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dangermousieI am about half-an-episode into Worlds Within and so far I like it. Now, this means little - there have been plenty of dramas which I started out by liking and ended up loathing and vice-versa.
But what I will always like about WW is the existence of Song Hye Gyo's character - a young woman who is (a) professionally ambitious and climbing the ladder and (b) not horribly unappealing/desperate for a man and/or (c) "cutely" clumsy.
I confess a big reason I do not like dramas about professional women (usually 30+) is because most of the heroines of them fit into the above mold and I cannot identify with it at all - someone stalled in their 30s, with no career ambition/drive and in no stable romantic relationship of any sort is rather alien to me. Whenever a drama's heroine is a professional woman good at and committed to her job, it appeals to me much more - Brand, Sapuri, what little I have seen of WW so far, etc. Alternatively, a heroine like that of Last Scandal - a housewife and mother is also someone I find appealing. But a cutesy, dead-ended, scatterbrained or weird, single heroine who is old enough to know better is not someone I find appealing - a behavior I am willing to overlook or even find cute in a character who is 19 becomes much harder to overlook in a 29-yr-old - that person should have matured by then! (One of many reasons I loathed Kim Sam Soon was the fact that she acted like an immature 20-yr-old who thinks she is such a grown-up).
And here we have a woman who is working hard at a demanding job, who has a boyfriend (even if that relationship isn't the most wonderful ever), who has dated people before, clearly (including Hyun Bin's character), who is competent and not little-girl cutesy or maladjusted. That just makes sense to me.
And also, I often have problems with heroine of such dramas ending up with a younger man because all too often it comes across to me as if they are saying no intelligent competent woman would be attractive to her equal - an intelligent, competent man- only a 'weaker' moldable guy can take her. Boo! In WW they both appear to be professionally driven and the same age.
I have no idea whether I will love the drama btw, at all, but I do love that aspect of it.
But what I will always like about WW is the existence of Song Hye Gyo's character - a young woman who is (a) professionally ambitious and climbing the ladder and (b) not horribly unappealing/desperate for a man and/or (c) "cutely" clumsy.
I confess a big reason I do not like dramas about professional women (usually 30+) is because most of the heroines of them fit into the above mold and I cannot identify with it at all - someone stalled in their 30s, with no career ambition/drive and in no stable romantic relationship of any sort is rather alien to me. Whenever a drama's heroine is a professional woman good at and committed to her job, it appeals to me much more - Brand, Sapuri, what little I have seen of WW so far, etc. Alternatively, a heroine like that of Last Scandal - a housewife and mother is also someone I find appealing. But a cutesy, dead-ended, scatterbrained or weird, single heroine who is old enough to know better is not someone I find appealing - a behavior I am willing to overlook or even find cute in a character who is 19 becomes much harder to overlook in a 29-yr-old - that person should have matured by then! (One of many reasons I loathed Kim Sam Soon was the fact that she acted like an immature 20-yr-old who thinks she is such a grown-up).
And here we have a woman who is working hard at a demanding job, who has a boyfriend (even if that relationship isn't the most wonderful ever), who has dated people before, clearly (including Hyun Bin's character), who is competent and not little-girl cutesy or maladjusted. That just makes sense to me.
And also, I often have problems with heroine of such dramas ending up with a younger man because all too often it comes across to me as if they are saying no intelligent competent woman would be attractive to her equal - an intelligent, competent man- only a 'weaker' moldable guy can take her. Boo! In WW they both appear to be professionally driven and the same age.
I have no idea whether I will love the drama btw, at all, but I do love that aspect of it.
