Guess which amazingness supposedly starts today?

darkeyedwolf, where are you? This looks entirely up your alley.

Looooong trailer:

I have already been scouring both youtube and tudou for raws under its Chinese name. Proof of my insanity - it's likely to be 50 eps and I doubt it's ever getting subbed but I plan to watch the entire thing raw.

Guess which amazingness supposedly starts today?

darkeyedwolf, where are you? This looks entirely up your alley.

Looooong trailer:

I have already been scouring both youtube and tudou for raws under its Chinese name. Proof of my insanity - it's likely to be 50 eps and I doubt it's ever getting subbed but I plan to watch the entire thing raw.

Guess which amazingness supposedly starts today?

darkeyedwolf, where are you? This looks entirely up your alley.

Looooong trailer:

I have already been scouring both youtube and tudou for raws under its Chinese name. Proof of my insanity - it's likely to be 50 eps and I doubt it's ever getting subbed but I plan to watch the entire thing raw.

Dangermousie's 2010 Kdrama Year in Review - monster post

Otherwise known as 2010 Dangermousie KDrama Awards - Come one, come all!

Very personal, you have been warned. I don’t like to claim that my opinion is paramount but I am of course very fond of it. As I am sure you know by now if you read this livejournal with any regularity, I adore period dramas, not too fond of fluffy dramas etc. Any drama that aired even part of its run in 2010 is eligible.

( Very lengthy and rambly, enter at your own risk )

If you read this through, you get a medal!

Dangermousie's 2010 Kdrama Year in Review - monster post

Otherwise known as 2010 Dangermousie KDrama Awards - Come one, come all!

Very personal, you have been warned. I don’t like to claim that my opinion is paramount but I am of course very fond of it. As I am sure you know by now if you read this livejournal with any regularity, I adore period dramas, not too fond of fluffy dramas etc. Any drama that aired even part of its run in 2010 is eligible.

( Very lengthy and rambly, enter at your own risk )

If you read this through, you get a medal!

Dangermousie's 2010 Kdrama Year in Review - monster post

Otherwise known as 2010 Dangermousie KDrama Awards - Come one, come all!

Very personal, you have been warned. I don’t like to claim that my opinion is paramount but I am of course very fond of it. As I am sure you know by now if you read this livejournal with any regularity, I adore period dramas, not too fond of fluffy dramas etc. Any drama that aired even part of its run in 2010 is eligible.

( Very lengthy and rambly, enter at your own risk )

If you read this through, you get a medal!

Ma Jun and Yu Kyung - two damaged people fitting together

(My end-of-year post reminded me of my love for this OTP). We are all familiar with the trope of sweet girl healing damaged guy and making him well-adjusted and good. And if you are like me, you love this trope.

But you know what I love even more than that? I love two damaged people fighting and connecting and lashing out but ultimately healing each other, after all.



Hence my love for Que Sera Sera and Something Happened in Bali. Hence my adoration for Ma Jun/Yu Kyung in Baker King. It was not supposed to happen that way - I was supposed to be all about Takgu and his romances. I was supposed to be heartbroken when Yu Kyung left Takgu. I was not supposed to get so very obsessed about Ma Jun/Yu Kyung - Takgu's younger unbrother (long story) and Takgu's first love. Or maybe I was supposed to be obsessed about them after all - seeing that the makers shared my obsession with Ma Jun/Yu Kyung getting the lion's share of shippy screentime.

Have a MV (as a bonus, it's sung by Joo Won, who played Ma Jun):

How could I not love them? He was the son of a rich dysfunctional family always trying to prove himself to his icy, unfeeling father and always falling short and having to deal with the weight of his monstrous mother's ambitions into the bargain. She was a dirt-poor student activist trying to drown her abusive childhood and her memories of her horrible father who used to beat her and make her beg on the streets. In a way, their awful family backgrounds (awful in different ways, obviously) drew them together. Every meeting of theirs drew sparks and blood in equal measure and chemistry oozed through the screen. He was insecure and she was brittle and they played headgames with each other as if there was no tomorrow. His obsession arose out of his need to defeat Takgu and became about something else entirely and she started out with disdain and ended up wanting him instead. He craved her strength and she needed his instinctive understanding of her demons, something so-very-good Takgu could have never truly understood. They were not afraid to show their true selves, however ugly, to each other - at first because they didn't care and then because they couldn't stop. And ultimately they became one of my favorite OTPs of 2010.

