Signal is definitely the saddest thriller I've ever watched. I worried for the character and cried with them and that drama generally just mess up with my head with all its time paradox. And seriously, don't kill my awesome Det. Cha, show!!

One More Happy Ending is getting better. Love the pace and how everyone step up their game.

Rewatching Yoo Dain's Just an Ordinary Love Story because of OMHE. Boy, does that little drama still makes me bawling over it. There is just something about the matter-of-fact way it tells its sad story that always gets me.

Happy Friday everyone. Will be reading you all. *waves*

This week has been pretty underwhelming without new CHEESE episodes. Of all the dramas that are airing they had to cancel our favourite! SMH. And I'm glad to see the technical errors on DB have been resolved.

I lost my comments so posting again. Hope it does it come back.:)

Happy Friday! Survived another week -yay!
Enjoying CITT, SFD, Signal, IHL the most. Can't wait to watch Signal (Son Hyun-joo!) tonight -it's not time to go home yet?:(
It was nice of JB to cover interviews of the casts from CITT (Too bad we didn't get one for In-ha actress. I read she was not happy getting negative feedback on her acting). I am always amazed to find out how nice/intelligent actors/actresses actually are even though they play the hateful characters.

More interviews from Reply 1988- Park Bo-geum/Taek and Ryu Joon-yeol/Jung-hwan:
1. Park Bo-geum(23): "Doing Youth over flowers was my honor. I've only dreamed doing a reality variety show but that dream came true. I became close to Hyungs -An Jae-hong(Jung-bong), Go kyung-pyo(Sun-woo), Ryu Joon-yeol during the trip, which was the most memorable to me." Park said he didn't know about joining the show at all, and didn't know others were over there already. He said doing Reply 88 was his family's honor. He said Sin PD of reply 88 was very detailed and never got angry which made the filming more enjoyable. "And just seeing Na PD was incredible. I felt like I met the celebrity whom I only watch on the TV. No matter how many times I met him, I felt like I was watching TV."

About Husband hunting in R88, he said he never dreamed he was Duk-seon's husband. "Heri ssi said she knew because of media and interview, but I had no idea." He said he only knew for sure after reading the script of episode 19 and 20, and said he thought there would be twists (but there wasn't). He also said he cheered for Jung-hwan. "I thought Jung-hwan was the husband. I cheered for him as a viewer because his character was very attractive, and Joon-yeol hyung acted so well."

Park Bo-geum felt different from Taek - smile a lot, gave long answers and had wits. He said giving his all on one thing is similar. About Ryu saying he might'd gotten Taek role (from the show Taxi), "Actors were given characters fitting them. I think Sin PD gave everyone best fitting role. In audition, I didn't know which role they'd give me, because I did Sun-woo like character and Jung-hwan like (manly) character."

He said YOF members were similar to their characters in R88, which made the trip fun and made him happy."Joon-yeol hyung is smiling really pretty. Even to men's eyes, he is cool, and hyung who can learn a lot from. Gyung-pyo hyung feels like real hyung, and Jae-hong hyung is humorous. Trip was very enjoyable."
About behind the famous kiss scene in R88, he said he was shy but pretended he was not bothered. "It was first time I had a kiss scene in a show. I was very nervous, but pretended I was ok. I was very embarrassed, but I am a man after all, I should not avoid such thing." He said he thought that scene was a dream. "The scene Duk-seon touched her chest out of relief next day after the kiss was filmed later...

Hi Everyone! ....... I hope you are all doing well today.

The calendar says winter, but suddenly we have 90-degree weather! The much-forecasted (and much needed) El Nino rain is not materializing. It's a little concerning.

So it's been a week of my lovely mom showing me YouTube clips of Glamorous Temptation, because she's totally into it! Heh. ....... I know some of you here have mentioned before that the whole thing is "cray-cray." *laughing* ........ You guys are right, it is! Oh, but it's a good "cray-cray!" ....... That son-in-law! I'm not kidding, mom showed me a clip of the son-in-law cackling at his desk and going on about something as he's playing with a small cage/trap and a little plush, toy mouse!

Watched this week:

Six Flying Dragons - The Cheok Sa-kwang reveal---Very.Well.Done. ....... And the ohchik reveal to Lee Bang-won---Wow. The look on his face as he heard the words coming out of Sambong's mouth!

Remember - Uh oh, symptoms! ...... This is so not going to end well.

That's all for now. ....... Everyone take care and have a great Friday!

Missing CITT

OMHE: Watched Ep. 5 read recaps for Ep 6, probably drop it, the love triangle... why show why? We wouldn't be interested if there weren't a triangle?

Glamorous Temptation: Waiting this weeks subs.

Signal: Gotta save her.

Watched Poldark

J dramas:

Kazoku no Katachi, Kodoku no Gurume (S2), Otousan to Yobasete

C drama:

Legend of Qin

Happy OT Everyone!

It's been a nice, quiet 'commemoration' of Healer's first year on the Episode 20 thread. Some of the posts did not get posted with the technical hiccups, but when I locate them again, I'll post them.

