#kdrama rambles

[allaganexarch]

you ever like a piece of media so much you get upset you can only experience it for the first time once

#im literally only on ep 2 of doom at your service and i'm Like This #it's like stray gods or ffxiv:shadowbringers im just like #you cannot just come into my HOUSE like this!!!!!!!!1 #personal #kdrama rambles

[gigglyramblings]

Can Shin Jae Ha please stop taking villain roles? I think he is a good actor, but it's going to be difficult not to suspect him as the bad guy in every single drama he's in going forward. I don't think that many of us would have suspected him as the bad guy right away in Taxi Driver season 2 if he didn't just finish playing the bad guy in Crash Course in Romance. But as soon as he appeared a majority of the viewers were like is he the bad guy? 😅 I wish his career choices were more like Im Siwan's as in throwing in a few really sweet roles in between the psychos that way we won't be that quick to always suspect him as the bad guy.

#kdrama rambles #kdrama #shin jae ha #taxi driver season 2 #taxi driver 2 #crash course in romance

[onhajoon]

Taxi Driver fandom do me a solid and clear this up once and for all. I'd really love to see which majority rules 🍃

Please do reblog if you vote so that this can reach as many people as possible 🙌😊

#because in fandom spaces like ao3 and here idk which one to use lol #please do me a favour ! #and reblog! #and vote too! #taxi driver 2 #kdrama #lee je hoon #taxi driver season 2 #sbs taxi driver 2 #kim do gi #kim do ki #kim doki #kim dogi #taxi driver kdrama #korean names #kdrama rambles

[byebyeballoon]

I just finished up watching Glitch, and omg was it satisfying. I was thinking, “You know I think this is the first kdrama I’ve watched featuring aliens… there had to have been another, I’ve watched so many…. Oh wait no there was Duty After School… but that show doesn’t count.” For those who haven’t seen my thoughts on Duty After School, you can read it here. I actively try not to remember that show bc it def traumatized me, and not in a good way.

Long story short, the plot of Glitch without too many spoilers is: the main gal can see aliens (however she does her best to ignore them) and believes her ex-boyfriend has gotten abducted/kidnapped by aliens. On her journey to find answers, she runs into a group of believers who become trusted allies. Seeking even more answers, they discover a cult whose religion seems to be about aliens. Chaos ensues. Playing the female lead as Ji-Hyo is Jeon Yeo Bin, who also played the amazing Cha-Young in Vincenzo, and Lee Eun Jung in Be Melodramatic/Melo Is My Nature. Both were other fantastic shows that I suggest you watch if you haven’t.

Vincenzo of course is about a character who was adopted in Korea by a mob boss from Italy (who takes him there to raise him abroad). Vincenzo has to find the treasure that was left to him in a building in Korea, and he ends up having to deal with a ragtag group of tenants that live in said building. He also has to deal with an unexpected foe while in Korea while looking for said treasure. Chaos, hilarity, and heartbreak ensues. Be Melo Dramatic is about three female friends in their thirties trying to get their lives together. You will cry with this one. But it was so great having three female characters that I loved, who loved one another and weren’t at odds over the male lead.

Anyway if you want a funny scifi show, definitely go watch Glitch on Netflix! Multiple scenes throughout the season had me in stitches and that credit scene left me wanting more (like the one in Hotel Del Luna. Iykyk).

#glitch #kdrama #netflix #netflix kdramas #glitch on netflix #glitch kdrama #kdrama rambles #kdramas #Vincenzo #be melodramatic #melo is my nature #brittany rambles

[kuronekonerochan]

Random Hanadan/BoF Shitpost

After hearing that Love in Flames of War, a republican era cdrama had Hana Yori Dango/Boys Over Flowers/ Meteor Garden/ F4 vibes... but eventually failed to deliver on that front I rambled at @dangermousie​ that, actually, we SHOULD have a Hanadan version of every genre of cdrama.

 No...wait...I’m joking...but also not. My reasoning for this is solid:

 1) No matter what you thing of Hanadan and all it’s objectively toxic and dated glory, you can’t deny it is a hallmark in the history of shoujo manga/anime/asian drama/ live action adaptation/remake pumping machine. It paved the way for all the ItaKiss, Fated to Love You, etc...and it is still to this day a nostalgia magnet for an easy cash grab with each remake (also the latest one might be the best lol).

