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Post by TheBo on Mar 13, 2011 21:28:11 GMT -5
I have an idea that may help people trying not to post spoilers. Here is a short description of what happens in Episode 1:
At GBS TV, the female anchor finds out that her husband is cheating on her just before she goes on the air for the last show. During that show, she breaks down during a report by Seo Wujin about the capture of a mass murderer who has been killing unfaithful husbands and their mistresses. Ms Seo, on her first broadcast, must cover for this breakdown by stretching out the report. This is our introduction to Wujin. She also is following a criminal "robin hood" named Jang and manages to mess up a police stakeout/capture of the man. She tapes her interview, in which he reveals how he has fooled the police on many occasions. The cops confiscate this tape. In their attempts to retrieve the tape, Wujin's boss beats up a police commissioner and is sent to the boonies by GBS. He is replaced by Oh Taesok, who apparently was in the same boat and was reporting from some boonies of his own for several years before being called back. The police return the tape to Wujin, but mysteriously there is no sound (they re-recorded it) and it cannot be used in a report. Taesok figures out something is fishy with the tape and sends Wujin off to retrieve the original tape from the cops.
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Post by Soju on Mar 18, 2011 18:22:11 GMT -5
I liked ep 1. The show has the same type of premise as a couple of my recent faves, Pasta and Coffee House: almost thirty woman seeking direction is mentored by male boss in his early thirties. Romance ensues.
One thing that sort of bugged me, though, was the subs using words like Captain for the news staff. At first, I thought they were refering to the Police.
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Post by TheBo on Mar 18, 2011 19:32:01 GMT -5
LOL. I think that's the terminology, though. I like it very much. It's fast and has a lot of stuff going on. At first, I thought they were going to concentrate on the lady mass murderer, so I was relieved when they decided to go with the so-called "Robin Hood" guy. I wish the translator would not turn the names around, but that seems to be the fashion with the modern dramas. If you didn't know some Korean, you'd completely lose the part where Wujin accidentally starts to give her own name to the criminal. She doesn't think quick and give the name "Jung-eun" first and then stupidly give him her real surname, "Seo." It's the other way around.
There seems to be a dichotomy with the cops on this show. They're such bumblebutts they run into a criminal at the station and let him go, or reveal their positions in a stakeout for anyone to see, or drop their phones outside a suspect's room--but they're smart enough to remove the sound from a tape rather than pretending the whole thing got destroyed.
I love the family, I hope they'll figure into the story a lot. I love the upper management with their constant bickering one-upsmanship. I did NOT love the casual assumption that a gay character is a ridiculous person who must be morally flawed. Tasteless.
Bo
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Post by Soju on Mar 19, 2011 9:18:23 GMT -5
The actor who plays the one cop, Lee Daeyeon, may not have leading man looks, but, boy, he's EVERYWHERE!
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Post by TheBo on Mar 20, 2011 7:29:08 GMT -5
Really, he seems vaguely familiar but I can't place him. Any examples?
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Post by Soju on Mar 20, 2011 9:09:24 GMT -5
Recently, he was in 'My Princess', 'Oh! My Lady', and 'Chuno'. His filmography on Han Cinema goes on forever; mostly movies, including the "Sympathy/Vengence" films, and "Old Boy".
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Post by TheBo on Mar 20, 2011 11:22:01 GMT -5
Ah. Sort of like William Schallert from the 50s through the 80s--you didn't really notice him until you realized he was everywhere you were looking and listening.
Another actor I find interesting for a frivolous reason is the coffee hostess. She looks just like Han Jeong-su, who played the loan-shark-buddy in The Lucifer, the bodyguard in King & I and, apparently, shows up in Painter (although I have not yet spotted him). In fact, I'd say it could be him, cross-dressing. Silly, huh.
You think the "country" Taesoek was stuck in was Jejudo? I don't ever remember seeing pollution in a shot of the Korean countryside/seashore, and this particular pollution looked suspiciously clean and fresh.
"Crying Plaza." HAH.
Bo
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