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[idiosyncreant]

Finally! Lie To Me (k-drama), finally.

That's the kind of ending note that will have fangirls tearing their hair out, because a week is so long...

Doesn't hurt that it includes one of the most naturally set-up kiss scenes *I* have ever seen in a K-drama, anyway. It was also just a good one, but the beats of it were fantastic.

I suppose that would be the director, not writer. I must say, they're doing good working with what they've got, too.


I'm posting much more about this show at suitdistraction, one riff on how the set-designer is outshining the costumer, and a digression on the hero's trademark fashion statement, with another set-profiling to come...


NGL, that is a fine suit. But look at those DOORS.

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Tangent on Nursing-the-Sick-Bonding

Once upon a time, I was a wee tyke writing myself running night-time-plays in my head (recent experience tells me it was the sugar keeping me up, now I'm mostly not having any, when I do sleeping is a chore).

Since then I've loved the possibilities presented by injuries and illness to get characters up-close with each other, self-sacrificing. K-Drama overuses it, especially sequences where people are staying up all night to reduce a fever, looking anguished, when really. Really.

oh Boys Before Flowers. You never  fail me

(Stellar exceptions: You're Beautiful, where Mi-Nam is clearly delirious and yet is realistically dead set against going in and being found out, a way she wouldn't be unless she WAS feverish. The way she yells at Tae-Kyung. Gah. So good. Also, cliche or not, Kyoko attending Ren all night in Skip-Beat makes *me* feel a little feverish.)

The one in Lie to Me is okay: food poisoning's not as well-worn, having private doctors come and put him on an IV kind of cute, and that push-pull moment of them connecting when he wakes up, and then having to ignore it IS serving it's purpose. But it more made me reflect on this propensity, and how to make it fresh

fabricalchemist  will agree with me sometimes getting characters feverish is the only way, and I hope rhinemouse  will back me up when I say there are some tropes you can never get tired of....


I'm afraid Vigil Assistance is going rely primarily on sports-type injuries and psychological trauma to get ANYWHERE.

Comments

[fabricalchemist.livejournal.com]

I was just going to say THIS IS A MAGNIFICENT TROPE, MAY IT NEVER DIE

does anyone else smell peppermint?? *fans self*

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Hoho, that's right! You get a fever-trope AND an injury-trope!

Just such a tragic hero. I didn't do such a bad job of SeanBeaning you, actually. :pats self on back, tweaks elbow, rushes off to a slutty Winchester for comforting:

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

:gets Bengay patch applied by his mighty fine hands:

[jennifergale.livejournal.com]

(I can't help still liking that trope when it's done well. The thing is...it's so true to reality.) (Also...Anne of Green Gables!!!! She never sees Gilbert until after he's recovered, but...BUT!)

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, indeed. I was limiting myself to a K-drama and manga example each, because they are medias that def. see a lot of uses. Manga tends to do better, actually, than dramas.

Literary uses are often more deft, too.

And yeah, it's true to life! Though my mom is the kind who wants to curl up in a corner and be left alone when she's sick, where I'm the kind who wants people streaming into my room with toast and tea and hands feeling for temperature, so I wouldn't actually know. I will have to train someone...

But I've definitely bonded with people over injuries. When I sprained my ankle, the people who helped me or thought to offer were my favorites forever, and some people I liked in general who didn't bother were kind of less my friends after. XD