Musings of the Obsessive Kind
She's a mite whimsical in the brainpan.
Musings of the Obsessive KindShe's a mite whimsical in the brainpan. |
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| Dec. 22nd, 2009 @ 10:12 am Queen Seon Deok is over | |||
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Well, that ended about as well as was expected. So apparently he was manipulated/deceived into leading a rebellion against her and she had no choice but declare him Enemy of the State. And then he found out the truth but it was too late and basically he was desperately trying to get to her and touch her and getting cut down by the soldiers and she couldn't even make a move towards him because she was Queen and he was Crown Traitor and he died with her name on his lips. And then she died (from her illness which was indicated earlier to be life-threatening and quick). Good God, is there ANY period Korean drama that is NOT crushingly depressing? On the plus side, in the middle of rebellion and despair and death we see a bright light - Bidam was clearly too busy angsting to tie his hair up. I much approve of this Asian Legolas look - much better than the recent eps where he had it all tightly tied up into a topknot.  Hmmm, must post my caps from eps 57/58. So shippy. Especially since due to her status he can't even say her name without it being treason but apparently Bidam is all about the hugging and hand-holding and the tucking into bed despite it all - in sageuk terms it's like pr0n. MMMMM. | |||
| Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 12:51 pm I try Queen Seon Duk and all I can say is - BIDAM!!!!!!! Oh My GOD! | |||
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I needed consolation because the fast blogspot subber won't release IRIS final ep subs any more (she is pissed off at someone) which means I have to wait for WITHS2 which is going to take forever. So I decided to check out Queen Seon Duk. Bidam. Bidam. Bidam. BIDAM. BIDAM  Oh God, Korea, how can you be so good to me? I have fallen like a ton of bricks. A ton of smitten, swooning bricks. He fights army units single-handed, unarmed, and with his arms tied up. He sneers at Lady Mishil, Seon Duk's biggest adversary (and Bidam's unknown and unknowing mother!!!) even when captured. He is willing to risk his life for Seon Duk and he gets chained and almost burned at the stake. Seon Duk cold-bloodedly uses him and he seems to find it brilliant. He is off-kilter and dangerous and so hot my eyeballs are melting. He loves her and he is destined to eventually lead the biggest rebellion against her reign.  What makes me even more gleeful about this is that, as far as I can tell, Bidam is one of those characters that was never intended to be as prominent as he was but he sort of ran away with the drama! If you look at the main poster, he wasn't on it before QSD started, and the big love affair was supposed to be between Seon Duk and General Yushin (Uhm Tae Woong). But then Bidam appeared and set it all on its ears. And in one of those really rare events (I can only think of East of Eden as another example), TPTB saw the good thing they had and ran with it and now the romantic stuff is all about Seon Duk and Bidam. Oh YES. YES YES. So, I decided to watch ep 28 of QSD, coming into it knowing just the general outlines of the drama - mainly to see if all the fuss over Bidam was worth it. My answer? In case you haven't figured it out from the above? HELL YES, IT IS. ( Episode 28 summary in caps - as done by a QSD newbie ) I shall be watching more, that's for sure. Have a little shippy MV: | |||
| Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 12:36 am IRIS - episode 19 | |||
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NOTE: SPOILERS FOR EP 20 IN COMMENTS Episode 19 of IRIS was so very excellent. But it was also so dark. ( A few brief thoughts and caps - spoilers through ep 19 ) | |||
| Dec. 19th, 2009 @ 12:24 am A show where everyone would benefit from a move to Maine | |||
