The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, ep. 07-13
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oyceterOr: What I Did for Winter Vacation
Subtitle: Kdramas, I missed you so much!!!!
(My sister and I started Secret Garden as well, though I got yelled at when she realized I had started her on an as-of-then incomplete drama.)
Anyway, this drama continues to be incredibly funny, but as it goes into the big romantic complications section of the plot, it turns alternately heart breaking and hilarious and so close to life. As long as it doesn't completely mess up the ending, I think this is a series that will be up there with Dal Ja's Spring and Coffee Prince as one of my favorite trendy dramas.
It helps that all the romantic heroes are of the "bare my heart and lay it on the table" mold, and they all manage to go after women who reject them in a mostly non-stalker-like manner, instead choosing vulnerability over command.
OMG. Whoever thought of the Sang Woo/Sang Mi/Min Jae/Shin Young love polygon is BRILLIANT. I thought it would be a set up for an absolute train wreck, and my sister can vouch for how much I writhed around on the couch in embarrassment as they kept running into each other and not discovering the entire situation, but I love that Min Jae and Sang Mi's respective objections to each other's romance isn't based on romantic jealousy. I especially love how the writers have managed to come up with a love polygon (er, kind of... I feel weird including a mother and her son in a polygon, aiiieeee!) that is already so awkward and weird that they barely need to throw in any Big Misunderstandings or Secrets to make the plot go.
I am also amazed at how the drama makes me love Sang Mi when it's in her POV while also wishing she'd be nicer to Shin Young, and oh, you have no idea how happy I am that there are not one, but two older-heroine-younger-hero romances. I also love that Sang Mi is beautiful and sexy as someone in her forties with a twenty-some son. And Sang Woo! I didn't think I'd ever like him that much, but watching him fall in love with Sang Mi was absolutely adorable, even though I wanted to whack him for reacting by trying to make it work with Shin Young. I especially like how the Sang Woo-Shin Young relationship has settled into the easy friendship of people who've known each other for years and years, and the way Shin Young's discovery of the identity of Sang Woo's lover didn't cause additional misunderstandings between her and Min Jae.
Also, I know at first I was rather skeptical of Min Jae. But he completely won me over with the dyeing of the hair and the candle-lit path and the way he kept getting his heart completely stomped on by Shin Young! (Also, when he showed up with the gray hair, my sister and I were both like, "He is an anime character!" I thought he looked a bit like Zero from Vampire Knight, and my sister thought he looked like Cloud.)
I'm a bit sad Bu Gi is the resolutely single one; on the other hand, I get the impression that she enjoys being Hot Bu Gi with the one-night stands. And! We just got to the part where she thrashes Shin Young's seonbae in kendo, which was AWESOME! My sister and I were sitting there yelling, "YEESS! Crush him! Bwahahaha!"
And then he falls for her! I hope she takes his heart and squashes it into little pieces for everything he's been pulling on Shin Young.
And Da Jung and Ban Seok! OMG so hilarious! The bad sunglasses tan! The absolute dorkiness! The way the show still managed to make me awww over Da Jung's birthday!
There is probably a ton more to comment on, but we watched so many episodes in the past week that I don't quite remember what all the developments are. Oh, I do wish it weren't as heteronormative and middle-class as it is, but ah well. As trendy dramas go, this is a really good one so far, with main characters I love all around, plot twists that are largely organic and not based on people not talking to each other, and quite a few romances I adore.
Subtitle: Kdramas, I missed you so much!!!!
(My sister and I started Secret Garden as well, though I got yelled at when she realized I had started her on an as-of-then incomplete drama.)
Anyway, this drama continues to be incredibly funny, but as it goes into the big romantic complications section of the plot, it turns alternately heart breaking and hilarious and so close to life. As long as it doesn't completely mess up the ending, I think this is a series that will be up there with Dal Ja's Spring and Coffee Prince as one of my favorite trendy dramas.
It helps that all the romantic heroes are of the "bare my heart and lay it on the table" mold, and they all manage to go after women who reject them in a mostly non-stalker-like manner, instead choosing vulnerability over command.
