STUPID DRAMAS

In an attempt to save money, I switched to watching korean dramas online instead of watching dramas from MobTV (cos korean dramas are free...hahahahha...).

Thanks to Ruoying's recommendation, I started off watching Hwang Jin Yi, and honestly, I don't understand the plot very much. I just know it's abt some korean geisha with a sad life. I reckon I have a problem understanding because I was struggling with reading the "fan ti" mandarin subtitles...sigh..

ANYWAY..

I went on to "Lovers in Prague" and it's not the best drama series on earth, but reasonable enough to let me kill time during the evenings in this boring place.

And now I'm watching "My Girl"...since Granny said it's good.

BUT honestly, I'm drastically bored with the story plots in Korean drama. Trust me, it's really sickening after you've watched a number of them.

The typical plot is always this girl who either has such a miserable life since she's young or so poor that she's living in some tiny house in the dumps. Her parents either died when she was still a young kid, or are in jail, or owe people debts, or are always on the run. Aiya, anyway, to keep things simple. The type of life she has is just horrid, and no one will want such a life.

Yet the thing is, this girl always seem to be happy and simple in her thoughts. And she will always have some good buddies.

Then there is always this guy who is supposed to be cool, handsome, filthy rich, very highly educated, multitalented and with an excellent family background. Every girl's typical Prince Charming...but only in the dreams cos seriously, I don't think such guys exist (wait till I meet one then I'll change my mind).

There will also be another girl who is supposed to be tall, sexy, pretty, fashionable, and comes from a rich family. She's also the one who will always flock around this Prince (yah..always calling him "Oppa....Oppa..." *rolls eyes*). The Prince usually either dreads or loves her.

Not to forget, there'll be another guy in the plot who is supposed to be less handsome, rich (but not supposed to be richer that the Prince). He will always be there to protect the poor girl, making sure she doesn't get hurt. He'll also do a lot of things for her, but the poor girl doesn't know that he loves her and treats him like a really good friend. To sum things up, this guy, no matter how good he is, he's destined to be a loser in the show.

And one day, the Prince bumps into this poor girl, and they tend to get into an argument the first time they meet cos the Prince is always acting cool. For some strange reason, they will keep bumping into each other (like as if Seoul is that small), and will always argue with each other. The poor girl hates the Prince, and vice versa.

But one fine day, this hate relationship turns into love (normally the Prince will start liking the poor girl, sometimes it becomes the other way round. Whatever it is, they will end up liking each other). Then the rich girl will start becoming jealous and reveal her ugly side by either trying to harm/frame the poor girl.

The Prince, who has already fallen for the poor girl, will then be thrown into a confusion state for a while. But each time he sees this poor girl, he will feel a strong urge to protect and care for her. And when he realises that she's hurt because of the rich girl, he'll start raging and then turn nasty towards the rich girl and dump her if they're a couple to begin with. The rich girl will be very sad and decide to leave Korea to go overseas to study.

Then finally, the Prince and the poor girl becomes a couple.

Ha..and so you thought they lived happily ever after...

Next comes the typical Korean parents who will go against the son's relationship with this poor girl because she's poor, is an orphan (like as if it's her fault that her parents died..piangz..), didn't go to school much etc. Then the Prince will start feeling troubled.

And at some point of the show, this poor girl will get hurt by the Prince for different reasons and cries all the time. The loser will, for crap reasons, always appear when she's crying. He will then comfort her and try to cheer her up, and then look for the Prince another day to wack him (in practically every Korean drama I watched, there's always scenes of guys wacking each other....why ah? To show that Korean guys are manly? Or to glorify Taekwondo?). Then the Prince will always be the one losing the fight because he loses his will to retaliate when he knows that he's being wacked by the loser because the poor girl is being hurt very badly (all thanks to him).

The Prince and the poor girl will go through a lot, dragging the whole show, and making the poor viewers cry their eyes out during every episode watching how they ai dao yao si yao huo. Sigh.

The last bit is the tricky part. Something major will happen and then things start getting better. The Korean parents will start giving in. The 2 lovebirds then live happily ever after.

That's Korean drama for you.

It fascinates me though. I'm sure everyone who has watched K dramas before know that their plots are never changing. Yet we still watch them....hahah...why ah?

I'm also not surprised that guys HATE it when their gfs watch Kdramas, because the guys in the show are always doing romantic things, saying touching stuffs, and seem oh-so-cool-and-manly (actually that's called MCP), whilst in reality, it doesn't happen (maybe it only happens to Korean couples lah..I don't know..) and the gf who tends to compare their bfs to the guy in the K drama, will start grumbling.

There's this thing I dread abt the Korean girls in the dramas. They're always being shouted at by the guys for various reasons (guys deserve to be slapped for shouting loudly at a girl), and they only grumble behind the guy's back, but don't usually shout back. WHY?! Gosh, I would definitely shout back at the guy if he shouted at me for no reason.

And the K drama guys love pulling girls away by their wrist when they want the girl to leave with them. Imagine the girl not wanting to leave, and getting pulled, it can hurt if the guy is grabbing her wrist too tightly. I reckon girls will think the guy is cool when he does that, but to me, it's only cool if I like the guy (hahahahahaha) and it SUCKS if the guy isn't someone I like. The Kdrama girl will always be led by the wrist whether or not she's willing to leave. WHY?! If it's me, I'll shake my wrist off if I'm unwillingly to go and if it's someone I don't like who is holding my wrist.

Damn..dread it when girls act oh-so-vulnerable when they're not! Talking abt that reminds me of the Jackie Chan and Kim Hee San movie...forgot what the movie title is. Remember the scene of KHS sitting in this sedan chair which is almost falling off some cliff? There u have Jackie Chan, the supposed to be manly soldier, who is trying so hard to stop the sedan chair from dropping off the cliff, that he looks like he's terribly constipated with his almost turning purple face, and yet u have that dumb ass KHS sitting in there, looking at him with her pair of innocent eyes going "Save me". I mean, honestly, in a real situation, will this ever happen? NO! It's only natural instinct of a human to try and find a way to escape, not sit there like an idiot and looking pitiful, doing absolutely nothing to save oneself. Imagine having this girl in this straw house which has caught fire, and when u're trying to save her, all she does is stand by the window calmly, looking at u with watery eyes, when she can actually save herself by jumping out of that window which opens easily. Maybe girls in the ancient days are like that, I don't know.

Ok...enough of my rants abt dramas. I should go and do something more constructive...hahaha.