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Boys Before Flowers (K-Drama)
Jul. 3rd, 2010 12:50 amI just finished watching this and... omg. I loved it. LOVED IT.
Goo Jun Pyo is the best version of Domyouji EVER. His childlike glee over commoner things, plus his outright misunderstandings of situations, LOL. Also, the actor Lee Min Ho... *swoons*. I haven't had a celebrity crush in over 10 years... it's like I'm a teenager all over again, lol. I'll do a few comparisons with the other dramas + the anime later, but I will say that I liked them all. Each one brought their own flavor to the manga - but the Korean version really made it their own.
Though it differed from the manga and the J-Drama (and T-Drama), it was really refreshing to see Hana Yori Dango - but not like it's been seen before. Meteor Garden stuck with the manga with only a few changes (for example, the main characters were in college instead of high school) - but it worked well for them. The J-Drama condensed and streamlined some of the major manga plots - often in ways I liked save a few instances (the Junpei incident, for example) and added the interesting element of psychological trauma, guilt, and business responsibilities when it came to Tsukasa (however, I loathed the mobster family changes to Akira, and that final movie stunk so bad I can still smell the stench of it).
But the K-drama... oh man, the K-drama. I think my biggest excitement came in looking for how it CHANGED and its effects on the characters (the swimming element was fantastic in how the storylines involving it played out), and not how it stayed close to HYD. It really fit, and the writers deserve all sorts of kudos for how they arranged it. I only have a few problems with it (I thought the Shigeru/Jae Kyung arc lasted far too long + they did not give Akira/Woo bin much to do in the series and stuck with that stupid gangster family change the J-Drama added that I disliked immensely). I know a lot of people disliked the changes, but I think the best way to enjoy this series is to think of it as a retelling/adaptation of the HYD story, and not as it being HYD.
Can't wait to see the Chinese mainland version (called "Meteor Shower"). It seems they made a lot of changes as well.
Goo Jun Pyo is the best version of Domyouji EVER. His childlike glee over commoner things, plus his outright misunderstandings of situations, LOL. Also, the actor Lee Min Ho... *swoons*. I haven't had a celebrity crush in over 10 years... it's like I'm a teenager all over again, lol. I'll do a few comparisons with the other dramas + the anime later, but I will say that I liked them all. Each one brought their own flavor to the manga - but the Korean version really made it their own.
Though it differed from the manga and the J-Drama (and T-Drama), it was really refreshing to see Hana Yori Dango - but not like it's been seen before. Meteor Garden stuck with the manga with only a few changes (for example, the main characters were in college instead of high school) - but it worked well for them. The J-Drama condensed and streamlined some of the major manga plots - often in ways I liked save a few instances (the Junpei incident, for example) and added the interesting element of psychological trauma, guilt, and business responsibilities when it came to Tsukasa (however, I loathed the mobster family changes to Akira, and that final movie stunk so bad I can still smell the stench of it).
But the K-drama... oh man, the K-drama. I think my biggest excitement came in looking for how it CHANGED and its effects on the characters (the swimming element was fantastic in how the storylines involving it played out), and not how it stayed close to HYD. It really fit, and the writers deserve all sorts of kudos for how they arranged it. I only have a few problems with it (I thought the Shigeru/Jae Kyung arc lasted far too long + they did not give Akira/Woo bin much to do in the series and stuck with that stupid gangster family change the J-Drama added that I disliked immensely). I know a lot of people disliked the changes, but I think the best way to enjoy this series is to think of it as a retelling/adaptation of the HYD story, and not as it being HYD.
Can't wait to see the Chinese mainland version (called "Meteor Shower"). It seems they made a lot of changes as well.
