The Problematic of the Unproblematic

It's been a while since my last Top 5 post. Yes, I was busy with other stuff! With Lee Jun-ki, for example. But now, it's become quiet in KDramaland - and I will have to wait for new episodes of my two current shows. Time to do some deep thinking about ... things. After trees, permed hair, and snow, I want to tackle something serious for a change: Female Characters. Me, myself, and I are totally in agreement with this selection. Yes, it was super easy and very harmonious: We knew within 10 seconds who would go on this list. It's quite obvious what all of these characters have in common: they are atypical, independent, strong, sometimes rebellious women that go against the grain of society. If you want to use the term 'feminist' in relation to KDrama, these characters are as feminist as they come. Though they do not openly fight for a bigger feminist cause, they fight their own micro-battles against men, against women, against conventions that want to shackle them...

"Ah, this ending is giving me such a headache!"  And once again, it's: ♪ *Time tooooooooooo, say goodbye* ♪ lalalalalaaaaa You're thinking I am a bit late with this farewell post? Yes, I am. I lost a whole week of my tightly scheduled KDrama-watching-life stalking Lee Jun-ki across Switzerland (in vain, as you most certainly know if you have been following this blog) and then being heart-broken for days over not seeing him and his porcelain-white, perfect skin (as I imagine it) and these amazing, fantagorastic eyes. In any case, I have now finished Nice Guy and it has made my already sour mood go even more sour. I can't get over the fact that, once again!, they managed to mess up another perfectly fine drama. You simply cannot show misery and heartache and bitter revenge for 19.5 hours and then, suddenly, switch to a happy, light-hearted, and cute mode, where every single storyline gets wrapped-up in the fluffiest, but also the most unlikely and ...

 Now that Nice Guy is over, I have a big, Song Joong Ki shaped whole in my heart. For ten weeks, I cringed, I cried, I sat on the edge of my seat, all in anticipation of the last episode.   And then - OK, wait, WHAT?   I have to say this last episode left me kind of embarrassed at my own stupidity. (I later realized I wasn’t alone.) What I thought it was, it wasn’t.   Or so SJK later said in an interview.   I still loved this drama, but m y mind needed to fill in the blanks. So who better to give me what I want, then me!   Here are two endings I’d be happier with.  credits: DramaFeverBlog Sad but Satisfying – MaRu Dies Previously the bionic man, having been beat up, jailed, and in tip top shape cardiovascularly from climbing all those stairs to his place all those years, MaRu realizes he will never have the strength to get the love confession to Eun Gi out of his mouth. Desperate to stop himself from running to the police station t...

Coffee, cars, mobile phones, clothes, shoes, food, ... there is So.Many.Things.In.KDrama that I covet. I guess I'm the perfect victim for product placement. And boy, is there a lot of that in KDramas! Starting to look out for product placement (PPL) is not advisable, however. You know why? It is a certain recipe for spoiling any innocent viewing pleasures you might otherwise have. Once you start looking, you cannot help but notice. So: Do not try this at home! It was my current hate-love Nice Guy that gave me the idea for this post. Episode 8, in fact; where PPL is so thick, there's hardly anything else but products. And heartbreak. But Nice Guy is not the only show that does it, far from it. What I'm presenting you below is just the tip of the iceberg. If you happen to be a media or communication studies student looking for a topic for a Master thesis: this would be one. You can do hours and hours of drama watching, all in the name of science. Clothing / Shoes In...

I'm currently marathoning this heart-breaker, despite all my trepidations. Man, it's good ... The writing is superb, as is the acting ... and I am simply not one to resist Song Joong-ki. The smiles ... that turn into those stone-cold looks ...the kisses ... with the stone-cold look ... them eyes ... the pain ... the pain ... the pain ... I've just recently realized what an amazing voice the guy has and now I cannot stop listening to it... And he deserves his recent rise to super-fame: in terms of acting, he might be one of the best in his generation (by generation, I mean the 25-30 year old out there, all the Lee Min-hos and Jang Geun-suks and Lee Seung-kis, aka the ones who have not yet gone to the military but will have to go soonisher than we might want ...). Moon Chae-won is also quickly making it onto my Top 5 list , because her character is so wonderfully (or rather painfully) different from what we usually get in KDramaland... I am very much enjoying this...