7 posts tagged “*twdrama”
Summer x Summer
watching another show in which Joe Cheng plays a sulky teenager that everyone falls in love with despite his horrible personality makes me think he's getting typecast as the bitchy bishonen in all these dramas. but damn does he work that role WELL. i'll never tire of that beautiful pout. anyway, the premise of Summer x Summer is a spirited high school girl falls in love with a male model after he inadvertently helps her out one day and the rest of the show follows the development of their relationship. it started out slow, but Xia Ya (the girl) was likable enough to keep me watching. that and unmitigated boredom. and Joe. <3
They Kiss Again 01
my friend Cristina and i have been waiting so long for the sequel to It Started with a Kiss, and i worried it wouldn't match up to the original, but the first episode was surprisingly enjoyable. i watched the uncut version which was ten minutes of awkward soft-core porn... it was pretty awkward. i'm not exactly dying to see the rest of the series, but it'll be something to look forward to inbetween all the exams.
Bullfight 01-08 (Dou Niu, Yao Bu Yao)
okay, this is the show that's got me crazy this winter break. two words: Lee Wei. he plays Hebe's (from S.H.E) bodyguard. everyone knows he's not going to get the girl, but i hear that Chinese viewers split between him and Mike He had a little spat over Lee Wei's air time. i loved the first few episodes but the middle is starting to drag and Hebe and Mike He need to stop doing that thing where they stare at each other for several seconds while the camera moves around them. that's just bad direction and it doesn't help that Hebe can come off as a little cross-eyed. none of these people are acting buffs, so don't expect to be blown away by their performances. but the soundtrack, namely S.H.E's "how have you been lately," complements the show nicely, and is probably half the reason i like this show so much.
this show is too angsty for me.
Ahhhhh Joe Cheng.
More like "Ahhhhh Kui" but I still think of the actor when I see his face.
His character development reminds me a little of Nuriko in Fushigi Yuugi, actually. Except hopefully he won't be torn to pieces by a beast.
His relationship with his sister Bai He is really interesting. In the last few episodes, we found out that Bai He isn't related to anyone in the family except Kui, with whom she shares the same father. The man that Bai He thought was her real father had tricked her [fake] mother (his wife) into taking her into custody, pretending that Bai He was his daughter with another woman. In reality he had never cheated on his wife. It's all very complicated. So basically the only pairing that I'm interested in this series is actually blood-related. What are the odds?
It's sad for Kui, it really is. In one episode he brought up that the two people he had feelings for were both related to him. It made me realize that his family is really messed up and he's more sheltered than I had realized. It probably all goes back to what an awful mother they all have.
So there are plenty of scenes where Kui and Bai He sleep in the same room and he leans close over her sleeping face and just looks at her or kisses her and maybe I am biased but I thought they were done nicely. Not overkill. This show has surprised me with its subtlety, which is uncharacteristic of Taiwanese dramas, I think, which are usually over-the-top no matter sad or funny. But as I said, I am biased toward the actor and actress playing Kui and Bai He, so switch the cast and I'd probably be complaining that Kui doesn't need to kiss Bai He in her sleep like a perv all the time.
Oh yeah, so I interrupted this episode (9) to write because I was feeling particularly amorous of Joe Cheng/Kui, and this little inner monologue is so cute. Bai He has just run away after believing that her older brother (who is not actually her brother) Jin has taken up with a new girl who looks exactly like his dead lover, played by none other but Selina of S.H.E! No derailing. Point: Kui is looking for her. And this is what he's thinking.
He calls her "little meat bun" because she's supposed to be fat. -____-;;
Little meat bun. Little meat bun, where are you? You'd better show up soon. [Angrily] If not I'll . . . [Sad] Where are you? Who will make my meals for me if you're not there?
Before he ran out of the house and hopped on his motorcycle, he also told Jin that if Jin now has a new lover, he doesn't need a little sister to look after anymore right? So here on afterwards Bai He is now his own.
IT'S SO CONFUSING. dfsaklfjelkfj but I like Joe Cheng. Which means I'm destined to be pining after gay guys forever.
Just wanted to say that Joe Cheng is growing on me. He's not a bad looking guy, not entirely unlikable in It Started with a Kiss, but his role in The Rose as the long-haired androgynous boy looking for incest is what reeled me in. My cousin, when I told her this news, said that she now knew my type: funny girly men.
