I have a sinking suspicion that Lie to Me is about to become the second coming of Mary Stayed Out All Night for me. A Mon-Tues drama with lower-than-expected ratings, likely a small cultish following, and will own me body and soul despite my being fully aware the script sucks, all because I love the OTP so much I can scarce stop thinking about them. I’m not quite there yet (I hit that point with episode 7 of M3), but all the signs are there, including writing way too much about nothing when it comes time to analyze this drama.
Currently we are still getting previews because the live-shoot hasn’t caught up yet, so I’m bringing you the video preview for episode 7, with a translation of the dialogue. And if anyone just wants to watch the much-discussed kiss scene, I’m providing a link as well. If I become crazily obsessed with LTM, be prepared for an insane amount of Kang Ji Hwan-Yoon Eun Hye posts. As much as I’ve loved them wholeheartedly before, together they are making me love them more. Which is exactly what happened with my Jang Geun Seok-Moon Geun Young love after watching M3.
Last scene of episode 6:
I LOVED this kiss purely on delivery and execution alone. There was no build-up, hence no emotional pay-off. But the satisfaction is all there because Kang Ji Hwan sold it (just look at the way he looks at Eun Hye). Watching this scene out of context actually works best, because then you can actually feel the attraction between Ki Joon and Ah Jung, and not take into consideration that the story hadn’t yet provided the basis for said attraction. This is where a sizzling OTP with great chemistry singlehandedly elevates crappy writing.
Preview for episode 7:
Ki Joon: Aunt!
Aunt: Oh, you’re having a party?
Ki Joon: Ah yes, some friends happened to come over.
Aunt: These friends, I don’t think I’ve seen them before.
Ki Joon: Yes…uh, I’ve just met them recently.
Ah Jung: Why are you acting? Even if it’s to tell a lie, it should be me who does it.
Aunt: I just think that there is something going on with that woman (and Ki Joon). Are those two people falling in love?
Ah Jung: What the heck are you doing?
Sang Hee: I think you are mistaken about something.
Manager: You are still the same. Not acting as a brother, but as a father.
Ki Joon: I made a promise to always take care of Sang Hee.
Ah Jung: Is it lonely to live by yourself?
Ki Joon: No.
Ah Jung: Do you like women?
Ki Joon: *pfft*
Ah Jung: A straightforward and serious person suddenly behaves very immaturely, what is the reason for that? Insisting that I go over and clean up. Or coming all the way to my house to look for me.
Yoon Joo: Let’s start over again. We never really broke up.
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Good Lord that is some hot kiss....I haven't started watching this yet but I am trying to ingnore all the peeps that are saying this sucks so I can approach it with an open mind....so I'm glad you like it and this video is defintely encouraging.....btw does anybody know the song that plays in the background?
From comments on the youtube entry, the song appears to be Hee Young's "Are You Still Waiting?"
I also tracked down someone's upload from the OST:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zamx1pdcjudv37m
...that's Hee Young's track.
Yes I keep waiting for the guy who will bring me to that kind of kiss hotness....It really takes a lot of conversation for me to get to really fall, fast as I am in analyzing business environment as slow as I am to fall in love....huh it's I so hard to find a man of character....
this man anyway is dull (character wise in th script) I wish to see tantrums but failed! failed!, Best Love got me on the floor in laughter the guy there knows how to throw a fit....awesome rom com, LTM don't ruin YEH.... :-(
wow, yes you are right!! it is better to watch that scene on its own without considering the rest of the story... that kiss was sizzling!!!
i hope LTM isnt the second coming of M3.. i still get nightmares about what happened to M3.. that being said, because we were all so heavily invested on the OTP it was still a fun ride..! i sincerely hope the story gets better as LTM progresses and somehow we'll find the basis for OTP's (emotional) connection.
in any case, i still intend to sit back and enjoy the ride, despite it being a (slightly) bumpy and confusing at times!
thanks for posting up all the goodies - not just with LTM but all the rest of the May dramas!! :)
next episode looks good. (finally!) and i like that the aunt doesn't dislike ah jung! yay for our OTP!!!
wow im so excited for this drama coz its starting to take off..eventhough the story is not that great but we see some sizzling hot chemistry between the two leads...cant wait for the next episode....
wow im so excited for this drama coz its starting to take off..eventhough the story is not that great but we see some sizzling hot chemistry between the two leads...cant wait for the next episode....it was some hot kiss and i hope that there will be more to come.....thanks ockoala for the recaps and updates...
