My life isn't exciting enough but dramas make it up.
Yes, I still watch dramas though with a slower pace than usually because of my busy real life. It might be even better since two out of four dramas I'm watching are still airing and if I would watch them any faster I would catch the subbing teams working on them. :D
Wish Upon a Star
Heroine Pal Kang's parents die in a car crash and she has to start taking care of her younger siblings. They lose their house and they have no savings. Pal Kang's boss Kang Ha, also known as the Ice Man because of his personality, is looking for a maid and she gets the job. She smuggles the children in the house and the family starts living there secretly.
I love this drama. :D It's light and funny but it also has touching moments. I like Pal Kang's character very much and her change from a silly extravagant girl to a responsible woman is interesting to watch. There are many kids around, five of them (!!!), and at first I was really annoyed at them because they didn't do anything else than cried and complained. But now I'm getting used to them and I love their different personalities.
I'm having a hard time finding the raws of this drama. .__. Its English title has like three different versions and there are tons of different raws of the same episode and the quality varies between them...
Wallflower
(ha, like I would write the whole title when the manga has a short title like this)
Takano Kyohei is a guy with an attitude problem and he has always suffered from his face which is too pretty to girls, boys and employers to handle. (No, I'm not making this up.) Nakahara Sunako is a shut-in who wears black robes and is scared of sunlight and talks to plastic anatomy models. Kyohei and his roommates have to change Sunako from a goth to a beautiful lady in order to live in a big mansion without paying the rent which they couldn't otherwise afford.
I'm pretty sure that the casting of this drama was based on a list of available Johnnys. IT HAS THREE JOHNNYS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Well, they aren't that horrible. Kame is okay, Tegoshi looks cute and Uchi is hot though a bit Rui-ish. (Luckily they aren't going to make a love triangle between him, Kyohei and Sunako. I think.)
However, the real winner of the main characters is Oomasa Aya as Sunako. Her character is just PURE AWESOME. She headbutts Kame at least twice in every episode! She fights with guys and wins! She sleeps in a coffin! She is so great that I almost forget how stupid her reason of being a shut-in really is.
The bad part of this drama is its plot development. Since this is based on a manga, it has certain manners. Some dramas carry out the manga feeling in a funny way, like Hana-Kimi, but it seems a bit forced here. At point, the plot moves really quickly and the logic is forgotten somewhere in the road. Some might like it, at least this isn't dragging, but I find it confusing.
The Return of Iljimae
I've talked about this drama in the past so I'm not going to do a synopsis this time. I'm a bit stuck with this drama. It's really good and awesome and I love historical dramas but... it has 24 episodes and the pace is really slow. I've watched 14 episodes or something like that and after them I needed a break. That break has lasted over a month now.
Moreover, the episodes always have previews of the next episode and the last preview I saw showed that Wol-hee, the heroine, is going to do something incredibly stupid like jump off a balcony to a certain death because she thinks Iljimae doesn't love her. I don't want to see that happen.
IRIS
Another drama I haven't finished though I started this like four months ago. Its apocalyptic plot just bores me! Suspense dramas are okay, spying/terrorism/torturing is exciting and interesting (...how messed up am I?) but the whole epic South Korea vs North Korea, bang bang nuclear weapons and hey I shot a 10-year-old girl! plot is too much for me.
I also read the spoilers of the ending and now I don't have the feeling of finishing this drama. Though, I knew they were going to kill the male leads because a) they were good guys but 2) they did so much bad things that there's no other possible ending for them than be killed off. It's basic knowledge.
I'm always available for drama recommendations though these dramas keep me pretty busy. (And I should still do that drama list. Why am I so lazy?) And if someone has a good reason why I should finish Iljimae and/or IRIS, tell me. Hot guys isn't a good reason because guys in Iljimae are pretty or old and they are too hot in IRIS, it's disturbing.
