OK, after a very long and heated discussion we finally came to the same conclusion on the hot topic of Yeo Un's position as seme/uke as the poll were 104 people answered:
41% thought he was mostly a seme
while
58% thought he was an uke
Conclusion: Yeo Un can be both seme AND uke and WE (read fans AND Dong Soo...) LOVE IT! (doesn't it just get smuttier when you know you have 50% more "positions" to put them in ;) )
So after this exhaustive poll I will now change the poll subject to RANT:
My new subject is the character of "In" in "Warrior Baek Dong Soo" - you know, the human lord of Heuksa Chorong with the whiny insane laughter who gets killed over and over again yet he seems to resuscitate every time (or as I would like to refer to him as the "Jar Jar Binks" of "Warrior Baek Dong Soo" - for more on this you can also see this hilarious comic that says it all... ).
The character "In" from "Warrior Baek Dong Soo" (Picture from alicechensworld, edited by me with numbers from memory ;) )
In the first episodes I thought that he was a good side character and the actor did the "insane killer" quite well, but after seeing him get killed, mauled, mutilated, beaten and set on fire AND completely resuscitate EVERY friggin time I thought he was such an overused character. He had FAR to much screen time in this series for actually not having any influence in the series at all.
I admit that I didn't mind his "first comeback" after having some bodyparts removed but after that I wanted to kill him myself. So my poll is to check out if anyone else thought the same.
"Should In have been left for dead the second time and never been resuscitated?"
Comment: I might not be completely accurate on all the things that happened to In because I blacked out somewhere in the middle...
YESSSSSSSSSSSS SO YOU'VE DECIDED MAYBE YOU'LL MAKE THEM SWITCH POSITIONS OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ME CAN'T WAIT HEHE SOOOOO EXCITED,,,, about in yes he was overused but i didn't hate him too much because i thought the actor that played him did a very good job haha but i'll admit he scared me a little at first when i saw him in the first ep i was like WTF lol his manacle laughter
ReplyDeleteOh, I absolutely do not hate the actor that plays In - in fact I am awed at how good he actually is to make this character so annoying. What I feel is that In takes so much space in the drama, much more than for example Ga Ok got, and she is a much more interesting character.
ReplyDeleteGah, yes his manical laughter is just insanely ticking me off, but worst is his compulsive sword-licking...poor actor, I hope he disinfected the sword every time before he had to do that!
i very much agree i'm in awe in korean actors acting for example the actor who plays in he did an awesome job at portraying a character we all ended up wanting to suffocate and the guys seems such a nice guy,, and also there's the guy that plays hong dae ju he is a very good actor who portrayed the power hungry man very well,,,,, and ji chang wook who plays dong soo did an awesome job at acting childish and then mature and in t-aras cry cry mv he plays the mean badass and he's very good at that,,,, and yoo seung ho's performance as yeo un was defo the one that blew me away the way yoo seung ho portrayed a character like yeo un was done very well the way yeo un went from nice to the dark side he was such a misunderstood character and yeo un never really went to the dark side
ReplyDeleteYes, exactly my thoughts!
ReplyDeleteYEP this is why i'm so amazed by korean actors lol alot more than american and british actors and dramas
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree with you more, just the eye-acting of korean actors is amazing!
ReplyDeleteyhhhhh i know but what i'm more amazed about is how well they can cry in there acting roles like ji chang wook when he played donghae in smile donghae and baek dong soo in warrior baek dong soo the way he could cry like that the tremble of his lips it just has me in awe lol,,,,, anyways MERRY CHRISTMAS TAMEAUT XX i'm not sure what time it is where you are but by the looks of it it's the 26th,,, here in england it's the 25th so MERRY CHRISTMAS XX
ReplyDeleteOh, God yes, the tremble...I cannot fathom how he does it, so incredible. You just wanna wrap him up in foil and eat him for dessert...