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Watched eps 2 and 3 of Friday Night Lights. I wonder what happens when your paralyzed best friend's girlfriend slaps you as you walk home all soaked from the rain? Geeee. Guess. WHY, HALLO THERE, KDRAMA:       We know why I am watching, don't we? Other thoughts can be summed up as: * Still want to make Matt Saracen soup. Only now I also want to feed him a pie and possibly knit him a hat. Except I do not know how to knit. * For God's sake, people! It's only high school football, not Doctors Without Borders! Get over it and stop taking it so damn seriously. If high school football is what you live for, perhaps you should reevaluate your life. Come on - send them to study groups, not midnight practices. Maybe there's a hidden mathlete among them - you can do it! * And you kids, stop drinking yourself to death/getting others to do homework for you/spending all your time at practice and actually study - maybe you'll get a job other than carwash or gas station. * Lyla, how about you tell your newly paralyzed boyfriend that since your easy ride as his gf is over, you are going to be seeing him a little less because you'll be hitting the books and trying to get into college so you can have a well-paying job. Not that you are going to be seeing him less because you are going to be feasting on the tonsils of his * Tyra is awesome and tries hard but her future is to end up a prematurely wrinkled 45-yr-old running a road house. * Everyone in this show needs to get out of Texas. And maybe go to college. Except for Tim Riggins who needs to go to an AA meeting or dozen. Preferably shirtless. I do have a bunch of serious metaish thoughts but too exhausted so that will have to wait for another day. | |||
| Dec. 18th, 2009 @ 04:39 pm Dangermousie's Kdrama Ranking Post, part 5: #31-21 | |||
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Time to continue with the "All the Korean dramas Dangermousie has seen and feels competent to rank" the next part.  See how Kim Rae Won is weeping for joy! Now we are entering into true love territory. One note - I've seen more dramas since I've started this project a couple of months ago, and some of them rank very high indeed so that is why the numbering discrepancy between this and previous posts (e.g. if you look at the previous post it ended with drama ranked number 30, so this one should start with 29th drama, but instead starts with the 31st -you can just adjust all the other past rankings downward appropriately - I will do it myself when I have more time). Previous entries ( Dramas ranked 31 through 21: enter here ) To be continued with my Top 20... | |||
| Dec. 18th, 2009 @ 12:02 am The most perfect OTP in kdrama history... | |||
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To alleviate my misery/withdrawal over IRIS ending, I capped and consoled myself with the sheer perfection of the OTP in ep 18. Clearly, I am the kind of person who keeps picking on a scab until it bleeds.  It is official. Hyun Joon and Seung Hee are my biggest drama OTP ever. Screwed-up and tormented beyond belief, incredibly strong-willed, smart, and so ridiculously happy together. ( Their perfect weekend - nobody deserved it more: spoilers only through ep 18 ) There is no kdrama OTP more perfect than these two. Ever. | |||
| Dec. 17th, 2009 @ 11:43 pm Friday Night Lights - I am in total and utter love | |||
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I have watched the pilot episode of Friday Night Lights, a show that follows a football-mad small West Texas town, and... I am in love.  I haven't fallen so hard and so fast for an American show dince the pilot of Veronica Mars, all those years ago. I know nothing about football - I did go to high school in a small Southern town so this show is a mixture of very familiar - the accents and the niceness and pervasiveness of religion (it's like my high school in that way, even if I never paid attention to football) and the strange - the rest of it is rather like science fiction to me - unfamiliar but recognizable. Mr. Mousie, though shocked I wanted to watch a show about high-school football, wanted to watch the pilot with me and he loved it as much as I did (probably more - he played football in high school and said so much of this was familiar). Now he wants to watch the whole show with me. YESSS. This ep was an introduction to all the characters. I like the Coach, adore his wife, and think their daughter is a really believable teenager. Smash might be my favorite so far, together with Tim Riggins (so abrasive, so built like a truck, so pretty).  Matt Saracen seems like a good guy (I want to make him soup), I am totally in love with Tim's slutty girlfriend (she is AWESOME) and I feel dreadfully sorry for Jason Street and his gf Lyla. Anyway, this is SO GOOD. You guys, so GOOD. Why did it take me this long to check this out? | |||
| Dec. 17th, 2009 @ 10:10 am IRIS has ended | |||
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I am considerate and not posting even a mood outside the cut ( Want to know the ending? ) Talk to me, someone! I am not sure I can face repeating this torture of suspence with Chuno, Christmas and IRIS s2. But I am sure I will do so anyway. ETA3: Oh, for goodness' sake, soompiers - the ending does not suck merely because you did not get what you wanted. If the ending makes logical sense, then it's good. Thank you. | |||
