I wasn't crazy about Hyun Bin in My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, but he sort of hit me over the head with a brick, as it were, in Secret Garden. Uh, an intense, weird, neurotic, committed-to-the-crazy-of-the-character brick. XD
Agreed about the evil mothers, definitely. Although I found the evil mom sisters competition they had going on pretty hilarious.
Oska and Seul instead have to work out a relationship that failed.
Exactly. This made them such a great contrast to Ra-im and Joo-won, who are trying to figure out how to even approach a relationship that they're both convinced would be doomed to fail.
I really didn't get where she was coming from for the first half of the show before it reveals how much she still feels for him, in hatred.
I do think this could have been signposted better (or at all)--often drama ladies suddenly get less awesome for no apparent reason (*cough*Ra-im, even you*cough*). If only character inconsistency was in the MORE AWESOME direction more often! That said, there was a hell of a lot going on in the first half, so it's not surprising that Seul kind of got stuck in her role and only her role for so long.
I was thinking of other ways Secret Garden is subversive, despite its flaws. It's probably the only drama where the amnesia plotline is actually possibly maybe the best thing ever...
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Date: 2011-12-03 02:42 am (UTC)I wasn't crazy about Hyun Bin in My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, but he sort of hit me over the head with a brick, as it were, in Secret Garden. Uh, an intense, weird, neurotic, committed-to-the-crazy-of-the-character brick. XD
Agreed about the evil mothers, definitely. Although I found the evil mom sisters competition they had going on pretty hilarious.
Oska and Seul instead have to work out a relationship that failed.
Exactly. This made them such a great contrast to Ra-im and Joo-won, who are trying to figure out how to even approach a relationship that they're both convinced would be doomed to fail.
I really didn't get where she was coming from for the first half of the show before it reveals how much she still feels for him, in hatred.
I do think this could have been signposted better (or at all)--often drama ladies suddenly get less awesome for no apparent reason (*cough*Ra-im, even you*cough*). If only character inconsistency was in the MORE AWESOME direction more often! That said, there was a hell of a lot going on in the first half, so it's not surprising that Seul kind of got stuck in her role and only her role for so long.
I was thinking of other ways Secret Garden is subversive, despite its flaws. It's probably the only drama where the amnesia plotline is actually possibly maybe the best thing ever...