ReplyDeleteand Merry Christmas to you too, cutie.
awwwwwww thank you cutie hehe,,,,,,i know his incredible tremble in episode 11 where everyone was staring and he burst into the tears the way he cires makes you really feel for him,, i think ji chang wook is such an awesome actor and when he cries i just want to give him a big hug
ReplyDelete"You just wanna wrap him up in foil and eat him for dessert..."
ReplyDeleteWhy waste good foil? That's not what *I* would wrap him in... 'cause we would never make it as far as the dessert course. :)
Ha, looks like I was one of the few that voted NO on the poll -- I could definitely tell after the third time he was saved that the writers had a greater purpose in mind for Dae Ung (it's a K-Drama after all). They wanted to make a point that even off-the-wall batshit crazy people like him could find redemption in the end, so that's why he became basically a running gag for He Who Could Not Be Killed. Hence, him having more lives than six cats combined!
And poor Park Chul Min -- he has one of those faces that just invites playing a bad/creepy/misunderstood character, but I find him fascinating in the way he just seeps into a role and makes it memorable. I'm going to find it quite difficult to not see him as In the next time I see him on the small screen.
And P.S. -- the Dramabeans Editors picked Dong Soo and Woon-ah as "Best Bromance" for 2011. Glad to see they also recognize Hotness Par Excellence when they see it!!
And Happy Christmas to you, darling! Hope you got all the prezentos you asked for... and the ones that you didn't at least came to you in other forms. :) Keep those typing fingers warm -- see you around! ::mwah::
Cherkell! I so see what you mean about the point of In in the end wehn he compeltely changed character (which I personally think was way to out of character but everyone has a right to their own opinion :P )
ReplyDeleteI still think that Park Chul Min pulled it off really good and I agree that the poor bloke is doomed to be typecast as evil minion for the rest of his life...
and YES, YES, YES best bromance - I am goosebumping...and leting them join my little board of smutty bromances together with Yong Ha/Jae Shin :D
Gah! Wish I could wrap up Chang Wook for you and place him under your tree like a little puppy - you'd like that wouldn't you ;) (and then I would hide behind the tree just to see what you would do with him - only to take notes, strictly official of course, I would take NO kinds of pleasure out of it at all..hum...hum.. :P)
and yes, my fingers are on fire right now...on fire...
HAHA yes i also very much agree with cherkell and you ta-meaut i think that was what was sad in my opinion in the end for in because he redeemed himself sort of and it makes you think ehhhhhh why'd he have to die like that lol
ReplyDeleteoh and cherkell@ if you read this i love your tumblr page i go on it pretty much everyday to see if you have anymore news about chang wook shhi i hope cherkell you'll post up t-ara's lovey dovey mv hehe i am still so angry that they postponed it again to january 2nd isn't this like the 4th or 5th time they've postponed it as long as they don't postpone it again to like late january or febuary to be honest with you i only am watching it for ji chang wook lol
ReplyDeletehey ta-meaut i'm not sure if you have but have you seen xnerjaveikaxs (i'll apologize in advance just in case i spelt name wrong) new mv warrior baek dong soo roses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM-10JOh3VA
ReplyDeletethe song is whispers in the dark by skillet i heard the song awhile ago from sorahopes anime mv and i loved it i hope maybe if not xnerjaveikax but someone else could make an mv for warrior baek dong soo it doesn't have to necessarily be for dong soo and yeo un but it could be for all the characters an mv using the song saviour by skillet i absolutely love that song and also heard it for one of sorahopes anime mvs any way thats enough of me ranting and raving lol let's just really hope an pray that youtube won't take down this awesome mv by xnerjaveikax like they did with her AU no light no light mv which i was lucky to watch again on her tumblr page in megavideo
Thanks Maria for pointing out Nerjaveikas new video "Roses" - I hadn't seen it yet and it is gorgeous and very inspirational (and for once a happy ending :O ). The "No light, no light" is amazing too, I am soooo a huge fan of Nerjaveika's videos...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I also have my head full of videos I wish I could make, but alas, my talent lies elsewhere...sigh
ahhhh yh i would of made videos on youtube but i don't think i'm old enough not really that it's just i have no idea how to make them and how to get windows maker and sony vegas and stuff like that lol so i'll just leave it to the awesome ones HAHA yes xnerjaveikax is awesome the queen of dong soo and un vids also chloille23 (i think i spelt name wrong so i'll apologize in advance) and psychobrit2008 is the the queen of yeo un and ji sun vids
ReplyDeletewhich i know ji sun is like a cursed word HAHA since there's loads that hate her HAHA
ReplyDeleteYes, a huge eloge to everyone that makes fab fan videos! They are all awesome.
