666 Park Avenue

Have you heard of the new show 666 Park Avenue thT aired on ABC Channel? If you have, congrats for you! ^^ Honestly I just found out about this show 2 days ago, and I love it. But I got angry once I found out that it was canceled! And for what? Because it didn't get the desired ratings so ABC have decided to cancel it. They will stick to the original 13 episodes for the fans (like me) who do like it, to watch it finish and not just leave us hanging like that!

For those of you who have not watched it, it's about s building in New York close to central park with the address 999 Park Avenue. The building is called the Drake. We follow a couple who move in there but a lot of creppy things happen; people disappearing, the dead coming back on a killing mission, fake obituaries coming true, and a mysterious spiral case.

Of course there is plenty more but then it would just be better for you to watch it than me just telling you everything. :P It's actually a little scary for me sometimes even though I know it's coming and I'm going to jump, but it's not like those scary movies that have endless supply of blood and guts spilling everywhere nor the ones that don't have stories and are only concerned about scaring you therefore making for a shitty plot line. 666 Park Avenue isn't that.

But this is the second time it's happened. I find a show that I like for once and find out that it's gonna be canceled!!!! TT_TT The first show was Terra Nova; a bunch of people are tired of living in their overly poluted future and want to start fresh lives in the past. Like waaaay in the past, when dinosaurs used to live.

I think Terra Nova also didn't get "enough" ratings and was canceled. (There has been some discussion of netflix picking it uo, but as a netflix user I haven't seen any progress on that.) Have they ever considered that they didn't advertise it enough for people to know about it?

Channels need new ways of commercials reaching viewers. Like advertising a show but on a different channel or introducing actors in talk shows like the Talk or the View, etc... For example, the only way I found out that Once Upon A Time was starting their second season was because they mentioned it on a commercial in Disney channel. Once!!!!

Personally I dont't really watch the general ABC channel simply because I find it boring. They don't have shows that are to my taste.

Anyway, my post is getting kinda long. Let's see if they take my advice and stop being so harsh on shows. Maybe if they let them run as planned it would gain more viewers...

Full House 2

   Today is a great day because? I'm going to talk about FULL HOUSE 2!!!!!!! :D :D :D

   I haven't talked about the first Full House Drama, so I'll mention it here as an introduction. Full House (the first one) actually came out in 2004 and has a total of 16 episodes. The only actor I remember from this drama is the awesome Bi (Rain) who's also an awesome and sexy singer, who also has his own music company. Although the last thing I've heard of him is that he's doing his military duties.
 
   Anyways :P, the first Full House is about a small writer named Han Ji Eun (the girl in Bi's arms) who got swindled from all of her money and her house. Stranded in China she manages to borrow money from Lee Young Jae (Bi), to return to South Korea. She tries to get everything back (including her house) by signing into a marriage contract with the person who ended up buying her house. They have difficulties at first but they soon become accustomed to rely on each other as business partners and as lovers. ^^ Which I now move on to Full House 2.

  Full House 2, also known as 풀하우스TAKE2 ,or Full House Take 2 and features the very hot No Min Woo who was also in the drama My Girlfriend is a Gumiho and Pasta. Though you can tell he lost some weight for this role.
  There is also Park Ki Woong (very hot), Hwang Jung Eum (someone didn't tell her that her perm makes her look like an old lady. Her hair on the cover is not what it actually looks like in the drama. It looks much worse.), and Yoo Seol Ah (the mean girl that no one likes).
  Dramawiki says Full House 2 has 16 episodes and that it's broken down into two, but from my count there is 32 episodes so far. And so far the story doesn't actually follow from the first drama Full House, so you don't need to see the first one before this one.
  This drama is about a man, Lee Tae Ik (played by No Min Woo) who is part of a boy band with Won Kang Hwi (played by Park Ki Woong) who is working in order to buy his house back. He's your basic kdrama asshole who is stuborn and only wants to do this his way but is actually nice when people aren't looking.

