LOL forever, what new fanservice weed is Kim Eun Sook smoking this week? Did she mistake Kim Woo Bin for his character in Friends 2 and decided to merge his currently top grossing movie with his currently highest rated Wed-Thurs drama? The new stills are out for tomorrow’s episode of Heirs/The Inheritors and looks like Young Do has magically turned the corner from angry bitter friend to avenging sidekick. The manipulative Chairman Daddy appears to put his big foot down in episode 15 and use a heavy hand in bringing Tan in line with the original game plan of marrying Rachel as an insurance policy, which means dumping Eun Sang. Tan has hardly shown any inclination to go along with Daddy’s wishes which means time to bust out the henchman! I’m going to die if Young Do and Tan take their recently brawling skills at the school and use it to extricate themselves from Chairman Daddy’s cadre of suited musclemen. Young Do has been doing taekwondo with his dad so I get his skills, but I still don’t know where Tan learned to fight in between surfing and brooding in the US.
I still haven’t a clue why I’m enjoying Heirs so much but the operative word is “enjoying” and for that I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth since there is so little of it hanging around the other drama I’m recapping. I’m also looking forward to Young Do’s new and less shellacked hairstyle. Who knew turning from a pent up frustrated bully into a friend who has Tan’s back literally requires him to put his hair down. There is also a composite still of the cast of Heirs napping on the set, which apparently is a normal occurrence since everyone has been subsisting on the bare minimum of sleep sometimes only 2-3 hours a night for leads Park Shin Hye and Lee Min Ho. I can attest to everyone looking increasingly haggard, but this is not yet as dire as how Hyun Bin literally looked like he was able to keel over in the final few episodes of Secret Garden. Plus there have been no on set or driving to set accidents (knock on wood) due to the frenetic pace and the immense stress of producing two episodes live-filmed. The drama has been live-filmed since episode 10 with no footage in the can and the cast needing to film scenes sometimes a day or even hours before it airs. I’m appreciative of the hard work of the cast and crew in giving me a drama that is entertaining in its own goofy nonsensical way.
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Still want Young Do to end up with Eun Sang. YD and ES burn the screen with their hot chemistry while KT and ES are just plain boring....
Agreed! Although KT & ES are stepping up d cute lately...
I third that! Yong Do looks as if he needs Eun Sang more and Tan's father appears to care more about Tan than does Yong Do's father. Then again, love is not about who needs who more or who you pity more....but I think Yong Do is a deserving case if she likes him. Go Yong Do!
Ha ha ! I thought I was the only lunatic who likes Young Do and Eun Sang. So glad that there are others like me.
I know it's insane, but I kind of want it too. Though I do realise it's only because Kim Woo-bin has such great chemistry with Park Shin-hye (and with Kim Ji-won, I wouldn't mind a YD/Rahel love line either), because on the page, he's insane and she doesn't fancy him at all.
YD and ES forever!!!!
I'm enjoying this drama. Love KT and ES. YD get your own girlfriend will ya! I think Yi Seul is perfect for YD!
I hope by the end we still have health actors.
It's really sad that anyone would have to work under those conditions.
It's also clear by the very red hands that they are freezing them to death.
Watching these actors suffer in silence is heartbreaking.
Tell management - film more indoor shots. Let them get the need rest and plan the schedule better so they don't put these great actors in the hospital.
I think Young-do just needs a mother, not a girlfriend. This guy has mommy issue. The girl can come later, he'll be just fine.
Lol.... I LOVE ur comment !!! ^o^
LOL...love how KWB is just sleeping sitting straight up...an i just say how much I luff the hair change? it softens the angles of his beautiful face...almost makes me want to pick up this drama again...almost...lol
So I have a question, and I am not trying to criticize the writer or how things work in dramaland, but I really just want to understand. I would think that things would be a little different with this drama, regarding the live-filming, since the drama had been talked about since March or April of this year? (I think we knew about this drama before June, didn't we?)
