I finished LiT2. It was…satisfying. ISWAK and TKA remain my unchallenged favs. Now, after all of this fluff, I think I’m in the mood for BtVS and Angel. (Maybe I’ll rewatch ISWAK and BtVS together)
Thank you. I never watched it much past a certain point. I guess I was made for the short Korean drama seasons. Lol. That was my sister’s thing.. She reads fan fic. I love Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese dramas and one of my brothers was an huge anime fan.
I didn’t watch it until the last season. The last season I spent thanksgiving at a boyfriends house and there was marathon on and I.Was.OBSESSED. I’ve read fanfiction for it. I’m not great at loving more than one thing at a time. When I started watching Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese dramas the gal who introduced me to them was talking to a co-worker about something else that they wanted to show me and she said, “Be careful [isa] gets obsessed easily”. And I do. I typically go through bursts of loving something and move on to the next something. And I think thats why I like dramas so much because right around the time I would move on to the next thing—drama is over. Time for something new.
You know, I enjoyed both seasons equally. At certain points they (and most of the side characters) both made me stabby–but thats mostly just how I watch dramas. If I don’t want to stab someone/set them on fire, kick them firmly in the shin while wearing a pointy shoe or heavy boot–I’m not feeling it. BOF is the exception to this rule. It made me stabby but for entirely different reasons.
BOF is the exception to a lot of rules. It was my first drama,like a lot of people, I had stumbled on an interesting Japanese movie posted in parts on YouTube and was looking for more of the same when I stumbled on Jan-di saving that boy from a suicide attempt. That drama must have been everywhere because I watched it pretty close to it’s air date but had never even heard of Korean dramas before. I watched 24 episodes almost all in 10-15 min. segments. My sister still remembers me raving at length and in great detail about how stupid it was, but I watched every episode. Ha, mainly for Lee min- ho. But the good thing about starting with that is you really don’t know the average level of crazy so that the shows that come after seem reasonably realistic. So what was your introduction to dramas? And how is the stabby level for BOF different than from the rest.? I dont dispute the crazy making at all. I just wonder what did it to you. Was it Kim Bum and his sexy(not) saxophone skills?or…
Oh, BOF. This was my second drama. I discovered Dramafever because of this drama. The girl who introduced dramas to me showed me how to find the eps on youtube (10-15 min intervals) and I don’t remember what ep it was–but it wasn’t available on youtube and I went searching for it and found all of the eps in hour long formats on dramafever. Dude. I have never been so addicted, so fast, to ANYTHING in my life. I ranted, and raved at every single thing that happened on that show.
In general I’m not a person that cusses, but when I made it to that final episode and the amnesia plot rolled out, I put my computer down, looked at the girl who introduced dramas to me and said, “Are.You. Fucking kidding me right now?” She looked slightly afraid. And then I went on to rant about how Lee Min-Ho smiled at that hussy in the hospital Jan Di’s smile. There’s a smile that in the entirety of the drama LMH had ONLY given to Jan Di’s character and there he was smiling Jan Di’s smile at that hussy. HUSSY!
After rewatching it this summer I think that BOF had so much crack!drama elements in it that it wasn’t even a crack drama anymore. It was just painfully exhausting. And the actress who played Jan Di did a terrible job (and constantly did this weird thing with her mouth and chin (pained duck lips) that I could never look away from. And she always looked like she gulped down red Kool-Aid before shooting her scenes).
I’ll always love it because while I loved Coffee Prince, BOF was the drama that made me purchase a seat on the crazy train and settle on in. Who knows why. It certainly was NOT that Kim Bum. OH MY GOSH. The saxophone playing. And the dancing. And those guys were supposed to be sexy?! NOOOO Ma’am. No.However, he was the Ultimate Noona Killer in The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry
I just remember being shocked at the sheer number of effed up things that happened to this girl Every Episode! It Still amazes me when I think of how much crazy they crammed in every episode . And that Hussy took the freaking cake trying to steal him away! If thoughts could kill… I just kept wondering where his Freaking Mom was then! Shed been doing her damnedest to make everybody completely miserable. And suddenly she’s going to send off her precious son off to study abroad with some chippy that just turned up one day. What the hell Mom!! Whew I still get flashbacks.
But as far as LiT goes I like the main characters in both seasons equally but the conflict in the first was more between K+I , about his predjudices concerning her and his resistence to following blindly on the path his parents had laid for him. And Kotoko realizing that loving someone (with real flaws ) is a very different prospect then crushing on someone you idolize from afar. The second season had more about people actively trying to get between them for their own reasons.
LMAO
LiT2= Love in Tokyo 2. Remake of Itazura na kiss (I am pretty sure I mangled that title–I didn’t look it up first)
ISWAK= It Started With a Kiss also a remake of Itazura na Kiss (my personal fav)
TKA= Sequel to ISWAK
KM:T= Kiss Me: Thai the Thai version of Itazrura na kiss. More of a tight adaptation than a straight remake. So—ISWAK is my fav remake and KM:T is my fav adaptation. I just decided that here and now so that they both can be my fav and I don’t have to chose (choose?) because decisions are stupid.
BtVS: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I think that was all of the acronyms I used.
isa
September 14, 2017 at 10:44 PM
I finished LiT2. It was…satisfying. ISWAK and TKA remain my unchallenged favs. Now, after all of this fluff, I think I’m in the mood for BtVS and Angel. (Maybe I’ll rewatch ISWAK and BtVS together)
Katrina
September 14, 2017 at 11:03 PM
I hope the good outweighed the bad in the second season.
What is BtVS ?
isa
September 14, 2017 at 11:08 PM
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All of the fluff made me want to watch a tiny blond kick vampire butt. And then fall prey to the fluff there too…Hmm.
