Notice that I no longer talk about the rating for this drama? It's because I've given up on following it. Seriously. This drama is just not registering in the psyche of the viewers living in those 2000 homes with the whateva boxes installed (in order to record the rating).
I think it's because the target viewers for this drama are us, and we don't really watch drama on TV.. well, at least I don't. I prefer to download my dramas. You can't rewind your favourite scenes on TV, and I do a lot of rewinding while watching.
Or maybe that's just an excuse for easing the hurt I felt in my heart at the drop in rating it's experiencing. Yes, again. Episode 9 registered a 4.5% rating, and at more than half-time, we can most probably say it will stay at that level or even lower. Also, with Rain's drama making an explosive 20% debut, I think we'll just see an upward trend for Runaway. Makes me glad that Playful Kiss only has 7 more episodes. I just want hyung to finish this drama and go do other projects as soon as possible.
Anyway, I haven't watched episode 9 so I'm only guessing about episode 10:
Seung Jo moves out of the house, leaving Hani behind. Hani is in despair and keeps trying to engage him in conversation at college, but he is as uncaring as ever. Hani's friends confront him (about his cold attitude towards Hani, I think). Seung Jo talks to her about something (most likely to tell her stuff that will keep her away from him..huh). There is something to do with Hera + Seung Jo that makes Hani cry her eyes out in her room. Mrs. Baek, for the first time in her match-making life, has no idea how to help her.
Watching this preview makes me want to tell Hani to go find another bloke who'll love her, instead of the iceberg that is Baek Seung Jo. But of course LOVE is irrational and incomprehensible. How does one force one's heart to love or to be indifferent? It's just not possible.
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I've also revised my opinion on how this drama is gonna end. There'll most probably be a wedding, but I doubt we'll have a post wedding arc. Things are moving fast in one direction but verrraa slowly in another. I also think we won't have the side love stories. All the Chris parts that have to do with Naoki Irie will be played by Hera, and all the Keita parts that have to do with Kotoko will be played by Joon Gu. This is because we have not been introduced to new actors aside from these people. Surely if there'll be new characters, Group 8 would have introduced them to us by now. But there's zilch announcement on it. What, they'll just spring these important new characters on us without any prior announcement?
Anyway, I love this drama. I got into it initially because of hyung.. but now I'm in it because of Hani. If I had had my own way regarding how her character should turn out to be, I'd make her get married happily ever after with someone else and let Baek Seung Jo stew in his own bitter juices while toiling in one trivial pursuit after another.. ha! I want him to suffer a fate worse than death: a life full of regret.
Episode 9 is downloading merrily in my torrent box.
EDIT @ 3pm: Episode 9 is done downloading yeay!!! Now I have to wait for 2.5 more hours before school is finished to watch it.
I love school net! (when it's fast, that is)
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Mischievous Kiss / Playful Kiss Real Time Episode 4 Rating
I think the blog deserves its traffic so please click here to view the real time rating. I read somewhere that the rating is 3.4%, dunno exactly how they calculate the real time into an average value and too lazy to guess.
Baker King is a monstrous show. It just keeps swallowing all the rating. Even My Girlfriend is a Gumiho was not spared.. *gulp*
Anyway, what's up with the netizens? Is it cool/fashionable now to dislike Kim Hyun Joong the actor?
You know what answer I'd give to that question?
Meh.
Who are these 'netizens' that put up so much effort to take away our enjoyment of the drama by trying to impose THEIR scathing opinions of his acting skill on us anyway? Ahjummas with a lot of free time in their hands? School kids who are too bored and lazy to do their homework? Hmm.. are they even humans? Maybe they're just some bots planted by an evil genius who wants to conquer the world by controlling cyber fandoms. Huh.
Not all of us are following this drama because we're Kim Hyun Joong's rabid fangirls. Some like the original story and just want to see how the Korean version is gonna develop along the way. Me, I'm in both categories.. because it's a possible place to be in. So there. Now could you please go away and leave us to enjoy Playful Kiss in peace? Of course not, right? You gals/guys simply enjoy being extremely annoying to online strangers, don't you?
