redfox -

I'm barely on ep6 of Angry Mom, but I can already see how Teacher Noah's character would be an easy one to just brush off and perhaps disregard. ...... But he's clearly the counter point to everyone else in the story.

Teacher Noah sees the "glass as always half-full", what with his trusting demeanor and total optimism----almost to a fault you could say.

But more than this, he's the character that represents what we, as human beings, should aspire to be....... if only society would let it happen. Sadly, there are too many dangers in the world.

My fantasy Korean vacation is to go to S. Korean and visit the following places. Hopefully, I can do this next year. hehe

Coffee Prince Cafe
Lotte Amusement Park
Namsan Tower
Gyeongbokgung (Korean Palace)
Korean Folk Village
Jeju Island
Namiseom Island
Teddy Bear Museum
Ride the KTX from Seoul to Busan
DMZ
Hongdae

where from “drama destinations” would you most like to go?

Honestly, any of those little hole-in-the-wall restaurants that serve sizzling pork would be just fine for me. :)

DLiL

Ahh, the courtroom scene, now that was some nice kinky role-playing ... No, seriously, great scene, and great build-up towards it so far. Not sure how they will survive the second act though ...

Ack! good luck in recovering your work! GO. FOR. BLOOD. Ahem. ^_^

oh that theft. I was just reminiscing, since Eurovision will be next week, how when it was once held in Tallinn they wanted ideas for the "postcards" or clips and held a competition. The theme was fairy tale. and I sent some, then they said I did not get picked. But when I saw the clips, there were 7 of my ideas. I just let it go, but maybe I shouldn´t have... though I was just a 20 year old nobody.
the clips are here if you are interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G5Gj6m6N98

and my ideas were: kissing a frog and turning into one, three bears working in a puppet theater, ghosts in a nightclub, seto women (in folk costumes) taking silver from the bankomat and flying a carpet and thumbelina fairy tale connected with national mens choir (where you can see my dad in the clip :-)) not that the whole scenario was mine but the main point, the main idea of what happens. dah. oh, the laughing princess too.

now I have begun to think, could I find my written ideas in their archives? silly me, I did not copy them - that time I had no computer and we didnt have many copy machines in companies even. camera? well, my dads´black and white zenit but...

I'm so sorry about the person plagiarizing your post. Very tacky of them. Usual nowadays unfortunately.

I wish we had a korean supermarket. there is one shop that sells spices, vinegars etc, but that is not specifically korean. there is actually a korean restaurant on my way to supermarket, but I would feel weird going alone and I have no one to go with in Tallinn.

Carole -

"It’s not really a hate-watch ..it’s more of a WTF-watch."

*giggle* ......oh my goodness, things must have really gone downhill!

Have a great weekend also.

I forgot Ex-Girlfriends, it is funny. ! guy 3 (not 4?) exes in one room- ouch.

I recommend W&C, Carole, it it high quality kdrama. The type where you can't believe an episode is over,t's so good.

I am not allowing myself to be disappointed in In Sang, yet, because I am holding out for a surprise instead of what looks to be a typical chaebol route. Please!

Re; Grapevine;

I was not so surprised that In Sung is swayed and shocked with what his parents told him. Though his dad is very fond of Machiavelli's idea when it comes to his business, I think he has been installing Confucius's filial duties in their children very deeply. I have been there so I do know how difficult to decide to go against our parents while finding serious faults in them . For all those years, someone like In Sung was taught to be a filial son and he learned what is right and wrong( which ironically his parents never follow). He wanted to be the filial son but at one point he started seeing his parents with his own eyes but he was deeply in denial with what he saw in them. Now the true nature of his parents are revealed so openly in the most appalling manner,,, he is shocked yet he was too shocked to know how he can handle the truth. But I get a feeling that In Sung just decided to do something against them(His eyes in the end of the last eps! He is very angry.)

I remember that there is a scene where the main secretary was telling that In Sun'gs father has not inherited from his father,,, because there is a problem with his father's will. I wonder what is the problem and also wonder if this delay of execution of the will is somehow related to the list of In Sung's inheritance. In Sung should realize that even his parents were willing to show what and how much they are willing to give to In Sung, knowing how evil and self righteous they are, there is a great chance that they would not pass his inheritance so easily. He might have to wait to get it till they die or worse( like his father's case)! In Sung need to wake up!!

Smelly Girl

There was one suspense thingy that gave me shivers: The date of MG and CR in episode 13. It was way too long, way too happy and adorable for NOT being a harbinger of doom. You can imagine how I chuckled when I noticed the hair colour of a certain person towards the end of the episode. Nice try, writer-nim, nice try.

Ex-gf

Wow, I hate the female lead character. And the male lead character. Really like the show.

Grapevine

I'm absolutely irrevocably and helplessly in love with this show. I wanted to have this conflict between In-sang and Bom, but I really didn't think they would dare to go that way. Wow. Now I really don't know what else I would like to have, I'd like to have several different versions of the show with completely different endings.

: just because a person is ridiculous doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous.

Spot-on in every way. And I'd argue that Attorney Han and his wife (and their friends) are even more dangerous BECAUSE they are ridiculous. They have all this power but the mental and emotional maturity of five-year-olds, which makes it even worse for any rational adult trying to deal with them.

