My Girl: Pivotal Angst Updates

[lesbiassparrow]

Episode 6 is usually where Kdramas really find their feet in the angst department. My Girl has not let me down.

We have Girlish Secondary Hero angst. I shall name him now because his pain moves me: Jung-woo. Jung Woo has now fallen in love with heroine. And given her a snow-man for her birthday. Very touching, though he still won't get the girl. He and Philip from Spring Waltz should get together and swap notes about how being really, really nice doesn't work. And then angst in the snow because that would be quite affecting. I am also going to watch a film with the actor as a cross-dressing clown that a Korean king falls in love with. (No, that is not at all relevant to the subject at hand, but LJ has this power to compel you to post everything that is going through your head.)

Heroine (Yoo-rin) is also sad because she loves the slightly priggish hero who cannot lie. (He can, however, pay other people to lie which is apparently entirely different. I feel like this is not a fair stance but I am not writing this thing.) Her dad has also been thrown in jail and she needs more money to get him out which is not lightening her mood at all. But she cannot ask the obvious source (Jung-woo) because of awkwardness about the whole being in love thing.

Hero (Gong-chan) is the least angsty of them all. Of course, he is saddled with the completely annoying Tennis Girl of Lip Gloss Excess (or TGoLGE from now on) so he does have pain. He looks nice when he worries but I am not sure what he will be like in full angst mode, however, I look forward to finding out. I figure that should be episode 9 or so.

TGoLGE is evil. Yes. What a biddy. She invites Yoo-rin to her triumph party for tennis excess and gets all huffy when Gong-chan goes to look for her because she is not feeling well. And then she insists on him taking her home because she never saw a party she didn't feel entitled to crash. She is all huffy because after deserting Gong-chan for two years everyone is not all delighted that she has decided to go for him again. And she mopes because he is not as madly in love with her as he was before she dumped him without a word. I suggest she checks some astronomy textbooks and finds out that the universe doesn't actually centre on her. She is also keeping the lip gloss industry working overtime to feed her clearly insatiable desire to smear the stuff on.

I love the aunt of Hero and her sort of thing with person-I-not-sure-what-he-does who works for family.

ETA: Where does Gong-chan buy his clothes? At 'Hideous Carpet-like Jackets 'r Us'? MY EYES ARE BEGGING FOR MERCY.

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Your MG posts fill me with glee.

Re: Gong-Chan. Don't worry, he'll get major angst. Gong-Chan angst in episode 14 made me more emo than most kdrama angst does (it's one of those Awful Airport Scenes that kdramas love. Only worse one is the one in Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang by the same authors). It's like they decided to compensate for the drama being rather light on angst (by kdrama standards) then.

Re: Tennis Girl. I give her some allowance as lipgloss has clearly seeped in and poisoned her brain.

Re: lying. I think GC thinks he is lying a white lie, to save grandpa, but Yu Rin is in it for the money. Plus, of course he is fighting the Big Bad Attraction to her...

Btw, have you watched Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I look forward to episode 14 then. Sadly episode 10 seems to not be totally available so I will have to skip that one. Does anything pivotal happen in it? I can always just read the subtitle file to find out.

Is Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang the one with the evil guy who frames the husband?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Re: DGCH. Yup.

Do you want me to try to see if I can ul ep 10 of My Girl for you?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

That's really kind of you. But I really don't want to put you out. Besides as the speed I am watching I will be finished 9 soon and will probably just read the subtitle file and leap on to 11 like a greedy child.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Have you tried silentregrets.com? It might have it. Or youtube

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I am now up to almost the end of episode 12. I had to ff through some of the more painful scenes (the proposal by Girlyman) because I can't deal with his very fetching agony. I am such a coward.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Poor Girlyman. But he angsts SO well. And he grows up to be a tough but messed up undercover cop, and infiltrates the mafia, so he'll be OK :P

[outeeyore.livejournal.com]

I adore Yoorin. It's also a plus that her name is so similar to mine. She's adorable and the actress is at the top of my list of favorite actors in Korea :D

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Yoorin is so very cute. And I really like the actress because her role could easily go over the top into annoyingly kooky territory but she stops that happening. I like her more and more as the series progresses.

[zandra-x.livejournal.com]

I like how you make the effort of not capitalizing the 'o' in TGoLGE.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It's the little things that matter the most, I feel. Especially when talking about nutter tennis players.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The thing anbout Lip Gloss Girl that really got to me is that, at that point, she honestly though YR and GC were cousins and that his concerns for her was nothing more than looking out for a relative. She just couldn't stand the thought of him spending 5 seconds on anyone but her.

I think Magicians of Love made me able to withstand any dorama fashion, no matter how terrible.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Lip Gloss Girl is completely offended by anyone not liking her or finding her the centre of the universe. I am sure she thinks the entire family should be building a shrine in her honour for deigning to return.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

yeah, pretty much, she's like the other girl in magicians of love, only subhuman.