WITHS2 is subbing.

Next Stop. Snogging...

I have been postively haunting viikii to see when the first ep of Next Stop Happiness will be out and it's there! Partially subbed!

O-M-G. And similar expressions of unbridled joy.

In honor of that, here is a YUMMYLICIOUS 30-sec trailer with kissing and make-outs, courtesy of my dealer, kitkat_cat:

Next Stop. Snogging...

I have been postively haunting viikii to see when the first ep of Next Stop Happiness will be out and it's there! Partially subbed!

O-M-G. And similar expressions of unbridled joy.

In honor of that, here is a YUMMYLICIOUS 30-sec trailer with kissing and make-outs, courtesy of my dealer, kitkat_cat:

Next Stop. Snogging...

I have been postively haunting viikii to see when the first ep of Next Stop Happiness will be out and it's there! Partially subbed!

O-M-G. And similar expressions of unbridled joy.

In honor of that, here is a YUMMYLICIOUS 30-sec trailer with kissing and make-outs, courtesy of my dealer, kitkat_cat:

Next Stop Happiness ep 1 (not spoilery)

I have watched all the parts of ep 1 of Next Stop Happiness that are subbed and most of the unsubbed parts.

I am in love.

I am so in love that if the rest don't get subbed soon, I am watching raw - last time I watched twdrama raws was Silence (!!!!!).

So far, I am in love with Ady An's heroine, ridiculously so. Ady is my favorite Taiwanese actress except for Barbie Hsu (it will take an earthquake to dislodge Barbie from number one spot seeing that my first two dramas ever starred her) and she is so good in this - my heart breaks for her - she is someone who lost her family, her privileged lifestyle, and her dream of piano-playing at the same time, as a child. But she is not weepy or weak - she is strong and sunny (without being Pollyannaish about it). She is just so functional.

I can tell it will be one of those dramas which will, for me, be all about the heroine and seeing through her prism. When Vanness' character was being difficult with her my rage was irrational - I haven't felt such burning hate since beginning of Brilliant Legacy and Hwan. Not because he was being particularly horrible (he was being difficult and acting out and a brat, but it wasn't anything in the same universe as Hwan) but because I saw everything through Ady's eyes.

As to Vanness, he is gorgeous and sexy (but when wasn't he?) and (while I can't say I love his character in the sense of wanting to date him) as a character and a drama hero he makes me weak in the knees - he is so angry at the world, and acting out, and not adjusted at all - I bet what will draw him to Ady is her sanity, and her refusing to be either impressed or irrationally angry at him. And her genuineness - he is clearly looking for a connection with someone, anyone, and not finding it (see his fake-natured ex). That boy needs a keeper. And I am finding it so hot, it's disturbing. I am old enough to know that in real life trying to be someone's connection to functioning is unhealthy and acting-out-badboy-with-a-heart-of-gold is a dangerous fantasy, but in dramaland nothing gets me faster, faster, faster.

It's funny, when I look at my favorite twdramas, they all have an acting-out, messed-up underneath his outgoingness, heroes. Hmmm. And strong-willed heroines.

kitkat_cat told me that she saw the shades of both Domyouji/Makino and Mars in this and I can totally see what she meant - the acting-out messed up rich boy and a common-sense poor girl who won't buckle down; the horrible family (including a creep of a stepfather) for the heroine, the hero that seems fine and 'fun' but is anything but, and is looking for limits.

I can't say whether it will be anywhere near as good as Hanadan/Meteor Garden/Mars, because that is a ridiculously high bar to set, but it looks very promising.

Oh, and for those on my flist who are reluctant to check it out because they think it's a terminal illness drama or a miserable end drama, it's not. At least, I would be shocked to find out it is - the whole premise of it is Vanness forgetting Ady (and not knowing about his son) and them meeting years later after she left him and broke his heart for his own good. Much more The Kid from Heaven or My Lucky Star vibe - and neither one of them ended badly. Plus, with a title like that, I think it will end up well. Otherwise, they'd just call it 'Next Stop Graveyeard'. :P

Preview for ep 2:

Next Stop Happiness ep 1 (not spoilery)

I have watched all the parts of ep 1 of Next Stop Happiness that are subbed and most of the unsubbed parts.

I am in love.

I am so in love that if the rest don't get subbed soon, I am watching raw - last time I watched twdrama raws was Silence (!!!!!).

So far, I am in love with Ady An's heroine, ridiculously so. Ady is my favorite Taiwanese actress except for Barbie Hsu (it will take an earthquake to dislodge Barbie from number one spot seeing that my first two dramas ever starred her) and she is so good in this - my heart breaks for her - she is someone who lost her family, her privileged lifestyle, and her dream of piano-playing at the same time, as a child. But she is not weepy or weak - she is strong and sunny (without being Pollyannaish about it). She is just so functional.

