kdrama: Time Between Dog and Wolf ep 1
May. 24th, 2010 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreHmm...I think I may be malfunctioning from "what am I forgettting to paaaaaack" angst.
I forget most of what the plot of this is supposed to be (revenge, angst, undercover cop, that's about it) because it's been a couple years since everyone was talking about it and I kinda just plunked it in netflix when I saw it was available. In the first scene, Lee Jun Ki is shot, drives off a bridge, and drowns while trying to catch what appears to be a wooden elephant as it floats away. I've seen kdrama characters survive worse (and die from less) before. Then there was about an hour of dull childhood flashbacks (kdrama kiddie flashbacks bore me unless they're [1] sageuk backstory, or [2] involve 10~ year old boys selling themselves so the 8~ year old foster sister they're in love with [they fall in love young and permanently in Korea, or so Korea's television regularly tells me] can have a surgery, and then run out in the snow screaming her name and collapsing when told she dioed anyway]) until I suddenly got interested when baby!Lee Jun Ki's mother was shot in front of him, preparing him for a lifetime of vengeance driven angst.
I usually lose interest when women get fridged in the name of furthering heroic male angst, not get interested. But then, most heroes fueled by the tragic death of a heroic parent are obsessed with a dead father with the mother as an afterthought, as opposed to the mother having had the heroic career and tragic, life-changing death, so that could be it.
Oh, and the killer was the father of the little girl he's in love with. That will either be fun or end up annoying me.
ETA: I have also made my first desktop wallpaper, though I'm not sure I'm quite happy with it.
I forget most of what the plot of this is supposed to be (revenge, angst, undercover cop, that's about it) because it's been a couple years since everyone was talking about it and I kinda just plunked it in netflix when I saw it was available. In the first scene, Lee Jun Ki is shot, drives off a bridge, and drowns while trying to catch what appears to be a wooden elephant as it floats away. I've seen kdrama characters survive worse (and die from less) before. Then there was about an hour of dull childhood flashbacks (kdrama kiddie flashbacks bore me unless they're [1] sageuk backstory, or [2] involve 10~ year old boys selling themselves so the 8~ year old foster sister they're in love with [they fall in love young and permanently in Korea, or so Korea's television regularly tells me] can have a surgery, and then run out in the snow screaming her name and collapsing when told she dioed anyway]) until I suddenly got interested when baby!Lee Jun Ki's mother was shot in front of him, preparing him for a lifetime of vengeance driven angst.
I usually lose interest when women get fridged in the name of furthering heroic male angst, not get interested. But then, most heroes fueled by the tragic death of a heroic parent are obsessed with a dead father with the mother as an afterthought, as opposed to the mother having had the heroic career and tragic, life-changing death, so that could be it.
ETA: I have also made my first desktop wallpaper, though I'm not sure I'm quite happy with it.