Musings of the Obsessive Kind

Just read the ending of Three Dads, One Mom and bleeeeh.

Seriously. Talk about an ending even more pathetic than my personal previous record-holder, My Love Patzzi. Glad I never checked this drama out, not that it sounded too good.

What I really want to know is what dirt the producers had on Eugene, Jo Hyun Jae and Jae Hee to get them to sign up for this.

I got nothin'.

In other news, I finally manage to whittle my fave dramas to ten. This ten? They are, broken down by country, not in any order:

JAPAN
Pride
Itoshi Kimi E
Aishiteiru to Itte Kure

KOREA
The Legend
The Devil
Capital Scandal
My Girl

TAIWAN

Mars
The Outsiders
Why Why Love

I really need to update my favorite jdramas/kdramas list :)

ETA: Whoa, the ratings for second ep of Iljimae actually went up! And that's for largely flashback-child-heavy eps. Impressive. Maybe the 'we want to see Lee Jun Ki endure h/c in period clothes' contingent of viewers in Korea is larger than I dreamed of :P Well, that and the fact that sageuks always seem to do well and this seems a lot more 'traditional' than Hong Gil Dong.

Just read the ending of Three Dads, One Mom and bleeeeh.

Seriously. Talk about an ending even more pathetic than my personal previous record-holder, My Love Patzzi. Glad I never checked this drama out, not that it sounded too good.

What I really want to know is what dirt the producers had on Eugene, Jo Hyun Jae and Jae Hee to get them to sign up for this.

I got nothin'.

In other news, I finally manage to whittle my fave dramas to ten. This ten? They are, broken down by country, not in any order:

JAPAN
Pride
Itoshi Kimi E
Aishiteiru to Itte Kure

KOREA
The Legend
The Devil
Capital Scandal
My Girl

TAIWAN

Mars
The Outsiders
Why Why Love

I really need to update my favorite jdramas/kdramas list :)

ETA: Whoa, the ratings for second ep of Iljimae actually went up! And that's for largely flashback-child-heavy eps. Impressive. Maybe the 'we want to see Lee Jun Ki endure h/c in period clothes' contingent of viewers in Korea is larger than I dreamed of :P Well, that and the fact that sageuks always seem to do well and this seems a lot more 'traditional' than Hong Gil Dong.

OK, here is a list of the upcoming kdramas I am excited by. There are so many. And a lot of them seem to promise awesome heroines and swashbucking heroes.

( Enter here for multiple Robin Hoods, cross-dressing female painters, lady bodyguards, chefs, assassins, and swashbuckling academics )

Must make a list like this for jdramas and twdramas

1. Two and a half eps into Hotaru No Hikari and I continue to adore it as much as ever. I adore Hotaru, who is sooooo funny. Here’s a hint, girl. When you, a twenty-something woman, have to get relationship advice from a thirty-something divorced man (whose wife walked out on him!) and he is still better at it than you are, you need an intervention :)

I do love that both Hotaru and Takano need to grow and change. FN’s character wasn’t some pure-hearted innocent with an evil, cheating wife. He was a workaholic who neglected spending time with her and I think her walking out is what made him ‘wake up’, and I love that he does realize the need for change. But basically, he is a very nice guy (the scene with the red folder? EEEEE!) and I sort of adore him in his spiffy suits and dorky raincoat. And his interactions with Hotaru make me LOL.

I also really like the sweet-natured lady who likes Makoto (the ‘Other Guy’) and Takano’s friend who crushes on her. He is so awesome. He is going to try to help her get Makoto because he wants her to be happy. EEEE! Since I know how the pairings will eventually turn out, I wonder if HnH saying that the best guy for you is your friend, which is actually an awesome observation and good for long-term relationships (my husband is, after all, my best friend).

2. Robbers is ending today. I am going to read spoilers and that would determine whether I watch it or not (I saw first three eps and stopped). It’s simple. If Oh Joon dies, I am gone: I pick my ‘terminal illness’ dramas very sparingly and they have to be extra-special, and this would not be it. I adore Jang Hyuk and Lee Da Hae, but I have plenty of other dramas with them to watch. I wonder if a lot of people feel the same way, because apparently the ratings for ep 15 were under 5%, which is insanely low for a kdrama, and apparently is the lowest rated ep in 2008 (I am sure there will come a drama to beat it). I mean, watching a poor mistreated guy who just has found self-respect and love with a young widow with a cute child, a young widow that already had to lose her husband tragically, succumb to tragedy and terminal illness? Not most people’s cup of soju.

