Korean drama: Wednesday / Thursday ratings war: sitrep

It is getting interesting already!!!! I am a total number geek and nothing makes me happier than analyzing percents. My be programming.

Some of the things are going as predicted, and some are a total surprise.

In order of ratings:
1) Cinderella's Sister is doing the best out of the bunch (with ratings 15-16%). No surprise here , Moon Geun Young is an awesome power. Judging by everyone's posts saying good things about the drama , I think the ratings will go up when the story gets going.

2) Personal Preference is not doing too badly (ratings 11-13%) as well, which is to be expected from a drama employing two huge stars (Son Ye Jin and Lee Min Ho ), but the ratings seem to have dropped 1.5-2 % since the first episode. Hmm, this is not a very good trend which usually means that some of the people who watched the episode 1 didn't like it too much. But this can be a fluctuation as well. Have anyone watched "Personal Preference"? Is it good?

3) Prosecutor Princes: the lowest ratings so far (7-9%), but with an upward trend of 1.5-2%. This is where the 1.5-2% of the viewers who at first preferred to watch "Personal Preference" went. This is a very very promising trend – I hope "Prosecutor Princess" will be an unexpected hit like "Queen of Housewives"!!! EEEEEEE! I cheer for Kim So Yun and Park Shi Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: Also, in Monday/Tuesday slot female-centric period drama "Dong Yi" has ratings of 12%. Hmm, not too much at the moment, but the drama is very long and these long dramas often pick up ratings as they go.

Pick the stars: the end

EEEEEEEE! I have been really really good this week, finishing my unfinished dramas as if there is no tomorrow! "Pick the Stars" was a very typical Korean family drama; it was as far from any reality as you can get, packed to the brim with clichés, stereotypes and family love, but did it all well and made you feel better about the world. Can you find anywhere in the world a rather low intelligence lazy girl who would turn into a shrewd hard-worker the minute her parents die (simultaneously, under the wheels of a lorry sent by evil relatives)? No, I don't think so. But at the same time – isn't it nice to see this transformation happening (overnight)? And isn't it nice to watch the bundle of evil secondary girls, lost grandchildren, awful mothers, transplants of something I didn't even know existed in human body and all such things, whist having a cup of tea and a cake?

Needless to say, I enjoyed "Pick the Stars". I just wish the number of Pal Kang's brothers and sisters was a little smaller as five was way too much and that we also had kissing scenes sooner; leaving the kissing until the end of the episode 19 was not at all acceptable. But the ending is ridiculously good and satisfying to the extreme.

( To entice you to watch this: a couple of pictures of Kim Ji Hoon, who appears to be an underwear model )

Now I can watch "Cinderella's sister". :D

Cinderella's Sister or Taecyeon aka Beast

I am through the first episode of "Cinderella's sister", yes , I think this is going to be a big drama love for me.

I was digging around Drama Wiki for some trivia on the drama, and one thing made me laugh so hard I spilled my tea: apparently Taecyeon's nickname is BEAST. Just look at the picture below and please reassure me that there is nothing beastly about the cute boy Taecyeon. :D I feel I am so so old and non-Asian-pop-savvy.