Baker King is a monstrous show. It just keeps swallowing all the rating. Even My Girlfriend is a Gumiho was not spared.. *gulp*
Anyway, what's up with the netizens? Is it cool/fashionable now to dislike Kim Hyun Joong the actor?
You know what answer I'd give to that question?
Meh.
Who are these 'netizens' that put up so much effort to take away our enjoyment of the drama by trying to impose THEIR scathing opinions of his acting skill on us anyway? Ahjummas with a lot of free time in their hands? School kids who are too bored and lazy to do their homework? Hmm.. are they even humans? Maybe they're just some bots planted by an evil genius who wants to conquer the world by controlling cyber fandoms. Huh.
Not all of us are following this drama because we're Kim Hyun Joong's rabid fangirls. Some like the original story and just want to see how the Korean version is gonna develop along the way. Me, I'm in both categories.. because it's a possible place to be in. So there. Now could you please go away and leave us to enjoy Playful Kiss in peace? Of course not, right? You gals/guys simply enjoy being extremely annoying to online strangers, don't you?
Kim Hyun Joong-hyung is smirking at you, ebil netizens~
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Playful Kiss / Mischievous Kiss 3rd episode rating is still at 3.5%
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AAARRRRRRRRGGGHH!
When is Baker King ending?? I'm beginning to develop an aversion to that drama. No offense, Baker King team. Maybe I'm just being an irrational, over-loyal, stubborn fangirl but this rating war is giving hyung a bad name and I don't like it at all. Someone commented about PK being the 'humiliation of Kim Hyun Joong'. Needless to say, I was pissed. How can something he and everyone in the PK team have been working hard on be the humiliation of anyone?? Explain!
Ok, I read dangermousie's sentiment and surfed around to find the update to that dispute. Seems MBC has 'finally settled' it with the union on Sept 6. I'm not sure how much was PK rating affected by this issue but if it was indeed badly affected, the rating next week will tell.
Lemme just say I hate the whining tone of this report:
"In the situation whereby Wed-Thurs dramas are turning duller day by day, even Jangki is now implicated with low ratings, I seriously felt it to be a pity. There is a need to develop a measurement plan to guard by this tough battle; it's kinda worrying"
Pull up your pants (if you wear one) and do something about it, why don't you? Playful Kiss was pit against something big like Baker King in a time slot that has already been viewed as disastrous to previous MBC dramas. It has its own audience, and that audience is not in the middle of school holiday right now. Why are you guys acting so surprised that it's not doing well? How much rating do you expect it's gonna get for its first 5 episodes? 20%? If PK is doing better online than on TV, think of some ways to gain profit from that! Someone up there in MBClympus needs to get transferred to another department, or sacked.
I've also been thinking about this 'inappropriate' controversy and the comments on it. I came to a conclusion. This is like kicking a sick dog around, isn't it? Fine, that's my own made-up idiom.. but I couldn't find a more suitable one to suit the occasion. People are bashing PK despite having other badass dramas more harmful to their children abound on air because it's already down with a poor rating. If the rating for PK is high, all these 'inappropriate for kids' comments won't even make a peep. Cowards.
The fangirl in me wanted to rant some more, but the reasonable adult side asked.. what's the point? It's not as if my rants are gonna raise the rating to the respectable level that I think it should earn by its 4th - 7th episode (at least 9 - 11%). The very low percentage makes some sense when you look at the real-time rating (link pasted here). Still, I'm really sad. If the insignificant fan, i.e. moi, is this sad.. how sad is our hardworking hyung-nim and the rest of the PK team at this inexplicable turnout?
I hope leader and the rest of the cast and production team will continue to work hard regardless of the the rating and regardless of whether the drama will be cut short by MBC. I will watch every episode as if it were the last episode to be aired. There's always that spin-off to look forward to. Spin-off via Youtube? I think that's a new concept, right? I've read about free movies that are available in online streaming sites, but never a drama spin-off. Sounds cool.
Playful Kiss FIGHTING!