| Dec. 16th, 2009 @ 10:51 pm IRIS ep 17: we are finally beginning to see some "comfort" in the whole hurt/comfort feast. | |||
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Ep 17 of IRIS was amazing - the best episode yet. (But then I always say that, don't I?) ( Lengthy rambles and caps of the ep ) Have a shippy MV: In conclusion, it's official - Lee Byung Hun is my biggest Hallyu crush ever. Ever. (In case you are interested, current top 10: (1) LBH (2) Kang Ji Hwan (3) Bae Yong Joon (4) Hyun Bin (5) Song Il Gook (6) Jang Hyuk (7) Song Seung Heon (8) Joo Ji Hoon (yeah yeah) (9) Gong Yoo (10) Jung Joon Ho. If I had to add a few more, I'd throw Jo In Sung, So Ji Sub, Lee Junki and Go Soo in there). | |||
| Dec. 16th, 2009 @ 03:31 pm A very photogenic post | |||
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I can't concentrate on any fannish thing but IRIS especially now that it looks like it's going to end a la Shiri, for those who are curious, one of the most heartbreaking movie endings EVER. Bravo, Korea, for putting me through even more pain this time because I spent 20, as opposed to 2, hours with these people. Honestly, I think the eps are capped at 20 because by that point they are going to run out of horrible things to do. Anyway, have a spoilery Shiri MV: In order to distract self, let me post about the drama I just started watching, Hello God - a story of Haru, a cheerful young man with an IQ of 65, a good-hearted and highly talented lady swindler, and an arrogant Half an ep in and I like it. I am not in love with it yet (but then dramas I fall into instalove with are far and few between) but it has lovely potential. However, I have a quick confession to make. I love the awesome heroine, the quirky filming etc:  But who my heart really belongs to is GWAN PIL!!!! Ok, Ok, I know Gwan Pil is fictional and from a different drama. But my heart belongs to smirking, gorgeous, competent Lee Jong Hyuk:  I ship him with the leading girl as if it's going out of style. ( More caps of first half of first ep. Largely LJH-centric ) Someone give Lee Jong Hyuk a leading role, dammit! And still on IRIS: I want to talk about that big huge superbig spoiler from preview for the last ep of IRIS because it simply makes no sense to me one way or another. I am not happy or mad or anything in between - I am just really really confused. Anyone seen the preview? Anyone, anyone, Bueller? ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} clairiere, where are you? Comfort me! :)ETA: I am so not cut-out for following airing dramas, especially when they are that super-rare beast where I still have no idea how it will all end on ep 19 out of 20. | |||
| Dec. 16th, 2009 @ 12:18 am IRIS...please, please TPTB! | |||
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I was going to wait with IRIS to watch the last 4 eps in a binge. But I cannot - I have never been able to resist. So I started episode 17. You know, no matter how much I love everything and everyone else about this, for me it's all about Hyun Joon. I see him here and all I can think of is "what a beautiful, strong-willed but completely damaged mess." He is in another universe from the adorable, sweet, flirty adrenaline junkie of the beginning. It's like he's been taken apart into his component parts and never properly put back together.  Even if by some improbable luck, both he and Seung Hee survive all this and are together by the end, I think he is not fixable, not ever. What he'd really need is about a decade of therapy to even get him to function normally. And speaking of the OTP, their reunion in ep 17 is just...oh God, there are no words for how hard I ship them. ( The scene of amazingness ) Provided the writers do not fuck it up in the last 2 eps, these two are my favorite kdrama OTP ever. And if they kill her, I...I...I don't know what I will do. If/when he achieves his revenge, I think she is the only thing standing between him and a complete nervous breakdown. And to lose her twice! And what if they don't kill Seung Hee but kill Hyun Joon? If they kill him, I won't say anything. Because I'd be too busy planning how to hunt down whoever is responsible. NO. Oh, there are no words for how much I love this drama! It's in my top 5 kdramas of all time. You know, I've seen comments that what's the point of making/watching this - shouldn't you watch Alias/24/etc instead. That strikes me as absurd - it's like asking what is the point of watching a romantic kdrama - don't they have the newest Kate Hudson flick on tv? I watch this for the same reason I watch anything else from anywhere else - I love the characters and the angst and the clever plot and the writing. ETA: Also - am I going insane or was Baeksan implying that Hyun Joon was framed, discarded, and put through all those levels of hell because he dared to date Seung Hee? WTF is going on!!!!! | |||
