All the quasi-cest and angst with no death. One Fine Day: it's Autumn Tale for wimps.

[dangermousie]

You know how I wanted to watch Autumn Tale but was scared away by the promise of a sad ending?

Well, I am totally happy because I just found a drama which sounds like it has everything about AT I want: angst! forbidden love! stepsiblings who thought they were really related, eventually separated until adulthood! hunky men weeping! childhood love! Terminal illness (not of the OTP though, yay!)



One Fine Day.

But you know one thing it's lacking, that Autumn Tale had? Unhappy Ending. YES. It seems like it has eight tons of angst, but it has A HAPPY ENDING. The OTP does not die, does not separate forever, and best of all is that the male lead is...Gong Yoo!!!!!! *insert fangirl squeal*

Did I mention that the male lead is full of self-loathing because of what he has to do, and that the female lead is the adorable Sung Yuri, who barely reaches Gong Yoo's shoulder!

Plot: Haneul (Sung Yuri) is a child of an unwed mother, who married the father of Seo Gun (Gong Yoo). Thus, they are stepsiblings, and are off-limits in the eyes of the law (is anyone in Kdrama fall not for a relative????) Eventually, when they are still children, all parental figures keel over and they are separated. Haneul is adopted by a wealthy family in the midst of which she still feels alienated. Gun ends up as a 'son' of a big-time gangster (how? No idea yet. It's kdrama, these things happen. This is why I love them). When they are adults their paths cross when Gun has to extort money from Haneul (hold me, someone, before I die of sheer glee!). But of course, they begin to fall in love...

Here is a MV for the drama:

This goes on my short list ASAP!

(It's a good thing I have a lot of dramas to go through in Gong Yoo's back catalogue, seeing that he is in the army now and thus no new dramas of his will feed my addiction for two whole years).

Comments

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

LOL! I really really have no words... I'm kind of going off kdramas at the moment... really need something awesome to perk me up again!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I really really have no words...

Is it a good or a bad thing?

I have no idea if this is an awesome kdrama or not, but it does sound cracky.

Want a good kdrama that is also fun? Capital Scandal. it's my new favorite kdrama of all time.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I am sad that you cannot be lured into the watching of Autumn Tale. I am completely enthralled by its over the top angst and wrong, wrong love. (Though Calixa says that love is never wrong, so who am I to judge?)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The problem with AT and its ilk for me is, as my watching of MISA demonstrates, I inevitably get emotionally lured in and invested and then devastated :)

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

I wasn't wowed by One Fine Day. Even though Gong Yoo's mere presence would make me watch Phonebook - The Musical.

Actually, I wanted the (bland) girl to end up with the secondary male character.

The heroine's other (!) adopted brother is a creepster of the worst kind and it makes for some highly disturbing and effective scenes.

Also, thank God Gong Yoo went and got a haircut after this drama.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Gong Yoo's mere presence would make me watch Phonebook - The Musical.

I would watch anyone do that, because it would be too ridiculously entertaining for words. Maybe the reader of phonebook would get amnesia halfway through and angst over to do the book over again.

Btw, I assume you have seen this pic (http://dangermousie.livejournal.com/912982.html).

And oh Gong Yoo. I have no idea why I never discovered him before Coffee Prince.

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

Maybe the reader of phonebook would get amnesia halfway through and angst over to do the book over again.

The way I picture it in my (sick) mind, it'd be a blend of Grease and West Side Story, with a leather-clad guy spewing names in alphabetical order while snapping his fingers.

More importantly, OMFG! THE PIC!!!!! I shall forever worship you for introducing me to the blazing hotness that is battered Gong Yoo.
...Now, I'll go fill my bathtub with ice cubes. Bai.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I remember coming across this pic when I first started Coffee Prince, my first exposure to Gong Yoo, and sort of hyperventilating.

I already have my eager little hands on Hello My Teacher, that forbiddern lurve story where he is some sort of delinquent who falls for his teacher.

I am pleased to see that despite his relative youth, he has already managed to cover three major genres of drama: (1) falling in love with a teacher (2) falling in love with a family member (3) falling in love with a cross-dresser. All we have left is a period epic and we are set.

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

I am pleased to see that despite his relative youth, he has already managed to cover three major genres of drama: (1) falling in love with a teacher (2) falling in love with a family member (3) falling in love with a cross-dresser. All we have left is a period epic and we are set.

I wonder if there's a handbook to kdrama available somewhere because these three plot devices are so recurrent they might as well be requisite. Oh Gong Yoo, how I wish I could see your resumé...

[reapingfolk.livejournal.com]

One Fine Day has to be my crack, over the top Kdrama because it IS over the top at points with the angst but man was it deliciously good. It was really fascinating to see Gong Yoo in such a completely different role than Coffee Prince, which was the first drama I saw him in.

Gun ends up as a 'son' of a big-time gangster (how? No idea yet. It's kdrama, these things happen.

There are so many implausible events in this drama and yet that made it all the more cracktastic. It also helped that Lee Yeon Hee played Hyo Ju, who I found to be more fascinating than Haneul (though I still rooted for the OTP). I'm so glad that you're going to watch it because it's been difficult to find someone else whose watched it (considering it is one of the more angsty dramas).

I haven't seen Autumn Tale (I've stayed away from the four "seasonal" dramas) but if it's OFD with an unhappy ending, I don't think I would want to venture into it (because part of the redeeming factor for me, when it started to get REALLY over the top near the end, was the resolution of a certain conflict).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...OFD sounds like so my thing.

Re: Seasons dramas. two of them have happy endings (Winter Sonata and Spring Waltz) and two do not. Even enough :)

[reapingfolk.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realized that two had happy endings (though I heard Winter Sonata was bittersweet). Because they're such big pillars of the Kdrama world though, I feel that I should watch them at some point.

I can't wait for your reaction to OFD! It'll be fun going over it again. It's like getting to watch the drama again when you get to squee about it with someone.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I can spoil you for WS if you want, but I found the ending (in abstract, haven't seen it) quite good, considering it's a seasons drama :)

OFD sounds like sweet sweet crack of the highest order!

[kittykatz.livejournal.com]

Ok, must watch this! I love Gong Yoo!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Who doesn't? *sigh*