What's Up - episodes 1 and 2 - thoughts and caps

[dangermousie]

It's official, I love this drama. I can actually see why the networks passed on it - it's indie and quirky and has a cast of unknowns and is not an upbeat, predictable (in a good way but still) drama like Dream High. The drama it reminds me most of, actually, is the jdrama Orange Days.

I don't really have a ship yet and don't really care if I get one. I don't care how the story ends, either - I just want to watch these uniformly fascinating people, each one of whom I love already.



Anyone else think that Do Sung's mother is the wife of some important politician and he's illegitimate? In other news - I hate her hate her hate her hate her.



Did anyone else think they wandered into live-action adaptation of Sensual Phrase instead? :) On a more serious note, I do find it interesting that shy, spazzy, borderline socially-useless Do Sung can perform fearlessly when his face is covered. Hmmmm.




I love this scene - where Jae Hun wanders into a theater after thinking he incidentally killed someone.





Why is Im Ju Hwan not a huge star, again?



He is told the man in the accident is fine. What he doesn't know but the audience does is that the store clerk who told him is mistaken and the man died.



Tae Hee, whom I adore. She's sort of manic pixie dream girl only sweet. She's having a conversation with her dead father and the scene is just oddly sweet. Btw, this is the man who died in collision with Jae Hun. This is going to be huge because while no court would hold JH guilty of the man's death, emotionally, it's a whole other game.



She's so gorgeous.



Ooooh, shivers...




If I had to pick my favorite character, the son of rich family who's hiding what impractical subject he's studying, Byung Gun, just might be my favorite. He's sort of my rl type. I like them spazzy.




OK, maybe I do have a ship? BG with Chae Young, the pop star who decides to get some acting chops.








She's freaking gorgeous.



Doo Ri, the girl with a stage mother who actually has a punk/rebel attitude. I love her.



OK, I can kinda ship Tae Hee and Do Sung because they are both so odd and awkward and darling.








The main threesome. OK, I can kinda go for JH and TH too because it will be so screwed up...



Everyone in this cast is ridiculously gorgeous.



She does well on her audition.



But not as well as Do Sung who loses his shyness when he starts to sing and blows everyone away.




Another lovely scene with Tae Hee and her father.




Odd roommates.




Not as odd as these...




Seriously, she's so weird...



I loved this whole sequence...








Upperclassmen try to bully newbies and succeed.




Well, they succeed with everyone but JH. Idiot upperclassman, I could have told you - it's not a good idea to try to bully Park Kyu (I miss Tamra!!!!).






LOLOLOLOL priceless.







Also heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.








So adorable, seriously!!! (It helps that he looks a bit like Yamada Takayuki)




She is so awesomely weird.




Hmmmm, they know each other. Interesting.

Comments

[happahaole.livejournal.com]

it reminds u of orange days?! that's reason enough for me to check it out since OD is one of my favorite japanese dramas. in wat way does it remind you of OD?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The same vibe about a group of students interacting and finding themselves...some wounded some sweet.