ARGH!!!!!! Sorry, it was everything lovely that everyone said BUT I just wanted to facewall/facetable at the end because facepalming just wasn't enough. The only tears I shed were of frustration. I would also disagree about the ending .....it was NOT sad, very or otherwise, it was frustrating and exasperating. Infuriating even!
I'm a bookworm, completely. I spent most of my childhood and teenage years in my local library. In fact i kid you not when I say that, as a kid, I spent ALL my free time in my local library. Forget parks, and all that stuff; I lived in the library. I even used to take 'my' libarians some of my birthday cake; I knew about their families, pets, they were on first name terms with my parents, i would've moved in if I could....so i get the 'no talking' rule....but come ON, it means SHOUTING, even speaking at a NORMAL volume.....but whispering? Totally could've done it.. otherwise how would MY librarian ladies (and 1 guy) become like my second family by the time I was 11? He could've even whispered 'look at such and such a book' as he checked out another one! Oh and let's not forget how the LIBRARIANS chat to each other ALL.THE.TIME.....not whispers either, just low voices......so why....oh God I remember how this made me so MAD.
The ending annoyed me all to hell -i wanted to smash something. Besides most librarians get that romances often start there, end there and move forward there. They even make exceptions for the occasional noise...i've SEEN it happen wjth my own eyes! You don't get a lifetime ban for saying 'I like you' even if you shout it, you'd get a warning sure, but that's it....no firing squad, no life sentence of never reading again (my idea of hell as it happens)......just a sharp and rebukeing 'SHHH!!' and a withering stare. if he couldn't cope with that....well.....besides, the other librarian was rooting for her, so would totally have allowed rule breaking....ARGH...just ARGH! Lovely actors, STUPID, STUPID, *STUPID* story.
Okay rant over and i will now settle my soul with a good book and chocolate.. ....lots and LOTS of chocolate....*sigh* (someone really has to make a facepalm emoji).
Sheng Peter - He's a lovely guy in real life; completely and utterly besotted with his wife and child; just a total darling. BUT he's so painfully shy and socially anxious that he CANNOT carry off lead roles. He's great as a second lead and a support actor as he can always have more cast around him who clearly put him at ease. Yes, I know he's breathtakingly beautiful (and yes I mean beautiful and not handsome....handsome doesn't cover this, same with Yan Aaron....beautiful). but looks can only take you so far. I love him in real life; he's such a puppy. But in acting he's a long way from coping with lead roles yet. Exhibit A as a proof - Pretty Li Hui Zhen....on that alone I rest my case.
If this was real I do wonder what my mother in law's cat would do as she HATES her with a passion. We can love on her, pet her, play with her...whatever; but my mother in law can't even look at her without being bitten and scratched! Yet she loves the cat to death, buys her tons of treats and fusses over her 24/7.....but that cat would rip her throat out if she could. So I'm guessing if 'Puss Puss' (that's the cat's name I kid you not) was able to be human we'd just never find my MiL's body! LOL!!
isn't this a manga or something? i've heard of this plot somewhere before
It's sounds a little similar to 'The Time We Were Not in Love' with Lee Jin Wook. But i'm sure you're right and there's been another drama with same plot, I just can't remember the name. The only one that keeps creeping in is Kiss: The Series which IS almost the same as this. Please let that be the one or I'm going to drive myself crazy trying to remember! :D
For a first article I thought it was very good. Succinct, to the point but with a nice friendly approach. I liked your choices of dramas too. CONGRATS!
He's such a wonderful, versatile actor - but I think his portrayal of the heartbroken, lonely and vulnerable Feng Jing in Revive was simply flawless. He literally made my heart hurt.
the same principles of the novel were applied to the movie Cruel Intentions and it was great.
You make very good points and it's true that South Korea is still a fairly conservative country - though, thankfully, not as closed or strict as China has now become. There's a LOT of the novel they would not tolerate at all.
Your point about the idols playing the main cast and not being able to follow the the subtext of the novel for fear it could jeopardise any future career is very true and I completely agree. - power through sex; overcoming the obstacles with manipulations rather than brute force, and the notion that even in such a vicious society as that in the book, there are limits that must not be overstepped or God help you as the hounds turn on you; all definitely not what conservative South Korea would like, especially in a teen aimed drama.