Update Sept 8th from Haru Haru Subs:
#haru2subs Our Playful Kiss team is working really really hard to accomplish the subs for the show *kita harus lebih sabar nes*
AAARRRRRRRRGGGHH!
When is Baker King ending?? I'm beginning to develop an aversion to that drama. No offense, Baker King team. Maybe I'm just being an irrational, over-loyal, stubborn fangirl but this rating war is giving hyung a bad name and I don't like it at all. Someone commented about PK being the 'humiliation of Kim Hyun Joong'. Needless to say, I was pissed. How can something he and everyone in the PK team have been working hard on be the humiliation of anyone?? Explain!
Ok, I read dangermousie's sentiment and surfed around to find the update to that dispute. Seems MBC has 'finally settled' it with the union on Sept 6. I'm not sure how much was PK rating affected by this issue but if it was indeed badly affected, the rating next week will tell.
Lemme just say I hate the whining tone of this report:
"In the situation whereby Wed-Thurs dramas are turning duller day by day, even Jangki is now implicated with low ratings, I seriously felt it to be a pity. There is a need to develop a measurement plan to guard by this tough battle; it's kinda worrying"
Pull up your pants (if you wear one) and do something about it, why don't you? Playful Kiss was pit against something big like Baker King in a time slot that has already been viewed as disastrous to previous MBC dramas. It has its own audience, and that audience is not in the middle of school holiday right now. Why are you guys acting so surprised that it's not doing well? How much rating do you expect it's gonna get for its first 5 episodes? 20%? If PK is doing better online than on TV, think of some ways to gain profit from that! Someone up there in MBClympus needs to get transferred to another department, or sacked.
I've also been thinking about this 'inappropriate' controversy and the comments on it. I came to a conclusion. This is like kicking a sick dog around, isn't it? Fine, that's my own made-up idiom.. but I couldn't find a more suitable one to suit the occasion. People are bashing PK despite having other badass dramas more harmful to their children abound on air because it's already down with a poor rating. If the rating for PK is high, all these 'inappropriate for kids' comments won't even make a peep. Cowards.
The fangirl in me wanted to rant some more, but the reasonable adult side asked.. what's the point? It's not as if my rants are gonna raise the rating to the respectable level that I think it should earn by its 4th - 7th episode (at least 9 - 11%). The very low percentage makes some sense when you look at the real-time rating (link pasted here). Still, I'm really sad. If the insignificant fan, i.e. moi, is this sad.. how sad is our hardworking hyung-nim and the rest of the PK team at this inexplicable turnout?
I hope leader and the rest of the cast and production team will continue to work hard regardless of the the rating and regardless of whether the drama will be cut short by MBC. I will watch every episode as if it were the last episode to be aired. There's always that spin-off to look forward to. Spin-off via Youtube? I think that's a new concept, right? I've read about free movies that are available in online streaming sites, but never a drama spin-off. Sounds cool.
Playful Kiss FIGHTING!
Update Sept 8th from Haru Haru Subs:
#haru2subs Our Playful Kiss team is working really really hard to accomplish the subs for the show *kita harus lebih sabar nes*
Puzzling over Playful Kiss
Is this drama a favourite for bashers and antis? Maybe sociologists should carry out a study on antis. I can provide them with a title for their dissertation - "An Integrative Approach to Profiling Anti-fans for a More Effective Understanding of Pop Culture Phenomena and Fandom"
... how's that for a good title? I think it has a nice ring to it.
I've surfed around quite a lot by virtue of being in several fandoms. I'm more of a serial fandogamist.. I frequent one fandom at one time before I go the the next one I fancy. How can you describe the psychological make-up of people who claim they hate a drama/movie/artist/whatever-it-is-with-a-connection-to-the-drama/movie/artist and yet spend so much time writing post after post explaining in detail on why they absolutely abhor the drama/movie/artist/whatever-it-is-with-a-connection-to-the-drama/movie/artist?
