Scent of a Woman: FAIL

Scent of a Woman? more like Bored as a Woman-Viewer

fail, fail, triple-ty fail fail fail. Scent of a Woman is so slow and boring, even the stars in that promo poster look bored. 

i'm not sure what went wrong with this movie (both leads are attractive enough) other than the plot and story progression was just bland (and it even involved cancer!! how can this be?)

the male lead is good looking but a perfect example that stars don't necessarily need to all get the double eyelid surgery to look sexy and succeed on screen, because he had the deepest-set double eyelids i've ever seen (be it natural or not), and was sexy enough, but i still had zero interest in the show after watching just 30 minutes of it. and he just looked so bored and sleepy all the time.

this is how he looked in the entire show --  like a stagnant ken doll.

his face never reacted to anything -- which i normally like of my plastic ponies because it's indicative of just how much filler they shoveled into their faces, but this was too much. i think he was actually sleeping with his eyes open the entire series.

they even look bored here during a supposedly sexy moment!

also the female lead was so rail thin, it irked me. i wanted to feed her a big bowl of ramen and then some.

lastly, maybe i didn't watch enough with all 8 episodes i tortured self with before abandoning ship with gusto, but what.in.the.fuck does the title mean? who and why are we smelling a lady? 

this drama was the first one i could not finish -- and i'm extremely OCD about finishing everything that i start even if i hate it.

in other less ranty news, i started BIG with Gong Yoo and i LOVE it to bits and pieces. i will write an entry about how enamored i am with his impossibly tiny ball-point pen-tip head and how funny the story is so far next! so look out for that!

alright, let's never talk about Scent of a Woman again. stop smelling women!

hana, dul, set! press play.

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.