Drama Triggers...
Jun. 10th, 2009 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI am sure this is true for you too: if a certain actor is in a drama, or a certain topic is covered, you find yourself much more eager to watch it. OTOH, some other actors, topics, or writers will likely result in you never checking it out. So, what are the dos and don't if the makers want to get you drama involved?
Have these DOs and I will likely watch your drama
1. Set in 30 years ago or further back.
2. Politics. Lots of politics.
3. Based on a manga/manhwa that is not too cracktastic.
4. Mercenaries/assassins/ninjas/vampires.
4a. Mercenary Ninja Vampires (if that drama was ever made, I might explode)
5. Very prettily shot
6. Student/teacher love
7. Icy tormented rich guy and plucky poor sunny girl
8. Almost anything starring Kang Ji Hwan, Bae Yong Joon, Matsumoto Jun, Vic Zhou, Barbie Hsu, Nagase Tomoya, Sung Yuri, or Takeshi Kaneshiro. Unless it involves wine, lawyers, chefs or advertisers.
9. Fakecest/Revenge/The Mob/Amnesia/Lots of hurt-comfort
10. Having to be cruel to your loved one to save them
These DON'Ts are pretty guaranteed I will skip
1. Anything set in a lawfirm or a hospital unless the setting is super-tangential (e.g. story of a ninja who hides in a hospital to avenge himself is fine, story of young doctors helping patients and learning about themselves is out).
2. Anything involving chefs or wine conosseurs. If I want that, I'd go to a restaurant
3. Anything which has more than two undernourished boys in school uniforms and words "ikemen"
4. Any remake of Mawang.
5. Anything written by the screenwriter of Boys Over Flowers
6. Anything with an ending which resolves nothing.
7. Real incest
8. Anything starring Ikuta Toma or Go Hye Sun.
9. Office drama with older woman younger man.
10. Anything where one part of the supposed OTP tries to kill the other. Unless it's a period drama thing.
11. Any Japanese manga adaptation that is not Hana Yori Dango
12. Heroine who is kind and forgiving to all
13. Anything made by Group 8 unless it has 4 words the first of which is "The" the second of which is "Return" the third of which is "of" and the fourth of which is "Iljimae."
14. Anything with one of Johhny's 20-something boys shirtless.
15. Heroes/heroines who are priests/nuns/ministers. Unless said heroine gave up monastic life to become a card dealer.
16. Life crisis of a 30+ single woman. God, I'll scream if I see another one.
So basically? An amnesiac ninja in love with his stepsister, who travels forward in time and becomes a mobster vampire out for revenge? YES.
A manga adaptation with Go Hye Sun as a doctor who likes to cook and tries to get over her love for her brother by hooking up with a younger man who cleans the floors of her hospital and looks undernourished? Out.
What are yours?
Have these DOs and I will likely watch your drama
1. Set in 30 years ago or further back.
2. Politics. Lots of politics.
3. Based on a manga/manhwa that is not too cracktastic.
4. Mercenaries/assassins/ninjas/vampires.
4a. Mercenary Ninja Vampires (if that drama was ever made, I might explode)
5. Very prettily shot
6. Student/teacher love
7. Icy tormented rich guy and plucky poor sunny girl
8. Almost anything starring Kang Ji Hwan, Bae Yong Joon, Matsumoto Jun, Vic Zhou, Barbie Hsu, Nagase Tomoya, Sung Yuri, or Takeshi Kaneshiro. Unless it involves wine, lawyers, chefs or advertisers.
9. Fakecest/Revenge/The Mob/Amnesia/Lots of hurt-comfort
10. Having to be cruel to your loved one to save them
These DON'Ts are pretty guaranteed I will skip
1. Anything set in a lawfirm or a hospital unless the setting is super-tangential (e.g. story of a ninja who hides in a hospital to avenge himself is fine, story of young doctors helping patients and learning about themselves is out).
2. Anything involving chefs or wine conosseurs. If I want that, I'd go to a restaurant
3. Anything which has more than two undernourished boys in school uniforms and words "ikemen"
4. Any remake of Mawang.
5. Anything written by the screenwriter of Boys Over Flowers
6. Anything with an ending which resolves nothing.
7. Real incest
8. Anything starring Ikuta Toma or Go Hye Sun.
9. Office drama with older woman younger man.
10. Anything where one part of the supposed OTP tries to kill the other. Unless it's a period drama thing.
11. Any Japanese manga adaptation that is not Hana Yori Dango
12. Heroine who is kind and forgiving to all
13. Anything made by Group 8 unless it has 4 words the first of which is "The" the second of which is "Return" the third of which is "of" and the fourth of which is "Iljimae."
14. Anything with one of Johhny's 20-something boys shirtless.
15. Heroes/heroines who are priests/nuns/ministers. Unless said heroine gave up monastic life to become a card dealer.
16. Life crisis of a 30+ single woman. God, I'll scream if I see another one.
So basically? An amnesiac ninja in love with his stepsister, who travels forward in time and becomes a mobster vampire out for revenge? YES.
A manga adaptation with Go Hye Sun as a doctor who likes to cook and tries to get over her love for her brother by hooking up with a younger man who cleans the floors of her hospital and looks undernourished? Out.
What are yours?
