I have apprehensive apprehension
Dec. 20th, 2011 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieFlower Boy Ramyun Shop wasn't my thing but I wasn't ranty about it or anything.
But now I learned it is only the first of a series of dramas centering around Flower Boys. There is an upcoming one about a rock boy flower band and so on (janitor flower boys?).
UGH.
I mean, what can I say about a drama which has no driven narrative point or even a need to make you laugh, but is pretty much a drama to make you buy things and which has no selling point in any promos or in its entire existence, other than 'pretty androgynous boys! look at them! and buy our stuff!'
Not every drama has to have something profound to say. I've enjoyed plenty of fluff. But the utter lack of any animating principle other than "cute people selling stuff" belongs in a commercial and nowhere else.
Plus, I have this horrifying fear of kdramas turning into jdramas and turning into a sea of shrill material with the depth of a puddle geared not to strain the meager talents of various pop idols. (There are still good jdramas, of course, but the amount of the jdrama of the kind I mention is ubiquitous). Ugh.
This has been your rant of the day.
But now I learned it is only the first of a series of dramas centering around Flower Boys. There is an upcoming one about a rock boy flower band and so on (janitor flower boys?).
UGH.
I mean, what can I say about a drama which has no driven narrative point or even a need to make you laugh, but is pretty much a drama to make you buy things and which has no selling point in any promos or in its entire existence, other than 'pretty androgynous boys! look at them! and buy our stuff!'
Not every drama has to have something profound to say. I've enjoyed plenty of fluff. But the utter lack of any animating principle other than "cute people selling stuff" belongs in a commercial and nowhere else.
Plus, I have this horrifying fear of kdramas turning into jdramas and turning into a sea of shrill material with the depth of a puddle geared not to strain the meager talents of various pop idols. (There are still good jdramas, of course, but the amount of the jdrama of the kind I mention is ubiquitous). Ugh.
This has been your rant of the day.