| Dec. 15th, 2009 @ 11:09 am Can you spell "obsession?" I sure can. | |||
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I had yet another dream about IRIS ending. That's two nights in a row. Can you say obsessed? I actually remembered this one pretty well - in it, there was incontrovertible evidence Seung Hee was an evil IRIS mastermind (said evidence was in form of teddybears - my subconscious is whack) so Hyun Joon had one awesome romantic evening with her and then shot her as per orders (clearly my subconscious is not keen on the likely - HJ isn't so good on orders and in any event would only kill her if she was a second away from blowing up the Universe). And then, in my dream, as he was sitting there with her body in his arms, all of a sudden someone came in who brought proof that all the evidence against Seung Hee was false after all, so Hyun Joon basically killed the woman he loved for nothing. Ummmm. Clearly I am confusing IRIS with (my favorite Indian movie ever) Omkara which had the most devastating final scene ever which basically went along the same lines. Well, at least whatever happens this week won't be as bad. Maybe I should write kdramas. Now I am going to cheer self up with this:  Also, Lee Byung Hun, please don't let it be another 7 years between dramas! I couldn't stand it! In other news, if you are not watching Will it snow for Christmas, why not?  ( A few more reasons ) | |||
| Dec. 14th, 2009 @ 11:17 pm Good Night post | |||
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Something really stressful is going in my life, so if you can please keep me in your thoughts in the next 24 hours, I will really appreciate. In better (and thankfully distracting) news, I finished ep 4 of Will It Snow on Christmas and all I have to say is "where do I sign up to get my Kang Jin?"  Because I am so madly in love with him - he is so grown-up and strong-willed and with this sense of inner rightness about him. I just love it. I love grown-ups. Also, you know what's one thing hotter than a really competent man? A really competent man who is not ashamed of his hooker mother and who spends the whole night tenderly nursing an unconscious woman. Oh, I ship him and Ji Wan like there is no tomorrow - Go Soo and Han Ye Seul have this incredible chemistry and their verbal thrust-and-parry is so wonderful - it's so underlaid with the unspoken past - the bitterness and the longing on his part and her anger and uncertainty. Gosh, I ship them so much. The secondary guy is so pathetically weak - when Ji Wan tells him she will find a man 100x times better than him, I want to yell at the screen that it's not hard - would Kang Jin take $$$ to dump a gf, as secondary guy did in order to dump secondary girl? Yeah, right. (Side note - I loathe secondary girl - she is no OTP interloper in the least but she is so incompetent, a boss just because of her family - I cannot stand people who ruin other people's success and are useless drunk brats. Ugh). | |||
| Dec. 14th, 2009 @ 08:54 am Daily obsessive post | |||
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1. I had a really long and complicated dream about the end of IRIS. Can you say 'obsessed?' Subs are out through ep 18 so I am debating whether to save them until this week's final eps so I know how it ends, or goble it now. 2. Someday reminded me of my Kim Min Joon love so next drama to check out is In-soon is pretty. Yeah, I know about the bipolar script, but I am used to that with Bollywood and any drama that has both KMJ and Lee Wan in it would have to be beyond horrific for me not to check it out at least. 