Showing posts with label Monstar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monstar. Show all posts

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Un-reviewable Dramas 4: I Hear Your Voice and Monstar

Today's dramas aren't un-reviewable because I didn't like them.  On the contrary, I enjoyed I Hear Your Voice and Monstar immensely, probably because I live-watched both and they fit my weekly heart-racing quota of intoxicating thiller romance and homey school-age romance respectively.

Truth is though, without the romance and the eye candy, these dramas would've been nothing to me. I found that out when I tried to write a full review of I Hear Your Voice and realized I had nothing to say. "Cute characters, great romance, lagging plot devices, melo and comical all rolled into one."  There's only so many times I can repeat the same cliche phrases before I get annoyed at my own prose.


Don't give me that look, Jong Suk - you know I still love you for your acting skills!

I also dislike reviewing dramas right after air because A- Everyone's talking about them and I'm usually ready to put a drama to rest after so much time, or B- Sometimes dramas hit me differently after I've let them sit for a while. Either I'll change a rating or general opinion, for better or worse. Because sometimes it's posterity that determines which dramas we remember, which we love, and which we never want to see or hear of again. I suspect that in time one of these dramas will drop a point in my ranking factor, and the other will rise when I start to get nostalgic, but for now I'll stick with my 8s and move on to the 'review'.

Not to be forgotten, I bring you: I Hear Your Voice (2013) and Monstar (2013).