Whither Dr Jin?

[dangermousie]

To my own surprise, I am still following Dr. Jin. I have no idea why - I find medicine a horribly boring topic, the story is slow as molasses, there isn't much romance/action/political intrigue, i.e., things I like and none of the characters are particularly compelling. And yet, here I still am. It's a mystery. Either it's my weakness for period dramas or fondness for really virtuous protagonists.

Hmmm.

Puzzled.

Comments

[mionenoelle.livejournal.com]

mte

Perhaps because SSH is hot? That's the major reason why I'm still following this drama.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL, the man looks good grimy.

[usisblog.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the club except the medicine part. Even the hillarious parts are boring now but I can't stay away. Must be the reason why the ratings are still so good.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I honestly have no clue why I am watching - I've ditched many better dramas.

[rectherapyfreak.livejournal.com]

I thought I wasn't a fan of medical dramas but I am enjoying finding out how he is going to cure each illness/injury. I rally enjoyed the cholera plot. I feel bad for Kim Kyung Tak though. He just wants to be loved. :(

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

KKT lost me when he burned that village :(

[rectherapyfreak.livejournal.com]

Yea I got mad at that part too. In period dramas I am not as horrified by murderous behaviors as I am in present day dramas because I feel it was "acceptable" then. I think also he knew it was happening whether he did it or not so he at least wanted to save his girl. But yea he could have given the people a head up. He knew they were getting healed too and that the disease was not as bad as before. He did lose a lot of points for me at that part though!! I think I pity him also because he reminds me a litlte of Shin Myun from The Princess' Man.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but at least he bugs me less than Myun did.

[rectherapyfreak.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought Shin Myun wasn't as bad as him already. I just feel bad for the 2 of them. Torn between pleasing thier one sided love that has no interest in them and then trying to please their dads.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I guess I don't really go for Daddy issues :) I just want to tell them to grow a conscience and a spine.

[rectherapyfreak.livejournal.com]

I feel they do have somewhat of a conscience whichis why they are having a hard time not being their for their father's. Again it is somethign I feel goes with the time period. But yea, no excuses for their poor decisions!

[(Anonymous)]

as a longtime lurker and agree-er of your posts, may i humbly proffer a possible replacement for jin? i know j-dramas have been disappointing lately, but there's one called "w no higeki" that might be to your liking. to be glib, it's like the parent trap meets torrid romance novel, albeit a very dark and twisted one. two girls who are identical to each other come from really different backgrounds, one's a super upper crust young lady-type and the other is a street-wise, hardened poor girl. without going into too much specifics, it pretty much goes exclusively where k-dramas refuse to let their heroines go, aka seedy cabaret clubs, prostitution, incest. do NOT mean to say that these things appeal to the viewers of this drama, but it's kind of refreshing after pretty-fied k-dramas. and storytelling is one thing japanese dramas have not slacked off on, the plot is super gripping and hard to stop watching, so it's fortunate it's typical j-drama length. ok, i think i've gone on long enough, please do try the first couple eps and see what you think!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

This sounds both interesting and horrifying (as in too dark for me). But interesting enough for me to check it out. Thank you!

[gurlygirl10.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about the drama, I'm watching it but have no clue why, probably to look at JaeJoong, who unfortunately looks ridiculous in that hat they make him wear, lol. The main guy is hot too but he can't act for beans...(although I liked him in Autumn in My Heart which was made years ago, I see that his talent in more in acting silently brooding and that's it, why hasn't he improved since then?) something horrible will happen and his expression is just so blank. They should have gotten a really good passionate actor to play the main role, like the main guy from Princess' Man. I feel no passion coming from him that he even likes the heroine and she looks like his fiancee who could die in the present (this is a traumatic thing!) but, no. And the heroine, who I really liked in SKKS, is sort of annoying here, always following the hero around.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

JJ is pretty but is so out of place in a sageuk and is very wooden here (he was fine in Protect the Boss and Sunao ni Narenakute, so I am just assuming sageuk is not his forte and/or the director must be asleep at the job).

I adore SSH, who is the most gorgeous thing known to man but yeah, he is not setting the screen on fire (I thought he was very good in East of Eden and he and Lee Yeon Hee set the screen on fire, so perhaps, like with Jaejoong, he just needs a decent director to shine). I am glad they didn't get Park Shi Hoo from TPM though because it would be such a waste of his talent.

Hmmm, the more I think of it, the more I think the director is to blame for all the wooden perfomances - I've adored Park Min Young in every single thing I've seen her in before but she's blah here. The only person who is escaping is Lee Bum Soo, but he is incapable of a bad performance and has vast years of experience.

[gurlygirl10.livejournal.com]

hmmm, you are probably right, the director is probably at fault. Yeah JJ is definitely lacking something- I remember the scene where YR got burnt and I was thinking he was going to explode in anger and go crazy but I was disappointed with the way he acted, he was too calm and the emotions on his face were so 1-dimensional- this is supposed to be the only person he cares about, I thought he would be all desperate and crazy but he is just so wooden, like you said. Sageuks seems like they are definitely harder to act in than present time stuff, Micky YooChun is very good at acting in Sageuks, though, JJ is probably getting a lot of advice from him because his manner of speaking sort of reminds me of YooChun's, although JJ is missing that certain charisma Micky has. If the director was better, I wonder how it would have turned out. The main OTP is so blah to me... o well

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The whole thing is oddly blahh. Oh well. I agree, Yoochun is much better at sageuks.