Musings of the Obsessive Kind

OK, guys, I hate myself a little - but viikii has Defendant of Love subbed and I found myself starting the first episode. I posted about it before but DoL is a Thai drama - an umpteenth hit adaptation of some really popular novel about how Hero decides to avenge the fact that his brother offed himself over the girl by kidnapping and torturing said girl. Oooops, he accidentally grabs her cousin. Hijinks (and by that I mean rape) ensue. Just - guuuh, just thinking about the plot of this drama gives me rage (apparently raping etc is common in Thai dramas, yikes) but I can't stop - it's like this extremely horrifying trainwreck, you can't stop rubbernecking. I will let you know when I get to the breaking point but for now, I will just hide in shame (btw - I am pleased to see the Heroine prepare for her life of meekness by being a willing slave to her spoiled cousin. Said cousin tells her to use her home ec degree to bake her a cake. LOLOL. I should not like the evil wench but I do). Oh, and right now I am at the part where shirtless and artistically sweaty hero finds the lifeless body of his brother and manpains all over it. Ha!

Share my shame:



You know, I browsed the Thai dramas at viikii and much as I am tempted by the attractive ladies and gents that act in them, I bet I would be a lot more interested if the plots of them did not go like this:

Karnploo (Ann) is dumped and swindled by her long time boyfriend. To cheer her up, her friends take her out for a girls night out and in despair, Karnploo drinks herself silly. At the club, she meets Nit (Mart), a proper man who hates loose and uninhibited woman. When he meets the intoxicated Karnploo for the first time, Nit misunderstands that she is a party girl and an improper woman, the type of woman he hates the most.

That night, the drunken Karnploo is separated from her friends and finds herself in the company of Nit until morning. When she woke to find herself in Nit’s car and he is undressing her, she misunderstands that he raped her. They go to the police station to sort out the matter and Nit insinuates that they did had sex even though they didn’t and threaten if she presses charges she will lose face. Because this is conservative Thailand, she decides to save face rather go through the humiliation of being a person who was raped.

When she goes home, her Aunt is very disappointed and decides to marry her off to Nit’s father. Pissed that his father is marrying a girl with loose morals and possibly a gold-digger, he takes advantage of Karnploo before her wedding day. After the wedding, Karnploo refuses to sleep with Nit’s father because she doesn’t want to commit the sin of sleeping with the son and the father. Because his wife is refusing to sleep with him, Nit’s father seeks comfort with prostitutes and dies of a heartache during one of his appointments.

Now the war begins because Nit’s father divided his inheritance in half for Nit and Karnploo. Also, Karnploo learns she is pregnant with Nit’s child. They battle for the inheritance and develop feelings for each other.

(Plot of Likit Kammathep, one of the dramas uploaded. Just from the description, I want to stab the 'hero' in the face over and over and over).

Though I am wildly tempted by Sassy Love (part of the description of which includes this gem: "After several fated encounters, Nit meets Bowee's mother, who has been staying in an insane asylum, of her own free will, for many years. The bad part is that everyone else thinks she's dead." LOLOL), Roy Leh Sanae Rai (adorable-looking entry into the 'guy tries to swindle girl because his dad left all the inheritance to her instead, but falls in love' subgenre) and Badarn Jai, which sounds like a cross between Which Star Are You From and Full House and promises me a hero who "dons the asian mullet." (I directly quote).

Now, if someone can assure me that none of those three feature any raping, we'll be set.

OK, guys, I hate myself a little - but viikii has Defendant of Love subbed and I found myself starting the first episode. I posted about it before but DoL is a Thai drama - an umpteenth hit adaptation of some really popular novel about how Hero decides to avenge the fact that his brother offed himself over the girl by kidnapping and torturing said girl. Oooops, he accidentally grabs her cousin. Hijinks (and by that I mean rape) ensue. Just - guuuh, just thinking about the plot of this drama gives me rage (apparently raping etc is common in Thai dramas, yikes) but I can't stop - it's like this extremely horrifying trainwreck, you can't stop rubbernecking. I will let you know when I get to the breaking point but for now, I will just hide in shame (btw - I am pleased to see the Heroine prepare for her life of meekness by being a willing slave to her spoiled cousin. Said cousin tells her to use her home ec degree to bake her a cake. LOLOL. I should not like the evil wench but I do). Oh, and right now I am at the part where shirtless and artistically sweaty hero finds the lifeless body of his brother and manpains all over it. Ha!

Share my shame:



You know, I browsed the Thai dramas at viikii and much as I am tempted by the attractive ladies and gents that act in them, I bet I would be a lot more interested if the plots of them did not go like this:

Karnploo (Ann) is dumped and swindled by her long time boyfriend. To cheer her up, her friends take her out for a girls night out and in despair, Karnploo drinks herself silly. At the club, she meets Nit (Mart), a proper man who hates loose and uninhibited woman. When he meets the intoxicated Karnploo for the first time, Nit misunderstands that she is a party girl and an improper woman, the type of woman he hates the most.

