pillems

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[–] pillems 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved Bongseok's character so much! I wish he had someone to teach him how to control his powers.

On another note, having watched Ryu Seong Ryong's (Heesoo's dad) previous movie Extreme Job, where he also opened a fried chicken shop and had the reputation of being "unkillable", I feel this series is like the continuation or prequel of that! Lol

[–] pillems 1 points 1 year ago

I waited to watch this until every episode was out. Currently at around ep 10 I think, just after the balcony kiss. It's been a while since I blushed so hard at an onscreen kiss and this was already pretty tame! Loved the parents' backstories! I don't like the boss, but had to give him credit for playing the matchmaker.

I was tearing up when Bongseok revealed that his dreams were actual memories of him spending time with his dad when he was young. Imagine being bored on a plane and looking out the window, to witnessing a father-son lovely bonding time among the clouds lol.

Came for the badass superheroes theme, didn't expect to be hit in the feels about the lengths parents would go to protect their children.

[–] pillems 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a little late to see your post as well.

I watched Business Proposal when it was airing and followed some of the discussions on Reddit's Kdrama sub. It was one of the more popular dramas that gets talked about often, even now. Where do you normally see convos about Kdramas? Because I see this drama mentioned often on MyDramaList and comments on Soompi as well, when anything related to romcom genre and/or the actors pops up.

I was a little bored with the drama at the beginning, but after a few episodes I was hooked with the development of the second couple. They have so much more chemistry than the first couple and just so fun to watch them together. I agree the ending was a little weak. If I'm not wrong, I read a comment that the drama was originally supposed to be longer but they decided to cut it down to 12 episodes, hence the somewhat abrupt ending. I just couldn't believe they planned for a longer series since there was barely any materials left after both couples got together.

Overall, I enjoyed it and got me interested enough to watch the actors interact with each other on interviews and games after the drama ended.

[–] pillems 1 points 1 year ago

Glad to see you back! Yea accessing this community from another instance would give a different view/posts.

Lol fair enough. I was just trying to understand why KTL's scene barely did anything to me (even when it was pretty hot leading up to it), while I blushed so hard at the 19th Life's scene. I probably just prefer it when the FL participated more in the kiss.

[–] pillems 2 points 1 year ago

I know right!! It's just so weird when everyone else seems to retain all their memories but ONLY her who had the memory erased. It would make more sense to have everyone else, except maybe Seoha, to forget her, so they could start to know each other again from the new beginning. Feels like a lazy ending by the writer/director.

[–] pillems 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you watched the ending of SYIM19L? What do you think of it?

KTL is just pure fluff. I think we're on the crisis introduction part of the series now.

[–] pillems 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I agree with your first paragraph. I think the story about her first life was introduced pretty late in the series. We spent close to 9 out 12 episodes focusing only on her 18th life, with a little introduction here and there about her other lives, but not much (if at all) of her first. Then suddenly the focus shifted to her first life, because it was supposedly the most important one that started all this. Yea that's not going to work well in an already shorter drama.

As for your second part, I'm probably biased because I absolutely love Shin Hye Sun, but personally I don't think acting is the issue here. I see pacing as the main problem with this series (e.g. overuse of the pool and accident flashbacks). They are trying to fit too much materials into a shorter drama and had trouble with story/focus placements throughout.

I'm usually very forgiving in regards to acting, because I think it's unfair when actors and actresses get the criticism even when they are acting as directed and followed the script well.

One thing I want to say though. But first, SPOILER!! for those who haven't watched the series in full, because I still don't know how spoiler tag works here lol. I'm SO glad Seoha's dad turned out to be a fairly decent person! I was worried he was the mastermind behind the accident and somehow had something to do with his wife's death as well, but I'm glad that he was just a protective father and loved his son in his own way. I'm still not sure what was the reasoning behind the accident. I know the plan was just to scare them and it went overboard. But to scare them for what?

Anyway, I'm interested in the webtoon as well now. Where do you find them?

[–] pillems 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know how fast you normally go through a drama, but this drama is ending next weekend anyway so you may be able to start watching soon. I'm dreading for it to end, but also very curious at the ending at the same time.

We're going to get another Shin Hye Sun's drama later this year! I'm quite excited for that one, especially since it involves romance with Ji Chang Wook.

[–] pillems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha, true! Accessibility is important. I'm contemplating whether or not to watch Bloodhound. Have you seen it? Heard the bromance is pretty good there

[–] pillems 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hello! I was hoping we could move over to lemmy.ml's kdrama community to combine our users. But it looks like we're all still quite comfortable over here somehow lol.

I'm watching both too, but enjoying 19th Life a bit more. I do think KTL feels easier to watch, and loved seeing the prince's character and those other drama references lol.

What kind of dramas do you normally watch?

[–] pillems 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For some reason, I didn't think that was a big deal until I saw it being mentioned everywhere hahah.

Ok so I want to analyse the two kisses we got last week from the two dramas. Weird I know 😅, but I'm keen to hear your thoughts on this!

Even though KTL's kiss was hotter because of Junho, I found Yoona's body language during it a little off putting. Like she was too perfectly posed with her tummy tucked in and her arms strategically placed on him, it just looked a little unnatural. I kept getting the sense like she was holding back still, not sure because of the script/direction or she's just not very good at kiss scenes.

On the other hand, 19th Life's kiss had SHS leaned her whole body into ABH, drawing him in, and looked as if she was really into it. Like what Junho did with Yoona. ABH's response was also a little lukewarm somehow, but it could be he was indeed still holding back because his feeling for her was still a little unsure. If only they could switch partners, then we'll get explosive (but possibly censored) kiss lol!

What do you think of this?

[–] pillems 1 points 1 year ago

英語で大丈夫ですか?https://www.soompi.com/ is the most reliable one.

 

The classic question! Tell us what you've been watching recently.

 

Hi everyone!

I just realised sometimes you can't see posts from other instance's community if no one from your own instance has joined (or even posted/commented?). So I'm here from lemmy.world to say hello to the community, and also for users from my instance to be able to see this community.

From my understanding, the number of subscribers you see when you searched for the community only shows users from your own instance. For example, when I searched for [email protected] it showed 0 subscriber, because there wasn't anyone from my instance (lemmy.world) who had subscribed yet. Hopefully, now it would show at least 1, if anyone from world wants to sign up.

There were some discussions going on the lemmy.world's [email protected] community. But I realised that was a mastodon community where not only users from lemmy can't see the more active discussions on mastodon, but also ONLY users from the same instance (and apparently mastodon users?) can interact with each other. I created an account on another instance and it displayed a completely different kind of posts.

My thinking is that since Kdrama is still considered a relatively "niche" interest, especially among lemmy users, it would probably be best to combine our users for the time being, rather than having a handful of users on every instance who'd prefer to lurk but nothing to lurk about since no one's talking/posting.

Anyway, hope this is ok.

 

If anyone hasn't visited the Reddit sub for a while and unaware, there will be an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Yoo Teo tomorrow, Friday June 30th at 10 am KST on the sub. Submissions for the question are now closed, but there's a chance some live questions can be asked if there's enough time.

Don't forget to tune in! This seems to be the first AMA we get with a Korean actor.

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Anyone Here? (self.kdrama)
 

Is anyone here at all? A little sad since I want to move over to Lemmy/Fediverse but there's no one here. :(

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