Now I remember why I don't like thai lakorns that revolve around cheating. #1 cause of high blood pressure, lol.…
I couldn't agree more.
When the ML is a cheating bastard, that's fine. But if the FL even has lunch with another male, holy fuckballs, the sky is falling. I hate the double standards in lakorns more than any other trope in their dramas, and that's saying something.
So fed up with psychopath/serial killer/super-duper detective plots. But it's Lee Joon Gi playing a scary villain, so I have no choice but to watch it. (I hope he's put on a little weight, though. Sorry, that was a dispatch from the small mind department.)
Back when it had the other synopsis, I was really looking forward to seeing this Cdrama (not that I really believed it would get aired.)
This next, newest synopsis makes the drama sound like every other Cdrama ever produced, Maybe the first synopsis was wrong. Maybe the producers have had to slice and dice the film they've already got, just to get it on the air and get some of their money back. Which I completely understand.
But it's the OTHER damn drama I waited for, not this blah, tropey thing.
Oy. More dramas with serial killers and supernatural detectives. I'll watch one or three of these dramas, but for the most part, it looks like there's no end in sight for my Kdrama drought.
I know what you mean. I watched these shows at a time I thought it criminal to leave dramas. Lol. I even finished…
Both y'all got nothing on me. My first Asian drama was "Noble, My Love". So very, very bad, that one and somehow, not bad enough to keep me from watching 100 or more kdramas after.
Go Ah Ra's character in Hwarang was beyond frustrating, She was a capable woman who didn't need anybody until…
So true. I think she cried in every episode (which was the director's fault, really), but even so, it ruined the drama for me, and put me right off Go Ah Ra--possibly permanently.
I've watched it 99 1/2 times, so I'm just saying, but Ha Ji Won's coming and going martial arts prowess in "Secret Garden" near drove me insane. In episode 1, she rides a crappy bike to out race a van full of baddy purse snatchers, stops it, beats all eleventeen gangstas in the van, gets the purse, and gives the purse back to the obnoxious loser who got it grabbed in the first place, but she can't deal with Hyun Bin in later episodes when he manages to grab her wrists. Now, arguably, that's part of the charm of "Secret Garden", but it's suuuuuuper annoying when a FL is drawn to be strong and capable except for when she's a dimwitted crybaby around the ML.
How a drama ends is the one sure thing I check here at MDL, because ain't nothing I dislike more in a drama than having watched 40 or 50 hours of it only to get to a tragic ending. I'm not looking for a good cry ever, but stumbling on one really sucks.
I'm not reading books of any kind lately, much less Chinese novels--which I probably wouldn't read in the first place, for the reason that any book that's been translated so that you can read it rises or falls on the skill of the translator (if you can't read Chinese). Combine that with how a Chinese novel can be mangled to death by adapting it to the screen, and my feeling is you're better off sticking to either the book or dramatization. Doing both will probably make you lose your mind. [Not you, Wandering Queen. You seem to have the knack for it. Good article, by the way!]
I'm still pissed about what happened to Princess Agents, which had some fairly radical departures from the novel. Especially the ending. I'm going to be mad about that forever.
A "lakorn" is a type of Thai drama, like a soap opera, only with more crazy pants. The main characters usually do shocking, extremely illegal things, for which they are rarely punished by law.
You may stumble across this lakorn, read the synopsis or something, and decide that maybe you'll watch it. But don't. Really.
This story is just infuriating. The female characters are all either weak, evil, crazy or too stupid to live. That goes for the male characters, too--especially the ML, who is a walking cartoon of Thai cultural values drawn so stupidly, you'll think you've been beaten to death with a clue bat. How James Ma wound up in this steaming pile of horse poop, I simply can't.
The evil 2nd female lead is wearing some great clothes in this show, though.
The last two years have been quite blah, Kdrama wise, although there've been exceptions which were very good and almost made up for how boring things have been. I thought it was just me thinking that, though. I've been watching Cdramas and Lakorns instead, but these they have their own problems. (I just finished a Lakorn minutes ago that made me want to claw my eyeballs out it was so bad.)
When the ML is a cheating bastard, that's fine. But if the FL even has lunch with another male, holy fuckballs, the sky is falling. I hate the double standards in lakorns more than any other trope in their dramas, and that's saying something.
This next, newest synopsis makes the drama sound like every other Cdrama ever produced, Maybe the first synopsis was wrong. Maybe the producers have had to slice and dice the film they've already got, just to get it on the air and get some of their money back. Which I completely understand.
But it's the OTHER damn drama I waited for, not this blah, tropey thing.
I'll be looking forward to this drama.
I'll be looking forward to this drama.
Thank you so much for the listicle!
I'm still pissed about what happened to Princess Agents, which had some fairly radical departures from the novel. Especially the ending. I'm going to be mad about that forever.
This story is just infuriating. The female characters are all either weak, evil, crazy or too stupid to live. That goes for the male characters, too--especially the ML, who is a walking cartoon of Thai cultural values drawn so stupidly, you'll think you've been beaten to death with a clue bat. How James Ma wound up in this steaming pile of horse poop, I simply can't.
The evil 2nd female lead is wearing some great clothes in this show, though.