I want to keep a scrapbook this year but I'm afraid I won't update it! And it's already February. Since when were years 11 months long? But if a kept a scrapbook, after eleven months I could be all "lolololol i fangirled JO KWON at that time!1". Hmm.
Wish Upon a Star
Heroine Pal Kang's parents die in a car crash and she has to start taking care of her younger siblings. They lose their house and they have no savings. Pal Kang's boss Kang Ha, also known as the Ice Man because of his personality, is looking for a maid and she gets the job. She smuggles the children in the house and the family starts living there secretly.
I love this drama. :D It's light and funny but it also has touching moments. I like Pal Kang's character very much and her change from a silly extravagant girl to a responsible woman is interesting to watch. There are many kids around, five of them (!!!), and at first I was really annoyed at them because they didn't do anything else than cried and complained. But now I'm getting used to them and I love their different personalities.
I'm having a hard time finding the raws of this drama. .__. Its English title has like three different versions and there are tons of different raws of the same episode and the quality varies between them...
Wallflower
(ha, like I would write the whole title when the manga has a short title like this)
Takano Kyohei is a guy with an attitude problem and he has always suffered from his face which is too pretty to girls, boys and employers to handle. (No, I'm not making this up.) Nakahara Sunako is a shut-in who wears black robes and is scared of sunlight and talks to plastic anatomy models. Kyohei and his roommates have to change Sunako from a goth to a beautiful lady in order to live in a big mansion without paying the rent which they couldn't otherwise afford.
I'm pretty sure that the casting of this drama was based on a list of available Johnnys. IT HAS THREE JOHNNYS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Well, they aren't that horrible. Kame is okay, Tegoshi looks cute and Uchi is hot though a bit Rui-ish. (Luckily they aren't going to make a love triangle between him, Kyohei and Sunako. I think.)
However, the real winner of the main characters is Oomasa Aya as Sunako. Her character is just PURE AWESOME. She headbutts Kame at least twice in every episode! She fights with guys and wins! She sleeps in a coffin! She is so great that I almost forget how stupid her reason of being a shut-in really is.
The bad part of this drama is its plot development. Since this is based on a manga, it has certain manners. Some dramas carry out the manga feeling in a funny way, like Hana-Kimi, but it seems a bit forced here. At point, the plot moves really quickly and the logic is forgotten somewhere in the road. Some might like it, at least this isn't dragging, but I find it confusing.
The Return of Iljimae
I've talked about this drama in the past so I'm not going to do a synopsis this time. I'm a bit stuck with this drama. It's really good and awesome and I love historical dramas but... it has 24 episodes and the pace is really slow. I've watched 14 episodes or something like that and after them I needed a break. That break has lasted over a month now.
Moreover, the episodes always have previews of the next episode and the last preview I saw showed that Wol-hee, the heroine, is going to do something incredibly stupid like jump off a balcony to a certain death because she thinks Iljimae doesn't love her. I don't want to see that happen.
IRIS
Another drama I haven't finished though I started this like four months ago. Its apocalyptic plot just bores me! Suspense dramas are okay, spying/terrorism/torturing is exciting and interesting (...how messed up am I?) but the whole epic South Korea vs North Korea, bang bang nuclear weapons and hey I shot a 10-year-old girl! plot is too much for me.
I also read the spoilers of the ending and now I don't have the feeling of finishing this drama. Though, I knew they were going to kill the male leads because a) they were good guys but 2) they did so much bad things that there's no other possible ending for them than be killed off. It's basic knowledge.
I'm always available for drama recommendations though these dramas keep me pretty busy. (And I should still do that drama list. Why am I so lazy?) And if someone has a good reason why I should finish Iljimae and/or IRIS, tell me. Hot guys isn't a good reason because guys in Iljimae are pretty or old and they are too hot in IRIS, it's disturbing.
I want to keep a scrapbook this year but I'm afraid I won't update it! And it's already February. Since when were years 11 months long? But if a kept a scrapbook, after eleven months I could be all "lolololol i fangirled JO KWON at that time!1". Hmm.