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Snow Queen, ep. 07-16
Tue, Dec. 9th, 2008 07:33 pmI watched the first eight episodes last year around Christmas and was not particularly inspired to finish until my group did a kdrama parody skit for Korean class.
To recap: Han Tae Woong is a genius mathematician who turned boxer and renamed himself Deuk Gu after the suicide of his high school friend. Kim Bo Ra is a rich, spoiled, somewhat suicidal woman living with chronic illness. They meet, and she is cold and bitchy, though he manages to melt her exterior in scenes involving many references to "The Snow Queen" story. So far, I think there have been several Big Misunderstandings, several cases of mixed-up identities, three suicide attempts, one instance of kneeling at your parent's feet, and two instances of waiting in the rain. (I may be a little off, because I watched eps. 7-8 a year ago.)
In these 10 (or 8, see above parenthetical) episodes, we add a major case of identity reveal, a tragic wasting illness, running away from home, more kneeling at your parent's feet, lying to your loved one and hurting them for their own good, and about 5 changes of heart. Sadly, there is no secret incest, cross-dressing, or amnesia (the one trope we forgot to put in our parody skit).
( Spoilers, although I am not sure it is possible to spoil this show )
As you can probably tell, there is no redeeming feature in this whatsoever. The plot is horribly hackneyed, Hyun Bin has about two expressions and horrible hair (although he's at least dressed better than he was in Kim Sam Soon), the actress who plays Bo Ra has about two expressions, everyone develops undying grudges then forgives and forgets as the plot dictates, there is the merciless tugging of heartstrings, and mean, cold Bo Ra turns into a saint. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Still, it has a cold heroine whose heart is thawed by the Power of Love (and maybe by Hyun Bin's facial scruff), references to "The Snow Queen" (the manhwa tagline: "Gerda came for Kay, but who will come for the lonely Snow Queen?"), and I loved every second of it and cried buckets until I could not breathe through my nose even as I was snorfling at the nineteenth cliche the writers were piling in on the last ten minutes.
So: not recommended, but damn, that was fun.
To recap: Han Tae Woong is a genius mathematician who turned boxer and renamed himself Deuk Gu after the suicide of his high school friend. Kim Bo Ra is a rich, spoiled, somewhat suicidal woman living with chronic illness. They meet, and she is cold and bitchy, though he manages to melt her exterior in scenes involving many references to "The Snow Queen" story. So far, I think there have been several Big Misunderstandings, several cases of mixed-up identities, three suicide attempts, one instance of kneeling at your parent's feet, and two instances of waiting in the rain. (I may be a little off, because I watched eps. 7-8 a year ago.)
In these 10 (or 8, see above parenthetical) episodes, we add a major case of identity reveal, a tragic wasting illness, running away from home, more kneeling at your parent's feet, lying to your loved one and hurting them for their own good, and about 5 changes of heart. Sadly, there is no secret incest, cross-dressing, or amnesia (the one trope we forgot to put in our parody skit).
( Spoilers, although I am not sure it is possible to spoil this show )
As you can probably tell, there is no redeeming feature in this whatsoever. The plot is horribly hackneyed, Hyun Bin has about two expressions and horrible hair (although he's at least dressed better than he was in Kim Sam Soon), the actress who plays Bo Ra has about two expressions, everyone develops undying grudges then forgives and forgets as the plot dictates, there is the merciless tugging of heartstrings, and mean, cold Bo Ra turns into a saint. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Still, it has a cold heroine whose heart is thawed by the Power of Love (and maybe by Hyun Bin's facial scruff), references to "The Snow Queen" (the manhwa tagline: "Gerda came for Kay, but who will come for the lonely Snow Queen?"), and I loved every second of it and cried buckets until I could not breathe through my nose even as I was snorfling at the nineteenth cliche the writers were piling in on the last ten minutes.
So: not recommended, but damn, that was fun.
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