*** SPOILERS (maybe) ***

Signal - Good through and through with such an engaging temporal paradox. Thinking about how the past could solve a crime or prevent a death, but ironically then cause the future to no longer exist as we know it. I call this a 'melo'-thriller because it never fails to deliver a twist that has me in tears. Even 'real' melodramas don't succeed in doing that!!!

CheeseITT - After reading the interviews, I'm more open to having a positive interpretation of all the obscure reactions and reasons behind Jung's decisions. I believe the manhwa never gave much explanation and I wonder if the drama might be more compelling or more frustrating if it went the same way. However, as a typical i-dotting and t-crossing viewer, I would like to get to know what all those weird characters' actions are about, and to see some resolution for all the 'bad' stuff that happens to Seol.

One More Happy Ending - I'm finally liking it a whole lot with Episodes 7 and 8. I like that all the characters and their ex-es have a turn to come forward in Ep 7, and of course, all the twists they add to each different sub-plot. After Angry Mom and My Love Eun Dong, I didn't think I could like Kim Tae Hoon's character in any role, however here, Gun Hak is sufficiently sympathetic and more nuanced maybe? Ep 8 had some LOL moments and sweet ones too. Loved the 'confession' of Ep 8. What a nice script! However, the subs were out of time. Anyone know where I can get the episode with better timed subs?

Moorim School - I'm waiting for the subs for tonight's episode. I hope it remains childishly cute, and that they will up the action. I'd like to see some real martial arts and a** kicking by the kids. We had a some last episode, and I want moar!

Madame Antoine - At times entertaining with a jerk of a psychologist I love to hate and side characters that don't make much sense. Han Ye Seul continues to be great to watch. I hope the plot carries through with what the show started as in developing the ahjumma psychologist a bit more and possibly the new 'patient' we had a glimpse of. So far I've found the scene of ahjumma psychologist to be more interruptions than adding to the flow.
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Hey there!

Not much happening although i had a rather weird vaguely paranormal thing happen this morning. I was sewing two pockets for my husband. I put away the needle and gave the pants to my husband. He puts the pants on and feels a sharp prickling. He put his hand into the pocket and finds two needles in the pockets I just sewed. On top of that, i dreamed of my dead Mom in her coffin at her funeral; her arms were frozen in an upraised position. Very unsettling, but i shall attempt to nudge this weirdness from my mind. Still, i hate when odd unsettling stuff happens cause the old Jamaican superstitious part of me rears its head when stuff happens.

Other than that, am getting ready for the launch of radishfiction.com on Apple/iPhone. I'll be serializing a story on it. So, yeah, excited.

Drama-viewing:

Signal: Sooo good. So much of the future, the present, and the past at stake.

All About My Mom: Is this finale weekend or not? I FF through the chairman/CEO love story. So ridiculous. Gonna be sad to see Mom die.

The Promise: A daily. Can't watch. Stolen baby at birth beginning. too stressing for me.

Six Flying Dragons: Love me an idealist warrior-turned prince going full on passionately evil. Writer-nim, i love you! You never skip a plot thread. Why, then, do we have to deal with Nameless?

Remember: Dear me! Was that a tear i shed for lonely isolated Nam Gyu Min?

Dazzling Temptation: Didn't have the nerve to watch this week's episode. Am wondering if our avengers will end up destroying themselves if they aim for total destruction of their enemies? And how did Prime Minister end up out of jail?

Am looking forward to Descendants, and to the sageuk drama with Lee Jun Ki.

I think that's it. Happy weekend, all.

So I have a two-day weekend for the first time in FOREVER, and I'm in the mood for some jdramas because they're less of a time commitment than kdramas .

Can anyone help me out with some recs? Movie recs would also be welcome - I'll leave a list of a few dramas I've liked, if that helps.

- xxxHolic
- Hanzawa Naoki
- Nobuta wo Produce
- Gokusen
- BORDER
- Date
- Honey & Clover
- Princess Jellyfish
- Nobunaga Concerto

Failing all else, I'll still have Answer Me/Cheese on rewatch, but I rather fancy the idea of being able to complete a full series in one day - something I can't do with kdramas.

CheeseITT -- the two lonnnng weeks wait is a torture !

Return of Superman -- I have not watched the actual episode yet, but I read about the final interview and goodbye by the Song triplets. And I already cried. I am not sure I can handle to watch the actual episode. I'm going to miss them sooo much.
On a side note, Rohui (or Rohee?) 's dad is sooo talkative. Looks like her parents are very health conscious when it comes to food.

Please Take Care Of My Fridge -- I heard about it but only watched it this week. I've only seen a couple of episodes. And I'm loving the concept. It's fun.

damn, my comment got caught in moderation.

Also, Signal - I wonder if they're going to manage to bring Soo-hyun back in the present timeline, or whether we'll have some horrible Sophie's Choice-like dilemma of either saving her or Oh Kyung-tae's daughter, or, well, fresh ways to torture us.