Ranty McRant on Heartstrings ep 6
Jul. 14th, 2011 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieOh, for God's sake!!!
We have just ended ep 6 of a 16 ep drama and Shin is STILL hung up on weepy and they have a hug at the end? WTF! It's one thing when a drama is long - East of Eden did not even have its main couple meet until ep 6, but EoE was close to 60 episodes, it had this luxury. It also, had a lot of plots to occupy one's attention while waiting for romantic stuff but Heartstrings is a drama whose main topic is romance, so where is it?
Sure, there are plenty of romcoms where hero pines for someone else and not the heroine for a while but even in those the writers give the bulk of drama's interactions to the main couple (let's face it, romcom or romantic melodrama, most people watch those to see romantic interactions between the leads). You can also tell the doofus male half of the couple is drawn to heroine and has plenty of gorgeous moments with her even if he's too dense to know what they mean (Goong, My Girl, Chunhyang).
And that is the bigger problem here - it may be common for hero to think he likes someone else at this stage, but it's not common for otp to have so little genuine romantic epic interaction which makes his love for heroine plain to us if not yet to him. And when you think how much chemistry PSH and JYH have, it seems almost perverse!
I haven't seen that many annoyed people on the soompi thread since Powerful Opponents ended :)
We have just ended ep 6 of a 16 ep drama and Shin is STILL hung up on weepy and they have a hug at the end? WTF! It's one thing when a drama is long - East of Eden did not even have its main couple meet until ep 6, but EoE was close to 60 episodes, it had this luxury. It also, had a lot of plots to occupy one's attention while waiting for romantic stuff but Heartstrings is a drama whose main topic is romance, so where is it?
Sure, there are plenty of romcoms where hero pines for someone else and not the heroine for a while but even in those the writers give the bulk of drama's interactions to the main couple (let's face it, romcom or romantic melodrama, most people watch those to see romantic interactions between the leads). You can also tell the doofus male half of the couple is drawn to heroine and has plenty of gorgeous moments with her even if he's too dense to know what they mean (Goong, My Girl, Chunhyang).
And that is the bigger problem here - it may be common for hero to think he likes someone else at this stage, but it's not common for otp to have so little genuine romantic epic interaction which makes his love for heroine plain to us if not yet to him. And when you think how much chemistry PSH and JYH have, it seems almost perverse!
I haven't seen that many annoyed people on the soompi thread since Powerful Opponents ended :)
