On various dramas

[dangermousie]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....Cain and Abel is delayed. Grrrrrrr...I want my angsty mob assassins in love, darnit. Don't tell me So Ji Sub is baulking at dying on-screen again. :D Kim Rae Won's Gourmet about a chef is not the same. Do chefs shoot people and angst in suits? No. BOO.

Has anyone on my flist seen the recently ended (and completely subbed) Lobbyist? It's one of the rare non-romance (though of course it does have a love story) dramas I am interested in, largely because sometimes I like violence/gritty stuff, and because it stars Song Il Gook, who after Jumong can do no wrong in my eyes and can read the telephone book and I will watch. Also, apparently they filmed in Washington DC (lost stalking opportunity! :D) and Kyrgyzstan (!!!!).



The story: Our heroine Maria (Jang Jin Young) grows up in a quiet fishing village with Harry (Song Il Gook). Yes, every kdrama is required to have a childhood love. Through various plot developments, both end up moving to America while children (separately), and both suffer some severe trauma: Maria's father is shot during a mugging, and eventually Maria's bright, driven older sister is murdered and is implicated in the theft of government secrets. Meanwhile, Harry's sister is molested in his new home by an Uncle who has odd notion of family values, and Harry grabs his sister and goes on the run. Can we say both grow up to be extremely tough and self-sufficient individuals?



Fast-forward to adulthood, and both Maria and Harry's paths cross once again, not necessarily smoothly. Maria is now a lobbyist for an international munitions manufacturer and Harry is a prosperous arms dealer. Both are involved in arms-dealing, vengeance and other exciting things. Lots of stuff blows up. There is a love story (duh) but it's not primarily that. I think. You can never be sure, with kdramas.

All I know is, Song Il Gook better not die in this one.



Any drama that begins this way (to go into flashback) wins brownie points already:



Mmm, SIG at some press conference. I am unused to seeing him sans beard and sword:





We are Tough! And love guns!



*drooool*





There is always time for smouldering UST:



More hotness. You know, I think this is one of the shallow reasons I prefer kdramas. They are a lot more prone to have men and not boys as their stars. 35-year-old SIG, who looks like he eats regularly is a lot more my thing than a 20-year-old JE boy who looks like he's forgotten the meaning of food.



More posters:











Men and their guns:



Women, too:





In other news, apparently Korea finally picked up its own drama Bichunmu (previously shown in China, it was a co-production). I hope they will have original actors' voices as that would be awesome. The version I own is dubbed into Mandarin. Which reminds me, it's an awesome drama, I must finish it. Angsty, and romantic, and funny, and with swords.



















Last but not least, I am through ep 10 of Snow White and it continues to be awesome.



I really really adore the OTP of this one. They are just so compatible and have fun together and are always there for each other, almost instinctively )him for her when Jin-Woo gets engaged, her for him with his Mother). I never thought I would feel like crying to see a guy fix a microwave, or when they went grocery shopping (because she wanted to do it with Jin-Woo and Sun-Woo knew it and took her, pretending it was a coincidence). Or the way they went to the beach, and he kissed her, and the whole day and night they spent together. And the way he ran to her side when he found out his brother got engaged because he knew how she would feel.

I adore Jin-Woo, who is sweet if dense as a thick plank (everyone can tell Young-hee is crushing on him except for him) but I have to say I felt rather satisfied to see him see SW/YH talk on the roof and admit they want to be more than friends, and SW hugs YH and she hugs him back.

JW deserves a bit of his own back, but mainly, it's because I so love SW/YH together.

Still no Kame/Nun. This kills my soul :) Or at least that part of it which fangirls.

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[alexandral.livejournal.com]

More hotness. You know, I think this is one of the shallow reasons I prefer kdramas. They are a lot more prone to have men and not boys as their stars. 35-year-old SIG, who looks like he eats regularly is a lot more my thing than a 20-year-old JE boy who looks like he's forgotten the meaning of food.

I have just started watching "Abe Hiroshi" at the moment and - Abe Hiroshi IS SO ATTRACTIVE! And he is older than I am!!!!!!! I am finding a total new meaning of jdramas. :P
But yep - kdramas are just such a joy to behold.

I am dying to know what you'll think about"Snow White"'s ending..

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I already watched SW's ending (I osten watch the ending first) and it seemed very cute.

I know meganbmoore is an Abe Hiroshi fan. What's a good drama to check him out it?

I prefer the older jdrama actors (Kimura Takuya, Fujiki Naohito, Takeshi Kaneshiro when he still made jdramas *sigh*) to the younger ones. But generally Takki and Oguri Shun (both of whom are in mid-twenties, are as young as I go in jdramas). Even when I adore the younger ones, as with Kame or MatsuJun, it's still a 'adorable but too young, and evoking more of a desire to feed them than to check them out.' I think Yamapi is the only exception to that rule.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I am still very torn with Kame, but I never say never. :D I pondered on this and it seems that I prefer actors that are more masculine-looking, even if it is just a fraction more masculine, like Oguri Shun or Takuya.

I know meganbmoore is an Abe Hiroshi fan. What's a good drama to check him out it?

I am watching Egao no Hosoku it seems very cute but I have only started. I'll make a picspam if it is going to be any good.

I LOOOOVE "Legend" (this drama set me off on watching "Winter Sonata". :D). I haven't finished it "Legend", though - I have been waiting for it all to be subbed as I got very impatient with subbing around episode 10 and then I just decided to watch it when all subs are out. I am also trying to stay away from spoilers as it is so good that I want to watch it unspoiled. :D The subs seems to be all ready now so I'll be squeeing soon too.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

ENH sounds really cute.

