K-drama Predictable

Ahhhh K-drama,...why oh why K-drama land do you always need to be so….K-drama predictable.
I love ya to bits...but seriously...why??

Here are a few examples:

1) Poor ,slightly dumb, hardworking, ‘ugly’ main girl + cold hearted, rich, handsome asshole with family issues main guy

Boys before Flowers

You're Beautiful

Well this is nothing new in K-drama land, this formula has been applied to almost all dramas…
The main poor hardworking girl with ever so many beautiful clothes (even though she's poor)... and the latest smart phone (or main boy rich pants will buy her one), who is pretty (but is ugly BECAUSE everyone in crazy drama land says she is) who has a good sense of justice and strong willed (well, only the first few episodes.. the later bits she will just become the same old fall head over heels for rich pants boy and will have a oh so predictable personality).... And Handsome rich Man who is an asshole with mostly past traumas/family issues/dead lover and have NEVER loved ANYONE before...until poor girl whats her face comes into the picture and argues with him...ahhh...true love~~


2)The lets ‘Make-over’ the main girl part+ cheesy background music while she changes into multiple expensive clothing

Boys before flowers-I totally gave up on geum gan di when she just accepted the 'Gifts' from Rich boy Curly head

Urghs, I hate this part so so much… It’s just so cheesy…the worse one I ever saw was in “Boys over flowers”… where Geum Jan Di, the so called “I”M POOR BUT I WILL NEVER EVER TAKE A PENNY FROM YOU” girl just went with this clothes changing session and enjoyed it…blah… why always portray girls being impress with expensive goods…and guys being in AWE of how beautiful the main girl is after the makeover…oh well~~ product placement time!!



3) The unnecessary “I don’t want to hurt him/her so I shall lie and break up because that solves EVERYTHING”  part

Yeah….I always feel the writers throw this into the story when they run out of things to keep the couple away from each other…and it’s just pointless sacrifice where the characters suddenly become immature whiny kids and believe ‘oh if i leave my true love…they will be happier’…like dude..seriously…. but don’t worry…they always will get back together in the end after a few episodes of frustrating non-sense drama…and have a 360degree camera spinning kiss:D

Secret garden

4) The Evil villain who is just evil without a reason…

 

Rooftop Prince- Super duper EVIL villains!!!

Well, lately it has been improving, at least now the villains are more ‘human’ and are more developed in their characters…and surprisingly there are secondary characters which are just annoying rather than evil…But man…if the villains are evil…they are EVILLLLLLLLL….seriously…why are they so free to plot so many mishaps!!! and most of the times they just get off the hook in the end…geez…no karma exist in k-drama land

These are just a few examples…there are still: (Tragic deaths, Amnesia,Product placement RIGHT IN YO FACE,sad emo nice 2nd guy who never gets the girl…)

But hey, these predictable bits are what make K-drama K-dramas right…~~~:D

The Most Dissapointing Korean Dramas

There are so many Korean dramas out there and obviously there will be the great ones...and the awful horrible ones...

I have seen a lot of dramas.. and I am really picky as to what korean dramas I will continue on with since there are just too many to watch that I only give a particular drama a max of 2-3 episodes to win my heart and to continue on.

I have dropped so many dramas (I give up really fast >.<)... but the ones I am going to talk about today are the ones where I stuck around for more than 10 episodes because I saw so much potential in it...too bad it really just became a hot mess..and I curse and felt so cheated that I actually stayed on for so long with the drama to see it just crash and burn....


Big

 Ahhh...Big...you had SOOOO much potential!!! with every episode I felt my soul died a little... it started out with such a BANG...and it was so fun... too bad it lost it's way and just waffle it self into a horrible ending...

Written by the Hong Sisters (writers for  both 'You're Beautiful' & 'My girlfriend is a Nined tail fox'), It's a story about how the souls of our main character (played by the handsome Gong Yoo) and an 18 year old kid got switched... and this uncovers birth secrets and of course laughs as to how an 18 year old teen adjust in a 30 year old man's body...

The first few episodes were so funny...and at the same time heart warming...but as the story progresses, the more draggy and ridiculous it got... the characters started making stupid bad decisions (to of course drag the story to 16 episodes) and there were so many loop holes to the story... I gave up half way, but I went back again to watch the last episode in hopes for at least a decent ending for this story ...but NOOOO... they gave such a half-ass illogical ending ever in Korean drama history...I went WTF when i finished it...it was just so ridiculously awfully written.