ReplyDeleteI don't hate Ji Sun as character but I have to admit that neither the character nor the actress impress me very much, but it could also be that the script writers gave her a part that just doesn't give her a chance. Either way, here we are all shipping Dong Soo x Yeo Un anyway so she isn't really a hot topic.
yhhhh true true i actually don't hate her i'm glad i'm not the only one that doesn't hate her i like her which i guess is a surprise but i think either they didn't pick the right actress or could of got a better character female other than jin ju maybe they could or re wrote her story and changed ji suns story to something interesting but they didn't so oh well and thats right everyone of here is dong soo and yeo un you can hate me but actually i root and ship everyone as couples dong soo and yeo un, yeo un and ji sun and dong soo and jin ju but the couple i don't ship is dong soo and ji sun they they when i just can't describe what i feel about them because well they have nothing no chemistry at all lol and just yhhhh lol thats all i can say about dong soo and ji sun so anyways let's leave ji sun out and just talk about dong soo and yeo un since in my opinion dong soo and yeo un make a sexy smexy couple HAHA
ReplyDeletethe couple though i feel sad about is actually cho rip and miso because i like miso but cho rip GAHHHH i know what your thinking tameaut don't mention cho rip but cho rip was a right shame he was so good till when he broke his glasses and went back to his daddy lol anyways let's leave him out too,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, is it just me or do you think as well that that was really pervy in the last ep when samo and jang mi were married and the guys were peeping through the hole lol i was just like guys seriously leave them be lol
ReplyDeleteActually I think a couple I would have liked to see more of was the story of Ji and Cheon and the back story with Gwang Taek. I cannot understand why they didn't show more of that...
ReplyDeleteThey only hint through the entire episodes what happened between them but they never really show anything, except the small part where they are supposed to run away together.
Shame, because they are all interesting characters.
YES exactly i forgot to mention about them it's like with the whole daddy-daughter issue thing i was so sure at the beginning that Gwang taek is jin ju's dad then it got into the whole thing with cheon and i thought for a brief second that ji could of been lying to cheon about jin ju being his daughter and i know there were a few people that thought that as well but i and other people was right she lied which was a shame because i really like cheon with ga ok and i think cheon would of made an awesome father i mean jin ju,, cheon and ga ok could of been like a family duo lol,,,,, it's a shame though that the dong soo and yeo un and ji sun love triangle couldn't of been like cheon, ga ok and gwang taek but i think the love triangle would of been better if it was dong soo, yeo un and jin ju and i know there are a couple of people that said that,,, i mean then it would of been cooler and we wouldn't have to have ji sun in the show at all
ReplyDeleteYes, there are many stories that could have been.
ReplyDeleteI guess it is hard to be a scriptwriter with all these characters :P
and yes, Ji Sun has almost the same impact factor as In ;)
yhhhh,,,,, but what made me annoyed by ji sun in fact i'm not annoyed about her at all it's just the writers i thought in the beginning her supposed skills were going to be put to use like at the end of ep 5 when she was doing the acupuncture they could of made her a medic or use those skills and archery only used 3 times and that was when she was practice and also used on dong soo the only time it was good was when she was with yeo un and used on the bandits but oh well
ReplyDeleteYeah, scriptwriters are strange creatures indeed...
ReplyDeletei know right sometimes i want too strangle them lol so much potential they could of done with some of these characters seriously your supposed to be putting life into them lol either that or they just chose the wrong actress or actor
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