Gu Family Book’s half-gumiho rises
by girlfriday
girlfriday: So, the posters are finally out for Gu Family Book…
javabeans: A poster is just a poster, right? It doesn’t mean anything or set a negative tone or portend doom or anything?
girlfriday: *awkward pause* *dodges question* Look, a squirrel!
javabeans: Because I dunno about you, but suddenly I’m a lot more nervous about things to come in this drama. Because if a poster is not merely a random piece of artwork, now I have to prepare myself mentally for glowing omniscient cat eyes of doom, flesh-eating diseases, and martial arts sequences punctuated by swooshy sound effects. I’m just not ready for that.
girlfriday: You’re forgetting the all-important storyline where apparently being a gumiho gives you really bad hair.
javabeans: From some angles (okay, just the one) Seung-gi looks pretty good. From all other angles, he looks like Chia Seung-gi. Except that I’m afraid to water him after midnight when he turns into Chia Gremlin.
girlfriday: He’s not… really going to look like this in the drama, right?
javabeans: …Do you want the happy answer, or the true one?
girlfriday: The happy one, naturally.
javabeans: Then no, the promos and stills and previews are all wrong. He will be simultaneously hot and adorable in the drama, which has zero chance of sucking. Even if Great Gatsby is watching. Waiting. Being totally inconspicuous like a good lurking hellbeast.
girlfriday: Yeah thanks for that. This is why I hate it when posters get released so late in the game. You get all excited based on a few stills of puppy in a ponytail, and then Wham! They hit you with the overzealous gumiho photoshop. I don’t know when he’s going to find time to fall in love and learn martial arts if he’s going to be so busy drinking blood, eating brains, and finding a cure for his necrosis.
javabeans: Well, if we’re going to have a zombie doppelganger loose on our hands, it seems fitting that he’d be hungry for human organs. Though admittedly, “Liverrrrr” doesn’t have the same ring as “Braiiiins.”
girlfriday: Who knows, maybe he’ll only want Cooooooow.
javabeans: Maybe he’ll buck the trend and be a vegetarian zombie half-gumiho Chia-Hero.
girlfriday: That would explain why he looks half-dead.
javabeans: Fingers crossed that the show’s half-decent.
girlfriday: Or someone eats our brains.
javabeans: I don’t like these odds.
Via iMBC
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51 hawoojinruinedme
April 4, 2013 at 6:28 PM
I dont know but I'm getting NARUTO vibes in this drama. The gumiho-in-him bit is strikingly similar with that of the nine-tailed fox trapped in Naruto'a body and is fighting to get out. Oh well. We'll just have to hope this show'll be good.
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lemondoodle
April 4, 2013 at 6:36 PM
More Inuyasha. He was half human born to a human mother and a demon father who had a beastly side he couldn't control and was a brash guy with big heart who helped everyone.
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hawoojinruinedme
April 4, 2013 at 9:33 PM
I haven’t watched the anime series but I do know Inuyasha’s general character description. Now that you’ve said it, the premise does lean towards being more similar to Inuyasha than Naruto. Thanks for the reference.
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52 Mee
April 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Hmmmm reminds me of inuyasha :)
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53 kfangurl
April 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM
I.. wasn't expecting this kind of tone in the posters.. But, this could still be good. Right?? :P
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54 afan
April 4, 2013 at 7:06 PM
Does everyone forget Kang Chi isn't kungfu master, he's a normal boy love to fight, it will be unreal if he's excellent at every move. The ones who good at martial arts are Suzy, YYS and SJ's characters. Don't you see he's beat up by other two? That's why he will attend YW's dad martial school later.
What I'm worry is Suzy because she's still stiff in the preview, hope she will improve, really. But I do love chemistry between them, so cute.
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55 Luz
April 4, 2013 at 7:14 PM
Someone fire whover made this poster.
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56 hanie
April 4, 2013 at 7:22 PM
Ohhhh.....
Sung Joon is looking FINE!!! That is all that important (right now) to me.
Question: Why do they makes Seung Gi looks older when he is in his gumiho form? makeup/shading/PS on poster #2 is a tad too much imo.
