Umm... I know why I don't watch historical dramas so much ... silly beards and strange hats (or in Japanese historicals silly hairdos) and hot sguys looks so ordinary in rl.
I had that kind of wake-up call as a kid when I had a puppy love crush on Shih-chin (Little blue dragon played by enka singer Teruhiko Aoi) of Water Margin. He looked cute, a bit chubby and with that long hair ... then my pre-teenage crush was totally mutilated and destroyed when I saw a pic of him in rl ... my little heart has never been the same again ever since.