2018 did "The Guest" really dirty. Please watch it if you are a fan of Horror. "Come here and hug me" was also very very nice but sadly underrated. Also, it is an atrocity that "Money Flower" did not get the place it deserved.
I agree with I think all of your points- - K-dramas are the most aesthetically pleasing, crisp and the perfect duration. While j-dramas are very intense and touching as well, it's the aesthetics where they usually fail to appeal to me. Also K-drama music is AWESOME! - Come here and Hug me has been the best drama for 2018 for me as well. I have yet to watch "Are you human too?" but I am hearing good things, now I just need to find the time. - PLEASE GOD no more BOF adaptations please please please! - Shower scenes and Back hugs, YAAAASSSS PLEASE! And if it's a SHOWER FIGHT SCENE, OMDL! Here's looking and you JCW in K2. So we do agree there, buy my exception is of Rich man-poor girl trope. I am a shameless sucker for it and it and I look at it not as a cliche' or trope particularly, but as a reality too. Having money and not having money and the status and standard are major drivers of motivation, attitudes, social interactions, conflicts, ambitions and hence Drama as well in most interesting modern day romantic relationships. Rest assured that I do love my simpler slice of life, working class, small town based Dramas as well, but Rich Man poor girl is the Ultimate fairy tale, sort of a classic theme that's been used since FOREVER Pride and Prejudice, mother of most modern day romantic stories is basically a Rich man- Poor girl story above all else.
- Also, Goblin is OKAY, with some brilliant moments, but does not deserve either the extreme hype it got neither the hate it gets.
Good Article over all, I enjoyed your unpopular opinions
My Unpopular opinions : - Cheese in the trap, the Drama is a brilliant drama which is fabulous on all counts. I do not understand the hate it gets. I do understand that it deviated from the original Manhwa, but it stands on it's own perfectly fine. - Money Flower was 2017's best Drama and best MAKJANG EVER." - Pinocchio is THE BEST K-DRAMA ever! Fight me on it... :P - Lee Jong Suk was miscast and brought down "W" - He is pretty though! Oh so pretty! - I wished for Anna's death in K2 more than I did the antagonist's. Yoona brought the energy of that whole drama down single-handedly. Even a cardboard cut out would have had more charisma and energy. Poor JCW. All that energy and hard work went down the drain.
This drama is a level on it's own. Watch it! You will not regret it. It's been months since I watched it and I still think about it. Jang Hyuk is entrancing!
Oh God! So much of that all is true about me! I am a Libra, so rating in the first place is quite a chore for me but also one that I CAN'T PUT OFF... So I worked out a formula...I usually binge-watch, which is why I reserve my rating for a Drama a few days, I really let myself process it, and if I am still thinking fondly about it after a few days and still raving about it to my mom, then I will certainly rate it higher.
My Dear Cold-Blooded king, Siren´s Lament, I Love Yoo and unOrdinary also deserves to be adapted to K-drama.
Though I personally am a huge fan of My dear Cold-blooded king.. I think that more than half the merits of that Webtoon can be credited to its artwork and character design rather than the story. It is beautifully drawn and every single page is so vibrant and aesthetically pleasing that you can't help but be mesmerized by it.. But from a story POV, it falls into some common cliches which is why I don't think it would make a particularly good drama.. But that is just my opinion. *Edited* No! Wait! A strong female protagonist, wanted by a bunch of HOT Half-naked dudes/warriors/royals that fit every trope every girl loves in a romantic drama(The Bad Ass goof ball, The cold/ sensitive king, The obsessive/possessive side villian, The all out evil manipulative sexy Villian) ... Okay.. I can see the appeal now..lol.. Bring it on!
Yaaaaaaaaaaas! Lookism Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas! I have been tooting the Lookism horn for a while now! I want it soooo badly to be made into a K-drama! If I could, I would do a whole article for fan-casting of Lookism! P.s. Last time I wanted something this bad was for Benedict Cumberbatch to play Doctor Strange years before the movie came out.. and it came true.. Here's to wishing this happens too! I want it bad enough!
With my hips I don't think I can ever be mistook for a Guy.. not in a million years... But good on you! But for me, I think Guys with long hair tend to confuse me more than females with short hair, and yet, I LOVE Long hair on guys... is that weird? BTW, G-dragon in secret garden parody, playing a girl is SOOOO trippy! That is my fave gender-bender ever if I had to choose.. Also the Taiwanese drama "Bromance" is a lovely gender-bender drama.
I started watching Dramas in 2017.. as in just now.. very very now... but its surprising to me that even I have watched at least 2 out of the list above - Coffee Prince and Hana Kimi.. . So 2007 must have been some year for Drama yeah? That even a new-comer like me has seen at least 2. Coffee prince was good though not GREAT for me, but I can see why it would gather such a cult following over the years. Hana Kimi on the other hand is my BABY! I loved every second of it. The antics, the shebangs! I fell in love with the titular trio and all the supporting cast in a heartbeat to the extent that when I tried to watch the Korean version, I just could not get past the first 3-4 episodes.
Bong Hee and Ji Wook were such a sweet couple through and through especially after the torture that JCW's K2 and Im Yoon Ah AnNa were! JCW was blameless for that though..The K2 would be in my top10 list if it was not for the woody heroine!
