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EXCUSE ME?!

I am on episode 3 of Sealed with a rapey Kiss and unless I started spontaneously hallucinating, our 'hero' (I use the term loosely) just told the heroine that if she wants him to stop bankrupting her best friend's family as some sort of "I am pissed at heroine, so I'll get to her that way" strategy, he is willing:

a. To make friend his mistress too, just as he did with heroine. Friend, he is sure, will be equally happy to save her father. And they can all move together as a threesome!!!!!
b. If she doesn't like that and wants her friend spared, he's fine, as long as in exchange heroine sleeps with some of hero's business friends who are into that type of thing.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At this point, I am just watching out of sheer 'wtf insanity will I see in my screen next' impulse. I mean, that beats a lakorn - even in those rapey heroes don't want to prostitute the heroine to other dudes for group rape sex!!!!!!

THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, yeah, I know he isn't really ruining friend's family (that is a coincidence) and doesn't really intend for heroine to sleep with others, but the FACT that he's telling her that and she (reasonably) believes he means it and he knows she believes it.

THE FUCKING FUCK!!!!! I want him to die so badly, I can feel it!!!!!

RAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The thing is, if they took the heroine out of the story and concentrated on hero and his in-law craziness and business manips, it would be a pretty compelling drama about a bunch of psychos trying to one-up each other - I truly enjoy those scenes. But as it is, I looooong for heroine to get together with her sweet ex, and for hero to die die die die die die die after being tortured for a month slowly.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE YOU FUCKING ABUSIVE PIG!!!!

Date: 2012-01-14 11:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calixa.livejournal.com
I'm mostly alarmed because I remember watching Hawick Lau in a super long running family soap opera back in the 90s that ran for years, and he was the innocent sweet youngest son of the family who had the same gf for years and never really got his own plotline. I'm having a hard time reconciling him with this character...

Date: 2012-01-14 11:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dangermousie.livejournal.com
I've seen him in a period drama Scent of Fragrance and he was such a total sweetheart in that one and all of a sudden it's like he's got a creepy rapey twin!

Tbh, leaving aside the merits of the hero as a person, Hawick is doing a pretty phenomenal job acting in this - I may be repulsed by the character but he's also fascinating and very well-acted (and from what I can tell, very much outside Hawick's normal repertoire). But still! I may approve of the actor's acting chops and still want his character to die a fiery death.

I shall cleanse my palace by rewatching the trailer of Ru Yi, his upcoming drama with rl-gf Yang Mi - not only does it look gorgeous, his character actually appears sweet and awesome in that one.

Date: 2012-01-15 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kmiowc.livejournal.com
A Kindred Spirit? That was a biggg part of my childhood! I still have a soft spot for Hawick Lau because of that. The theme song still bring back memories. Haha

Date: 2012-01-17 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calixa.livejournal.com
Yes haha I still think of him as a baby brother!!!

Date: 2012-01-19 01:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kmiowc.livejournal.com
LOL! I still call him "On Jai" or his family nickname in the drama!
Are you Cantonese too?

Date: 2012-01-14 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mookiehyun.livejournal.com
This is EXACTLY the moment I burn this drama and throw in my puke-ridden white towel and go wash my brain with yhdrochloric acid.

You watch on, take one for the measly TeamHeroDie!Die!DIE!!! The world is 'promising' us, if you turn a blink eye at this stretch, u will fall in love with hero and OTP shipping them at the end.

Date: 2012-01-14 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dangermousie.livejournal.com
See, I can get that some people, men and women, have humiliation/dominance sexual fantasies. Fine and good, to each their own. Even non-consent fantasies are OK as long as they remain fantasies.

But that's for erotica simply to get your jollies off, nothing else. As a romance story where I am supposed to buy them as a romantic couple and root for them - how on earth!!!!!! And I am going to judge the hell out of a hero who thinks it's OK to take out his bad mood on a woman by blackmailing her into group sex hookerdom!

Yeah, I am going to be shipping them. Shipping for her to stab him with rusty scissors and dance in his blood.