Just a plain 'I have nothing else to do' explanation simply doesn't cut it anymore. If that's the case, why don't they.. I dunno.. go out with friends or do cross-stitch or completing Sudoku or some other activities that build character? If nothing in life satisfies them anymore.. they can go camping! Even sleeping is a more worthwhile activity than online-bashing. It's not like you get paid to bash the drama/movie/artist/whatever-it-is-with-a-connection-to-the-drama/movie/artist, so why do something you claim you don't enjoy with such relish? Sounds psychotic to me.
Anyway, after reading so many long-winded descriptions of the one-sided love-hate relationship they're having with Kim Hyun Joong-Baek Seung Jo and Playful Kiss.. I felt exhausted. I hope this drama becomes a nationwide hit in the end and Hyun Joong-hyung becomes even more popular, well-paid and awesome. What do you get for being so spiteful towards this cute, hardworking guy? If you hate him or his acting so much, go find another idol you can shower your affection on. Why do you torture yourselves over and over again with his presence? Urgh, I don't get this masochistic behaviour.
Where was I? Oh.. this 'inappropriate' controversy. I was wondering what the scriptwriters were thinking when they wrote the 'drunk scene' as well but since I know nothing about Korea, I thought it's some sort of culture there to give your children weak alcohol during celebrations.. just like westerners give their children watered wine. Some kids can handle the drink, some can't. So reading about this is an eye-opener for me. And yeah, Baek Seung Jo will spout all kinds of harassment on Oh Hani.. spanning all kinds of discrimination, including the one on gender. So save your children from getting an earful of it by banning this drama altogether in your household! See how popular it's gonna get with your kids after that. Teenagers love banned stuff, esp. if the ban comes from their parents.. meh.
I also found a real-time rating on episode 3. You can see how so many viewers jumped ship completely nearing the end from both dramas to Baker King. I wonder how the rating is gonna be once the magnanimous Baker King ends and Fugitive (Rain's drama) starts. Something interesting for me to look forward to..
... how's that for a good title? I think it has a nice ring to it.
I've surfed around quite a lot by virtue of being in several fandoms. I'm more of a serial fandogamist.. I frequent one fandom at one time before I go the the next one I fancy. How can you describe the psychological make-up of people who claim they hate a drama/movie/artist/whatever-it-is-with-a-connection-to-the-drama/movie/artist and yet spend so much time writing post after post explaining in detail on why they absolutely abhor the drama/movie/artist/whatever-it-is-with-a-connection-to-the-drama/movie/artist?
Just a plain 'I have nothing else to do' explanation simply doesn't cut it anymore. If that's the case, why don't they.. I dunno.. go out with friends or do cross-stitch or completing Sudoku or some other activities that build character? If nothing in life satisfies them anymore.. they can go camping! Even sleeping is a more worthwhile activity than online-bashing. It's not like you get paid to bash the drama/movie/artist/whatever-it-is-with-a-connection-to-the-drama/movie/artist, so why do something you claim you don't enjoy with such relish? Sounds psychotic to me.
Anyway, after reading so many long-winded descriptions of the one-sided love-hate relationship they're having with Kim Hyun Joong-Baek Seung Jo and Playful Kiss.. I felt exhausted. I hope this drama becomes a nationwide hit in the end and Hyun Joong-hyung becomes even more popular, well-paid and awesome. What do you get for being so spiteful towards this cute, hardworking guy? If you hate him or his acting so much, go find another idol you can shower your affection on. Why do you torture yourselves over and over again with his presence? Urgh, I don't get this masochistic behaviour.
Where was I? Oh.. this 'inappropriate' controversy. I was wondering what the scriptwriters were thinking when they wrote the 'drunk scene' as well but since I know nothing about Korea, I thought it's some sort of culture there to give your children weak alcohol during celebrations.. just like westerners give their children watered wine. Some kids can handle the drink, some can't. So reading about this is an eye-opener for me. And yeah, Baek Seung Jo will spout all kinds of harassment on Oh Hani.. spanning all kinds of discrimination, including the one on gender. So save your children from getting an earful of it by banning this drama altogether in your household! See how popular it's gonna get with your kids after that. Teenagers love banned stuff, esp. if the ban comes from their parents.. meh.