 2) *Surrender by Cheaptricks plays in the background, talks in “there is no war in ba sing se” mode* There are no new ideas in media. Everything is a sequel, prequel, remake, reboot, retelling, soft reboot, parody, homage, the same thing over and over again but call it by another name (it’s still a rose, yeah Shakespeare, you’re a genius, congrats!).

 3) Let’s face it. Dramaland is going through the lowest of lows. Cdramas are bad and boring, Kdramas are scarce and boring and Jdramas are 10 ep cute little intros to the story you really wanna see that’s about to begin...at the end of ep10, last episode, no 2nd season. So, they might as well try Every Hanadan Set Everywhere all at Once.

 So, without further ado, introducing...every genre of Cdrama Hanadan (with crazy plot eggs for some and none for others bc I say so):

Starting with contemporary…

1)      Reverse hanadan where the fl is a rich asshole and the ml a poor little meow meow

2)      Time loop hanadan

3)      Modern Fantasy hanadan (sort of like the beginning of Bulgasal but more petty and less angsty lol)

4)      Transmigration low budget web drama romcom hanadan

5)      *barfs* modern office corporate romance hanadan

6)      *barfs again* gaming hanadan

7)      Sports hanadan (aka if HanaKimi wasn’t genderbender or cute but toxic instead)

8)      Coming of Age/ Youth to Adult Married life Hanadan 

Syke! Too late! There is already an OG classic toxic Hanadan of this Genre, it’s called Itazura na Kiss (and it’s my guilty pleasure, my personal hanadan lol)

9)      Ice sports hanadan....yesss...get gory with the bullying with ice skating blades muahahaha. The red card locks her on the ice rink and they oil the railings/plexiglass around it so she can't even climb out and she nearly freezes to death. They rope her to the back of a zamboni and drag her through the ice. While she is trapped on the ice rink, they rig a bucket of water to fall over her so she freezes faster.

Now for the period dramas…

10)   Republican Era hanadan

They could use the boat scene ending from the finale of the anime as a convenient plotpoint to escape the republican era without dying in the republican turmoil. "Oh, they just reunited dramatically on a boat post amnesia and went abroad together and missed all the political fatal shit and lived happily ever after. Their kids returned to China and lived happily under the great CCP rule (/s)!

11)   Palace hanadan

It’s hanadan meets legend of Ruyi where he is the Crown Prince but the Empress Dowager holds all the power and on some humiliation move has him take a barbarian slave as a concubine...and the red card is that it's open season on her from every noble or regular consort of his harem and his friends in the court...all is fair the only rule is she cannot be murdered, everything else is fair game. So she is beating to the brink of death, poisoned daily with agonizing pills only to be given antidotes at the last minute, drowned, flayed, etc.

12)   Wuxia hanadan. Similar. Dude is the leader of the jianghu, declares her a demon bc she offended him and has all the pretentious righteous sects go after her with agonizing Gus pushed on her body, plenty of chains, kebab her in multiple ways with stakes in torture chambers to cast out the evil.

13)   BL Wuxia hanadan. (this one is just here by popular demand. Mine. No, I will not elaborate on that).

14)   And at last…my personal favorite….drum rolls… Xianxia hanadan (here is the plot):

She spilled peach wine on his cloud robes once by accident before the Great Heaven's Ceremony so he scribed her name carelessly on the stone of the doomed as petty revenge hoping she'd get some bad karma. But at the time the Demon Overlord was fighting the Lord of Fate and the Dijun on Kunlun and as they made their final strike the demon overlord turned into a cloud of heavy miasma that swirled away swiftly for miles and landed on the stone of the doomed. Hence, for the next 10.000 years the calamities and heavenly tribulations of every god were transferred into the unlucky FL.

