What’s the verdict? Should I watch this? Yea or nay?
Synonym for yea:
Hyun Bin
lol.
I’m not seeing good reviews though. I’m not “feeling” North Korea right now to be honest.
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I’m watching this hihi. The premise felt fresh, like a drama with north korea on it? Yeah 😊
I just watched the first episode and it was funny. I don’t know how the plot can last during 16 episodes but the only presence of Hyun Bin can make me watch it :p
Sooo…are we watching this for Hyun Bin then? 😈😂
Do we need a better reason? 😇
After the episode 2, I need to watch the scenes in Switzerland! For once, it will be easy if I want to visit the places not like Greece in Chocolate… I didn’t expect the FL to come in Switzerland for EXIT…
I’m watching. Saw the first two episodes and liked it enough to continue. She’s carrying it so far. I don’t have a sense of his personality except the duty-bound soldier. I like the bits re North Korea. So funny the tornado like she lands in an alien land like Oz! Also paragliding! I tried it a few years ago in Turkey and there is nothing more scary than taking off and nothing more beautiful than flying.
Anyway, I’ll have to see. This show will need romantic tension and so far I’m not feeling it.
BUT, just to add to my comment about missing romantic tension so far, I do think they’ve got great chemistry. So good potential providing the script gives them something to work with.
Hi! I will watch this just because it is Hyun Bin and because I want to see if they are cute together for real and reel. LOL.
Wait. Don’t you live in Switzerland? Alright!! You can tell us more about the places used in the kdrama. 👍👍
Morning! You’re up early! ☺️
I’m about to sleep. Just finished first episode. I like it. He got curious with her right from the beginning so he accidentally stepped on the mine whom he’s perfect in detecting. 😄
I’ll read your review tomorrow.
Ciao! 😊
The land mine was ?? It was funny but the ending was anticlimactic. Like, that’s it? The guy just disabled the landline? It showed that he was cool with her but dorky in the inside. He was fussing about his subordinate’s expertise needlessly.
I wake up at 5am. Sometimes 4:30 am. I read my work emails, read news headlines, a couple of my colleagues’ blogs (work-related). I return emails and give “notes” to my secretary. Then I read your comments on this wordpress blog (to lighten my day 😂) all the while I’m waiting for coffee and toast or waiting for the sunrise. Because of the internet, my hubby doesn’t have to get out of bed just to get the newspapers outside. 😂
Then if the morning’s hectic, I try to jog around the neighborhood to prepare myself physically for the grind. I don’t like treadmills though. I feel like a mouse running in a wheel.
Then shower, put on my warpaint (aka make-up), finish third cup of coffee. Read and answer some more of your comments 😂 before I head out.
That’s generally my morning routine. Boring, right? I hope this puts you to sleep. Good night!
It’s so unusual that people have personal secretaries these days. With the advent of computers more and more execs type for themselves, to the detriment of the English language in my opinion. Who knew secretaries were the actual safeguards of the English language? No more scribes or clerks or monks or secretaries. Count yourself lucky, pkm3!
Ah well, I have also noticed a general language upgrade among the general public because the internet means people do a lot more reading and writing than they ever did in the past. So both good and bad.
“ Ah well, I have also noticed a general language upgrade among the general public because the internet means people do a lot more reading and writing than they ever did in the past. So both good and bad.”
My lament is that spelling has deteriorated… thanks to autocorrect 🙄. Gone are the days where you have to rewrite the word 10 times if you misspell something. Nowadays you don’t have to correct any errors…it autocorrects for you so you never need to know how to spell it right in the first place. I remember watching my daughter type her essay and every time she misspelled something I used to stop her and get her to backspace and retype it…but she got frustrated and told me she would rather just keep typing and then have the program just correct all the errors in the end with the press of a button… 🤔.
I know! My daughter, who ended up a writer and English teacher, was the same. The worst is going to a fairly official place, like a museum, and all the placards are misspelled because auto correct only goes so far, and even the curator doesn’t rate a secretary. I try not to be snotty about it but it just looks so second-rate to me. I likely wouldn’t return.
I always won the spelling bee and I’m a touch typist, so what trips me up is actually auto correct and having to peck at the keyboard of my tablet!
Rant over! It’s a different age.
This is really OT, @nrllee, but do you know when javabeans and girlfriday stopped working for DB? I was just over there to check out their bean counter thing they do at the end of the year, and neither writer is included. Was there any announcement?
