My eyeballs will never recover
Feb. 28th, 2010 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI mainly post about Chuno and Pick the Stars but I am also watching two other dramas - the adorable Taiwanese confection Down with Love and jdrama Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (i.e. Wallflower). I don't post much about them because neither is too meta-able.
DwL is adorable. Make it ADORABLE. It stars Jerry Yan (who has never looked hotter - that smile and that voice) and Ella (who has never been adorable as a blunt woman prenteding to be a lesbian in order to keep her nanny position. Don't ask). There is also an awesome secondary OTP, 2 cute kids, great OTP interaction (he is so falling for her but he thinks she is a lesbian), some awesome sequences (at one point they get kidnapped by thugs and the scene that follows owned my heart). Jerry Yan's character is totally crush-worthy - a smar lawyer who is also pretty well-adjusted. And Ella? OMG I LOVE HER SO MUCH. The only thing is each ep is an hour-and-a-half long. It takes a while to get through :)
Wallflower isn't bad but it doesn't truly grab me - I enjoy it when I watch it but I promptly forget it the second it's over. Oh well. Considering how few recent jdramas I even like, that's probably a feat in and of itself.
I have also tried the first episode of Let's Go Watch Meteor Shower, the minland adaptation of Hana Yori Dango which was supposed to not be one :) After watching the first ep I can say two things: (a) OMG so bad. I laughed so hard for all the wrong reasons; (b) when they said it wasn't based on Hanadan they weren't kidding - if I ever thought I'd see a well-adjusted, smiley, intelligent Domyouji...
This is our Not!Domyouji. He wears unthreatening cardigans, seems nice enough, is amused and smiles a lot. Hello bizarro world. When a car he was in accidentally hits Not!Makino he offers to pay. The world is ending.
This is Not!Makino. She refuses the money - I am a little confused what kind of justice would be involved as monetary compensation is usually how one deals with car accidents. Whatever. Their first meeting is cute, fluffy and so far from Hanadan I shudder.
And then she gives him a ride on her bycicle. Bwahahahaha.
I am trembling to my tippy-toes!
In this version, N!D doesn't even know the Not!F4 before the drama starts. N!F4 (or I suppose I should call them Not!F3) go to the college N!M just started and wreak mild, unthreatening havoc of the kind even your neighborhood senior citizen would find tame.
Wisdom for the ages:
So threatening. I quiver. From laughter. Btw, the man on the left is Rui. I use the term "man" loosely - he looks like a bulldog. Did I mention that in this version Not!Domyouji is not involved in the bullying-lite at all?
I reiterate. The handsomest man alive. China is the most populous country on earth and they are telling me this is their best-looking man?
(The speaker is clearly blind). The clothes of a killer! I haven't figured out yet if this is Sojiro or Akira but he is acting scarily like Domyouji is supposed too which is...bizarre. Why not get Domyouji to act like Domyouji instead?
Not!Domyouji meets Not!F3. It's like a hair-color ad.
I shiver in terror.
It's been brung!
True love, etcetera.
I was not exactly sure why they were half-heartedly bickering with each other but the ep ended and I was out. No more. I had my problems with the Korean version but compared to this even the second half of it was a freaking masterpiece.
Did I mention that in this version Akira and Tsubaki hook up? Contemplate that please.
DwL is adorable. Make it ADORABLE. It stars Jerry Yan (who has never looked hotter - that smile and that voice) and Ella (who has never been adorable as a blunt woman prenteding to be a lesbian in order to keep her nanny position. Don't ask). There is also an awesome secondary OTP, 2 cute kids, great OTP interaction (he is so falling for her but he thinks she is a lesbian), some awesome sequences (at one point they get kidnapped by thugs and the scene that follows owned my heart). Jerry Yan's character is totally crush-worthy - a smar lawyer who is also pretty well-adjusted. And Ella? OMG I LOVE HER SO MUCH. The only thing is each ep is an hour-and-a-half long. It takes a while to get through :)
Wallflower isn't bad but it doesn't truly grab me - I enjoy it when I watch it but I promptly forget it the second it's over. Oh well. Considering how few recent jdramas I even like, that's probably a feat in and of itself.
I have also tried the first episode of Let's Go Watch Meteor Shower, the minland adaptation of Hana Yori Dango which was supposed to not be one :) After watching the first ep I can say two things: (a) OMG so bad. I laughed so hard for all the wrong reasons; (b) when they said it wasn't based on Hanadan they weren't kidding - if I ever thought I'd see a well-adjusted, smiley, intelligent Domyouji...
This is our Not!Domyouji. He wears unthreatening cardigans, seems nice enough, is amused and smiles a lot. Hello bizarro world. When a car he was in accidentally hits Not!Makino he offers to pay. The world is ending.
This is Not!Makino. She refuses the money - I am a little confused what kind of justice would be involved as monetary compensation is usually how one deals with car accidents. Whatever. Their first meeting is cute, fluffy and so far from Hanadan I shudder.
And then she gives him a ride on her bycicle. Bwahahahaha.
I am trembling to my tippy-toes!
In this version, N!D doesn't even know the Not!F4 before the drama starts. N!F4 (or I suppose I should call them Not!F3) go to the college N!M just started and wreak mild, unthreatening havoc of the kind even your neighborhood senior citizen would find tame.
Wisdom for the ages:
So threatening. I quiver. From laughter. Btw, the man on the left is Rui. I use the term "man" loosely - he looks like a bulldog. Did I mention that in this version Not!Domyouji is not involved in the bullying-lite at all?
I reiterate. The handsomest man alive. China is the most populous country on earth and they are telling me this is their best-looking man?
(The speaker is clearly blind). The clothes of a killer! I haven't figured out yet if this is Sojiro or Akira but he is acting scarily like Domyouji is supposed too which is...bizarre. Why not get Domyouji to act like Domyouji instead?
Not!Domyouji meets Not!F3. It's like a hair-color ad.
I shiver in terror.
It's been brung!
True love, etcetera.
I was not exactly sure why they were half-heartedly bickering with each other but the ep ended and I was out. No more. I had my problems with the Korean version but compared to this even the second half of it was a freaking masterpiece.
Did I mention that in this version Akira and Tsubaki hook up? Contemplate that please.
