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dangermousiePerhaps surprisingly for someone who enjoys stories about stepsiblings loving each other in the snow, I do have a WTF button when it comes to dramas. This is separate from not liking a drama because it's not good. There are plenty of wtf dramas that are excellently made and plenty of bad ones which do not even pinge my WTF meter. There have been a number of dramas I gave up on or never checked out because they broke the WTF-meter: Magicians of Love (Taiwan), Hana Kimi (Japan), Kimi Wa Petto (Japan), Jotei (Japan), Deer Man (Japan), RH Plus (Japan), Love Story in Harvard (Korea), Who Are You (Korea), etc etc etc. I am sure there are many more wtf-y dramas, but I tend to stay away from them.
What are sure signs that will send me running for the exit?
1. Hairdressers who are butch, manly, the envy of all and saviors of the country. Some are mafia heirs (See MoL).
2. Generally people who use their face like rubber masks. I don't require a great deal of subtlety in my acting, but am not keen on human cartoons.
3. Scrawny, starved boys with concave chests who are supposed to be tough fighters. (I shudder when I think of shirtless Matsuda Shota with his concave chest pretending to be a gangster in Jotei. No one will convince me even a Kame who's had a few meals can be any kind of a boxer etc etc).
3a. Any scrawny guy shirtless. Most of jdrama stars should keep their shirts on forever.
4. Talking animals. Just no. (Deer Man).
5. Gay teenage vampires who fight crime. (RH+)
6. Any drama which has a main character in drag for most of the duration (Queens, Princess Princess D)
Scratch that. Just remembered Coffee Prince and Hana Kimi-tw.
7. People as pets. (KwP)
8. Any drama a huge chunk of which is set at an English-speaking country and I have to listen to episodes and episodes of nearly incomprehensible English as everyon around them exclaims at their fluency and they are surrounded by horrid White non-actors (Love Story in Harvard by far the worst offender, as its hero is supposed to be an American lawyer for eps and eps and eps).
9. Prostitutes dressed like desk ladies at Holiday Inn (Jotei).
10. Bizarro sound effects.
What are yours?
In completely unrelated news, kdrama star Song Il-Gook got hitched last week in a very traditional ceremony. He married a lady judge. That is sort of like a drama :)
And apparently it was a private wedding (he doesn't want the pics/name of bride to circulate so she can stay private) but some authorized pics have been released. You can't see the bride well in them, on purpose, but the traditional stuff is fascinating (a duck?)
What are sure signs that will send me running for the exit?
1. Hairdressers who are butch, manly, the envy of all and saviors of the country. Some are mafia heirs (See MoL).
2. Generally people who use their face like rubber masks. I don't require a great deal of subtlety in my acting, but am not keen on human cartoons.
3. Scrawny, starved boys with concave chests who are supposed to be tough fighters. (I shudder when I think of shirtless Matsuda Shota with his concave chest pretending to be a gangster in Jotei. No one will convince me even a Kame who's had a few meals can be any kind of a boxer etc etc).
3a. Any scrawny guy shirtless. Most of jdrama stars should keep their shirts on forever.
4. Talking animals. Just no. (Deer Man).
5. Gay teenage vampires who fight crime. (RH+)
Scratch that. Just remembered Coffee Prince and Hana Kimi-tw.
7. People as pets. (KwP)
8. Any drama a huge chunk of which is set at an English-speaking country and I have to listen to episodes and episodes of nearly incomprehensible English as everyon around them exclaims at their fluency and they are surrounded by horrid White non-actors (Love Story in Harvard by far the worst offender, as its hero is supposed to be an American lawyer for eps and eps and eps).
9. Prostitutes dressed like desk ladies at Holiday Inn (Jotei).
10. Bizarro sound effects.
What are yours?
In completely unrelated news, kdrama star Song Il-Gook got hitched last week in a very traditional ceremony. He married a lady judge. That is sort of like a drama :)
And apparently it was a private wedding (he doesn't want the pics/name of bride to circulate so she can stay private) but some authorized pics have been released. You can't see the bride well in them, on purpose, but the traditional stuff is fascinating (a duck?)
