I am currently in the middle of the first episode of the fantasy period drama Faith and am loving every second - it is a perfect blend of wuxia and delicious fantasy novels I used to gorge myself on. The cast is rock-solid - I am especially enamoured of the actor who portays the King - competence and steel will and hauteur - with so few words and gestures.
And then there is Lee Min Ho, our protagonist, Choi Young, or as he is otherwise known 'Woo Dal Chi' - the head of the King's bodyguards. He's deadly in battle but otherwise little interested in the world. In some ways, he reminds me of a younger version of Vimes, with his lack of interest in niceties or proper deference, but with deep competence to back it up.
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I will probably meta all over this baby, but this post is not about that. No this post is about a much more shallow thing - Lee Min Ho's beauty. I mean, he is so unreal, I kinda forget to follow the plot because I am too busy admiring him. I've always liked him and always found him good-looking, but most kdrama actors are attractive, and I never viewed his looks as brain-meltingly perfect, the way I do Hyun Bin's. But here. Here! In armor, with long hair, and warrior intensity, it's like he's dialed it up to 11 and then multiplied it some more. He now evokes the same heart-stopping reaction in me that Hyun Bin does in anything or Hu Ge did in The Myth or Bae Yong Joon in Legend or Huang Xiao Ming did in Return of Condor Heroes, but nobody else does.
Seriously unreal. Here he is, being bored and brusque, protecting his King to the death (someone else's death), observed by the court, brooding and eye-fucking with the almost-as-gorgeous royal physician played by Philip Lee (I am going to be shipping him with the heroine when she appears, but for now, I am slashing those two like mad. I believe they will be involved in a triangle with the heroine - if there ever was a set-up that screams 'threesome,' this is it). But throughout it all, he is so ridiculously gorgeous, it's unreal.
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And then there is Lee Min Ho, our protagonist, Choi Young, or as he is otherwise known 'Woo Dal Chi' - the head of the King's bodyguards. He's deadly in battle but otherwise little interested in the world. In some ways, he reminds me of a younger version of Vimes, with his lack of interest in niceties or proper deference, but with deep competence to back it up.
I will probably meta all over this baby, but this post is not about that. No this post is about a much more shallow thing - Lee Min Ho's beauty. I mean, he is so unreal, I kinda forget to follow the plot because I am too busy admiring him. I've always liked him and always found him good-looking, but most kdrama actors are attractive, and I never viewed his looks as brain-meltingly perfect, the way I do Hyun Bin's. But here. Here! In armor, with long hair, and warrior intensity, it's like he's dialed it up to 11 and then multiplied it some more. He now evokes the same heart-stopping reaction in me that Hyun Bin does in anything or Hu Ge did in The Myth or Bae Yong Joon in Legend or Huang Xiao Ming did in Return of Condor Heroes, but nobody else does.
Seriously unreal. Here he is, being bored and brusque, protecting his King to the death (someone else's death), observed by the court, brooding and eye-fucking with the almost-as-gorgeous royal physician played by Philip Lee (I am going to be shipping him with the heroine when she appears, but for now, I am slashing those two like mad. I believe they will be involved in a triangle with the heroine - if there ever was a set-up that screams 'threesome,' this is it). But throughout it all, he is so ridiculously gorgeous, it's unreal.
