Happy Weekend Beanies!
Border has been awesome! Its greatness was uphill all throughout and that ending was amazing*talkaboutconsistencylol*.I've only watched 4(and a half?) Jdoramas but they've all left me satisfied and complete. They left me not wanting anything more. Well, except for a season 2? Or maybe it's just that I've been watching the right ones? Rookies is my favorite as I'm a sucker for that kind of drama. Pride and Orange Days were also good but I didn't see all of Love Shuffle. I thought it was good but I didn't want to see the ending. I couldn't stand Tamaki Hiroshi or his character or his character's girlfriend(or was it ex?). I'd watch Rich Man Poor Woman but I'm sick of that kind of dynamic. I've heard only good things about it though.

Oh Cheese, whoever thought that such a world filled with interesting and complex characters could fit in 16 episodes? That was what I wanted to say. But there's no denying that the drama lost its focus in the latter part. It got caught up in a certain arc, one that was stretched too thin.

I mean if they had gone for fixing the broken bromance(/trio) instead of a love triangle, that would've been great. I did like the Jae-woo and In-ha bits a lot though. I love that dynamic.

Imo, the chairman is the real bastard. I disliked more and more but loved that his douchey-ness was the catalyst to Jung's realization*whichprobablyshouldn'thave happenedinthelast30minutes*. Yes, he had good intentions. But it left people only with pain. I mean it should've been a win-win, really. Jung gets friends who are like siblings. The Baek siblings get a kinda family and financial support. And he could watch over his son. It could've made everyone happy. But if you look real carefully, it's messed up. You use two kids without a family to keep tabs on your son because he's "strange". In the end, it hurt everyone: Jung who found out that his father thinks something's wrong with him, the Baek's who find out that they were only like pets who were kept because they were "good" for his son.

I still love Cheese though there will always be that "it could've been better" but I can move past that now. There's nothing to be done anymore anyway. I'm actually surprised that I liked the ending. I mean, I hate that time-skip and the Jung-skip. How could you scrunch a complex character's growth in, what? Less than 30 mins? And I don't think I want to hear anymore piano-playing for a while. But the wrap-up was nice and felt quite right.

So I'll choose to remember CitT for the great things. It was so refreshing esp at the beginning. I mean, I wasn't the only so shocked at the asking out scene that I had to check if I really was watching a kdrama, right? I also love love love the music. Most importantly, it introduced me to actors with so much potential and changed my views on certain actors. I hope I see them again soon. And I hope to see more of Go eun in dramaland.

Anyone watching Mrs. Cop 2?

postponing all drama watching due to cheese-and-piano-trauma... decided to watch until the dramas end instead.

anyway there's more to Great Cheese Controversy saga..the latest one os the exclusion of PHJ from OST photo book... then there was controversy on KGE's interview (people said she threw some shades to PHJ but it was edited later)... All are so unclear and the only source translating it is the ever-'trustworthy' allkpop (and some netizens comments...but I need the actual news/interview translation/summary)... so I was hoping it'd be covered by dramabeans... but probably you guys already had too much stale Cheese last week....

Hey all, hope you doing great..

just wanna recommend Five Children/Five Enough because I am enjoying it alot.. It is a 50 ep family drama without all the stupid cliches that we see in these type of kdrama... So far really fun and the cast is great too..

Happy friday!!
I got knocked out by fever this week, still have trouble in eating but I am getting better

When I am resting cause I have nothing better to do, I remember that kdrama rarely has male character pretend to be female, I knew it sounds bizarre but since we have tons of pretty man in kdrama, it wouldn't be hard to make it belivable.
All the female that pretend to be male is never convincing, I get that in ancient time in better to conduct a bussiness as a man than woman but everyone is legit girl no matter how you look at them.
The only kdrama I knew is ma boy.
But j-drama has quite of it, they have kabuki for ancient time
There kuragehime/princess jellyfish when the male lead like like to dress up and manga has a lot of it.
What do you think? Did reverse gender bender interesting enough as story?

ah know i'm knew here, but please to ask if any of these drama would be recapped : Mrs cop 2, marriage contract or pied piper . .?? tanx

Tank u dramabeans for your great work when it come to dramas cuz ah cnt watch them
unless when they released dvd . . .all the way from Nigeria , a big tank U n great wishes.

I think QSD is really good, it just long and a bit draggy at the end cause they add 12 ep
If you like longer series, dae jang geum, dong yi, yisan, hwang jin yi

The shorter one
The moon that embracing the sun , the princess man, arang and the magistrate, the legend, chuno, hong gil dong, sungkyungkwan scandal

I read that Gu Hye-sun and Ahn Jae-hyun are a couple. How true is that?

The voices in my head told me I was supreme emperor of the universe, they also told me I was Batman, The Green Arrow, Superman and Wolverine at the same time, so they're kind of crazy.

Moorim School- I liked the show all the way through, even the ending.