OMG. Whoever thought of the Sang Woo/Sang Mi/Min Jae/Shin Young love polygon is BRILLIANT. I thought it would be a set up for an absolute train wreck, and my sister can vouch for how much I writhed around on the couch in embarrassment as they kept running into each other and not discovering the entire situation, but I love that Min Jae and Sang Mi's respective objections to each other's romance isn't based on romantic jealousy. I especially love how the writers have managed to come up with a love polygon (er, kind of... I feel weird including a mother and her son in a polygon, aiiieeee!) that is already so awkward and weird that they barely need to throw in any Big Misunderstandings or Secrets to make the plot go.
I am also amazed at how the drama makes me love Sang Mi when it's in her POV while also wishing she'd be nicer to Shin Young, and oh, you have no idea how happy I am that there are not one, but two older-heroine-younger-hero romances. I also love that Sang Mi is beautiful and sexy as someone in her forties with a twenty-some son. And Sang Woo! I didn't think I'd ever like him that much, but watching him fall in love with Sang Mi was absolutely adorable, even though I wanted to whack him for reacting by trying to make it work with Shin Young. I especially like how the Sang Woo-Shin Young relationship has settled into the easy friendship of people who've known each other for years and years, and the way Shin Young's discovery of the identity of Sang Woo's lover didn't cause additional misunderstandings between her and Min Jae.
Also, I know at first I was rather skeptical of Min Jae. But he completely won me over with the dyeing of the hair and the candle-lit path and the way he kept getting his heart completely stomped on by Shin Young! (Also, when he showed up with the gray hair, my sister and I were both like, "He is an anime character!" I thought he looked a bit like Zero from Vampire Knight, and my sister thought he looked like Cloud.)
I'm a bit sad Bu Gi is the resolutely single one; on the other hand, I get the impression that she enjoys being Hot Bu Gi with the one-night stands. And! We just got to the part where she thrashes Shin Young's seonbae in kendo, which was AWESOME! My sister and I were sitting there yelling, "YEESS! Crush him! Bwahahaha!"
And then he falls for her! I hope she takes his heart and squashes it into little pieces for everything he's been pulling on Shin Young.
And Da Jung and Ban Seok! OMG so hilarious! The bad sunglasses tan! The absolute dorkiness! The way the show still managed to make me awww over Da Jung's birthday!
There is probably a ton more to comment on, but we watched so many episodes in the past week that I don't quite remember what all the developments are. Oh, I do wish it weren't as heteronormative and middle-class as it is, but ah well. As trendy dramas go, this is a really good one so far, with main characters I love all around, plot twists that are largely organic and not based on people not talking to each other, and quite a few romances I adore.
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Mon, Dec. 27th, 2010 05:28 am (UTC)Totally agreed on the brilliance of the love polygon! And yeah, Sang-mi is really awesome. I kind of liked that they even showed her having sex (well, her silhouette in any case) and enjoying it because it's a pretty big step to have acknowledgment of older women's sexuality (or for that matter, women's sexuality, period).
I remember feeling a bit dubious about the whole situation between Bu-gi and Shin-yeong's seonbae, though if it goes the way of Bu-gi crushing his heart into pieces, I will be really happy! I should really finish the series to find out how that side plot develops. (And ehehehe, sad part is that kendo match was really terrible; I'm not sure why they didn't find someone to choreograph it better. D:)
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Fri, Dec. 31st, 2010 02:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Tue, Dec. 28th, 2010 03:48 am (UTC)But he completely won me over with the dyeing of the hair and the candle-lit path and the way he kept getting his heart completely stomped on by Shin Young! (Also, when he showed up with the gray hair, my sister and I were both like, "He is an anime character!" I thought he looked a bit like Zero from Vampire Knight, and my sister thought he looked like Cloud.)
Totally agree!! I also really like how Shin Young is really into her career and owns adulthood. The way that she tunes out her attraction to Min Jae when she's working is great. She likes what she does, and despite depictions of the opposite, she is good at it.
I watched the majority of My Sweet Seoul and it kinda deals with the same issues, but really failed to engage.
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Fri, Dec. 31st, 2010 02:31 am (UTC)I love all the women so much and how the men are so obviously in love with them as well, and I really love that it shows Da Jeong and Shin Young working as well as having love lives, and I am so glad it doesn't make them choose despite acknowledging how hard it can be to balance personal life with career.
awesome
Sun, Jan. 2nd, 2011 10:52 am (UTC)Re: awesome
Mon, Jan. 3rd, 2011 04:18 am (UTC)