The Hong sisters dramas were always fun and may not be as well written as many other dramas, but It always had Heart... and that little something that made me become huge fans for all their written works..but oh my gosh... this drama was definitely their worse work...and I just felt like the writers changed half way because the 2nd half of this drama was just so not Hong sisters like...urghhs...Big was so bad....

Had loads of potential..but fizzled...

Rating: 3/10


To the Beautiful You

 

 

SM produced an eye-candied pack youth-idol drama... It is a remake of a Japanese manga (which had a Japanese and Taiwanese drama remake as well)

I really had high hopes for this drama because I LOVED the Japanese version of it... and the cast for this Korean remake looked really promising as well (except Minho..who cannot act...at all..but hey his pretty at least =_=)

So, Its about a girl who disguised herself as a boy and then went to an all boys high school....sounds ridiculous? yes, but that means hell loads of funny situation will arise..which would mean a Super FUN and interesting light hearted drama!!!

But...sigh... this drama really missed the mark... It tried to be all Melodrama which did not work for this story at all...it just became soooooooooooooo boring and sooooooooo fake...geez...

I stopped quite early with this drama because I just could not stand how boring it was...it was REALLY pretty and the cinematography was stunning...but other than that...it was just a *yawn*

Rating: 3.5/10


Flower Boys Next door

This drama was really good actually...and I finished the whole series...but it was disappointing because yet again... it became so damn boring after the half way mark..

The story is about a shut in girl and how her interaction with the hotties (who are her neighbors) helped her come out from her shell...and how she also changed the hotties ...

It's a simple story...but the characters were really well written (It's a TvN drama...so no surprise that their characters have depth... really love the works of TvN)... and the way it was shot was beautiful...

It was really perfect..but then..it just lost it's momentum half way..and it just went on and on and on with the same problem/ plot point... and it just seemed like a drag ...still entertaining... but sooo long winded... gosh... why did the characters suddenly become such fickle minded kids when in the start of the drama they were such smart adults...blah

Rating: 6/10


Boys Before Flowers

Ahhhh...the Overly Hyped Korean drama that can't decide what style it wanted to be...

I have watched the Taiwan, Japanese and China version of Boys over flowers ... and when I heard about the Korean version..I was all HELL YA HALLELUJAHHHH... because the other versions were quite good...

Let's just say I had a problem with the main girl (Geum Jan Di acted by Koo Hye Sun) ... She's suppose to be the typical poor girl but what I loved about her (from the other versions) is that she was really strong willed and a fighter for what was right....but in the Korean drama...she just acted like a little whiny fickle minded girl who was just weak and irritating(How she was written in the korean version was just not how she is suppose to be!!!!)... I really tried to like her..really.. but I just find her hell of annoying with one second going 'I AM A STRONG PROUD LADY' then later on crying and whining about some random shit and the boys must SAVE her....like in every freaking episode someone must save her!!!...seriously girl GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!!!

And I had a problem as to how half way through it went from a "bubbly fun" tone to a "melo- emo violin background music" tone... it's like it had bipolar or something....

It was pretty yes...but it was badly written and some of the acting was soooooooo awkward and horrible... geez... I can't believe how famous this drama got...so over-credited....but SO SO SO bad (OMG the ending...was just...so so BADDDDDDDDDD...)

Rating: 3.5/10



Secret Garden

Ahhh secret garden.... I actually liked this drama a lot.. It had the same formula again, with a strong willed poor girl vs. a rich asshole with some past trauma/family issues...but it was entertaining and yet again shot beautifully...

What really made me pissed about this drama was it's ending... like seriously What The F*ck... like seriously.... It was so stupid that I refused to accept it... NO NO NO... That ending didn't happen!!!

But all in all it was an enjoyable drama... (I know the main actor is handsome and romantic..but seriously the way he treat the main girl in this drama is so rough and borderline 'harassment' ...but hey...all fangirls had no problem with that=_=... as the saying goes : "you are NOT freaky if you are handsome..." ).. with plot holes here and there...and a horrible horrible ending... but oh well...sigh...can't' have everything right~

Rating: 6/10