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AI-Less Whumptober Day 15 - Removing Body Parts
TW: Blood and Gore
Watcher - Ep. 12
Gunslinger (槍俠) - Ep. 35
Lost Promise - Ep. 26
The New Snow Leopard - Ep. 28
Are You Safe? - Ep. 5
Rugal - Ep. 1
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#whump#whump gifs#asian whump#ailesswhumptober2024#ailesswhumptober day 15#whump community#whump tropes#kdrama#chinese drama#injured#tw g0re#tw blo0d#watcher kdrama#gunslinger series#lost promise#the new snow leopard#are you safe#rugal
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This image reminds me of...
...him.
They look quite different without the sunglasses, though.
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What the hell? What the hell?!
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The real mvps of kdramas this season aren't the villains anymore
All hail the white trucks of doom that have become so accustomed to having a 50/50 hit or miss chance with their mark that they have taken to travelling in pairs to do the job
The devil may work hard but the trucks of doom community works harder
#doctor slump#marry my husband#kdramadaily#kdramasource#kdrama#perfect marriage revenge#I can't remember more but yall KNOW trucks of doom (TOD) are trodding on the lives of drama watchers
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I was trying to tell my friend about a trope. But I actually have no idea how to describe it or if there is a word for it.
But like, the romance in Summer strike or my liberation notes or Run on?!?! What would that trope be called? I DON'T KNOW AND IT'S ANNOYING ME!!
It feels like birds chirping in the morning. Or watching the sunrise from a big green beautiful field.
It's this feeling of being calm and happy together. Like, you know what I mean right!?!?!
Like if you've watched these drama, you'll know. LET ME KNOWWW
#summer strike#run on#my liberation notes#netflix#kdrama#tropes#romance tropes#kdramaedit#let me know what trope that is#no because that kinda love 😭✋️🤌#thinking about the fact that I probably won't get it makes me extremely sad#KNOWING THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME#k drama watchers assemble please
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me and the girlies getting ready for a kää gig
#käärijä#häärijä#the pink crew#i just mentioned it earlier#but they really colour-coded the fanbase#the same colours just happened to come up in the drama i'm watching lol#boys over flowers#outed as a kdrama watcher#i was a gif maker back in the day#actually i made gifs recently and forgot to upload them#what a full and rich life i have led
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love next door watchers were upset about the early engagement because not every romance kdrama needs to end in a wedding and they realy didn't want a wedding in the last episode and now love next door watchers are complaining because they weren't satisified without a wedding scene and got no closure... like what do y'all want 😭
#love next door spoilers#and what do you mean no closure...#what do you need closure on ?????#why are romance kdrama watchers NEVER happy with anything#they get what they want and still complain
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Can I ask and this is a genuine question like I just want to understand, why do people take issue with watcher using their own platform for their content but as far as I know no one really takes issue with dropout and college humour employing the same model?
They're both channels that are really popular on here so hoping someone has an answer.
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Because little details delight me: Jung Yi-hyun is not or exaggerating lying when he says he could have made the major leagues in baseball. He throws a pitch in the first episode that is caught by a speed camera
That is 141km/h. The average fastball thrown in the professional baseball is... 146km/h (80mph). He's 30 now (the average professional athlete retires before 30) and it's been years since he's been training seriously. So yeah, he most likely would have made it in his prime. That really does suck.
#tvn happiness#I don't know what the overlap is in baseball knowers and kdrama watchers#but I appreciated the detail#had do to km to m conversions
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So...Yo! 😎
New edit with some of his Mystery, Comedy and Action scenes from a variety of dramas/movies in one 😁💖
Want to guess the drama/movie scenes that are featured? 👀
#heo sung tae#허성태#kdrama#adamas#beyond evil#psychopath diary#watcher#yourhonor#tunnel#liveuptoyourname#bigbet2#cross#behindeverystar#differentdreams#squid game#koreanmovie#the12thsuspect#hitmanagentjun#thedivinemove2#hunt#stellaramagicalride#theageofshadows
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2022 in kdramas
*that I finished
I spent my January nursing all that The Red Sleeve broke (my heart), nourishing what it gave me (provocation to write, notes here), cursing what it did for my overall k-drama viewing expectations. I am still mad that Lee Se-young wasn’t recognised for what she did in TRS, a show that belongs to Deok-im and her alone. I had finished Good Manager a day before, a long-winded bromance between Namkoong Min and Lee Jun-ho. I didn’t think much and truth be told, I don’t remember much either. Happiness fell flat after three episodes; stayed for the remaining episodes because of the excellent chemistry between the main characters. I evidently watched Coffee Prince many years too late but I saw every reason why I might have never finished school if I had seen it earlier.
