Kdrama slump
Mar. 22nd, 2011 02:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieAs you can tell my this LJ becoming cdrama-central lately, I am in a major kdrama slump.
No kdrama seems to keep my attention since the beginning of Dream High (and the last kdrama I loved from beginning to end was Secret Garden). Even dramas I can tell are good (Royal Family) don't seem to grab me. I don't even seem motivated to check out 49 Days or Crime Squad, which normally sound 100% my thing.
I am going to try both tomorrow anyway, in hopes of being free from the slump. We'll see.
The thing is, I am in the mood for (a) period drama (b) romcom (I know, shocking!).
If a drama combined both, like JPLH, it would be ideal, but either one is fine.
I don't think there is a single romcom on in kdrama-land right now. Zero! Everything that's airing is melo, melo, and more melo. I am waiting for Festival like a parched person in the desert.
As to period dramas, the only choices are King Geunchugo, which, according to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
momosan has gone downhill and, in any event, seems to be "old men talking" (tm meganbmoore) - traditional sageuks about royals and I don't do well. Fusion is great or sageuks about lower orders of society are fine but one of those legthy, traditional, talky sageuks and I don't mix. The Kingdom of the Winds (which I adore) is the closest I came to liking a traditional sageuk about a king, and it's not very traditional at all, miles closer to Return of Iljimae or Legend than something like Yi San. The other choice is The Duo, and the lengthy childhood section lost me. Whenever I contemplate checking it out, I think that I am going to have to sit through 8+ hours of childhood stuff and my hands sort of fall to my sides and I give up.
Well, let's hope either 49 Days or Crime Squad snaps me out.
No kdrama seems to keep my attention since the beginning of Dream High (and the last kdrama I loved from beginning to end was Secret Garden). Even dramas I can tell are good (Royal Family) don't seem to grab me. I don't even seem motivated to check out 49 Days or Crime Squad, which normally sound 100% my thing.
I am going to try both tomorrow anyway, in hopes of being free from the slump. We'll see.
The thing is, I am in the mood for (a) period drama (b) romcom (I know, shocking!).
If a drama combined both, like JPLH, it would be ideal, but either one is fine.
I don't think there is a single romcom on in kdrama-land right now. Zero! Everything that's airing is melo, melo, and more melo. I am waiting for Festival like a parched person in the desert.
As to period dramas, the only choices are King Geunchugo, which, according to
momosan has gone downhill and, in any event, seems to be "old men talking" (tm meganbmoore) - traditional sageuks about royals and I don't do well. Fusion is great or sageuks about lower orders of society are fine but one of those legthy, traditional, talky sageuks and I don't mix. The Kingdom of the Winds (which I adore) is the closest I came to liking a traditional sageuk about a king, and it's not very traditional at all, miles closer to Return of Iljimae or Legend than something like Yi San. The other choice is The Duo, and the lengthy childhood section lost me. Whenever I contemplate checking it out, I think that I am going to have to sit through 8+ hours of childhood stuff and my hands sort of fall to my sides and I give up.Well, let's hope either 49 Days or Crime Squad snaps me out.
