Myung-wol the Spy teaser

This one is even funnier and sharper than the first! It is quickly overcoming my innate dislike of Eric in light-hearted projects (normally I much prefer him being intense to being goofy).

Wonder how it's going to work for 16 eps. Hmmm. Please be good and not another Fugitive Plan B!

Myung-wol the Spy teaser

This one is even funnier and sharper than the first! It is quickly overcoming my innate dislike of Eric in light-hearted projects (normally I much prefer him being intense to being goofy).

Wonder how it's going to work for 16 eps. Hmmm. Please be good and not another Fugitive Plan B!

Myung-wol the Spy teaser

This one is even funnier and sharper than the first! It is quickly overcoming my innate dislike of Eric in light-hearted projects (normally I much prefer him being intense to being goofy).

Wonder how it's going to work for 16 eps. Hmmm. Please be good and not another Fugitive Plan B!

So, Undaddy's evilness reaches new heights

Preview for ep 11 indicates ( here here here )

So, Undaddy's evilness reaches new heights

Preview for ep 11 indicates ( here here here )

So, Undaddy's evilness reaches new heights

Preview for ep 11 indicates ( here here here )

Sometimes the fandom is very predictable

Apparently, Dany/Drogo is a huge ship in the Game of Thrones show fandom.

Huh? Huh???? On one level I can understand it - both Jason Momoa and Emilia Clarke are gorgeous, have chemistry and finding canon ships is kinda thin on the ground in GoT - so I can see latching onto a canon ship with chemistry and hot people. A lot of stuff is even something I'd normally go for (height difference, rough guy/sheltered girl, tragedy) BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.

She was sold to him by her scummy brother and he raped her on their wedding night in a particularly brutal fashion (not that any rape is good, but that was particularly gross - just because she didn't shove him off didn't make it any less rape. WTF with the dragging a sheltered young woman to a freaking wilderness, lifting up her clothes and taking her from behind without any preliminaries or talking. Ugh. That was the most disturbing scene in the first ep). Ummmm. How on earth can one just overlook it and go into shipper territory? I am a lot more OK with questionable stuff in fictional romantic pairings than many of my flisties but this is a whole other level of insanity. WTF?????? I do not get. I thought that stuff went out with 1980s romance novels. Guess not.

To make clear, I have no problem with Dany developing feelings for the guy - she is stuck in that life and with the morals of that world, and might as well make the best of it. But we are not Dany. So WTF????

The shippers do make pretty vids.

Yeah, v.v. shippable. Except for the RAPE!!!!

Anyway, am about halfway through the first season. The show continues not to be my thing, to be honest - I don't care for any of the characters, nor do I find them particularly interesting. Plus, I read wiki spoilers and what a nasty nasty world did GRRM create. I've read things that were pretty grim (nonfiction about Rwandan genocide or Warsaw ghetto uprising, etc etc) so I am no wuss but to have that sort of unrelenting misery for everyone forever in a fictional world seems to make no sense especially since it's no as if GRRM has some deep message to convey (e.g. Zamyatin's "We" may be grim but it actually gives me things to think about). I am not sure I'll continue.

Sometimes the fandom is very predictable

Apparently, Dany/Drogo is a huge ship in the Game of Thrones show fandom.

Huh? Huh???? On one level I can understand it - both Jason Momoa and Emilia Clarke are gorgeous, have chemistry and finding canon ships is kinda thin on the ground in GoT - so I can see latching onto a canon ship with chemistry and hot people. A lot of stuff is even something I'd normally go for (height difference, rough guy/sheltered girl, tragedy) BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.

She was sold to him by her scummy brother and he raped her on their wedding night in a particularly brutal fashion (not that any rape is good, but that was particularly gross - just because she didn't shove him off didn't make it any less rape. WTF with the dragging a sheltered young woman to a freaking wilderness, lifting up her clothes and taking her from behind without any preliminaries or talking. Ugh. That was the most disturbing scene in the first ep). Ummmm. How on earth can one just overlook it and go into shipper territory? I am a lot more OK with questionable stuff in fictional romantic pairings than many of my flisties but this is a whole other level of insanity. WTF?????? I do not get. I thought that stuff went out with 1980s romance novels. Guess not.