3. Still obsessing over Someday. My discs for eps 13-16 aren't due from Netflix until Wednesday and I can't wait that long so...yup, am obsessed. I loved this scene with Haeyoung and Seokman. I loved that Seokman's self-destructive breakdown is finally over and he is back to a (modified) version of himself. I feel for Haeyoung and her anger - her artist is incapacitated and her writer has just come to quit. That is why they say dating in the workplace never works :)   I got shudders when Seokman said that he is willing to go into debt if he needs to pay damages to her. Argh not again. I am sure that won't be necessary but - yikes. And of course he believes he should not see Hana again because of what happened when he was on his little trip to insanityland - you know, it was a horrible scene, but if he was less nice and had more self-esteem (or at least some self-esteem - hopefully he is going to regrow it) then he'd just find Hana and apologize - grovel if necessary. But he is so used to think of himself as nothing that he sort of automatically jumps into the morass of guilt and viewing himself as undeserving of even seeking forgiveness. Oddly, I don't feel angry at Go for not telling Seokman of Hana's injury. It's not because he is carrying out Hana's wishes (since when did it ever stop him) or even to prevent them from meeting again, I think, but because he wantt to share some very personal experience with her that Seokman hasn't. And that's a bit sad. | |||
| Dec. 13th, 2009 @ 10:14 pm My push to get my flist to watch Someday continues... | |||
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I am so obsessed with Someday that I actually downloaded an ep I have on DVD just so I could cap this scene. I squeed like a crazy person during this scene in ep 10:  If I shipped Hana and Seokman any harder, I'd probably be locked up. ( The scene in question ) Currently am in the middle of episode 12 and such love! Of course, it says oodles of things about Seokman that I am cheering his basically drinking himself into unconsciousness and smashing his hands because it all means he's given up suicide attempts - yay. Good Lord, there are no words for how messed up that boy is. (Btw, I need a Lee Jin Wook icon. For some weird reason, he really really does it for me in a ridiculous way. I remember watching Smile Again, where he's the secondary guy, and not only did I *gasp* actually uncanon-ship, but I basically went into a hormonal frenzy whenever he was on screen. I have no idea, why that is, but there it is. Oh well, I suppose I can have worse taste than sharing taste in men with Choi Ji Woo :) (They are one of the very few rl couples I find ridiculously adorable).) Pssst, this is on Netflix. ETA: There is self-destructive and then there is this. Idiot idiot idiot idiot you deserve to lose her! ETA2: I kept thinking that all his stuff in eps 11-12 is a hell of an overreaction on his part to the Hana-being-proposed-to thing - the stimulus and the reaction are out of all proportion. And then it hit me - it's not about Hana, not really - it's basically continuation/next stage of his epic breakdown - his "cheering up" to go see Hana and chosing her as his sole meaning in life (which is unsustainable to start with, I'd think, in any healthy individual!) was a temporary lull - his breakdown was nowhere near complete yet and so even if he didn't see Hana being proposed to, he would have come down from the artificial high soon enough for some other reason and back into messed-up-ville because he was nowhere near done with dealing with all that trauma. Even if it all worked out perfectly when he saw her, not only would have it only fixed it for a while, it was so very not good - he would have substituted his 'debt' to Jinwook's family with his loving/living for Hana and that would have been horribly unhealthy. I don't think I have ever seen another kdrama character as much in need of good solid therapy. ETA3: I totally love Haeyoung. Out of all the characters, she's the most mature and "whole" and I totally love how fearless and clear-eyed she is about everything. LOVE. Also, the scene with Hana and Hana's Mom was so very good. That was such a huge thing for them to actually talk. | |||
| Dec. 11th, 2009 @ 04:39 pm Daily update | |||
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I may not be able to post this weekend so quick thoughts. 1. Congratulations to You're Beautiful for winning "favorite drama of 2009" poll. IRIS was second. Seeing how far ahead YAB was, I won't do a run-off. Side note: whatever my issues with YAB itself, I love JGS and PSH and if we had kissing like this in the drama, I might have been more reconciled to it :P  (Yet another reason I am not big on teen dramas - as opposed to the above, they always kiss as if they are afraid to catch leprosy - BOF's infamous behind-the-scenes clip with the director telling Lee Min Ho to close his mouth and just hold it is still in my memory). 2. If you are not watching Will it Snow at Christmas, you should be. It's all about the staring.   ( Larger and more cuteness ) 3. Trailer for Jejoongwon is out. It looks amazing: I won't be drama-bored this winter! | |||
| Dec. 10th, 2009 @ 11:18 pm A lady assassin and a cop, feudal style. Yes, please | |||
