aaaa mashita!
i had heard a lot about gumiho
mixed things from fans and weird anti fans of the various actors in the show
but the two main stars are people i already like
so i had wanted to watch it for a while anyway.
i saw lee seungki recently on some random korean tv show and it reminded me
that i still hadnt watched it gumiho. i dug it out and basically gorged the lot in four sittings.
it was really hard to watch one episode and leave it there.
main cast:
gumiho - shin minah (mawang)
daewoong - lee seungki (chanranhan yusan)
park dongjoo - no minwoo (pasta)
gumiho also features park soojin as (the most irritating untill the last episode) eun hyein
who i had just seen in rainbow romance
(the drama i cant seem to find anywhere to finish watching
that has lim eunkyeong from the doll master and
kim kibum and kim heechul from suju in it - god damn it i want to finish it)
does park soojin always play people you easily hate?
gumiho (as the name suggests) is a nine tailed fox
daewoong unknowingly frees her from being trapped in a painting
then falls down a slopey cliff type bit in the forest
the gumiho saves him by giving him her magical bead which heals him from the inside
and she starts following him around like a complete nutter
terrifying the crap out of him because he thinks she will eat him.
the two make a contract; in order for her to become human - which she longs for,
daewoong will hold onto her bead for 100 days and then give it back making her human
both unaware of the tragic consequences that would bring.
park dongjoo is a sort of demon hunter
he turns up (looking like a doll - it should be illegal for anyone
to be as beautiful as that man - i swear, its f*cking wrong. seriously)
at first just on the hunt for the gumiho, but
on seeing miho (that is the name daewoong gives the gumiho)
and noticing her resemblance to the gumiho he regretably killed hundreds of years ago
he befriends her and tries to stop the past from repeating its fateful ways.
there is actually quite a lot to this series. it really picks up speed half way through.
well, maybe earlier, im kind of lost with time scale as i watched it all in big chunks.
daewoong starts off as a complete d*ckhead
but becomes beautiful and caring through his time with miho.
miho is continually innocent and adorable even when she goes all blue eyed psycho fox.
park dongjoo is cold and troubled by the past but comes to dote on miho
and attempts to guide her away from a destructive love for a human
only to find her love for daewoong grow in a way he could not have imagined.
everyone is lovely
...except for eun hyein. she was meant to be daewoong's girlfriend
but before they had a chance to get together miho comes on the scene.
(this next bit isnt really a spoiler though it may sound like one
im not going to explain it all out but i have to just mention it a little)
her sour face only becomes likable right at the end in the last episode
which, i might add,
made me laugh a whole lot because who should turn up
while we're watching eun hyein acting like a dork finally
but everyone's favourite whiny little b*tch, ft island's lee honki!
awsome. it made that bit even funnier.
it was a "...aa! isnt that..? that's... ha! yeah it is him!" moment.
i mostly found it funny that he was called jeremy. i dont know why.
but at last i got to laugh at eun hyein. it was worth her being a kn*b all the way through.
there is a side story of daewoong's aunt and the film director
(daewoong is an actor making action movies under this guy)
getting together in a kind of absurd comical fashion.
all the negative stuff i heard about this series didnt realy make any sense when i watched it
it is 16 episodes in total and at the begining
i laughed for maybe 6 episodes straight then laughed mostly again for the middlde portion
but it gets a little more serious and sad at times, it picks up again and gets rediculous
then i spent the last five trying not to cry and failing completely
but it somehow managed not to leave me in floods of tears
but with a great big nisshi smile
thats how we like it.
the whole series was just how i like it really. lots of things to love.
miho's beautiful tails in the moonlight (which is why this post is blue not red)
park dongjoo lovingly smile at miho when she's being an idiot
the rediculous squabbling between miho and daewoong
the constant eating of cow 맛있다!!!!
neomo neomo neomo neomo neomo neomo jeongmal johahae
the soundtrack is great, im listening to it while writing this post.
there are two lee seungki songs on there which are his themes
*losing my mind* and *now i love you*
and two songs on there by shin mina which are her secondary themes
*i can give you everything* and *sha la la*
and no minwoo did his own theme too, called *trap*
there are about 7 songs by other artists on the soundtrack
including multiple versions of miho's main themes *fox rain* and *the person i love*.
i love that they do their own themes though. the music really suits each person
and it wraps it up into a lovely package. its kind of handy most korean actors sing aswell.
they do like to do the whole kit and caboodle.
i had to look up how to spell caboodle. jesus.
aparantly caboodle means a group of people. i didnt know that.
not only did i learn lots about the gumiho folklore
i also learnt about a stupid american army term
that i used without knowing where it actually came from. or how to spell it.
anyway im totally off track now.
what else can i say about gumiho.
its magical and beautiful. very very funny, tense, emotional.
definately a girlie one. but maybe not completely girlie. no, it is.
mainly romantic cheesey stupid gushy absurd comedy i think.
aish i really like shin mina so much now.
she is so great. i almost wonder if she has been a fox in a previous life.
i still think lee seungki is lovely.
i have another show of his somewhere to watch when i have time.
i also have another few series' with minwoo in - is he still going to look like a doll?
i cant quite get past it. it actually caused me to frown everytime he came on screen
as i think i was trying to work out if he could possibly be human with that face.
i just dont understand how a human could look like that. born air brushed.
koreans are using up all the beautiful genes while the rest of us have to look like trolls.
come on, give us a break!
ive completely fallen off track again.
well, even though its raining i should take my fox out for a walk.
he's going to have to wear his coat though. otherwise he'll soak my bed again.
he's actually outside on the porch sleeping in this f*cking weather. nutter.
i wish i could make him human so he could live longer with me.
but he doesnt have a gumiho bead. he may have a fox's tail but im pretty sure he is canine.
*sigh* im in country full of fat complacent ugly english people and
i cant be the same species and have the same life span as my best friend in the whole world.
im starting to get the feeling life aint fair until im queen of the universe.
gotta start working towards making that happen.
and i want a tail.
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