Weird, weird K-Entertainment part 2

   

   I planned to write an elaborated and filled with many greek and latin words statement on how we are unfairly treated through different fora, but suddenly I realised that this is actually the main reason we are hated so much. Because we can state our voices in some reasonable manner, using normal English sentences, without ten exclamation points and without using some strange abbreviations that no one above the age of 18 seems to understand. Yes, I'm old. But I don't remember I have ever been a fan of worthless stuff. Of course, as every teenager, I listened to some crappy music, and I cried while watching Titanic, but I was able to revise my opinions. After some time our taste changes. This is all natural. For instance, I liked YAB when the craze was out, but this drama didn't pass the test. The test is simple: I watch a drama after 3 months' break. If I still laugh where I should and cry where I cried before, if I still bite my nails and feel my heart pounding like mad - this means a drama/movie passed the test. This is why I still love Coffee Prince. This is why I still love Miindo, No Regret, Lovers, Welcome to Dongmakgol, She's On Duty etc. So if my saying that I hate certain drama offends other people's feelings... I don't give a rat's ass for that. Why? Because people don't give a rat's ass why I hate it. So why should I even bother?

   And no, I can't just turn the blind eye for a huge black hole that supposed to be a plot. I can't pretend I can enjoy one small fragment of it. When I do something, I do it with all my might. When I support someone, I'm ready to tear the sky apart for them, but when someone disappoints me, I'm going to slant them mercilessly.

Right now I'm tired of explaining why I hate some dramas or actors. Because it is all a matter of taste. For some JJY may seem boring, unattractive, bad actor - I don't freaking care. I'm ready to build an altar for him and worship him every Thursday, because he was the one who dragged me back to Asia, to Korea. For some KNG may seem just an eyecandy. I'm ready to polish my blades and fight for him as an amazing actor and great human being, and I couldn't care less if he looked like a Quasimodo.

Damn, I used some uncomprehensible words and references to books still... Mea culpa, mea culpa...

G-Love: first stills

There are two stills that appeared on Hancinema. And what can I say? It's a long waiting, long waiting till this movie release. JJY played a baseball player once, in Someone Special, and it was such a weird movie. I'm waiting.

Secret Garden, Secret Power

   Drama started with high ratings of 17.2%. Why am I even reporting those? Because it's obvious that for a broadcast company this is the main factor of judging whether drama is good or not. Call it dumb, cynical or just practical. Perhaps everything combined.

I had high expectations toward this drama, we psyched ourselves enough on D-A, and... I'm not disappointed. At least not after the first episode. 19 more to go. And as my fellow Thorns, I do hope they will not end it up drowning in tears, sorrow and wallowing in pain. As much as I have a thing for the tragedy, I hope for a happy ending. Or at least a positive one. SKKS, anybody?

As I said, I'm a first episode-girl, so as much as density of idiocy and cliches in Marry Me, Mary! just made this drama indigestible for me, the comical streak in this one is vey, very nice. This comical streak has Hyeon Bin's dimples, so...

   I may be mistaken, but I can't recall his funny to that degree role. Snow Queen was a tragedy and a bit not for my liking, Friend, Our Legend was everything except for fluff. My Lovely Kim Sam Soon, on the other hand was a well mix of comedy and a normal, everyday relationship, but not a fluff anyway. And Millionaire's First Love, except for being a chick flick and a fairly light one (I just loved his attitude there, especially in the school, when faking his broken leg...), ended with death. So I guess it's his first such hilarious role.

Through Love To Humanity Part 3 - The Red Book

The Red Book played another role in this drama. Not a pivotal, but an important one. All I can say now is: Thank you. To all the creators of this drama who made me dream again, and to those who read my long blabberings on it. If I missed something, I will accept the constructive critique. However, I will not accept any critique just for fun of it.

Why I mentioned Red Book? Because this particular book went from the hands of Yunhee (who copied such books 3 times, to all the horror of Seonjun, hehe. She wasn't all that innocent.) to the hands of... Yunhee. It's a closure. Funny, witty closure.

