It Started with a Journal

( OMG! )

( Now ep 18 )

( It's overrrrrrrrr. )

The best thing about Asian dramas is that they're like books... they have a beginning, middle, and end. There's no "monster of the week" type episodes, so that the show can drag on for however long the network can keep it alive. It tells a full story, which is why the endings are usually very satisfying.

Thanks to adelagia, I've now watched the pilot episode of City Hunter (based on a manga, of course). I LOVED IT. It is slick. It is an actual adult drama -- maybe a first for me in terms of Asian dramas. >.> It's more Alias than ... well, there's really no American TV equivalent to the wonderful guilty pleasures that are Asian teenish dramas, but let's say Gossip Girl, just to distinguish the genres. If you watched Boys Over Flowers and found Lee Min Ho hot (which, unless you're an incomprehensible person like akscully, you probably did), you will find him even hotter in this.

Plot summary: North Korea does something terrible to South Korea. SK plots revenge, and sends a team of commandos to do something terrible to NK. Then there's a political change of heart, but it's too late to stop the commandos. In order to save their own asses, SK disavows any knowledge of what the commandos did and goes so far as to kill all of them as they're returning from the mission. There's one survivor, a guy saved by his best friend. The survivor kidnaps his best friend's son (as you would) and raises him, making him go through intense combat training so that one day the kid can exact revenge on the political a-holes who betrayed them all. The result is that Jun Pyo Yoon Sung is basically a total badass (except he doesn't seem to know he is one). He's got Lee Min Ho's vulnerability and charisma, and so far what Yoon Sung wants more than anything is to find and meet his real mommy.

See??? You so want to watch it!

There's romance too, but it hasn't really happened yet so I'm not sure what I'll think of it, because I already like the story without, so it might just be extra crap I don't want or need. I hate it when movies/shows force a love interest just because they feel the hero/ine has to have one. The girl seems cute enough though.

Also, I have a couple of funny things to share with you. First is this article, which is totally not work safe and is completely un-PC, but is hilarious. They're "money-saving tips" that people are actually using for real. Wow, what people will do, to save pennies! I mean, I love not spending money when I don't have to, but even I wouldn't go to these lengths.

There's also this, which you may have seen in a forward from someone you rarely talk to, but which is also very entertaining. ( You have two cows... )