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 Halfway through the first episode, Conspiracy in the Court stopped being confusing and overwhelming (the subtitles which read like they were straight out of Chaucer did not help) and just clicked, becoming irresistable, "must marathon" phenom. I think that happened about the time when I discovered the heroine of this is a former noblewoman, uprooted from her family, finishing her punishing training, and now a deadly assassin hell-bent on overthrowing the government even as her soul erodes bit by bit. Think as if the heroine of the drama was a medieval Sun Hwa (IRIS) or maybe a feudal Sang Joo (Capital Scandal). CitC is an eight-ep 'experimental' drama made by the director of upcoming Chuno and I finally got spurred to push through it to see what Chuno might be like. Based on the first ep, if the PD is consistent, we may expect something (a) very grim; (b) complicated; (c) gorgeously-shot - it's an amazingly shot drama, especially seeing that it must have been on a shoestring budget.  I sort of gave up trying to follow which political party wants which, so what I got was that there is unrest in the Kingdom, poor are, as always, poor, corruption and court competition flourish. Into all this, come our three heroes - our heroine is a former idealistic noblewoman whose family got destroyed and who got rescued from God-knows-what horrors by a 'gentleman' who trained her to be a perfect assassin - something she both hates and does gladly as it helps to build a better world. One of our heroes is an illegitimate son of a nobleman - he has a lot of promise, but stubbornly insists on "wasting" (as per Daddy) it in the police beaureau. He and Heroine used to be in love before whatever happened to her family happened and she disappeared, and they clearly still have feelings for each other. The other hero was some sort of a butler in heroine's household and is now a revolutionary. A sexy scruffy one. Seeing that the policeman just discovered all these corpses mysteriously piling up, I foresee collision and tragedy and death for everyone. This drama is ridiculously gorgeous! ( Love triangle in happier times ) ( Heroine transforms into a courtesan for one of her assassinations ) Seeing that I am on a period drama kick, I think I will check out 8 Days for deep and plotty reasons:  ETA: Apparently there are rumors of having Kwon Sang Woo be the star of IRIS "sequel". Mmmm, yes please. KSW tortured and bleeding and emoing all over while blowing things up? Hell yes. I adore him and yet he hasn't been in anything in years I've been really into. Plus, the dude is HOT:  | |||
| Dec. 9th, 2009 @ 11:02 pm So freaking obsessed... | |||
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Because I am sort of crazy, I took some caps from the new Chuno trailer: ( A few more ) I still can't believe they are going to go "there" - having a heroine who is gangraped. No way. In a drama? No way. (Historically accurate? Yes. Alluded to in a drama? I am totally stunned. I suppose the soldiers can always just drag her off for sale, or similar. Because, no way are they having it in kdrama - they didn't even let the BOF protagonists properly lock lips!). I know this is supposed to be grim and brutal and about slavery and murder but still...The only one I've seen that had that issue in it was Eyes of Dawn (about comfort women - it was excellent but I had to stop, it was making me upset - I must continue at some point, though). Lee Da Hae is going to break my heart in this one, isn't she? After My Girl et al, people sort of place her in the comedy actress category, but she tore my heart out in Green Rose, before she became 'quirky girl.' In other news, as I posted in joonni's lj, I am in love with Will It Snow for Christmas - I love the pace - just right. I loved the last scene between child protagonists (the one with milk and egg - it so rang true to me - it's one of those pieces of childhood cruelty that you regret afterwards). I loved that they do not spend their lives incapable of other relationships (I think the girl Go Soo took to his Mom was his third gf?). I love that he became very successful and driven but still has that anger in him. I love how fearless she is. I love their chemistry and oh boy, do I love Go Soo - how much I missed him on my screen. The way he looks at her! | |||
| Dec. 9th, 2009 @ 10:51 am Daily update | |||