Katrina
September 14, 2017 at 11:18 PM
Thank you. I never watched it much past a certain point. I guess I was made for the short Korean drama seasons. Lol. That was my sister’s thing.. She reads fan fic. I love Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese dramas and one of my brothers was an huge anime fan.
isa
September 14, 2017 at 11:24 PM
I didn’t watch it until the last season. The last season I spent thanksgiving at a boyfriends house and there was marathon on and I.Was.OBSESSED. I’ve read fanfiction for it. I’m not great at loving more than one thing at a time. When I started watching Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese dramas the gal who introduced me to them was talking to a co-worker about something else that they wanted to show me and she said, “Be careful [isa] gets obsessed easily”. And I do. I typically go through bursts of loving something and move on to the next something. And I think thats why I like dramas so much because right around the time I would move on to the next thing—drama is over. Time for something new.
isa
September 15, 2017 at 12:32 AM
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isa
September 15, 2017 at 12:34 AM
You know, I enjoyed both seasons equally. At certain points they (and most of the side characters) both made me stabby–but thats mostly just how I watch dramas. If I don’t want to stab someone/set them on fire, kick them firmly in the shin while wearing a pointy shoe or heavy boot–I’m not feeling it. BOF is the exception to this rule. It made me stabby but for entirely different reasons.
Katrina
September 15, 2017 at 4:03 AM
BOF is the exception to a lot of rules. It was my first drama,like a lot of people, I had stumbled on an interesting Japanese movie posted in parts on YouTube and was looking for more of the same when I stumbled on Jan-di saving that boy from a suicide attempt. That drama must have been everywhere because I watched it pretty close to it’s air date but had never even heard of Korean dramas before. I watched 24 episodes almost all in 10-15 min. segments. My sister still remembers me raving at length and in great detail about how stupid it was, but I watched every episode. Ha, mainly for Lee min- ho. But the good thing about starting with that is you really don’t know the average level of crazy so that the shows that come after seem reasonably realistic. So what was your introduction to dramas? And how is the stabby level for BOF different than from the rest.? I dont dispute the crazy making at all. I just wonder what did it to you. Was it Kim Bum and his sexy(not) saxophone skills?or…
isa
September 15, 2017 at 9:11 AM
Oh, BOF. This was my second drama. I discovered Dramafever because of this drama. The girl who introduced dramas to me showed me how to find the eps on youtube (10-15 min intervals) and I don’t remember what ep it was–but it wasn’t available on youtube and I went searching for it and found all of the eps in hour long formats on dramafever. Dude. I have never been so addicted, so fast, to ANYTHING in my life. I ranted, and raved at every single thing that happened on that show.
In general I’m not a person that cusses, but when I made it to that final episode and the amnesia plot rolled out, I put my computer down, looked at the girl who introduced dramas to me and said, “Are.You. Fucking kidding me right now?” She looked slightly afraid. And then I went on to rant about how Lee Min-Ho smiled at that hussy in the hospital Jan Di’s smile. There’s a smile that in the entirety of the drama LMH had ONLY given to Jan Di’s character and there he was smiling Jan Di’s smile at that hussy. HUSSY!
After rewatching it this summer I think that BOF had so much crack!drama elements in it that it wasn’t even a crack drama anymore. It was just painfully exhausting. And the actress who played Jan Di did a terrible job (and constantly did this weird thing with her mouth and chin (pained duck lips) that I could never look away from. And she always looked like she gulped down red Kool-Aid before shooting her scenes).
I’ll always love it because while I loved Coffee Prince, BOF was the drama that made me purchase a seat on the crazy train and settle on in. Who knows why. It certainly was NOT that Kim Bum. OH MY GOSH. The saxophone playing. And the dancing. And those guys were supposed to be sexy?! NOOOO Ma’am. No.However, he was the Ultimate Noona Killer in The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry
Katrina
September 15, 2017 at 10:04 AM
I just remember being shocked at the sheer number of effed up things that happened to this girl Every Episode! It Still amazes me when I think of how much crazy they crammed in every episode . And that Hussy took the freaking cake trying to steal him away! If thoughts could kill… I just kept wondering where his Freaking Mom was then! Shed been doing her damnedest to make everybody completely miserable. And suddenly she’s going to send off her precious son off to study abroad with some chippy that just turned up one day. What the hell Mom!! Whew I still get flashbacks.
isa
September 15, 2017 at 10:18 AM
Boys Over Flower: still inducing rage all this time later.
Katrina
September 15, 2017 at 4:29 AM
But as far as LiT goes I like the main characters in both seasons equally but the conflict in the first was more between K+I , about his predjudices concerning her and his resistence to following blindly on the path his parents had laid for him. And Kotoko realizing that loving someone (with real flaws ) is a very different prospect then crushing on someone you idolize from afar. The second season had more about people actively trying to get between them for their own reasons.
redfox
September 15, 2017 at 12:18 AM
you know, even though I just had a decoding workshop, I don´t understand a word you just said LOL
isa
September 15, 2017 at 12:32 AM
LMAO
LiT2= Love in Tokyo 2. Remake of Itazura na kiss (I am pretty sure I mangled that title–I didn’t look it up first)
ISWAK= It Started With a Kiss also a remake of Itazura na Kiss (my personal fav)
TKA= Sequel to ISWAK
KM:T= Kiss Me: Thai the Thai version of Itazrura na kiss. More of a tight adaptation than a straight remake. So—ISWAK is my fav remake and KM:T is my fav adaptation. I just decided that here and now so that they both can be my fav and I don’t have to chose (choose?) because decisions are stupid.
BtVS: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I think that was all of the acronyms I used.
Rainbow Unicorn
September 15, 2017 at 3:00 AM
Wow! You sure are a thorough and committed fan.. covering all and every adaptation..!