I come bearing Weird Epiphanies

[idiosyncreant]

 

I spent half of P.S. Man wondering how they could claim there were “four main characters” rather than the hero, heroine, and two supporting rival-characters. At the second to last episode, it occurred to me: it's because each of the four has a completed arc in the story. The secondary girl's need is pretty obvious through the whole show, but the secondary guy's is not, until the last few episodes.

Interestingly, as soon as I saw the resolution for him, a peace-making with his father, I knew what the theme for all of them was—dealing with unfinished business.

It sounds kind of serious, but in the case of the main characters, the primary backstory is that they knew each other as children and were drawn toward each other. Not much of a heavy-hitter, there. The reason it becomes important because the same dynamic of teasing and unresolved relationships has come right back.

This the first time my brain has volunteered the underlying theme of something, so I'm hoping this is a sign of some sort of maturation.

 

Half-hoping. This sort of thing usually signals a long and drawn out battle to master the skill now my subconscious understands the concept. :sigh:

I'm trying The Prince Who Turned Into a Frog, an older Taiwanese show that has the claim to fame of getting ratings that eclipsed Meteor Garden (the first live-action adaptation of Hana Yori Dango)
It's a bit scattered in its early episodes here, a bit heavy-handed in its dealings with “set-up” scenes, and in which I have a terrible feeling the hero is dubbed. (He's in other shows from “Mainland” China, as it's called on mysoju.com, so this is not a wild surmise.) This means I can't trust him. I'm skewed more toward the auditory, so the falseness, his voice not being quite right, is going to niggle at me...

Despite his strange cuteness.

ETA: in the interim where I didn't post this, I've decided he just has a weird accent—which I can only tell in comparison with the others, and is an odd feeling in a language I don't speak.

This story has a very interesting set-up for his character, since as an amnesiac he is capable and remembers his skills but is carrying less emotional baggage. This makes the love story very innocent and sweet, so far—which is a nice change. It doesn't have to be sexy and innovative, because of the characters involved...and because we know they're heading for DOOM anyway, which gives it enough excitement.

They're even allowed to smile at each other! AT THE SAME TIME.

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Now, for the weirdest:

Heechul and Joe Chen look alike.
Which is strange because 1) is a Korean boy and 2) is a Taiwanese girl and the boy/girl divide is usually enough that people don't look like each other but one of the expressions she made in the show Frog Turned Prince made me go all !_!

Since half of his fanservice points have been racked up by wearing feminine hairstyles, this doesn't come as too much of a shocker, and she's also done quite a few roles as the tiny but tough tomboy


They look nothing alike, really, but then... okay, you can all tell me I'm crazy now.

And I'm sorry for being The Lady of Postalot lately. Who knows? Who knows. I actually have a serious backlog of things to post. It's nuts.