Alexandra Leaving

When I saw all your posts with posters, screencaps and happy feelings about the new Taiwanese drama "Summer Desire", my fate was sealed. It has been a while since I watched a Taiwanese drama (the last one was "My Queen") and I really liked the look of this one.



But! The first 5 minutes of the drama, and we get to hear the main herouine's voiceover: "But because of me, hatred ran deep between the two. ..Perhaps I am inauspicious . I made them unhappy…" Please tell me I am not hearing what I am hearing, because what I am heating is "It is my fault they are fighting.. I am unlucky. I made them unhappy". What sort of misogynist, "women are the reason men turn to bad things", drivel is this????? I will give the drama a bit of credit and try to ignore the introduction for now, but I will be on my guard.

Male leads:
- I don't mind Peter Ho as Ou Chen so much. He is no Adonis, but providing he angsts a bit more in every episode I think I can learn to like him. There is intensity in him that I find very appealing.

- On the other hand, Huang Xiao Ming as Luo Xi looked fine in screencaps but in motion he has a weird slightly sleazy smile. AND he wears pink cardigans.

PS: Cinderella's sister : the end : I am so so happy! There was an angsty deep in the middle of the drama, but overall it was a very much feel-good drama of spring. It told quite an unusual story (take me right, I love romance as much as any other person, but some interesting family relationships were an additional bonus), it had good script, amazing settings and excellent actors. My ratings: 7/10

This is so EEEEEEEE!

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Happy birthday dangermousie! I wish you fulfilment of all your dreams and wishes and also many many good fandom things: dramas, films and books! Kim Nam Gil is sending his "Happy birthday" too:



Today! The first episode of "Bad Guy"! Is out!! I have watched it raw (no patience!) , could not understand a thing, but have understood as much : the drama is fast-paced, beautifully filmed, sexy, complex and dark. And Kim Nam Gil has very long eyelashes. I might get terribly obsessed. I want subs!!!!!!!!!

( Screencaps of the episode 1 of Bad Guy. Not all of them are worksafe )

In other Kdrama News: Cinderella's sister episode 17 was fabulous, lovely and more. ( My thoughts on the episode 17, with screencaps )

It is safe to say now that Cinderella's Unni has been a great success with me. Through this drama I realised one thing – it wasn't just a fluke that I liked "Family's Honour" so much. I think I love family dramas in general, where alongside the main couple's romance I get something extra: various relationships between siblings, parents and children, grandfathers and grandchildren and others. This gives me a feeling of belonging to the story somehow. Episode 15 of "Cinderella's sister" had some very strong and intense scenes between the mother and Hyo Sun. I really applaud both actresses, Seo Woo and Lee Mi Sook. It is even strange to remember that I disliked Hyo Sun so much at first. Her character has become clear to us through the cause of the story , the creators managed to introduce us to her point of view and her inner thoughts very slowly, bit by bit.

And on the whole, "Cinderella's Unni" is such a girl power drama. The focus has never shifted from Eun Jo and Hyo Sun. I am absolutely loving this.

In this regard, the episode 15 had an amazing scene of "Eun Jo shows the Evil Brother number 1 who is the boss". Ever since the evil brother N1 was introduced, I have been waiting for this. I cheered for Britain and the whole world combined, because smart girls rule!



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My sincere apologies - I am still behind with answering the comments!

Cinderella's sister
I loved the episode 13, I think I have settled in this drama and I am in love with every character, including secondary and evil characters. I am also in absolute love with the location of the farm. The place is absolutely fabulous!

There were some very intense moments in the episode 13, but my favourite still was "The evil brother number two gets a decent haircut and asks Ki Hoon to introduce him to Hyo Sun". Awwww! This was so cute. Also it seems there is no love between the two evil brothers, and may be the brother number two (and the brother number one) aren't that evil and everything is the result machinations of Ki Hoon's father (who is surely evil :D) :



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Personal taste/Oh My Lady
I am following both of these, in a VERY fast forward mode, and my conviction is set: these are not-bad-but-pass-and-forget dramas; I will remember the first one more for good kissing scenes than for any coherency (also warning: don't watch it if the rights of gay people are close to your heart) and the second sadly falls by the wayside in terms of chemistry between the leads.

Prosecutor Princess
Seeing the subs are coming nice and fast, I have finally started "Prosecutor Princess". I am loving it in big way, mostly for snappy dialogue, fresh characters and electric combination of Park Shi Hoo+Kim So Yeon.

But there are two very distracting moments in this drama:
- Ma Hye Ri's terrible haircut. The hair stylists resonsible for the drama couldn't have chosen a less flattering haircut for gorgeous Kim So Yeon even if they tried, and they almost succeeded in making her ugly. As a haircut purist, I also must point out that this horror CAN NOT be a creation of any designer hair salon (as it supposed to be). Not unless all the hairdressers in the salon are on drugs.

- Ma Hye Ri's atrocious clothes. I refuse to believe these are purchased from any of designer shops (I haven't seen anything as ugly anywhere), and if they are, they matched in a "lets make it as less colour and shape coordinated as possible" way. This is not Cordelia, and this is not the girl from "Legally Blond": both of them had some very bold , but cute outfits. This is a mad chick who thinks that orange, purple and green go together in one combination (plus yellow shoes). I am going to make a special post about Ma Hye Ri's clothes because these clothes are totally post-worthy. Again, because I have not a passing interest in clothes, every single outfit of Ma Hye Ri's hurts my eyes and makes the drama less believable (designer shops - NO WAY!).

In short: this was the best episode so far.



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Finally, I think I have emotionally bonded with both Hyo Sun and Eun Jo.
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Cinderella's sister episode 8: this is so wonderful, amazing, full of angst, perfect, fantabulous:




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I really hope that the kissing scene will take place in the next two episodes, I think it is about time, or they both will simultaneously combust.

Very very long preview. OMPH! Some very interesting developments.

I don't want to spoil anyone, but saying Taecyeon appears shirtless (in a vest) won't be spoilers, right? This was about to happen at some point? He has arms of steel but he is still such a baby-boy:



( Preview for the episode 7: )

( Preview for the episode 8, where Jung Woo proves that he has the arms of steel )

Tomorrow! Will be a new episode! I am still feeling quite "blah", but who really cares - tomorrow will be a new episode of "Cinderella's sister". Everyone on my friends list is loving it, the ratings have been slowly creeping up and I am happy. Speaking of ratings, I expect a big leap forward in ratings this week, now the pre-story is over and it is about time for Taecyeon - aka - Beast to appear. Who does look very cute, even with the haircut of badness (meant to emphasize his poverty?) and the ears of Dumbo (picture from lilcrush on soompi):



OMPH. THE EARS. THE EARS. He lost his weight and it all gone into his ears.