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Post by jewel on Nov 17, 2014 2:33:28 GMT -5
Okay. I just finished watching episode 3.
This drama is sooo totally not my type. But because my oppa recommended it to me I gave it a try. After midway through episode 2 I decided to give it up. When I told Oppa, however, he told me to stick it out a little longer. Well, I did and boy am I glad. It is sooooo exciting!! I wish I could watch another episode right now but I gotta get some shut eye.
There's all kinds of betrayal and intrigue and underhanded things going on... totally not my thing. BUT it's soooo good!!!
Did anybody see this drama??
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Post by jewel on Nov 17, 2014 20:29:43 GMT -5
Episode 4, 5:
Wow. So fun! Han Jae Hee is such a conniving, evil woman!! What I love most is that Ma Roo totally has her number, he doesn't fall for any of her shenanigans.
And I really didn't think I could stand Moon Chae Won back-to-back after "The Princess' Man," but so far I'm liking her quite a bit too. She takes no guff from anyone.
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Post by jewel on Nov 18, 2014 23:11:41 GMT -5
Episode 6:
Couldn't they have found another actor to play Eun Gee's father? Did it have to be the same actor who played her father in "The Princess' Man"? Really?? Is Korea that short on middle-aged male actors??
I'm really trying but it's hard for me to believe Eun Gee is so in love with Ma Roo already. First of all, I personally don't find Ma Roo that attractive. I mean I like him all right but he doesn't do much for me as a man (I don't in general like guys who are prettier than me). So it's hard for me to swallow the fact all these women are falling all over themselves for him. And then to believe that this calculating, hard-headed Eun Gee has fallen for him so easily like that... I don't know...
I'm kinda "SLS"ing on Attorney Park. Sorta cute in a nerdy way.
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Post by jewel on Nov 24, 2014 23:45:52 GMT -5
(I don't in general like guys who are prettier than me). Okay, you know I'm joking here, right? Cuz like EVERY K-actor is prettier than me. Sad, really... Episodes 7, 8, 9: I'm really liking this drama. I haven't really cottoned up to Ma Roo but certainly liking him better than I did in the beginning. One thing i really do like about him is when someone is talking to him, he REALLY listens. He's not looking somewhere else or formulating an answer or anything. He just listens. And when the person is done talking he doesn't jump in with an answer. He waits and thinks and just lets the silence hang for a while. Very intense and interesting. Another reason I like this drama is that the two lead characters are not push-overs. I hate it when the leads are so nice that they take whatever people dish out to them without them being able to say or do anything. Ma Roo and Eun Gee really can give as much as they get. Love it! I don't get the frustrated headaches I get from the too-nice leads. The last thing, the evil girl Jae Hee is not as hateful to me for some reason. A part of me really despises her for what she's doing because believe me she is some piece of work, but another part of me feels sorry for her. So I'm not getting the "Ooh-I-Hate-You" headaches either. Still too much back-stabbing and underhanded things going on for my taste, but overall very exciting and entertaining. |
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Post by TheBo on Dec 2, 2014 15:37:16 GMT -5
LOL, jewel, now you know how I feel in the echo chamber. How many episodes are there total? I won't be watching it, I'm just starting on My Love From Another Star (I think that's the title) and finishing Mrs Go, and then I have to sit down and watch all of Shin Don.
Bo
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Post by jewel on Dec 2, 2014 21:01:10 GMT -5
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Are you gonna start a thread on this? Or just watching for your assignment? If you're doing a thread maybe I'll join ya. Have to watch this sooner or later anyway to make my mom happy. (Hey, I'm that kinda daughter!)
LOL, seriously I've been asking myself why in HECK I started a thread on this drama?!?! But I am enjoying it immensely. Am almost done with it. There are elements about this drama that is very refreshing. For instance, the she-devil Jae Hee is always trying to trick Ma Roo to fall for her again and come back to her. One time she really puts on a show and he comes running to her rescue. When he arrives, she goes into her usual spiel and in any other drama the guy would fall for her hook, line and sinker. As I'm watching this scene I'm yelling "Dont fall for it, Ma Roo. She's lying through her teeth." And I'm cringing as he opens his mouth to speak and what does he say? He says, "You disgust me. I wanna throw up." I started laughing and was jumping up and down with glee. It was just soooo SATISFYING to see the stunned look on her evil face!! Things like that is what keeps me watching.
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Post by TheBo on Dec 3, 2014 11:18:42 GMT -5
I'm happy if you're happy, LOL (and yes, that sounds particularly satisfying). If I can, I'll start a thread on the drama as you suggest.
