dangermousie | Spies spies spies spies forever!

I watched the first 30 minutes of Will It Snow For Christmas and I fell in instant, ridiculous, obsessive love. I think combining the writing of Lee Kyung Hee and the directing of Choi Moon Suk is really the perfect combination - the way the childhood/countryside is portrayed is pure LKH (makes me think of Sangdo flashbacks) and the male lead will be, I can already tell, one of the patented LKH heroes - very driven and off-kilter in some permanent way. In the drama universe full of rich princes, I think LKH is inordinately drawn to poor protagonists (in Sang-Do, MiSa, and A Love to Kill, the heroes occupy a precarious at best place in the social order and in Thank You, the hero throws a lot of his initial superior position away) and this is another one such. I think that is where the PD comes in - in his Something Happened in Bali, what really stuck with me was the sort of baseline rage and helplessness experienced by poor characters - all the little humiliations they have to suffer - and you can certainly see it here. Anyway, I should stop comparing it to other dramas. It's excellent on its own merits. I think I will wait for WITHS2 subs from now on though, for better visual quality.

In other news, I watched IRIS ep 16 raw and SPIESSPIESSPIESFOREVER.

I can't put any caps from the scene that made me gibber outside the cut as spoilery so have a bit of sexy Hyun Joon instead.

Poor Sunhwa, leaving...

You know, I love everything about this scene - I love that there are tears not just in his eyes but in his voice, I love that she is the one who initiates the hug and does it so naturally and instinctively (and without him having to give any explanation - though he does later), I love the fact that he responds slowly as if he can't believe it. I love that he won't stop touching her and that they cling to each other for dear life. I love love love.