Wann - Snow Queen, vol. 01-02

[oyceter]

I am so embarrassed I read this. After I had watched the entire drama too!

Tae-Woong is a scruffy boxer who used to be a genius mathematician until a traumatic event. Bora is a chronically ill and suicidal girl who closes herself off from everyone to keep herself from getting hurt. This is amazingly less melodramatic than the drama based on it, but that is probably only because there are only two volumes of manhwa and 16 episodes of drama. They had to fill those hours with something, preferably something as tear-jerking as possible!

Um. I do not even know what to say about this! I am not objective at all. I love the use of "The Snow Queen," and outside of that, I largely roll my eyes at the various twists and turns Bora and Tae-Woong go through even as I eat it all up with a spoon! This includes things like Bora thinking, "I hate you for being nice to me! If you hadn't been nice to me, I wouldn't have had to... feel!" or Tae-Woong thinking, "I always thought falling in love would be comfortable, not... like this!"

Also, there are shenanigans in which Bora runs off and Tae-Woong must run after her as her trusty chauffeur, last-minute tear-jerker plot twists, multiple suicide attempts, and several collapses.

I probably had entirely too much fun reading this, but I don't care!

Comments

[yhlee]

...did you say genius mathematician? Are there any mathy bits? Even if they are completely wrong?

[oyceter]

Uh, yes, although I would SO NOT REC THIS!!! There may be more math bits in the drama, actually. I can show you ep 1 if you really want, although SRSLY DO NOT REC THIS! *crawls off in shame*

[yhlee]

Remember, I used to read Mercedes Lackey, Piers Anthony, and Jack L. Chalker! And Sweet Valley Twins. And other hideously embarrassing things, for differently hideously embarrassing reasons.

[oyceter]

Ahahaha so true! Hey, if you are willing to risk tear-jerking kdramas, I'm totally willing to sic them on you ;). At least the vaguely mathy bits, which are probably hysterically wrong.

[lnhammer]

As a math major (with a degree to prove it), I want to see rediculous math decked out with tear-jerking melodrama.

---L.

[oyceter]

You should totally watch the first episode then!

[lady_ganesh]

This sounds like COMPLETE AND TOTAL WIN I do not understand why reccing this embarrasses you AT ALL.

[oyceter]

BWAHAHAHA! It is! Just... for a small number of people! (My sister, who likes trendy dramas way better: "Jei, you are so weird! Why do you like something that makes you cry?")

[lady_ganesh]

All I am saying is that I just realized the series is on Netflix. That's ALL I AM SAYING.

::quietly rearranges her queue to put more movies on::

[oyceter]

NO WAY. NO WAY! Netflix! Your selection is getting so much better!

[lady_ganesh]

It's always worth a try. Alas, they still don't have telophase's favorite Bollywood movie or Black Lizard.

[rilina]

Haha! I think I should gift you my copy of the manhwa.

[oyceter]

Hahaha! I am so tempted to borrow it and pore over all the Korean I do not understand and match it with the translation to see if I can figure stuff out!