I liked WDH the most, personal choice though, and the other guy you mentioned (I can't remember his name either) was quite good too. Didn't think of much of the rest of the cast though. ALL of them, whether good actors or bad, were let down by the appalling script though. The writers should be ashamed of handing that mess in and calling it done.
Thank for the engaging discussion - I do love chatting to fellow drama fans; especially when novels/books, etc are involved and they know about those too. Thank you again. I hope we can chat again some time. :)
Oh I meant to say before - please excuse errors; I've had a couple of strokes a few years ago and, whilst I made a hugely better recovery than expected, the mild brain damage I've been left with means my command of my own language and all the grammar, punctuation and spelling that goes with it is sadly lacking now. Apologies again - I do check it, but my brain often skips bits and so I think it reads alright but....it doesn't.
the same principles of the novel were applied to the movie Cruel Intentions and it was great.
The novel was written for a different time and societal structure - trying to update it for today's much more inclusive and laidback society is a good idea, but then the story gets lost in doing so. Which is why Cruel Intentions never really worked either.
To me the ONLY true solid, excellent actor was Woo Do Hwan...literally just him. He gave a really good performance, as he always does, and mae his character believable - no mean feat considering the script for this was so dire and ridiculous.
I think your criticisms of his character's lack 'villainousness' and the side story you feel is pointless are purely down to the writers and no one else.
I also think their other serious issue was with trying make a book written in 1782 fit into 2018. It can't be done; sometimes the square peg cannot be forced into the round hole even with a a really big hammer - this drama, like Cruel Intentions before it, proves that.
Of course bad scripts can kill even the best performance and from there an actor's role in a drama; as so many actors have found out over the years - and with most of the cast in this drama. So the writers of this drama really have a lot to answer for.
I felt this was watchable with an agreeably different ending - which is still better than Cruel Intentions.
Omg MIK was honestly torture. I ended up fast forward watching the last couple of episodes. You should give yourself…
I had to watch the episodes from 10 to 35 in 15 minutes bursts of hell. By episode 30 I think I'd slipped to 5 minutes as I lost the will to live.. But at 36 they picked up a bit so I gritted my teeth, got a big bar of chocolate to keep me sane, learnt a few new swear words in a couple of languages (I can cuss in Italian, Japanese, Russian, Korean and Gaelic now) and just went for the burn. I have to say I felt almost euphoric when i realised i'd got through the very last one. Please GOD, they don't make a second series.
I don't understand it though; It Started With a Kiss and They Kissed Again wre so good in comparison....well, in comparison to MiK they were oscar worthy but that aside why reboot a solidly good series into utter drivelling (I don't even know if that's a word but it fits), badly acted rubbish? Mind you the Japanese movies aren't much better but at least each one's only just over an hour long and there's months between to recover and scrub our brains. Lol!
the same principles of the novel were applied to the movie Cruel Intentions and it was great.
I actually didn't like Cruel Intentions either. lol! But I did like the end of this because it didn't follow the usual trope of the novel. Overall though, apart from Woo Do Hwan who was excellent, I think the cast was quite weak and that didn't help it.
I normally don't bother with adultery dramas because my father is a serial womaniser who cheated on my beloved late mum from when they were dating to the day she died, so I admit I have issues with cheaters......BUT the soulmate aspect of this does appeal as I am married to mine and I'm not sure that I would be able to resist him if I wasn't. So this once I will put my opinions to one side and just enjoy the drama. :)
Well, that's probably the first time I read an entire article without skipping a word. It's well written and ofcourse,…
Likewise - I love him. I like that he's quirky, true to himself and only does projects that interest him. Saito Takumi is another actor I admire for the same reasons.
I got - J's = 5 (so mostly Loyal Sidekick) and E's = 4 (so also part Lovable Second Lead). I can live with both of those. :D Finally I was G/K/B and F = All 1 each. So not much of the Cinderella element but also not many evils of anything here, which was a nice surprise as I've always accepted I have a dark side.
DIDN'T get ANY - A/C/D/H/I or Ls,......so apparently I'm not a strong female lead, arrogant rich or cool guy nor am an alien - my family will be as surprised as I was about that last one. LOL!