In the first 300 years, the gods were unsure of what was happening, but soon word spread of a small menial demigoddess who seemed to be getting an abnormal amount of calamities and trials and yet never ascended into a higher level god. But other gods were getting past their fated tribulations dates without experiencing the event itself but still ascending afterwards. Soon this bizarre phenomenon was being gossiped throughout all the heavenly realms and the gods were rushing to get their hands on every magical item capable of moving forward their tribulation dates... After all, who knew how long this free meal would last? So it follows that our female lead spent the next 10.000 overbooked from torturing calamity to the next without a break or a reward.

Our cloud cloaked protagonist came to learn of this business about 500 years into it. It was not his intention for the karmic payback to be that harsh...but then again it was his best cloud vest that the annoying, insignificant little demigoddess had ruined...and if the consequences had been that rough, who was he to question the Great Design. He soon forgot all about it, surely none of that pesky matter would come back to bother him...

10.000 later: Our fuming fl finally had enough...after experiencing every form of dismemberment as a human, for eons, though she didn't collect an ounce of heavenly grace to ascend to higher goddess....she sure damn well accumulated enough yin to form a monumental grudge...and she would use all of that energy into one single punch for a certain cloud clothed god that would send him so high the gods would finally know what lies above the heavenly realm...not that he'd get the opportunity to tell the tale.

Congrats! you made it to the end of my loooong ass ramble. 

Here’s some Ice Cream...

#hanadan #hana yori dango #boys over flowers #meteor shower #meteor garden #the f4 #f4 thailand #itazura na kiss #anime #shoujo manga #cdrama #kdrama #jdrama #dorama #kdrama edit #kdrama rant #kdrama rambles #shitpost

[ladybugmakestea]

reply 1988 on hold

currently watching: woori the virgin and incurable case of love

#kdrama rambles

[madwoman14]

i love you. on purpose.

#web weaving #taylor swift #red white and royal blue #words #cindy rambles #amy march #little women #extraordinary attorney woo #kdrama #parallels #don’t know what else to tag it lmao

[psalm40speakstome]

Sure you might be the “love of my life” but have you ever accidentally found out we were both time travelers because of BTS? I don’t think so

#marry my husband #kdrama #fantastic #when #dynamite #started playing #AMAZING #my KDrama rambles #marry my husband spoilers #park min young #na in woo

[mooninagust]

being into dramas where romance is one of the main points of the story is so fun... *cries in single*

#yea most of the dramas i watch rn are h*rny but hey romance is romance #im going thru it today #i blame the situation im in honestly #pit babe #last twilight #welcome to samdalri #my demon #playboyy #castaway diva #kdrama #thai drama #asian dramas #an rambles

[sunlighthroughthe-ashes]

scholar and novelist stacey d'erasmo uses a phrase in her writing: "meet me in the if."

it's to do with the nature of imaginative intimacy — the role people go on to play in our lives even after a chance, momentary meeting; never to be repeated.

how they linger, and blossom in memory.

i think it's a beautiful summation of sol and sunjae's love story — "meet me in the if:" the imprecise air of the past — the promise of possibility.

the entirety of lovely runner is steeped in the purple ink of potential — sol and sunjae live between the "what-ifs," the "could-have-beens," the "missed you by just a second."

turning time back gives sol a chance to save him — and gives sunjae a chance to fall in love with her all over again.

to fail in better ways. to get their story right.

to harness the uncertain magic of lives already lived, there to be re-moulded again. reshaped by love.

however this ends, i know what they'll say to each other: "meet me in the if — where you and i will finally make sense."

"where you and i can finally be happy."

#don't mind my incoherent rambling #just obsessed with this show #byeon woo seok #kdrama #kim hye yoon #lovely runner #tvn drama #tvn lovely runner #kdrama lover #tvn #rom com kdrama #fantasy kdrama

[allaganexarch]

ohhhhh i think i know what kdrama i'm watching next :)

#i am technically more than halfway thru crash landing on you #BUT the eps are an hour and a half long so #every time i come on here to scream it's bc i've watched like 20 mins of an ep LOL #anyway youtube??? randomly showed me a clip from doom at your service #and it looks like my jam i love to sob #personal #kdrama rambles #see how useful this tag has been :) #tune in probably very soon when i have to add just a general kpop tag as tho this whole blog is not already kpop

[gigglyramblings]

Rambling about Taxi Driver Season 2

I posted part of what I'm going to say on the kdrama subreddit but I had some more thoughts that I wanted to expand on and I thought of waiting until the season completely finishes to write about this but I guess I don't want to wait that long so this may serve as my wrap up post for the second season of Taxi Driver 2 if the last a few episodes do nothing drastic to change my thoughts or if I don't have anything else to add.