Oh? They stopped writing completely?
I knew they were looking for a buyer for the site because of diminishing revenues when they introduced stroopwafel onboard.
http://www.dramabeans.com/2018/11/welcome-to-our-new-editor-stroopwafel/
But I didn’t expect them to quit writing entirely.
Wait…What? Javabeans & Girlfriday have left DB???….OK I’m back after going to the blog. Both JB and GF are still listed in the About Us section and in the Staff section, so I’m taking that to mean they are still running/overseeing the blog. According to the article @pm3 posted, they sold the blog to an investor but were staying on. Not sure why they are not included in the Bean Count. That is strange.
On to Crash landing On You- things have gotten busy for me but I still want to check this drama out. I still have a few reservations about the writing, but that is because i am one of the very few people who doesn’t like this writer. I’ve dropped both of the previous works I have seen by this writer, but i am in it for Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin.
You made me looked up the writer. She’s Park Ji Eun, writer of:
Legend of the Blue Sea (SBS, 2016)
The Producers (KBS2, 2015)
My Love from the Star (SBS, 2013–2014)
I haven’t seen her shows in their entirety so I’ve no opinion. Hmmm… Perhaps that’s an indication right there? If none of her shows compelled me to finish them, then maybe she isn’t good. We’ll see.
I’m here for Hyun Bin. Son Ye Jin is pretty to look at, and she’s convincing in her role but I’m not feeling her character. I want to know what makes her tick.
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Maybe Javabeans and girlfriday are taking a break for now. They seem to have a lot on their plate.
I don’t know about the bean count. It’s my first time seeing that, to be honest. Being OCD, those charts triggered me. Too messy. lol.
“This is really OT, @nrllee, but do you know when javabeans and girlfriday stopped working for DB?”
No idea when but I miss their writing. They were witty and their writing was often laced with sarcasm leaving me in stitches on a regular basis. I only visit there to read occasionally now. I find the conversations there had to follow because of the format.
Wow! Up by 4:30am sometimes! I can’t do it anymore unless there’s something important that I have to do.
I’m awake, no, my alarm is set at 6am then if I’m tired I’ll snooze it for another 10 minutes then wake up. I’ll go through emails and Instagram posts and most of the time I’ll get out of bed by 6:30, 6:45. I’ll prepare breakfast and boys lunches and then we’ll have breakfast by 7am then I’ll hit the shower. We’re out by 7:50am.
That’s my usual morning but it’s nice to have school over and to stay in bed at least till 8am during the holidays. ☺️
I wish I can do jogging in the morning but I’m lazy 😩
Jogging 🏃♀️ or a brisk walk. It’s cold here now so I must move faster.
Do you pack them lunches? Do you make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches too? I loved those. My kids too. They’re our comfort food.
In one of my trips to Asia, I was told that one of the things they found special about high school kids here is that they drive to school. I said yes, getting your own car was a rite of passage, like prom and SATs. As soon as the kids get their licenses and keys, they never ever ride on the school bus again.
Yes, I still pack their lunches. 🤦🏻♀️ My boys are more fussy with their food though. They can’t bring anything with nuts as there’s kids whose allergic to it so it’s banned from the college and most schools here.
You know I’ve never tried peanut butter and jelly. Do you mean jam? I looooove peanut butter though but the crunchy one. 😄 I should really try it and see what it’s like. 😊
You can use jam too but I prefer jelly bec it’s smoother. Jam has more fruit in it and when I add it to the crunchy peanut butter (yes! I prefer the crunchier one) they tend to clump up.
When it comes to consistency or smoothness, jelly is the smoothiest (it’s supposed to be like Jell-o clear), then jam, then preserves then marmalade. Marmalade (like orange marmalade) will even have the fruit rind in it.
The boys would pack a banana too. It tastes good with peanut butter. They bought hot lunch food anyway like pepperoni pizza and spaghetti. When they had Varsity games, they were served dinners too at school.
I got my own car at 16 too but my daughter even now, in mid twenties, doesnt have her license. She likes taking the bus and finds the city too scary to drive in! So no car for her. I wonder if that’s becoming more common in big cities.
She was really picky about lunches. Hated sandwiches. So I’d put bowls of things she liked, fruit, crisps, cheeses, granola bars, yoghurts,leftovers, baby carrots and tomatoes, cooked chicken, wraps, etc together on Sundays and she started making her own lunches (i.e., Throwing them into a lunchbag) from the time she was eight years old. Very healthy. My husband and I did the same. Worked for us.
