cityhunter

"c'mon who still believes religions" i'm a little confused are you implying that religious belief isnt wide spread?

it was my ring tone for a very long time.

it's definitely a lot to take in.

i would be interested to see hard numbers for the domestic vs international market. one well kept secret in kpop is that you're not going to make real money unless you go international b/c the SK market just isnt big enough to make the serious bank. i wonder if something similar will happen to dramas and i'm not sure if that would be a good or bad thing.

The unique SK perspective is one factor in what makes many dramas great, but there are certainly dramas that could benefit from the story telling styles of other countries. if one day the foreign market becomes large enough to drive production choices it's going to be interesting

these subs are good up to ep 16. after that it's back to google translate and trying to figure it out from context clues.

makes you shudder to think about it doesnt it?

until someone has teenagers in their care it's difficult to understand what a precarious time adolescence is. their brains (which are still cooking) are trying to get them to do the opposite of everything they should be doing . they are immature and easily influenced. friendships and romantic relationships are healthiest between equals. teenagers can not engage with adults as equals; leading to unhealthy dynamics.

yea, i'm with penel on this one. come talk to me when a 30 yo wants to be friends with your 15 yo and tell me you still think it's ok.

19 is old enough to give consent in most countries, even ones where 19 isnt considered an adult.

i havent seen the quiet place but i assume it has a plot which would make it a better movie.

i loved the movie as a kid <3

the sexy vampire was a staple of 80's and 90's western pop culture.

i would argue that the modern vampire craze was fueled, if not started, by Anne Rice, who's novel Interview With The Vampire was published in 1976. the newest book in the series was published just last year.

there are places in the US where with parental consent and a judge's approval a 12 yo can get married, so i'm not surprised by the lack of reaction. by the time that came around fans had already endorsed (and even cheered for) Bella's unhealthy co-dependent obsession with Edward and his skeevy paternalistic attitude. if none of that bothers you a 19 yo getting married is nothing.

i guess b/c i was raised in it it doesn't seem controversial to me to point out the church's cultural failings. it's just reality.

in the next year or two a TV adaptation of Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles is supposed to hit Hulu. we can all cross our fingers and hope it's as good at the film adaption of her book Interview with the vampire that came out in the 90's.

The Author of twilight is a life long Mormon. as a group they tend to culturally segregate themselves from people who do not share their values. she was raised in a part of the US with a higher than avg concentration of Mormons and attended college at Brigham Young University (a Mormon school).

this is important b/c marriage at such a young age is not unusual for girls in the church. surveys find that Mormons statistically marry 4 years younger than their non-Mormon peers. they are shamed in horrific, mentally abusive ways for so much as having "impure thoughts" and are taught that the only acceptable way to scratch that natural and (at that age) intense urge is to enter into a heterosexual marriage. To marry Bella off so young and have her pretty much immediately get pregnant would seem perfectly normal and natural to Myer.

source cited *me, i was raised Mormon

see i think twilight is very badly written (books and movies) has terrible effects and some of the worst acting i've ever seen. the movies were successful (the book mildly so before the films came out) but as we know commercial success doesn't always equal quality.

i agree with most of what you say here. but i think that words like "wench" and "rascal" have a place in modern translations for modern shows. the modern English equivalents of the korean words these are used in place of would often be considered coarse language. which is not the intent in korean.

honestly i think fan subs have and will continue in some way to drive the market. when you see a lot of fan subs in a language the show isnt licensed in then that lets entertainment companies know where new audiences are.

when netflix 1st starting putting k-dramas on they would steal subs from fan subbers lol. i think it was BOF that had subs done by WITH S2, and it straight up said it lol.