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dangermousieIn case you haven't noticed, I've been less and less invested in Dream High and after today, I am forced to conclude I am done with it.
It's not a bitter break-up, more of a "it's not you, it's me/we have grown apart/I will always remember you fondly" school.
There are two main reasons. The first is simply unfortunate timing - in the middle of DH I discovered Jade Palace and Three Kingdoms and rediscovered my love of period cdramas and thus went of the deep end on them. And due to my innate preferences, it was hard for me to feel particularly invested in a bunch of modern teenagers, when contrasted with the adrenaline and sacrifice and stakes of period epics. I am honestly surprised DH lasted as long as it did with me - I always prefer epic, period and angsty over modern, light, and teenager-centric. I was never too invested in it emotionally because it is not the kind of drama I go emotionally insane over. So sooner or later, something was going to come up to supercede it.
The second reason does have to do with DH's direction. Starting with ep 11, the drama started focusing a lot more on Sam Dong and I have never found SD particularly interesting or compelling. The more they dwelled on his amazingness (which is made even more confusing by the fact that KSH cannot sing or dance as well as his idol costars and the drama's insistence that he can was really beginning to bug me). In fact, the near-universal fangirling for him mystifies me (it looks like he will end up with Hyemi and I really think it's due to fan love - the earlier parts of the story were clearly setting up Jin Gook and Hyemi as the OTP). In fact, the more people fangirl him, the more he irritates me. So the Sam Dong show was losing me as well.
On the plus side, this gives me time to check out Mike He and Janine Chang's Happiness is like a Sunny Day so it's all good.
Goodbye, drama! It's been fun!
It's not a bitter break-up, more of a "it's not you, it's me/we have grown apart/I will always remember you fondly" school.
There are two main reasons. The first is simply unfortunate timing - in the middle of DH I discovered Jade Palace and Three Kingdoms and rediscovered my love of period cdramas and thus went of the deep end on them. And due to my innate preferences, it was hard for me to feel particularly invested in a bunch of modern teenagers, when contrasted with the adrenaline and sacrifice and stakes of period epics. I am honestly surprised DH lasted as long as it did with me - I always prefer epic, period and angsty over modern, light, and teenager-centric. I was never too invested in it emotionally because it is not the kind of drama I go emotionally insane over. So sooner or later, something was going to come up to supercede it.
The second reason does have to do with DH's direction. Starting with ep 11, the drama started focusing a lot more on Sam Dong and I have never found SD particularly interesting or compelling. The more they dwelled on his amazingness (which is made even more confusing by the fact that KSH cannot sing or dance as well as his idol costars and the drama's insistence that he can was really beginning to bug me). In fact, the near-universal fangirling for him mystifies me (it looks like he will end up with Hyemi and I really think it's due to fan love - the earlier parts of the story were clearly setting up Jin Gook and Hyemi as the OTP). In fact, the more people fangirl him, the more he irritates me. So the Sam Dong show was losing me as well.
On the plus side, this gives me time to check out Mike He and Janine Chang's Happiness is like a Sunny Day so it's all good.
Goodbye, drama! It's been fun!