Through Love To Humanity Part 2 - Who Is Who in Seongkyunkwan

And one more time: I can give you a shovel, but which direction and how deep you want to dig, it all depends on you. This is my personal take on the characters. As useful as the shovel itself. You may also leave it and don't care.

Park Yucheon - Interview

   Stop fooling around, boy, and start reading the next scripts. If not... I will unleash my wrath upon you!

The interview found on KBS Global website, while I tried to relax and... and... uhmm... nevermind. Can't think properly now.

And I still maintain you can see a glimpse of a person through the interviews.

Thanks godsss he's not wearing a leoprint.

Life Is Beautiful - end (?) of the story

   Not my article, I just found it and want to report. While reading this, I had still in mind the over-excited tone of a one article on Mary... from few days before. Well, before this mess of a drama started to air.

Bury Me, Mary!

   If you think this picture is weird, you're right. And this stays as weird. And not that kind of weird that would make me anticipate the next weirdness. The next weirdness is displayed and visible from the start.

The song-motif for this drama is:

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Let me never see the sun
And never see you smile
Let us be so dead and so gone
So far away from life
Just close my eyes
Hold me tight
And bury me deep inside your heart.

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(HIM: Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart)

Through Love To Humanity Part 1 - Introduction

            

            Yeah, cheesy title, I know. Don't care.

To all: this is my another personal, biased, filtered take on the drama known to all as Seongkyunkwan Scandal and among a small circle of slightly unhinged ladies as Omg, omg, I’m gonna... And to make things clear, and to remove any doubts, some time before I adopted new, revised system of Romanized Hangeul. This is why names are written not separately, but joined. And what usually is transcribed as “u” I use “eo”, because “u” is used to write the sound “oo”. And as we have our technical things done, time to move to this drama.

            First, a confession. I had no intention of watching it. I knew it was a period drama, so I was tempted subconsciously. I heard those voices telling me: “period drama, period clothes, period hair-styles…”, but still I showed my remarkable, well known to the entire world, strength and refused to watch. I’m dumb like that sometimes. The reason was simple, and now I’m really ashamed to say it. Idol drama. I was so biased I refused to listen to my mind. My mind is usually a lot smarter than my heart, so I often depend on its decisions.

I mentioned it while bashing Playful Dead Fish Kiss. I was simply not interested. But one day, bored out of my mind, I went to Hancinema to see who is actually playing in it and I saw Yu Ah-in in it. Because yes, such biased I was, to Hancinema I went not. I thought… umm, OK, it’s not appropriate actually what I thought, some minors may read this. I said, hell, if not for a story, I could watch one episode solely for him! For a pretty boxer from Antique. Turned out – this was my undoing.

Press Conference Fashion

  I'm in a bitchy mood today, so I decided to relax myself a bit by writing here. There are days like this, not particular bad as for weather, but somehow, in the course of hours my mood can plummet faster than a shooting star. It just happens, have no idea why, and nothing can cheer me. And because I have refrained from commenting on leopard print on jackets, I tried to get rid of the images that Aility gave me and they caused me nauseous ever since that day. But, I guess unless I speak about it, I will not get my peace back. And I need it to finish few articles. My personal, subjective, biased opinion, you don't need to give a damn on this one.

  I can handle the weird fashion, really. I've never had any problems watching this. On the catwalk. Or in the movies. Really, after seeing Velvet Goldmine and Terry Gilliam stuff nothing can surprise me. I understand wacky outfits for some photoshoots. Why? Because they are part of the concept for it. The person who is responsible for a photoshoot talks with the stylist and they come up with the right image. A model or actor who models for it has little to say. He lends his personality, body and face to it and nothing more. So I don't care for that. I couldn't be more indifferent to it.

But when the actor is caught while attending some event, like movie premiere (not his/her, just a visitor in the theatre), dressed in some strange combinations even Stevie Wonder wouldn't choose, there is this alarm that goes off deep in my head. (btw. I love Stevie Wonder, jokes aside).