Resolutions, part 1. 

I’m ordering this partial list (more to follow) New Year’s Eve resolutions for the improvement of kdramas and the enhancement of viewing pleasure of bitches like me.

These resolutions requires neither the approval of netizens and i-netizens nor the signatures of conglomerates such soompi and dramabeans, and they do not have the force of law. Rejection of these resolutions will result in the diminished presence of the offensive kdramas in my blog (= I will snub them.)

1. No open-ending.

Either let OTP live happily ever after or let one of them be killed and one pine for dead lover forever. But after 16 plus hours of watching so-and-so drama, you kdrama writer, owe us answers to our questions, and an end to our journey. Otherwise, life after said kdrama feels straight out Nietzsche’s world. God is dead.

I’m with him.

2. Finish that iced Americano and subway combo you ordered. It drives me nuts that there’s so much food and beverage wastage on dramas.

3. No more product placement of gadgets please.

Checked: Roomba vacuum cleaner on Tomorrow With You, LG fridge from Greatest Hit, Brookstone armchair massager from Because This is My First Life.

But no way am I buying that Hyundai Tucson (oddly sounding like “Deoksun” when Kim Jung-Hwan said it in the commercial) because of Reply 1988. Hmmph!

And no to Swarovski’s fake diamonds.

4. Knock it off already with the tiresome husband-guessing, you Reply series writer and director!!
The fanwars ruin everybody’s drama appreciation, not to mention level of discernment.

5. Scrap the illness plot!

You don’t catch a one-day cold/flu from getting rained on. You don’t need somebody fussing around you like you’re at death’s door when you have an elevated body temperature. (lol. The heroines are worse than my brothers with their man-cold.) Tylenol, Advil, any over-the-counter med works better than a wet towel on the forehead.

— Ditto with amnesia plots, too.

6. So done with the soju binges. What’s the point of advocating this kind of drinking culture – this OVERCONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL — and glorifying it in romcoms and melodramas? Drink moderately. Drink responsibly.

7. Makeover scenes to turn ugly duckling into beautiful swan. You can’t *fix* ugly, sorry. But you can bloom pretty. (By reading a book, trying a new hobby, making yourself more interesting, etc.)

8. Noble idiocy.

It defeats the purpose of having those expensive Samsung phones. The whole point of these new technologies in telecommunication is to get people to TALK to one another. If the hero is going to just up and leave the situation, without EXPLAINING to the heroine his course of action, then he might as well chuck that darn state-of-the-art cellphone and live in the 8th century where he COMMUNICATE with smoke signals. Smart people talk it out.

9. If the heroine is poor, make her repeat the same bag, same shoes, same clothes for at least a couple of episodes. Her wardrobe must match her socioeconomic status level.

10. Kiss Assault. (rolling eyes)

(have to run and prep for our NYE’s party!!!) Happy New Year!!!!