Drama Number 15: Me too, flower.

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Okay, so I've watched so many Korean dramas and I thought I should make a list of my top 15 dramas till now. I'll review one drama in each post.

At Number 15, stands...*applause*
                                                          Me Too, Flower

Fan-made Trailer: Me too, flower trailer
Number of Episodes: 15
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Cast: Yoon Shi Yoon , Lee Ji Ah , Han Go Eun , Seo Hyo Rim , Lee Ki Kwang , Jo Min Ki
My Rating:  8/10
Re-watch Value: 6/10
Favorite Scene: The Hilarious Strip Scene
Favorite Songs: Dreaming- B2ST , Love is you(Feat. Marble Blue)

“I… am someone who knows the power of Twitter. Go home and ask your your daughter about the power of Twitter. All it takes is a single post. And also, drop the habit of making others kneel. Their knees will hurt. Don’t be like this…"  – Jae Hee

Note: This is a spoiler-free zone.

My initial reactions were when I saw the lead cast: Omo! Shi Yoon's in it! Flower Boy next door introduced me to him. The female lead looks really old. They probably won't look good with each other. I know it's a horrible reason, but it was this that put me off from watching this drama for so long.

After I started watching the drama: This shit is awesome! :O Why haven't I watched this drama before?! The leads are perfect for each other! And Shi Yoon's character is so different from that of FBND; so mature! I love the female lead...yadda yadda.

And I ended up watching the entire drama in one go.

Review: I thought it would be another light-hearted, baseless drama but that wasn't the case even though the beginning of this drama was a little slow. What I loved about this drama was its extremely original story-line and it's non-cliche-ness. It's a drama about a young but tough female police officer, Cha Bong Soon who suffers from depression but is in denial of that fact. The synopsis isn't lying when it says that she is a peculiar woman who defies the rigid social hierarchy and rails against it. As fate has it, she meets our male lead, Seo Jae Hee who happens to be the son of a multi-millionaire but whom she mistakenly thinks is a part time job worker who delivers things to people. Then, later on she sees him working as a parking attendant while on duty and initially believes to be so until a little later in the drama when she finds out his true identity and trust me when I say she isn't very pleased with her findings.

But it's too late. She's already in love with him. x-D

So, slowly the romance between the two characters develops and they have to overcome so many misunderstandings and face so many obstacles including the usual evil, bitchy and obsessive second female lead(Park Hwa Young) that Asian Korean dramas are so famous for and of course, she's in luuuurve with the male lead( and has a sob story of her own). I could never sympathize with her and never got around liking her anyway. She deserved what she got but I did feel sorry for her son.

Park Hwa Young's son. 

“You are beautiful. So beautiful that I just want to run off with you." – Jae Hee

The kisses in this drama by the way, are awesome! xD
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                                                      Rated R

*I can be cute when I want to* - Bong Soon 

Other characters I really liked:

Park Tae Hwa: He's the psychologist(doctor). Oh my god, he was just way too amusing! The way he talks, the way he analyzes things in his own weird-funny way and most of all, the way he gets Cha Bong Soon to admit  her problems on her own!

Kim Dal: She's the step-sister of Cha Bong Soon and even though I really disliked her initially for being so vain and money-minded AND for messing up Bong Soon and Jae Hee's relationship, I figured she wasn't all that bad. She got really caring towards the end and tried to make amends at least. Also, I loved the cute chemistry between her and Park Tae Hwa.

Jo Ma Roo: He's the most adorable character, ever! :3 He is such a sweet, endearing and caring person and it would have been so awesome if he had a romance of his own too. He followed Bong Soon like a lost puppy calling her 누나( Noona) . Ha! He's too naive and silly to be a police officer though! <3 Here's a funny scene of him.

I can't give write much without giving out any spoilers, so I'll end here. BUT what matters most is that they had a HAPPY ENDING after all the angst and drama. :D

끝까지 읽어 주셔서 감사합니다. ^.^

Song Credits: Dreaming- B2ST

Review: The Hunger Games.

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  THE HUNGER GAMES REVIEW: 

'In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts.Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see.

Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.'

I gotta tell you, I did have apprehensions about the Hunger Games in the beginning. Come on! Don't tell me you didn't think it was about FOOD!( I realized what it was later on, thankfully). I first learnt about the Hunger Games from my friend. She gave me a brief description of the story and quite honestly, it didn't sound all that appealing. It was still the time when I was obsessing over Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and Naruto and I didn't want to leave the shiny, happy, sparkly worlds of Greek Mythology, Hogwarts and ninjas to a barbaric, depressing, dystopia. Hell, I didn't even know the meaning of the word until The Hunger Games. 
So, what did I do? I ignored my friend's suggestion and went back to my darling Wimpy Kid. Then my sister ordered the Hunger Games trilogy (I still suspect it was for the cover) online, ergo, I actually had to give it a try whether I liked it or not.
So, on the morning of the first day of my Dussehra break, I started reading the Hunger Games. 

