3 posts tagged “the rose”
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.
