dangermousie | Dancing with glee over Spring Waltz

In case the above pic doesn't give it away, I am sort of madly in love with Spring Waltz. It's so very perfect so far. It's a very "traditional" kdrama, i.e. an angsty pure love story. And much as I like untraditional kdramas, let's face it, I got into kdramas for the former. And it's such a lovely example of it.

Wherever they filmed the island scenes is so pretty. In fact, this just might be the prettiest filmed kdrama I have seen. Whether it's the scenes on the island during Jae Ha and Eun Young's childhood (the vivid colors and the floating camera moves) or the present day scenes (I love the almost dream-like scene when Eun Young and Jae Ha share a train compartment and we see the outside through the window reflections).

Little Jae Ha (then known as Su Ho) is such a berk! (to use a British but extremely appropriate term). But seeing that his Dad is some sort of abandoning con artist who ditched him at an orphanage last year and now ditched him with a total stranger, I don't really blame him. He has ISSUES and is acting out. Want to smack him anyway, though. Little Eun Young is completely adorable. She is also rather sick. If I weren't assured of a happy ending, I'd assume it meant she'd keel over at the end as he is left weeping in the dust...

I am glad to see that the tradition of evil parents is upheld in SW. I rather want to feed Su Ho's biologial dad to particularly sadistic wolves. Yum-yum.

Awwww. little Su Ho is crying over little Eun Young and is blaming himself for her getting sick. I am meeeeeeeeelting. And the scenes of the kids playing around on the island. I am shipping the two quite hard. And when he tells her the truth about himself (i.e. he's never been to America, and he quit school after second grade), and tells her he is a gangster, a thief, and a liar but "can I still be your oppa?" Seriously. Goo. And she leaves without answering and he starts spelling out his apologies in the sand. Seriously. Also, where does Korea get so many good child actors.

And now I have to go to bed, curses! I want to watch MORE. MORE!!!!!!!