Musings of the Obsessive Kind

OK, I cannot hold it in any longer.

Does anyone else think So Ji Sub has dead eyes? Like - really really dead, zombie-level freaky dead eyes?

I admit he has a nice body and his face is just fine, but the creepy creepy eyes really ruin it for me. They are always dead. I don't just mean in things where he is doing a bad job (the atrocious RN1, or his sleep-walking through Something Happened in Bali). No, even in things I've seen him in where he is otherwise well enough (Misa, Rough Cut), his eyes remain freakishly dead. Even Mr Mousie noticed - we were watching Rough Cut together and he was wondering if SJS' character was supposed to be on drugs because his eyes looked out of it.

I don't really follow Korean celebs or watch reality programs so I've never seen him outside a drama - is that something he has in RL as well?

And am I alone in thinking his eyes are this way? He does have a legion of devoted fangirls after all.

Hmmm, now I am trying to remember what his eyes were like in Cain & Abel. I was too busy drooling over the rest of him in that one to pay attention.

I nearly had a heart attack when I read that So Ji Sub entered army training (didn't he just get back from the army!!!) but it turned out he's just doing a refresher for upcoming Road No. 1. Phew, don't scare me so, dramabeans - I can't deal with this. I am so looking forward to Road N.1 though - SJS and Kim Ha Neul, with Choi Min Soo as well, and the writer of Dog/Wolf and director of Dog/Wolf and La Dolce Vita. "Oh my God!" sums up my reaction. What with that, Chuno, Dong Yi, and Jejoongwon, 2009 will hopefully be a hell of a year for historical dramas.

I have to say, the thing about Korean army is at least it's only 2/3 years. And it's not so bad for me because most of my favorite kdrama guys have completed their army thing already, some a really long time ago - one of the advantages of going for the older ones :)

Also, Gong Yoo and Chun Jung Myung just got out! Please don't let them take as long as So Ji Sub or Go Soo to pick a project!

I have only a few favorites who are either still in the army (Lee Dong Wook, Joo Ji Hoon, Eric, Lee Jin Wook) or will go really soon probably (Hyun Bin, Lee Junki). But it's gotta suck if you are a younger man fan - every day must be (as someone on my flist pointed out) like Elvis enlisting :P

On the plus side, they all come out with amazing muscles.

I am so going to rend my garments and wail "Oppa!" when Hyun Bin goes in.

I nearly had a heart attack when I read that So Ji Sub entered army training (didn't he just get back from the army!!!) but it turned out he's just doing a refresher for upcoming Road No. 1. Phew, don't scare me so, dramabeans - I can't deal with this. I am so looking forward to Road N.1 though - SJS and Kim Ha Neul, with Choi Min Soo as well, and the writer of Dog/Wolf and director of Dog/Wolf and La Dolce Vita. "Oh my God!" sums up my reaction. What with that, Chuno, Dong Yi, and Jejoongwon, 2009 will hopefully be a hell of a year for historical dramas.

I have to say, the thing about Korean army is at least it's only 2/3 years. And it's not so bad for me because most of my favorite kdrama guys have completed their army thing already, some a really long time ago - one of the advantages of going for the older ones :)

Also, Gong Yoo and Chun Jung Myung just got out! Please don't let them take as long as So Ji Sub or Go Soo to pick a project!

I have only a few favorites who are either still in the army (Lee Dong Wook, Joo Ji Hoon, Eric, Lee Jin Wook) or will go really soon probably (Hyun Bin, Lee Junki). But it's gotta suck if you are a younger man fan - every day must be (as someone on my flist pointed out) like Elvis enlisting :P

On the plus side, they all come out with amazing muscles.

I am so going to rend my garments and wail "Oppa!" when Hyun Bin goes in.

1. Mr Mousie and I started watching Rough Cut, a movie about a violent actor and a gangster who always wanted to act. So very ridiculously good. But pretty grim and dark, so be warned.




2. I have also splurged and purchased shiny East of Eden DVDs, mainly because I want to watch this scene in great quality on my big TV:



I love how frelling fierce she is even when kidnapped, tied up, and told she will die.

( More caps from scene of awesomeness )

Since this is Friday, the drama of the day for me was Cain and Abel, the revenge/love story starring So Ji Sub and Han Ji Min. I started it a long time ago and now I've picked it up again with ep 4.

