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Warm and Cozy Episode 13 Recap

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It seems like the main theme for this show, whether intentionally or not so, is ‘misunderstanding’/’the could-have-been-saids’. If it wasn’t for the fact that I really like the visuals, the cast, the acting, and some attachment to the characters, I would have dropped this show. Thankfully, I spam-watched the existing episodes (12 of them) in 1.5 days so I wasn’t too bogged down by all the verbal hurdles that the characters had to face. A conflict which could be solved simply by having a conversation is one of the worst conflicts to drag out, in my opinion.

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The Producers and small updates

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Life in reality has overtaken my virtual life for a good three weeks! Nevertheless, I’ve been trying to keep up with the dramas –

What I’ve watched thus far:

The Producers: I’m really not feeling this show, and I doubt I will ever end up recapping it (although we still have 4 episodes to go, so anything can change!) I like Kim Soo Hyun and I admire his acting, but I don’t really like the number of close-ups. Yes this guy can act with his eyes, but sometimes, the close-ups aren’t used in the most apt and poignant ways and it kinda spoils the times when they are used nicely. Additionally, I’m totally shipping Cindy-Seung Chan so I will be rather disappointed (as a fangirl) if this couple doesn’t work out because Seung Chan ends up with Ye Jin! That being said, I like how each character is developing holistically because of another character. It’s a very gentle love rectangle where I’m actually alright if they all don’t end up with each other (I just don’t really like the idea of Seung Chan dating Ye Jin because I don’t see them liking each other romantically).

Let’s see how it goes!

Pretty Little Liars Season 6 Episode 1: Yes I’m still following this show like a loyal fan I am. I must say I really enjoyed this episode, although I’m not as surprised with the Sarah Harvey revelation as some others are! I’ve always followed this as a passive watcher (and passionate google-searcher for theories) so I guess it’s easy for me to stay on board because I’ve never spent any effort thinking on who A is.

Orange Marmalade: I’ve not started on this series actually………..

I’m not really sure what I should watch now! Any recommendations?

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P.S Totally unrelated featured image, I know, but I can’t resist it hahaha.

Orange Marmalade

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*Potential spoilers below!

I was quite surprised to find that they have made this manhwa into a drama. I read this on webtoon.com many years ago but I was tired of having to wait for one chapter a week. As time passed, I simply forgot about it and grew out of my manga phase (I was super into this other manga that is about idols and models and twins. Anyone has any idea what it’s called?)

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Blooddd

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I am holding out on watching the second half of the last episode because this coming week is filled with important events and I cannot allow myself to be distracted! I’m just really curious – a preliminary search on Google yields no return when I searched for recaps on Blood. Are there literally no recappers doing this series? I only read really bad reviews but no recaps.

It’s not that bad seriously – I mean, You’re Beautiful was on par with this or even worse (because I hate it when they make the second leads so pitiful) but it seems like that was more well-received online. Anyway, really glad that this drama was such a hit on various drama watching sites!(:Seems like now the trend is that you don’t get famous from the usual tv-ratings/tv-ratings might not be a very good gauge. (I thought Healer was pretty awesome but in terms of ratings, it didn’t do very well either!)

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Blood Episode 19

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Spoilers spoilers and spoilers:

I really like the scene when Ji Sung demands that Ga Yeon tells him the truth, and Ga Yeon is still given a chance to choose. I felt that Ji Sung as a character was really appealing, caring and likeable! Daebak!

Then the scene when Hyun Woo buys something for Ji Sung – reversal of the usual scene when it’s always the male lead buying the female lead clothes.

BUT WHY ON EARTH DOES HE HAVE TO DIE?!?!?!?!

Okay I saw it coming somewhat, and I have a few theories in my head – all mashed up, but I was thinking that (1) Hyun Woo’s results show that Ji Sung can never turn into a human (on the basis that his cells are all mutated and hence cannot be differentiated) (2) Hyun Woo finds out something about himself and how he will either die, or he will leave Ji Sung soon – since he buys Ji Sung an early birthday present and has a weird expression when he is going about it (3) they are going to bring him back to life (okay this is just the desperate me talking, because as far as I know, you can only use the VBT-01 to bring back someone if that person is still alive, not when the person is already dead.)

But until they give me an satisfactory answer, I will be very disgruntled at the death of this adorable character. Even if any of my theories come true in the last episode, it still doesn’t answer the question of the purpose of this death – it doesn’t serve to cement Ji Sung’s revenge because he’s already determined enough. So why? Please don’t make it a death just so it seems like Ji Sung’s journey to get revenge has more personal things at stake/blahdiblah/makes it sadder/more serious. Okay this isn’t as bad as the second lead dying in City Hunter, but I’m still grumpy about this. Ji Sung COULD have avoided it – I know it seems like it was Ga Yeon’s warning all over again, but then he could at least have called Ri Ta or something and would have known that she was safe, or to arrange a system with Hyun Woo after the time he was attacked (like he could press a dial call button which will connect him immediately to Ji Sung’s phone or something. HMMPH.)