My favorite scene - she finally takes down her barriers. For a while, at least.

Ma Jun and Yu Kyung - two damaged people fitting together

(My end-of-year post reminded me of my love for this OTP). We are all familiar with the trope of sweet girl healing damaged guy and making him well-adjusted and good. And if you are like me, you love this trope.

But you know what I love even more than that? I love two damaged people fighting and connecting and lashing out but ultimately healing each other, after all.



Hence my love for Que Sera Sera and Something Happened in Bali. Hence my adoration for Ma Jun/Yu Kyung in Baker King. It was not supposed to happen that way - I was supposed to be all about Takgu and his romances. I was supposed to be heartbroken when Yu Kyung left Takgu. I was not supposed to get so very obsessed about Ma Jun/Yu Kyung - Takgu's younger unbrother (long story) and Takgu's first love. Or maybe I was supposed to be obsessed about them after all - seeing that the makers shared my obsession with Ma Jun/Yu Kyung getting the lion's share of shippy screentime.

Have a MV (as a bonus, it's sung by Joo Won, who played Ma Jun):

How could I not love them? He was the son of a rich dysfunctional family always trying to prove himself to his icy, unfeeling father and always falling short and having to deal with the weight of his monstrous mother's ambitions into the bargain. She was a dirt-poor student activist trying to drown her abusive childhood and her memories of her horrible father who used to beat her and make her beg on the streets. In a way, their awful family backgrounds (awful in different ways, obviously) drew them together. Every meeting of theirs drew sparks and blood in equal measure and chemistry oozed through the screen. He was insecure and she was brittle and they played headgames with each other as if there was no tomorrow. His obsession arose out of his need to defeat Takgu and became about something else entirely and she started out with disdain and ended up wanting him instead. He craved her strength and she needed his instinctive understanding of her demons, something so-very-good Takgu could have never truly understood. They were not afraid to show their true selves, however ugly, to each other - at first because they didn't care and then because they couldn't stop. And ultimately they became one of my favorite OTPs of 2010.

My favorite scene - she finally takes down her barriers. For a while, at least.

Ma Jun and Yu Kyung - two damaged people fitting together

(My end-of-year post reminded me of my love for this OTP). We are all familiar with the trope of sweet girl healing damaged guy and making him well-adjusted and good. And if you are like me, you love this trope.

But you know what I love even more than that? I love two damaged people fighting and connecting and lashing out but ultimately healing each other, after all.



Hence my love for Que Sera Sera and Something Happened in Bali. Hence my adoration for Ma Jun/Yu Kyung in Baker King. It was not supposed to happen that way - I was supposed to be all about Takgu and his romances. I was supposed to be heartbroken when Yu Kyung left Takgu. I was not supposed to get so very obsessed about Ma Jun/Yu Kyung - Takgu's younger unbrother (long story) and Takgu's first love. Or maybe I was supposed to be obsessed about them after all - seeing that the makers shared my obsession with Ma Jun/Yu Kyung getting the lion's share of shippy screentime.

Have a MV (as a bonus, it's sung by Joo Won, who played Ma Jun):

How could I not love them? He was the son of a rich dysfunctional family always trying to prove himself to his icy, unfeeling father and always falling short and having to deal with the weight of his monstrous mother's ambitions into the bargain. She was a dirt-poor student activist trying to drown her abusive childhood and her memories of her horrible father who used to beat her and make her beg on the streets. In a way, their awful family backgrounds (awful in different ways, obviously) drew them together. Every meeting of theirs drew sparks and blood in equal measure and chemistry oozed through the screen. He was insecure and she was brittle and they played headgames with each other as if there was no tomorrow. His obsession arose out of his need to defeat Takgu and became about something else entirely and she started out with disdain and ended up wanting him instead. He craved her strength and she needed his instinctive understanding of her demons, something so-very-good Takgu could have never truly understood. They were not afraid to show their true selves, however ugly, to each other - at first because they didn't care and then because they couldn't stop. And ultimately they became one of my favorite OTPs of 2010.