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Post by jewel on Dec 3, 2014 21:35:44 GMT -5
Aww really? You my fwiend!! Speaking of, why do K-drama people (adults!) say to each other, "Let's be friends" when they meet and like each other? Isn't that weird? I've never in my life said that to anyone unless as a joke to an already-friend. I mean, either you are or your aren't. Right? Just think of the Little Engine That Could.  |
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Post by TheBo on Dec 9, 2014 14:21:05 GMT -5
Maybe your mom could make more sense out of that expression. What I have heard (and this is totally unsubstantiated BTW) is that in Korea, your family is more important than anything. Therefore, you don't actually CARE about nonfamily except in the socially polite, be correct to society sense. So you make your friends into your family instead--you call them brother or sister. Wait, I do have a point, give me a minute LOL. So maybe, you ask if someone can be your friend because in essence, you are inviting them into your family unit.
What do you think?
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Post by jewel on Dec 10, 2014 0:21:54 GMT -5
This is very true. Even living here in U.S. my mom pounded us on the importance of family. It's like the mafia and Godfather. "Never go against the family..." But like in everything she does she never just says "Family comes first." She's never that mundane. She would give us these little thoughts of her. Like why Koreans have their family name come before their individual name - because, she would say, for Koreans, family is more important than your individual self, so your family name is always written and said first before your own name.
And she really believes in family sticking up for each other and sticking together. When we were little and we'd break something while rough-housing, she'd ask who did it. Of course we wouldn't confess. She'd then say if one of you tell on the other that one person will get punished and the others won't but if we didn't speak up we'd all get punished. Still silence from us (we were no stool pigeons, believe me!). She always ended up not punishing any of us and we'd know she was secretly happy none of us spoke up against each other. To this day, we never tell on each other. About anything.
In Korea, when you call someone brother or sister it doesn't mean they're like family to you. Because Koreans cannot call a person who is older than them by name they resort to calling them "hyungnim" or "noona" or "oppa" or "unni." Or some other title. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's indicative of how close the relationship is. They have to be called something.
But on the other hand, those are the names you call your real brothers and sisters too. It's hard to explain. My brothers and I grew up not allowed to call each other by our names. Well, my big brother and I called my baby brother by his name but my baby brother never called either of us by name and I never once called my big brother by his name.
Gotta tell you a funny story. I call my big brother "Oppa" as you guys prob know. Well, growing up that's what I'd call him in front of my friends. I guess they thought it was his nickname cuz they all called him that too, which was fine. Then one time one of my friends introduced him to her mother. She used his real name and then said, "Or you can call him Oppa." To her mother! I almost died! It was funny! I was like, "Actually, she really can't..."
This is a very plausible answer. But I don't know. I'll ask my mom.
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Post by jewel on Dec 10, 2014 23:01:05 GMT -5
Okay, I finished this drama a few days back and was debating if I should do a write-up. And I decided what the heck, sure.
I really ended up liking Attorney Park a lot, I have to say. The first time I saw him sitting there beside Eun Gee's bed while she was sleeping I just liked the way he looked. And throughout the drama I liked him. Then when he says to Attorney Ahn, "Do I have to have her, just because I love her?" he just won my heart. His was a very unselfish love.
But here is my favorite scene by far. It's when Ma Roo and Jae Hee are sitting on the bench in the park and he says how he should've made her pay for her crime back then. That that was the moment everything went bad for both of them, that it was from there on she didn't know what was right or wrong, that he made her that way. I loved this scene because this is exactly what I thought too, but I love this scene also because so many times in dramas I would say to myself this should've not happened, or he shouldn't have done that but the character never admits he did wrong. This is the first drama where a character actually comes to recognize where he did wrong but also admits it aloud. I was crying along with Ma Roo and Jae Hee. My heart really ached for both of them.
This drama is saying you have to pay the price for the crime you committed, no matter what. Or the consequence is even worse. I love dramas that teach important values as well as entertain.
Unfortunately I did not love the ending. I don't mind flashforwards too much if all the problems are resolved in the present and then gives us a glimpse of the future. In this drama, nothing is resolved in the present. We don't actually see anything of Ma Roo's surgery or Jae Hee turning herself in. And then it jumps to seven years later and we have to figure out how everything worked out by what people say and do. No, didn't like that at all.
But overall a good drama. Very exciting and suspenseful. All the characters interesting and refreshingly different (from what I'm use to).
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Post by TheBo on Dec 23, 2014 12:09:23 GMT -5
Excellent. Excellent. LOL...
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