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  • Lieu: India
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  • Date d'inscription: juin 6, 2011
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Faith
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sept. 14, 2015
24 épisodes vus sur 24
Complété 0
Globalement 8.0
Histoire 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Musique 7.5
Degrés de Re-visionnage 6.5
There are reasons I haven't reviewed City Hunter here. For instance I don't want the Lee Min Ho fangirls to downvote my review like crazy just for stating what I honestly felt about the drama. It's a fact that I rated it 7.5 stars while 'Faith' gets an 8 from me. Execution-wise, Faith may lack City Hunter's slickness or tempo or glamour but it makes up for everything with the inclusion of the sweetest romance ever. I have watched LMH with Goo Hye Sun and Park Min Young before this too but boy his chemistry with Kim Hee Sun in this one is totally off the charts. In every scene they appear together, they are virtually shooting sparks. And to think they have a 10-year wide age gap. This just goes to show that good acting trumps everything else.

Faith's other strong point is obviously Kim Hee Sun. In the first couple of episodes she may come off as slightly airhead-ish, babbling non-stop like a teenager but once you learn that under the facade of this relentless bubbliness, there is a headstrong, intelligent, sassy woman who takes no shit from anyone you will find yourself charmed by her antics. I came to this drama to verify whether Lee Min Ho can actually act or not and was pleasantly surprised. I think this is the only show in which LMH gets into a character rather than acting out the part of a rich, entitled brat/superhero-lite. Choi Young's vulnerability, his heroism in the face of defeat and danger, his emotional scars, his unwavering love for Eun Soo all come through quite wonderfully in Lee Min Ho's performance. And I think Kim Hee Sun's excellent excellent acting may have helped things along in this regard. Only she could have made Eun Soo so endearing, earnest and believable.

The direction is not the drama's strength. In fact it flounders so badly, that there is a constant discrepancy between a scene's emotional content and the actual screenplay. Badass fights look distinctly less impressive because of the choppy editing and shabby production values. There are so many plot loopholes in the drama that one can drive a truck through all of them put together. Several plot devices are rehashed time and again to advance the story and the fantasy bits are rather badly juxtaposed with the realistic bits. The X-Men-ish premise makes zero sense. One wonders if there were indeed X-Men like warriors in Goryeo, why the hell did they not organize themselves against Yuan? Also Young's superhuman powers were rarely used in the drama so I am not sure what was the point of giving him the ability to shoot lightning anyway. Excellency Deuk Heung made for a worthier villain than Gi Cheol who sort of degenerated into a caricature by the end methinks.

I would have liked the time-travelling bits to have been more fleshed out so that we could understand better the past and future Eun Soo's struggles to reach Young across the fabric of space-time. It was probably one of the only plot threads that could have made for interesting viewing but remained sadly underutilized.

Long story short, Faith isn't the best sageuk-fantasy out there (that honour goes to Arang and the Magistrate) and has a shitton of narrative flaws. But it has its heart in the right place. If for nothing else, watch this for Young and Eun Soo's impossible love that develops gradually and becomes the show's only lifeblood. In my opinion, this is one of the best romantic relationship portrayals in all of Kdrama history.

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Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
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juin 12, 2011
Complété 0
Globalement 5.0
Histoire 4.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Musique 8.0
Degrés de Re-visionnage 3.0
Well the movie did start off on a promising note but things went downhill after that. Jung Won and Eun Gyu''s relationship isn''t given sufficient time to develop and things always seem to be moving at the speed of light with too many things happening in quick succession. Suddenly we see things happening but nothing seems to make sense. The acting is relatively good and I felt that the music is amazing. That made this movie watchable for me!
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Empress Ki
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mai 11, 2015
51 épisodes vus sur 51
Complété 0
Globalement 10
Histoire 10
Acting/Cast 9.5
Musique 8.0
Degrés de Re-visionnage 9.0
Best sageuk ever. And this trumps even Queen Seon Deok in the awesomeness scale. I have nothing more to add although I want to let loose a stream of fangirl gushing over how every goddamn aspect of this drama is perfect and does not require improvement. Watch it!
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