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Viikii.net is both awesome and annoying, because of the exact same feature.
COMMENTS.
They scroll at the top, exactly the same way the subs scroll on the bottom--earmarked on certain moments.
In one way, it's like watching the show in a room full of people, making wisecracks. I don't particularly like watching stuff by myself with no one to talk to, so that's fun.
Depending on the show, though, sometimes the fangirl mentality is A Little Much.
This dude played one of the F4 (gyaku-harem boys) and the main alternate love interest in Boys Before Flowers, which means there's a pretty big sector of his fans, and then there are a LOT of people who love It Started With a Kiss, the Taiwanese show.
They're complaining about the pacing for one thing (it's a 16-episode series, ISWaK ran 26 or more) and this is silly, beyond the issue of dragging your favorite version as the pattern for all good versions into every discussion [irk].
And I really liked the Taiwanese version in a lot of ways.
Oh Ha Ni is seen above getting ready to deliver the vending machine of Baek Seung Jo's juice, a talent she is much reluctant to reveal to him. It involves kung-fu moves.
In this version, she is much more awesome--and it's not just her odd talents a real person would have.
She is more constantly in contact with him, after she would have given up, and is obviously being drawn back to him despite her better judgment.
From fairly early on it's also obvious that he feels possessive of her affection: something that only comes up in the last of almost thirty hour-long-episodes of the Taiwanese show. Baek Seung Jo's jealous, without knowing it, in, like, episode 5! This is halfway through the show. Yes, it's moving a bit more quickly, but they've set it up to be much more satisfying as a story.
The hero's holding out against her attraction, and that's obvious, rather than being somewhat ambivalent.
That said, the fangirls can sometimes also be hilarious in their commentary on certain moments. And it's cute to watch them setting each other off into trains of plotbunny thoughts...
This kiddo is the source of some. Some of the rabid ISWaK fans are not happy with him compared to the little brother actor in that version, but this is nuts. This little guy can actually act instead of just looking cranky and saying the lines he's supposed to say.
It's kind of fascinating actually.
I hope being a child star doesn't ruin him, because he has charisma and seems to understand acting. Real bright kid.
***
The three of you who are interested in this stuff are giving me ideas. Is it time for a rant on BBF?
Have I ever done a complete comparative review? I gotta go tag-surfing in my own journal again...P
COMMENTS.
They scroll at the top, exactly the same way the subs scroll on the bottom--earmarked on certain moments.
In one way, it's like watching the show in a room full of people, making wisecracks. I don't particularly like watching stuff by myself with no one to talk to, so that's fun.
Depending on the show, though, sometimes the fangirl mentality is A Little Much.
This dude played one of the F4 (gyaku-harem boys) and the main alternate love interest in Boys Before Flowers, which means there's a pretty big sector of his fans, and then there are a LOT of people who love It Started With a Kiss, the Taiwanese show.
They're complaining about the pacing for one thing (it's a 16-episode series, ISWaK ran 26 or more) and this is silly, beyond the issue of dragging your favorite version as the pattern for all good versions into every discussion [irk].
And I really liked the Taiwanese version in a lot of ways.
Oh Ha Ni is seen above getting ready to deliver the vending machine of Baek Seung Jo's juice, a talent she is much reluctant to reveal to him. It involves kung-fu moves.
In this version, she is much more awesome--and it's not just her odd talents a real person would have.
She is more constantly in contact with him, after she would have given up, and is obviously being drawn back to him despite her better judgment.
From fairly early on it's also obvious that he feels possessive of her affection: something that only comes up in the last of almost thirty hour-long-episodes of the Taiwanese show. Baek Seung Jo's jealous, without knowing it, in, like, episode 5! This is halfway through the show. Yes, it's moving a bit more quickly, but they've set it up to be much more satisfying as a story.
The hero's holding out against her attraction, and that's obvious, rather than being somewhat ambivalent.
That said, the fangirls can sometimes also be hilarious in their commentary on certain moments. And it's cute to watch them setting each other off into trains of plotbunny thoughts...
This kiddo is the source of some. Some of the rabid ISWaK fans are not happy with him compared to the little brother actor in that version, but this is nuts. This little guy can actually act instead of just looking cranky and saying the lines he's supposed to say.
It's kind of fascinating actually.
I hope being a child star doesn't ruin him, because he has charisma and seems to understand acting. Real bright kid.
***
The three of you who are interested in this stuff are giving me ideas. Is it time for a rant on BBF?
Have I ever done a complete comparative review? I gotta go tag-surfing in my own journal again...P
