My Girl: Thrilling Updates!

[lesbiassparrow]

1. Heroine is quite lovely, though I am not as mad about her as perhaps I should be or will be later. Still, anyone who is still so fond of mad, gambling father and refuses to think ill of people is quite smashing. And she is quirky in a fun way. And I like her fantasy sequences and her glee at actually having luxury.

2. Hero is a bit boring. I am sorry because though he is gradually overcoming his odd obsession with rules and being upright and morally priggish he still has a way to go. Also at one point I suspect his jacket was made out of random bits of carpet he found around the house. And let me point out: if you have paid heroine to pose as your cousin to soothe your grandfather's dying hours then maybe you should not be so superior about never lying. Because paying someone else to lie is much the same thing. Though bonus points for out sourcing in such an original way.

3. Secondary male, aka Girlish Boy is far more fun. I am seriously obsessed with Girlish Boy and his prettiness and his excellent flowing locks. He's prettier than Cherubino in Marriage of Figaro and he has much better coats than the hero.

4.Evil Tennis Playing Girl: so far not so much evil as really annoying. You know, usually when you dump people at the worst point of their life and then don't phone them for two years they are not so excited to see you again. They probably HARBOUR DEEP RESENTMENTS. However, as according to the Law of Kdramas, your first love is the only love for you I can see why you would be smugly secure in the belief that he would accept you back with open arms. She also has a touch of the mad eyes which is always the sign of bad things to come.

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[fivil.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I hate Gong-chan's coats in My Girl. They just. Some of them were shopped from the females' section. Gahhhhh. It's not quite Goong in male fashion but I have to say there are very few things GC wears that make me go, "Okay, now that? Looks awesome."

Luckily I'm so hot for the actor, it doesn't really matter. I don't find the character boring but I suppose he lacks edge because even though he has dead parents, he doesn't angst about them etc.

Tennis Girl doesn't ever get over-the-top evil with kickin puppies, stabbing heroine in her sleep etc but she's just really very unreasonable and sort of weirdly thinks Gong-chan really is hers to claim and why doesn't everybody see this. I feel she's even more annoying because Jeong-woo (Pretty Boy) is so awesome and fun and smart and reasonable in his pursuit of Yoo-rin (heroine).

What ep are you at, by the way?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I'm at episode 5.

The outfits they stick the hero in are...interesting at best. There was one terrifying multicoloured cardigan at the start that made me go woah, and then they unleashed the carpet jacket.

Tennis Girl is rather self-absorbed to say the least. Sometimes you wonder if the secondary OTP interferers have been raised by wolves, they seem to have so little idea about how the human heart actually works.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Jeong-woo (girly boy) rocks - I only watched the series because of him played by Lee Jun-ki :) At some point I was really shipping for Jeong-woo and Yoo-rin (heroine) because they were perfect in the fun way kind of things. And he seriously loves her with all her flaws and her past where as Gong-chan is a righteous ass most of the time :)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Jeong-woo is quite hilarious. I loved the scene where he fall asleep in a board meeting and his mum is trying to throw things at him to wake him up and she eventually takes her shoe off to fling but the lights come up and she can't.

I liked his kung-fu skills as well. Very handy especially when you are being chased by the mob.

Gong-chan is terribly self-righteous. I can't get over that he is the whole mastermind behind the lyingest lie of all and he still rebukes the heroine for fibbing. But I do like his smack-downs of Tennis Girl.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Lee Jun-ki is doing taek-won-do or something similar since his childhood and he is a dancer, so watching him doing all the moves was WOWSA!
His Jeong-woo is such a charming rogue and a good friend.

I reallyl pitied Tennis girl. She is so self-absorbed and so out there in her character, in the normal world she wouldn't be able to survive.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

2. Re: hero. He is probably my favorite kdrama hero, but I honestly can't remember if I liked him that much from the start, or whether he grew on me. Probably helps that he is so close to my RL type :) Hmmm, I think he grew on me gradually *tries to rememeber*

3. Girlish Boy is played by Lee Jun Ki and, if I remember, I liked him best at first. He is pretty awesome. LJK is actually a really good actor, not just super-pretty. This drama is obviously not the greatest showcase of that, but I really recommend the Korean movie 'The King and the Clown' where he plays a travelling clown who is basically dressing/acting as a woman and becomes a favorite of the mad king. And right now he is being all macho and awesome as a messed up gang infiltrator in Dog & Wolf (but still v.v. pretty).