Run On kept me thrilled on occasion, became white noise otherwise. I loved seeing my two joys, running and translation, woven into the show, loved the miracle of found friendships and homes, and a defiant writing philosophy that healthy relationships are worthy of being probed. Despite how unbearable Our Beloved Summer was about Ji-woong’s unrequited love, I could see the good-naturedness of the story writer-nim was trying to tell. I loved watching why the two leads fell apart and what brought them together. I loved that this had something to do with communication but I loved even more, that it just had to do with having grown up and realising you can love something you’re not and that’s one way to experience life. Kairos is the most underappreciated show that tackles time-travel. Great writing with exceptional attention to detail.
February was spent with the duology of the Ahn Pan-seok—Kim Eun—Jung Hae-in universe, the k-drama equivalent of Austenian bliss. Both shows benefit from Kim Eun’s thesis that romance may be intimate but love, in a patriarchy, demands a public that must accept it. Ahn Pan-seok is the finest orchestrator of moments that feel like the time lapse that falling in love is, that thing that people often reduce to soulmatism or violins at first glance. In One Spring Night, it works. In Something in the Rain, it fails because Kim Eun was still finding her voice as a writer who is stumped by what makes for the ‘right’ kind of conflicts in a 16-episode arc. I don’t think that’s the only problem with SITR but it’s the one she solved with marvelous elegance in OSN. In both shows, the main leads are charmingly, refreshingly communicative with each other. But it is in OSN, where Kim Eun figures out that being vulnerable is not the same as talking about vulnerable things, and how to make it count for all relationships that matter. Son Ye-jin and Han Ji-min, I love you both equally.
In March, I began paying an honorarium to the guard of my Jang Hyuk horny jail. Deep-rooted Tree made me cry in at least 14/24 episodes. A Joseon murder mystery wrapped in a drama about accessible language as the beginning to breaking down class barriers and nation-building, with nerdy love for character interiority? I ate that up. Han Seok-kyu is the only reel King Sejong ever. Just like Jang Hyuk is the only reel Bang Won ever. My Country: The New Age is a shallow show with hilarously lofty dialogues and masterful action sequences. In my most generous reading, MCTNA attempted to ask if Bang Won’s modernity could have come at a lesser price; is modernity not equivalent to audacity? Woo Do-hwan is almost as good at portraying audacity as Jang Hyuk.
Having Park Eun-bin and Kim Min-jae play Brahms in a riveting duet is exactly what Do You Like Brahms? set out to do. Introverts are rarely done well on the screen and getting it right with not one, but two leads is an achievement too. If you are a person fuelled by that mystical "passion," the creative arts industry can be a cruel place. Chae Song-ah is, by all accounts, not as talented as the others around her, and this is not a story of stick-with-it-till-you-rise-from-the-ashes. Even the hope that it might be is wonderful writing because Song-ah is far more assertive than anybody gives her credit for, like a baby who holds onto your finger with shocking strength. In classical music especially, there is no such thing: you are good or you are out. Park Joon-young is great and yet, he is begging for an out, because being good is just the beginning. These two and the other characters are deeply in love with music and they want to protect that love. They all find out that in the end that love needs sustenance, not protection.
I binged Fated to Love You in April, in a private experiment to see how much Jang Hyuk brainrot I can take. (Let’s remember this is a summary of the shows I finished.) I came out of it with brainrot for one more Jang. Outrageous show, outrageous star power. Soundtrack No. 1 was a forgettable experience save for the fact that I am now a person who looks up Park Hyung-sik’s MDL page on the reg. I think everybody is right about Twenty-Five Twenty-One: (a) Baek Ye-jin and Na Hee-do were always going to break up (b) It was a terribly-conceived finale. Two other opinions I am going to leave here: (c) Ji Seung-wan, darling of my heart, should have been the lead for the show that writer-nim actually wanted to do. (d) More people would see this, and also may have responded with thoughts beyond ship discourse, if Na Hee-do was played by anyone other than Kim Tae-ri.