I can tell it will be one of those dramas which will, for me, be all about the heroine and seeing through her prism. When Vanness' character was being difficult with her my rage was irrational - I haven't felt such burning hate since beginning of Brilliant Legacy and Hwan. Not because he was being particularly horrible (he was being difficult and acting out and a brat, but it wasn't anything in the same universe as Hwan) but because I saw everything through Ady's eyes.

As to Vanness, he is gorgeous and sexy (but when wasn't he?) and (while I can't say I love his character in the sense of wanting to date him) as a character and a drama hero he makes me weak in the knees - he is so angry at the world, and acting out, and not adjusted at all - I bet what will draw him to Ady is her sanity, and her refusing to be either impressed or irrationally angry at him. And her genuineness - he is clearly looking for a connection with someone, anyone, and not finding it (see his fake-natured ex). That boy needs a keeper. And I am finding it so hot, it's disturbing. I am old enough to know that in real life trying to be someone's connection to functioning is unhealthy and acting-out-badboy-with-a-heart-of-gold is a dangerous fantasy, but in dramaland nothing gets me faster, faster, faster.

It's funny, when I look at my favorite twdramas, they all have an acting-out, messed-up underneath his outgoingness, heroes. Hmmm. And strong-willed heroines.

kitkat_cat told me that she saw the shades of both Domyouji/Makino and Mars in this and I can totally see what she meant - the acting-out messed up rich boy and a common-sense poor girl who won't buckle down; the horrible family (including a creep of a stepfather) for the heroine, the hero that seems fine and 'fun' but is anything but, and is looking for limits.

I can't say whether it will be anywhere near as good as Hanadan/Meteor Garden/Mars, because that is a ridiculously high bar to set, but it looks very promising.

Oh, and for those on my flist who are reluctant to check it out because they think it's a terminal illness drama or a miserable end drama, it's not. At least, I would be shocked to find out it is - the whole premise of it is Vanness forgetting Ady (and not knowing about his son) and them meeting years later after she left him and broke his heart for his own good. Much more The Kid from Heaven or My Lucky Star vibe - and neither one of them ended badly. Plus, with a title like that, I think it will end up well. Otherwise, they'd just call it 'Next Stop Graveyeard'. :P

Preview for ep 2:

Next Stop Happiness ep 1 (not spoilery)

I have watched all the parts of ep 1 of Next Stop Happiness that are subbed and most of the unsubbed parts.

I am in love.

I am so in love that if the rest don't get subbed soon, I am watching raw - last time I watched twdrama raws was Silence (!!!!!).

So far, I am in love with Ady An's heroine, ridiculously so. Ady is my favorite Taiwanese actress except for Barbie Hsu (it will take an earthquake to dislodge Barbie from number one spot seeing that my first two dramas ever starred her) and she is so good in this - my heart breaks for her - she is someone who lost her family, her privileged lifestyle, and her dream of piano-playing at the same time, as a child. But she is not weepy or weak - she is strong and sunny (without being Pollyannaish about it). She is just so functional.

I can tell it will be one of those dramas which will, for me, be all about the heroine and seeing through her prism. When Vanness' character was being difficult with her my rage was irrational - I haven't felt such burning hate since beginning of Brilliant Legacy and Hwan. Not because he was being particularly horrible (he was being difficult and acting out and a brat, but it wasn't anything in the same universe as Hwan) but because I saw everything through Ady's eyes.

As to Vanness, he is gorgeous and sexy (but when wasn't he?) and (while I can't say I love his character in the sense of wanting to date him) as a character and a drama hero he makes me weak in the knees - he is so angry at the world, and acting out, and not adjusted at all - I bet what will draw him to Ady is her sanity, and her refusing to be either impressed or irrationally angry at him. And her genuineness - he is clearly looking for a connection with someone, anyone, and not finding it (see his fake-natured ex). That boy needs a keeper. And I am finding it so hot, it's disturbing. I am old enough to know that in real life trying to be someone's connection to functioning is unhealthy and acting-out-badboy-with-a-heart-of-gold is a dangerous fantasy, but in dramaland nothing gets me faster, faster, faster.

It's funny, when I look at my favorite twdramas, they all have an acting-out, messed-up underneath his outgoingness, heroes. Hmmm. And strong-willed heroines.

kitkat_cat told me that she saw the shades of both Domyouji/Makino and Mars in this and I can totally see what she meant - the acting-out messed up rich boy and a common-sense poor girl who won't buckle down; the horrible family (including a creep of a stepfather) for the heroine, the hero that seems fine and 'fun' but is anything but, and is looking for limits.

I can't say whether it will be anywhere near as good as Hanadan/Meteor Garden/Mars, because that is a ridiculously high bar to set, but it looks very promising.

