Episode 3 of Cheonamdong Alice owned me. The drama is proving funny (oh, so funny) and touching and complicated and I am ridiculously invested in Moon Geun Young and Park Shi Hoo's characters already. Plus, the twist of him falling for her idealistic, loyal, loving qualities at precisely the moment she decides to give up on them and to join the mercenary hordes - it is delicious.
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And PSH is his own delicious self. I have yet to see him in a drama which he doesn't completely steal, and this is no exception.
I love the antagonistic, complicated relationship between the exes (and I love that secondary girl is going to become our heroine's mentor in badness. Now that's a twist). She gives as good as she gets.
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Though of course, the difference is, he has a heart and she doesn't.
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Yes! He can finally cry real tears. Thanks to her awesome heartfelt letter about her ex.
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I have such a ridiculous crush on PSH.
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And I ship him and MGY in all their awkward, hilarious oddness but even more when he follows her after she finds out about her ex, to make sure she is all right. AWWWWWW! Chemistry!
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I loved the juxtaposition of his telling his shrink, with tears in his eyes, that he has finally found a (selfless, caring) girl at the same time as she is declaring her giving up her principles and deciding to be a gold-digger. But she thinks he is merely a secretary so...oh, this is going to be so good!
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Also, Mr. Mousie and I have been slowly catching up on Burn Notice and eeeee - the show isn't primarily or even secondarily shippy, but season finale of ep 5, when Fiona turned herself in to the police so that the bad guys wouldn't be able to blackmail Michael into doing things for them by threatening her, and he was too late to stop her - OMFG!!!!
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Burn Notice is a great example of a show having an established OTP for years and yet me not being bored by them in the least.
Oh, and in romance novel news, I've had better luck lately. I've reread Suzanne Enoch's London's Perfect Scoundrel, in which the prim, virginal heroine deals with the big bad rake of a hero's plan to raze an orphanage by hitting him on the head and shackling him in the cellar, to convince him to change his mind. Heeee. It's pretty entertaining the second time around as well. I've also read her Always a Scoundrel, which was pretty awesome (though the bad guy made me want to take about a dozen showers). Bramwell Johns is so bored he's taken to burgling the houses of his father's friends (he does not get along with his father, to put it mildly), and during one such burglary, he overhears the Earl of Abernathy telling his daughter Rosamund that she has to marry the Marquis of Cosgrove, a notorious libertine, in order to pay off the family debt. Driven by curiosity, Bramwell meets Rosamond and the story goes from there. It was totally unexpectedly delightful. Bramwell was surprisingly likeable for a character type I don't normally go for (the usual sleeping around/gambling/bored with everything type but who was totally likeable and whose change I totally bought) and I shipped him with the practical, strong-willed Rosamond (who was super-awesome. When is the last time the heroine asks the hero to relieve her of her virginity because she doesn't want to give it to her future husband? And kicks him out of bed when he performed said task). I probably had more fun that I would have had otherwise because I read one of the previous books in the series, but it's not necessary to have familiarity with them. The resolution was a little too easy but overall, this book was a delight.
And PSH is his own delicious self. I have yet to see him in a drama which he doesn't completely steal, and this is no exception.
I love the antagonistic, complicated relationship between the exes (and I love that secondary girl is going to become our heroine's mentor in badness. Now that's a twist). She gives as good as she gets.
Though of course, the difference is, he has a heart and she doesn't.
Yes! He can finally cry real tears. Thanks to her awesome heartfelt letter about her ex.
I have such a ridiculous crush on PSH.
And I ship him and MGY in all their awkward, hilarious oddness but even more when he follows her after she finds out about her ex, to make sure she is all right. AWWWWWW! Chemistry!
I loved the juxtaposition of his telling his shrink, with tears in his eyes, that he has finally found a (selfless, caring) girl at the same time as she is declaring her giving up her principles and deciding to be a gold-digger. But she thinks he is merely a secretary so...oh, this is going to be so good!
Bonus:
Also, Mr. Mousie and I have been slowly catching up on Burn Notice and eeeee - the show isn't primarily or even secondarily shippy, but season finale of ep 5, when Fiona turned herself in to the police so that the bad guys wouldn't be able to blackmail Michael into doing things for them by threatening her, and he was too late to stop her - OMFG!!!!
Burn Notice is a great example of a show having an established OTP for years and yet me not being bored by them in the least.
Oh, and in romance novel news, I've had better luck lately. I've reread Suzanne Enoch's London's Perfect Scoundrel, in which the prim, virginal heroine deals with the big bad rake of a hero's plan to raze an orphanage by hitting him on the head and shackling him in the cellar, to convince him to change his mind. Heeee. It's pretty entertaining the second time around as well. I've also read her Always a Scoundrel, which was pretty awesome (though the bad guy made me want to take about a dozen showers). Bramwell Johns is so bored he's taken to burgling the houses of his father's friends (he does not get along with his father, to put it mildly), and during one such burglary, he overhears the Earl of Abernathy telling his daughter Rosamund that she has to marry the Marquis of Cosgrove, a notorious libertine, in order to pay off the family debt. Driven by curiosity, Bramwell meets Rosamond and the story goes from there. It was totally unexpectedly delightful. Bramwell was surprisingly likeable for a character type I don't normally go for (the usual sleeping around/gambling/bored with everything type but who was totally likeable and whose change I totally bought) and I shipped him with the practical, strong-willed Rosamond (who was super-awesome. When is the last time the heroine asks the hero to relieve her of her virginity because she doesn't want to give it to her future husband? And kicks him out of bed when he performed said task). I probably had more fun that I would have had otherwise because I read one of the previous books in the series, but it's not necessary to have familiarity with them. The resolution was a little too easy but overall, this book was a delight.