Is it angst free? I need minimal-angst reassurance for my next dorama(actually, I'm kinda pissed at Damo atm for some OOC stuff, but I know it'll be fixed soon...and I think I know how it ends...so I shall be extremely depressed...) and...I'm not sure...how angsty is Hana Yori Dango?
So far, though, ISWAK sounds relatively angst free so far...but longer than I want to commit to right now...and the other Trick series won't be here for a week or so...
Ah, good. I'll be finishing Damo tonight after work(and hopefully posting about it...going to walmar after work, and i never know how long I'll be there) then I'll be watching disc 2 of Supernatural and maybe a movie and then HYD.
When he is in Church and has that conversation with 'Uncle,' I almost died. Especially when he asks 'what if I have no dream?' and he is so hrribly young. And the look on his face when his mother says her bday is 6 months away! And when he tells his dad not to be sorry about sending him back to QD.
Or the scene with his fiancee when she is so happy and you can see he could have had a good life with her even if she wasn't THE ONE, and you see how it's so hard for him to let go of everything. I am afraid I stopped in the middle of 7 because it was killing me to watch.
Oh, it gets worse... I didn't think they could top the look on his face re: his mother's birthday, but they totally do.
But then it gets better... well, better-ish. Okay, they tone down the heart-ripping-out and the stomping, to the point where it can be watched without tears... I'm about 10 min. into ep. 9, so it IS possible to survive ep. 7. The worse is that I KNOW this can't end well, so what am I going to be like later on? It took me days to get over the ending of Love Contract and that was with the weird double ending that gives you the ability to believe it all ended happily. I am so dead.
My first reaction to the first ending of Love Contract was uncontrollable sobbing and cursing over the fact that it was 3 am, I was alone in the house, I still had a paper to edit and I couldn't believe that the writers were doing this to me... Then the 2nd ending came around, and it was pure relief, with a side of "those bastards made me belief they were dead!!!" and a bit of "this is kinda cheesy and unrealistic, but that's drama for you!"... and then the were all dressed for a wedding, holding strange toys and the dead guy was miraculously alive and I didn't know what to think...
It's taken me awhile to work through how I feel about it... there was some outrage (20 eps, with AMAZING OTP scenes and boring friends/family drama, just so it could end like that??), but I think now, that it was an understandable ending, given the whole fairy-tale-ish feeling to the whole drama, and the song that he sang to her, about the lovers who could only be together in deaht (or similar, I forget the details), so I've reconciled with it. I prefer to think that last few minutes didn't actually happen, and if Mike He was so bloody pretty, I would have be furious.
Yeah, basically the fairy tale thing is what I told myself over and over to calm self down. I still haven't decided if they are alive or dead at the end, but hey, I guess at least they are together.
Lesson: a romantic dorama is NOT a time for the scriptwriter to get posmodern.
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:16 am (UTC)So far, though, ISWAK sounds relatively angst free so far...but longer than I want to commit to right now...and the other Trick series won't be here for a week or so...
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:26 am (UTC)Btw, I posted my Japan pics.
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:11 am (UTC)Or the scene with his fiancee when she is so happy and you can see he could have had a good life with her even if she wasn't THE ONE, and you see how it's so hard for him to let go of everything. I am afraid I stopped in the middle of 7 because it was killing me to watch.
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:32 am (UTC)But then it gets better... well, better-ish. Okay, they tone down the heart-ripping-out and the stomping, to the point where it can be watched without tears... I'm about 10 min. into ep. 9, so it IS possible to survive ep. 7. The worse is that I KNOW this can't end well, so what am I going to be like later on? It took me days to get over the ending of Love Contract and that was with the weird double ending that gives you the ability to believe it all ended happily. I am so dead.
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:41 am (UTC)But yes, there is no way there will be a miracle cure or similar so I'll end up utterly distraught.
Btw, what on earth did you think of Love Contract ending? I am still trying to figure that one out...
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Date: 2006-09-24 10:59 pm (UTC)It's taken me awhile to work through how I feel about it... there was some outrage (20 eps, with AMAZING OTP scenes and boring friends/family drama, just so it could end like that??), but I think now, that it was an understandable ending, given the whole fairy-tale-ish feeling to the whole drama, and the song that he sang to her, about the lovers who could only be together in deaht (or similar, I forget the details), so I've reconciled with it. I prefer to think that last few minutes didn't actually happen, and if Mike He was so bloody pretty, I would have be furious.
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Date: 2006-09-25 12:36 am (UTC)Lesson: a romantic dorama is NOT a time for the scriptwriter to get posmodern.