Beans of Wisdom: Make dramas, not war

by DB Staff

This week in Beans of Wisdom…

In “The teacher has a crush on SBS’s Doctors,” comment #8, JesO guessed what Kim Rae-won’s character has been doing for the past 10 years:

Sadly, he probably was pinning date-less for 10 years; after all, this is dramaland where it’s perfectly normal not to have your first kiss till your 30.

There was some danger of a misunderstanding so mary stepped in with some PPL:

JesO was just kidding because dramaland likes to do that “Super Concentrated 99.9% Pure Love” thing.

A product Kreyon is familiar with:

With no artificial flavors, sweetners, or non-obsessive behavior! HP (healthy perspectives) Free! *may contain traces of fate and poor logic

PBY wants to warn the parents:

Hah! The necessary warning on every drama packaging XD.
*parental advisory sticker: features excessive wrist grabbing and steamy death-glares

and naimisha wants to warn all of us in general:

limited amounts of noble idiocy, second lead cliches added

Too late, everyone. We have come too far. We can’t stop now.

Just look at Mk who’s willing to sacrifice something for her dream drama in “More potential roommates for JTBC’s Age of Youth,” comment #17.1:

I would give a kidney to see a female-oriented psych thriller drama. Preferably not my kidney.

In “Vampire Detective: Episode 11” Itenoria summarizes the main cast in #16.

All I can say is, you’re a better person than me Gummimochi. For sticking with the drama and giving us recaps even though a ton of us have dropped it, I say on behalf of us all: thank you! Thankfully, Seo In Guk is just around the corner to get us all to forget about the manipulative undead (Yona), mopey undead (Yoo-Jin), whiny undead (Tae Woo) and the undead who has no idea he is undead or who is just messing with us all by acting like he doesn’t know he is undead so we would think he is unaware undead (San. Or as I like to call him, the riddle wrapped inside a puzzle wrapped inside a… you guessed it… undead!)

Over at “Jackpot: Episode 21,” Mikanjjj may have hit on In-jwa’s secret to a long life. Kdrama Villains, take note of comment #12!

I like injwa’s optimism. Even when he’s tied to a tree, pelted with eggs and awaits execution, he still believes it’s not over yet.

mIRIAd thinks it’s evolution:

This drama gives me a lexical anxiety: is the Korean word for cockroach ”yiinjwa”?
It’s not optimism, it’s the survival abilities of the species!

And while HeadsNo2 ended the recap with:

KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Browncoat_78 wants to go all scorched earth on us:

Fire? Not enough. We have to nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

In “Oh Hae-young Again: Episode 11,” Chandler tells us the actual moral of OHYA: Don’t be like OHY. Don’t be like PDK. Be a mix of both (#6.1.2):

Well, something I’m realizing is that the characters of Oh Hae Young and Park Do Kyung are like extreme representations of these conflicting aspects of myself.

OHY = the part of me that wants to shamelessly give 100% of myself to everything and to do so while cutting through all the BS, even though doing so can feel akin to putting myself on a dart board. PDK= the part of me that can only put out out 50% and less and less, the more paralyzed with fear I become until I’m at 0%. Fear of loss, fear of failure & pain, and fear of no acceptance and no control. And, yes, even guilt. In my case, I’ve come to accept the guilt was misplaced but I still retreated from a relationship once because I couldn’t handle how sorry I felt. I’ve become like both these characters at certain points in my life and, often, I’ve found these two aspects cause the other IF you can’t strike a balance between them.

These characters are extremes, but they pose such universal questions. How much can I give of myself to the world? And how much do I protect myself? This is why this couple has come to represent something beyond the romantic to me. No matter how dysfunctional they are, I can’t help but want them to find that balance with each other, even if I know that they need to find it within themselves first.

Ane just wants to rewrite the script and end it in two episodes.

