#Jun Ji-hyun

[2015mai24]

Jun Ji-hyun, actress

[screenshothaven]

The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016-2017)

[ghostwiththemostmundaneafterlife]

This is what conscious reparenting can look and feel like, in my experience. I may look back on this edit and cringe later. But you know what, that’s okay ^_^

[missy-kitten]

Asking very real questions here

[k-star-holic]

'Tae' and 'Hye' have done it... eyes on 'Gee'

[bemusedandconfused-blog]

Claire watches Asian dramas - JV Team edition

Here are two dramas that didn't quite hit the mark for me, personally, but had a lot going for them overall. So I'm putting them together in a "Junior Varsity" or JV team post.

Legend of the Blue Sea (2016) 푸른 바다의 전설

Korean mermaid/reincarnation* drama, starring Jun Ji-hyun and Lee Min-ho, 22 episodes plus a bonus episode with highlights from the series. Each episode is about 60 minutes long. I watched this on Viki.com and they have "episode 0" which is the special at the front, and if you start watching that before you finish the series, you will be very confused, as I was. It has a fun modern day setting, with flashbacks to a historical period.

Pros:

Love the cons (confidence games) that our hero and his buddies pull off; love his commitment to the bit (he has a full closet full of costumes and props!)

Overall good communication between the main couple

Nice red herring with the reincarnation and who the actual killer was, it was obviously played, but still enjoyable;

*They 'hung a lantern' on the angle about it not really being a reincarnation storyline, more like a parallel universe, which made it more plausible (to me), that everyone in their social circle had a Joseon doppleganger

Cons:

Some ethically squishy things with mind powers, I'm not fully satisfied that it was justified in the way it was used

Not satisfied with the mermaid lore (WTF a splash of water will cause her problems on land? That seems extremely questionable. Gills? Mind reading, but it only goes one way with her lover?)

Overall the last few episodes suffered from poor pacing, questionable plot choices and emotional pay-offs that didn't quite land

Things happened and it didn't feel like there was a strong enough reason for that thing to happen in that way (lazy writing? She got shot and healed, but not all the way, for some reason?)

Overally thoughts:

Final episode didn't quite work for me, personally. I wanted character growth, and I got some growth but then a plateau and open ended questions about some side characters (why the heck did she erase the homeless woman's memory? What happens with the little kid who is her friend? Does the little girl ever find happiness or feel like her mom loves her and supports her?? What about her next dance recital??)

Solid B+, but room for improvement

Love in the Moonlight aka "Moonlight Drawn by Clouds" (2016) 구르미 그린 달빛

Korean drama, 18 episodes, about 60 minutes each, plus a 60 minute behind-the-scenes "extra edition". Starring Park Bo-gum and Kim Yoo-jung, this is a period romance drama about a Crown Prince trying to find his way in a corrupt court and a clever young woman who has spent her life disguised as a man for mysterious reasons.... I also watched this one on Viki.com

Pros:

Three very pretty male leads, all good guys who try to do the right thing despite their difficult circumstances

Spunky female character who never loses her smile and stays true to her heart

Nice supporting "found family" characters, good balance of humor and advice

I enjoyed the set-up of the different plot threads and the slow reveal of the mystery in the first half of the show

Happy endings all around! (Except for a couple secondary characters, but they said they were satisfied so it counts, I suppose)

Cons:

I spent a lot of time yelling at the tv about the political maneuvers you could see coming from a mile away. The good guys were totally outclassed and should not have succeeded.

SLOOOOOW camera passes and lingering on people's faces for what felt like hours at a time. Over. The. Top. even for the genre.

By the end I was just begging for the show to be over, and did not care what happened to the characters anymore. Just, kill them, make them win, whatever. I just need resolution and to move on to a show with actual forward momentum.

Awkward editing cuts from high stakes life or death situation scenes to the C-plot romance of a couple side characters.

Overall thoughts:

Cute leads, but waaay too long and drawn out after about episode 8. The whole series could have been wrapped up in like 12 episodes, but the director ADORES long, lingering shots of the lovers staring at each other. Like, really, really can't get enough of them. Lots of sloooow pans across other characters as well. It got very tedious. I was ready to quit the show about episode 15, but with only a few left, I persevered. And the hot, stoic warrior character survived! So that kept me going, and I did in fact complete the show. (I did not make it through the final bonus special episode, I was over this show by that point. It's not a bad show, just not to my taste.)

