(no subject)
May. 20th, 2010 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spacemonkeyluvnThings that made today a good day:
1. It was my day off from work
2. My 'I Love You Phillip Morris' book came in the mail
3. I made (and then promptly ate) homemade baked mac-n-cheese (with stewed tomatoes, mmmmmmm!)
4. I painted my nails gold
5. I finally finished My Fair Lady
God, I get sucked into these shows. I've only seen 3 Kdramas so far. Coffee Prince was my first and it was brilliant and made me fall for Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye. Next I watched One Fine Day for Gong Yoo. This time, I watched My Fair Lady for Yoon Eun Hye. Now, despite loving each of these shows, the first two had kind of meh endings. They were happy, sure, but sort of anti-climatic. And let me tell you, when you've just invested like 18 hours (usually in a span of a day or two, at least in my case), you want a satisfactory ending. And even though an unsatisfactory series finale is never a good thing, it's even worse with this kind of show.
I can't say for sure, because like I've said I've only seen three, but in my experience Kdramas are pretty much all the same. They're about a particular couple, these two people who probably shouldn't be together, falling for other people but along the way realizing they really love each other. Then there are MANY obstacles that get in the way of them being together. And the whole season is all about how they will finally achieve this ultimate goal of becoming (and staying) a couple. You already know they will, but you're just not sure how or who will get hurt along the way. Each time I think 'crazy plotline and unlikely events' but holy hell do I get sucked into their world. And since it's really just one plot, each episode is like a to-be-continued where you don't really think 'that was a good episode' you think 'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT!?'
It's nice to watch something like this every now and then because you REALLY get into it. It's not something you can miss an episode one week and then just go back to watching the next. Also, I'm just a hopeless romantic and a total sap at heart, so it's nice to watch an extreme romance every now and then. One that tugs the heartstrings as opposed to makes you roll your eyes though.
They're also a nice change from most American shows because here couples are getting it on left and right. There is more courting in Kdramas. The love comes more gradually. There's also a lot more shy smiling, embarrassed hand holding, and pecks on the cheeks. You get really excited when the couple finally kisses properly for the first time. Of course, by the end you're yelling at the screen 'HAVE SEX ALREADY, JESUS!' and they usually do, it just isn't shown. You do get an adorable embarrassed-the-morning-after scene though.
Where the hell was I going with all this... Oh yeah. So the other shows had anti-climatic endings. The couples ended up together of course, but it's kind of hard to explain. It didn't feel like there was a FINALLY! moment. That's probably just a personal thing though. If you're going to end a show with a couple finally being together, I like there to be a big build up of will they/won't they, a realization that they belong together and can finally be together but one of them is leaving or whatever so the other has to find them and beg them not to go/confess their love/etc at the last moment. I also need/love my OTPs to be VERY touchy-feely, so for it to end with a hug, a kiss, ANYTHING is a must. The others didn't quite have all that, but My Fair Lady did. After all, if you're going to be a cracky, fanfiction-come-to-life, romance novel of a show, do it properly!
I won't get into the whole story (other than he tried to pay his dying mother's hospital bills by being a gigolo but now he's in debt, she's a spoiled rich brat, he becomes her butler so he can seduce her and get $$ but he ends up falling in love with her, and I'm sure you get the gist) but it did end with the female lead about to leave for America only to have the male lead race to the airport to confront her and tell her she's not allowed to go. She puts up a fight, but he's not getting that she's just playing until she says
(In the first episode he stops her from leaving by throwing her over his shoulder, though it obviously wasn't the cute, romantic gesture it is this time)
This is followed by
Then it actually 'wraps up' the stories for the other characters. Or actually, sets them up to be paired off, but it's cute and still more than the other shows gave us. I should say the show actually ends like this (shown during the credits):
They went from this at the beginning
To this by the end
One of my favorite scenes (which is a lot more cute/funny when you actually watch it)
There's also this ADORABLE child
CLIPS!
1. It was my day off from work
2. My 'I Love You Phillip Morris' book came in the mail
3. I made (and then promptly ate) homemade baked mac-n-cheese (with stewed tomatoes, mmmmmmm!)
4. I painted my nails gold
5. I finally finished My Fair Lady
God, I get sucked into these shows. I've only seen 3 Kdramas so far. Coffee Prince was my first and it was brilliant and made me fall for Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye. Next I watched One Fine Day for Gong Yoo. This time, I watched My Fair Lady for Yoon Eun Hye. Now, despite loving each of these shows, the first two had kind of meh endings. They were happy, sure, but sort of anti-climatic. And let me tell you, when you've just invested like 18 hours (usually in a span of a day or two, at least in my case), you want a satisfactory ending. And even though an unsatisfactory series finale is never a good thing, it's even worse with this kind of show.
I can't say for sure, because like I've said I've only seen three, but in my experience Kdramas are pretty much all the same. They're about a particular couple, these two people who probably shouldn't be together, falling for other people but along the way realizing they really love each other. Then there are MANY obstacles that get in the way of them being together. And the whole season is all about how they will finally achieve this ultimate goal of becoming (and staying) a couple. You already know they will, but you're just not sure how or who will get hurt along the way. Each time I think 'crazy plotline and unlikely events' but holy hell do I get sucked into their world. And since it's really just one plot, each episode is like a to-be-continued where you don't really think 'that was a good episode' you think 'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT!?'
It's nice to watch something like this every now and then because you REALLY get into it. It's not something you can miss an episode one week and then just go back to watching the next. Also, I'm just a hopeless romantic and a total sap at heart, so it's nice to watch an extreme romance every now and then. One that tugs the heartstrings as opposed to makes you roll your eyes though.
They're also a nice change from most American shows because here couples are getting it on left and right. There is more courting in Kdramas. The love comes more gradually. There's also a lot more shy smiling, embarrassed hand holding, and pecks on the cheeks. You get really excited when the couple finally kisses properly for the first time. Of course, by the end you're yelling at the screen 'HAVE SEX ALREADY, JESUS!' and they usually do, it just isn't shown. You do get an adorable embarrassed-the-morning-after scene though.
Where the hell was I going with all this... Oh yeah. So the other shows had anti-climatic endings. The couples ended up together of course, but it's kind of hard to explain. It didn't feel like there was a FINALLY! moment. That's probably just a personal thing though. If you're going to end a show with a couple finally being together, I like there to be a big build up of will they/won't they, a realization that they belong together and can finally be together but one of them is leaving or whatever so the other has to find them and beg them not to go/confess their love/etc at the last moment. I also need/love my OTPs to be VERY touchy-feely, so for it to end with a hug, a kiss, ANYTHING is a must. The others didn't quite have all that, but My Fair Lady did. After all, if you're going to be a cracky, fanfiction-come-to-life, romance novel of a show, do it properly!
I won't get into the whole story (other than he tried to pay his dying mother's hospital bills by being a gigolo but now he's in debt, she's a spoiled rich brat, he becomes her butler so he can seduce her and get $$ but he ends up falling in love with her, and I'm sure you get the gist) but it did end with the female lead about to leave for America only to have the male lead race to the airport to confront her and tell her she's not allowed to go. She puts up a fight, but he's not getting that she's just playing until she says
(In the first episode he stops her from leaving by throwing her over his shoulder, though it obviously wasn't the cute, romantic gesture it is this time)
This is followed by
Then it actually 'wraps up' the stories for the other characters. Or actually, sets them up to be paired off, but it's cute and still more than the other shows gave us. I should say the show actually ends like this (shown during the credits):
They went from this at the beginning
To this by the end
One of my favorite scenes (which is a lot more cute/funny when you actually watch it)
There's also this ADORABLE child
CLIPS!