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57 Rem
April 4, 2013 at 7:31 PM
Is it a publicity stunt? I feel as though its already getting the attention it needs. If this poster actually does embody the tone of this drama, I don't about this........ *takes a cautious step back*
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58 jubilantia
April 4, 2013 at 8:47 PM
Hold the tears! All hope is not lost!
Remember how ridiculous the City Hunter posters were? And how well that turned out? And how rarely that inverse relationship occurs for every other drama? Wait. That last bit didn't help much, did it...
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59 rjem14
April 4, 2013 at 11:48 PM
judging from the responses/comment, it seems that most of it were anti-fan in disguise.... finding fault at its best.... just an opinion based on what i read
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haha!
April 5, 2013 at 12:13 AM
sadly I feel same...
This is one of reason I often skip recap/comments once drama starts. I just want to enjoy a drama without nagging.
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Pillowhead
April 5, 2013 at 5:08 AM
yeah, I, for one, am still excieted and think, "He will be simultaneously hot and adorable in the drama, which has zero chance of sucking"! for real. zero chance. and if by less than zero chance it does, I will still love it. :D
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juziil04
April 5, 2013 at 6:36 AM
Zero chance of suckinh! So true! I totally agree with you!! :))
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60 L'ánn
April 5, 2013 at 1:28 AM
Suzy oh Suzy...
Suzy and her signature blank face is a total winner. But, I'm hopping much more from Suzy. Enough of saying, she's still new, she's young, give her a chance whatsoever.. I want an improvement from her. Suzy need to show some effort. She should check how IU is doing with her weekend drama, IU and Suzy is only 1 year age different...
Go Suzy. I want to like you... more.
Good luck to Puppy Seunggi. Love you :-)
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61 juziil04
April 5, 2013 at 4:18 AM
I don't know, but I don't have that "feels" other people have towards Sung Joon. He only acted as leads in two cable drama shows (if I remember correctly) but not in any of the big stations in Korea. So basically, I kind of understand why he accepted this role. For exposure maybe.
As for Suzy and LSG, Wahh I'm totally buying their loveteam. Awesome. :)
I know. I'm such a bias person. Well same goes to others.
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redfox
April 5, 2013 at 10:41 PM
cause Sung Joon had us at Hello.
that´s why everyone is hanging on to his every however small appearance. it is like a good cake you tasted once in your life and it became the definition of cake to you.
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62 rightfighter
April 5, 2013 at 6:12 AM
Javabeans.. let me to ask you
why you make so many complaining and make this drama look negative, i'm really disapointted with your opinion. you can dislike something but please remember i and many people here would like to listen your opinion and you'll make such influence to us. you know this poeple ( lee sun gi and suzy ) is kind poeple who always give the best for us, i just want you respect their effort.
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juziil04
April 5, 2013 at 6:31 AM
I agree with you. It's not that I want to restrict dramabeans, I just wish that somehow, ooinions could be fair you know. Okay. Just saying.
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vella
April 5, 2013 at 6:47 AM
agree!
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franz
April 5, 2013 at 4:25 PM
wow, when javabeans make the same remarks to other dramas, it's okay. Now that they make these types of remarks to a drama starring your celebrities, somehow you're disappointed?
Puhlease.
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scnm
April 6, 2013 at 2:23 AM
agree with rightfighter
hey franz.. please use your brain before you comment
duhh..
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franz
April 6, 2013 at 3:23 PM
The posters weren't that great. DEAL WITH IT.
Not everybody is going bananas for this drama. Just because they made a blog post ridiculing the posters of this drama, somehow, made them so negative and "not acknowledging Seung gi's or Suzy's efforts"? You're the one who needs to use your brain, no matter how dead it is.
They've made fun of just about everything, and now they've made fun of this drama somehow they're making this drama "look negative"? If we're going by that stupid logic, might as well say they made every drama look negative.
