My brain hurts
Aug. 16th, 2012 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieDespite my better judgement, I checked out To The Beautiful You - I was somewhere only with an iPhone for entertainment and Arang was not available and Gaksital too gorgeous to watch on that tiny screen.
Now, anything below is probably influenced by the fact that this isn't my type of story, but it was so so so bad! Part of it is the drama's fault - nobody in this is even bothering to act, while I know for a fact that some of them know how (Lee Hyun Woo, you were so amazing in The Equator Man, what happened?) Sulli, our heroine, who is cross-dressing as a boy in an all-boys school clearly doesn't think it is necessary for her to do anything else to pass for a boy other than putting on pants and cutting her hair - she doesn't lower her voice or change her mannerisms yet everyone falls for her deception, leading me to believe that te collective IQ of this cast of characters is slightly above room temperature. News flash - this isn't the 12th century, with its strict gender dress codes and sumptuary laws where you didn't look beyond the clothes because they were immutable. Plenty of women nowadays wear pants and have short hair and yet somehow there is no mass populace confusion about genders.
About the best job in this one is done by Minho, mainly because he plays a stoic character and thus doesn't have to emote much.
But a bigger part of the problem is not the drama's fault but is inherent in the manga it is based on. The older I get, the less I like the set-up - wtf kind of psycho crossdresses and moves continents to go to a school one's crush is attending, a crush you like because he was cool on television! Wtf!!!! That's not cute, that's someone who is either a psycho stalker or has no common sense God gave a fly. I end up feeling bad for Sano because he ends up with her!
So yes, very very much not for me.
Now, anything below is probably influenced by the fact that this isn't my type of story, but it was so so so bad! Part of it is the drama's fault - nobody in this is even bothering to act, while I know for a fact that some of them know how (Lee Hyun Woo, you were so amazing in The Equator Man, what happened?) Sulli, our heroine, who is cross-dressing as a boy in an all-boys school clearly doesn't think it is necessary for her to do anything else to pass for a boy other than putting on pants and cutting her hair - she doesn't lower her voice or change her mannerisms yet everyone falls for her deception, leading me to believe that te collective IQ of this cast of characters is slightly above room temperature. News flash - this isn't the 12th century, with its strict gender dress codes and sumptuary laws where you didn't look beyond the clothes because they were immutable. Plenty of women nowadays wear pants and have short hair and yet somehow there is no mass populace confusion about genders.
About the best job in this one is done by Minho, mainly because he plays a stoic character and thus doesn't have to emote much.
But a bigger part of the problem is not the drama's fault but is inherent in the manga it is based on. The older I get, the less I like the set-up - wtf kind of psycho crossdresses and moves continents to go to a school one's crush is attending, a crush you like because he was cool on television! Wtf!!!! That's not cute, that's someone who is either a psycho stalker or has no common sense God gave a fly. I end up feeling bad for Sano because he ends up with her!
So yes, very very much not for me.
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