Now I am feeling so thwarted and depressed

[dangermousie]

Someone posted on joonni.com the trailer for the 2009 version of Faith, the one with a somewhat different plot that was going to be with Kang Ji Hwan until the fact that was embroiled in a legal dispute with his management scuppered the project.

I've never seen it before and now I am DYING. DYING!!!!! Why was this not made? WHY?! Don't get me wrong, I adore current Faith but this is so much grimmer and fantasy-full, i.e., my perfect thing. And I adore Lee Min Ho (who doesn't?) but Kang Ji Hwan is another level entirely. When I think I almost had this and then the idiotic legal dispute happened and ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH this looks like everything I ever wanted. I love grim and high fantasyish and Kang Ji Hwan and I was going to have it and it was taken away from me and I think I need a little lie down.

Instead Kang Ji Hwan made the abomination that was Lie to Me. WTF, life!!!!

Comments

[iviih.livejournal.com]

Oh wow why they couldn't keep the cool and good special effects?


I remember Faith was going to be a 30 billion won project and it was going to be produced in 3D. Looking this teaser I think it would be such epic drama, so sad things didn't work. Faith had so many problems... plus I guess they couldn't find or keep the person to invest much money...


Unfortunately Kang Ji Hwan left faith because of a contract dispute with his last management company....


Can I say the doctor seems hotter in this teaser? LOL :)

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That looks amazing. I faintly recall seeing promo pictures for the drama. It makes me wonder just how much was actually filmed before they had to stop. This drama version of the story does look much more grim and fantasy orientated than what we have now. Was the writer/story changed much?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

This Faith, while I am sure having a decent budget, has a much smaller budget that the 30b won one and hence the special effects. I don't even care about the effects that much (I mean, I enjoyed 90s wuxia cdramas and we all know what kind of effects they had), but the vibe of this is so much grimmer (this Faith never goes as grim as this trailer was) and epic fantasyish and...seriously gnashing teeth here.

I still can't believe Kang Ji Hwan did Lie to Me instead of this (not that he had a choice due to that idiotic dispute. Grrr). He is so good at intense and I love him in period dramas (I became his fan for life due to Capital Scandal/Hong Gil Dong one-two punch) - I really would love for him to make another one but who knows, Damn damn damn!

If by doctor you mean Lee Philip, than yes. But this was 3 years ago and we all change. He was the hottest as Cheoro in Legend. Now THAT look was unreal.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I believe the writer is different (Song Jina only came on board recently) and the story was going to be quite different - as you can tell from the trailer, for example Kim Hee Sun was going to be a 14th century woman with music powers (a la flute guy in this version). The two shots in the trailer for new Faith (Lee Philip healing with needles and KHS playing) are from this old one.

I am seriously, severely upset. I think I might even take a mini break from this version so I won't be comparing them in my mind. Because grim and Kang Ji Hwan? Cannot be beat, sorry.

[village.livejournal.com]

What the hell? This is entirely different. ENTIRELY.

I don't understand. Why couldn't they keep the same premise? It seems like such an unnecessary change to me when they originally had a vibe that I think many people expected when Faith started to air.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Different writer and everything else? Also, I love Lee Min Ho, but there is no way he could play the same character Kang Ji Hwan would - the latter's got at least a decade on him, and so by definition the KJH character had to be different (and was - you can tell).

I expected from Faith what I got from it (but then I love it much more than you do) - I think anyone who watched the teasers etc knew what to expect. BUT. This is a whole other thing entirely and so much more my speed and so epic. (I find Faith less epic than Legend but this looks every bit as epic as Legend and then some).

[sanaenam.livejournal.com]

This one looks epic, so much so that I want to rewrite E P I C !

[joonni.livejournal.com]

My ovaries would have probably burst with all that Kang Ji Hwan.

I see so much of The Legend set, I wanna go rewatch. Cheoro too!

[cleobulle.livejournal.com]

And here you have the reason why people are so hard on Faith. Many were expecting the epicness promised by that first early trailer and were extremely disappointed.

I had heard nothing of this drama until this year and seeing that trailer makes me reallize that they must have filmed quite a bit of the drama before stopping all production. It's the first time I see anything like this. There are a lot of special effects in that trailer. They must have spent lots of money on it.

[elanatothemax.livejournal.com]

Man, this looks awesome! And I love me some Kang Ji Hwan. Though I must admit, I LOL'd at the long cartoony shots of the blood cells and clogged arteries and whatnot. It felt like an episode of the Magic School Bus, haha.

[village.livejournal.com]

Although I see where you're coming from, even the teasers were a bit of a mixed bag for Faith, IMO.