Thank you for reminding me that DK did not want to catalyze her inferiority complex by revealing the truth. But still, I think having one more pain because of other OHY was much less of an issue for her comparing what she felt being dumped on her wedding day.
Remember when OHY first told DK that she was dumped on her wedding day:
OHY: I got dumped on my wedding day :((
DK: I know.
OHY: Ottoke arasso???
DK: I know your fiancée from business, and saw you two once before. And he did not dump you. I heard that they put him jail.
OHY: Whaa? But why?
DK: Dunno. Ask him.
OHY: *runs to visit the inmate*
*black screen, closing credits appear on the screen*
I guess that is why I can never be a writer.

Inggg thinks there’s something wrong with Do-kyung:

He reallly is flip flopping!! After all that “let’s see this till the end” and then “let’s end this”

so Oshi helpfully troubleshoots:

He got punched in the head and had his stupid light turned on

nodramayes lives up to her nickname in “Let’s Eat spinoff Drinking Solo lines up its drinkers,” comment #20:

My head be like : No…. it won’t be good
My head after 2 seconds : But it’s from the same showrunner and you will probably watch it anyway.

We were all surprised to find out that Woo-bin is playing a rockstar in “Kim Woo-bin rocks out for Uncontrollably Fond” but there’s something missing, so mary asked in comment #5:

But… where’s the rest of his band???
https://staging.dramabeans.com/2011/12/vampire-idol-episodes-1-3/

YY says it’s all in the show’s title!

They had to take a toilet break? Because it was getting uncontrollably uncontrollable?

while pogo answers on a more serious (relatively speaking) note:

both gone back in time (Mukadil went off to chomp on Joseon kings, Yariru to fight Goryeo princes for power and th e heart of a time traveller I guess?)
Which leaves Gabri alone and making questionable hairstyle/career choices.

logan5 found a solution to the OTP problem in “Beautiful Gong Shim: Episode 8,” comment #25.

So, I’m thinking the only way this drama can end on a high note, is if there’s law passed in Korea that allows polygamy … because seriously she deserves both of these guys, and they are both worthy of her and most importantly the only thing more tragic than clubbing a baby seal to death with a bag full of puppies would be breaking up this bromance.

In “Lucky Romance: Episode 6,” the beanies are starting to accept the idea that the show isn’t a full rom-com. What they can’t seem to accept is the misuse of denim. Miranda reacts to Bo-nui wearing a denim skirt over denim pants in comment #3:

…and I would just like to point out the the Crimes of Fashion continue with total disregard for the mental health of the audience. At one point in the show, Bo Nui was wearing a shin-length denim skirt over deeply cuffed jeans. That means not only was she majority denim, but that all but four inches of her legs were covered by not one but TWO LAYERS of denim.

I want to know who producing this show is in the pocket of Big Denim. This is ridiculous.

Meanwhile, Oshi comments on the sad state of female second leads in comment #11.2.1:

I actually like Gary the character. he dresses better and seems to have some real pathos to him. I dunno if it’s symptomatic or not but they always write better for men even when most of the writers seem to be women. i wonder why that is.

soapbox pokes fun at the uber-perfect lead in “Lee Jong-seok becomes gazillionaire in W–Two Worlds” (#9):

It’s a bird.
It’s a plane.
It’s Super Chaebol.

Though he is playing someone from a different universe, so I guess he gets a pass…

Finally, I’d like to end with love drama’s earnest reminder to all of us that we’re here to enjoy dramas, not fight, in “52nd Baeksang Arts Awards: TV Section” comment #76:

I am not a serious drama watchers. I do not see every drama so I cannot say that I can judge which drama is the best, who is the best actor or actress such a thing. However, I see a war between the fans. Everyone in the drama or the movie will try deliver their best performance, like the actors, the actresses, the directors, the screenwriters. For them, they are a big family that they may see each other in the other projects. There should not be any angry feeling and hatred among them. Why we as the fan create a war? Just any joy the drama they deliver to them. You may like this one or that one. But other people may not like it. If you look at the movies in the Hollywood. I don’t know whether you remember Gary Grant. He was one of my favorite actor. He never got a acting Oscar only a honorable Oscar. For me, he is one of the greatest actor. However, because of his movie are more light weight and light heart movie. He never got a acting award. Drama or movie is entertainments. Just enjoy. you can say whatever you want. I enjoy some of the critic but please don’t say any hateful things. Because we should respect the actors and actress as a person.

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