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Dear K-Drama-land: I APPROVE
Jul. 5th, 2011 08:02 pmSpoiler Disclosure: I do not find it possible to write about things at any length without revealing some of what is going to happen. I don't think any of these things will be enough to ruin the twists and turns of this drama if you have yet to watch it, or all of the episodes I've managed to watch so far. But if you want to go in completely unaware of what's going to happen...skip. Your loss. ;)
That said. I've only watched through episode 6, don't spoil me! XD;
1.
I approve of the way you have seen how we fangirls* can appreciate a Motley of Men who are neither young nor beautiful (I blame Sungkyunkwan) and have decided to make City Hunter a festival of mature actors.
Best sidekick ever, actually.
*including myself sort of generously in this teen-dominated field, because many of the fan "girls" of better K-Drama are in fact old like me, and not teenagers--there's even a regular fangirl at DramaBeans.com who's actually a married man. I think that's both fantastically weird, and seriously awesome.
2.
I approve of whoever is letting Lee Min Ho(t) move from role to role in very different shows.* There are shades of the arrogant rich-boy tormenting poor-girl that made the JunPyo and JanDi dynamic, in the romance here, but we know he's actually grown up being trained as a guerrilla warrior, and the girl is less Special Snowflake, more Kick-to-the-Face Awesome. So that's, you know. Different.
Yeah, let's look at his projects: The first? Straight up teen drama. The second? Straight up career rom-com. This third? ACTIONADVENTURESTRAVAGANZA thank you. We will be happy to see Lee Min Ho iPad hack the government from on his stunt bike at any time.
*Please, please, let this happen to Hyun Soo as well. Tx.)
3.
I approve of having even the heroine in a story be carrying guilt and secrets and motives (instead of being the only white hankie in a field of blood-stained bandannas).* And the way that we see things creeping toward a gnarly mess with all these people who are interconnected is fantastic writing. I seriously love that everything runs deep and soon it will blow up like a landmine. And there will be loss of limbs. PRECEDENT.
*yeah. That metaphor could be either really awesome or really stupid, but I'm not capable of judging that right now...
4.
I APPROVE OF VILLAIN DADDY
I mean. Man.
He does unscrupulous things, and it's a part of who he was made to be, as a special operative. By the men he's set out to destroy with that very cold, calculating goal-driven attitude that caused them to betray him.
And he is an amazing villain, who just happens to be also the boss of the hero. And I can't wait to see how they're going to eventually come against each other and see Min Ho's character beat such an awesome guy.
That said. I've only watched through episode 6, don't spoil me! XD;
1.
I approve of the way you have seen how we fangirls* can appreciate a Motley of Men who are neither young nor beautiful (I blame Sungkyunkwan) and have decided to make City Hunter a festival of mature actors.
Best sidekick ever, actually.
*including myself sort of generously in this teen-dominated field, because many of the fan "girls" of better K-Drama are in fact old like me, and not teenagers--there's even a regular fangirl at DramaBeans.com who's actually a married man. I think that's both fantastically weird, and seriously awesome.
2.
I approve of whoever is letting Lee Min Ho(t) move from role to role in very different shows.* There are shades of the arrogant rich-boy tormenting poor-girl that made the JunPyo and JanDi dynamic, in the romance here, but we know he's actually grown up being trained as a guerrilla warrior, and the girl is less Special Snowflake, more Kick-to-the-Face Awesome. So that's, you know. Different.
Yeah, let's look at his projects: The first? Straight up teen drama. The second? Straight up career rom-com. This third? ACTIONADVENTURESTRAVAGANZA thank you. We will be happy to see Lee Min Ho iPad hack the government from on his stunt bike at any time.
*Please, please, let this happen to Hyun Soo as well. Tx.)
3.
I approve of having even the heroine in a story be carrying guilt and secrets and motives (instead of being the only white hankie in a field of blood-stained bandannas).* And the way that we see things creeping toward a gnarly mess with all these people who are interconnected is fantastic writing. I seriously love that everything runs deep and soon it will blow up like a landmine. And there will be loss of limbs. PRECEDENT.
*yeah. That metaphor could be either really awesome or really stupid, but I'm not capable of judging that right now...
4.
I APPROVE OF VILLAIN DADDY
I mean. Man.
He does unscrupulous things, and it's a part of who he was made to be, as a special operative. By the men he's set out to destroy with that very cold, calculating goal-driven attitude that caused them to betray him.
And he is an amazing villain, who just happens to be also the boss of the hero. And I can't wait to see how they're going to eventually come against each other and see Min Ho's character beat such an awesome guy.
