Korean Boys Over Flowers + the Poll!!!

[alexandral]

I think I am in complete minority with Korean BoF.

- I still like it very much; this drama is not in my top 5 but definitely is in my top 10-15 Korean dramas.

- I am still shipping JanDi/JunPyo. Gosh, Lee Min Ho is so gorgeous I will ship him with anyone until the ends of time.

- I don't ship Jan Di / Ji Hoo at all. This is a surprise for me because I had a soft spot for Lei/Shankai when he made the Meteor Garden for her, I shipped Rui/Makino with quite an obsession (I confess I even cried a bit at the end :D) and I really like Ji Hoo himself. But there is something in him that makes me think I would prefer to ship him with a boy and that moment he had with Jun Pyo sleeping in his bed sealed it.

- I am quite glad that we got a different version of the story and it is a Korean drama through and through, with over-the-top angst, mopping and all such things .

+ The only thing that is bad for me in Korean Boys Over Flowers is the herouine. I don't know if the problem for me is in her constant mopping because Makino did a fair bit of mopping in Japanese version too. I think I just don't like Jan Di, I don't see why Ji Hoo and Jun Pyo should like her, etc. etc. Koo Hye Sun looks older than the rest of the cast, I am not fond of her acting and she has a haircut that should be strictly banned from hairdressing.

Below is my attemp at a purely scientific poll I tried to make to find out your preferences:

[Poll #1363046]

Comments

[uisceros.livejournal.com]

I think I love you for saying this! I feel the same way about Boys Before Flowers; I still love it. I still ship Jan Di/Jun Pyo. And I'm glad it's different from the others as well (it would be boring if they were all the same!) I do, however, really like Jan Di ;)

I'm really surprised the fandom soured on BBF so fast!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, the jdrama is the only version I can say Ilike with any degree of honesty. I've never been able to be interested at all in the kdrama, hated the bit of the manga (or rather, I liked Makino, but loathed the men, and even if he had grown on me, I couldn't see myself liking him enough to sit through 30+ volumes of her having to deal with his issues) I read, and thought the first half of MG was ok, but the second half was mostly a case of horrified fascination for me. While I'm not as smitten with Barbie as everyone else is (she always strikes me as rather disinterested in her roles) I agree with the general consensus that Shancai is tougher than Makino. That same toughness, though, made it difficult for me to accept Shancai/Dao Ming Si, because the way it played out, it felt more like he wore her down than that he won her over. Plus, I never recovered from her "maybe it was my fault" monologue after he hits her, because it came across far too much like an abused wife/girlfriend defending her abuser, even though I know it wasn't the intent.

(As a tangent, I've also never understood why the various incarnations are always declared feminist for having a heroine who's tough and doesn't let people push her around, because that should be the expected norm, not an amazing, revolutionary shock. It just means it's doing one aspect better than other things do.)

[timescout.livejournal.com]

I'm still finding it entertaining myself. But I'm farely easy to please, I never seem to get irritated by the things many others do. I'm not a shipper so that's neither here not there for me, I'm quite happy with the pairings the writers deem fit to give us.

I do think that the scripts are all over the place and it has glaring WTF moments but things like that don't usually bother me much. I'm game even with glaring plotholes, ha.

As much as I love Lee Min Hoo's portrayal of Jun Pyo, Ji Hoo is my favourite character. I always favour the 'good guys' almost without a fail. ;)

[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the Japanese so I couldn't take 100% honest participation in this poll.

I had to go with Mei Zuo for Woo Bin/Akira because he was brought up in L.A. and his perfectly articulated English was so jarring. I actually like Woo Bin a lot (especially as they throw in the randomness and try to give him more presence) but I swear, Vanness Wu made me laugh the entire show.

I'm glad Ga Eul is winning :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I just posted a rambly comment on uisceros' lj about why BOF bothers me so much. Heeee - we seem to be polar opposites on this drama, as with Hong Gil Dong :)

I won't repeat what I ranted about so I'll just say that their scriptwriter drives me nuts with character inconsistency but he is a genius compared to their sucky editor :)

Also, it's the first drama where I don't ship the canon couple which means the scriptwriter is doing something very very odd indeed!

Oh, and MG is my favorite for all the categories except for Ji Hoo and Ga Eul. Oh Barbie, I love her so much!

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

I still adore BOF but there are parts that annoy me, like, the scriptwriters seeming to be confused with the shipping. I am actually partly leaning towards Jae Kyung/Jun Pyo and Jan Di/Ji Hoo. Although Ji Hoo kissing Yi Jung was the cutest thing from ep 19, LOL. I am also not hating or becoming too bored with the drama. My main problem is that some parts are just making me annoyed. I have to say that I love Evil Mother dearly, though, for having the glare that would kill a thousand cats, hah. I despise her character but to some small (tiny?) extent she makes sense, and the actress does perform a great job :)

[anaswings.livejournal.com]

Of course, I think that BBF is much better than HYD if we talked about the manga, because it's almost the same.
BTW, all the characters are nicer in Korea. I think so... =D

[joonni.livejournal.com]

I can't do the poll because I can't compare. I take the faults of the kdrama as a fault of the drama itself, apart from comparisons.