I would have thought the writer would have been able to write the episodes well in advance, no? Or am I just being naive and ignorant? (please don't answer that :-), because I don't really think I am). I heard from someone who lives close to the school where the High School scenes are shot, that for example, they "lost" last Saturday (meaning they were supposed to film, but didn't because the script was not ready). They ended up starting the set up last Sunday at 9pm, and they didn't want any spectators/people on the set, because the actors were cold and grumpy. They had just driven 3 hours from Seoul to the school to film those scenes (They had shot at a different location before that). They probably shot all night, since the school had to be available for the students on Monday morning. On top of that, it rained (or it snowed and there was a leak from the roof), and so the crew and the school staff were frantically mopping the floor during the filming.
How did they get here? I thought that (maybe) because the writer knew way ahead of time what her topic/theme would be (they mentioned it), and how many characters she would have, etc... that she might have/would have started writing the script earlier, so that this could be avoided. She knows about this (live-filming), she has been here before. And I have read of a few dramas being pre-produced or filmed ahead of time (almost done by the time they were aired), so I know that can happen, even though that might be the exception, and not the rule. Could that have not happened here, especially since it seems to me that all or most of the parties involved were engaged or committed early on about this project, no?
Another question occurred to me: could the writer have started late, so she could "check the temperature," see which way the wind was blowing, and give as much fanservice as she could that way?
Different country, different rules, I think. In US mostly they must have the scripts for all 13 episodes in their hands before the pilot episode is started, but in Korea it's more than just writing a story, because so many people (director, producers, other bosses, stars, you name it) would ask for special treatment on the scripts, make new plot etc.
I learned it from On Air, the writer surely had her own plan how the story goes, she has also written the ending already with plan A,B,C, and even plan D, but those people in the industry would ask her to change the script with plan E or even F. That's how it works in Korea. CMIIW.
Hello Alisa,
And thank you for your response. That helped. What does CMIIW mean or stand for, please? I guess I should put On Air on my list of dramas to watch. Interesting that it is by the same writer (who wrote Heirs). It sounds like politics get in the way, and the cast and crew suffer and pay the price in the end.
cmiiw = correct me if i am wrong :-)
I also wonder if there is any financial implications in the late filming of Korean dramas? Often times we hear that certain network decides not to fund then the drama got canned, or if new money comes in when ratings go up, the drama gets an extension.
Hi Candycane,
I see your point. However, Heirs has a cast of "stars," with LMH, PSH and the idols that are in it. Wasn't that one of the many reasons why the writer chose all those people? Because it might make it easier to get funding, AND get companies (who might use those actors/actresses in their ads) to sponsor the drama?
I know that casting LMH alone was a big deal. He was the reason why Faith (the drama) was picked up last year when that drama was having problems getting started. So LMH has star power, we know it, and the people in the Korean entertainment industry know it as well. Besides, there is so much PPL in this show, they must have a lot of companies sponsoring it (just look at the long list after the credits). I think that as Alisa was hinting at, there are probably a number of reasons why the people involved in drama-making get into Live-shoot mode.
I love KT and ES chemistry in this drama.... Give YD someone to love him back as ES love KT, only on this He will be able to finally forgive himself...
I actually like Young Do hair down normally. He looks more attractive than Tan here.
It's got to be the hair. Lol.. I like ^o*
BTW... It's so SAD to see all of them so tired and sleeping around on set. :(
I knew that they get very less sleeping time but only 2-3 hours!!...
kudos to the actors who work so hard and manage to entertain us in such extreme conditions....and look fresh as well!!
Yay for the bromance....
LOL, the power of Eun Sang's bandaid.
Woobin recently said in a interview that he had been going 3 days plus without sleeping, and he was so exhausted that memorizing the script was taking longer than usual :-/ aiiigooo I'll never be okay (or fully understand) kdrama system that most of the times end up in live shooting, is so detrimental to the actors, you can see literally see them "wither" in the your screen. Oh well fighting to all the actors!!!
Young Do looked much more better looking with bangs.