Let’s see what they have to show us in the very last episode!

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Blood Episode 17

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I really didn’t expect myself to like this drama at the very start – when I first heard that it was going to be about vampires, I got put off What another vampire drama? No more twilight please. I love it that there’s such a scientific take on this. I’m not going to nitpick about how having this infection miraculously allows you to grow nails and shorten them at will, but I like it that there is almost a scientific explanation for everything, even if I don’t know whether 99% of them are true.

Some screenshots!
When Soo Eun is in disbelief, and Ji Sung decides to just show her proof

After which she starts laughing hysterically and faints HAHAHA I love everything that happens here.

How Ri Ta wants to sleep next to Ji Sung so she puts on all her winter clothes.


And the very final scene, when Ji Sung hears Ga Yeon cough – positive reaction to the perfume that sifts out the infected.

I just LOVE everything that happened in this episode! Episode ratings are really dismal for this drama, but I’m glad that it has the recognition that it deserves online. Korea’s episode ratings are so unpredictable. Some dramas I’ve watched which have way better ratings than this, are way more boring and trashy. I REALLY hope that when I’m free in a month, there will be good dramas for me to recap!! I still feel that it’s such a waste I couldn’t recap Healer and Blood T.T

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Blood Episode 15

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Episode 15 was reallyyy good, I enjoyed it! I’m really glad that Blood is one of the hotter dramas online right now.
Favourite moments of the episode:

  1. When Ji Sung beat up the (lousy and sucky) security and Ri Ta is secretly amazed, I know she is.
  2. When Ji Sung compliments Ri Ta with a really bad praise, and then proceeds to hold her hand
  3. When he quietly rolls hair off the floor and then hugs her
  4. When he shouts at Director at the end of the episode
  5. Anything with Hyun Woo inside is always good:D P.S I miss Luvvy

Based on the preview, I’m guessing that the third vaccine is going to cause everything to break apart, and then we are going to find out more about Ji Sung’s journey towards being human + a kiss between the couple! This is my favourite drama of Goo Hyu Sun, and honestly Ahn Jae Hyun is not bad as well. He needs improvement in his acting, but I think he has potential and he has a lot of room to grow. I love his small little smiles and affectionate gazes at Ri Ta!!

No more conjectures and I suppose there won’t be any more since this is already Episode 15. However, I really hope they don’t make Ri Ta ill with the rare disease because that will be SO…uncalled for? Unless (ooh conjecture #6) the scriptwriters want to put Ji Sung in a similar situation as the Director – having someone you love falling sick and knowing that you have the power to make her better. The Director took the step of turning Ga Yeon into an infected, and possibly Ri Ta’s potential illness is used to tempt Ji Sung into either making her an infected or giving her the vaccine from the Director. Either way, I am not a big fan of this development and I hope my conjecture is wrong. Tempting Ji Sung with the knowledge that he can do something to help has already been done through Sister Silvia, I don’t really want to see a repeat of a similar storyline.

Let’s see how this goes!

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I missed you, Once Upon A Time

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I was so hooked on Healer, Kill Me Heal Me and then Blood, that I forgot one of my favourite series has started!!

Rumplestiltskin, I know you are a villian, but I really think you are the BEST villian so far — you are able to tug at my heartstrings and yet at the same time, you are one of the most vicious villians and the most interesting.

You and Regina Mills tie at the top right now:’)

Blood as of Episode 14

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I have 3 more theories to add for this drama – I hope I didn’t go overboard.

1st theory (which is just an elaboration of conjecture #1)

This is revisiting conjecture #1: I keep seeing hints of it –
(1) Ri Ta says that he was warm in her memory, when he placed medicine on her forehead, as warm as he is now with human temperature. This is a big hint to me, that being kind/feeling something close to love is what makes him human.
(2) He is calm whenever he colours pictures.In particular, they mentioned Jeju Islands and the woods, which always made him think of her. Yet another obvious evidence!

#3 Antidote for Ji Sung

Wasn’t the mother creating something when the infected came to kill her? I suspect that ultimately, the doctors are going to get a hint from the chemicals on the table and find out what the substance was that the mother hid in the drawer. Maybe it can help Ji Sung become human!

#4 Ri Ta’s uncle killed Ri Ta’s parents

Uncle actually was the one who killed Ri-Ta’s parents – he’s the mastermind and the Assistant Director is the one who probably hired the people to kill them. Remember those suspicious-looking park wardens?

This is a really obvious theory – all evidence is pointing towards that right now!

Blood as of Episode 9 and 10

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Finally had the time to post these screenshots (yep, the busy-me excuse is popping up again!)

Anyway, I’m indeed semi-hooked on Blood. It’s awesome that it’s an on-going drama because if not, I would have devoured all 20 episodes by now.

