Updated drama list
Dec. 16th, 2011 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieOk, took everyone's advice and my current viewing list looks like this (once again, first number is number of eps watched, second is number of eps out).
Padam Padam 2/4
Tree with Deep Roots 10/22
What's Up 0/4
The Empress 4/10
Me Too Flower 10/12
I am saving A Thousand Day's Promise for a marathon over the holidays - it almost completely finished airing so I might just as well wait, especially since the subs are quite a bit behind. I am only interested in the secondary OTP in A Thousand Kisses and I heard the drama went full-on majang so I am holding off. I will probably ff at some point when my backlog is less. Flower Boy Ramyun Shop got dropped because I was pretty much bored for six eps in a row and my watching list is too lonq to continue with it under those circumstances.
I am also adding on The Musical because I like musicals and want to give Gu Hye Sun another chance, want to finish Gyebaek, check out White Christmas and get ready from Moon That Embraced The Sun. Oh, and this is old but I loved Gumiho Girlfriend but got sidetracked in the middle. Qi need to finish it too. There is also Lights and Shadows but it doesn't look like there will be subs so I am out of luck.
Also, is Queen Insoo worth watching? I will need another sageuk to follow once Tree ends and seeing how big my misgivings about the cast of Moon are, I want to have backup in case that one turns out to be an utter disaster.
Oh, and when is Love Song coming out?
Padam Padam 2/4
Tree with Deep Roots 10/22
What's Up 0/4
The Empress 4/10
Me Too Flower 10/12
I am saving A Thousand Day's Promise for a marathon over the holidays - it almost completely finished airing so I might just as well wait, especially since the subs are quite a bit behind. I am only interested in the secondary OTP in A Thousand Kisses and I heard the drama went full-on majang so I am holding off. I will probably ff at some point when my backlog is less. Flower Boy Ramyun Shop got dropped because I was pretty much bored for six eps in a row and my watching list is too lonq to continue with it under those circumstances.
I am also adding on The Musical because I like musicals and want to give Gu Hye Sun another chance, want to finish Gyebaek, check out White Christmas and get ready from Moon That Embraced The Sun. Oh, and this is old but I loved Gumiho Girlfriend but got sidetracked in the middle. Qi need to finish it too. There is also Lights and Shadows but it doesn't look like there will be subs so I am out of luck.
Also, is Queen Insoo worth watching? I will need another sageuk to follow once Tree ends and seeing how big my misgivings about the cast of Moon are, I want to have backup in case that one turns out to be an utter disaster.
Oh, and when is Love Song coming out?
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Date: 2011-12-16 01:57 pm (UTC)Padam padam is good and consistent and I need to watch more of the Empress.
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-16 02:28 pm (UTC)Anyway, commenting for the first time to tell you thanks for an awesome blog. ^^ We might not always have the same taste in dramas, but you've convinced me to start watching sageuks and other genres than rom-coms and I'm enjoying it thoroughly!
I hope you'll continue writing like this for a long time to come!
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:16 am (UTC)And I love your icon!
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Date: 2011-12-16 05:24 pm (UTC)I've started Tree With Deep Roots and have watched five episodes. I am in love.
Padam Padam - I want to watch it! But, am not a fan of streaming. So, I'll wait.
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:15 am (UTC)Isn't Tree so amazing?
Re: Padamx2 - you might have to wait a very long time as the only softsubs are darksmurf and nobody is really working on them.
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Date: 2011-12-18 01:22 am (UTC)Tree is so good. Everything about it is amazing.
Re P2 - that's okay. I have three or four dramas I'm watching now.
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:15 am (UTC)I don't really need subs because between my rudimentary Korean and having seen the jdrama, I can get the gist pretty well. My asian cinema has softsubs through ep 6 and darksmurf has partial subs through ep 8.
