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dangermousieWanting something entertaining, melodramatic, but not too involving, I started Beautiful Days.
An episode and a half in, I can assure you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lesbiassparrow, once you get past the hideous sequins in the 70s flashback, you are going to love it.
So far we have:
Our saintly heroine who lurves her best friend Sena (she calls her 'sister' but I am sure they are not biologically related) a little too much. In fact, it will take a lot to convince me they are not a lesbian couple, as they exchange couples rings at one point.
We have secondary male lead, to be known henceforth as Ugly Brother. Seriously, no offense to the fans of this actor, but forget kicking him out of bed for eating crackers. I'd kick him out of bed for existing. He is not helped by a bowl haircut, ears much too large, and the nerdiest clothes since Screech. He also says things like "Even your foot is sexy" to his mother, which is supposed to be cute and not creepy.
He and Heroine had a 'destined meeting' in childhood, when he gave her his watch. In fact, currently heroine is mistaking Hero for him. However, a hint of childhood love is not enough to overcome that he is not played by Lee Byung-Hun and something tells me the requisite wailing and gnashing of teeth destined for all secondary males, is Ugly Brother's lot in life.
We also have the requisite Evil Father, so beloved of kdramas. In fact, Evil Father is so evil, that he managed to kill a former friend (also a musical manager), after framing his client, before the story proper even started. Not only that, but as soon as his wife, Hero's Mum, was dead, he brought the widow of that friend into the house as Wife Number 2. He also claimed Ugly Brother is his kid, as opposed to son of Wife No. 2 and the man he offed. Which is all well and good, because it gave our Hero understandable issues, what with thinking his Evil Dad cheated on his dying wife, Hero's mother. He has also mistreated his daughter and stated ominous threats like kicking people out of the house. I expect much of him.
Also, on the plus side, we have Hero. Who is quite yummy, and with a magnitude of white teeth. He looks quite fetching staring intensely at things. Unlike Ugly Brother, Hero is quite hot. He is quite a 'good boy' to Evil Father, managing their recording company and behaving himself. However, this is only after burying his grandmother (who had his sister living with her) who died in dire poverty because Evil Father was, well, evil, when he returned to the family manse with his troubled sister, because to not come home would please Evil Father too much.
So yeah, he is icy, and reserved, and tightly wound, and hot. He is also ruthless and just generally awesome. With a very nice smile. I am sold. He has quite a fun meeting with the heroine, where he had her pretend to be someone else to fool the raging fans. It was cute. They have had many cute meetings since.
The most interesting relationship so far is between Hero and his troubled, wild-child sister, who is a more saner version of River from Firefly. I like watching them together a lot (they have a siblings against the world vibe, and he is a caretaker) and actually find that part genuinely good as opposed to just cheesy. Though the thing with the heroine also has potential.
There are a bunch of secondary characters with dyed hair, none of whom can I be bothered with.
Oh, and this has one of the most gorgeous theme songs, I've heard in kdramas.
I approve.
ETA: the Hero currently shadow-wiped the Heroine's tears through glass. It was AWESOME.
Basically, I like anything involving the Heros and the rest exists for a fast-forward button.
An episode and a half in, I can assure you,
lesbiassparrow, once you get past the hideous sequins in the 70s flashback, you are going to love it.So far we have:
Our saintly heroine who lurves her best friend Sena (she calls her 'sister' but I am sure they are not biologically related) a little too much. In fact, it will take a lot to convince me they are not a lesbian couple, as they exchange couples rings at one point.
We have secondary male lead, to be known henceforth as Ugly Brother. Seriously, no offense to the fans of this actor, but forget kicking him out of bed for eating crackers. I'd kick him out of bed for existing. He is not helped by a bowl haircut, ears much too large, and the nerdiest clothes since Screech. He also says things like "Even your foot is sexy" to his mother, which is supposed to be cute and not creepy.
He and Heroine had a 'destined meeting' in childhood, when he gave her his watch. In fact, currently heroine is mistaking Hero for him. However, a hint of childhood love is not enough to overcome that he is not played by Lee Byung-Hun and something tells me the requisite wailing and gnashing of teeth destined for all secondary males, is Ugly Brother's lot in life.
We also have the requisite Evil Father, so beloved of kdramas. In fact, Evil Father is so evil, that he managed to kill a former friend (also a musical manager), after framing his client, before the story proper even started. Not only that, but as soon as his wife, Hero's Mum, was dead, he brought the widow of that friend into the house as Wife Number 2. He also claimed Ugly Brother is his kid, as opposed to son of Wife No. 2 and the man he offed. Which is all well and good, because it gave our Hero understandable issues, what with thinking his Evil Dad cheated on his dying wife, Hero's mother. He has also mistreated his daughter and stated ominous threats like kicking people out of the house. I expect much of him.