ETA: Found out the ending. ( spoilers )

3. I am excited about an upcoming drama, which will start at end of March: Three Dads And One Mom.



It stars Eugene, Jo Hyun Jae, Jae Hee, Shin Sung-Rok. The only problem I have with this is that I adore Jae Hee with mad pash but have never seen JHJ in anything and I just know Jae Hee will end up being ‘the other guy,’ the Lee Junki character in My Girl, the playboy who falls for the heroine and gets his heart broken and I do not approve of broken-hearted Jae Hee on principle.

Plot: Eugene plays a new mother and widow. Her husband has just keeled over. Not only that, but since he was sterile, the baby was created artificially, through a ‘donation’ by his three friends. Thus, according to release at soompi, the three ‘dads’ are: “Jo Hyun Jae who is returning to the TV screen two years after "Ballad of Seodong" will play a comic role as a successful fund manager. Shin Sung Rok plays the role of an innocent detective who cannot even speak well in front of women while Jae Hee is a 'pretty boy' comic artist who likes girls but doesn't know true love.”

( Pics of gentlemen and lady involved )

4. I really need a Fujiki Naohito icon. I crave it like a drug.

1. Two and a half eps into Hotaru No Hikari and I continue to adore it as much as ever. I adore Hotaru, who is sooooo funny. Here’s a hint, girl. When you, a twenty-something woman, have to get relationship advice from a thirty-something divorced man (whose wife walked out on him!) and he is still better at it than you are, you need an intervention :)

I do love that both Hotaru and Takano need to grow and change. FN’s character wasn’t some pure-hearted innocent with an evil, cheating wife. He was a workaholic who neglected spending time with her and I think her walking out is what made him ‘wake up’, and I love that he does realize the need for change. But basically, he is a very nice guy (the scene with the red folder? EEEEE!) and I sort of adore him in his spiffy suits and dorky raincoat. And his interactions with Hotaru make me LOL.

I also really like the sweet-natured lady who likes Makoto (the ‘Other Guy’) and Takano’s friend who crushes on her. He is so awesome. He is going to try to help her get Makoto because he wants her to be happy. EEEE! Since I know how the pairings will eventually turn out, I wonder if HnH saying that the best guy for you is your friend, which is actually an awesome observation and good for long-term relationships (my husband is, after all, my best friend).

2. Robbers is ending today. I am going to read spoilers and that would determine whether I watch it or not (I saw first three eps and stopped). It’s simple. If Oh Joon dies, I am gone: I pick my ‘terminal illness’ dramas very sparingly and they have to be extra-special, and this would not be it. I adore Jang Hyuk and Lee Da Hae, but I have plenty of other dramas with them to watch. I wonder if a lot of people feel the same way, because apparently the ratings for ep 15 were under 5%, which is insanely low for a kdrama, and apparently is the lowest rated ep in 2008 (I am sure there will come a drama to beat it). I mean, watching a poor mistreated guy who just has found self-respect and love with a young widow with a cute child, a young widow that already had to lose her husband tragically, succumb to tragedy and terminal illness? Not most people’s cup of soju.

ETA: Found out the ending. ( spoilers )

3. I am excited about an upcoming drama, which will start at end of March: Three Dads And One Mom.



It stars Eugene, Jo Hyun Jae, Jae Hee, Shin Sung-Rok. The only problem I have with this is that I adore Jae Hee with mad pash but have never seen JHJ in anything and I just know Jae Hee will end up being ‘the other guy,’ the Lee Junki character in My Girl, the playboy who falls for the heroine and gets his heart broken and I do not approve of broken-hearted Jae Hee on principle.

Plot: Eugene plays a new mother and widow. Her husband has just keeled over. Not only that, but since he was sterile, the baby was created artificially, through a ‘donation’ by his three friends. Thus, according to release at soompi, the three ‘dads’ are: “Jo Hyun Jae who is returning to the TV screen two years after "Ballad of Seodong" will play a comic role as a successful fund manager. Shin Sung Rok plays the role of an innocent detective who cannot even speak well in front of women while Jae Hee is a 'pretty boy' comic artist who likes girls but doesn't know true love.”

( Pics of gentlemen and lady involved )

4. I really need a Fujiki Naohito icon. I crave it like a drug.