Date: 2012-01-15 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mookiehyun.livejournal.com
I lost faith in humankind, at least the Cdrama watching pool every step of the way with anything concerning this. The original pulp novel being regarded as a worthy sweeping angsty romance 'oh they r match made by TPTB/brilliant writer by title being their acronym wowsa, how clever!' and thus qualify for a TV adaptation and the subsequent massiveness of peeps honestly treating this as one lovely shippable OTP at the end of it.

I am a bad person, but I really wish and am praying you have the time and tenacity to continue for my curiosity of the WTFery turning point of shipping the OTP, I really wanna know!!! Nobody watches till the end without crazily shipping them, right?

This is what making me so ragey I have goosebumps: the bestie did nth caring towards heroine's sex slavery and is envious of her 'clothes' and blings. AND heroine has no problem with that as well, oh, how could we have GUESSED?!?!

Most of the time she looks 'smiley' unless rapist!hero is in the house. We witnessed the trauma, and we're told it's been going on for a while, we are disgusted watching afar yet she's falalala-ing like any normal college girl UNLESS she's reminded of said trauma when hero is pressing her against mattress/ about to mount her. You really can't tell us this is a suffering ingenue still holding onto her moral compass yet giving us this instead.


Ying Er is very healthy looking by drama standard, Hawick is not storky at all and I was fully expecting her to make their bedchamber into a WWF ring, if they r throwing on the mud, i honestlythought I'll get some nasty ball hurting kicks every time.

Date: 2012-01-15 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dangermousie.livejournal.com
I am finishing ep 7 and still hate him and want him to die. I think we are supposed to think it's better that he liked her first before he knew whose kid she was and that his revenge was driven by feeeeeelings (once he found out who she was) but the thing is, it's not, it makes him more of a psycho! Nobody tells him 'you are being an abusive rapist creep!' Not his bro-in-law who's in love with heroine, not his Mom, nobody. I mean, he told her to strip or he'll call the cops and she did it while bawling. That's rape. The only one who yelled at him was former servitor and only because heroine is unworthy. WTF!!!! Fine, her friends don't know but everyone else does. And her bestie might not know exactly what's going on but she should realize there are red flags of an abusive relationship and she does nothing.

I think this drama is ruining Hawick for me for life. Seriously. I want to stab him every second he's on screen. Heroine is just happy he isn't beating her. Hooray, amazing man you got there!

I honestly not buy how she is ever going to fall for him outside Stockholm Syndrome.

Date: 2012-01-15 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mookiehyun.livejournal.com
*hug*

The whole I love you prior! is so much more F-ed!up then the rapist developing semblance of a feeling heart later... at least when committing crime out of rage/revenge/lust/psychosis he's doing it to an object he's not treating as a human being he cares whatsoever. Here he's doing it to someone he loves SO VERY MUCH. W!T!F! I'm shivering with the thought what more mental evil things he'll do to heroine IF he has no feelings for her.

Date: 2012-01-16 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dangermousie.livejournal.com
Pretty much. I can't believe I am saying it it, but this is worse than the two rapey lakorns I've seen. In Defendant of Love, at least it was for revenge against her (except hero was a moron and grabbed the wrong person and heroine didn't reveal the truth for plotty reasons) and he raped her once, not for years and years. And in Sawan Biang, the hero was basically brought up by dogs or equivalent and after insano rapey weekend (not two years!), he later realized it was wrong and did lots of atonement. Not that either of those situations are remotely palatable, but in comparison with SwaK, they seem like heaven!

Date: 2012-01-15 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kikintae.livejournal.com
there are people actually find this character sweet and complex. I just find this guy a freaking psycho. I don't care if harwick act in here. Didn't this remind you of old harlequin romance. I got seriously sick when I watch episode 1. So to save myself from high blood pressure. I watch something else.

Date: 2012-01-15 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dangermousie.livejournal.com
I know, this is awful!

Date: 2012-01-25 01:21 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I … I think I'll skip this C-drama.

Date: 2012-01-27 05:24 am (UTC)

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