I really loved this scene where Ji Sung tells Ri Ta that he was the vampire who saved her.

But is it just me or does Goo Hye Sun look REALLY cross-eyed here?


“This is not a dream right? I always wish that I can meet that boy again, even once…”


While she falls asleep, Ji Sung’s really-cute-friend is busy running the data programmes etc.

Ri Ta then wakes up the next morning and proceeds to verify the story which she just heard the night before. Ji Sung feigns ignorance, then says, “If you want to tell the story, say it properly.”

“Am I a flea? How can I jump 30 metres into the air?”

HAHAHA.

And kiss? What kiss??


Yes Ri Ta, I hope you are slightly mortified now because it’s really hilarious.

Ending this post off with Ji Sung’s face, when he is nodding so agreeably to the idea that the fake wedding should have a groom and then realises that Ri Ta is referring to himself.

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Hellooo

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WordPress imported all my Livejournal posts, but also incidentally unblocks all the inappropriate comments which Livejournal had so conveniently blocked for me. It’s still good news – I was really impressed with the efficiency at the whole thing; changing the layout of the site is going to take place faster than I thought!

When that is done, I might be able to start notifying people of the change and hopefully more people will follow me over here.

In the mean time, do follow my site or follow me on Twitter @thoughtsramble !(:

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Review of Blood as of Episode 8

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I still think this is a decent drama and if you have some time on your hands, you should watch it! I just have a few comments WHICH  YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT STARTED ON THIS DRAMA.

I have a few conjectures at the moment. Maybe Episode 9 and 10 have already proven me wrong, but I thought that I should just write these thoughts down anyway – guessing is always part of the fun in watching dramas!

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CONJECTURE #1: Love is the way to become ‘human-like’. When Ri Ta holds Ji Sung’s hands, he calms down (alternatively, gets distracted) almost immediately. Similarly, his mother was the only one who did not have human blood before. This could be out of the idea of ‘love’, since his parents were the only two infected people who married and had a child.

Possibly nice and heartwarming touch to the story, but if done wrongly, this could be SO CLICHE. I’m hoping that it will be the first.

CONJECTURE #2: Mysterious girl learning all about Ji Sung here in this scene is the girl (what’s her name) as a first-year doctor. She’s so harmless right now, that she might just be the opposite in reality.

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BONUS – I love this scene!!

Rita trying to tell Ji Sung about the time she was saved from a pack of wild dogs by a vampire i.e when he saved her.

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“I think there were 10 dogs-” “Isn’t..isn’t that too many?” “He jumped 30 metres into the air–” “…I think it was 5 metres?” “No! Just listen okay!”

Okay…

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He listens quite obediently until Rita says that she remembered the boy kissing her cheek and saying she was very pretty.

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You are so egoistical HAHAH and watch Ji Sung spit out the juice he is drinking and shyly touches his lips.

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“Kiss?!”

SO ADORABLE HAHAHA.

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Okay that’s all from me for now.

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Blood again

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I read somewhere that fans hated the acting in blood, that Goo Hye Sun was really ‘muted’ in her acting and that Ahn Jae Hyun was not living up to the male lead expectations.

Hmmm I don’t know…maybe it’s because I’ve already read such bad stuff about it, but 6 episodes in and I’m really liking this drama! I think it had a stronger start than Kill Me Heal Me, to be very honest (although Healer still remains the best drama of 2015 thus far). I like it that Goo Hye Sun is creating a different kind of Ri Ta, someone who is slightly cooler and isn’t always that poor, enthusiastic, fearless girl whom Goo Hye Sun is used to acting as. As for Ahn Jae Hyun, I do think he has a bit of baby-face and it’s harder to incite that fangirling in me for him, but overall, I thought his acting was not bad. Not the best, but nowhere near being sucky.

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I’m looking forward to seeing how this will all turn out!(:

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Kill Me Heal Me

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This drama would not have been successful without Ji Sung's wonderful, wonderful acting. He created 7 different personas all by himself, and these personalities were all SO distinct, that they might as well have been 7 characters.

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I teared so much when Perry Park left, and then when Yo Na left too…and then Se Gi. What kind of soccery drama is this that makes me tear THREE times over what is basically THE SAME GUY? Ji Sung, you have won me over once again. It's such a unique concept, but the drama has carried it off perfectly. I don't think I can describe this feeling of weirdness hahaha, that I miss all these personalities and I wish I could see them again, but I know they have to disappear in order for Do Hyun and Ri Jin to lead a good life. It's like watching my favourite three characters die, you know??

Anyway, I'm feeling this temptation to watch Save Your Last Dance For Me all over again – it's the drama where Ji Sung met Lee Bo Young after all (okay I'm hazarding a guess right here, but I THINK it's true. A simple Google search has not managed to turn anything up).

Goodbye Se Gi, Yo Na, Yo Sub, Perry Park and Do Hyun&Ri Jin(:

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