On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… Eleven chattering ladies Ten spontaneous moments Nine times he teased her (shucks! I’ve to limit myself to nine!) Eight fashionista bags to drool over Seven former male costars Six references to YEH’s real life Five words to text (“Merry Christmas, I love you”) […]
Memories of the Alhambra: The Mystery of February 28
The timeline after JinWoo arrived in Granada is easy to establish. But the timeline BEFORE February 28, 11:34 pm, the date and time when he opened SeJoo’s email containing the Memories of the Alhambra file cannot be reconstructed and verified. Question: How did I know it was February 28? Answer: It was on the cellphone. […]
Fluttering Alert: On the Tenth Day
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… Ten spontaneous moments Nine times he teased her (shucks! I’ve to limit myself to nine!) Eight fashionista bags to drool over Seven former male costars Six references to YEH’s real life Five words to text (“Merry Christmas, I love you”) Four gifs of […]
Memories of the Alhambra: Notes on Episodes 7 and 10
To me, these four episodes, Episodes 7, 8, 9 and 10, comprise the middle section of the kdrama. The characters are fast-forwarded a year ahead in the future. Everybody is now back in South Korea. But despite the passage of time and return to original places, little have changed in their lives. I urge the […]
Fluttering Alert: On the Ninth Day
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… Nine times he teased her (Shucks. I’ve to limit myself to nine!) Eight fashionista bags to drool over Seven former male costars Six references to YEH’s real life Five words to text (“Merry Christmas, I love you”) Four gifs of WH (and four […]
Fluttering Alert: On the Eighth Day
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… Eight fashionista purses Seven former male costars Six references to YEH’s real life Five words to text (“Merry Christmas, I love you”) Four gifs of WH (and four of YJ, too) Three parents-in-law Two texting couple And a fluttering love story. Can you […]
Memories of the Alhambra: On Sec Seo’s Death
*This was posted in soompi and I’m copying it over here. I also heard that another old friend of mine is asking (in another forum) why JinWoo didn’t shut down the server the second he left Sec Seo behind on the Granada platform. As I explained here, it has nothing to his callous indifference to […]
Top Star Yoo Baek: On Being a Unicorn
There it is, written very plainly in the title. Yoo Baek is the “top star,” the leading man in this romcom. Everybody in the island, except for the second male lead MaDol, calls him Top Star. It intrigues me that the writer must reinforce the idea that he’s the unrivaled “top star” and ensure that […]
Knowing Brothers: EXO Episode 12/22/2018
Although I don’t blog about variety shows, this episode (and the one with Chun MyungJun #52) deserve a special mention because it’s a nice follow-up to 100 Days My Prince. I recommended earlier that @nrllee watch it. I wrote, “You should watch it! Hurry! Then tell me what you think of Kyungsoo Do. Notwithstanding his […]
Fluttering Alert: YEH’s Leading Actors
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… Seven former male costars Six references to YEH’s real life Five words to text (“Merry Christmas, I love you”) Four gifs of WH (and four of YJ, too) Three parents-in-law Two texting couple And a fluttering love story. Here are YEH’s male costars […]
Memories of the Alhambra: On Game Logic
What frustrates me about this kdrama is NOT that the game logic is missing but that it unfolds piecemeal. So far, the game appears logical to me but I’ve come to expect the TWIST in the plot. The rules are very much different from what JinWoo, Sec Seo and their programmer YangJoo would ordinarily expect […]
Memories of the Alhambra: Did Sejoo Kill Marco?
What better way to start a new year than to discuss murder? There are two way to interpret the death of Marco: according to the script according to the JinWoo’s delusional interpretation As I said in last post, based on the script, SJ isn’t dead but trapped in the game somehow. In Episode 1, he […]
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Fluttering Alert: Homage to YEH
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me… Six references to Yoon Eun Hye’s real life Five words to text (“Merry Christmas, I love you”) Four gifs of WH (and four of YJ, too) Three parents-in-law Two texting couple And a fluttering love story. I spotted at least six times when […]