4. Of course she is evil: have you seen anyone non evil wear so much lipgloss?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

The hero is growing on me gradually because anyone who has to deal with Tennis Girl and her EVIL LIP GLOSS surely deserves sympathy. And a love that isn't all 'oh, I thought I'd pick things up again now that it's convenient for me. Okay? Oops about not calling you for two years!' She and the boyfriend in Pride should get together and swap notes and learn how to use the telephone. It's not hard!

I love Girlish Boy. I would like to see him in something else and will try and get a hold of 'The King and the Clown.' I am interested in Dog and Wolf but a) have so many dramas I want to see and b) am waiting for it to have many episodes subtitled before I watch. With the real angsty ones I feel a compulsive need to watch them fast to get all the pain over with quickly.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

D/W is getting subbed insanely fast. I think six eps are out aired and five of them are subbed. it's gooood. It's amazingly undraggy too, and is not a romance drama (though it has romance) which already marks it as unusual.

LOL re gf and the guy from Pride.

I really adore Gong-Chan mainly because he is just so decent as a person, in a very quiet, matter of fact way. But I don't remember when that love kicked in, so no idea if you are there yet or not. (I think I finally fell head over heels when YR tumbed down the stairs and he visited her in the hospital, but you are not there yet, I think).

Interestingly, it took me a while to warm up to Yu Rin. I am not keen on kooky law-breakers so I was all 'evict her, evict her' to Gong-Chan :D

But I ended up adoring her.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I was a bit worried about Yu Rin at the start but I find myself liking her more and more. She's kooky but it's within acceptable limits and they always have doing these things for a reason (unlike a lot of other kooky heroines where they're just supposed to be charmingly quirky and do things for no good reason).

I like Gong-chan more now that he's saddled with the horrible lip gloss wearing tennis player. Because he has my full sympathies dealing with her.

[calixa.livejournal.com]

I have a whole folder of pictures of Girlyman looking... NOT GIRLY. That I save just to boggle my own mind sometimes. Because it also freaks out my friend to see him looking like a boy. I found him quite entertaining in the drama until 3/4ths of the way through, when he started looking emo all the time and drowning all his sorrows in drink every 5 minutes.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time visualizing Girlyman looking not girly. I am not quite sure he it is possible.

There was also the bus driver friend of heroine who also looked like a girl and who I thought was female until he spoke. Actually in the opening scenes I thought he was the heroine. Oy!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

See. Here he is not looking girly. (OMG, Now the poor man will always be 'Girlyman' to me):

It's from Dog/Wolf:

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

*stares. then stares some more*

That is quite a change.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heeee. I found him scarily hot in D/W. He gets beat up and angsts a lot and has sex with the heroine (in ep 4!!!!!)

Maybe it's his personal 'I am nooooot girly' shout out.

But he will never escape being...'girlyman' :)

See below pic (from King & the Clown for proof. K&C is actually an awesome movie all around, not just because of cross-dressing :P):



He is prettier than I am.

He was Girlyman to me on first sight

[calixa.livejournal.com]

It's just not the same!!

Re: He was Girlyman to me on first sight

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

To make you feel better...

(sorry, lesbiassparrow for picspamming your lj)

Re: He was Girlyman to me on first sight

[calixa.livejournal.com]

*world rights itself again*

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just don't know who the title is referring to.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

*snort*

So very true.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Lip Gloss Girl is the second most self-centered person I've ever encountered in a drama.

Yu Rin's father is one of the few "worthless yet lovable" dorama parents I actually like. And her glee at having luxury is really something else, isn't it? I didn't mind Ging-Chan's super-seriousness because it was a good balance for both Yu Rin and Girlyman. He did deserve a bit of shaking for the moral superiority re: lying bit, though.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Yu Rin's dad works because they don't show too much of him and it's clear he cares for heroine and she cares for him (the scene of them on the cliff talking about the house they'll own and their land is smashing).

Tennis Girl is pretty much wrapped up in her own awesomeness. But given how many Kdramas feature first loves = the abiding passion of your life I was not that thrown by her belief that hero would wait for her. But I am pleased when Hero and Girlyman give her smackdowns.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

yes. he's not shown as "oh, hes so fun and adorable" but as
ok, tyhis guy is useless, but he loves his daughter and can't stand the thought of making things bad for her"

as far as lip gloss woman goes...well, when every single person a guy knows hates your guts(and his super sweet aunt can barely be civil to you) for what you did to him, it should at least clue you in that you messed up...but shes determined to be the victim to the end.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

but shes determined to be the victim to the end

I know! I can't get over the fact that she did perfectly well without him for two years, but the moment he actually says 'er, no I'm not still waiting' she pulls out the drinking and the fainting and the moping. And whining.