   Then comes Jang Man Ok with her old lady hair, who works in her grandfather's martial arts studio. Somehow she becomes involved with Lee Tae Ik, and becomes the groups fashion consultant/designer. Conveniently her grandfather is out of town this whole time, so she fools him to believe that she is perfectly fine and still doing her 'duties' at the studio.

   But to make things more annoyingly complicated, Jin Se Ryung (played by Yoo Seol Ah) comes into the picture. She used to be in a relationship with Lee Tae Ik, but he found her out sucking face with Won Kang Hwi. It was fake but nonetheless convincing enough to end their relationship.  It's a mystery as to why she came back, but now everyone has to deal with her. >:P Oh and they are all living in the same house.

  You can watch this drama: here or here.
Official site is :here.          --------------------------------> old lady hair !!!

URL Change

  I realize that after looking at my blog stats, I may have lost some viewers because I changed my URL from www.drama312.blogspot.com to what it is now. You know, like when someone searches a key word on the internet, and then they see "this site is no longer available" right?! That's happened to me quite some times, and it really sucks.
  There is other times when I visit a blog that I like, and find out they just aren't posting anymore. Also very sucky. So maybe if I include these words drama312.blogspot.com a bunch of times and supper big, like drama312.blogspot.com then maybe some of my viewers will not be disappointed :D.

  The reason why I did not just start a totally new blog is because I already had my previous posts here, and I didn't want to totally dismiss them. They are a part of what I write. Simply saying "Oh, these posts are old and totally not me" is a lie, and then I would be in denial. So instead I just changed the layout, and URL name. It was much easier this way but probably I would have lost viewers this way.? >< Sorry >.<

  So let me say again, this is the new and improved drama312.blogspot.com blog. It's still the same me and same subject matter. ^.^

Arang and The Magistrate

   So I haven't finished watching Heartstrings >.<. Sometimes I find myself looking for other good dramas, knowing that I already have a good one to watch. Why I do this? I don't know... But by doing so, I found out about Arang and the Magistrate.

One lonely dark night....
in my bed....
I was too tired to go to sleep.

So I turn on my cellphone, open the Crunchyroll APP, and start searching if they have any good dramas to watch.

Luckily, I was sick so I had all the time in the world to do absolutely nothing...except cough, sneeze, and swallow lots of mucus..etc. So I guess I am doing something, it's just not productive. But anyways, that's the story of my findings of this drama.

Title: Arang and the magistrate or (아랑사또전)
Genre: supernatural, historical, comedy, romance
Episodes: 20 (and 1 special)
Release Date: 8 August 2012

  With the awesome Shin Min Ah who appeared as the main lead role in My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho, which I have written about earlier. I think she's a good actress so far. And then who can forget about Lee Jun Ki?!!! I haven't kept track of kpop recently, so I'm not sure if he's made any new albums. Last time I saw him making an album, he was kinda considered a bit "old" O___O for that type of Hallyu popularity. Of course I totally disagree.

  So before I get even more away from the main topic, let me get to the point right?! Lee Jun Ki plays the role of the magistrate.

Word of the Day: Sattou (magistrate)

The story is this:

  Set during the Chosun period, Arang is a ghost. She doesn't remember how she died or who she was. So she goes about trying to get the attention of each magistrate in her town, in order to find out more about herself, but she ends up getting the reputation of the magistrate-killing ghost in the human world. She doesn't do it on purpose, they just don't have the balls to actually see a ghost. So then once Eun Oh (Lee Jun Ki) is made magistrate, we find out he has the ability to see and speak to ghosts. Eun Oh also wants to know what happened to his mother. Where did she go? He and Arang get together and try to figure out what happened to her as well as see if he can find anything about her mother. In the meantime, Eun Oh starts falling in love with her, and other characters are believed to be connected to this whole situation.