Sunday was my food day. I planned, grocery shopped, cooked dinners for the week, set up lunches for the week. It took hours but I started doing it as a grad student working two jobs with a family. Really saved on time during the week so I just continued doing it. My kid was so involved in stuff later too! Really helped to just have to warm up a casserole and throw a salad on the side when you were taking her to violin, or competetive swimming, or improv, or poetry, or softball or her band practice. It would have been great if she had damn well got her license!
I bet that’s another difference. North American kids are doing all that extracurricular, but fun, stuff in sports and the arts, but from what I can tell most Asian kids are in cram schools learning English.
The crock pot was a lifesaver. I just tossed half a dead cow in it with potatoes, carrots, and onions so when we came home, we’d have yummy pot roast for dinner.
Will you hate me if I admit that grannies and nannies helped us raise our kids? We tried to attend the school affairs but if we couldn’t be there, there was always a grandma in attendance. My children’s elementary school was big on celebrations. At least every other week there’d be calls for volunteers for some event or another…winter solstice, Cinco de Mayo, International Day, Reading week, Thanksgiving, Geography week, Science fair, Sports/field day, Medieval day, Math week, Colonial day, field trips. So my husband and I would sign up for three big events, and the nanny or my mother-in-law would volunteer for the others.
I liked going to school events that involved dressing-up. Like Thanksgiving. Sometimes I went as a pilgrim, sometimes as a squaw, and my sons would wear the opposite. Medieval Day was fun, too. I’d dress up like a Lady Marian, Robin Hood’s girl. Field trips were fun but only when the kids went indoors, like the Smithsonian or the US Capitol. I wouldn’t sign up for field trips to go to amusement parks because the boys always went for the craziest roller coasters in the park. My version of a fun ride is “Dumbo” and “It’s a Small World” in Disneyworld.
So, yes… whenever I watch these kdramas with high school kids, I find it too stressing for the kids. If there’s ever a “fun” event for the characters, it’s usually a field trip, a field day (an “MT”) or one of those singing programs on stage.
I think Americans have way more fun with events than Canadians do. I went to an American run international school in Malaysia (ISKL, anyone?) for 3 years and boy was it fun. July 4 was a revelation.
Aah, the crock pot. I never got up early enough to use it weekdays but we had pot roast every Sunday night from it!
You all got me interested in this…likely my next kdrama to watch but I’m waiting for further reviews. Time is getting short before school starts for me & my kids in the new year…I may be able to squeeze in another drama to binge! 😀
Asian high schools can get quite busy with exams and ECA aka Extra Curricular Activites…at least from my own experience decades ago in school 😛 But i remember the fun beach chalets and BBQs we organized as a class – no teachers. It looks a lot quite like their field day we watch in kdramas.
Just binged The Witcher on Netflix. I had read a couple of the books in translation years ago so I had to check it out. It starts out rocky (but so did the books) and gets better and better. Henry Cavill as Geralt is gloriously good looking and the girl who plays 12 year old Ciri is charismatic and believable. I wasn’t keen on the Yennefer actress but she was good. This first season provides more the backstory for everyone. Ciri and Geralt finally meet in the last episode – they are not a romantic pair but a surrogate father-daughter pair and it’s refreshing! Anyway, for those of you who like fantasy, I recommend The Witcher as a great escape!
“ Just binged The Witcher on Netflix.”
😂 great minds think alike. I watched it with hubby. But only till Ep4… I have been hiding in the cotton candy world of KDrama for over a year so the gore and explicit sex scenes took a bit of getting used to. 😮. I agree about Cavill. Geralt is fascinating as a protagonist. I like Ciri too. And yes to Yennefer…she was my least favourite character. The whole world building and multiple characters (and being types) is bewildering initially. I think fans would fare better because they are already familiar with the background and characters. I have a hard time keeping up.
Actually, the books were hard to follow at first as well. And I wondered watching the show if people could follow the time jumps/differences, i.e, Ciri present day, Witcher 12 years ago, and Yennefer like 50 years ago – for the most part but they skip around too! I don’t think it matters too much, you eventually get it. Also, in the books I remember wondering what the hell a witcher was and that was a main suspense. I won’t spoil! The Witcher became a huge hit video game eventually.