Also, on the plus side, we have Hero. Who is quite yummy, and with a magnitude of white teeth. He looks quite fetching staring intensely at things. Unlike Ugly Brother, Hero is quite hot. He is quite a 'good boy' to Evil Father, managing their recording company and behaving himself. However, this is only after burying his grandmother (who had his sister living with her) who died in dire poverty because Evil Father was, well, evil, when he returned to the family manse with his troubled sister, because to not come home would please Evil Father too much.
So yeah, he is icy, and reserved, and tightly wound, and hot. He is also ruthless and just generally awesome. With a very nice smile. I am sold. He has quite a fun meeting with the heroine, where he had her pretend to be someone else to fool the raging fans. It was cute. They have had many cute meetings since.
The most interesting relationship so far is between Hero and his troubled, wild-child sister, who is a more saner version of River from Firefly. I like watching them together a lot (they have a siblings against the world vibe, and he is a caretaker) and actually find that part genuinely good as opposed to just cheesy. Though the thing with the heroine also has potential.
There are a bunch of secondary characters with dyed hair, none of whom can I be bothered with.
Oh, and this has one of the most gorgeous theme songs, I've heard in kdramas.
I approve.
ETA: the Hero currently shadow-wiped the Heroine's tears through glass. It was AWESOME.
Basically, I like anything involving the Heros and the rest exists for a fast-forward button.
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Date: 2008-01-30 01:53 am (UTC)Hotness or lack thereof is 100% irrelevant in the creepy factor.
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Date: 2008-01-30 02:17 am (UTC)But at this rate I will NEVER get around to the quality of Legend. *woez*
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Date: 2008-01-30 02:28 am (UTC)PS, the heroine's lesbian so is so whiny I want to smack her.
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Date: 2008-01-30 07:20 am (UTC)I watched both enthusiastically although Hotelier left a deeper impression on my mind. It was hard to get through the whole family problem in Beautiful days and the psychological torture of some of these characters. Its just too depressing and frustrating somethings.
But Lee Byung Hun was beautiful. I loved the intense moments with Choi Ji Woo. But sometimes I thought it was a bit over the top.
As for the ost, I liked it so much I bought the cd back then. I'm glad you like it too!
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Date: 2008-01-30 01:21 pm (UTC)I revel in ocer-the-topness so this is not going to deter me. And LBH really is gorgeous.
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Date: 2008-01-30 11:43 am (UTC)As to theme songs/The Legend addiction - The Legend has one of the best musical scores IMHO. 90% of dorama songs and music end up annoying me greatly (especially after hearing them for 100 times in a row). Not with The Legend. The music was bringing tears to my eyes. ** sniff **
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Date: 2008-01-30 01:20 pm (UTC)The Legend's score is beautiful.
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Date: 2008-01-30 08:41 pm (UTC)You probably heard that the same Japanese composer who composes most of the music for Hayao Miyazaki made the songs.
here is a youtube link that shows a bit on how he did it for the Legend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VLozCkAxlw
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Date: 2008-01-30 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-31 05:06 pm (UTC)When I watched MBC Awards (thank you fo the recs!) and heard the music I almost cried. :D
You probably heard that the same Japanese composer who composes most of the music for Hayao Miyazaki made the songs.
I indeed did , and thank you so much for the link!
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Date: 2008-01-30 12:40 pm (UTC)You are so predictable:) BTW, did you get my tech support request? I stated watching Legend yesterday, and five minutes in I realized that I was listening to "Law&Order" in the background (I had TV on) and desperately trying to read in Korean. Granted, all kinds of murder and mischief were happening in both places, but I don't think that Miranda existed in the fantasyland:)
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Date: 2008-01-30 01:19 pm (UTC)OK, instructions.
1. Once you dl the vid file and join it, rename it, to (e.g.) 'legend3' (without quotes around it)
2. Once you dl the subtitle file from the d-addicts website I gave you *make sure you get 'ental' version, they are labeled), save it in the same subfolder as the vid file and rename it 'legend3.srt' It has to have EXACTLY the same name, and manually added .srt suffix (for some reason original names on files don't work).
3. now that you have legend3 vid file and legend3.srt sub file, in the same subfolder or whatever, go to GOM player. Make sure that on the menu uptop, in 'subtitles', the 'show subtitles on' option is checked.
4. open legend3 vid file and subs should start playing.
if all of this doesn't work, you might have to install CCCP (a codec pack) found http://www.cccp-project.net/ but I would be shocked, shocked, shocked if the above didn't do the trick.