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dangermousieWhere has this drama been all my life? I basically fell for it within the first two minutes.
Whoever worked on StH knew exactly what I want in me melodrama - true love of two pure-hearted protagonists who are each other's soulmates, evil stepsiblings, hints of sibcest, and blingy jewelry.
You got to admire a drama which tells you in its opening scene that the heroine dies. (And hero goes slightly bonkers - who brings a Baby Grand to the ocean?)
And the story proper. That is our future OTP - they are apparently best friends since childhood but now they are teens the feelings are turning into something more. I strongly suspect that the happy opening montage is 90% of all the happiness they are going to get in the entire 20-ep drama.
Trust me when I say that a dead parent is the least of their problems. But it's good they get to practice their crying because I foresee them doing a lot of it.
Jung Suh's future stepmother. Doesn't the whole ensemble scream 'hooker?' I think any man who marries a woman who looks like that deserves what he gets.
OK, that was seriously creepy and child-molestery. I have no idea where they were going with that.
Stepmonster has two grimy children (why are they grimy? I presume Seoul has running water, it's not 1500 AD). Let's call them Psycho Bitch and Sister Luster (tm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lesbiassparrow). Stepmonster dumped them in a slum for 5 years while she was off entrapping suckers to marry her.
Sister Luster is messed up and angry (i.e. a typical teenage boy) but he has feelings. Psycho Bitch, alas, is Psycho Bitch (I see a lot of StH influence in Cinderella Unni btw, even some scenes, though there they twisted it to make the bad sister the heroine).
Ahhh, Psycho Bitch. She hates the thought of Jung Suh having anything good and, sadly, that includes her sweet-natured, filthy-rich best friend/boyfriend.
Did I mention that I really really ship those two teens? I basically was a goner for them two minutes into the first ep. I loooove first love stories, maybe because I married my first love.
Doesn't this scream Cinderella Unni?
Stepmonster shows her true colors. To nobody's surprise but poor Joon Suh.
Something tells me this scene and the promise are going to come back in a big way. Awwww, the cutest first kiss ever.
Fast-forward to present and the piano of doom.
First Love grew up to look like Kwon Sang Woo. Jackpot.
Sadly, Sister Luster wasn't as lucky and grew up into this unattractive dude (and as his young self is played by the gorgeous Lee Wan, one has to wonder what on earth went wrong).
Times StH madedangermousie cry so far: 1. This was the scene. Hero is leaving to study abroad and Psycho Bitch locked Joon Sun in her room so she can't go say good-bye so she is just banging on walls. But she manages to get out. I was genuinely freaking out she wouldn't make it on time.
When your stepbrother is fixating on this picture after looking at you, time to worry, my girl!
Psycho Bitch = devout Communist? All about redistribution.
During this sequence, Sister Luster earns his nickname and I rather hopelessly fall for them as an alterna-OTP. Nobody is going to convince me that Tree of Heaven wasn't made by Stairway to Heaven fangirls as some sort of AU - seeing that it cast the same actors (Park Shin Hye and Lee Wan), giving them their StH personalities and the same circumstances, and even some of the same scenes. Only this time they were the OTP. Did I mention Stepmonster pets Psycho Bitch but beats and locks up in the attic (after turning off the heat) poor Sister Luster on his birthday because he objected to her being evil.
It's just as well Jung Suh has Sister Luster in her corner because her father pays no attention to his new evil family, Stepmonster and Psycho Bitch are doing their best to make her life miserable (among other things, hiding letters from Hero and also telling him JD lost interest).
If this scene does not sum up the glory of this kdrama, nothing will.
Awww.
Something tells me this isn't going to go well.
So, to sum up - Heroine is living with no-attention-paying father, a monstrous Stepmother, a Psycho Bitch Stepsister, and a Stepbrother who fancies to get into her pants. Oh, and her boyfriend is far away and she can't keep in touch with him.