To make clear, I have no problem with Dany developing feelings for the guy - she is stuck in that life and with the morals of that world, and might as well make the best of it. But we are not Dany. So WTF????

The shippers do make pretty vids.

Yeah, v.v. shippable. Except for the RAPE!!!!

Anyway, am about halfway through the first season. The show continues not to be my thing, to be honest - I don't care for any of the characters, nor do I find them particularly interesting. Plus, I read wiki spoilers and what a nasty nasty world did GRRM create. I've read things that were pretty grim (nonfiction about Rwandan genocide or Warsaw ghetto uprising, etc etc) so I am no wuss but to have that sort of unrelenting misery for everyone forever in a fictional world seems to make no sense especially since it's no as if GRRM has some deep message to convey (e.g. Zamyatin's "We" may be grim but it actually gives me things to think about). I am not sure I'll continue.

Sometimes the fandom is very predictable

Apparently, Dany/Drogo is a huge ship in the Game of Thrones show fandom.

Huh? Huh???? On one level I can understand it - both Jason Momoa and Emilia Clarke are gorgeous, have chemistry and finding canon ships is kinda thin on the ground in GoT - so I can see latching onto a canon ship with chemistry and hot people. A lot of stuff is even something I'd normally go for (height difference, rough guy/sheltered girl, tragedy) BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.

She was sold to him by her scummy brother and he raped her on their wedding night in a particularly brutal fashion (not that any rape is good, but that was particularly gross - just because she didn't shove him off didn't make it any less rape. WTF with the dragging a sheltered young woman to a freaking wilderness, lifting up her clothes and taking her from behind without any preliminaries or talking. Ugh. That was the most disturbing scene in the first ep). Ummmm. How on earth can one just overlook it and go into shipper territory? I am a lot more OK with questionable stuff in fictional romantic pairings than many of my flisties but this is a whole other level of insanity. WTF?????? I do not get. I thought that stuff went out with 1980s romance novels. Guess not.

To make clear, I have no problem with Dany developing feelings for the guy - she is stuck in that life and with the morals of that world, and might as well make the best of it. But we are not Dany. So WTF????

The shippers do make pretty vids.

Yeah, v.v. shippable. Except for the RAPE!!!!

Anyway, am about halfway through the first season. The show continues not to be my thing, to be honest - I don't care for any of the characters, nor do I find them particularly interesting. Plus, I read wiki spoilers and what a nasty nasty world did GRRM create. I've read things that were pretty grim (nonfiction about Rwandan genocide or Warsaw ghetto uprising, etc etc) so I am no wuss but to have that sort of unrelenting misery for everyone forever in a fictional world seems to make no sense especially since it's no as if GRRM has some deep message to convey (e.g. Zamyatin's "We" may be grim but it actually gives me things to think about). I am not sure I'll continue.

Twdrama heaven

Finished the first ep of Hayate the Combat Butler and it continued adorable, very sweet and oddly gentle throughout. I am utterly hooked. Only twdramas can make it feel so mangaish and so wonderful at the same time.

Also, does anyone else think Maria is the girl from his past that he was having that weird flashback to when he was unconscious? Despite his crush, I really am not shipping him with Maria and much prefer him with Park Shin Hye - they both have the same level of maturity while Maria is about 10x smarter and more grown-up than the both of them put together. I do wonder how PSH will react when she realizes he was yet another in a long line of people who wanted to kidnap her (yes, I care for the characters already, one ep in. That's a good sign).

In other news, I found a trailer for the upcoming Absolute Boyfriend with Jiro and Gu Hye Sun. Not the greatest quality video but good for my purposes. Am so very excited now, because unlike the jdrama (which should never be mentioned lest I get PTSD flashbacks and palpitations), this looks like it's got the manga story and vibe down pat. Plus, Jiro can do both sexy and goofy and while I am not a big fan of GHS, her kind of hyper, physical (over)acting seems very suited for manga adaptations of twdramaland. Can't wait!

Twdrama heaven

Finished the first ep of Hayate the Combat Butler and it continued adorable, very sweet and oddly gentle throughout. I am utterly hooked. Only twdramas can make it feel so mangaish and so wonderful at the same time.

