Tsuki No Koibito shipping wars rant
May. 15th, 2010 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieUgh. I really should know better than read fan threads with a drama where ultimate shipping is uncertain - it's insanity. Unlike people on my flist who, whichever their shipper preferences, always come across as reasonable and making sense, insanity reigns on the boards.
I've been reading threads related to Tsuki No Koibito and am so irritated.
It is full of people bashing Striker Girl because they adore the famous actress who plays the Best Friend and so any threat to potential OTP of her and Kimura muuuuust beeee eliiiiminated.
This is giving me really bad flashbacks to East of Eden thread where people kept bashing poor Lee Yeon Hee and her character Grace and the potential for an OTP with her and EoE's hero because she was love rivals with Lee Da Hae who is a much more popular star. People kept insisting Hero and LDH were the OTP to end all OTPs even though they had barely any scenes and Grace had romantic scenes galore with the hero, and were very short and superior with those (like me, even though I was a lurker) who were going "but text! In canon he doesn't care about LDH, he loves Grace! He is willing to die for her! Repeatedly!" No, apparently the fact that LDH was the bigger star trumped all and I still remember the horrible bashing of Lee Yeon Hee's acting, her character's behavior, and the horribleness of the OTP (and its very existence despite the drama doing everything but tattooing 'soulmates' on Grace's and Hero's foreheads) simply because Lee Da Hae's fans could not comprehend that a drama would not have her as mostest desirable thing ever.
I am getting a very familiar bad vibe from TnK threads - Chinese actress cannot act, her character is horrible, the chemistry is nonexistent, only thing worth watching is Best Friend etc. I don't mind people genuinely thinking Chinese Girl sucks at acting or whatever but when it's a litany of complaints all rooted in the fact that Kimura isn't worshipping at Best Friend's feet? Ugh. So far there is more evidence of his being attracted to Chinese Girl than Best Friend (it's not as clear-cut as EoE) but I am fine with either - except now her crazy fangirls are driving me insane and I sort of wish he ends up with Chinese girl just to spite the nutty people.
In a way, for me this is worse than EoE. I am a big Lee Da Hae fan (just wasn't rooting for her character in EoE) but I am completely unfamiliar with the actress who plays Best Friend, so the ranting of her fangirls prejudices me even more. And at least the disappointed LDH fans had grounds for crying 'bait and switch' because prior to premiere EoE was advertised as a love triangle involving Lee Da Hae. But with TnK the love stuff is really really muddled to start with.
Of course, it doesn't help that here, as in EoE, the shipping that the 'big name actress' fans are pushing interests me not at all. All the ranting is making me contrary and ship Chinese girl even more.
I've been reading threads related to Tsuki No Koibito and am so irritated.
It is full of people bashing Striker Girl because they adore the famous actress who plays the Best Friend and so any threat to potential OTP of her and Kimura muuuuust beeee eliiiiminated.
This is giving me really bad flashbacks to East of Eden thread where people kept bashing poor Lee Yeon Hee and her character Grace and the potential for an OTP with her and EoE's hero because she was love rivals with Lee Da Hae who is a much more popular star. People kept insisting Hero and LDH were the OTP to end all OTPs even though they had barely any scenes and Grace had romantic scenes galore with the hero, and were very short and superior with those (like me, even though I was a lurker) who were going "but text! In canon he doesn't care about LDH, he loves Grace! He is willing to die for her! Repeatedly!" No, apparently the fact that LDH was the bigger star trumped all and I still remember the horrible bashing of Lee Yeon Hee's acting, her character's behavior, and the horribleness of the OTP (and its very existence despite the drama doing everything but tattooing 'soulmates' on Grace's and Hero's foreheads) simply because Lee Da Hae's fans could not comprehend that a drama would not have her as mostest desirable thing ever.
I am getting a very familiar bad vibe from TnK threads - Chinese actress cannot act, her character is horrible, the chemistry is nonexistent, only thing worth watching is Best Friend etc. I don't mind people genuinely thinking Chinese Girl sucks at acting or whatever but when it's a litany of complaints all rooted in the fact that Kimura isn't worshipping at Best Friend's feet? Ugh. So far there is more evidence of his being attracted to Chinese Girl than Best Friend (it's not as clear-cut as EoE) but I am fine with either - except now her crazy fangirls are driving me insane and I sort of wish he ends up with Chinese girl just to spite the nutty people.
In a way, for me this is worse than EoE. I am a big Lee Da Hae fan (just wasn't rooting for her character in EoE) but I am completely unfamiliar with the actress who plays Best Friend, so the ranting of her fangirls prejudices me even more. And at least the disappointed LDH fans had grounds for crying 'bait and switch' because prior to premiere EoE was advertised as a love triangle involving Lee Da Hae. But with TnK the love stuff is really really muddled to start with.
Of course, it doesn't help that here, as in EoE, the shipping that the 'big name actress' fans are pushing interests me not at all. All the ranting is making me contrary and ship Chinese girl even more.
