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ockoala for the heads-up).
More My Princess stills and a teaser is out. The stills look swoonily romantic and the trailer looks funny. MP stars Kim Tae Hee (whom I love and will defend to the death - I think she's gorgeous, has a warm on-screen vibe and great chemistry with costars. If I hear she is in a drama, it's an automatic 'check it out' in my book) as a long-lost Korean princess who only discovers the fact in her mid-20s. It also stars Mousie's sexiest kdrama actor ever, Song Seung Heon, as a diplomat tasked with training her for her new duties (I will take him over Julie Andrews any day!)
MBC's My Princess is slated to start on January 5. It is supposed to occupy the dreaded Wednesday-Thursday slot - if a drama starring Song Seung Heon and Kim Tae Hee and written by the writers of Lovers and On Air can't get good ratings, I will believe that slot is really cursed.
Here is the teaser:
Adorable, isn't it?
It's rather surprising but the two 2011 dramas I am looking forward to the most are both MBC dramas - My Princess and the fusion sageuk The Duo, which is a Prince and the Pauper-like tale of a nobleman and slave sons switched at birth, with Chun Jung Myung playing the protagonist - the aristocrat swapped for a slave, and Han Ji Hye playing his OTP. I hope it will be more Hong Gil Dongian/Chonolike in its approach to class issues and not take the "well, if only everybody stayed in their place, the world would be perfect" - i.e. the inequity is that an aristocrat by blood got to be a slave, not the existence of slavery itself.
In Secret Garden thoughts, I had a bit of a revelation - I think I love SG so much in part because the emotional power in the story is the woman's. Joo Won may be objectively correct when he states that Ra Im is inferior to him in status, wealth or education, but nonethless she has all the power in their relationship. Because he's mad about her, obsessed about her, cannot eat or sleep for thinking of her, but she is not. She is attracted him to him, sure, and is on the cusp of loving him (if he ever shuts his mouth for long enough :P) but she is not there yet. She can walk away and leave him, but he cannot do the same. His line in upcoming ep that if she doesn't want be the Little Mermaid, he's willing to be one, shows that. Ultimately, when push comes to shove, he is going to be willing to take her on any terms she posits. I love it especially because this is unusual in kdramas - usually the women fall in love first. They are both messed-up people but he needs her and she does not need him. Yet.
In conclusion, this still from MP gives me wicked deja vu to East of Eden (the scene with Dong Chul and Grace on their wedding night). Let's hope MP won't end as badly for the OTP!
ockoala for the heads-up).More My Princess stills and a teaser is out. The stills look swoonily romantic and the trailer looks funny. MP stars Kim Tae Hee (whom I love and will defend to the death - I think she's gorgeous, has a warm on-screen vibe and great chemistry with costars. If I hear she is in a drama, it's an automatic 'check it out' in my book) as a long-lost Korean princess who only discovers the fact in her mid-20s. It also stars Mousie's sexiest kdrama actor ever, Song Seung Heon, as a diplomat tasked with training her for her new duties (I will take him over Julie Andrews any day!)
MBC's My Princess is slated to start on January 5. It is supposed to occupy the dreaded Wednesday-Thursday slot - if a drama starring Song Seung Heon and Kim Tae Hee and written by the writers of Lovers and On Air can't get good ratings, I will believe that slot is really cursed.
Here is the teaser:
Adorable, isn't it?
It's rather surprising but the two 2011 dramas I am looking forward to the most are both MBC dramas - My Princess and the fusion sageuk The Duo, which is a Prince and the Pauper-like tale of a nobleman and slave sons switched at birth, with Chun Jung Myung playing the protagonist - the aristocrat swapped for a slave, and Han Ji Hye playing his OTP. I hope it will be more Hong Gil Dongian/Chonolike in its approach to class issues and not take the "well, if only everybody stayed in their place, the world would be perfect" - i.e. the inequity is that an aristocrat by blood got to be a slave, not the existence of slavery itself.
In Secret Garden thoughts, I had a bit of a revelation - I think I love SG so much in part because the emotional power in the story is the woman's. Joo Won may be objectively correct when he states that Ra Im is inferior to him in status, wealth or education, but nonethless she has all the power in their relationship. Because he's mad about her, obsessed about her, cannot eat or sleep for thinking of her, but she is not. She is attracted him to him, sure, and is on the cusp of loving him (if he ever shuts his mouth for long enough :P) but she is not there yet. She can walk away and leave him, but he cannot do the same. His line in upcoming ep that if she doesn't want be the Little Mermaid, he's willing to be one, shows that. Ultimately, when push comes to shove, he is going to be willing to take her on any terms she posits. I love it especially because this is unusual in kdramas - usually the women fall in love first. They are both messed-up people but he needs her and she does not need him. Yet.
In conclusion, this still from MP gives me wicked deja vu to East of Eden (the scene with Dong Chul and Grace on their wedding night). Let's hope MP won't end as badly for the OTP!
