Holy shit someone should have given me warning for this reunion because imma almost collapsed from joy and shock. Kim Heechul is the host of KBS2’s variety show Some-Vival 1+1 and this week even he was surprised and thrilled to see as a guest his former Super Junior member Kim Ki Bum. Heechul and Kibum were probably the most famous … Continue reading →
I feel like I’ve fallen into a twilight zone and I can’t get out. In that weird place, a bunch of folks are cosplaying characters in the classic epic wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha. Wallace Chung, having made a name for himself playing wimpy or douchey or emo wuxia heroes, has decided to wig out and don … Continue reading →
I’m still shaking my head at the inexplicable success of The Magic Blade (Tian Ya Ming Yue Dao) this summer in reviving the pure wuxia genre in C-dramas, because that drama was so crack-a-doodle and nothing like its source material the Gu Long novel that the result was like watching William Hung sing “She Bangs” on American Idol. The collective psyche … Continue reading →
