Dream High - initial impressions
Jan. 3rd, 2011 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieToday was the premiere of the new musical/teen-twentysomething drama Dream High, about a bunch of aspiring singers and dancers at a music school. Normally I'd avoid something like this as if it had bubonic plague with an ebola chaser, but I wanted to see Kim Su Hyun in his first starring role - the guy blew me away in Christmas and Giant in small parts so this is way way due. Plus, this is a Bae Yong Joon production and I have a huge fondness for Korean Jesus and genuinely like any drama project he's been in or even touched.
So, I gave it a shot (you can find the entirety of first ep subbed on viki).
My impressions can be summed up in three phrases:
1. Wheeeeere is Kim Su Hyun? We saw him for one second. No fair, drama!
2. Bae Yong Joon! On my screen! Even if it's a guest appearance, this fangirl is happy.
3. Kim Hyun Joong - pretty and on my screen! Even freakier, sharing the screen with BYJ - since I always thought KHJ looks freakishly like a younger version of BYJ, this was surreal.
The end.
OK..I kid. Grievous lack of Kim Su Hyun notwithstanding, I really liked the first episode, in part because I went in with no expectations whatsoever, but in part because it genuinely kept my attention. I haven't learned the names of anyone except for Hye Mi, the heroine, yet, but I like the characters. There hasn't been much plot (not sure if there ever will be - it's a drama about students in musical school not a revenge thriller) but I loved all the characters from the get-go, so I don't mind. This is all the more surprising since I believe most of them are played by idols. My favorite character so far is Headphones Guy who, soompi informs me, is called Jin Gook and is played by a member of 2PM. He is just charming and brash and streetboyish and puts up a mean fight. I bet his fangirls are swooning. I also like Hye Mi, bitchy in a very high school way, but also tough as nails, and Bek Hee, Hye Mi's shadow.
Sadly, I am shipping JG with Hye Mi but from what I can tell that is supposed to be uncanonical because KSH is the male lead and not the Headphones Guy. Boo! I believe if a hot guy saves you from a gang of loansharks and then catches you as you fall (due to helping him fight) and later offers you his shoes after you lost yours, you are supposed to automatically get OTP status. Is there nothing sacred in this world?
It's nothing ground-breaking but it's fun and engaging. I rec giving this a chance. Plus, look at it this way - at least it concentrates a multitude of idols in one drama thus sparing us their presence elsewhere.
In conclusion: where is my Kim Su Hyun??????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ETA: Whoa, viki police is fast. The DH channel seems to be gone.
So, I gave it a shot (you can find the entirety of first ep subbed on viki).
My impressions can be summed up in three phrases:
1. Wheeeeere is Kim Su Hyun? We saw him for one second. No fair, drama!
2. Bae Yong Joon! On my screen! Even if it's a guest appearance, this fangirl is happy.
3. Kim Hyun Joong - pretty and on my screen! Even freakier, sharing the screen with BYJ - since I always thought KHJ looks freakishly like a younger version of BYJ, this was surreal.
The end.
OK..I kid. Grievous lack of Kim Su Hyun notwithstanding, I really liked the first episode, in part because I went in with no expectations whatsoever, but in part because it genuinely kept my attention. I haven't learned the names of anyone except for Hye Mi, the heroine, yet, but I like the characters. There hasn't been much plot (not sure if there ever will be - it's a drama about students in musical school not a revenge thriller) but I loved all the characters from the get-go, so I don't mind. This is all the more surprising since I believe most of them are played by idols. My favorite character so far is Headphones Guy who, soompi informs me, is called Jin Gook and is played by a member of 2PM. He is just charming and brash and streetboyish and puts up a mean fight. I bet his fangirls are swooning. I also like Hye Mi, bitchy in a very high school way, but also tough as nails, and Bek Hee, Hye Mi's shadow.
Sadly, I am shipping JG with Hye Mi but from what I can tell that is supposed to be uncanonical because KSH is the male lead and not the Headphones Guy. Boo! I believe if a hot guy saves you from a gang of loansharks and then catches you as you fall (due to helping him fight) and later offers you his shoes after you lost yours, you are supposed to automatically get OTP status. Is there nothing sacred in this world?
It's nothing ground-breaking but it's fun and engaging. I rec giving this a chance. Plus, look at it this way - at least it concentrates a multitude of idols in one drama thus sparing us their presence elsewhere.
In conclusion: where is my Kim Su Hyun??????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ETA: Whoa, viki police is fast. The DH channel seems to be gone.