  Don't worry, this is not one of those suspense/detective stories. It does require a bit of detective skills, but that is not the main focus. Recently, I've been talking to a girl in my class who also likes dramas. She recommended me to watch Iljimae (since Lee Jun Ki is also in it). And I recommended her to watch God of Study since the actor playing the role of the Jade Emperor in Arang and The Magistrate also plays a role in this God of Study drama.

  And then she was like, "have you watched Coffee Prince ?" (which I have also written about earlier), and I was all, "yea of course!!". And then told her how one of the guys in Coffee Prince resembles another actor who is in the Pasta drama, and how now he's in a new drama called Full House Take 2. (No Min Woo who I just am in such a celebrity crush for a while)

  We kept talking about all their connections from one drama to the next based on the actors we liked. I guess it's one of those topics I like to talk about so much that I don't get tired of it. I mean, wouldn't you like to talk about hot guys?! (or girls) So don't worry. I've mention just a few dramas that I still haven't talked about but let's keep that to another post no?!

Here is the official Site. You can watch in Crunchyroll.com

Heartstrings

  How long has it been?!! Honestly, I can't remember when I switched to doing another hobby other than watching a bunch of awesome dramas! (Explaination: Sometimes I get bored of doing a hobby of mine, like drawing, or just dont have any ideas so I move to another hobby like making bracelets or watching drama. Its like a circle, and that circle has dots that represents a hobby. Now I've arrived at the drama dot, so it's time to watch some.) Probably by now there have been many dramas, and almost all episodes are available right?!
I don't like waiting weeks just so an episode can get subtitles, so I just dont watch them until I know there are plenty of episodes to watch at my disposal. So let's start!

  I have kept my eye at local shows like Doctor Who on the BBC channel, and I am still watching shows like Breaking Amish and Once Upon A Time. I've found out that Netflix is slowly adding more foreign movies and TV shows, but not fast enough. So that's why we watch them online no? :D I have to admit, I'm rewatching You're Beautiful, which I've already written about in this previous post. I guess because I like having something on my TV that isn't in English and I can watch hot guys. Haha. But because of this, I found that the guys(Jung Yong Hwa, and Lee Hong Ki) I like have been in other dramas: Muscle Girl, Noriko Goes to Seoul, and the one I am watching now You've Fallen For Me (also known as Heartstrings). I was kind of upset that the girl ended up with the jerk again (it's one of those things that will always happen regardless in korean dramas), so that's why I've chosen to watch Heartstrings. This time Jung Yong Hwa gets to be the main lead in the couple, and it's funny that they also have the same actress as the main female lead role for the couple.

 Title: 넌 내게 반했어, Heartstrings
Genre: Romance, Music
Episodes: 15
Release Date: 2011 June 29
Broadcast Network: MBC
Summary:
  Lee Shin (played by the hot Jung Yong Hwa) is a music major and is also the lead singer to the band 'Stupid'. Everyone likes him for his looks and his passion for music, but in reality he's a bit of a jerk. In the first episode it's introduced to us that he likes Jung Yong Soo (a dance professor at the university; played by So Yi Hyun), but she has feelings for another guy (Kim Suk Hyun played by Song Chang Ui).

  But apparently there's something between them that used to be but not anymore. Aaaah. Love triangles...or hectagon? Anyways, there's the feeling that Lee Shin and Lee Kyu Won (played by Park SHin Hye) are bound to be a couple.
  The drama is also heavily about music. Lee Shin is part of a more 'modern/western' band, and Lee Kyu Won is part of a traditional music group.

You can see the official site: here

Watch: here , or here . 

Nonetheless, it's always nice to follow the actors you like. I keep saying that US is so behind because they haven't realized they could make so much money if they featured famous celebrities in variety shows or put them in dramas. People would watch shows just because they are there. Even if the story sucks or isn't to their liking at first, they won't resist watching it since you would want to know what happens to your celebrity crush right?!

Or!!!!! Someone could make those dating games but like a fanbased one of You're Beautiful or other dramas. Think about it. Which color do you like?