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Post by Linda on Feb 21, 2010 2:57:44 GMT -5
Please feel free to start threads about the dramas.
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Post by mara on Feb 21, 2010 19:03:31 GMT -5
Please feel free to start threads about the dramas. Start a thread...oy....beyond my capabilities..... Oh, after reading some comments here and elsewhere, I went back to the dramawiki entry on Chill Princesses and see that the screen writer is the same woman - Moon Young Nam..... I wonder if that has anything to do with some of the same actors....from Chill Princesses to this one. Maybe the writer gets a choice in the ones that she likes to work with. Also if you think about it, there are quite a few similarities in the plot - certainly in the father and his early morning exercise routine.....three sons instead of four daughters but the same type of successful and messed up siblings.....plus a mother who is pretty much marginalized by her husband but still with able to show her influence..... I wish I knew some Korean person who could tell me if such things as this are going on now over there.....
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Post by mara on Feb 21, 2010 22:30:35 GMT -5
A lot of secrets in this one.....the father of the cookie woman and the mother of the middle son's wife - what's up with them? She is more than a housekeeper if she sits and eats at the table I think....
The prosecutor is just a complete cad - I wonder when he got engaged to the other woman if he just broke up with cookie woman...
And the girlfriend of the eldest son - has her kid in hiding somewhere....
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Post by brooklyn on Feb 21, 2010 23:39:27 GMT -5
She should've gotten Tae Ran Lee to come back too lol. I'm not Korean born, not even full Korean but I do know that times are changing slowly, but surely there.
I found myself liking the prosecutor guy even though he's such a loser and I don't feel sorry for Eoyeong. Any guy that ever broke up with me in that way could never even walk on the same side of the street as me. I know it's been 5 years, but he ran her like a dog and she humiliated herself in public. I think he was seeing them both at once but you know how it is in the dramas, he picked the one with a better background.
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Post by mara on Feb 22, 2010 12:59:23 GMT -5
The prosecutor is just too cold and calculating for me...the way he called Eoyeong to come and then No. 3 son so he would see her coming in with prosecutor's dinner.....
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Post by brooklyn on Feb 22, 2010 23:39:16 GMT -5
Isang saw him all over the other woman, so I hope Isang plays his cards right and not like when Baekho, Jinwu and the countless other K-drama heroes come on good evidence to bring down a baddie only to have it turn on themselves.
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Post by puppy on Feb 23, 2010 12:12:34 GMT -5
In so many of these dramas, the woman or man fixes on a mate and doesn't give up until they win. (Sua and Seonjae, Subin and Can't remember the name, Jingyeong and Han, now Isang and Weepygirl) I would never chase a guy that didn't want me. I have sneaky moves.
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Post by door60 on Feb 23, 2010 17:49:02 GMT -5
I really like this drama -- much better than the weekday dramas we had to suffer watching. I find it more realistic. The thing I hate most about the k-dramas is that there is a real lack of any sexuality. Now I know a lot of you out there are going to say that that is what you like about the dramas. But if you're going to write stories of adults becoming "boyfriend & girlfriend", you can't just think holding hands makes the man so happy that he's skipping down the street, or the woman so shy and coquetish that she blushes. I find the behavior so unrealistic that it turns to be ridiculous, and then I can't get into the characters and storylines. Quite frankly, the Asians, as a whole, are known for their sexuality (as evidenced by ancient works of arts, not to mention all their potions), and so why pretend that a peck on the cheek is such a big deal?
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Post by brooklyn on Feb 23, 2010 23:21:19 GMT -5
It's not just the K-dramas, in Jamaica our dramas were more on the conservative side too. There were no major making out scenes between married couples or boyfriend and girlfriends seen on TV. It was mostly left to the imagination. When I spied the few American soaps that came on out there, I was really shocked at what American daytime was showing. But with that said, even I get impatient sometimes with K-dramas for the lackluster affection shown at times and when they do show some, it's a bit over the edge. I still can't get over that make out session in Mom's dead upset between the eldest daughter and her Lawyer boyfriend/husband . Some Asians are wild but the majority still want to have that 'wholesome' image when it comes to that. I can hear the director saying, "Ok, for this scene, just press your lips together and hold that position till I say cut."
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Post by door60 on Feb 24, 2010 13:47:24 GMT -5
I don't want to see big make-out scenes either, but clearly they could elude to something more than grammer school stuff, once they go in for the kiss. The scene can then fade into some other scene. There just needs to be some evidence that there really is something going on, because otherwise the whole story is just ridiculous. Why on earth would a man say "she's my woman, and noone else can have her" if all they've ever done was have the one sided hug whereby one person just stands there like a wet noodle. It's ridiculous. Holding hands or putting your arm around someone is really no big deal, but in some dramas they treat it as though it's scandelous behavior. And that's where they lose me as a viewer.
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Post by brooklyn on Feb 25, 2010 0:06:56 GMT -5
The kiss scene fading would definitely be a hundred times better, dorrie.
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Post by door60 on Feb 25, 2010 18:39:58 GMT -5
Glad you like it, Brooklyn. Maybe, KBS will hire me as a consultant!
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Post by mara on Feb 25, 2010 19:13:53 GMT -5
........was have the one sided hug whereby one person just stands there like a wet noodle...... I've seen that so many times but it often is a one-sided relationship where the guy grabs the girl and she's not really interested...... Every so often though her hands will start to go around him like she means it as well..... I agree also.....it doesn't have to be x-rated but they could give us a little more to indicate that a couple is more than just friends.... ;D I always laugh at the beginning when it says shouldn't be watched by those under 15 years of age....
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Post by brooklyn on Feb 26, 2010 0:29:57 GMT -5
Dorrie, they definitely should! The writers/producers need a letter or an email from you and I would definitely back you up and send one their way too lol.
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Post by Linda on Feb 27, 2010 2:36:32 GMT -5
I'll never understand those one-sided relationships; one party is so obsessed and dedicated that he or she disregards the other's true feelings.
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