Green Rose and Wallflower: OTPs rock!
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dangermousieGreen Rose has eaten my brain.
Green Rose owns me, body and soul.
Only two episodes in, I've swooned, smiled, and bawled my frelling eyes out. Things would have been thrown at the screen, only that would interrupt the viewing.
Go Soo (it's the first thing I've seen him in) is awesome. He is gorgeous in a very masculine way, but he isn't just a pretty face. And Lee Da Hae? She is amazing. And beautiful. And the soundtrack? It just might be my very favorite drama soundtrack. That theme song just kills me. Kills me kills me kills me dead.
Oh, kdramas!
Jung-Hyun (Go Soo's character) is my newest dorama crush.
My heart breaks for him: an uncomprehending man caught in a surreal nightmare. He is so young and boysih, however capable, and his fear at being caught in this nightmare: being accused of murder, and attempted murder and arson, breaks my heart.
In a way, this is a quintessential fear, isn't it? Being put away in prison for something you know you didn'y do. The scene of him being walked out of the hospital to interrogation, and his struggling a bit, yelling he is innocent, and then repeating wearily he didn't do it, growing more and more afraid...
I just love that Jung-Hyun is shown to be scared. That he is a strong person, but he is terrified. There is no put on bravado. The scene where his Mom and Soo-Ah come to visit him in prison, and they can't touch him, and the time is so limited, and he keeps looking from Soo-Ah to his Mom, as if he is trying to feast his eyes on them, as if he can't get enough, as if he is storing it? I was sniffling. And his Mom trying to comfort him with the whole 'it will get better' and he says, somewhat mechanically that he knows, not sounding like he believes it.
But of course, he believes it.
So when the trial goes so terribly south, he has to be dragged screaming out of the courtroom (and he is tied up, and in prison uniform, and it's all horrible). But I love how steadfast Soo-Ah is. Jung-Hyun is accused of killing her father, but she never wavers. She is so steady in the face of all the questions. And I love the way Jung-Hyun looks at her during the trial when she reiterates her love and faith. It's like everything is falling apart but she stands firm and his love and gratitude and holding on is palpable.
But OMG, he gets convicted, and it's life in prison, and he literally has to be dragged by the guards, and he breaks free and runs to the bars, and it's not reasoned, it's purely instinctive panic. And they have to hit him and OMG, when he collapses on the floor of the cell, and he is sobbing, curled up on the stone floor, and it's horrible. He sounds like it's killing him.
And we get that image of utter despair contrasted with Soo-Ah, reading the last letter he wrote to her before everything happened, and we flashback to him and her being all young and in love and carefree, and the letter says he thinks she is beautiful even when drunk or chopping fish heads :) And there is the scene that makes me die where they are supposed to exchange letters, so he draws a stamp and sticks it to his forhead and grins 'I am your letter.' *dies*
And we finally find out the meaning of the drama's name, as Green Roses supposed to symbolize pure love.
And we end the episode with an intercut of the crying Soo-Ah and Jung-Hyun, hollow eyed and with the quiet of despair, stare out at the moon through the bars, whispering 'Soo-Ah.'
I love THIS.
I checked the ratings of this puppy out of curiousity, and at its peak, this was drawing over 30% (!!!). And I can see why.
In other news, I finished Wallflower volume 1, and
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAD LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I need to get all the volumes ASAP.
Sunako and Kyohei are totally my newest OTP. So off the wall, so weird (and violent. Boy, the two of them can kick the butt of half of Japan :D), so will kill anyone who will hurt the other.
I totally love the bit where she decides to kill him and he finds out about it, so when she shows up in his room, he is all suave and seductive and she goes all wibbly. Heeeeee. I love how he is the only one not phased by her, and doesn't think she needs to change but finds her self-pity (when she has it) ridiculous. They are both human bulldozers. And yet he is totally right, and his approach draws her out when other things don't. And when she does her 'I am melting' thing around him? ROFL.
I love it that she plans to kill him because he is 'too much a creature of light' (heeeee) and yet the moment they find out he's been chloroformed and kidnapped by the host club cum brothel, she goes psycho nuclear (even freaking out the guys) stating they need to get him back. Heck, she even agrees to use a hairbrush and make-up. :D And I love how her excuse is that she is the one who needs to kill him, so the host club guys can't have him. Denial is a nice place to live (of course, he goes equally ballistic whenever anyone tries to harm her: witness him beating up all those photographer guys and wrapping her in a blanket. eeeeeee). And I love that when she and the three other guys (in drag heeeee) sneak into the club and there is Kyohei, all tied up (what is with the mangaka and s&m? First we get some random fangirl's comment that she'd like to put handcuffs on Kyohei. To be fair, that's the only way one could get Kyohei to do what he didn't want to do. And then we get this, where he is tied up, handcuffed, blindfolded and gagged, and being sold into temporary sexual slavery? Hmmmmm). And clients are bidding on him and Sunako gets more and more ballistic and when the auction is over and he is auctioned off to someone or other, she can't wait any more and OMG. The girl is SCARY. She basically trashes the club and they have to prevent her from killing people. She is only capable of this when Kyohei is involved, heh. And then she is all her crazy self and Kyohei hugs her and sort of kisses her hair (?) and tells her thanks and she is sort of a puddle. Heeeeeee. And she decides she won't kill him because somehow it feels like a waste? ROFL.
Heh, at the end of the volume she does come down as a lady (in part because of what Kyohei told her. I love that he knows how to get to her). But of course reverts to her sloppy, slasher movie loving self immediately afterwards. LOVE.