Oh, and for those on my flist who are reluctant to check it out because they think it's a terminal illness drama or a miserable end drama, it's not. At least, I would be shocked to find out it is - the whole premise of it is Vanness forgetting Ady (and not knowing about his son) and them meeting years later after she left him and broke his heart for his own good. Much more The Kid from Heaven or My Lucky Star vibe - and neither one of them ended badly. Plus, with a title like that, I think it will end up well. Otherwise, they'd just call it 'Next Stop Graveyeard'. :P

Preview for ep 2:

South India delivers and Bollywood ain't being too shabby either.

First off, a trailer for upcoming Bollywood movie Kurbaan which might as well have been titled "So I married a terrorist." I am highly interested in it because (1) I have always found Bollywood complicated attitude to terrorism fascinating - he or she is always a condemned, wrong, doomed figure but there is also a certain nuance - many of them are protagonists of their stories and not just shadowy enemies, and even have romances (Dil Se, Fanaa, Mission Kashmir, Fida, New York, Fiza). It often makes for dark, good movies; (2) I love Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor - they are some of my most favorite Bollywood actors.

My second foray into Telugu cinema (after Desamuduru), namely Pokiri, was a huge success - I loved it, even if I forwarded past a number of fights. Mahesh Babu, who plays the titular pokiri, a hired mafia killer who in the middle of a mob war falls in love with an innocent college student, is my newest crush. The heroine was adorable but I loved hero's tough-gal mob friend even more.

I am definitely going to watch much much more Southie stuff - preferably Telugu as it seems to be more my thing than Tamil stuff. Southie movies remind me of older Bollywood movies - less gloss and production values but that is appealing in itself - the gloss has stamped out all the heart of many Bolly movies - they are slick, well-cut, and achingly empty. They have heroines who look like beatiful women as opposed to plastic dolls, normal locations for songs, a certain grounded feelings, and a lot of heart.

South Indian movies for me...

Recs?

I think I want to check out Kannada movies too - Love Guru has an awesome soundtrack.

South India delivers and Bollywood ain't being too shabby either.

First off, a trailer for upcoming Bollywood movie Kurbaan which might as well have been titled "So I married a terrorist." I am highly interested in it because (1) I have always found Bollywood complicated attitude to terrorism fascinating - he or she is always a condemned, wrong, doomed figure but there is also a certain nuance - many of them are protagonists of their stories and not just shadowy enemies, and even have romances (Dil Se, Fanaa, Mission Kashmir, Fida, New York, Fiza). It often makes for dark, good movies; (2) I love Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor - they are some of my most favorite Bollywood actors.

My second foray into Telugu cinema (after Desamuduru), namely Pokiri, was a huge success - I loved it, even if I forwarded past a number of fights. Mahesh Babu, who plays the titular pokiri, a hired mafia killer who in the middle of a mob war falls in love with an innocent college student, is my newest crush. The heroine was adorable but I loved hero's tough-gal mob friend even more.

I am definitely going to watch much much more Southie stuff - preferably Telugu as it seems to be more my thing than Tamil stuff. Southie movies remind me of older Bollywood movies - less gloss and production values but that is appealing in itself - the gloss has stamped out all the heart of many Bolly movies - they are slick, well-cut, and achingly empty. They have heroines who look like beatiful women as opposed to plastic dolls, normal locations for songs, a certain grounded feelings, and a lot of heart.

South Indian movies for me...

Recs?

I think I want to check out Kannada movies too - Love Guru has an awesome soundtrack.

South India delivers and Bollywood ain't being too shabby either.

First off, a trailer for upcoming Bollywood movie Kurbaan which might as well have been titled "So I married a terrorist." I am highly interested in it because (1) I have always found Bollywood complicated attitude to terrorism fascinating - he or she is always a condemned, wrong, doomed figure but there is also a certain nuance - many of them are protagonists of their stories and not just shadowy enemies, and even have romances (Dil Se, Fanaa, Mission Kashmir, Fida, New York, Fiza). It often makes for dark, good movies; (2) I love Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor - they are some of my most favorite Bollywood actors.

My second foray into Telugu cinema (after Desamuduru), namely Pokiri, was a huge success - I loved it, even if I forwarded past a number of fights. Mahesh Babu, who plays the titular pokiri, a hired mafia killer who in the middle of a mob war falls in love with an innocent college student, is my newest crush. The heroine was adorable but I loved hero's tough-gal mob friend even more.

I am definitely going to watch much much more Southie stuff - preferably Telugu as it seems to be more my thing than Tamil stuff. Southie movies remind me of older Bollywood movies - less gloss and production values but that is appealing in itself - the gloss has stamped out all the heart of many Bolly movies - they are slick, well-cut, and achingly empty. They have heroines who look like beatiful women as opposed to plastic dolls, normal locations for songs, a certain grounded feelings, and a lot of heart.

South Indian movies for me...

Recs?

I think I want to check out Kannada movies too - Love Guru has an awesome soundtrack.