That night, the drunken Karnploo is separated from her friends and finds herself in the company of Nit until morning. When she woke to find herself in Nit’s car and he is undressing her, she misunderstands that he raped her. They go to the police station to sort out the matter and Nit insinuates that they did had sex even though they didn’t and threaten if she presses charges she will lose face. Because this is conservative Thailand, she decides to save face rather go through the humiliation of being a person who was raped.

When she goes home, her Aunt is very disappointed and decides to marry her off to Nit’s father. Pissed that his father is marrying a girl with loose morals and possibly a gold-digger, he takes advantage of Karnploo before her wedding day. After the wedding, Karnploo refuses to sleep with Nit’s father because she doesn’t want to commit the sin of sleeping with the son and the father. Because his wife is refusing to sleep with him, Nit’s father seeks comfort with prostitutes and dies of a heartache during one of his appointments.

Now the war begins because Nit’s father divided his inheritance in half for Nit and Karnploo. Also, Karnploo learns she is pregnant with Nit’s child. They battle for the inheritance and develop feelings for each other.

(Plot of Likit Kammathep, one of the dramas uploaded. Just from the description, I want to stab the 'hero' in the face over and over and over).

Though I am wildly tempted by Sassy Love (part of the description of which includes this gem: "After several fated encounters, Nit meets Bowee's mother, who has been staying in an insane asylum, of her own free will, for many years. The bad part is that everyone else thinks she's dead." LOLOL), Roy Leh Sanae Rai (adorable-looking entry into the 'guy tries to swindle girl because his dad left all the inheritance to her instead, but falls in love' subgenre) and Badarn Jai, which sounds like a cross between Which Star Are You From and Full House and promises me a hero who "dons the asian mullet." (I directly quote).

Now, if someone can assure me that none of those three feature any raping, we'll be set.

That is one of the 'subtitles' in the copy of Punch that I purchased. Shockingly, Punch is not a pr0n movie, it's a Korean drama about a lady boxer. What the meaning of that mysterious phrase was supposed to be I have yet to figure out - the subtitles were done by a drunk giraffe while tripping on acid. None of them make any sense.

Mr Mousie and I had a great time checking some of them out and trying to decipher what they mean :_)

The ebay seller claimed Punch had 'minor English mistakes' - clearly he is the type of person who would refer to a hurricane as a mild wind and an amputated limb as a small inconvenience :D

But awwww, Shin Min Ah and Joo Jin Mo look cute even while talking like extraterrestrials.

I just got my DVD of the Korean drama Love Story in Harvard. I bought it on ebay so had no idea what kind of DVD it would turn out to be (It's Kim Rae Won being awesome and angsty, so I wanted to actually buy the Yes Asia version but that's R03 and I haven't gotten around getting a multiregion player yet and am not keen on computer watching).

Anyway, the picture quality is good enough (though I still want official DVDs to get it really crisp) and the subs are excellent.

But the COVER. The COVER summary. Whoever wrote it was not the one who did the subs and clearly had only passing familiarity with English. Passing in a next county that is. Not as bad as the Chinese cover for Spring Waltz (I am so excited YA is releasing a version later this month. I am waiting for that boxset to watch it). But still...worth quoting in its entirety.

Now, before I copy the summary on the back, let me briefly specify what this drama is about, as you will likely not get anything of that sort from the summary. LSiH is about two Koreans studying abroad in Harvard. The guy is a law student and the gal is a med student. They fall in love blah blah.

Now, here is what the DVD says: spelling, punctuation and capitalization (the authors seem to hate spaces between sentences) copied exactly:

a Works to Despict the Dreams Andlove of the Korea Students Abroad in Harvard.

In the most competitive place in the world,they meet each other.in the foreign harvard place,struggle for their dreams and love struggle for the lucidity making progress ambition and romance in life.

On the hard wooden chair,the books which are getting more and more corrodent during the several hundred years,and the nameless souls which being with the time.the light in the harvard library would not br turned off.the young people will stay over night to study as a hundred years ago.

This TV play represents the most competitive place in the world,different typts of people in harvard.though their intentions are different.but they are the same :throwing themselves into the study process whenever they are please happy ardor or painful.the dramatix personaes are the nucleus guys.

"LOVE IN HARVARD"is a story about love.naive people,mutual impassioned love without any formalists.the romantic love in campus,and the pure period for every audience who are expecting passion.

This summary definitely makes it clear Harvard is competitive and there is a lot of studying going on (though clearly not by people who wrote the summary on the back of te DVD). Should have mentioned the kissing instead :D

I just got my DVD of the Korean drama Love Story in Harvard. I bought it on ebay so had no idea what kind of DVD it would turn out to be (It's Kim Rae Won being awesome and angsty, so I wanted to actually buy the Yes Asia version but that's R03 and I haven't gotten around getting a multiregion player yet and am not keen on computer watching).

Anyway, the picture quality is good enough (though I still want official DVDs to get it really crisp) and the subs are excellent.

But the COVER. The COVER summary. Whoever wrote it was not the one who did the subs and clearly had only passing familiarity with English. Passing in a next county that is. Not as bad as the Chinese cover for Spring Waltz (I am so excited YA is releasing a version later this month. I am waiting for that boxset to watch it). But still...worth quoting in its entirety.