My favorite scene - she finally takes down her barriers. For a while, at least.

Dream High - initial impressions

Today was the premiere of the new musical/teen-twentysomething drama Dream High, about a bunch of aspiring singers and dancers at a music school. Normally I'd avoid something like this as if it had bubonic plague with an ebola chaser, but I wanted to see Kim Su Hyun in his first starring role - the guy blew me away in Christmas and Giant in small parts so this is way way due. Plus, this is a Bae Yong Joon production and I have a huge fondness for Korean Jesus and genuinely like any drama project he's been in or even touched.



So, I gave it a shot (you can find the entirety of first ep subbed on viki).

My impressions can be summed up in three phrases:

1. Wheeeeere is Kim Su Hyun? We saw him for one second. No fair, drama!
2. Bae Yong Joon! On my screen! Even if it's a guest appearance, this fangirl is happy.
3. Kim Hyun Joong - pretty and on my screen! Even freakier, sharing the screen with BYJ - since I always thought KHJ looks freakishly like a younger version of BYJ, this was surreal.

The end.

OK..I kid. Grievous lack of Kim Su Hyun notwithstanding, I really liked the first episode, in part because I went in with no expectations whatsoever, but in part because it genuinely kept my attention. I haven't learned the names of anyone except for Hye Mi, the heroine, yet, but I like the characters. There hasn't been much plot (not sure if there ever will be - it's a drama about students in musical school not a revenge thriller) but I loved all the characters from the get-go, so I don't mind. This is all the more surprising since I believe most of them are played by idols. My favorite character so far is Headphones Guy who, soompi informs me, is called Jin Gook and is played by a member of 2PM. He is just charming and brash and streetboyish and puts up a mean fight. I bet his fangirls are swooning. I also like Hye Mi, bitchy in a very high school way, but also tough as nails, and Bek Hee, Hye Mi's shadow.

Sadly, I am shipping JG with Hye Mi but from what I can tell that is supposed to be uncanonical because KSH is the male lead and not the Headphones Guy. Boo! I believe if a hot guy saves you from a gang of loansharks and then catches you as you fall (due to helping him fight) and later offers you his shoes after you lost yours, you are supposed to automatically get OTP status. Is there nothing sacred in this world?

It's nothing ground-breaking but it's fun and engaging. I rec giving this a chance. Plus, look at it this way - at least it concentrates a multitude of idols in one drama thus sparing us their presence elsewhere.

In conclusion: where is my Kim Su Hyun??????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ETA: Whoa, viki police is fast. The DH channel seems to be gone.

Dream High - initial impressions

Today was the premiere of the new musical/teen-twentysomething drama Dream High, about a bunch of aspiring singers and dancers at a music school. Normally I'd avoid something like this as if it had bubonic plague with an ebola chaser, but I wanted to see Kim Su Hyun in his first starring role - the guy blew me away in Christmas and Giant in small parts so this is way way due. Plus, this is a Bae Yong Joon production and I have a huge fondness for Korean Jesus and genuinely like any drama project he's been in or even touched.



So, I gave it a shot (you can find the entirety of first ep subbed on viki).

My impressions can be summed up in three phrases:

1. Wheeeeere is Kim Su Hyun? We saw him for one second. No fair, drama!
2. Bae Yong Joon! On my screen! Even if it's a guest appearance, this fangirl is happy.
3. Kim Hyun Joong - pretty and on my screen! Even freakier, sharing the screen with BYJ - since I always thought KHJ looks freakishly like a younger version of BYJ, this was surreal.

