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Seriously I haven't been here in ages. So long ago I had trouble getting back in! And I'm looking at my account and posts and thinking how awesome some are. 🤭

Spring Waltz 2006

Older dramas are my favorites as you know. I dont know why I waited to watch this. I've only been watching dramas for 4 years but I could've watched it before now!

I'm in love with this melodrama romance. ❤🙂🌻

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Spring Waltz. 2006

I love this older classic #kdrama

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Here is an adorable sleeping cat.

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I began watching Summer Scent because I watched Spring Waltz several times and Spring Waltz is at the top of my drama list for favorite melodrama/ romance, with a happy ending. Actually it's at the top of my drama list, period.

Summer Scent is the third drama in the Four Seasons quartet of dramas; it aired in 2003, after Autumn in My Heart (2000) and Winter Sonata (2002).

Spring Waltz (2006) would follow. All four dramas were filmed by the same director and are very romantic, musically beautiful, and cinematically lovely.

I am not a young person anymore and I am drawn to older dramas as anyone who has looked at any part of my tumblr already knows. Dramas like Summer Scent are romance and longing injected straight into my heart.

While happy endings are something I usually strive for (I've been known to never watch a drama because it has a sad ending) I've still watched sad ones and with SS I wasn't sure what the ending was like and so many old blogs and comments gave differing opinions.

I decided I didn't care. If the ending was in fact sad, it would be worth it because this was one I really wanted to watch. Six episodes into SS and my heart was so invested and had been since episode one, so I did something I usually don't do. I went to the last episode and watched the ending few minutes and I was so happy.

I don't demand marriage and babies ( don't get me wrong I love those endings) but rather, the knowledge that my loves will be together, and with a drama like SS which is so fraught with angst, for me that ending that I cheated and watched, will be just fine.

So I am now on episode 8 and relishing every stolen moment they have together, every look and gesture, knowing that in the end they find one another.

It's such a beautiful drama, the clothes are so evocative of a certain era, flip phones are on hand, and the scenery is so pretty.

I just adore it all.

Latest from my brain regarding Summer Scent.

I am now on episode 12 I think and I've thought about how many languishing looks, sad expressions, sad scenes, tears, are in the Drama. Don't get me wrong, I love this drama, but it occurs to me that for a lot of people, especially drama watchers who aren't into older dramas, this drama would be awful.

In some ways dramas really have changed in the last twenty years!

Anyway it occured to me that if this drama were airing one or two episodes a week, for a lot of people it would be better.

I think if most people went to watch it today they would hate all the unspoken words and unshared feelings, and the long-suffering attitude of the main leads who even I sometimes want to stand up for themselves.

But if I were watching only one episode a week, rather than bingeing it, then each hour of intense love (undeclared) would keep me so hooked, waiting for the next installment! And I think that is how it's supposed to be; it was certainly that way when I was young, before the internet existed. 😱 Summer Scent really is about love that isn't declared in so many words, until very late in the Drama. It's about stolen moments and exchanged looks, and guilt (somewhat misplaced but also noble) and fighting against what's meant to be, because you're trying to be selfless. But all of those things are exasperating unless you just let go of your instant gratification expectations and go with the plot which I know a lot of people hated...lol.

BUT-

There is a reason a lot of people loved this drama back in the day, and it's the same reason I love it now. C-h-e-m-e-s-t-r-y, AND an over the top love that keeps giving itself away even when the people in love are trying not to let it show to those around them, and the main female lead is trying hard to fight it, and an elusive happy ending that only comes, well.....at the end.

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Mr Badger Opens The Door ~ Chris Dunn

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Finished watching Lost Romance last night.

I admit I watched it for Marcus Chang but in the end I watched it for, well, Marcus Chang.

I loved the first half. I was pleasantly surprised at the plot and the humor was great. The real life aspect with Chang's half sister and brother, evil uncle, business dealings, and company intrigue was sufficiently serious to offset the alternative reality side. The switching back and forth between parallel time was pretty seamless and well done. The side characters were good, everything was good.

The chemistry between the main leads was excellent.

Oddly enough it was, when they commited to one another and begin their relationship, that it started to lag a bit for me. I felt that some of the tension that worked for them, went away, and there was a new tension with them trying to get their love scenes right.

This is a pg 13 drama by taiwanese standards so there was plenty of kissing etc.

I don't know, maybe it's just me but whenever actors try to fulfil (for the audience) the love that has been building in the drama, they can suddenly become awkward.

It's probably just just me.

Anyway fast forward a few episodes to Marcus' character waking in real time after his coma, and Vivian Sung's doing the same. She remembers everything but he doesn't.

And it gets good again.

Chang once again delivers. Vivian Sung seems to have changed somewhat and her spunky, less than honest, and not perfect, personality is now far more sweet. I can understand the change, after all she learned some things about herself in the book world, and she fell in love and then lost the man she loved, when she woke up.

But now here he is, in the real world right in front of her and he's recovering from the coma and the fall that caused it and he doesn't remember anything that she does from the sleeping book world they shared, and I missed the funny girl she was in the book world, even though I understood her change.

Chang's character has a chance to shine again though because he isn't besotted with her, but he is intrigued, (and the parts when he is reading the romance books are funny!) and attracted and wants to figure things out. Figure out what she is, who she is, and why she looks at him the way she does.

The family business, revenge, evil uncle, siblings and real life drama, also remain to be solved. In the last few episodes these things take up time, but never eclipse the ongoing romance Chang's character is pursuing with an unwilling Vivian Sung's character.

Unwilling because she feels that any attraction she feels towards him is simply a projection of what she felt towards who he was in the book world, and that replacement with a look alike irl now, would be a poor thing to do considering how much she loved him I the book world.

This began to irk me some, until He tells her he isn't giving up, in a great scene on a bridge, becoming very alpha in a good way, and surprising her.

And then finally he reads the last book in a stack of romances he's been working through, (hoping they would help him understand her) and it's THEIR romance book and he remembers everything.

The last episode sweetly wraps up this 20 episode drama, complete with more skinship and kisses.

I gave the drama 9 out of 10 stars simply because I "speed watched" a few episodes.

That's probably just me though, and I would definitely recommend it and I really enjoyed it. 🙂

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By kylefinndempsey

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a little shelter.

[process on patreon]

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Cinderella (1950)

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Rewatched and loved it all over again

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I hope you'll always recognize me, regardless of how I might change. Then I promise that I'll cherish and love you.

@gimme-a-chocolate gif challenge

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today was the first day it really started to feel like autumn 🍂

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'Brambly Hedge' by Jill Barklem