If you are familiar with kdramas, you know what to expect from anything starring So Ji Sub - an angst pie with a number of angst toppings (Sorry I Love You is arguably the most depressing kdrama ever). The shock of C&A is not all the torture So Ji Sub's sweetie of a surgeon goes through, but the fact that he's alive to enjoy his OTP at the end.

Here is the set-up for ep 4:

Cho In (So Ji Sub) is a Korean surgeon who goes to China on a holiday. Sweet and well-adjusted (yeah, it's a SJS drama, he won't stay this way for long), he wants to spend some time attending a conference and treating some village kids. It's all very rewarding, especially since he manages to also save the life of his awesome tour-guide, a North Korean refugee trying to earn enough to smuggle the rest of her family out, but he can't wait to get home to his loving fiancee and his idolized older brother. WELL. That might happen if it wasn't for the fact that his Stepmother makes Domyouji Mama seem like Mother Teresa - horrified by the prospect that this adopted kid might inherit everything in the family instead of her own biological son, she arranges to have Cho In kidnapped and disposed of -the thugs drag terrified Cho In into the desert and shoot him, leaving him to slowly die...

( Enter here for manpain, manpain, and more manpain. Did I mention MANPAIN? Ep 4 caps )

Since this is Friday, the drama of the day for me was Cain and Abel, the revenge/love story starring So Ji Sub and Han Ji Min. I started it a long time ago and now I've picked it up again with ep 4.

If you are familiar with kdramas, you know what to expect from anything starring So Ji Sub - an angst pie with a number of angst toppings (Sorry I Love You is arguably the most depressing kdrama ever). The shock of C&A is not all the torture So Ji Sub's sweetie of a surgeon goes through, but the fact that he's alive to enjoy his OTP at the end.

Here is the set-up for ep 4:

Cho In (So Ji Sub) is a Korean surgeon who goes to China on a holiday. Sweet and well-adjusted (yeah, it's a SJS drama, he won't stay this way for long), he wants to spend some time attending a conference and treating some village kids. It's all very rewarding, especially since he manages to also save the life of his awesome tour-guide, a North Korean refugee trying to earn enough to smuggle the rest of her family out, but he can't wait to get home to his loving fiancee and his idolized older brother. WELL. That might happen if it wasn't for the fact that his Stepmother makes Domyouji Mama seem like Mother Teresa - horrified by the prospect that this adopted kid might inherit everything in the family instead of her own biological son, she arranges to have Cho In kidnapped and disposed of -the thugs drag terrified Cho In into the desert and shoot him, leaving him to slowly die...

( Enter here for manpain, manpain, and more manpain. Did I mention MANPAIN? Ep 4 caps )

Looking for a kdrama after BOF is over? Check out Cain and Abel! It has everything: revenge, angsty love, sibling rivalry, evil families, amnesia, major manpain, pretty cinematography, twisty plot. Oh, and above all So Ji Sub and Han Ji Min. Whoever thought to cast the two of them as leads has my undying love because...seriously. OMG. I love them.

Here is an unspoilery general MV I found featuring four main characters:

She is a plucky North Korean refugee living in China, a scammer and a hard worker by turns, trying to earn enough money to help her family.

He is a surgeon who has a sense of humor, is well-adjusted, and medically treats orphan children out of his own pocket.

Still, I'd tell her to stay the hell away. Girl, he is played by So Ji Sub, he won't stay well-adjusted for long! In fact, I am rather morbidly curious to see what kind of hell they are going to put him through this time. Am still scarred by MISA.

She is a plucky North Korean refugee living in China, a scammer and a hard worker by turns, trying to earn enough money to help her family.

He is a surgeon who has a sense of humor, is well-adjusted, and medically treats orphan children out of his own pocket.

Still, I'd tell her to stay the hell away. Girl, he is played by So Ji Sub, he won't stay well-adjusted for long! In fact, I am rather morbidly curious to see what kind of hell they are going to put him through this time. Am still scarred by MISA.

Since my interest (and the drama run) in BOF is winding down, and I don't think Princess Jae Myung Go alone will keep me drama-occupied, I found another airing kdrama to keep me company: Cain and Abel.



I wasn't going to check it out until later, despite my love for So Ji Sub and han Ji Min, because...medical drama = boring to yours truly.



But.

But.

Why did nobody inform me that there is torture and evil families and amnesia and plucky North Korean refugee girls? Am sold.

( A few more shots which sold me )

Heh. Almost nobody in kdramas gets tormented as well as So Ji Sub and the makers of C&A clearly know it.