i have to agree with u guys on Gaksital, the director did a very good job with d scenery. he balanced it with the scene n made it show what is was meant to shwon without out letting it get carried away. same with d fighting scenes...i swear those scenes spoke to me even thou there were no words...
have to say i didnt watch faith or big n m glad that i did it...lol

Loved your podcast!
and i agree with a lot of things..
i am a Minoz..been one since 2009...but with Faith i dont feel like Min Ho is giving his best...the fact that i am more concerned about Gongmin and Noguk's storyline than Young and Eun Soo's story says a lot!
But that said i do like the drama..its not an amazing drama but its a decent watch :)

As for Reply 1997...its my LOVE! i got soo into this drama...its fantastic..i didn't mind if they did not stay in the 90's or anything..i was so emotionally involved with the characters that i really wanted to see their journey..i wanted to see them grow older and wanted to watch what they do with their lives! oh but the "who is the baby daddy" thing got a leeeettle out of hand...by epi 10 i guess i was like yes show i know :p

Big was just terrible! i had so much expectation for it...i mean seriously how can a drama go wrong with Hong sisters and Gong Yoo! it was an utter disappointment...i couldn't make myself watch it more than epi 6..i actually deleted my whole downloaded folder of epis without even watching it..

Gaksital was just an amazing drama to watch..i have been following Joo Won ever since his debut..i loved him in Baker King...i loved him waaay more than any other character in the drama..hell he was the reason i even completed the drama because truth be said i didn't give a rat's ass about Tak Gu's journey..for me it was all about the yummy Ma Jun...then i saw him in Ojakgyo brothers..well i saw it after the show had already finished airing...and well my love for him grew exponentially...now i just pray for him and UEE to get married :p then watching him in Gaksital i was just too happy...i am so glad that he has a knack for picking really good dramas! he is not one of the most amazing actor out there...i mean he is good but its his drama choices and his characters that just makes the audience love him...And now that he has signed on to a romcom...oh gosh i am gonna be squealing a whole lot :p

Ah about TTBY...i have only seen 1 episode...i was busy with exams so i had to drop some dramas...sadly TTBY was abandoned...but well its based on a manga and well the story gets a little weird in the manga too at some places..so i understand why it would have seemed weird to you guys^^ i personally loved the manga..adored the Japanese version...hated the Taiwanese version with a passion...and i am sure that i am not really going to hate the Korean version...well because in this version atleast the lead guy knows that she is a girl...oh yes i am looking at you Taiwanese version you *^%#&%#...IT WAS SUCH A WASTE OF TIME!!

anyways had fun^^ looking forward to you next podcast..
lots of love to javabeans and girlfriday <3

sorry, I meant cable broadcast station... :)

And even when they did the switch back, they didn't dare show Shin Won Ho. We were supposed to accept that Kyung-joon experienced some late puberty and in a short time, transformed into the same voice and physique as his older half-brother. The growing pains must have been excruciating.

I was willing to forgive the late switch-back and accept it as part of the narrative they wanted to tell, but the ending proved that they were too chickened to display anyone but Gong-Yoo as the endgame.

I think the biggest thing wrong with BIG is that they didn't show the other side of the body switch. It would have been a much better show, in my opinion, if we got to see Shin Won Ho acting as Seo Yoon Jae. But he was in a coma the WHOLE time. It was weird, and I kind of felt bad for Shin Won Ho since that was all his part added up to in the show added up to. I feel like if we showed both sides of the story it would have been a much better drama.

Not to mention, I feel like the character of Seo Yoon Jae was kind of thrown under the rug with the direction they did take. What happened to him at the end? What did he do? It was all so weird. The fact that they didn't even show Shin Won Ho and Lee Min Jung together in the end makes me think that not even the directors & writers thought they actually looked like they could be a suitable couple, too. Using Gong Yoo in the end was lazy. :l And I still stand by my hunch that Kang Kyung Joon wouldn't have had a chance with Gil Da Ran if he wasn't in Seo Yoon Jae's body. The show never gave any reason to let me, as the viewer, believe otherwise...so the relationship seemed like a farce.

I actually liked Big. I liked how totally different it was from s.Hongs' previous works. I loved it tonally, I remember how strongly (and sad) I felt for Kyung Joon during the first episodes. None of Hongs' previous works grabbed me so emotionally... and so early in the story...
As I'm saying, I liked that drama... until episode 13 (or so). Then it lost me. I felt like being left in the middle of the story. I also missed more moments with Da Ran's parents and more connection with their story. Plus I couldn't stand Kyung Joon's parents, especially the mother. Don't know whether it was the directing or the acting, but whenever the mother appeared on the screen, I had the urge to FF...
Last thing, Shin Won Ho should have appeared at least at the last scene. I don't take his inexperience as an argument. He was pretty awesome in the first episode and only thanks to him Gong Yoo could shine later on.

From the other shows, I only stayed with Answer Me 1997. I started watching this show, because of GF's recaps. And because I wanted to first see an episode without prior knowledge of what had happened in that episode, I started watching from episode 13... and I was lost :--) The result of this was, that I first saw the last episodes and only after that I started from the beginning (currently only episode 12 is left to be seen). Thus no feeling of a lost pace on my side.^^
Anyway, I think it was important to have scenes from the later years to see how the characters matured (or not) and how they moved on. For me, the scenes with adult Yoon Jae were one of the strongest and I'm glad that they showed how he, from his own will, moved on with his life. I liked all the characters in this show, but Yoon Jae was my most favourite. He and Shiwon's father.