And then, when we need the arc to wrap up, heretofore reluctant Ghost Girl now wants to uphold justice.
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The whole plot revolving around Ha Na/Hee Joo’s ghost gets tied up (and not a moment too soon), with Dead Twin (Han Bo Reum) desperate to borrow Gong Sil’s body in order to stop Live Twin (Hwang Sun Hee), and there are tears and good-byes and it’s all supposed to be pretty moving.Īs I watched, though, I couldn’t help but wonder what happened to the Ha Na/Hee Joo who insisted she needed to protect the perpetrator? All series long, Ghost Girl insists that she cannot and will not reveal the truth, because she has to protect the perpetrator. Which means the show had to work that much harder (and longer) to creep into my good books. A crime that can get the cops called on you.Īnd having Joong Won engage in this type of behavior with Gong Sil made him – and the drama as a whole – unsavory. violent. In my mind, that’s not being a jerky chaebol. But really, Joong Won’s rough treatment of Gong Sil went way beyond what I feel is acceptable. And I get the desire to push the envelope when making dramas. I totally get the kdrama trope of giving us a jerky chaebol. Second of all, to make this scene even worse than it already is, Gong Sil’s reaction is not to screech in pain or be in any way upset. Instead, she smiles sheepishly and shyly up at Joong Won. Like, did they interview a talking cat? *ponders*), I’m very sure it does hurt for humans, as anyone who’s fought with a sibling would know. Although I’m told this doesn’t hurt for cats (I’m uncertain how the experts managed to ascertain this. Plus, I love Gong Hyo Jin and I was intrigued by the idea of So Ji Sub doing comedy. And despite the disappointment of Big, I still had residual regard for the Hong sisters, having enjoyed many of their earlier works.įirst of all, Joong Won unceremoniously holds Gong Sil in place by her hair, not unlike how one might hold a cat by the scruff of its neck. Great OTP chemistry is pretty high up there for me, so when I heard that So Ji Sub and Gong Hyo Jin had off-the-charts chemistry and together were burning up screens across dramaland, I just had to see it for myself, ghostly show or no.
How did I end up watching this, then? It was the show’s general reputation for sizzling OTP chemistry that drew me in. Yes, that is the extent to which I wuss out on horror shows, heh. On occasion, they can be a touch creepy, but it’s nothing you won’t be able to handle. Which means when I say that the ghosts in Master’s Sun aren’t scary, you can so take my word for it. (Yes, wussing out can be planned.) They’re just not my thing, y’know? I am not a fan of horror / ghosts, and make it a general rule to wuss out of watching those kinds of shows. You could have one without the other, but having them together just takes everything to a whole new level. When the drama’s consumed together with the fanfic, though, they go together like strawberries and cream, or peanut butter and jelly, or Kim Woo Bin and Lee Jong Suk, or Song Seung Hun and abs, or. That put a whole different spin on things. The game-changer for me was the new knowledge that the two of them had basically ad-libbed a good number of the swooniest couple moments on the show. And yes, I’d noticed that they had excellent onscreen chemistry too.
I was on the verge of dropping Lie To Me when I chanced on a whole lot of fandom squee over the chemistry between Kang Ji Hwan and Yoon Eun Hye.
One could objectively say that it was a mess of a drama. Like, one moment our male lead Kang Ji Hwan really, really dislikes our female lead Yoon Eun Hye, and the next minute, he’s kissing her. Character motivations were similarly bemusing and felt almost random. Nothing really made proper sense, and plot points were strung together with the flimsiest of excuses. I remember feeling completely underwhelmed and quite horrified, even, at the lack of cohesion in Lie To Me’s narrative.
I know, I totally sound like I’m going off on a crazy tangent. This happened to me once before, when I was watching Lie To Me (2011).