I think people were right about criticising Lee Soo-yeon’s Grid too. The science of time-travel took some leniency. I get why the finale would have been unsatisfying, even as a setup for a potential second season. But I offer that the thesis of LSY’s shows is never in how they end, because they are not moral science lessons for the future. Grid’s deeply introspective themes of time-travel and the greater good begins with the the sun, the most reliable force in a human's life, turning against mankind. This immediately takes away a human as ultimate antagonist, when it easily could have been. For LSY, the future is the darkest place with unknowable power and we have the task of paving a path of light towards it. Time-travel is not the science-fiction component with which to imagine our behaviour in an unrecognisable, but possible, place. It’s the fucking fantasy. Even if we got the chance to change the past, we really couldn't. The future is what we have got to change and the present to make the first move. Those dreams of going back, repenting hard enough, flirting with what ifs? Not going to cut it. LSY's meta elegance is in bringing the intensely personal version of this theme in parallel to the big one: divorce. FWIW, she had all these threads tie together by Episode 7. I get why she said Grid is the next iteration of her life's work—an exceptional mind.
Park Min-young could have chemistry with a rock, and thank god, Seo Kang-joon isn’t one. When The Weather Is Fine is the rightest show about life in the countryside. It nails the fine line of a tight-knit community that shows up for you and also, how easily they can be the first source of judgement, as people who know your secrets. Best book club in a k-drama. Very well done pining. Imo is my favourite character and she should publish that novel because “Hey. Who do you think killed my brother-in-law?” is a banger opening line. I first saw Lee Jae-wook in this show.
During the weekends of April and May, there was My Liberation Notes. I watched it like a scheduled therapy session, although I do not think Park Hae-young is aiming for catharsis with her works (despite it seeming like the most common outcome). I didn’t have the word “healing” in my everyday vocabulary so often before k-dramas. It’s a genre of k-drama that is meant to be comforting, to inject slowness into everyday life as an antidote for the ills of modern society. Bullshit. There are multiple wide shots of the Yeom family tending their farms, eating in peace amid the greenery, and they are claustrophobic. It might feel like complaints, and you’re free to think that. But PHY knows, as most people my generation do, finding an escape is actually really easy. That’s not the point. The point is to be less sad about being who you are; to know that who you are is enough to make a living, find love if you want it, make peace with your family. This show is about siblings as the real loves of your lives.
I don’t remember what I was doing in June.
Pachinko is not a k-drama strictly speaking, but let’s do it. I adore Min Jin Lee and I am afraid to admit how emotionally attached I am to the world of Kogonada’s eyes. In MJL's book, the linear structure is meant to make you feel like the history of a family can also be a history of the other themes that consume intellectual space. In the show, there is no such thing as a past, or a history. Nothing is done, nothing is over and under the rug. You see Sun-ja’s and Solomon’s stories at the same time because there's no distance that makes what happened then far enough from what's happening now. For this alone, Pachinko is a superior adaptation. I have a shrine for every woman in this show. Watching Yumi’s Cells 2 has been among the happiest experiences of my TV viewing life. Bloody Heart could have been bloodier. I respected that it reached a conclusion without feeling the need to give a neat answer to its central question of assertive power as driver of both unity and chaos—there’s humility in realising that the answer need not be determined in one generation. Jang Hyuk thirst got me into the show, Kang Hanna’s outstanding face and smarts kept me there. Lee Joon’s Lee Tae nearly made me quit. Park Ji-yeon, muah. I watched the back half of Signal in July. It is no fault of the show that I was zapped out of will to see women being killed. There were two scenes of Kim Hye-soo’s that wrecked me bad, I had to quit watching for couple of days. Thank you to the makers for giving a genre-defining template. (Kairos did do it better.)
Alchemy of Souls was super fun as a weekly watch. Daeho is boring to me as a setting and the plot ventures into territories worthy of critical thought once in a blue moon. But I admire the ambition, and the storytelling does have its moments. Lee Jae-wook is a menace. Inhaled Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung over four days; I enjoyed it. Extraordinary Attorney Woo tried. I also binged Reply 1997. Reply 1988 is always going to be my favourite and I am not going to watch R1994 for a conclusive test of veracity.
Between these shows, their endearing efforts at being fulfilling shows about love of different kinds, I nibbled on episodes of My Mister. I couldn’t watch two episodes together; it was so potent, so unbelievably demanding of my attention in every way imaginable, and I gave it willingly. I wrote about the show here.
