meanwhile, in doramaland...

This week's Rich Man Poor Woman was fun but I didn't like it as mch as the first 4 episodes.  Last week's Naniwa Shounen Tanteidan (subs are slower on this one) OTOH might be my favorite episode so far even with Shinobu spendng most of the episode in a hospital bed.

I other news, the only 2 kdramas I've really anticipted this year, Faith* and Arang and the Magistrate, both fantasy sageuks (one about a modern surgeon abducted to the Goryeo period by a studly young warrior, the other a romance between a vengeful ghost and a magistrate), start next week.  I anticipate both equally, though I suspect Arang and the Magistrate will end up my preferred drama of the two.  However, with Faith, I seem to be in the minority in that I was planning to watch it pretty much once I heard about it (I liked Legend, another fantasy sageuk by the same writer, the Goryeo period doesn't seem to be used as much in sageuks [subbed and accessible to me, at least], and time travel to the past interests me a lot morethan time travel to the present.) but my interest went WAY up when they cast a leading man who's 10 years younger than the leading lady, and I'm hoping the characters have a similar age difference.  A lot of people seem to not want to watch it because of that though.  (even beyond that being uncommon:  She's a modern, successful surgeon, so at the youngest she could be about 30, he's a soldier who's always in fights at a time with a shorter life expectancy even without that.  The age difference might be the most realistic thing in the drama.)


I'm betting most of the objectors don't object as much when actresses get cast with actors 10-15 years older than they are...

*I actually prefer the alternaive title, The Great Doctor, but most seem to be going with Faith, so...