Dramabeans Podcast #29

149 August 2, 2015July 30, 2015

by javabeans

Podcast time! Time to check in with the latest batch of shows, whether it’s squeeing over the fun or groaning over the flaws.

Podcast #29

Running time: 52:56

Topics and dramas discussed:

Who Are You—School 2015, Warm and Cozy, The Producers: Just a quick recap winding down those shows, which ended after our last podcast
Mask: The high drama, the campy entertainment, the humor (both intentional and not), the acting, and all that good stuff (3:35)
High Society: A quick take on the setup and character (15:42)
Hidden Identity: An even quicker take on the show and how we like Kim Bum in it (18:14)
I Remember You: How we’re enjoying the interesting, creepy, mysterious vibe; the performances and chemistry; and the intricate plot (19:54)
The Time I’ve Loved You: The chemistry of the leads, tempered by the lackluster plot (24:37)
Oh My Ghostess: Love for Ghostess! (27:55)
Scholar Who Walks the Night: Or, as we like to think of it, The Lee Jun-ki Show (39:03)

Names mentioned:
Kang So-ra, Yoo Yeon-seok, Joo Ji-hoon, Su Ae, Lee Tae-sung, Yeon Jung-hoon, Hoya, Yoo In-young, Uee, Sung Joon, Go Doo-shim, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Ja-ok, Kim Bum, Seo In-gook, Choi Won-young, Park Bo-gum, Jang Nara, Lee Jin-wook, Ha Ji-won, Jo Jung-seok, Park Bo-young, Kim Seul-gi, Lee Jun-ki, Lee Yubi, Changmin, Im Seul-ong

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Songs Used in Podcast (In order of use)
Every Single Day – “마음이 가네” from the Time I’ve Loved You OST
Lyn – “단 하루” from the Mask OST
Kim Ye-rim – “너, 누구니” from the I Remember You OST
Suzy – “왜 이럴까” from the Time I’ve Loved You OST
Hong Dae-gwang – “티가나요” from the I Remember You OST

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51 Inukikfan4ever

August 3, 2015 at 1:55 PM

I'm enjoying Oh My Ghostess, but however people may feel about Bong Sun or Soon Ae and their relationship with Sun Woo, you have to realize that ultimately Bong Sun is going to stay, Soon Ae isn't.

I agree with you on the whole 'adopting each other's personalty'. Meeting Soon Ae was good for Bong Sun in the sense that she doesn't have to be as scared and shy as she was before. And she's starting to gain more confidence. Like you said, the part when SA and BS were discussing on how to seduce the chef and BS was putting in her two cents was hilarious. She's more sly than we thought, that girl. That being said, I can't wait for your thoughts on episode 9 and 10. I'll be waiting eagerly!

Also, somewhere in this story SW's gonna find out right? (Well at least that's what I think) and I'm just sad when thinking about that outcome. I'll enjoy the cute for now!

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alua

August 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM

<you have to realize that ultimately Bong Sun is going to stay, Soon Ae isn’t

Yeah, the drama would have to be extremely gutsy to not go for this ending. Given the direction they have been pursuing so far, it would almost be better for them to either have Soon-ae remain in Bong-su's body (without becoming an evil ghost), or for Soon-ae to die but the chef not to end up with Bong-su because while SW has gone between recoiling from Soon-ae (ep. 9, every time he interacts with the over-the-top Soon-ae he literally runs from her – super clear he does not like this kind of person) and developing attraction (some parts of ep. 10), there has been almost no development between SW and Bong-su. As it currently stands (with only 6 episodes left) there isn't any relationship between SW and Bong-su, because a crush from the distance (BS, before she was possessed) and liking someone's blog (SW) are not enough to convince me that the two really, truly like each other – even less so, because ep. 10 made pretty clear that SW has feelings for the ghost. And he has only just gotten of Hye-sung... Really not sure the drama can convince me at this point any more that SW and BS really have feelings for each other.

<Also, somewhere in this story SW’s gonna find out right?

I have wondered about that... they've left breadcrumbs here and there that would to hint at this (the bike riding; SA's favourite food, etc.). He'll be faced with that two girls were using him, which is pretty ugly. I'm sure he'll still end up with one of them (Bong-sun), but a lie (and being used for something without having a choice in it) at the basis of a relationship is not pretty.

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52 Sa_Rang

August 3, 2015 at 3:32 PM

Oh My Ghostess is driving me insane! The waiting between the episodes is killing me :)

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53 Camelia

August 3, 2015 at 7:36 PM

tq JB PODCAST,

If SA body temperature cold, BS body temperature hot

SW could end up alone naturally with the dog and taking more ginseng to welcome ghosts!

and BS will be roaming there streets with the saber !

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growingbeautifully

August 3, 2015 at 8:13 PM

Thank you JB and GF for preparing this during your busy preparations for KCON. It was great hearing your voices again! I've taken notes from what you said. I like that your views are both similar and different from mine and set me thinking along more interesting paths.

@Camelia

Aaah! An interesting and bold ending to our rather tricky love situation. It is actually (and painfully) probably the best and most true-to-life (if anything can be true to life with fantasy) option that is there. No easy solutions, no running away from consequences. Will the production company dare to go there?

What I liked about '49 Days' was that it did dare.

It was a bittersweet ending that was consistent with the rules of that dramaverse. No matter how much we may have wanted a different ending, we cannot fault that one.

Now we have a dead person who is (albeit unfairly) not supposed to be in love, a live person who would like to be but is not given a chance by a dead person, a strange vengeful evil spirit out to get maybe both live and dead girls together or separately and a hero who knows absolutely nothing of all this.

The other best resolution that I might come up with? Soon Ae saves Bong Sun from evil spirit and both Soon Ae and evil spirit leave this world. Since this story is about Soon Ae,... we find in the process that she had to confront her killer and save another in order to find peace. She also has to have grown even in death, be more self-sacrificing and others-centered in giving up Sun Woo.

Sun Woo has to deal with the fallout of a sister who finds herself married to a stranger and Sung Jae suddenly finding himself married to a wheelchair bound woman. Sun Woo also has to forgive Soon Ae for leaving and lying and Bong Sun for deceit.... over time and distance maybe, before starting afresh. This might be one way to have a 'clean' ending without the bad taste of deceitful 'love'.

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54 sunnyxshin

August 4, 2015 at 4:01 AM

Hey Javabeans I've just listened this awesome podcast but I think you've got one of the OST wrong: it isn't Lyn's song but yeah it is in Mask OST. ;)

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55 Mary A

August 4, 2015 at 9:35 AM

I'm about to start one of these three : Mask, Hide Identity or High Society. Let's listen to the podcast and then I decide which one :D

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56 rating

August 5, 2015 at 12:33 AM

I've just finished The time we were not in love ep.11 & 12 eng sub. Ep.11 made me feel like I took a bitter medicine. I had struggled to swallow it, but ep.12 became better where each characters progressed.

Hope the writers will not mess up for the next 4 episodes.