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dangermousieInstead of catching up on my ginormous backlog, I have been rewatching parts of Personal Taste ep 10 and taking come caps. I am not even in the mood to watch anything else, no matter how good. I just want to wallow in PT.
I am obsessed with this drama. OBSESSED. It is definitely my drama of the spring season to me - by now I have achieved this absolute emotional immersion that is my goal in drama watching but doesn't happen all too often. I get incoherent, I get giddy, and rageful, and happy, and sniffly. Perfect, perfect.
Especially ep 10 which was such an emotional hothouse - yes, I love dramas because they turn me into an emotional vampire. MMMMM.
I love Lee Min Ho and Son Ye Jin's chemistry - it so warm and playful and relaxed but also really really hot. I can so buy them as incredibly compatible best friends and as a couple that should probably be locked up in a room together for a month. And I love how effortlessly happy they make each other and how they are so in sync like an utter couple. It's so important for both of them because they are so isolated - Jin Ho because he's reserved, workaholic, driven by past family history, and does not make friends easily. And Gae In because she has never even received love from her own father and her mother died when she was so little. Her close friend betrayed her etc - she is in an emotional desert. So I am so glad they found each other.
Of all the scenes in this episode, the one I loved the most (except for, of couse, the kiss) was the scene after Jin Ho's mother and family show up and overhear that JH is gay and JH hugs Gae In and tells his mother that he loves this woman and wants to marry her. And Gae In says she loves him too. Because what kills me, both 100% mean what they say, but the other person has no idea - GI thinks Jin Ho is just covering up his secret in front of his mother and Jin Ho thinks Gae In is being a good friend. Oh, woobies!
But my favorite wasn't that part of the scene but the night after the family leaves - Gae In telling Jin Ho that if he needs, she will marry him to be his shield and so nobody would mock him. I love how open and accepting and loving she is. And I love that part of her reason is her goodness and her utterly loving heart but part is because she's fallen in love with him and she will take being close to him in whatever way she can. And I love his reaction - a crazy mixture of awe and guilt (because she is so amazing and he took advantage of that) and love and worry (because that's another example of that softheartedness that gets her so hurt) but also anger (because he's so madly in love with her, but to him her actions are another proof that she does not see him as a man because if she did she couldn't make the offer like that). I think a lot of this ep is frustration and love building in the very very controlled Jin Ho until he finally cannot stand it any more and thus we get the end of ep 10 - because he has tried to tell her the truth(s) before but it never worked out and he knows if he will tell her now, not only will he lose her in any capacity, but that it will hurt her so badly, he cannot do it. But he is trapped in a role of a gay best friend to the woman he loves and sees dating another guy and he's going nuts (when he walks out of the house, it's not just because of Chang Ryul's threat, it's because he thinks Gae In tried to set him up on a date with Director Choi and it's the final nail in the coffin of her seeing him as a guy, he believes). Anyway - both of them are so hurt, in love and loving, jealous, confused, it's a wonder they don't explode.
I really love Son Ye Jin as Gae In. I don't think she is classically beautiful but Gae In's lovely giving spirit and hopefulness shine from every pore. I think I am a little in love with her myself.
Lee Min Ho is that combo of acting chops and ridiculously sexy looks. Sometimes, I space out staring at him. What I really like about him is that he isn't just good-looking, he's also dead-sexy too, in a very masculine way. MMMMMM...
The thought of there being only 6 episodes of this perfection left fills me with horror. NOOOOOO!
Of course, all this rewatching forced me to confront the fact that I will never get through my backlog - i.e. there is no way I can keep up with 8 airing dramas. It's not doable, especially since Kimura's Moon Lovers (Tsuki no Koibito) starts next week and there is no way in hell I am not following that one as it airs. Nine airing dramas? No way.
So some major pruning is occurring:
Keeping for Weekly Viewing:
Personal Taste; Prosecutor Princess; Sunao No Narenakute - These three dramas I am obsessed about. I am not giving them up for anything.
Oh My Lady - OML is easy to keep up with since I skip all the scenes not involving the OTP or the cute kids. I am not as in love with it as I am with the three up top but it's fun.
Keeping, Maybe:
Yankee-kut to Megane-chan - subs for this are irregular so I am considering just waiting until it's done. But will see.
Dropping:
Down with Love - let's face it, I am 10 eps behind, the drama is almost done, I might as well wait until it's all done and marathon. Especially since I prefer downloadable subs to viikii ones for this so I can ff through parts that do not interest me and those subs are rather behind so it will be a while until they will be completed.
Dong Yi: - I am 6 or 8 eps behind (depending on whether you count raws or subbed). I might as well give up for now. Once the spring drama season is over, I can catch up and DY is so long that it will still be running then and once I catch up, I can just join the weekly watching again.
Cinderella Unni: I am less than 3 eps behind which is nothing but I don't want to catch up. All the main characters seem to have become permanent residents of Miseryville which wears down on one after a while. I have made a discovery that while I can watch most other genres as airing dramas, I cannot do it with melodramas. I prefer to have all my angst-emo-melo in one big, controlled by me, gulp and not in weekly dribs and drabs (see Will It Snow at Xmas, another excellent melodrama, that I tried to follow as it aired, had to give up, but really enjoyed marathonning after). So I'll catch up with CU once it's done.