Thanks for posting Le Kiss again Koala! Lawd, it was H-O-T!
I'm really not overthinking LTM and just sitting back and enjoying it, just like I gobbled up Mary and Boys Before Flowers like a deprived crack addict. Except that I can't really re-watch them cuz everytime I do, I keep going: WTF was I thinking? :D
ockoala I found a bts of the OTP that made me go crazy as KJH let it slip out that he has gone out with YEH to karaoke before...he is also fanning her http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INar-O466y0
Haha, LTM will have higher ratings than Mary's Night Out. There's no way it will be that low. That's because LTM has hit the low point when you check out the live ratings from Neilsen. While other dramas fluctuate in ratings per minute, LTM has almost a straight line ratings for episode 5, with increase in ratings towards the end. Which showed that they didn't lose ratings in any part of the broadcast. As live ratings showed, LTM was the only drama with increase spike in ratings for the last 10 minutes of Monday dramas. So we knew episode 6 was going to produce higher ratings. I would imagine the effect of kiss scene on ratings will show more on episode 7, after reruns and downloads during the weekends. As for episode 6 regaining double digit ratings, it was mostly based on episode 5.
Marry's Night Out in comparison didn't have much cult following. As much as I've been a fan of MGY since the beginning of her debut, it was just a disaster. Cult following would have been the Vineyard Man, Sung kyun kwon scandal and You're beautiful- the three dramas which didn't do too well in ratings, but was very popular amongst netizens.
Lie To Me will do better than Mary, no matter how bad it is. This is because older viewers are steady watchers, and for whatever the reasons, YEH & KJH both carry some consistent and dedicated older female viewers. Majority of ratings of LTM episode 1~5 came from female viewers age 30 and older. Episode 6 gained some younger viewers of age 30 and below. If the story can improve, it should gain more younger viewers. If story is bad, then at least day have 40 and older viewers. Mary just didn't have that. By the way, I'm a big fan of MGY and I thought Mary was still pretty good.
I forgot to thank you for your recaps and posts.
I haven't watched this drama since episode 2, but I've been able to get a good idea thanks to your post^^ Thanks~!!
i dont think LTM is as big of a disaster as MSOAN (agree with you)
if you look at SKKS's ratings the buzz that drama generated in korea was disproportionately larger than their ratings would reflect.
Plus 13.5% in the final episodes (from a lackluster start of 7%) put it in mainstream territory i think
So i would say Sungkyunkwan scandal started off as a cult hit and grew to achieve a mainstream fanbase,
ooh keep me updated please, im curious to see how ratings change :)
I understand everyone's concern that LTM might pull a M3 on us but... Why wouldn't it pull a 49 Days instead? You know, slow start with a dragging plot that does not seem to go anywhere in the first episodes. Also, there was no real emotionnal build-up between the OTP at the beginning (well, maybe on Kang-ah's side, but definitely not on Ji-hyun's, who was much more concerned about other matters).
Also, M3 had to go through the hardship of changing scriptwriter halfway through, which did not help it in making it coherent - and which will hopefully not need to be the case for LTM.
Well, here's to praying LTM will turn out more like 49 Days, and will hopefully wake up next week to start pacing up the rhythm - and who knows, we might even get actual, coherent emotionnal build up? Aaah, I don't want to get my hopes too high... Please, do not pull an M3, LTM! I don't want to drop out of you too!
Please do not compare. 49 days had story, had plot. It was just slow in the beggining (because the writter wanted to show us each character live, feeling, thoughts). LTM doesn't have plot. Is a mess and the writter don't really have a idea of what to do. In 6 episodes it didn't really showed us much about story or about the characters (maybe a bit about Ah Jung) it was excuse after excuse to make the OTP together and scenes which weren't funny (maybe just in the writter's head)
Finally!!! Lie to Me is pulling the hearts of the viewers... I was practically screaming seeing the last scene of ep 6... I can't stand it anymore the 1st few episodes are so boring... No development... But this kiss is so random (but I love it:) Hope they will pick up their momentum quickly and make us continue shipping for this OTP...