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1. Preview for ep 18 of IRIS: I am getting really nervous - Hyun Joon seems to be suspecting Seung Hee - if she is a member of IRIS then I will positively die. NO, please please please. 2. I managed to watch more of Will It Snow for Christmas - so ridiculously good, and written in such a way that I can buy the childhood love foundation because (1) they were high-school age, so more likely to stick in mind and also interacted a lot; (2) both went on to be functional and not just fantasizing about the other every night; (3) most important - their relationship was literally life-changing for her, for spoilery reasons, so it would definitely stick in her memory and also - she's basically the one bright thing in a pretty soul-killing life, for him - no wonder he gloms. Have a yummy yummy bit:  ( Larger ) 3. Apparently a new trailer for Slave Hunters/Chuno aired after IRIS which has Dae Gil/Hye Won bits - at last! (My shipping preferences for this drama change like the wind - if they show her with Tae Ha, I ship her with Tae Ha, if they show her with Dae Gil, I ship her with Dae Gil. Maybe they should all get together in one OT3 of angst and hotness. Though considering I am already shipping for a drama which won't air for a month, perhaps the less said about me, the better :P). There is...wait for it...piggybacking! Hopefully he left his sword at home at that time :) ETA: Here it is. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG (((Hye Won))) 4. Because I couldn't get Snow Xmas to work last night, I ended up watching eps 4 and 5 of Innocent Love and much fun was had by all - girlfriend-in-a-coma Junya, beginning-to-remember-she-was-molested Kanon, homicidal-maniac Brother, serial-killer-eyes Choir Girl, euthanisia-happy Subaru, etc.  ( Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiip - I defy you not to ship them ) 5. And now for the ridiculous: apparently Lee Byung Hun is being slapped with a breach of promise lawsuit by a Canadian woman. Article on Dramabeans. Long story short: LBH dated some Canadian girl, and now she alleges he "lured" her to Korea by promises of marriage but once she moved, stuck her in a house in Seoul and didn't visit her much. I only have three thoughts on this (1) if this is true, all that makes him is a bad boyfriend and, arguably, a jerk (I wouldn't even go that far - people get bored in relationships all the time and walk out). If you could sue a guy for being a jerk, the judicial system would break from overload and die; (2) Bwaahahahahaha - that's subject to a lawsuit???? I thought breaches of promise actions died with Queen Victoria; and (3) Oh, LBH, why on earth do you even need to sweet-talk? I am pretty sure there are scores of attractive ladies who'd be happy to get together with you in exchange for a promise - a promise of a one-night stand :D 6. My Kindle seems to have died :( I need it! I don't post about books much on here because I talk about them elsewhere, but I've been powering through early P.G. Wodehouse (British humorist-novelist and my favorite writer) and I need my fix. I am in the minority where I prefer early Wodehouse to his 'mature' work - the style in his later work gets even more polished and perfect but his earlier books have emotion, and I like that. Can anyone imagine Bertie Wooster with a heart? I am especially in love with "Jill the Reckless" (Jill is awesome, and Wally = love, plus there is all that stuff about play-making and production which PGW knew intimately) but The Intrusion of Jimmy is also a ridiculous delight. 7. crumpeteer's picspam inspired me to check out SyFy's Alice. I liked Tin Man and I generally like riffs on classics. That reminds me, must give "The Looking Glass Wars" a look. | |||
| Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 11:15 pm This is going on my all-time favorites list asap | |||
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I had all sorts of metaish thoughts on eps 16-17 of City Hall but I am afraid most of them have fled after this scene: The only reason I did not scream out loud was because it would wake up Baby Mousie. NO WAY. NOWAYNOWAYNOWAY. Jo Guk kneeling and begging and totally abasing himself. To save Mi Rae. There is NO WAY. He is about the most proud person ever. Oh, God. This drama is just...*goes incoherent* I am a total utter sucker for drama men kneeling to save someone they love or similar. I really need a list of those sorts of scenes (Tree of Heaven, Capital Scandal, Something Happened in Bali, My Girl what else...). This sort of broke my heart. Well, at least in this case it didn't end up with golfclubs, major injuries, and death threats against the guy's girlfriend, a la Bali (still the most dysfunctional kdrama romance and family ever). ( Caps from my favorite scenes from eps 16-17, with comments ) | |||