cityhunter

i included I hear your voice and Marry him if you dare b/c they werent mentioned in the supernatural article and i felt they deserved a mention, though for different reasons. in the interest of talking about as many dramas as possible i try not to repeat stuff that's already been covered.

master's sun was featured on Cheerfulsoul's article on the supernatural dramas of 2013.

you're welcome. i like it when people think i'm funny. :P

i find that often in k-drama it's the shows that arent trying to be overtly funny all the time that are the funniest. IHYV also suceeded where many other dramas this year failed (i'm looking at you 7th grade civil servant) and that is the balance. the show had comedy and romance along side some really dark messed up stuff and it all balanced really well and it never felt like you were wathcing two different dramas the way i did with 7GCS or Who are you

look forward to the T-rom com article coming soon.

if you check out cheerful soul's article on supernatural dramas she talks about it there.

i did the same article last year and did not include dramas that were still airing at the time the article was complete. both king of dramas and CDD Alice did not finish airing until january. they were specificailly left out of last years article.

compared to his performances in heart strings and YB i felt like he did a much better job.

yes, but i believe cheerful soul covered that in her rundown of the supernatural dramas article.

sung hoon is pretty too, but he's just a terrible in this role.

i skip at least half of every episode.

there are other recaps in the data base, hell on Hulu they have the Iris recap in their "movies" section!

i'd go with 97. they really dropped the ball here.

i dont think they've mentioned if he knew ma te's name or not. but half the ethnically korean population has one of three surnames. aside from those, there are only 250 other surnames that are currently in use. there also seems to be a comparatively small pool of given names used in korea. i've never once seen a character give more than a moment's pause when they come across someone with the same names as another person they know. they're all "Lee min ho? certainly that cant be, OUR Lee Min Ho died in a fire twelve years ago!" in dramaland they never consider it could be the same person. i've always assumed this was because of the small name pool.

i like it, but for me there is ALOT of stuff that i find boring to watch, mostly the bussiness stuff and the elders sitting around the room repeating the same stuff to each other over and over and over again.

several times Man Won has appeared uncomfortable with physical contact that would have been acceptable for siblings but seen as significant for unrelated persons. i think he is uncomfortable b/c he has feelings for her and he's affraid she'll notice.

i try :P

they changed the name b/c Hana yori dango is a japanese play on words. hana yori dango can be translated as either boys over flowers or dumplings over flowers. the later is a japanese saying meant to impart that we should favor useful things over frivolous things. obviously most americans wont get why the title is clever. in america titles that have to be explained arent common.

i did too. between boys in friends is probably going to be a train wreck too, but 17 seconds out of a 20 some odd hour production can't tell you if it's going to be an entertaining train wreck or not.

i stand behind my original stance that hana yori dango in all it's incarnations is a cheesy, over the top horribly written story acted out by horribly dressed actors most of whom at the time of the shooting couldnt act their way out of a wet paper bag with a map and flash light. it's a train wreck and it's fun to watch.