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dhampyresa) wrote2016-05-23 12:43 am
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K-drama recs?
Swimming: It was raining, I didn't want to go, but I did. Between being sick and bank holidays, it's been about a month since I went. Total before today: 2 850 / 590 000. Today: 20 x 25 = 500. Total today: 3 350 / 590 000.
ALSO! Does anyone have recs for K-dramas I can watch with English subtitles? I like sff, women, queer themes, complicated relationships and shenanigans. Honestly, I have a very broad and not that discerning taste, so as long as it's in Korean with English subs, I'll give it a go -- I really need to practice my Korean.
ALSO! Does anyone have recs for K-dramas I can watch with English subtitles? I like sff, women, queer themes, complicated relationships and shenanigans. Honestly, I have a very broad and not that discerning taste, so as long as it's in Korean with English subs, I'll give it a go -- I really need to practice my Korean.
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That being said, if you want to practice the kind of Korean people today actually speak, contemporary may be the way to go.
I honestly cannot think of ever seeing much sff that wasn't manhwa (cartoons) when I lived in Korea. The impression I always got was that science fiction was "kids' stuff."
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I'm sort of ashamed that I can't make more recommendations--I can't stand most K-Dramas, personally. I'm easily bored by TV shows in general and have been able to like and finish only a select few. Queen Seondeok is one of those few, and I highly highly recommend it if you're in the mood for something long and epic.
On the language front, while the Korean in the show does take on a more archaic tone it's not too distant from modern Korean, since modern Korean audiences still have to understand it. The difference is mostly in the intonations and the PERIOD DRAMA VOICE people use, which will make you sound pretty funny if you try to speak that way in everyday situations, but for vocabulary and grammar it's generally OK.
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How long and epic are we talking about?
Thanks for the additional info!
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Seondeok ran for 62 episodes, so yeah, very epic and very long. It lost both momentum and viewers in the last 10 or so episodes, but the 50 episodes are well worth it. I skipped about half the episodes in the middle and still enjoyed the beginning and especially the ending (well, it really ended at Episode 50 as far as I'm concerned and that was the original schedule), so the show overall is pretty good about recapping and explaining things I think.
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Sungkyunkwan Scandal, which is a super hijinks-y Joseon-era rom-com about a girl who cross-dresses to attend university, complete with Joseon-era roommate drama, intramural sports, frat hazing, and political internships; additionally notable for the canon bisexual character and the gay trial sequence in which the hero saves the heroine from Gay Expulsion by nobly declaring, "The homosexual ... IS ME!"
Capital Scandal, my all-time favorite despite a very frustrating final episode; set during the Japanese occupation, the heroine is an ardent patriot and revolutionary, the hero is a playboy tabloid writer who gets drawn into the revolution after an ill-advised She's All That-style bet. Notable especially for the second heroine, who is the hero's platonic bff and becomes the heroine's mentor; she is a glamorous courtesan who enjoys trolling her friends, shopping and makeovers, planning revolution, and murder. She is possibly my favorite character in any work of media ever.
Queen In-Hyun's Man, a time-travel drama about a Joseon-era scholar who ends up traveling back and forth from his own time and falling in love with an actress starring in a drama about his own time period; pretty much a straight-up romance without much ensemble to it, but a super well-done and charming one, and the hero is by far the smartest and most sensible time-traveler I've ever seen in fiction (also, so respectful! no wrist-grabs, not even one!)
I also second the rec for Queen Seondeok, which is lengthy but super interesting.
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roommate drama: Can I ask for specifics about this? It might be a deal-breaker for me.
What's so frustrating about Capital Scandal's last episode?
the smartest and most sensible time-traveler I've ever seen in fiction FUCKING SOLD
Thanks for all the recs.
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Capital Scandal's last episode is really frustrating because a.) one of the best characters dies in the second-to-last episode and b.) the women, who have been not only driving the plot doing almost all of the actual revolutionary work up until that point in the plot, are abruptly sidelined for NO GOOD REASON so the dudes can run off and have nonsensical action hijinks without them. It's maddening because up until that point the show is so good with its female characters! AND SUDDENLY.
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