Faith (The Great Doctor): Final Thoughts

Faith or sometimes called The Great Doctor
(I call it Ultimate Lee MinHo Action Time)

this was my first historical drama (sageuk), y'all, and at first i was like "what is going on, and why is my pretty pony's mane of luscious locks so long!" but i really wasn't complaining, just confused. (the more hair on LMH's pretty little head, the less there is wrong in the world…)

touch. touch. i want to touch.

not that i know that much about sageuks, but this one was unusual in that it had a fantasy aspect to it -- the high doctor came from the future in a leaf-blowing time warp thingy, and many of the characters had superpowers like lightening-fingers and fire-hands. 

he had like blowing power…and ridiculous white hair.

mix that in with the cartoon drawings that popped up from time to time, and the god-awful amazing hair styles, and it's just a giant jumble of "what the hell is going on...more screen time for LMH's marvelous made-up mug, please."

 that bandana and those side bangs. what is this, the 80s?

my overall thought: the story was interesting and the production was really great (loved all the pretty costumes that the queen and high doctor wore)

but there were too many episodes and the story was dragged out. i'm not well-versed enough in kdramas to know if this is possible, but they really should have made Faith a mini series, like 10 episodes. 

audiences would have been way more captivated by all the fruit ninja slashy-slashy sounds that continuously rang throughout the 20 episodes, and the plot and love story between LMH and high doctor wouldn't have dragged so much. 

besides, the series didn't really get interesting until the last 5 or so episodes (really, once LMH calls high doctor "imja" because i don't know what.the.fuck it means but i sure want him calling me that from his perfectly surgeon-puckered lips!)

and *SPOILER ALERT* the ending, though perhaps predictable and nothing new, was still very sweet. koreans do time travel well. that's right, have LMH waiting under a tree for her for however long it takes to grow a goatee, and set it to the cheesiest and most amazing ballad song ever. oh, the feels. 

give me that goatee, pony. give it to me good.

what should i watch next? i've started Scent of a Woman, but i'm afraid 6 episodes in, i don't really like it and find it extremely boring and snooze-worthy. this may just be the very first kdrama i abandon and don't finish! Another first!

hana, dul, set! press play.

My First Time

i remember my first time fondly. 

i had quit my job and found myself in-between places. here i was unemployed with a lot of time on my hands and bitter -- oh, so bitter -- when a friend of mine suggested i fill my idle time with some korean drama love.

i had heard about korean dramas often in high school and college. my asian american friends would sit at home with their asian mothers and laugh at the silly plots and cry when the characters got cancer (they always get cancer.), but other than a giggle or two here and cancer there, i knew nothing else about the illuminating world of kdramas.

so when my friend suggested i watch "12 Signs of Love" because "it's cute," i said okay. why not? what else was i going to do with 8 hours of my day -- walking to and from the fridge could only eat up so much time.

for the most part, it was entertaining and nothing else. it filled my time and gave me something to do while i ate away my sorrows. that was until the very moment that Bae Geu Rin's perfectly plastic and unmoving face lit up my laptop screen. it was clearly plastic from tip to toe and it was fucking perfect.

i wanted to simultaneously brush my fingers across her deeply doubled eyelids and lick the tip of her high, pointy nose to see if it tasted like a plastic water bottle. 

i was in love with this world that thought such extreme perfection was okay. not a pimple in sight, the natural curves of an unsoldered face was no where to be found. and it was amazing.

from that point on, i devoured kdramas like a city hunter patrolling the world of internet-television for every small-faced, pointy chinned starlet and star-man that i could find. they all looked the same, and i fucking loved it. 

korean dramas, and the characters who dance, karaoke, drink, fight, fall in love, and not-sex-each other in them, are like an explosion of glitter mixed with giant doll eyes and lots and lots of sweaters. it's a fun escape from the borrringggg real world where there's more than 1 face shape and no one makes dramatic u-turns in ferraris in the middle of busy intersections.

join me as i continue to gorge myself on every drama series i can get a hold of here in the US and for my never-ending quest to lick all the pretty plastic faces in the world of korean dramas.

and if you have suggestions on any drama series (korean or not) that i should check out, please leave them in the comments section.

hana, dul, set! press play and say yes to pretty plastic faces.