I am obsessed with this drama. OBSESSED. It is definitely my drama of the spring season to me - by now I have achieved this absolute emotional immersion that is my goal in drama watching but doesn't happen all too often. I get incoherent, I get giddy, and rageful, and happy, and sniffly. Perfect, perfect.
Especially ep 10 which was such an emotional hothouse - yes, I love dramas because they turn me into an emotional vampire. MMMMM.
I love Lee Min Ho and Son Ye Jin's chemistry - it so warm and playful and relaxed but also really really hot. I can so buy them as incredibly compatible best friends and as a couple that should probably be locked up in a room together for a month. And I love how effortlessly happy they make each other and how they are so in sync like an utter couple. It's so important for both of them because they are so isolated - Jin Ho because he's reserved, workaholic, driven by past family history, and does not make friends easily. And Gae In because she has never even received love from her own father and her mother died when she was so little. Her close friend betrayed her etc - she is in an emotional desert. So I am so glad they found each other.
Of all the scenes in this episode, the one I loved the most (except for, of couse, the kiss) was the scene after Jin Ho's mother and family show up and overhear that JH is gay and JH hugs Gae In and tells his mother that he loves this woman and wants to marry her. And Gae In says she loves him too. Because what kills me, both 100% mean what they say, but the other person has no idea - GI thinks Jin Ho is just covering up his secret in front of his mother and Jin Ho thinks Gae In is being a good friend. Oh, woobies!
But my favorite wasn't that part of the scene but the night after the family leaves - Gae In telling Jin Ho that if he needs, she will marry him to be his shield and so nobody would mock him. I love how open and accepting and loving she is. And I love that part of her reason is her goodness and her utterly loving heart but part is because she's fallen in love with him and she will take being close to him in whatever way she can. And I love his reaction - a crazy mixture of awe and guilt (because she is so amazing and he took advantage of that) and love and worry (because that's another example of that softheartedness that gets her so hurt) but also anger (because he's so madly in love with her, but to him her actions are another proof that she does not see him as a man because if she did she couldn't make the offer like that). I think a lot of this ep is frustration and love building in the very very controlled Jin Ho until he finally cannot stand it any more and thus we get the end of ep 10 - because he has tried to tell her the truth(s) before but it never worked out and he knows if he will tell her now, not only will he lose her in any capacity, but that it will hurt her so badly, he cannot do it. But he is trapped in a role of a gay best friend to the woman he loves and sees dating another guy and he's going nuts (when he walks out of the house, it's not just because of Chang Ryul's threat, it's because he thinks Gae In tried to set him up on a date with Director Choi and it's the final nail in the coffin of her seeing him as a guy, he believes). Anyway - both of them are so hurt, in love and loving, jealous, confused, it's a wonder they don't explode.
I really love Son Ye Jin as Gae In. I don't think she is classically beautiful but Gae In's lovely giving spirit and hopefulness shine from every pore. I think I am a little in love with her myself.
Lee Min Ho is that combo of acting chops and ridiculously sexy looks. Sometimes, I space out staring at him. What I really like about him is that he isn't just good-looking, he's also dead-sexy too, in a very masculine way. MMMMMM...
The thought of there being only 6 episodes of this perfection left fills me with horror. NOOOOOO!
Of course, all this rewatching forced me to confront the fact that I will never get through my backlog - i.e. there is no way I can keep up with 8 airing dramas. It's not doable, especially since Kimura's Moon Lovers (Tsuki no Koibito) starts next week and there is no way in hell I am not following that one as it airs. Nine airing dramas? No way.
So some major pruning is occurring:
Keeping for Weekly Viewing:
Personal Taste; Prosecutor Princess; Sunao No Narenakute - These three dramas I am obsessed about. I am not giving them up for anything.
Oh My Lady - OML is easy to keep up with since I skip all the scenes not involving the OTP or the cute kids. I am not as in love with it as I am with the three up top but it's fun.
Keeping, Maybe:
Yankee-kut to Megane-chan - subs for this are irregular so I am considering just waiting until it's done. But will see.
Dropping:
Down with Love - let's face it, I am 10 eps behind, the drama is almost done, I might as well wait until it's all done and marathon. Especially since I prefer downloadable subs to viikii ones for this so I can ff through parts that do not interest me and those subs are rather behind so it will be a while until they will be completed.
Dong Yi: - I am 6 or 8 eps behind (depending on whether you count raws or subbed). I might as well give up for now. Once the spring drama season is over, I can catch up and DY is so long that it will still be running then and once I catch up, I can just join the weekly watching again.
Cinderella Unni: I am less than 3 eps behind which is nothing but I don't want to catch up. All the main characters seem to have become permanent residents of Miseryville which wears down on one after a while. I have made a discovery that while I can watch most other genres as airing dramas, I cannot do it with melodramas. I prefer to have all my angst-emo-melo in one big, controlled by me, gulp and not in weekly dribs and drabs (see Will It Snow at Xmas, another excellent melodrama, that I tried to follow as it aired, had to give up, but really enjoyed marathonning after). So I'll catch up with CU once it's done.
