Dr. Jin beats Faith to the punch with summer premiere

194 April 4, 2012April 4, 2012

Dr. Jin beats Faith to the punch with summer premiere

by javabeans

javabeans: So Song Seung-heon’s time-traveling medical drama has gotten on MBC’s schedule, and will be premiering in summer. They’re saying June, but it could be July.

girlfriday: Er? I thought Time Slip Dr. Jin already had a timeslot. Wasn’t there a whole debate we had about the size of his ego and cable?

javabeans: No, I think the substance of that discussion was mostly about towels.

girlfriday: It usually is.

javabeans: Time slip always trips me up, because it’s one of those terms that got co-opted into Korean that we don’t use in English, but it just makes me picture Song Seung-heon standing there with a permission slip to leave school or something. You know, his time slip.

girlfriday: Or standing there in a jumpsuit waiting to punch his time slip for his hourly job.

javabeans: His jumpsuit made of towels?

girlfriday: Yes, exactly. Also, I thought this drama was Faith?

javabeans: That’s what makes this news so funny to me. Lee Min-ho just got cast in Faith and was in all the headlines yesterday, with the media touting the power of the Lee Min-ho Effect in finally getting the show on the air.

girlfriday: The power of Lee Min-ho to make all noonas swoon? Oh, you mean the other one, his starpower.

javabeans: You might call those one and the same. You know, ‘cause Faith went through a couple leads, lost them, then sat in development hell for two years… and then he signs the dotted line and BOOM! Instant timeslot. I think people may underestimate just how huge Lee Min-ho is — he’s more than just another pretty face; he has more than just popularity, but also clout. On the Seung-gi Scale, he rates somewhere between refrigerator CF and mobs of handsy ajummas.

girlfriday: You mean Song Seung-heon circa 2000?

javabeans: Pretty much. So then you just know Song Seung-heon got all apoplectic about being pre-empted by that upstart, put in a few calls, and made sure HIS time-tripping, medical fusion sageuk drama got on the air FIRST.

girlfriday: Can’t have the young whippersnapper stealin’ your thunder now, can you?

javabeans: Right? Can’t you just see him yelling into his Bluetooth, “Just GET ME ON THE AIR BEFORE HIM, do you hear me?! Before August or I walk!”

girlfriday: “And these abs go with me!”

javabeans: I would hope so. And now all the headlines read, Dr. Jin To Air Before Drama With Same Premise Faith. Except… Faith has the legendary writer-PD duo of Sandglass, Eyes of Dawn, and Legend… while Song Seung-heon’s drama don’t got no writer or producer listed yet.

girlfriday: That seems to be a glaring omission.

javabeans: Maybe his abs will compensate.

girlfriday: Surely, they compensate for a lot. But I dunno if they have picked up drama-writing skills yet.

javabeans: But if they distract you enough from the lack of drama writing, maybe it’s the same difference.

girlfriday: Touché.

javabeans: But no touch.

girlfriday: Hands off the moneymaker!

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51 BadGurl

April 4, 2012 at 7:04 PM

Battle of abs? who acts well? larger fanbase, perfect writers... whatever, if someone will show me the part they are hiding inside the towels then count me in.. lol

But i think, I will try to watch both.
now back in celebrating the lenten session ... Abs abs abs i will deal with you after the week ends

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52 novembertwentyeleven

April 4, 2012 at 7:26 PM

"javabeans: Maybe his abs will compensate.

girlfriday: Surely, they compensate for a lot."

Thank you for the funny!

Must be me I guess, but his abs couldn't distract me from his boring acting in My Princess.

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Inquizity

April 8, 2012 at 3:29 AM

How can SSH be boring in MP when so many people fell in love with both SSH and KTH in MP. If SSH is boring, then MP is boring and all Korean romance dramas are even more boring.

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53 YY

April 4, 2012 at 11:36 PM

Does anyone know the scriptwriter? Please, I desperately want him to ride a horse, clad in nothing but a white towel, galloping intently through the plains, pausing occasionally to roll his eyes in four directions, jerk his head back, and holler AARGHHHHHHHHH majestically into the heavens.