Green Rose owns me, body and soul.
Only two episodes in, I've swooned, smiled, and bawled my frelling eyes out. Things would have been thrown at the screen, only that would interrupt the viewing.
Go Soo (it's the first thing I've seen him in) is awesome. He is gorgeous in a very masculine way, but he isn't just a pretty face. And Lee Da Hae? She is amazing. And beautiful. And the soundtrack? It just might be my very favorite drama soundtrack. That theme song just kills me. Kills me kills me kills me dead.
Oh, kdramas!
Jung-Hyun (Go Soo's character) is my newest dorama crush.
My heart breaks for him: an uncomprehending man caught in a surreal nightmare. He is so young and boysih, however capable, and his fear at being caught in this nightmare: being accused of murder, and attempted murder and arson, breaks my heart.
In a way, this is a quintessential fear, isn't it? Being put away in prison for something you know you didn'y do. The scene of him being walked out of the hospital to interrogation, and his struggling a bit, yelling he is innocent, and then repeating wearily he didn't do it, growing more and more afraid...
I just love that Jung-Hyun is shown to be scared. That he is a strong person, but he is terrified. There is no put on bravado. The scene where his Mom and Soo-Ah come to visit him in prison, and they can't touch him, and the time is so limited, and he keeps looking from Soo-Ah to his Mom, as if he is trying to feast his eyes on them, as if he can't get enough, as if he is storing it? I was sniffling. And his Mom trying to comfort him with the whole 'it will get better' and he says, somewhat mechanically that he knows, not sounding like he believes it.
But of course, he believes it.
So when the trial goes so terribly south, he has to be dragged screaming out of the courtroom (and he is tied up, and in prison uniform, and it's all horrible). But I love how steadfast Soo-Ah is. Jung-Hyun is accused of killing her father, but she never wavers. She is so steady in the face of all the questions. And I love the way Jung-Hyun looks at her during the trial when she reiterates her love and faith. It's like everything is falling apart but she stands firm and his love and gratitude and holding on is palpable.
But OMG, he gets convicted, and it's life in prison, and he literally has to be dragged by the guards, and he breaks free and runs to the bars, and it's not reasoned, it's purely instinctive panic. And they have to hit him and OMG, when he collapses on the floor of the cell, and he is sobbing, curled up on the stone floor, and it's horrible. He sounds like it's killing him.
And we get that image of utter despair contrasted with Soo-Ah, reading the last letter he wrote to her before everything happened, and we flashback to him and her being all young and in love and carefree, and the letter says he thinks she is beautiful even when drunk or chopping fish heads :) And there is the scene that makes me die where they are supposed to exchange letters, so he draws a stamp and sticks it to his forhead and grins 'I am your letter.' *dies*
And we finally find out the meaning of the drama's name, as Green Roses supposed to symbolize pure love.
And we end the episode with an intercut of the crying Soo-Ah and Jung-Hyun, hollow eyed and with the quiet of despair, stare out at the moon through the bars, whispering 'Soo-Ah.'
I love THIS.
I checked the ratings of this puppy out of curiousity, and at its peak, this was drawing over 30% (!!!). And I can see why.
In other news, I finished Wallflower volume 1, and
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAD LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I need to get all the volumes ASAP.
Sunako and Kyohei are totally my newest OTP. So off the wall, so weird (and violent. Boy, the two of them can kick the butt of half of Japan :D), so will kill anyone who will hurt the other.
I totally love the bit where she decides to kill him and he finds out about it, so when she shows up in his room, he is all suave and seductive and she goes all wibbly. Heeeeee. I love how he is the only one not phased by her, and doesn't think she needs to change but finds her self-pity (when she has it) ridiculous. They are both human bulldozers. And yet he is totally right, and his approach draws her out when other things don't. And when she does her 'I am melting' thing around him? ROFL.
I love it that she plans to kill him because he is 'too much a creature of light' (heeeee) and yet the moment they find out he's been chloroformed and kidnapped by the host club cum brothel, she goes psycho nuclear (even freaking out the guys) stating they need to get him back. Heck, she even agrees to use a hairbrush and make-up. :D And I love how her excuse is that she is the one who needs to kill him, so the host club guys can't have him. Denial is a nice place to live (of course, he goes equally ballistic whenever anyone tries to harm her: witness him beating up all those photographer guys and wrapping her in a blanket. eeeeeee). And I love that when she and the three other guys (in drag heeeee) sneak into the club and there is Kyohei, all tied up (what is with the mangaka and s&m? First we get some random fangirl's comment that she'd like to put handcuffs on Kyohei. To be fair, that's the only way one could get Kyohei to do what he didn't want to do. And then we get this, where he is tied up, handcuffed, blindfolded and gagged, and being sold into temporary sexual slavery? Hmmmmm). And clients are bidding on him and Sunako gets more and more ballistic and when the auction is over and he is auctioned off to someone or other, she can't wait any more and OMG. The girl is SCARY. She basically trashes the club and they have to prevent her from killing people. She is only capable of this when Kyohei is involved, heh. And then she is all her crazy self and Kyohei hugs her and sort of kisses her hair (?) and tells her thanks and she is sort of a puddle. Heeeeeee. And she decides she won't kill him because somehow it feels like a waste? ROFL.
Heh, at the end of the volume she does come down as a lady (in part because of what Kyohei told her. I love that he knows how to get to her). But of course reverts to her sloppy, slasher movie loving self immediately afterwards. LOVE.