I wish I liked the saeguk genre enough to try Six Flying Dragons. Actually how big is Sa-kwang's role? I love swordswomen maybe enough to actually try to watch a 50 episode drama.

I liked the first week of Marriage Contract.

I haven't watched anything else this week I've been watching Arrow.

So far enjoying
Mrs cop 2:the first season was bad but the second was much better cause i like the female character here then the villain in here is physco too.i like the villain if they physco because the character its more intrigue and this drama have comedic vibe too so far enjoy this series a lot

Descendant of the sun:I love this drama because The cinemathography Is totally EPIC and i loveee first and second couple arc i hope in the end they all together and dont die please(:

Signal:This drama Is totally AMAZING All people here should watch it.very recomended drama The best thriller action police time travel drama that i ever watch

OMHE:I like this drama if just they didnt go to love triangle arc or melo and still in light route ): but still this drama is recomended for anyone that like Fluffy sweet love triangle funny vibe

Come back ahjussi:Its mix between comedy and sad Story i love rain and oh yeon seo here their acting is great and Really really funny lol Totally recomended

Happy weekend, everyone!

My current Kdrama list:

Signal- Gahhhhh!!! Last week's episodes were just so heartbreaking!! Omurice!! I am sooo excited tho for the finale episodes. I believe in this team and I know they will deliver a solid ending. Can't wait!! :)

Six Flying Dragons - Another fave drama at the moment. It just keeps getting better and I do not regret all the weeks I spent on it. Yoo Ah In is so amazing and so is the rest of the cast! Unleash KillBangwon!!

Descendants of the Sun - Surprisingly, I am liking this. It engages me. And I like the fact that it's somehow different from my current kdama list and that the lead guy is a much improved version from the previous douche-y leads from the writer. I also like the fact that the main OTP actually talk about their issues like real adults. That if you're at that age, you don't swoon into love immediately. You weigh things and see if it works out. Love the second OTP as well. I also appreciate that aside from the romance, the leads take their jobs seriously and adhere to their ideals. I wonder if the title is about this, their professions and how it gives hope to people? On a shallower note, I find myself often pausing the episodes just to admire the beautiful cinematography and the pretty cast, haha! Son JoongKi chose his comeback project well!

Come Back Ahjussi - It's funny but I am not completely hooked on the story. My fave scenes are those with Rain and Oh Yeon Seo, as well as Oh Yeon Seo with Honey Lee. Other times, I space out or do something else. Will try to watch more eps.

One More Happy Ending - Hmm.. Still watching for the leads. Story has kinda fizzled out. Have yet to watch the last 2 episodes.

Youth Over Flowers (Africa) - Ahh, this show is healing for my Jungpal-ed heart. They are all so adorable and fun to watch!! :)

After Signal finishes this week, I've no idea what I'm going to watch. I drop just about every drama I start, even for the smallest of reasons, because any little plot hole or inconsistency I think I can ignore ends up bothering me until the very end. There seems to be certain kinds of dramas, like Signal and Misaeng, that pull me in completely and make me forget that I'm dealing with fictional characters in a fictional world, to the point that I find myself thinking about certain episodes and scenes long after they're over. Dramas like Cheese and Answer me 1988 didn't have that same kind of pull, but (controversy aside), I found were very well written and did a good job of giving you relatable characters living in a very realistic world (i.e. no ridiculous chaebols, evil in-laws, or abundance of forced coincidences and/or absurd scenarios used to drive the plot forward).

I think my biggest problem with some Kdramas is the way lead characters are written. It feels like the characters come second to the plot or story, even in romances. There are so many instances when I find myself laughing, because you have women and men acting as doctors, lawyers, detectives, but don't think, act, or talk like doctors, lawyers, and detectives do. Even when it isn't supposed to be taken seriously, like Mimo's job as the CEO of a match-making agency, I find myself wondering why (and more importantly how) a character even got themselves to that position given their personality and background. When you look at characters like detective Lee Jae Han in Signal, or Chief Oh in Misaeng, who live and breath their jobs, who work so hard to make progress and always find themselves falling short, it makes all those characters look like impostors.

This goes for personality traits as well. Characters are described as nice, or caring, or warm, but a lot the times that translates to naive, stupid, lacking a sense of self-preservation. You see this a lot with Candy-types, and it makes me want to pull my hair out when they trust just about anyone because they're so nice, and remain stupidly optimistic about even the most daunting situations. When I think nice, the character that best fits that description to me is Seol from Cheese. I like that she tends to put the people around her first, and always instinctively tries to make herself less of a burden, but knows when her kindness is being abused and stands her ground. Even when she comes off as a pushover in earlier episodes, it's very easy to sympathize with her character.

That being said, I find it super hard to find dramas with both fleshed out characters and an interesting enough story line. Any recommendations? I tried the first episode of DotS, but something about it threw me off.