Am done with East of Eden...
Dec. 7th, 2008 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI am done with East of Eden. I lasted 26 or so eps (which is longer than the entire run of an average Korean drama!) but honestly...I simply do not have the attention span for a series which is 50 eps at a minimum and most likely will be extended to 70 or so. And each ep is an 1+ long. I can't. I might selectively watch it when it's done...maybe.
And of course, I am losing interest because there are too many characters and too many stories and I am only interested in a few of them so when the rest are dealt with I get bored. Also, the pace is bizarre: sometimes it's pretty slow and then sometimes there is a crazy time jump. But seriously, they need a tighter pace and less characters: the story is going in circles. There is also more and more of Hye-Rin and while I think Lee Da Hae is an excellent actress (my favorite Korean one actually) the character makes me incredibly bored.
The thing I will miss the most? The crazy crazy soompi thread for EoE. It's a very popular drama so it's basically 400+ pages of insanity.
As a sample, I leave you with this MV made by a soompier which is basically a collection of scenes between two of the main characters, Myung Hun and Ji Heon, centering around when the former rapes the latter. It closes with...a dedication to all MH/JH shippers! In all the craziness of EoE thread, the one thing I have never been able to come to terms with is that people ship a rape victim with her rapist. In fact, they think she isn't good enough for him, lately.
ETA: I confess. I am pretty shallow and shippery myself. The main reason I watched for so long was this:
But now they are done and since for the last 7-8 eps they were almost the sole thing that kept me inerested in the drama, I am basically done too. Song Seung Heon is incredibly hot, true (probably the hottest Korean guy I've seen) but I can't watch that many eps just because of hotness.
Scene where my ship is finally done:
(I'll be shocked if the way the writers end ships on this drama, any single one makes out intact :))
And of course, I am losing interest because there are too many characters and too many stories and I am only interested in a few of them so when the rest are dealt with I get bored. Also, the pace is bizarre: sometimes it's pretty slow and then sometimes there is a crazy time jump. But seriously, they need a tighter pace and less characters: the story is going in circles. There is also more and more of Hye-Rin and while I think Lee Da Hae is an excellent actress (my favorite Korean one actually) the character makes me incredibly bored.
The thing I will miss the most? The crazy crazy soompi thread for EoE. It's a very popular drama so it's basically 400+ pages of insanity.
As a sample, I leave you with this MV made by a soompier which is basically a collection of scenes between two of the main characters, Myung Hun and Ji Heon, centering around when the former rapes the latter. It closes with...a dedication to all MH/JH shippers! In all the craziness of EoE thread, the one thing I have never been able to come to terms with is that people ship a rape victim with her rapist. In fact, they think she isn't good enough for him, lately.
ETA: I confess. I am pretty shallow and shippery myself. The main reason I watched for so long was this:
But now they are done and since for the last 7-8 eps they were almost the sole thing that kept me inerested in the drama, I am basically done too. Song Seung Heon is incredibly hot, true (probably the hottest Korean guy I've seen) but I can't watch that many eps just because of hotness.
Scene where my ship is finally done:
(I'll be shocked if the way the writers end ships on this drama, any single one makes out intact :))