I've long said that the teenagers in this story were more mature than the adults, and we really got to see that in spades this week with Bom. I'm disappointed in In-sang too, but I'm glad the story tackles this clash between them even at the risk of their marriage. It's been the one thing that underpinned the entire drama, and to have it unravel is going to switch things around in ways I can't even imagine.

Agree with the Smelly comment. I tried to watch this, but gave up after 3 episodes. The WTF pile just got too big to keep shoveling it out. I can put up with a lot of stupid things in dramas, but when things get to the point where people do things that no normal person EVER would do.. Meh.

Grapevine on the other hand I think is my only GOTTA WATCH IT! drama ATM. Loving this clash of old Confucian tradition "Emperor Syndrome" vs real life and the modern world.

re: Grapevine, seeing Bom break this week finally drives it home just what an emotional tightrope she's been living on ever since she got in that taxi with In-sang. She's brilliant and adaptable and has done her best to win her in-laws' approval and gain a place in their world (and was even successful for a time), but she also makes a very handy scapegoat for her uncle's actions, or the actions of literally ANYONE who displeases the senior Hans - including their own children and staff.

And her only real supports in that precarious position were In-sang and to a lesser extent, Yi-ji. But she's the one paying the price for their rebellions, since In-sang is the one who brought up the labour unions' matter with his father against her advice. And also because, judging by Mom's look at In-sang and Bom in the study room, seeing them in a happy and loyal, healthy marriage probably makes her feel all the ways in which her own marriage fell short (husband thinking he's entitled to cheat, for starters).

And something about the way that inheritance conversation between In-sang and his dad was concealed from us makes me think Dad didn't just use the threat of money against In-sang......there's quite a high likelihood he might have threatened Yi-ji's inheritance too, if In-sang didn't fall in line. Because it doesn't make sense for In-sang to do a heel face turn on his principles and roll over so quietly if it was just money being held over his head.

I love Grapevine - partly because it avoids nearly all of the silly overused clichés almost entirely, and seems a lot more realistic than most. So far nothing has happened that does not happen in real life.

My main worry this week is what will In Song end up doing.

I have this feeling that Bom is just getting very tired of this whole fake household and is getting close to just dumping it all in favor of a real non-plastic life. I hope she comes out on top in the end, but I can sense a lot of frustration with her right now.

Hi Owl!

Still trying to squeeze in time to checkout the EXO web series. I'll try to get to some this weekend & visit your posts to discuss. I skimmed your recaps-- trying to read enough to see what was going on but avoid spoilers, but it didn't work out well. The show looked cute though.

Smelly Girl:

Do you like adorable lead couples without nasty love triangles? Watch it.

You like plots? Don't watch it.

if she likes to route for puppies, definitely Shut Up Flower Boy Band. if she doesnt start humming that song, she´s broken.

and Liar Game.

if she wants a nice, breezy romance with an almost too perfect lead, Dal Ja´s Spring or Witch´s Romance.

and You from another star, a drama that has its own theme park. almost.

Here are my top 5 that I use to hook library patrons on k-dramas:

1. "Two Weeks" (Thriller featuring Lee Joon Ki as a guy falsely accused of murder. Well-written, tightly-plotted, fantastic acting.)

2. "Marriage, not Dating" (HI-LARIOUS romantic comedy with highly decorative actors.)

3. "Misaeng" (Really well written & acted.)

4. "Shut Up! Flower Boy Band" (Theme: "Corporate Rock Sucks")

5. "Vampire Prosecutor Season 2" (Vampire-Cop-Show Cheese w/a terrifying bad guy.)

If the person in question likes cop shows/scary stuff, then I'd add "Cheo Yong", "Ten" (s1 & s2), "Detectives in Trouble" (aka 'Crime Squad'), & "Possession" (aka 'Soul').

Tree with Deep Roots is indeed a great sageuk. Such a great cast - Song Joong Ki, Han Suk Kyu, Jang Hyuk - maybe with the exception of Shin Se Kyung, but she doesn't even play that major of a character anyway.

And quite creatively fused with real Korean history. I think it's sometimes overlooked amongst sageuks because it wasn't one of those epically long sageuks.

You're watching two great oldies but goodies!

Both of these dramas weren't initially on my radar b/c I used to stay away from sageuks and I do NOT like the horror/gore genre at all.

Not sure why I decided to check out Tree With Deep Roots, but I found it deeply interesting & entertainingas well as intense. I have since grown to appreciate sageuks as much as I like trendies.

With Master's Sun, I know exactly why I watched it. On the end-if-year review everyone raved about it so I broke down & gave it a try. Loved it.

Enjoy!

Master's Sun is one of my all-time favourites, and entirely because of OTP chemistry. I loved that drama SO much, and So Ji-sub and Gong Hyo-jin are magical together. I want them to reunite for another project!

You make it sound as if the show is unpredictable by nature. I definitely don't feel that way. It's more like: I know what's supposed to be happening now, but they cannot really do that, can they?

About the overdue direct (by comparision) attack on Bom/In-sang, I fully agree. It was bound to happen, and that didn't take away anything from the emotional impact of the cynical joke it is.

What I didn't expect yet was In-sang's immediate faltering. I knew that this inherent conflict had to be addressed at some point, but for him to break right now when Bom is most vulnerable herself, that was cruel. And awesome. But mostly cruel.

(I slightly disagree about the acting, btw. I thought that it was the first time that I started to see the "strings" in Go Ah-sung's acting. It was the most challenging part, yes, but she was flawless so far. She's still fantastic.)