hear hear! My husband shakes his head each time he sees me peering at the laptop, trusty google translate prominently open (this is for the chinese ebooks of course)
*sigh* my teenage self was the same...honestly I look back at some of the drama "heros" I liked at that…
ha, ha....i guess some things are universally attractive, with broody leather-clad bad boys topping the list. But kudos for raising such a level-headed daughter
Hi, so happy to see so many others love this little drama as much as I do. I agree that BoC has been shamefully underrated. BoC is special to me because it was the rom-com that persuaded me to give k-drama rom-coms a try. My very first kdrama was ManXMan which I saw on netflix, followed by Master's Sun. I loved it so much that I started looking for other kdramas ....but most of them left me cold (Heirs, BoF, Legend of the Blue Sea I'm looking at you!) I was about to give up when I came across BoC and became hooked, mainly because of the adorable lead couple. I'll no way call them an unforgettable pairing, but they were just so sweet together that I developed a major soft spot for them, enough to patiently wait through the ensuing melodramatic shenanigans (a whole lot of them!)
On my personal opinion I think 80% if not more of the female world population love douchebags. They think that…
*sigh* my teenage self was the same...honestly I look back at some of the drama "heros" I liked at that point and cringe...hopefully the girls now will also grow up to recognize the unhealthiness of these so-called romances
for me i guess bof tops the list.. the leads were so bad that i dropped watching it half way through.. only watched…
Agree 100% about BOF and Heirs....the only parts of heirs I really liked were the ones with Hyung Sik, Crystal and the gang where they deconstruct the romance/social hierarchy...and the few scenes with Woo Bin and Hyung Sik, that could have been an epic bromance, one I'd love to watch
I totally agree with you as far as playful kiss, city hunter and Love o2o is concerned....haven't watched the rest, so can't have an opinion. I started my k-drama journey very recently with ManXMan followed by Doctors (Doctor Crush?) and The K2....so I was very unimpressed with some of the so-called classics that were recommended on forums including Boys Over Flowers and Playful Kiss. One reason could be that as a fully grown adult (in my 30s) the "romance" in both these dramas are too immature and cringe-worthy.
I think Love O2O is relatively better, just the acting was horrible...especially the female lead (who was disturbingly thin). I totally agree about the kisses. they made me so uncomfortable I ended up fast forwarding them, she was so unresponsive. And yes, patriarchal values abound...I'd forgotten the scene you mentioned, but I remember the one in the last episode where her friends ask the guy's "permission" to take their friend home with them, and he refuses! :/ I would have given him an earful then and there, but it was all cool as far as weiwei and gang were concerned
I really agree about the eipsode length...I've given up on several dramas where the content of the first episode is just too draggy/boring to endure for an hour (I watch mostly kdramas). I think that 30-40min is perfect. One this I DO like about kdramas is that they don't go over a season. Sequels/multiple seasons are unicorns...and I love that. Much less commitment.
When it comes to tropes the one I hate most is the ubiquitous Chaebol-poor girl pairings (Boys Over Flowers/Heirs...ugh) speaking of which doesn't kdrama world have any middle/professional classes? And just how many multi-national corporations are there in korea anyway? they seem more prevalent than corner stores....and how come kids or at least daughters of (ordinary) doctors, lawyers, professors never get stories of their own? :/
I think Love O2O is relatively better, just the acting was horrible...especially the female lead (who was disturbingly thin). I totally agree about the kisses. they made me so uncomfortable I ended up fast forwarding them, she was so unresponsive. And yes, patriarchal values abound...I'd forgotten the scene you mentioned, but I remember the one in the last episode where her friends ask the guy's "permission" to take their friend home with them, and he refuses! :/ I would have given him an earful then and there, but it was all cool as far as weiwei and gang were concerned
When it comes to tropes the one I hate most is the ubiquitous Chaebol-poor girl pairings (Boys Over Flowers/Heirs...ugh) speaking of which doesn't kdrama world have any middle/professional classes? And just how many multi-national corporations are there in korea anyway? they seem more prevalent than corner stores....and how come kids or at least daughters of (ordinary) doctors, lawyers, professors never get stories of their own? :/