Man, just seeing the first official stills from Missing You gave me a good laugh. Don’t get me wrong, the stills are gorgeous, the two young leads Yeo Jin Gu and Kim So Hyun are gorgeous, and the entire mood of the two teenage lovers frolicking in the rain and looking all moony at each other is gorgeous. But can I just point out how posed and ridiculous its coming across. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought these were stills from an early 2000 Hallyu drama. In fact, Love Rain did this because PD Yoon Seok Ho was purposely trying to film LR like it was a throwback melodrama. And we all know how well that was received, with dreadful ratings and general disdain from a big chunk of the viewing audience. I was hoping MR would eschew the general propensity to frame first love dramas like the first loves are groundbreaking and heartrending experiences, when we all know that most teenagers have the attention span of happy squirrels and relationships tend to have a shelf life that ends at graduation and rarely anyone is still pining away after that when college provides an even bigger pond to fish in.
Nevertheless, I do enjoy watching first love stories as dramas partially because it is so romantically unrealistic. I just wish the presentation could be less heavy handed sometimes. Helming MY will be PD Lee Jae Dong, whose last drama I watched was the lovely Thank You. His cinematography was lush and evocative, but he was working with a Lee Kyung Hee penned drama that was very emotionally heavy but written in a dispassionate way. Hence his directing paired marvelously with the script, but might have felt too plodding if the story was mired in excessive overwrought emotions. Writing MY is Moon Hee Jung, whose Can You Hear My Heart and Smile, You were dramas where I liked overall more than I liked her writing. I think I’ll have to remain hopeful with a dash of tempered expectations when it comes to MY. The kids section will last four episodes, which is quite long until I realized MY is slated to be a 24-episode drama. That’s a lot of melo and drama coming at me. I wonder why this drama isn’t a weekend project because it just comes off as more suitable for the weekend time slot. Oh well, I’ll keep on chugging along with the MY tidbits and share my thoughts along the way.
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Sad! They look so manneqin-ish in the last two! I love these kids—they're really great actors, so I really hope this drama exceeds my expectations.
crazy photoshopping in d last 2 pics!
or just love this look good, it's getting long wait.
so excited, I can not wait to see it.
24 episodes?!! aish that's a whole LOT of angsting for a drama revolving around first loves!! sighhhh...when will K-drama makers learn?! /smh
They are to cute! I'm gonna watch it, not huge fan of Mickey but he's actor on who you can count to do his best to bring drama up. YEH seems scared to take new project, she didn't have s'thing good...ummmm, for years. Don't get me wrong loved LTM but it isn't drama to brag about.
Not a fan of Mickey nor Eun Hye but praising Mickey n then rag on Eun Hye made me snort from the sheer ridiculousness of it. Mickey has got a long way to go to even reach the same success that Eun Hye had with her dramas n Lie To Me's failure ain't going to change that.
Mickey has yet to reach 20% w/ any of his dramas.
I wonder how it'll be once this drama actually starts airing. One critical sentence and fans of either star get offended. Bottom line IS: Yoochun has been consistently improving with each project and YEH's last decent project was Goong/CP. So, if mtoh mentions this and it elicits a snort from you...that's cool.
Also, since when is ratings indicative/telling of an actor's skill level?! o_O If that were the case then Moon/Sun must've been an awesome show...which it really wasn't!
U call his acting improving? Good 4 u if u think that way. I didn't see a wide range of acting emotions from any of his dramas so i wasn't impressed. He only hit the jackpot bcoz he has been consistently paired w/ better actresses than him n worked in better scripts. Lee Da Hae n Han Ji Min carried the drama n Yoochun just benefited from that.
Moon/Sun was awesome! Kim Soo Hyun over Yoochun's acting any day.
Hehehe and more hahhaa. YEH is one of my favorite actresses, but I'm honest and direct she doesn't have really good drama for years, and that's a fact.
PS; Hi Saima dear.
@mtoh
LTM fan here. Sure, it didn't do well in the ratings in South Korea. Its haters/critics dissed it for having no discernible plot (like, really, wannabe Roger Eberts?) blah blah blah. But heck, that drama that's been declared a failure by armchair critics here and there made more money and won more international fans than the dramas it competed against. At the end of the day, a drama's primary purpose is to entertain its viewers, and LTM entertained millions of viewers outside South Korea, as proven by the number of views it got in youku, mysoju and other online video sites, and the impressive ratings it garnered in the countries where it's been aired. One more thing, a drama is a business venture. What good are praises and high ratings if they don't translate into revenues?
And what exactly do you mean by 'good drama'? And by whose standard should a drama be gauged for it to be deemed good? Please, enlighten me.
@ saima
No, ratings are never indicative of an actor's skill level. Acting awards are. YEH won the Baeksang Best Actress for CP. How about Yoochun?
SICK OF THE IN "SIN" CERE....critics jump in line
Mrs Koala,
Looks like trolls have invaded your playground lately. Kids nowadays need to learn how to behave properly.
I honestly have to keep reminding myself that yeo jin gu is only 15 years old, and I am 8 years his senior. He is just too cute lol. He's gonna be an awesome adult actor in a few years
For my dearest Yeo Jin Gu, this noona is willing to be a cougar. LOL.
He was already awesome in Sad Movie and he was just a tiny little boy. He's more awesome now at 15, so I'm sure he'll be a really, really, really awesome actor when he's a wee bit older. He and his wonderful chemistry with the equally awesome Kim Yoo Jung were the reasons I watched The Moon That Embraces The Sun.
Yeh antifans impersonating his fans, forgive me laugh but not fooling anyone with that dear.
Mr Koala sorry your thread was fun but now has become a nest of trolls.
I agree with you guys, but how are you to answer people would waste my time and effort on people who just want to be wars of hatred, it is best to ignore them.
what a shame that a thread as good as this is invaded by these people full of hatred.
in order FIGHTING "I MISS YOU"