Also I am going officially on a diet. I say this every time, but episode 3 has convinced me that it is of absolute necessity that I lose weight. In this episode, Ella's character Bai He attempts to slim down in time for her friend's wedding, and Joe Cheng's character Kui helps her by playing the role of slavedriver. He makes her do ridiculous weight-loss exercises and demands that she eat only apples. Before tuning in to this episode, I'd finally given in to temptation and opened the fridge door to have a bowl of the newly bought (by my dad, who has never listened to me when I tell him to stop bringing home ice cream. Even though he insists that they're for him and my mom, he always ends up buying my favorite flavors.) Breyers vanilla with fudge swirls ice cream. Little did I know the anguish and guilt that would ensue.
At one point Kui makes Bai He weigh herself and finds that she--shock--has not lost any weight in the three weeks he's been training her. She's still 56.7 kilograms. Um, at this point I do a mental check (just kidding. Am no human calculator. Googled it.) and find that she's 125 pounds. Hm, I weighed that much in, let's see, tenth grade. While I wouldn't call 125 pounds skinny by Asian standards (and trust me, Ella the actress was definitely much less than 125, but let's just pretend), she's far from FAT. Definitely undeserving of the insults that Kui likes to hurl at her every time they're in a scene together, which was quite often in this episode. But if he calls her, Ms. 125 lb, a fat pig, what would that make me? Some species of fatness unknown to the Asian continent?
I'd like to say I put down my spoon right then and there and stopped drowning my sorrows in ice cream but the truth is I not only finished it but licked the bowl as well.
HOWEVER, the diet starts now. As of 11:48 PM Eastern time tonight. I need to be at least five pounds thinner by August 5th, when I may potentially meet and shake hands with several of my idols XD and definitely by August 11th, when I might meet for the second time the one to whom I shall give the rest of my life... only he doesn't know it yet.
why does Jiro Wang never get the girl?
i feel so bad for Ah Jin, the guy he plays in ISWAK. he finally gets to take Xiang Qin out on a date, and she's mopey the whole time. he's so good to her. he told a story about his elementary school crush and how he made breakfast for her and delivered it to her house every morning anonymously until he found out that she was being walked to school by one of his sempai and even then he still made breakfast for her after that. it was so sad.
*distracted by them playing around with animals at a farm*
i personally would hate to have a date involving animals. XD
anyway. the main guy, Zhi Shu, is really such an ass. but it's also her own fault for letting her world revolve around him.
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HOLY SHIT HE JUST PROPOSED.
oh my god. but she's going to say no (SHE HAS TO, THIS SHOW IS NOT ABOUT HIM AND HER IT'S ABOUT ZHI SHU AND HER :( :( :(). this makes things really awkward. i knew it was coming but... not at THAT moment.
haha and they just did a flashback to his proposal even though i can still remember it from half a minute ago... >_< taiwanese dramas, man...
not the DVD-released version, so it's not the real episode 9, haha.
this one is so cute! Joe Cheng is finally growing on me. he looks good in the white argyle sweater.
the new trend seems to be guys who suck and become nice later. i guess it's more special when they later do all the things you'd expect from a boyfriend, but for the first few episodes you're just left cursing what an asshole he is.
Ariel Lin can speak Korean pretty well, i hear. i was watching Tokyo Juliet with her and Wu Chun in it and... Chun's long hair makes him look prettier than her... Asian guys PLEASE CUT YOUR HAIR >_<
the season (and hopefully series) finale aired last week and i finally got around to watching it the middle of this week. disappointment does not begin to describe my feelings about the ending. Rui Xi never comes out as a girl. I mean, Quan knew, and she probably knew he knew, but they never talked about it. that's how it ended. and with a lame voice-over.
i had so much hope for Hana Kimi after the first episode. it was funny, Ella was charming, Wu Zun is, as a friend put it, JACKED, etc. but as the show went on, there were more tears than laughs--and not from me. Rui Xi cried nearly every episode and usually over some insignificant shit that didn't engage the viewer. the second half of the series was just them trying to protect Rui Xi's identity as a girl... for a reason that eludes me even now... oh wait, it was because they were too afraid to commit to an actual relationship -____-;;;
moral of the story: this is why i don't watch Taiwanese dramas. they drag. nothing ever happens. beware the internal monologue (thought bubbles are cute if done SPARINGLY). and guys like Quan... don't exist.