I still like the drama too and it still has good moments. I'm still going to watch it faithfully. I also enjoy this different version. I just wish they did it better.

I thought the haircut was okay but now I am beginning to see the awfulness of it, especially in still photos.

[lenra.livejournal.com]

the Japanese version is my favorite *but i like the korean version too*

but i have different answers to the questions "who is the best Sojiro, Akira and Yuki"? i have to answer the cast of the korean version, i like them better...

[tahnh.livejournal.com]

I am definitely feelin the Korean Version of HYD......Korean dramas always do best in the romance department but I favor the Japanese version solely based on the fact that I like the Japanese Makino.

I’ve tried to watch the Taiwanese version but it’s very slow paced and a wee bit boring. I don't know maybe it’s my short attention span or the fact that if something doesn't grasp my attention from the beginning I let it go.

But back to the Korean version I agree with some posters about the inconsistency of it all. I should be rooting for Jan Di and Jun Pyo but I find myself doing the opposite probably there is some sort of reason to all of this. It’s pretty exasperating when you know whats supposed to happen but I will stick with it because although it is annoying I also interested to find out how they will twist things back on track.

All around its nice to see the different takes on the Manga.

[prettierdanpink.livejournal.com]

no matter how much i love domyouji x makino, i cried so hard because of rui in hanadan 2. gah. rui x makino looked good together too!

but MG holds a very special place in my heart (first asian drama I've ever watched :P) so I consider it as my favorite ♥

Sorry, it's a bit long.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really surprised that Ga Eul is more popular than Yuki in HYD. I thought the interaction between Soujiro and Yuki was so much more then, because it felt more real and Soujiro actually looked like a playboy while I feel that the korean actor looks too much like a little boy and he doesn't have that playboy attitude that Matsuda Shota pulled off. I suspect that in the case of Yi Jung, people may be influenced by the appearance of the actor rather than his acting skills and his representation of the character.

As to Jun Pyo, he is definitely the best Domyouji that has come so far. He actually makes his character believable and pulls off the tenderness and violence that is in Domyouji.

As to Geum Jan Di - why has she ended up like every other Korean girl in kdramas (apart from a few of some of the recent kdramas)? Boring and lifeless? I mean she's meant to be this tough weed who could make it, but all she seems to do is cry. And unfortunately because Ji Hoo doesn't pull off a convincing Rui, when she was in love with him I actually felt like knocking her head because she was such an idiot. I want that tough weed spirit we saw a bit in Shancai and saw in Tsukushi even when she was in love with Domyouji.

To be fair, Jun Pyo should win an award - he has definitely shown who the real Domyouji is.

P.S. Why is it that the kdrama characters seems to be getting better results in the polls? - I know they're meant to better at romance (well someone in the comments above said this), but I'd like to introduce you to "Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake"," Last Friends", "Suekko Chounan Ane Sannin" or "Taiyou no Kisetsu". These are amazing jdramas which show you the reality of love which I feel many kdramas glance over or love to show you some ridiculously tragic dramas where one of the leads has a dastardly disease such as cancer and ends up dying.

Sorry, it's a bit long.

[christ-freak.livejournal.com]

I'm really surprised that Ga Eul is more popular than Yuki in HYD. I thought the interaction between Soujiro and Yuki was so much more then, because it felt more real and Soujiro actually looked like a playboy while I feel that the korean actor looks too much like a little boy and he doesn't have that playboy attitude that Matsuda Shota pulled off. I suspect that in the case of Yi Jung, people may be influenced by the appearance of the actor rather than his acting skills and his representation of the character.

As to Jun Pyo, he is definitely the best Domyouji that has come so far. He actually makes his character believable and pulls off the tenderness and violence that is in Domyouji.

As to Geum Jan Di - why has she ended up like every other Korean girl in kdramas (apart from a few of the recent ones)? Boring and lifeless? I mean she's meant to be this tough weed who could make it, but all she seems to do is cry. And unfortunately because Ji Hoo doesn't pull off a convincing Rui, when she was in love with him I actually felt like knocking her head because she was such an idiot. I want that tough weed spirit we saw a bit in Shancai and saw in Tsukushi even when she was in love with Domyouji.

To be fair, Jun Pyo should win an award - he has definitely shown who the real Domyouji is.

P.S. Why is it that the kdrama characters seems to be getting better results in the polls? - I know they're meant to better at romance (well someone in the comments above said this), but I'd like to introduce you to "Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake"," Last Friends", "Suekko Chounan Ane Sannin" or "Taiyou no Kisetsu". These are amazing jdramas which show you the reality of love which I feel many kdramas glance over or love to show you some ridiculously tragic dramas where one of the leads has a dastardly disease such as cancer and ends up dying.

[dianora77.livejournal.com]

I'm meming this and will come back to it after I've seen both the Japanese and the Korean versions. With all good will, I don't think I could sit through the Taiwanese one as well. LOL