javabeans: With She Was Pretty, Answer Me 1988, and the upcoming Oh My Venus in our collective consciousness at the moment, we're reminded once again that dramaland loves its image ruinations....
girlfriday: I love Sassy Go Go. Okay, maybe I love Ji-soo in Sassy Go Go, but whatever, same diff.
javabeans: I have a love-hate relationship with it, in that it's...
girlfriday: Yunno, these days I'm really nostalgic for college because of Twenty Again.
javabeans: But you're forgetting the part where Lee Sang-yoon wasn't your professor in college.
girlfriday: No no,...
javabeans: So, with two dramas recently airing that were set in high school (Who Are You—School 2015 and Angry Mom), dealt with gritty topics, and had secret identities in play,...
girlfriday: I can't really imagine a context in which you'd compare Lee Seo-jin and Cha Seung-won as actors, since they're such different types. But as variety personas on Na PD's...
javabeans: If American comic book-dom is perpetually confronted with the question “Who’s better, Superman or Batman?” then dramaland is equally confronted with the question... “Who’s better, Superman or...
javabeans: Not all meta is funny, but actors making fun of themselves always hits the spot. Like Siwon opening up a twitter account for his King of Dramas character Kang...
javabeans: With Big recently over, A Gentleman’s Dignity coming to a close, and a slew of noona romances both on the horizon and on the shelf in dramaland, we’...
girlfriday: So there’s this strange phenomenon in dramaland, whereby everything good comes in groups of four. Why is this? Who determined that four should be the magic number?
javabeans:...
Here's Round 2 in the battle of Thing vs. Thing, where we pit... things... against... things... It's all right there in the title for a reason! Last time, we took a...
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Thing vs. Thing: Image ruinations
by javabeans
javabeans: With She Was Pretty, Answer Me 1988, and the upcoming Oh My Venus in our collective consciousness at the moment, we're reminded once again that dramaland loves its image ruinations....
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1988, Answer Me 1994, Coffee Prince, conversation post, featured, Go Ara, Honey Lee, Hwang Jung-eum, Hyeri, Kim Sun-ah, Modern Farmer, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, Oh My Venus, Shin Mina, Thing vs. Thing, Yoon Eun-hye
Thing vs. Thing: Underdogs and overdogs
by javabeans
girlfriday: I love Sassy Go Go. Okay, maybe I love Ji-soo in Sassy Go Go, but whatever, same diff. javabeans: I have a love-hate relationship with it, in that it's...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Cantabile Tomorrow, conversation post, Dream High, featured, Monstar, Persevere Gu Hae-ra, Sassy Go Go, Shut Up: Flower Boy Band, The Last Match, Thing vs. Thing
Thing vs. Thing: Higher learning
by javabeans
girlfriday: Yunno, these days I'm really nostalgic for college because of Twenty Again. javabeans: But you're forgetting the part where Lee Sang-yoon wasn't your professor in college. girlfriday: No no,...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, conversation post, featured, I Remember You, Kim Soo-hyun, Lee Sang-yoon, Liar Game, Seo In-gook, Song Chang-eui, Thing vs. Thing, Twenty Again
Thing vs. Thing: High school hell
by javabeans
javabeans: So, with two dramas recently airing that were set in high school (Who Are You—School 2015 and Angry Mom), dealt with gritty topics, and had secret identities in play,...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Angry Mom, conversation post, featured, Thing vs. Thing, Who Are You–School 2015
Thing vs. Thing: Seojinnie vs. Chajumma
by javabeans
girlfriday: I can't really imagine a context in which you'd compare Lee Seo-jin and Cha Seung-won as actors, since they're such different types. But as variety personas on Na PD's...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Cha Seung-won, conversation post, featured, Lee Seo-jin, Thing vs. Thing, Three Meals a Day
Thing vs. Thing: Comic book heroes of sageukland
by javabeans
javabeans: If American comic book-dom is perpetually confronted with the question “Who’s better, Superman or Batman?” then dramaland is equally confronted with the question... “Who’s better, Superman or...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, conversation post, featured, Gaksital, Hong Gil Dong, Iljimae, Jeon Woo-chi, Return of Iljimae, Strongest Chil Woo, Thing vs. Thing
Thing vs. Thing: Actors playing actors
by javabeans
javabeans: Not all meta is funny, but actors making fun of themselves always hits the spot. Like Siwon opening up a twitter account for his King of Dramas character Kang...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Best Love, Cha Seung-won, Choi Siwon, conversation post, Eric, featured, King of Dramas, Myung-wol the Spy, Thing vs. Thing
Thing vs. Thing: Cradle-robbing Teachers
by javabeans
javabeans: With Big recently over, A Gentleman’s Dignity coming to a close, and a slew of noona romances both on the horizon and on the shelf in dramaland, we’...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Big, Biscuit Teacher Star Candy, conversation post, featured, Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, Gong Yoo, Jung Il-woo, Thing vs. Thing, Unstoppable High Kick
Thing vs. Thing: Foursomes 4eva
by javabeans
girlfriday: So there’s this strange phenomenon in dramaland, whereby everything good comes in groups of four. Why is this? Who determined that four should be the magic number? javabeans:...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, A Gentleman's Dignity, Boys Before Flowers, conversation post, featured, Rooftop Prince, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Thing vs. Thing, You're Beautiful
Thing vs. Thing: Vampires in Dramaland
by javabeans
Here's Round 2 in the battle of Thing vs. Thing, where we pit... things... against... things... It's all right there in the title for a reason! Last time, we took a...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, conversation post, featured, Thing vs. Thing, Vampire Idol, Vampire Prosecutor