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Monday, May 21, 2012
Impressions Post: Queen In Hyun's Man
I'm back from Seoul and I've summed up my week there in a Tumblr post
no one will read (lol I don't know why I bother really) so I won't do
it here. Instead, let me just use this space to spazz about this drama I
started watching yesterday. I haven't been catching up on the 101
dramas I started since I finished school since I was so busy with work
(I've still got Padam Padam, Rooftop Prince, The King 2 Hearts, Can You
Hear My Heart and K-pop the Strongest Survival to finish) but I couldn't
resist starting Queen In Hyun's Man today. I've seen gifs floating
around on Tumblr and I've always meant to pick it up once I was done
with all the other shows since I've heard such good things about it. I
wasn't feeling particularly inspired about the current batch of shows I
was supposed to continue and I've always liked Yoo In Na (can you
believe the girl is 30 years old?!), so I thought "hey why not?"
And
now a 9-episode marathon later... I have so much feels for this show I
need 10000 buckets just to contain them all and another 10000 for my
tears before I drown in them. The lead couple is just pure perfection I
can't even begin to describe. Their chemistry is so adorable and the way
they look at each other UGH /melts I shall attempt to summarise the
plot but I'm sure you'll have better luck trying dramawiki or one of
those sites because I am physically incapable of being coherent in this
state ok /typing through my tears right now/ lol ok I kid but anyway,
it's about this scholar, Kim Boong Do, (played by the fantastically underrated Ji Hyun Woo)
who supports the reinstatement of Queen In Hyun during the Joseon times
when a concubine Jang plotted and schemed her way to replacing In Hyun
as King Sukjong's queen consort. Boong Do was then given a talisman for
protection but when he was close to being killed by an assassin, he was
suddenly transported 300 years into the future in modern Seoul, which is
where he meets a rookie actress, Choi Hee Jin (played by Yoo In Na), who's just landed
her first lead role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama. He later deduces
the mechanics of the talisman - which is basically he has to recite the
words on it to go back to his time, and be put in a life or death
situation during that time so that it can save him by bringing him to
the future. So that's how he travels back and forth with the intention
of seeing what he can find out in the future in order to assist in the
reinstatement of Queen In Hyun and bring his entire family to justice
back in his own time. And since Yoo In Na's character was the first and
only person he met in the future, she's in charge of sort of being a
teacher to him and helping wherever he can. (I wouldn't be able to say
no to him either, you can totally see it in her face whenever he smiles
at her - she literally melts)
Yeah, well, I
tried. What I love about the leads is that their relationship is so
simple and besides the fact that they're 300 years apart, it's quite a
mutual "I like you", "You like me" kind of relationship. And omg how
much do I love Boong Do? What a wonderful, wonderful male lead. He's
intelligent, but not arrogant, good-looking, but not drop-dead gorgeous.
I love how quickly he adapts to modern times, but in a wholly
believable way. He uses logic a lot of the times and it's just incredibly impressive. Hee Jin is an adorable counter too to his
slightly more serious personality. Yoo In Na isn't the best actress ever or
anything, but she's really easy to like and root for. And unlike a
million other dramas, you can actually see the building attraction that
the lead couple have for each other, and there's a lot more showing rather
than telling, when usually it'll be like "I think I'm falling in love
with you" and we're all supposed to believe it because it's the ~natural progression in the drama or whatever and they're the leads, even though all along they haven't been doing things that lets me believe that they could even be close to being in love with each other. Honourable mention goes to the second male lead Han Dong Min (played by Kim Jin Woo) who's Hee Jin's ex who dumped her 3 years ago on his way to super stardom. He is just wonderfully cocky, and childish, but in an endearing way - a character type that a lot of dramas need to inject a little humour into some of the scenes.
And
of course English subs would only be up to episode 9 - literally the
most nail-biting episode out of them all. It was so angsty, even though,
admittedly, it was more angst on my part. Ugh the separation period
always sucks, especially when it's done so well. It's like "it hurts,
but it hurts so good" if you even know what I'm talking about at
this point. It's just I want so badly for the two of them to be happy but that's not going to work when /spoiler/ one of them loses his memory and another one of them thinks she's going crazy /sobs/chokes/weeps/cries/screams/pulls hair out/throws laptop out the window /endspoiler/ I'll probably stop rambling, but oh my god, this is the same
level of infatuation that I had with Sungkyunkwan Scandal when it was
airing, but I can objectively (psh yeah right) say that Queen In Hyun's
Man is done a lot better, and the lead couple is so much more beautiful,
perfect, wonderful, amazing, I can't even right now ok bye.Labels: ji hyun woo, kdrama, kim jin woo, queen in hyun's man, queen in-hyun's man, queen inhyun's man, rooftop prince, sungkyunkwan scandal, yoo in na
1:41 PM
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I'm Justine. When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.
