dangermousie | Starlit: it's everything I watch dramas for :)

I am only ten minutes in into Starlit, Jerry Yan's new drama, and I know I am going to love it. Taiwanese dramas are my first love and when done right (as this promises to be) can be more delightful than anything else. I prefer the more serious ones to the OTT comedy ones and luckily this is the former, as it's all about tragic angsty love between a guy who can't continue with his career as a pianist due to injury (Jerry Yan) and a reporter who may or may not have a terminal illness (Terri Kwan).

So far we have had:

* pretty cinematography
* Jerry Yan looking YUMMY and angsting gorgeously (Jerry Yan is an OK actor but few actors look as scrumptuous angsting)
* Credit sequence with shippiness and kissing. Proper kissing, not touch-lips-together variety that kdramas and jdramas are fond of.
* Classical music
* Hero saving heroine's life
* Finding out heroine might have a terminal illness (or at least something that will make her a cripple)
* Did I mention Jerry Yan looking yummy and angsting gorgeously?

One thing: so far the heroine rather irritated me. Let's see: when a guy saves you from being run over by a car (an eventuality which would not have occurred if you did not stand leisurely taking phots in the middle of the road!!!) and ends up seriously injured, enough that he has to be operated on, you don't just leave him because OMG your plane to Beijing goes in a couple of hours. WTF???? Yeah, you left your cell and an apology note and told his friend where he was. Great. Not enough in any way. Seriously? Has she been brought up by wolves? You stick around to make sure he is OK and apologize profusely in person. Duh! But Terri Kwan is so darn lovable, I am not TOO annoyed. :)