It’s interesting how dramas affect us, get a hold and grip into our emotions so easily and flimsily. One minute we can love and devour a drama like no other, the next we may lose interest, with all curiosity zapped away by lightning just like that, no warning signs no nothing. I’ve had a fair share of those this year, beginning with the screamfest horror that was of Gaksital, to the once whack zip fun turned boring Arang and The Magistrate, to cute-turned-solemnly makjang fare that was of My Daughter Seo Young, and to the most recent Missing You (admittedly this never really got to me save for the first 4 eps thanks to the wonderful Yeo Jin Gu and Kim So Hyun). These dramas caught my attention, hooked me on from the beginning tho they were never really perfect to begin with… but something happened along the way, the dramas faltered? Stupid things happened? Things didn’t make sense? I lost interest, and yeap they were all binned, trashed and never to be seen again. It could be me and my never-ever consistent and fickle taste in dramas, it could be the drama Gods up there doing their magic to save me some precious time for the really golden dramas instead (ILICDD you!). Who knows?
But let the bygones be bygones, the K-drama world never stops, the globe keeps spinning, new dramas are churned out every now and then, we get hooked, we lose interest, the cycle repeats itself. Maybe I should be thankful that some dramas aren’t up to par, for I could drop them without hesitation and thought, move on to the newer batch and indulge in excitement and freshness of ’em all (provided that they do not go all incredulous on me all of a sudden). Speaking of which, the recent hot off the oven dramas I’m watching right now: Cheongdam-Dong Alice and School 2013.
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