The Legendary Lackey was what got me into watching K-dramas.. All my friends were watching K-dramas and were trying to pull me into it too while I was sticking with Anime and Chinese Dramas stubbornly, but one night I stumbled across this on Youtube and I gave it a go and realized what a gem it was and so much more my taste than the Chinese Dramas I was watching. This was immediately followed by "the boy next door" mini-series and as they say, the rest is history. I can't say I have many K-dramas under my belt yet, but ask me again this time next year and I will definitely be wearing a bigger belt! This I vow! :D
Ooooh! What a great idea! There should definitely be a Pride and Prejudice K-drama, but I would love it to be in a modern-day setting... Your casting seems sound, and for all those 'Jane should be older" comments.. in the novel, Jane is just a year older than Lizzy, so they look to be the same age, only Jane is quite different from Elizabeth in disposition, other wise they belong in the same age-range. Btw, thumbs up for casting Jang Ki Yong as Darcy.. I have no idea why he is not more popular... but let us be real here, if there was ever going to be P&P K-drama YOU KNOW they would only cast Lee Min Ho... No one does the broody arrogant mean shtick better than that dude! Lol! He's done so many variations of Darcy already! :D
I took my time after watching this show and I really gave it a thought before coming out to comment about this. The problem with this drama is the main casting decision - Lee Jong Suk is neither suited, nor convincing as Kang Chul and he seems to know it through out. Despite the big budget and at times rather brilliant cinematography HE is PRETTY! Oh he is pretty here all right! But the flaws in his performance are there from the very first scene. Now before you come after me with pitchforks, let me just say that I really like Lee Jong Suk, I fell in love with him in 'I hear your voice' even though he is not the best actor in K-industry I like him quite a lot. But here he is just plain bland. The passion and charisma that a Drama like this needed first and foremost in its main lead, is just not there and that leaves a really weird aftertaste, I mean we have already decided to watch this drama and so we have already suspended disbelief, all that was needed was flourish and charisma and it all falls so flat alongside Jong Suk that even a scrapper wont help here. Which brings me to my second problem with this drama, which is the romance. While Han Hyo Joo is correct in her role her chemistry with Jong Suk is non-existent, why? because the writers forgot to weave that little thread into this jumble of a mess of a story-line. Over all, I am majorly disappointed in this...
"Come here and hug me" was also very very nice but sadly underrated.
Also, it is an atrocity that "Money Flower" did not get the place it deserved.
RIGGED!
Lol jk.. But people.. do watch "The Guest" it is AWESOME
- K-dramas are the most aesthetically pleasing, crisp and the perfect duration. While j-dramas are very intense and touching as well, it's the aesthetics where they usually fail to appeal to me. Also K-drama music is AWESOME!
- Come here and Hug me has been the best drama for 2018 for me as well. I have yet to watch "Are you human too?" but I am hearing good things, now I just need to find the time.
- PLEASE GOD no more BOF adaptations please please please!
- Shower scenes and Back hugs, YAAAASSSS PLEASE! And if it's a SHOWER FIGHT SCENE, OMDL! Here's looking and you JCW in K2. So we do agree there, buy my exception is of Rich man-poor girl trope. I am a shameless sucker for it and it and I look at it not as a cliche' or trope particularly, but as a reality too. Having money and not having money and the status and standard are major drivers of motivation, attitudes, social interactions, conflicts, ambitions and hence Drama as well in most interesting modern day romantic relationships.
Rest assured that I do love my simpler slice of life, working class, small town based Dramas as well, but Rich Man poor girl is the Ultimate fairy tale, sort of a classic theme that's been used since FOREVER
Pride and Prejudice, mother of most modern day romantic stories is basically a Rich man- Poor girl story above all else.
- Also, Goblin is OKAY, with some brilliant moments, but does not deserve either the extreme hype it got neither the hate it gets.
Good Article over all, I enjoyed your unpopular opinions
My Unpopular opinions :
- Cheese in the trap, the Drama is a brilliant drama which is fabulous on all counts. I do not understand the hate it gets. I do understand that it deviated from the original Manhwa, but it stands on it's own perfectly fine.
- Money Flower was 2017's best Drama and best MAKJANG EVER."
- Pinocchio is THE BEST K-DRAMA ever! Fight me on it... :P
- Lee Jong Suk was miscast and brought down "W" - He is pretty though! Oh so pretty!
- I wished for Anna's death in K2 more than I did the antagonist's. Yoona brought the energy of that whole drama down single-handedly. Even a cardboard cut out would have had more charisma and energy. Poor JCW. All that energy and hard work went down the drain.
Great article!
*Edited*
No! Wait! A strong female protagonist, wanted by a bunch of HOT Half-naked dudes/warriors/royals that fit every trope every girl loves in a romantic drama(The Bad Ass goof ball, The cold/ sensitive king, The obsessive/possessive side villian, The all out evil manipulative sexy Villian) ... Okay.. I can see the appeal now..lol.. Bring it on!
P.s. Last time I wanted something this bad was for Benedict Cumberbatch to play Doctor Strange years before the movie came out.. and it came true.. Here's to wishing this happens too! I want it bad enough!
BTW, G-dragon in secret garden parody, playing a girl is SOOOO trippy! That is my fave gender-bender ever if I had to choose.. Also the Taiwanese drama "Bromance" is a lovely gender-bender drama.
Coffee prince was good though not GREAT for me, but I can see why it would gather such a cult following over the years. Hana Kimi on the other hand is my BABY! I loved every second of it. The antics, the shebangs! I fell in love with the titular trio and all the supporting cast in a heartbeat to the extent that when I tried to watch the Korean version, I just could not get past the first 3-4 episodes.
Truth is often depressing!
Btw, thumbs up for casting Jang Ki Yong as Darcy.. I have no idea why he is not more popular... but let us be real here, if there was ever going to be P&P K-drama YOU KNOW they would only cast Lee Min Ho... No one does the broody arrogant mean shtick better than that dude! Lol!
He's done so many variations of Darcy already! :D