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[dangermousie]

I tried Ghost. It could have become spectacular after the first ten minutes, but I will never know because I simply had to switch it off by then. Soooooo bad. Not just "procedural ergo not my thing" or "kinda dull" but epically epically bad. I confess to starting to laugh like a maniac the moment So Ji Sub had an epic breakdown over shutting down computers, the one normally reserved for finding your relatives massacred by the aliens. It's both OTT and boring - I can be fine with OTT (I mean, I am enjoying Dr. Jin, so I clearly don't require my dramas to be high art) but this is utterly ridiculous and utterly dull at the same time, thus there is no way I can persevere. Plus, let's face it, cybercrime is not a sexy topic - it's highly technical and complicated but rather bloodless to watch on-screen. It doesn't arouse the human interest the way someone mugging an elderly lady would. Also, the amount of errors about cybercrime they managed to cram into the first ten minutes made my hair stand on end. Leaving aside the jurisdictional issues in their little proposed action (I doubt Japan or China would let Korean cops operate on their soil, though they might send their own squads in a coordinated effort), I literally lost it when So Ji Sub exclaimed with incredible gravity that you will lose all the valuable data if the bad guys will try to destroy the computer (FALSE. Unless you burn the hard drive, you can almost always recover something, even if the computer gets thrown out the window) or if the bad guys turn the power off. Ahahahahaha. Nice to know I wipe my computer clean every time I shut it down and unplug it.

So bad. So very very bad.

SKIP.

The teaser for Big gave me ulcers, so I am staying away, which I 90% knew before the trailer anyway. By now, Hong Sisters and I are sort of like a dysfunctional relationship. We used to be great (Hong Gil Dong and anything prior) but it slowly went sour and now I hate everything about it but breaking up is hard but finally a really egregious incident (Best Love) enabled me to make a clean break :)

I also figured out why I really dislike most younger man-older woman romances outside of some hardcore dramatic set-up a la Majo No Jouken or Loveholic. It's because immaturity is my penultimate turn-off in a hero, right after lack of competence, and obviously when the hero is much younger than the heroine, both these traits are very much in evidence.

Finally, something non-gripey. Have this adorable MV from A Gentleman's Dignity:

Oh, I am too brain-dead to watch more Gaksital today so it will have to wait until the weekend.

Comments

[firthgal.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I will not lie, the beginning of Ghost had me laughing at its absurdity, especially when they were going "OH NO! HE UNPLUGGED THE COMPUTER!!! ALL IS LOST!!!!!!!!" but once Daniel Choi showed up, it got enjoyable. I'm not sure whether I'm going to keep loving this one or not, but seeing as how I adored Sign so much, I have a feeling that this one will eventually pull me in. I like procedurals, though, as long as they have enough character development to keep me entertained. So Ji Sub's character, at this point, is extremely dull, which is why I enjoyed his scenes with Daniel Choi, because he was the only one who seemed to get any reaction out of him. But yeah, if he keeps being this dull through the entirety of the show, I'll probably lose interest. Though I do quite enjoy looking at him...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

SJS is gorgeous but I've always found him rather wooden. *pssssst, don't tell his fangirls*

[timescout.livejournal.com]

Haven't checked out Ghost yet but everything I've read about it is making me less and less interested so I might not even try.

Hong Sisters have never really appealed to me. I just don't like their style and the last few dramas were more or less bust. Not interested in Big at all. Immaturity does not sit well with me either, if the characters are adults. Young people being immature I can take, even if I can't really relate all that much anymore as those years are far behind me. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as I get older, I find immaturity more and more annoying. I am turning into a curmudgeon.

[once-a-weaver.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the immature hero thing. I'd rather watch... almost anything, really. For some reason a lot of American movie trailers seem to think I want to see this. They are so very wrong.

People who make movies and TV shows should just never have computers in them, since they've obviously never used one. It can be hilarious sometimes, but usually it's just... really? You couldn't google five minutes and find out it doesn't work that way?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think dramas are written by the writers for whom the latest innovation was a typewriter.