The end.

OK..I kid. Grievous lack of Kim Su Hyun notwithstanding, I really liked the first episode, in part because I went in with no expectations whatsoever, but in part because it genuinely kept my attention. I haven't learned the names of anyone except for Hye Mi, the heroine, yet, but I like the characters. There hasn't been much plot (not sure if there ever will be - it's a drama about students in musical school not a revenge thriller) but I loved all the characters from the get-go, so I don't mind. This is all the more surprising since I believe most of them are played by idols. My favorite character so far is Headphones Guy who, soompi informs me, is called Jin Gook and is played by a member of 2PM. He is just charming and brash and streetboyish and puts up a mean fight. I bet his fangirls are swooning. I also like Hye Mi, bitchy in a very high school way, but also tough as nails, and Bek Hee, Hye Mi's shadow.

Sadly, I am shipping JG with Hye Mi but from what I can tell that is supposed to be uncanonical because KSH is the male lead and not the Headphones Guy. Boo! I believe if a hot guy saves you from a gang of loansharks and then catches you as you fall (due to helping him fight) and later offers you his shoes after you lost yours, you are supposed to automatically get OTP status. Is there nothing sacred in this world?

It's nothing ground-breaking but it's fun and engaging. I rec giving this a chance. Plus, look at it this way - at least it concentrates a multitude of idols in one drama thus sparing us their presence elsewhere.

In conclusion: where is my Kim Su Hyun??????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ETA: Whoa, viki police is fast. The DH channel seems to be gone.

Dream High - initial impressions

Today was the premiere of the new musical/teen-twentysomething drama Dream High, about a bunch of aspiring singers and dancers at a music school. Normally I'd avoid something like this as if it had bubonic plague with an ebola chaser, but I wanted to see Kim Su Hyun in his first starring role - the guy blew me away in Christmas and Giant in small parts so this is way way due. Plus, this is a Bae Yong Joon production and I have a huge fondness for Korean Jesus and genuinely like any drama project he's been in or even touched.



So, I gave it a shot (you can find the entirety of first ep subbed on viki).

My impressions can be summed up in three phrases:

1. Wheeeeere is Kim Su Hyun? We saw him for one second. No fair, drama!
2. Bae Yong Joon! On my screen! Even if it's a guest appearance, this fangirl is happy.
3. Kim Hyun Joong - pretty and on my screen! Even freakier, sharing the screen with BYJ - since I always thought KHJ looks freakishly like a younger version of BYJ, this was surreal.

The end.

OK..I kid. Grievous lack of Kim Su Hyun notwithstanding, I really liked the first episode, in part because I went in with no expectations whatsoever, but in part because it genuinely kept my attention. I haven't learned the names of anyone except for Hye Mi, the heroine, yet, but I like the characters. There hasn't been much plot (not sure if there ever will be - it's a drama about students in musical school not a revenge thriller) but I loved all the characters from the get-go, so I don't mind. This is all the more surprising since I believe most of them are played by idols. My favorite character so far is Headphones Guy who, soompi informs me, is called Jin Gook and is played by a member of 2PM. He is just charming and brash and streetboyish and puts up a mean fight. I bet his fangirls are swooning. I also like Hye Mi, bitchy in a very high school way, but also tough as nails, and Bek Hee, Hye Mi's shadow.

Sadly, I am shipping JG with Hye Mi but from what I can tell that is supposed to be uncanonical because KSH is the male lead and not the Headphones Guy. Boo! I believe if a hot guy saves you from a gang of loansharks and then catches you as you fall (due to helping him fight) and later offers you his shoes after you lost yours, you are supposed to automatically get OTP status. Is there nothing sacred in this world?

It's nothing ground-breaking but it's fun and engaging. I rec giving this a chance. Plus, look at it this way - at least it concentrates a multitude of idols in one drama thus sparing us their presence elsewhere.

In conclusion: where is my Kim Su Hyun??????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ETA: Whoa, viki police is fast. The DH channel seems to be gone.