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Post by moreshige on Mar 12, 2005 14:39:32 GMT -5
Yeah, you justly mentioned "Moreshige" is a modern drama which has a historical epic dimension. There are everything : politics, violences (as like epic dramas ), romances, friendship, a male bodyguard, etc. I belong to the last generation of those who threw fire bottles against the military dictators' battle police. So this drama gives an intense emotion to our generation and those who preceded us. I watched it ten years ago, but the drama left strong images in my memory. I love dramas that read like a Tolstoy novel....
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Post by Hachiman Taro on Mar 12, 2005 16:30:26 GMT -5
I'm a male and the only Korean shows I've watched so far are AOW and YSS (just "discovered" these gems when finding AOW). I haven't ever had the curiousity to check out modern Korean dramas, so I can't really say how I feel about them. I have been watching historical warrior dramas on Japanese television for more than 20 years. I like action, but what really catches my interest is good writing and acting. This is the main reason I prefer AOW to YSS. I just feel the character/plot development was far more in AOW, even though some of the action scenes in YSS are superb. In particular I prefer dramas in which we see more shades of gray, rather than what I've seen (to EP 31) in YSS wherein the Japanese and nomads are the equivalent of Orcs in LOTR. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed LOTR, Star Wars, and others of that genre in which good and evil are black and white. I just prefer the million shades of gray of a ROTK approach. In fact it is my addiction to ROTK that led me (or actually my wife) to stumble upon AOW in the first place.
My wife, by the way, caught a two or three episodes of AOW, one of which (Ui Bang's last episode) which she considered the best single hour of dramatic television she's ever seen. She has not seen any YSS yet.
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Post by seven stars on Mar 14, 2005 19:11:40 GMT -5
I can't believe ID gave up his username. All in the name of higher interests I suppose. All the best ID!
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Post by BungalowDweller on Mar 23, 2005 20:44:19 GMT -5
I guess I'm a little late jumping into this discussion,but I'm another female who watches both historical and modern soaps,but I prefer the historical and never miss an episode.
YSS reminds me that there is truly nothing new under the sun. (The parallels between the government and military bureaucracy of YSS's time and our own are amazing. My hubby is always saying,"This is just like the job!") It also shows that a good guy can be victimized and pushed around but Can come back and be a powerful contender while keeping one's moral/ethical foundation. The lives of great men are inspirational,as well as instructive,and if I can learn through their tragedies and triumphs and be better because of it, then they continue to live on. . .
Modern drama has a place in my heart because it is one of the rare places in which I see my family life and values depicted anywhere. Although not Korean, I keep an ethnic household and feel more in kinship with the family as depicted in the current Who's My Love,for example,than anything I see on regular t.v. My home is my command center as I chose my husband and child over a lucerative career. I don't struggle with issues of identity,nor do I feel that I'm missing out because I chose home over career. When I had the career,there was no real time for "home". Home was where I changed my clothes before going out to eat somewhere. It was more a pit stop. Now "home" is my career. This isn't meant as a put-down to any other women who choose to be out where the action is but I had to choose. In the Modern Drama, these issues are depicted in the context of the family,as well as the individual or the couple. This is what makes them unique on tv today. "Desperate Housewives" is not my reality,or the reality of any other stay-at-home woman I know. We are urban women,living urban lives. WML and other modern dramas are truly feminist because they show the OTHER side--the side American tv producers choose to ignore.
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Post by MasterCrabby on Mar 23, 2005 23:15:56 GMT -5
I can't take the poll because I need the subtitles (God bless Christy Kim). WMBC only carries subtitles for YSS, currently. I appreciate Bungalowdweller's view. My grandmother was Hungarian. I often have trouble relating to the emphasis on detatched violence as an entertainment. I believe that evolution teaches a dread for violence. Many people are opposed to their own evolution, as a matter of comfort. What I mean is that I could relate that the "American Culture" does not bear sufficient depth.
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Post by TheBo on Mar 24, 2005 23:24:18 GMT -5
I just got engaged. Not only that, but now I want to try to get into Columbia University, in hopes of a better degree. Anyway, I wouldn't mind being put down as "Only Historical Dramas, but hates the love stories." I'm sorry I missed this, ID. Congratulations! Long life and happy marriage! Bo PS - It's kind of ironic, your not liking the "love stories," because (a) as one of my Korean friends once told me (sneeringly), "They're just about whether the son gets an education!" (which is one of the things you are concerned with), and (b) well, you're in the midst of your own love story. I guess yours just makes the dramas look too sick.
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Post by moreshige on Mar 26, 2005 23:27:06 GMT -5
I guess I'm a little late jumping into this discussion,but I'm another female who watches both historical and modern soaps,but I prefer the historical and never miss an episode. YSS reminds me that there is truly nothing new under the sun. (The parallels between the government and military bureaucracy of YSS's time and our own are amazing. My hubby is always saying,"This is just like the job!") It also shows that a good guy can be victimized and pushed around but Can come back and be a powerful contender while keeping one's moral/ethical foundation. The lives of great men are inspirational,as well as instructive,and if I can learn through their tragedies and triumphs and be better because of it, then they continue to live on. . . Modern drama has a place in my heart because it is one of the rare places in which I see my family life and values depicted anywhere. Although not Korean, I keep an ethnic household and feel more in kinship with the family as depicted in the current Who's My Love,for example,than anything I see on regular t.v. My home is my command center as I chose my husband and child over a lucerative career. I don't struggle with issues of identity,nor do I feel that I'm missing out because I chose home over career. When I had the career,there was no real time for "home". Home was where I changed my clothes before going out to eat somewhere. It was more a pit stop. Now "home" is my career. This isn't meant as a put-down to any other women who choose to be out where the action is but I had to choose. In the Modern Drama, these issues are depicted in the context of the family,as well as the individual or the couple. This is what makes them unique on tv today. "Desperate Housewives" is not my reality,or the reality of any other stay-at-home woman I know. We are urban women,living urban lives. WML and other modern dramas are truly feminist because they show the OTHER side--the side American tv producers choose to ignore. I appreciate your comments, bungalowdweller and mastercrabby.
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Post by JP Paulus on Apr 20, 2005 23:04:39 GMT -5
i'm thinking of moving this to the general board, rather than this tangent one...since this is something that applies to watchers of the other shows....i'll probably do so in a couple of days...
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