I also found a real-time rating on episode 3. You can see how so many viewers jumped ship completely nearing the end from both dramas to Baker King. I wonder how the rating is gonna be once the magnanimous Baker King ends and Fugitive (Rain's drama) starts. Something interesting for me to look forward to..
Hyung-nim is puzzled too...
Monday, September 6, 2010
‘Mischievous Kiss’ 2nd episode re-run rating at 6.6%
Okay.. I cracked. I surfed around for the rating.. hehe. Well, this pretty much agrees with my prediction.. about 7%, which is what I think it should earn for its first 3 episodes instead of the lousy 3.5-ish.
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The re-runs of the two episodes were broadcast on the 4th, and according to AGB Nielsen Media Research, it received ratings of 4.2% and 6.6%, higher than the original broadcast ratings of 3.5% and 3.7%.
...and it seems the strike has played a role in the low rating as well, somehow.
I also found a re-cap of both episodes. It always amuses me how viewers who claim to dislike the shows (dramas/movies/etc.) I like turned out to be the ones who wrote longass posts about them. I also like it when they confess that they're now liking what they've been kicking about like a can earlier. Love the positive comments too.
I dunno why they're so determined to see hyung fail at this from the start. A guy who everyone praises as a good dancer now, he used to be a rocker dude who was into guitar and knew nothing about dancing. Hyung can excel in anything if he puts his mind to it.. even academics. He's a workaholic. If he's determined to be a good actor, he'll work hard at it until he gets the recognition he wants. But along with hard work, he has that 'extra' something that can make even someone like me, who usually takes a looooong time to like an idoru, falls in love at first sight.
I leave you with a long preview of Episode 3. Is poking someone in the butt something that's regularly done by mascots in Korea? I'll have to be careful in theme parks if I ever get to visit there then.. :P
(link)
The re-runs of the two episodes were broadcast on the 4th, and according to AGB Nielsen Media Research, it received ratings of 4.2% and 6.6%, higher than the original broadcast ratings of 3.5% and 3.7%.
...and it seems the strike has played a role in the low rating as well, somehow.
I also found a re-cap of both episodes. It always amuses me how viewers who claim to dislike the shows (dramas/movies/etc.) I like turned out to be the ones who wrote longass posts about them. I also like it when they confess that they're now liking what they've been kicking about like a can earlier. Love the positive comments too.
I dunno why they're so determined to see hyung fail at this from the start. A guy who everyone praises as a good dancer now, he used to be a rocker dude who was into guitar and knew nothing about dancing. Hyung can excel in anything if he puts his mind to it.. even academics. He's a workaholic. If he's determined to be a good actor, he'll work hard at it until he gets the recognition he wants. But along with hard work, he has that 'extra' something that can make even someone like me, who usually takes a looooong time to like an idoru, falls in love at first sight.
I leave you with a long preview of Episode 3. Is poking someone in the butt something that's regularly done by mascots in Korea? I'll have to be careful in theme parks if I ever get to visit there then.. :P
Thursday, September 2, 2010
‘Mischievous Kiss’ 1st episode received a very low 3.5% rating
I'm probably facing a major failure in my study for the first time and it feels surreal. But at least I'm a nobody and my failure, however major it is to me and mine, is not the subject of a worldwide broadcast. Villagewide, maybe.. if my relatives have their way.
Reading about such a low rating for the 1st ep of Mischievous Kiss and the harsh comments on hyung's acting made me sad. But you know, as Shah Rukh always likes to quip.. failure is never fatal. Hard work may not ensure success, but it's the only way you can live with yourself after everything is said and done.. so keep fighting, Hyun Joong-hyung! Most of the time, I think his fame is a double-edged sword: when they like him, he's Mr. Perfection himself.. but when they hate him, the heat he receives is just irrational.
I wish I could say.. it's just the 1st ep, it's gonna get much better later on!.. but after I've finished watching the anime and am now watching They Kiss Again, I have to honestly say that I hate Irie Naoki's type. (in the anime) How can he let his heavily pregnant wife go home by herself because he's busy finishing his dissertation?? I wanted to kill him after that ep. Even after he becomes a cute dad, I still can't forgive that image of him as a mean, tsumetai otoko.