I'm not sure what kind of gap there was between writers but I wish there hadn't been such a massive script overhaul. I think it would have served the drama better. I say that as someone who actually enjoys Faith so this isn't me being down on it.

And while I agree that there is a gap between LMH and KJH, as he is now, CY is supposed to be a sort of grim, cold warrior type - perhaps not as hardened as KJH's character would have been - so I'm not sure how much of a stretch it would have really been but YMMV.

[jennyhime.livejournal.com]

Why!!! sob sob sob
I mean I like Faith with Min Ho but this, I would have loved this.
Darn it KJH, why did you choose to make Lie to me instead and that legal dispute, can't we just get along.
But I have to say I am enjoying the scenes with Princess Noguk and the king, for some reason I'm actually
at the moment more interested in them then in our lady doctor and fierce warrior.

[fairycutter.livejournal.com]

"Now I am feeling so thwarted and depressed"
So am i... this 4 minutes trailer is much much much better than any dramas trailers airing today or dare i say this year...
EPIC got new definition...

[fairycutter.livejournal.com]

i never knew any trailer of faith beside beside with LMH as CY, therefore what i get is the production team promise epic and this is what we get (the one that airing) with none near epic, so peoples are so hard. I always think they are too hard actually, then i saw this trailer... then they not hard enough.

you right, the reason is now found....

A LOT.... for a drama that promise 3D and epic, money is like waterfall.
also like the wardrobe of CY ans Eun Soo...
Such a waste

[(Anonymous)]

I heard Lee Jun Ki was the1st original male lead in Faith but unfortunetely, due to his military service he had to drop out of the project,and then he has been replaced with kang Ji Hwan!

[nokke.livejournal.com]

I think they mights have changed because all the time-travel dramas we had during these years.

[linfer.livejournal.com]

This trailer looks fantastic, but what I love about Faith is Eun-soo and the fact that she is the time traveller and the doctor. So while it's a shame that they didn't go with the darker and grimer scheme, I'm still fine with this version of Faith.

And well, the trailer is the proof that Lee Philip would look a 100 times more better with a different hairstyle. Because he hasn't changed that much agewise.

[once-a-weaver.livejournal.com]

Wow, that looks fantastic.

[mionenoelle.livejournal.com]

IA with everyone else that this looks incredibly epic, Kang Ji-hwan is hot, etc. The directing looks far more inspired here than in the current Faith (which suffers from lackluster directing, IMO), and I agree that the show would've been more mind-blowing if the original cast, set-up, effects, etc. were retained.

HOWEVER, I wouldn't trade my precious sassy queen Eun-soo for anything, even an actual epic fantasy sageuk.

P.S. Tbh, I didn't understand anything going on in the trailer so the only thing that registered with me was that in this Faith, Eun-soo doesn't exist.

[(Anonymous)]

Its regretful that the current Faith cannot have this kind of visuals, special effects and directing as a whole. Because how great this trailer look, I don't think I would watch this version had it been aired. It just doesn't seem like my type. I'm more into romance which is one of the reason why I check out the current Faith now and loving it despite its flaws. This version just seems like one of those that is cool and pretty but lack of heart. And the current Faith is just the opposite it. But because it has so much of the latter, I love it.

[dita18.livejournal.com]

Oh, tell me about it .... I saw that yesterday and I was brooding the whole evening ... and I still am.

I really enjoy Faith but this ...completely different level.

[algelic.livejournal.com]

Excuse me while I go into a corner and cry...

As I started watching the trailer I said "Hmmm... this is a gazillion times better than the current Faith. I would even switch my Phillip Lee fix for THIS!" and then lo and behold... PHILLIP LEE RIGHT THERE! *sob*

Seriously, I would trade 30 bad dramas for this one. WHY OH WHY DIDN'T I GET THIS ONE?!

What I love the most about this version of "Faith" isn't even the special effects... it's how serious and badass it looks! I can bet the enemies would be actually scary and serious!

[oozzeee.livejournal.com]

,I am not a Lord of the Rings fan nor am I very familiar with it except from snippets I saw from the TV and the trailer gives off the same vibes from me.. BTW, is the woman on laid down on the table being healed Son Yejin? She looks like her..

And on a purely superficial level, Philip Lee looked hotter on this video than the stills I've seen of him from recaps.. Hmmm, maybe I should go download Legend and rewatch it? Boy was Phillip Lee gorgeous on it. He had my heart pitter pattery..

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I need to rewatch Legend so badly now. Ahhh...my biggest sageuk love.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I've actually got exactly what the drama will be from pretty much every kdrama teaser except Tamra. In fact, I know that if I hate the teaser, I'll hate the drama - if I go against my instincts and check out the drama, I end up hating it :)