October brought the best mystery/thriller show of the year: May It Please The Court. It was written with a clear idea of how much to bite, knew how to chew on it, and that’s why it also landed the best conclusion of the year. The show is astute about forgiveness and justice, and well, forgiveness in justice. I think the show’s success is in how it trusted both its characters and the audience to process what this means to them. Jung Ryeo-won and Lee Kyu-hyung have impeccable married energy from first scene. Lee Sang-hee is the best, the hottest, the finest.
Little Women is the mystery/thriller show with the most potential of the year. It wasn’t until episode 11 that the show lost me but I do think the flaws began revealing themselves a lot earlier. I didn’t appreciate the show’s insistence that the central crime of the show was Sang-ah’s murders and not the patriarchal cult that pretends to be a meritocracy. I thought the Vietnam War references were in conversation for a whole different reason: I viewed it as a nod to the first war where losing means more than winning. That war is the blueprint for the 21st century exertion of control for the right to capital and target audience, rather than mere territory and pride. But this symbolism wasn’t what came through and I understand those who pushed back on how the war's references, along with an exotic flower, rang hollow. LW did get characterisation right, particularly the way poverty alters how intelligence is perceived and valued. It’s ambitious premise—that Louisa May Alcott was wrong in deciding these sisters would taper their poverty with unusual politeness—is radical.
I will rewatch the first 11 episodes of May I Help You in several trying days of my future. Baek Dong-joo and Kim Tae-hee, butlers to the dead and the alive respectively, are companions, friends and lovers, in that order. What's not to love? The acts asked of them are rarely grand but they are delivered with emotional heft. I forgive all the detours taken from episode 12. I tend to find it dull when everybody and everything is connected to each other. In this one's ending, it's quite lovely. I see the vision in saying that we only know Dong-joo’s story because that’s the story we have tuned into. The miracles could be happening to anyone at all. I wish writer-nim wasn’t so Christian throughout—the throwaway line about suicide put me off. Best piggy-backing scenes in a rom-com and also, favourite kiss, I am going to say.
#little women kdrama#may i help you#my liberation notes#may it please the court#bloody heart#pachinko#disney grid#when the weather is fine#2521#do you like brahms#my country the new age#tree with deep roots#one spring night#something in the rain#i love you my little dramas and you too my favourite drama-watchers#phew!#kdrama#notes#2022 in review#kdrama in review
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Every "WATCHER" moment (16+1)
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it's been a long time since i was so excited and impatient for episodes of a drama to drop as i am with alchemy of souls and i'm seeing quite a few people feeling like this and it makes me so happy. i love when so many people come together to obsess over one thing specifically one show it's so fun
#alchemy of souls#i think the last time i've really experienced and seen this was penthouse and true beauty#its just so fun#i think i wouldnt call kdrama watcher a community but collective excitement makes it feel like one kinda#alchemy of souls light and shadow#maybe its just my personalized dashboards but!!!! still lmao
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DRAMABITE: EP18 | Looking through Mydramalist to pick my next dramas to ...
#youtube#kdramas#dramabite#kdrama fan#drama watcher#kdrama vlog#vlog#miss night and day#my sweet mobster
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black out doing so well in telling the story they want to tell so faithfully like every scene is so intentionally crafted that i think people will be mad over not getting a big 'plot twist' at the end and instead suspension paying off when you actually rub your braincells together and watch this show with your eyes and your brain (now i am just waiting to see which direction sang-cheol is gonna go into of the two detectives he is based on lol)
#go jun is so good tho ....... love seeing him in this role sm#tv watchers seeing a plot be well executed through supsense and visual cues: are they showing me what is gonna happen?#yes. you know. how television used to in the old days (last decade)#(mildly) susprised they seem to keep most plot points that build the main story line(s) compared to what they are omitting#i love the zdfication of kdrama actually. ten more of that#al.txt#black out
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i think the phone call scene at the end she might still have been paralysed or might not... she didn't sound angry but she wasn't even her usual cheerful self i NEED the next episode right fucking now
#it must have been his fault but what did he do#i love that most of us kdrama watchers still get to enjoy stuff weekly eating our own hair wondering what could it be unlike the bingers#ryu sun jae#im sol#lovely runner#kdrama
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