Also, does anyone else think Maria is the girl from his past that he was having that weird flashback to when he was unconscious? Despite his crush, I really am not shipping him with Maria and much prefer him with Park Shin Hye - they both have the same level of maturity while Maria is about 10x smarter and more grown-up than the both of them put together. I do wonder how PSH will react when she realizes he was yet another in a long line of people who wanted to kidnap her (yes, I care for the characters already, one ep in. That's a good sign).

In other news, I found a trailer for the upcoming Absolute Boyfriend with Jiro and Gu Hye Sun. Not the greatest quality video but good for my purposes. Am so very excited now, because unlike the jdrama (which should never be mentioned lest I get PTSD flashbacks and palpitations), this looks like it's got the manga story and vibe down pat. Plus, Jiro can do both sexy and goofy and while I am not a big fan of GHS, her kind of hyper, physical (over)acting seems very suited for manga adaptations of twdramaland. Can't wait!

Twdrama heaven

Finished the first ep of Hayate the Combat Butler and it continued adorable, very sweet and oddly gentle throughout. I am utterly hooked. Only twdramas can make it feel so mangaish and so wonderful at the same time.

Also, does anyone else think Maria is the girl from his past that he was having that weird flashback to when he was unconscious? Despite his crush, I really am not shipping him with Maria and much prefer him with Park Shin Hye - they both have the same level of maturity while Maria is about 10x smarter and more grown-up than the both of them put together. I do wonder how PSH will react when she realizes he was yet another in a long line of people who wanted to kidnap her (yes, I care for the characters already, one ep in. That's a good sign).

In other news, I found a trailer for the upcoming Absolute Boyfriend with Jiro and Gu Hye Sun. Not the greatest quality video but good for my purposes. Am so very excited now, because unlike the jdrama (which should never be mentioned lest I get PTSD flashbacks and palpitations), this looks like it's got the manga story and vibe down pat. Plus, Jiro can do both sexy and goofy and while I am not a big fan of GHS, her kind of hyper, physical (over)acting seems very suited for manga adaptations of twdramaland. Can't wait!

Nana Nana Nana!!!!!!!!!!

( IMO not very spoilery pic of Nana from upcoming ep, but behind the cut anyway )

Oh, and it's official. I don't mind if the entirety of City Hunter cast got wiped out (though I'd feel very sad if Ahjumma or Ahjusshi bought it, the former because her struggle for her son breaks my heart and I want her and YS have the future, as they were robbed of the past (YS would break if she died), and Ahjusshi because he's funny and sweet and the closest to family YS has) as long as YS and Nana are alive and together at the end. Pleaaaaaaase, writers. Pleaaaaase. In exchange, you can kill Undaddy twice. Three times, even. Hell, go for a full dozen.

Nana Nana Nana!!!!!!!!!!

( IMO not very spoilery pic of Nana from upcoming ep, but behind the cut anyway )

Oh, and it's official. I don't mind if the entirety of City Hunter cast got wiped out (though I'd feel very sad if Ahjumma or Ahjusshi bought it, the former because her struggle for her son breaks my heart and I want her and YS have the future, as they were robbed of the past (YS would break if she died), and Ahjusshi because he's funny and sweet and the closest to family YS has) as long as YS and Nana are alive and together at the end. Pleaaaaaaase, writers. Pleaaaaase. In exchange, you can kill Undaddy twice. Three times, even. Hell, go for a full dozen.

Nana Nana Nana!!!!!!!!!!

( IMO not very spoilery pic of Nana from upcoming ep, but behind the cut anyway )

Oh, and it's official. I don't mind if the entirety of City Hunter cast got wiped out (though I'd feel very sad if Ahjumma or Ahjusshi bought it, the former because her struggle for her son breaks my heart and I want her and YS have the future, as they were robbed of the past (YS would break if she died), and Ahjusshi because he's funny and sweet and the closest to family YS has) as long as YS and Nana are alive and together at the end. Pleaaaaaaase, writers. Pleaaaaase. In exchange, you can kill Undaddy twice. Three times, even. Hell, go for a full dozen.