Speak Up Saturday

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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I really liked the emotional ambiguity of My Mister, and spent quite a lot of it chanting under my breath "don't get together! don't get together!" though I can enjoy post-canon ship fic.

but I don't think I can fully commit until either Love Scout has finished or I've completed One Spring Morning. JHI has such a cute smile.

Haha, entirely fair!

I guess I'm still a little traumatized from I Can Hear Your Voice, also a legal-fantasy drama starring LJS. ;)

LOL, man, that was so bad but so watchable! I guilty-pleasure re-watched it a year or two back, and yeah, still really bad. Have you seen Secret Garden? LJS as a sulky young gay indie musician. That was pretty great.

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I really liked the emotional ambiguity of My Mister, and spent quite a lot of it chanting under my breath "don't get together! don't get together!"

I mean, I'm not greedy. It was a warm, loving relationship with amazing chemistry between the leads, and that was enough for me. But would I've watched a romance with them? Yes! Simply because these were two talented, attractive actors. (That said, I remember the Jang Hyuk/Park So Dam pairing in Beautiful Mind feeling a little weird, even though that was probably the least of this show's problems. It was a similar IRL age difference but with fewer interpersonal complications, afair.)

though I can enjoy post-canon ship fic.

Did you see anything worth reccing?

Have you seen Secret Garden?

Never finished it! It's one of the reasons why I never got into Hyun Bin (or why I watched way too many dramas starring Yoon Sang Hyun, expecting him to be the ML when he was only 2ML).

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I haven't seen Beautiful Mind. Would you rec it?

And I haven't read much My Mister fic, but I saw this in Yuletide and liked it.

I found Hyun Bin's character in Secret Garden incredibly annoying and objectionable, but equally, I adored Ha Ji-Won. I fell for her in the first episode, because this:

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And I hung in there for the bodyswap, because bodyswap. But yeah, I totally get what you mean.

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Overall, I wouldn't rec it. I liked the workplace comedy elements and the OTP, but I remember the story (including the ML's medical issues) being more than just a little messy. That wasn't helped when they cut the drama down from 16 to 14 episodes.

Thanks for the rec!

I loved that HJW's character was a stunt woman, but I felt she was way too good for the annoying ML. M/F bodyswap always holds lots of potential but either it works for me or it doesn't. In this case, it mostly didn't simply because I disliked HB's character too much.