Written by Leonardswench
Okay, so me and the keyboard have been separated for the last few days, but we’re not filing for divorce, we just needed some space. Any roads, I finished Tamna/Tamra/Tempted Again/Like Every Other K-drama Pick a Bloody Name Already.
Top ten Things I loved:
1. Im Joo Hwan (I am now devoted to his smouldering)
2. Almost all of the Tamra Island bit characters, especially Beo Jin’s mama!
3. Loved to hate Park Gyu’s mama and Best Diver Girl
4. The kisses and touching of Beo Jin and Park Gyu (you couldn’t squeeze in more, right at the end????), including full body tackles, wrestling matches, chase scenes, the wrist/sleeve grabs, kisses, hitting and dragging each other around, the whispering … we just needed more!
5. The three-way save (Beo Jin, William, Park Gyu)
6. Beo Jin’s naivete
7. The bathroom humour (seriously, nobody does body function humour like k-dramaland)
8. The name translations of Beo Jin and Park Gyu (laughed the rest of the series about them)
9. That Beo Jin wound up with Park Gyu (I was seriously going to be pi**ed if it went any other way)
Top Ten Things I hated:
1. The first three episodes (REALLY hated them) and maybe the next two to a lesser degree
2. The ease with which we ignored language barriers A LOT
3. The random nature of Yan’s character (and the Crown Prince’s)
4. The lack of more hot kisses and skinship/fullout body tackle contact between Beo Jin and Park Gyu
5. The total insignificance of the political story arc
6. Beo Jin’s naivete
7. The acting skills of the Viperess and William should have been on the cutting room floor
8. The dropped storylines/verbage (‘you are a goldfish’, for example) between the leads with the exception of Exiler/Troublemaker
9. The drunken scene (WTF?), even if it led to another kiss, was inconsistent with Park Gyu’s character to that point
10. The constant ‘who’s going to have a near-death experience in this episode’??
I did like the pacing, I felt the writing could and should have been sharper, we needed different actors in two roles to get the casting right, and, really, drama, did we need that many random throw-away characters to waltz in and out of episodes (the potter who sheltered the injured Park Gyu, for instance)??
I don’t regret watching simply for ImJoo Hwan. HOLY &&**((%%$$!! I don’t know where’s he’s been hiding from my k-drama eyes, but they are keenly focused now.
Okay, that was it, roughly.
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