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*hyperventilates, passes out*

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good lord he wants to show her his giant broadsword 😳

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i can't get the floppies but the tpb is preordered and i can't wait

Parliament of Rooks #3 out today!

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god imagine an Unmasked/Trauma Code crossover *shivers*

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Kim Hye Soo 김혜수 for Marie Claire Korea | January (2025)

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and now this

rereading Jean Plaidy's Queen Victoria series, i suddenly, although understandably, find myself in the mood to watch Lord Melbourne tell John Conroy to go choke on a dick. or "i bid you a good day", as they put it back then

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rereading Jean Plaidy's Queen Victoria series, i suddenly, although understandably, find myself in the mood to watch Lord Melbourne tell John Conroy to go choke on a dick. or "i bid you a good day", as they put it back then

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thinking about these guys again

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Ju Ji Hoon is one busy fella for sure

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i think my favorite ongoings would be Unmasked for the drive and Sorry Not Sorry for the vibe and Love Scout for Lee Joon Hyuk's butt i mean nose. although, i gotta say, man, Sorry Not Sorry's one episode a week release format is a huge mistake that's doing it a massive disservice - it couldn't have a big audience by sheer virtue of its nature as it is, and most people that are its target audience are probably waiting what, five months? to binge watch it

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so, Namib is another interesting one

"another interesting" as in all these many dramas that had potential but there was also something off about them

the main plot has been pretty straightforward so far - it could really be a 90 minute Hollywood movie. a jaded woman meets a lost kid, uses him horribly out of misguided love and guilt, and in the last ten minutes gets a heart/has a change of heart and the found family lives happily ever after. all good here, no notes. the ending variations here would be the woman making the kid a star in the end, or setting him free to leave or stay, and him staying or leaving, leaving to return later or leaving and living a nice quiet life far away from all these horrible people. could still happen and every option is valid.

the topic is relevant, the depiction of show biz is poignant and realistic, the acting is consistently good (i may have some issues with some of Go Hyun Jung's acting choices but they are still consistent with her character, Ryeoun simply keeps breaking my heart). sure the dialogue is less than stellar, but i get every single major character and their motivations, however misguided and awful they may be. like, Lee Seung Joon in his villain era CEO Jang, who could have taken the path of most, i think, of those who lost family members directly or indirectly through violence and abuse and could make a difference, and said, "i'm going to do my best to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else", but said instead, "i'm going to make sure this happens to everyone else now". or Chris, another lost boy, who vacillates between bitterness/resentment, jealousy and love, but ultimately, i believe, lets love win. not to mention, of course, one of the least likeable main characters in recent history.

and the songs are nice. like, really nice. in contrast with Who Is She, another ongoing music-adjacent drama (which, like many before it and many yet to come after it, didn't know what it wanted to be, when it clearly should have been (and was most watchable when it was) a family drama), whose trot was head and shoulders above its very generic kpop/dance/disco whatever.

i can't really put my finger on what exactly is off in this drama. i can smell it, i can taste it, but i can't identify it. it's definitely not that it basically becomes misery porn at some point. maybe it's the technical stuff, something i don't have more intuitive understanding of. i can more or less notice it with editing, especially when it's impossible not to notice. like, when the ending of one episode and the beginning of the next one are different despite it being literally the same scene. it's harder with directing

my overall opinion can be reduced to a vague "it's both too much and not enough", and i'm not in the mood to dig deeper. it's not a bad drama but it's not ... a well done drama either. like most dramas, it just leaves me feeling this was a very half-hearted effort.

anyway, here's to many, many therapy sessions for every survivor of Namib

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man this show is so intense

before every episode i'm like, do (the royal) we need this genre, this kind of mood right now, but then an hour is gone in a snap

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it's been a while since i saw more drama about the drama about a drama than the actual drama in the tags, and not a lot of even that, and even that is not that dramatic

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*hyperventilates, passes out*

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Sh. A. passed away in October and i didn't know i mean, it makes sense that i didn't know, how would i have, with the old ties long gone, but still it's so sad also i feel like a fucking asshole because i just now remembered i'd received an email from him in September (!) with the link to my old but newly published translations, which i'd looked at, said aww gotta reply tomorrow, and immediately forgotten all about it just another useless "if i'd only known"

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i would rather see the female lead killed off in the third episode (soz Gong Hyo Jin my beloved), and not all this

dream bigger, kdrama, dream chicken nuggets

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now we're talking! this gotta be it right

it is a scientific fact a man and a woman can't fall for one another if they have no past connection, the older the better. imagine the chaos if, like, random people started falling in love *shudder*

not too late for a murder mystery either! many of those involve fire, too