Re: Kame. I am a total Kame fangirl but not for his looks. Abstractly, he is too 'girly' for me (says the girl who is nuts for Lee Jun Ki, but that's a separate matter :D) but somehow in his dramas, I can't look away and find him irresistable.

I am actually *gasp* unspoiled for legend as well. How shocking! I plan to stay that way, too. It looks too good to spoil.

And BYJ? Oh my...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Egao is good. Since my beloved Trick is too cracktastic for most, there's also Dragonzakura and Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, as well as Hero with KimuTaku. There's also Antique Cake Store, but...uhm...that also has Takizawa Hideaki and Fujiki Naohito, yet still managed to bore me so much that I could barely finish the first episode.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I tried "Trick" once and it was slightly too crackstatic for me indeed , but now I have got a full-grown Abe Hiroshi obsession after the first two wps of Egao and may be I'll give it another try in the future. I love Egao! On the whole I feel much more jdrama at the moment..

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[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I started Legend and you were right. It's amazing.

[weissman.livejournal.com]

Are there ever any Kdramas that end happy with everybody still alive?

Bob

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. Plently.

Snow White for example.

My Girl, Goong, Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang, Capital Scandal, We're dating now, Full House, Thank You, Hello Miss, Spring Waltz, Winter Sonata etc etc etc. But they are more prone to misery than average :)

[weissman.livejournal.com]

Can you give me a recomendation about a real angsty one where nobody dies and it ends happy?

Bob

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

I'm stuck halfway through episode 7 of Snow White, mostly because I want to slap Jin Woo so hard his head spins Exorcist-style. Sometimes, his behavior comes off as downright cruel. He has to be doing it on purpose. No one is that oblivious.

Also, I thought the heroine's (twitchy) face was familiar until AHA, it dawned on me that I'd seen her on 1% of everything where her acting made me cringey and twitchy myself. Yet, I may or may not be warming up to her... Must be the glasses.

I hope things heat up quickly between Sun Woo and Young Hee. This drama is thoroughly testing my patience.

And hey, don't you think Jin Woo's plastic girlfriend looks a bit like the leading lady in Lovers?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Awwww, I like Jin-Woo. He is really really dense, which makes sense as they've been friends for so long and he just sees her as a guy. Usually I am impatient with characters like this, but I like him.

I've never seen the lead actress anywhere before, but she has an odd face.

I hope things heat up quickly between Sun Woo and Young Hee. This drama is thoroughly testing my patience.

I think for a kdrama it moves pretty fast but of course it's kdrama pace. They are very very cute in eps 10 and 11. You want true slow torture, watch Loveholic. The first four eps are amazing, and fast-paced and lure you in like crazy and then it grinds to a complete holt for 13 more eps! It basically had enough story to make an awesome 5-6 ep drama but no luck. I barely made it through with huge fast-forwards.

And hey, don't you think Jin Woo's plastic girlfriend looks a bit like the leading lady in Lovers?

Awwww. Poor Mi Joo in Lovers. I liked her even if I didn't think she was gorgeous. :(

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

You want true slow torture, watch Loveholic.

Hmm, I'll pass? The thing is, this was on my list of dramas to watch -__-. Thanks for warning me. I've had enough snail-paced dramas to last me a lifetime. It's even worse when they hook you in with the first few episodes only to have the story go suddenly comatose on you.

Awwww. Poor Mi Joo in Lovers. I liked her even if I didn't think she was gorgeous. :(

I had to stop watching Lovers because, even though I liked Mi Joo and thought the woman was far from being an eyesore, Lee Seo Jin freaked me the hell out. He looked like a character from a Dragon Ball Z doujinshi for god's sake. I swear, his gigantic octogonal face still haunts my nightmares.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have never seen a story grind to a halt more quickly than Loveholic. Most kdramas drag a bit in the middle, but loveholic was a whole factory, no, a whole country's worth of drag.

I swear, his gigantic octogonal face still haunts my nightmares.

Heh. I find LSJ one of the hottest actors out there, so I suppose more for me :)

[winterspel.livejournal.com]

I doubt we'll see any subs for 1 Pound no Fukuin until earliest Thursday. This lists the subbing group collab, and here is an update on progress.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Understandable but makes me want to go to sleep until then :(

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

(watch The Art of Seduction for SIG. He even gets sold off at an auction. There is OTP in the rain. And coat sharing.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

But I watched the ending of AoS and didn't approve of it, because the two leads are back to their old tricks, picking up random people, not reformed or together at all. Thus not my thing.

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

Oh Song Il-gook, I love you :D I will definitely watch this, despite being sooooo long. He seems to do very, very long dramas! ^^ Re: Bichunmu. Damn the guy is hawt!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's only 24 eps long, totally not long compared to Jumong :)

Bichunmu stars Joo Jin Mo, who is indeed very very hot.

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe that once again, I have been completely convinced that I absolutely have to watch a drama from the strngth of your picspam! I havent even read a single word in your post, the smoulderingness of Song Il-Gook is too much for my brain to bear at the moment... :)

Bichunmoo has been out for a while and I've not been tempted...mught change in the new furutre, i reckon!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I've watched the first 7 (I think) eps of Bichunmoo and liked it a lot. So far it's not draggy and the otp remarkably common sense.

As to SIG...he has to be a genetic mutation. That is the only explanation for such hotness.