I started reading...

And reading....

AND Reading......

Finally...                                                                                   

OH MY FREAKING GOD! I LOVE IT! SUZANNE COLLINS IS GENIUS! ASABHFFBEKJFBEKFB....ABUSER OF CAPSLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, really. I loved every, infinitesimal second of it. I finished the first book in a day and the rest of the trilogy during the remaining part of the vacation and then spent the next two consecutive nights thinking about what would happen in Catching Fire and Mockingjay. The Hunger Games is one of those rare breeds of books whose story line is so gripping that it is simply un-put-down-able. You cannot stop reading it until you finish and even after you finish, you can't stop thinking about it. 
The characters and the character development is such a pleasure to read, the plot is simply superb and the writing style (although I had a few qualms about the first person-present tense in the beginning, not being very used to it) is simple and blunt, yet has an elegance to it. I, for one, found the division of the story into three parts to be apt and perfect with a cliffhanger at the end of every book(excluding the last one of course). The Hunger Games is part suspense, part adventure, part philosophy and even part romance. It's the whole freaking package!

The plot-
The plot was so unique, so original and so...well, shocking. The continuous twists and Katniss' fight for survival made the book not boring for even a second. The descriptions were so visual, it was almost like a screenplay. I could picture everything that Suzanne described most vividly. 
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Well, most of them anyway.  

Most of all, I loved Katniss' way of thinking. Her blunt, surly way of looking at things was far better than being stuck in Bella's sappy head in Twilight any day( Excuse me for comparing THG and Twilight. I know they're in completely different leagues). War and the fights in general weren't described as sleek or smooth or sexy but were explained vividly and properly, like how they would happen in real life. The Hunger Games was ugly, blunt, bloody, brutal, barbaric and so very real.
 It was funny how sometimes, major shocking news was delivered so obtusely (for example, the aftermath of the Games in both 'Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire".) while Suzanne Collins paid so much attention to the minute details like contrasting the food in the Capitol to those in the Seam. 

WARNING: The rest of the review contains some major spoilers if you still haven't read the book(s). If you don't want your reading experience to be spoiled, beware. You've been warned. Turn away while you still can.

The Characters-

Katniss is an inspiration. Period. She is badass, independent, strong, fierce and deadly and is what every girl should aim to be. She is a survivor (literally) and *spoiler alert* Rue's death bringing her human side out was beautiful. Katniss is so amazing that she makes people fall in love with her without even trying( And NO! She isn't a Mary Sue). Okay, so the Hunger Games has a love triangle. So what? That isn't the central dilemma anyway. 

Now, about the next main character. Peeta Mellark. I absolutely loved Peeta. There's just something about him and his unconditional love and his kindness that is so endearing unlike all those other jealous, masochistic, arrogant male leads that are all the rage nowadays( 50 Shades of Shit Grey, anyone?). I really liked how Katniss and Peeta's relationship developed over the books. 

Anywaaay, most of the other main characters came out in the later books but all of the characters left a deep impression on me. I fell in love with Finnick, Cinna and Boggs. 
Like everybody else, some of the character deaths were so shocking that I had to reread to make sure it wasn't a misprint. Then I proceeded to cry like a baby and didn't touch the book for a few hours out of spite.
*Spoiler Alert* 
Finnick's death killed me. Killed me. 

On a more serious note, the Hunger Games is nothing but Suzanne Collin's take on the violence in wars mixed with reality shows in a brutal, harsh, futuristic world( aka Dystopia). The Hunger Games made me cry, made me laugh, made me marvel in its epic-ness but it also made me think about the violence, war and destruction in today's world and how we might be leading our world into an even worse future. We need change and we need it now. And the Hunger Games not only imparts this message but arouses it. 

So that's that. My review of The Hunger Games (which my sister has been badgering me to write for a week). I rate the Hunger Games 5/5 and I encourage anybody out there who has had stupid, precursory assumptions like mine, to get rid of them and pick up their copy of The Hunger Games immediately. And believe me, when you finally put it down, you won't think the same way. 

And like Effie Trinket says, 'May the odds be ever in your favor.'

Thanks for sticking with me for so long and sorry if I spoiled anything but really....

Finally, after watching The Hunger Games, there is something I desperately want to do. THIS--->

Ataraxis.

Song Credits: The Hunger Games Theme.