Never fear, apparently she will look back on these as the good days.
Whoever worked on StH knew exactly what I want in me melodrama - true love of two pure-hearted protagonists who are each other's soulmates, evil stepsiblings, hints of sibcest, and blingy jewelry.
You got to admire a drama which tells you in its opening scene that the heroine dies. (And hero goes slightly bonkers - who brings a Baby Grand to the ocean?)
And the story proper. That is our future OTP - they are apparently best friends since childhood but now they are teens the feelings are turning into something more. I strongly suspect that the happy opening montage is 90% of all the happiness they are going to get in the entire 20-ep drama.
Trust me when I say that a dead parent is the least of their problems. But it's good they get to practice their crying because I foresee them doing a lot of it.
Jung Suh's future stepmother. Doesn't the whole ensemble scream 'hooker?' I think any man who marries a woman who looks like that deserves what he gets.
OK, that was seriously creepy and child-molestery. I have no idea where they were going with that.
Stepmonster has two grimy children (why are they grimy? I presume Seoul has running water, it's not 1500 AD). Let's call them Psycho Bitch and Sister Luster (tm
lesbiassparrow). Stepmonster dumped them in a slum for 5 years while she was off entrapping suckers to marry her.Sister Luster is messed up and angry (i.e. a typical teenage boy) but he has feelings. Psycho Bitch, alas, is Psycho Bitch (I see a lot of StH influence in Cinderella Unni btw, even some scenes, though there they twisted it to make the bad sister the heroine).
Ahhh, Psycho Bitch. She hates the thought of Jung Suh having anything good and, sadly, that includes her sweet-natured, filthy-rich best friend/boyfriend.
Did I mention that I really really ship those two teens? I basically was a goner for them two minutes into the first ep. I loooove first love stories, maybe because I married my first love.
Doesn't this scream Cinderella Unni?
Stepmonster shows her true colors. To nobody's surprise but poor Joon Suh.
Something tells me this scene and the promise are going to come back in a big way. Awwww, the cutest first kiss ever.
Fast-forward to present and the piano of doom.
First Love grew up to look like Kwon Sang Woo. Jackpot.
Sadly, Sister Luster wasn't as lucky and grew up into this unattractive dude (and as his young self is played by the gorgeous Lee Wan, one has to wonder what on earth went wrong).
Times StH made
dangermousie cry so far: 1. This was the scene. Hero is leaving to study abroad and Psycho Bitch locked Joon Sun in her room so she can't go say good-bye so she is just banging on walls. But she manages to get out. I was genuinely freaking out she wouldn't make it on time.When your stepbrother is fixating on this picture after looking at you, time to worry, my girl!
Psycho Bitch = devout Communist? All about redistribution.
During this sequence, Sister Luster earns his nickname and I rather hopelessly fall for them as an alterna-OTP. Nobody is going to convince me that Tree of Heaven wasn't made by Stairway to Heaven fangirls as some sort of AU - seeing that it cast the same actors (Park Shin Hye and Lee Wan), giving them their StH personalities and the same circumstances, and even some of the same scenes. Only this time they were the OTP. Did I mention Stepmonster pets Psycho Bitch but beats and locks up in the attic (after turning off the heat) poor Sister Luster on his birthday because he objected to her being evil.
It's just as well Jung Suh has Sister Luster in her corner because her father pays no attention to his new evil family, Stepmonster and Psycho Bitch are doing their best to make her life miserable (among other things, hiding letters from Hero and also telling him JD lost interest).
If this scene does not sum up the glory of this kdrama, nothing will.
Awww.
Something tells me this isn't going to go well.
So, to sum up - Heroine is living with no-attention-paying father, a monstrous Stepmother, a Psycho Bitch Stepsister, and a Stepbrother who fancies to get into her pants. Oh, and her boyfriend is far away and she can't keep in touch with him.
Never fear, apparently she will look back on these as the good days.