"You can dislike something but remember your opinion influences others?" So what are you gonna do about it? Make THEIR OPINION conform to what you wanna hear? That's just powerfully stupid. Why would you remind them that their opinion can sway others? That just means your concern is highly motivated by your bias, and that's why you're disappointed. Funny thing is, no one has to change their opinions on something just so you can re-blog or re-post their "praise" or whatever helps you sleep at night or some other crap.
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Wood
April 6, 2013 at 11:39 PM
tsk.. its funny when you are dislike something even if you have not know it all,, and make judge this or that bad. its even its not airing yet,, you cant make valuation just by poster.. and hello.,. some people here look okay with poster, or maybe i would like to telling you is you are kind of poeple who cant appreciate what poeple do and it end like you cant do anything in your life.. hey franz.. you need your use your brain if you cant use your heart properly
scnm
April 6, 2013 at 11:48 PM
thank you, agree with wood 100%
franz
April 7, 2013 at 11:01 AM
@Wood they're judging the posters, not the drama. Can't you read?
63 mercury
April 5, 2013 at 7:31 AM
tsk.. tsk...tsk..... trying to put the drama down by saying all those negative things about the poster????? what a shame!!!!
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64 yurimo
April 5, 2013 at 8:29 AM
i already fall in love with this drama and i dont care what javabeans said about. its even not ODD over all, javabeans's revie is the only one that i know is really odd. sound kind of hater and full of prejudice lol :D now, i even start to support suzy and love her.
gu familly book hwaiting!!
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65 Starstruck.
April 5, 2013 at 8:46 AM
Seriously, what is with the sudden influx of negative comments on LSG? To be honest, if you really don't like him or whatever then don't watch it. No one is shoving this down your throat. It also does not hurt to put comments in a nicer way. Constructive comments are welcomed but some comments are just plain ridiculous and seem to me to be anti-fans trying to bring him down.
Watch the trailer people, the trailer is pretty darn good.
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yellowegg12
April 5, 2013 at 9:04 AM
lee sung giiii............ as gumihooo
so sexy... its killing me.. kekekekekeke..i like it :XD
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hhisc
April 5, 2013 at 9:27 AM
thank you, I agree
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ayow
April 5, 2013 at 9:34 PM
it was always like that before the drama starts. dont worry about it as long as we're enjoying it. and honestly, it is worse for suzy, i mean, people bashed her a lot. i hope she could prove that she could do better than what ppl expect her to be.
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66 yosh
April 5, 2013 at 9:04 AM
sung joon!!
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Meme
April 8, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Seung Gi !
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67 FlowerSpring
April 5, 2013 at 9:08 AM
is any problem with posters? everthing look OK for me, darn guyss.. dont be so noisy right., if you have nothing nice to say you better silent,ok this drama 'll be DAEBAK you should know it.
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68 YanNie
April 5, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Agree with wanne, starstruck, flowerspring. I don't find the article is funny. i have no idea what's the purpose of this article? The drama not even started. But the vibe from DB is already so negative. But well, this DB's blog, so the DB's ladies have rights what they want to write/ critize etc. So i have nothing to say.
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mercury
April 5, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Yah... it seems that they trying to influence readers not to like the drama with those negative remarks ....
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ayow
April 5, 2013 at 9:39 PM
oh come on, these posters are pretty bad. (okay, really bad honestly.) but at least they still have hope that its gonna be half decent. hahaha and i dont think they're trying to influence readers not to like this drama. if it turns out to be pretty darn good, then ppl who hate it gonna swallow their own words so dont worry about it!
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franz
April 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM
ORRR THEY'RE STATING THEIR OWN OPINIONS.
"OMG, they made fun of the posters.....therefore they want to attack this drama and they don't want people to see this drama!"
psychopaths.
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lemondoodle
April 6, 2013 at 5:19 PM
You are seriously too upset.
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franz
April 6, 2013 at 6:40 PM
No, I'm just being objective about this. Only rabid fans would go apesh*t about some blog post meant to ridicule posters (which aren't the best posters, in the first place, so the justification of ridicule isn't far off the left field). Look at what these fans are saying first before pointing at my post.
Wood
April 6, 2013 at 11:44 PM
agree lemondoodle..!!