But here goes: Taxi Driver 2 is really shaping up to be one of those shows that you need to watch with your brain turned off to be truly enjoyable. And I think that's where a lot of the dissatisfaction I see expressed online comes from because most people expect shows like that to be fluffy and this show is not fluffy but it has some insane leaps of logic😂. I personally have no problem with it because I found the latter half of the first season a bit too dark and I really just didn't like the storyline in the latter half. But the storyline in the second half this time around actually is culturally relevant since Burning Sun and all. But I will admit I think the show found a perfect balance between light and dark with the first four episodes and I do wish it would go back to that tone because sometimes it is a little too silly.

Part of me is still kind of bitter about the fact that season 1 switched out its original writer so we never got to see their intended version of season 1 play out.

I guess I'm just easy to please in a way because season 2 got rid of the biggest problem I had with season 1 which is the character of Kang Hana. I love Esom and this is not intended to drag her and in any way but the character of Hana was just so terribly cliche. I guess the one thing I'm immensely grateful that the second writer of season 1 didn't do is develop a love-line between Kang Hana and Kim Doki. Especially because the way they're developing the relationship between Kim Doki and Ahn Goeun is my favorite thing about this season. I haven't seen such an awesome slow burn romantic subplot in a while!😍.

Which makes me extremely glad that Pyo Yejin was the one that was eventually cast as Ahn Go Eun because if it was the original actress who initially got cast I don't think I would be such a die-hard fan of this relationship and yeah the bullying accusations would have played a part in it but I think I would have been a little weirded out by the real life age difference between the initial actress and Lee Jehoon to be cheering for a romance between their characters. So I guess the k-drama gods are really on our side sometimes😆. Now if they can only give us a Lee Jehoon and Pyo Yejin 12-16 episode rom-com drama🙏

#lee je hoon #pyo ye jin #taxi driver season 2 #taxi driver 2 #kdrama #kdrama rambles

[samwiseyoufool]

hae-in: my goal is to part ways with you for good

also hae-in: *runs outside to wait for hyun-woo to get home*

#Queen of tears #hong hae in #baek hyun woo #this is probably the most they’ve texted in months too isn’t it? #ruth rambles #Kdrama

[byebyeballoon]

This gets its own post, but Alexis has been sent pictures and the trailer for season two of Uncanny Counter bc she loves Kang Ki Young from King of Savvy, Weightlifting Fairy, and Bring It On Ghost. You all know she loves villains, so seeing him play one def has her intrigued.

Originally I wasn’t going to show her the show bc as disabled people we hate the whole, “healed by supernatural powers” trope that season one did with the lead character. 😩 At first I was so stoked to have a cane user be the lead in a show, and then he didn’t need his cane any more. 🙃 But she’s gotta see her man play a baddie in season two.

Tbh it was def unique in their explanation of reapers or “counters” as they’re called in the show. Another fantasy kdrama showing us unique ideas. In season two it looks like the baddies will have similar powers, so that’ll be interesting. Season two was better than season one imo (I have watched it since making this draft).

We still have to finish up Under the Queen’s Umbrella but Alexis has been swamped by work and migraines, but be prepared for Uncanny Counter memes next year!

#uncanny counter #kang ki young #kdramas #kdrama rambles

[scenesaw]

i'm watching doom at your service and that's the epitome of my fanfiction mindset right there

striking a deal with a handsome hot sexy magic agent of chaos who will grant me a wish and whose hand i have to CONSTANTLY HOLD TO RECHARGE OUR PACT??????!!! count me in

#mars rambles #kdrama #doom at your service

[ladybugmakestea]

started watching reply 1988 the final piece missing for my reply series watching

why did it take me five years 🤣😭

#kdrama rambles