This show is halfway between a rom-dramedy and a court-intrigue, political drama, and doesn't quite meet the mark on either. There are way better tv shows if you like palace intrigue with a splash of romance and comedy. It made me want to rewatch My Only Love Song, The Eternal Love (starring Xing Zhao Lin), or Oh My General, for some examples. Also made me want to go back and rewatch Three Lives, Three Worlds: Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, for the "gender-bending" epic love-story plot with a side of royal court drama. Actually, Oh My General also fits into that category.

Love in the Moonlight required way too much suspension of disbelief in the characters' actions and decisions. Like, no one can be THAT stupid, right? Giant plot holes everywhere, and our heroes aren't talented or gifted, just extremely lucky. Even for the genre, this one was too much for me to give it higher than a B grade. Its not lower because the first half was good and well paced, it just lost momentum at the midpoint and never found it again.

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Jun Ji-hyun in 2004 ･ﾟﾟ･｡☆

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I very much enjoyed Il Mare, the Korean original of The Lake House, in spite of these slightly flawed subtitles.

The two leads may not be Keanu and Sandra but they are of course terribly pretty, as you would expect.

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Headcanons: their jealousy❤️‍🔥

Featuring: Kang Sae Byeok x Reader(f), Cho Hyun Ju x Reader(f), Ji Yeong x Reader(f), Kim Jun Hee x Reader(f)

A/N: Orders are always open for you!

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Kang Sae Byeok

She's not the girl who will be jealous. And it's not even about the trust you've been building with her for a very long time, it's that she knows her worth and understands that you won't leave her for someone else.

But instead of jealousy, she has a huge malice towards some people, namely to men who like to flirt with you when she goes somewhere for a short time. And then she has two options. The first option: she will calmly ask they to leave you alone. The second option: if they don't listen, she'll hit them.

The second happens more often, because the men think she's just joking.

- God, you broke his nose! - you said in horror when the two of you ran away.

- There's nothing to touch someone else's. I said him, but he didn't listen. That's why it's his own fault. But now I won't leave you, it will be safer that way. - she said the last sentence with a slight smile.

You understood, even if she is not jealous of you to others, it does not mean that she does not love you.

Cho Hyun Ju

Your girlfriend may be jealous, but not because she doesn't trust, she just often thinks that you deserve more than her.

And every time you have a nice conversation with your friends, she looks at it with a slight irritation and you immediately feel it.

- Did something happen, Hyunnie? - you ask when you finished the phone conversation with your friend.

- No, everything is fine. It's just that you talked so sweetly with your friend. - she said, sulking slightly on you.You approached her and buried your face in her chest.

- You're jealous, Hyunnie.

- Not at all! What did you get it from! - she said nervously, which made you laugh from her.

- When you lying, you blush.

- I blushed from your actions, not from lies, baby. - she tried to get out, but under your eyes she gave up and admitted that she was jealous.

- My dear Hyunnie, you know that I don't need anyone but you and I love only you. - you said, gently kissing his face, you knew that it was a good way to calm a girl down.

- I know, but I can't help myself.

- So all evening I'll be proving to you that you don't need to be jealous. - you answered teasingly and it seems that she understood.

Ji Yeong

Your girlfriend is not jealous. Again, it's not about trust, but about the fact that she doesn't need it at all. After all, you spend all your free time with Ji Yeong, only your work distances you from each other.

You don't have many friends like she does, so you're always with a girl.

And when you sit in a cafe and a guy appears on the horizon who looks at you for a very long time, your reaction will make her laugh a lot.

- Honey, that guy at the next table has been looking at you for a long time, it even seems to me that he will hypnotize my girlfriend soon. - she says with a pretend resentment.

- It's strange, I don't see anyone here except you. - you answer, without even looking around, just looking into the girl's eyes.

- That's why I love you.

- I know, my love.

Kim Jun Hee

Your girlfriend is jealous, but not very much, you almost always spend time with her and her child. She even gets ashamed sometimes when she is jealous of you to your friends or work colleagues, because you are the perfect girl.

You are more jealous in your couple, especially to her ex-boyfriend Le Myung Gi, who often revolves around her and the child, although there is nothing to be surprised about, the child is from him.

The girl feels it and explains to you that she doesn't love him anymore and will never come back to him.

- Honey, I'm talking to him only because of the child, so I would have stopped communicating with him a long time ago. - she said hugging you when she saw jealous looks from you.

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Jun Ji-Hyun

[2015mai24]

Gianna Jun

[screenshothaven]

The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016-2017)

[katsotherworld]

I adore this movie so much, I just do, its probably a terrible adaptation but I love this movie.

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

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Jun Ji-hyun bends Waist and Son Heung-min is 'mouthpiece'! ... What is the meeting of 'K-big stars'?

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Laneige Girl ｡𖦹°‧

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Jun Ji-hyun in 2004 ･ﾟﾟ･｡☆