Franz You are seriously too upset. how can you be objective if you are too upset.. lol
franz
April 7, 2013 at 11:02 AM
@Wood haha as if I'm the one crying foul over their comments.
69 arraseone
April 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM
LSG Oppa~ SUZY-ah~
Fightiinggggg!!!
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70 aira
April 5, 2013 at 12:27 PM
i love the second poster, but it would be great if there's no suzy in that poster, just 'the bad and good lee seung gi"
If this drama go the dark theme, when the half gumiho want to be the full gumiho, and the half human want to be the full human, i think it would be interesting ^^
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71 Lizzy4e
April 5, 2013 at 1:06 PM
omo omo omo, I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Cha cha cha chia Seung-gi.
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72 nomoyepo
April 5, 2013 at 5:04 PM
cham na !!! DRAMABEANS , DONT JUDGE THE DRAMA BY just THE POSTER ..watch the TRAILER first and judge it..ahhh silmang isuuuuuu
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73 Amanda
April 5, 2013 at 5:38 PM
At least we can all be satisfied by the AWESOME sageuk Sung Joon in the background of that group pic. AHHHH!!! So excited. He better be present at least once in every episode. This guy is too good to go back to being some supporting actor (though next to Seung Gi...). He's been in the spotlight and has proven himself as deserving to be there. Three cheers for Seung Gi and Sung Joon!!
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PM
April 6, 2013 at 4:30 AM
Huh where? Sorry but I don't pay attention to people in the BACKGROUND of a group pic.
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74 YanNie
April 5, 2013 at 8:34 PM
Ooops, typo error, *criticize i mean. Yes, mercury. Agree with you, it feels like that. I think it's not fair to give a negative vibes when the drama is not even airing yet.
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75 rai
April 6, 2013 at 2:08 AM
I dont know, this jst reminds me of kikiyo & inuyasha
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76 scnm
April 6, 2013 at 2:31 AM
kikiyo and inuyasha,, YEAH!!!!RIGHT!!! this drama make me remembering about that two..
but.. somehow when i think " Choi Kang chi is Our Naruto" lt always make me smile lol :D
Make me excited..
anyway.. i loved to see suzy wear hanbok from the poster..
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77 Ivy
April 6, 2013 at 3:01 AM
The teaser looked freaking awesome! I can't wait to watch this!
Seung-gi is so so cute and Sung Hoon looked damn hot! :D
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78 Wood
April 6, 2013 at 7:13 AM
i found it!! the ost for Gu Familly Secret .. sound so classic.. so this kind clasicc fits for ost for saeguk drama, in korean soundrack is refelction of dram its self, right..
this is the video for OST "gu family book" sing at LIVE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZTVGo00uM …
awesome
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79 MM
April 6, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Dal ja's spring was a different kind of drama. It had these little twists to the normal drama stereotypes and was good . If it is same writer should be hopeful
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80 viave44
April 6, 2013 at 11:55 PM
i keep crossing my finger for this drama, Gu Familly Book Hwaiting!!
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81 Meme
April 7, 2013 at 5:23 AM
Seung Gi, Suzy and drama fighting ! It's gonna be awesome.
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82 ar
April 7, 2013 at 8:06 AM
The posters don't seem too bad. The only things that stand out awkwardly in them are...1. Suzy in the hanbok with unbraided hair and 2. LSK and Suzy smiles while everyone is looking serious in the grou poster. I am allergic to tragic love stories, but the preview part of the parents is riveting. I am actually shipping that couple more than the main couple. I hope to see Lee Yeon Hee and Choi Jin Hyuk as a pairing in another drama one day!
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83 Momolovexo
April 8, 2013 at 6:41 PM
I'm in love w/the show after watching just the first episode! So what if he's got DNA issues- no ones perfect! The human half seems pretty perfect to me. He can be the monster under MY bed. ;-) Keep up the good work.
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84 rani
April 15, 2013 at 2:31 AM
why i get feelling of watching naruto...???
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85 Hue
April 16, 2013 at 12:52 AM
suzy ~~
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