I'm a bookworm, completely. I spent most of my childhood and teenage years in my local library. In fact i kid you not when I say that, as a kid, I spent ALL my free time in my local library. Forget parks, and all that stuff; I lived in the library. I even used to take 'my' libarians some of my birthday cake; I knew about their families, pets, they were on first name terms with my parents, i would've moved in if I could....so i get the 'no talking' rule....but come ON, it means SHOUTING, even speaking at a NORMAL volume.....but whispering? Totally could've done it.. otherwise how would MY librarian ladies (and 1 guy) become like my second family by the time I was 11? He could've even whispered 'look at such and such a book' as he checked out another one! Oh and let's not forget how the LIBRARIANS chat to each other ALL.THE.TIME.....not whispers either, just low voices......so why....oh God I remember how this made me so MAD.
The ending annoyed me all to hell -i wanted to smash something. Besides most librarians get that romances often start there, end there and move forward there. They even make exceptions for the occasional noise...i've SEEN it happen wjth my own eyes! You don't get a lifetime ban for saying 'I like you' even if you shout it, you'd get a warning sure, but that's it....no firing squad, no life sentence of never reading again (my idea of hell as it happens)......just a sharp and rebukeing 'SHHH!!' and a withering stare. if he couldn't cope with that....well.....besides, the other librarian was rooting for her, so would totally have allowed rule breaking....ARGH...just ARGH! Lovely actors, STUPID, STUPID, *STUPID* story.
Okay rant over and i will now settle my soul with a good book and chocolate.. ....lots and LOTS of chocolate....*sigh* (someone really has to make a facepalm emoji).
Your point about the idols playing the main cast and not being able to follow the the subtext of the novel for fear it could jeopardise any future career is very true and I completely agree.
- power through sex; overcoming the obstacles with manipulations rather than brute force, and the notion that even in such a vicious society as that in the book, there are limits that must not be overstepped or God help you as the hounds turn on you; all definitely not what conservative South Korea would like, especially in a teen aimed drama.
I liked WDH the most, personal choice though, and the other guy you mentioned (I can't remember his name either) was quite good too. Didn't think of much of the rest of the cast though. ALL of them, whether good actors or bad, were let down by the appalling script though. The writers should be ashamed of handing that mess in and calling it done.
Thank for the engaging discussion - I do love chatting to fellow drama fans; especially when novels/books, etc are involved and they know about those too. Thank you again. I hope we can chat again some time. :)
Oh I meant to say before - please excuse errors; I've had a couple of strokes a few years ago and, whilst I made a hugely better recovery than expected, the mild brain damage I've been left with means my command of my own language and all the grammar, punctuation and spelling that goes with it is sadly lacking now. Apologies again - I do check it, but my brain often skips bits and so I think it reads alright but....it doesn't.
To me the ONLY true solid, excellent actor was Woo Do Hwan...literally just him. He gave a really good performance, as he always does, and mae his character believable - no mean feat considering the script for this was so dire and ridiculous.
I think your criticisms of his character's lack 'villainousness' and the side story you feel is pointless are purely down to the writers and no one else.
I also think their other serious issue was with trying make a book written in 1782 fit into 2018. It can't be done; sometimes the square peg cannot be forced into the round hole even with a a really big hammer - this drama, like Cruel Intentions before it, proves that.
Of course bad scripts can kill even the best performance and from there an actor's role in a drama; as so many actors have found out over the years - and with most of the cast in this drama. So the writers of this drama really have a lot to answer for.
I felt this was watchable with an agreeably different ending - which is still better than Cruel Intentions.
I don't understand it though; It Started With a Kiss and They Kissed Again wre so good in comparison....well, in comparison to MiK they were oscar worthy but that aside why reboot a solidly good series into utter drivelling (I don't even know if that's a word but it fits), badly acted rubbish? Mind you the Japanese movies aren't much better but at least each one's only just over an hour long and there's months between to recover and scrub our brains. Lol!
J's = 5 (so mostly Loyal Sidekick) and
E's = 4 (so also part Lovable Second Lead). I can live with both of those. :D
Finally I was
G/K/B and F = All 1 each. So not much of the Cinderella element but also not many evils of anything here, which was a nice surprise as I've always accepted I have a dark side.
DIDN'T get ANY - A/C/D/H/I or Ls,......so apparently I'm not a strong female lead, arrogant rich or cool guy nor am an alien - my family will be as surprised as I was about that last one. LOL!