Christine is right, Kotoko/Xianqing does have a bad taste in men. I'm now actually worried that if hyung plays this role very well, I'm gonna end up disliking him quite a bit by the end of the drama. But if he doesn't play his role very well, I'll end up disliking him too. Is that like.. a stupid dilema? I think so too. Doushiyo?!?!? ..what a conundrum.
A few stuff to load off my chest:
Especially someone as cold as Irie Naoki. I can't like the guy, I just can't like him. Despite Joe Cheng looking absolutely yummy in short hair, I felt like whacking him every time Zhishu treats Xianqing as if she's not worthy of him. Unfeeling robot! *whack whack* ..and I ended up liking Jin and Qitai. Am I the only one who thinks Qitai looks like a cuter and younger version of Kimura Takuya?? Who is this guy? I have to surf the net a bit and find out.
Anyway, tonight is the 2nd episode of Mischievous Kiss. Happy watching! For us the unfortunate ones who have to wait until the subbed downloads are available.. I leave you with hyung's sweet voice singing the OST..
Reading about such a low rating for the 1st ep of Mischievous Kiss and the harsh comments on hyung's acting made me sad. But you know, as Shah Rukh always likes to quip.. failure is never fatal. Hard work may not ensure success, but it's the only way you can live with yourself after everything is said and done.. so keep fighting, Hyun Joong-hyung! Most of the time, I think his fame is a double-edged sword: when they like him, he's Mr. Perfection himself.. but when they hate him, the heat he receives is just irrational.
I wish I could say.. it's just the 1st ep, it's gonna get much better later on!.. but after I've finished watching the anime and am now watching They Kiss Again, I have to honestly say that I hate Irie Naoki's type. (in the anime) How can he let his heavily pregnant wife go home by herself because he's busy finishing his dissertation?? I wanted to kill him after that ep. Even after he becomes a cute dad, I still can't forgive that image of him as a mean, tsumetai otoko.
Christine is right, Kotoko/Xianqing does have a bad taste in men. I'm now actually worried that if hyung plays this role very well, I'm gonna end up disliking him quite a bit by the end of the drama. But if he doesn't play his role very well, I'll end up disliking him too. Is that like.. a stupid dilema? I think so too. Doushiyo?!?!? ..what a conundrum.
A few stuff to load off my chest:
- Naoki Irie/Jiang Zhishu doesn't talk much at any point of the story until the end, kay. So please brace yourself for the disappointment of not having Kim Hyun Joong speak many lines as Baek Seung Jo.
- Kotoko/Oh Hani IS the main character of the story, so having her carry the whole drama until the end is a natural course for the director to take, isn't it?
- Mischievous Kiss is NOT the 'Boys Over Flowers the Second' just coz it starts off in a high school setting. After the 6th ep, the kids will be graduating and going to college. By the end of ISWAK, they're getting married. By the end of Itazura na Kiss anime, they have a cute 5-ish year old child. This is not a spoiler if you bother to check out the original manga, anime, and the previous drama versions. So please modify your expectations to better suit the actual setting.
- Please don't compare the rating of a nearly ending drama (Baker King) to Mischievous Kiss. It smacks of pettiness. However, I do think it should have done better. At least a 7%-ish? Anyway...
- Don't be disappointed with the contrast between the great hype and the miserably low rating. Hyping a movie/drama is a marketing effort. The audience, and not the hype, will decide its true worth.
Especially someone as cold as Irie Naoki. I can't like the guy, I just can't like him. Despite Joe Cheng looking absolutely yummy in short hair, I felt like whacking him every time Zhishu treats Xianqing as if she's not worthy of him. Unfeeling robot! *whack whack* ..and I ended up liking Jin and Qitai. Am I the only one who thinks Qitai looks like a cuter and younger version of Kimura Takuya?? Who is this guy? I have to surf the net a bit and find out.
Anyway, tonight is the 2nd episode of Mischievous Kiss. Happy watching! For us the unfortunate ones who have to wait until the subbed downloads are available.. I leave you with hyung's sweet voice singing the OST..
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