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Date: 2011-12-18 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-16 07:20 pm (UTC)Also - don't watch The Musical. There is no musical, and there's only three more eps. The first six or so eps are fairly good, but then the drama starts spinning its wheels. Read the recaps on Dramabeans if you want to know the story, but I wouldn't invest the time. (Plus, I fall into the "not a fan of GHS" camp, so I'm not that impressed with her acting. I think if she would finally play a grown-up she might do well, since I think she does serious drama best, but she keeps picking these "quirky" characters, and I don't think they play to her strengths.)
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:13 am (UTC)Thanks for the Musical heads-up.
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Date: 2011-12-18 05:48 am (UTC)White Christmas
Date: 2011-12-17 12:22 am (UTC)Re: White Christmas
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:41 am (UTC)Sooo excited for Skip Beat even though I know it'll be super cheesy and weird because of the dubbing of the Korean speaking actors. I just really love the manga and now that I caught up to the manga, this is the only way to get my RenxKyoko shipping done. Also, am interested as to how it translates to live action. If successful, maybe the TWdrama will cause a remake in a Jdorama.
And soooooo addicted to Inborn Love (actually I think the 2 official names have been Inborn Pair or True Love but I somehow combined it into Inborn Love). I was totally intending to queue up more episodes but made the mistake of opening up episode 1 to skim through and just got engrossed. Now I just hit refresh waiting for the next episode. The 40 minutes go by sooo fast. I'm feeling so lucky it's a daily drama.
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:44 am (UTC)LOL, I should have a Peter Ho playlist because he's one of my celebrity crushes. I totally was obsessed with the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon TV series just because of his character. In case you don't know it, it's the one where he did the crazy upside down [kiss] with the girl while she was riding on horseback.
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Date: 2011-12-18 05:49 am (UTC)I prefer twdrama manga adapatations to jdrama ones so excited for Sjip Beat!
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Date: 2011-12-17 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 03:01 am (UTC)I like dark noirish thrillers so this does sound good.
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:59 am (UTC)(I'm behind on everything, as I'm banned from watching anything but Once Upon A Time that I might want to cap until I've seriously depleted the backlog of caps I have set aside to icon.)
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Date: 2011-12-18 05:53 am (UTC)Btw, you still might not want to watch Tree, but I know one of your problems with it was that there was only one female character and she was mute. Just wanted to let you know, that there are three - heroine, second-in-command for the opponents and a detective/assassin (for a sageuk, Tree actually has a tiny cast of important characters - three mains and 6-7 supporting, everyone else is a glorified extra at best) and even though the leading lady is mute she is not voiceless - she communicates through writing with the same frequency anyone else talks (the actress reads it in voiceover). You may still not be interested and it's totally understandable, but wanted to let you know.
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Date: 2011-12-18 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 08:04 pm (UTC)It's Jin Ji-Hee, a child actress, who appears in QI, as the future Deposed Queen Yoon, Queen Insoo's daughter-in-law who bore her first grandson, the tyrannical Yeonsangun, and was later sentenced to death.
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Date: 2011-12-19 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-19 10:47 pm (UTC)Was she one of the child actresses in the horror Gumiho sageuk?
No, she's most famous for a sitcom she did a couple of years ago, one of the High Kick series. Her bio says she was also in East of Eden and Princess Ja Myung Go, maybe that's where you recognize her from.
I don't think anyone from Gumiho is in QI, but I do know Jin Ji-Hee and Kim Yoo-Jeong (the one that was murdered in Gumiho) are currently filming another sageuk, The Moon that Embraced the Sun. The childhood/adolescent portion reportedly takes up 1/4 of the series (6/24 eps.), so they're playing very substantial roles (I think KYJ has the lead role, the girl that became a shaman).
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Date: 2011-12-20 12:33 am (UTC)I haven't seen Ja Muyng Go yet, but it's probably my next sageuk after I finish Gye Baek and Warrior Baek Dong Soo, though I suppose I should watch Princess Man and Tree With Deep Roots soonish too.
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