Now, before I copy the summary on the back, let me briefly specify what this drama is about, as you will likely not get anything of that sort from the summary. LSiH is about two Koreans studying abroad in Harvard. The guy is a law student and the gal is a med student. They fall in love blah blah.

Now, here is what the DVD says: spelling, punctuation and capitalization (the authors seem to hate spaces between sentences) copied exactly:

a Works to Despict the Dreams Andlove of the Korea Students Abroad in Harvard.

In the most competitive place in the world,they meet each other.in the foreign harvard place,struggle for their dreams and love struggle for the lucidity making progress ambition and romance in life.

On the hard wooden chair,the books which are getting more and more corrodent during the several hundred years,and the nameless souls which being with the time.the light in the harvard library would not br turned off.the young people will stay over night to study as a hundred years ago.

This TV play represents the most competitive place in the world,different typts of people in harvard.though their intentions are different.but they are the same :throwing themselves into the study process whenever they are please happy ardor or painful.the dramatix personaes are the nucleus guys.

"LOVE IN HARVARD"is a story about love.naive people,mutual impassioned love without any formalists.the romantic love in campus,and the pure period for every audience who are expecting passion.

This summary definitely makes it clear Harvard is competitive and there is a lot of studying going on (though clearly not by people who wrote the summary on the back of te DVD). Should have mentioned the kissing instead :D

Finished Tokyo Juliet ep 12. All I have to say is that I want to stab the bra guy in the eye with a fork.

I checked the cover of my shipped Magic Ring DVD and GLEEEST GLEE THAT EVER GLEED. The English summary on the back is comprehensible! This is usually a good hint the subs will at least make sense (you should see the scary summaries on backs of ISWAK and Goong). YAY. Am a bit closer to angsty angsty Joe Cheng (though if it turns into Love Contract Mark 2, I will scream. I watched LC after DBY because I wanted to see Mike He angst and ended up bawling for hours). Am amused that the front refers to it as 'fetish' serial. I know they mean 'popular' but a girl can dream, no? Mmmm, Joe Cheng and chains. Hmmmm. ( pics of DVD cover, front and back )

I have also watched more It Started with a Kiss. Ep 14 (the Christmas episode) makes living worthwhile. Honest. You think I am joking?

( ISWAK thoughts, spoilers through beginning of 15 )

In rec news, scottishlass wrote an excellent, NC-17 Mars fic here and alexandral has the picspam of ISWAK's Hospital Kiss here.

OK, the DVD itself has OK subs as far as I can tell, but the box summary for the Korean dorama Spring Waltz is an attack of Engrish gone mad:

This play will continue the tin lake director style of consistent only beautiful pure feeling, relating an emotion story that crosses the timespace to separate. Male hostess Mr. of the story is a rightness of at south china sea was beautiful islet of shore up grow up of childhood friends, scatter from now on because once surprised, many after year two people are in the home town of the waltz Austria once more heavy meet, two people that heart carries on the back the shadow and distresses, greet again a wisp of sunlight within life under the warmth of the love. HAN2 XIAO4 ZHU who plays woman's No. 1 is near an a stars that Korean show biz of in the last years flees to rise, in the near future from she three the light comedy film that play a teacher integral whole with the small cost won over 6,000,000 view numbers of receipt of a film outstanding score, succeed before beating into the tallest receipt of a film in Korean movie history ten strong, very stirring focus attention. Star HAN2 XIAO4 ZHU of the television drama to also mean to will work hard to attain for the very firt time best, don't be ungrateful to the lead to own cultivation. In the lord that yesterday be unveiled create personnel, the half-blooded absolutely keeps most of the eye...

OK, I honestly have no idea what they are talking about. Could is be a secret code?

OK, the DVD itself has OK subs as far as I can tell, but the box summary for the Korean dorama Spring Waltz is an attack of Engrish gone mad:

This play will continue the tin lake director style of consistent only beautiful pure feeling, relating an emotion story that crosses the timespace to separate. Male hostess Mr. of the story is a rightness of at south china sea was beautiful islet of shore up grow up of childhood friends, scatter from now on because once surprised, many after year two people are in the home town of the waltz Austria once more heavy meet, two people that heart carries on the back the shadow and distresses, greet again a wisp of sunlight within life under the warmth of the love. HAN2 XIAO4 ZHU who plays woman's No. 1 is near an a stars that Korean show biz of in the last years flees to rise, in the near future from she three the light comedy film that play a teacher integral whole with the small cost won over 6,000,000 view numbers of receipt of a film outstanding score, succeed before beating into the tallest receipt of a film in Korean movie history ten strong, very stirring focus attention. Star HAN2 XIAO4 ZHU of the television drama to also mean to will work hard to attain for the very firt time best, don't be ungrateful to the lead to own cultivation. In the lord that yesterday be unveiled create personnel, the half-blooded absolutely keeps most of the eye...

OK, I honestly have no idea what they are talking about. Could is be a secret code?