Maaaaybe going into Soompi today was a bad idea. Why?
I stumbled into the Boys Over Flowers thread... And am now far from feeling elated or keen to see my favouritest manga be hacked and slashed into yet another alternate universe plotline.
Meteor Garden was bleh - dismissable storyline and godawful acting. Although that version was the starting point of my F4 infatuation, the drama seriously got on my nerve.
And eventhough HanaDan the dorama changed a lot of major details especially regarding characters from the original comic, they stayed close to the ending. WHICH IS GOOD!
Call me bias, but I'm so not seeing Goo Hyesun fitting in the mold of tomboyish and kickass Tsukushi (made excellent by Mao-chan, btw). The boys are a mixture of bleh and 'ok-lah', with the most eyerolling done over the casting of Rui. It's too bad I'm a bad nuna to DoubleS, Hyunjoong may very well be unsafe from my scrutiny.
I guess the saving grace to this drama would be Kim Bum (who is a great actor) as Nishikado and the Koreans' ability to tell a story as close to real life as possible.
Uh oh oh wait, from coolsmurf's article here, God knows what the Koreans will inflict this time around now if they're not actually following the original arc. wtf. Why use the name at all? Why go through all the trouble?? Hmf.
All in all, this is a sad case of high expectation, no? 2 more months for unjustified bashing ranting because it'll open sometime in December or early 2009. We'll just have to wait and see.
OK, that's all folks. Thank you for reading this much needed bashing ranting post. *skips off to re-read HanaDan the manga*
Monday, October 13, 2008
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after a friend told me she was called a 'traitor' just because she's a Changjo and fangod both, i concluded that fandom can and has been unmindful since long ago.
the trick to level up your patience while browsing through that forum is to think that the majority of them are underage, and has never seen the world from another angle but their own (probably doesn't want to too).
when i first saw the confirmed cast list, i share the same gut feeling you did. Kim Bum. as much as i like HJg (LOL - when was the last time we typed this 'nick'?), i don't know what to think of when i read that he'd be Hanazawa Rui.
you can bet i have further heart seizure when i heard he'll be in the Korean version of HanaKimi. no prize guessing whose character he's taking.
i miss Shun already. ._.
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