idiosyncreant

I was serving a table with two Asian ladies that were speaking to each other in a foreign language. My ears were perked up every time I came by, of course.

I was fairly certain that it was Korean after a bit, but when I brought them a dessert sampler plate, and they exclaimed, "Yeppuda!" which clinched it--it means, "Ooh, pretty!"

I asked if they were from Korea, they asked how I could tell. One said, "Bangaweoyo" (Nice to meet you) and I repeated it, bobbing in my awkward white-girl bow.

It was great, they were very friendly about it, and I rarely have the nerve to say anything so it felt good to ask.

Of course, as soon as I was back in the kitchen I realized that I had used the wrong form for our respective positions: It should have been "Bangapsumnida", the formal-polite, not informal-polite.

Alas.

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Okay, I hereby announce this blog an Avengers SPOILERS WELCOME zone

Because I saw it, and am fangirling, but also, I'm not going to be online and about much
But comments here will be easy to read and respond to

Ack. It was just what I wanted for my birthday, thank you Joss Whedon.

(btw, this may be the first thing I've UNRESERVEDLY liked from Whedon's portfolio
Though I understand a girl takes her life in her hands to admit this
so. Just so you understand.)

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Guys. I am hesitant to exclaim too loud about this show...because it's the kind of smart drama that has more potential to hurt you, because it also has potential to be fantastic.

That said, this show sports a hero who's smart enough that when he travels forward 300 years into the future, he gets over his bewilderment and finds himself clothes to blend in. He's constantly observing and deducing what he's seeing in what's a totally alien world. Like you do.

He's the first to make me want to dabble with a time-travel story (though not much) because it's so personal a take to his character. And though his counterpart is kind of a lovable idiot, it comes across as her being a kind of unusual girl to the screen, though common enough in life: she is exaggerating for cute. She's not stupid--she's in a rush. And she's willing to yell at people who cut her off, and flip off a smirky ex-boyfriend. Really, she's fantastic.

Dramas make smart girls seem dumb all the time: having a ditzy girl seem very full and capable? As well as a crazy driver?

I also love that there have been moments of significance between the characters though there's no romantic interplay yet. The tension is there.

(Adorable? Our Hero not knowing how to do his seatbelt, she does it for him, it's awkward, he comments "I see, that's why you were mad I asked you to do it". SO CUTE.)

I'm holding my frail little heart in my hands on this one, watching slowly, because I already love the characters, respect them, and only want the best story for them.

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This is where I'm working.

It's actually the *backside* that I enter from...the windows at the right are kitchen windows.

Isn't it cute?

I waitressed on my own today, though by "on my own" I mean, I was only waitressing, not bussing and taking a couple tables. I got lots of help.

I think I'm relaxing, and that makes it easier to be friendly instead of awkward. I had a perky old lady wink broadly at me after ordering her peach tea, so I think my charm to the vintage set is in working order...

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I actually watched the first fourth of this last, due to a screw-up on the upload of subbed videos. I think this may have been a good thing, for reasons I'll explain later...

This show promises to be compelling. Not in a sudden, plot-racing way, but in treatment and mood. I've wanted to check out this director's work after hearing about Vampire Prosecutor (which was not as camp, but also not as humorless, as you might think from the title. Apparently) and the posters for this were so...evocative.

It's a time-travel drama in a season of time-travel dramas, but this has the personality to pull it off...

A hero who, when transposed in time, reels a second, but then carefully asks a question to try and discern what's happened, knowing it's something outside his experience. He's an intelligent, intuitive person--he's not going to crash around, flailing through his assumptions.

The heroine is apparently ditzy, if resourceful, and dedicated to being an actress (which, no doubt on purpose, never looks too distinguished onscreen) but her cute manner belies a sharp edge that can cuss out an ex--and accept a job got through his connections.

The thing with the opening: sageuk, the Korean equivalent of a Western, or more realistically, wuxia drama, is fond of its trope-laden openings. I watch fusion sageuk for the crossover fantasy elements present in the ones I've picked out. I haven't yet learned to enjoy the sameness.

This is where the service of missing the actual opening lies: when I got plopped down into a political debate first moment, I knew I'd missed something, figured an intro got cut off. I am pretty quick on the uptake, and know a bit about the premise, so it wasn't a problem. The beautifully lit moonlit horse-chase wasn't particularly new, but I liked the next library fight (in the familiar Scholar's Library of Sungkyunkwan). Despite the fact that I wasn't sure any scholar would allow wreckage of such hard-won manuscripts...

Anyway. I will not make big claims for this show yet, but I have a feeling it's going to be nuanced enough to really hit a spot that nothing I've watched recently has... Being unimportant but not dumb.

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GUYS
I love rap, okay, and no one was ever there to tell me it's okay, and I feel like I'm just feeling around in the dark for things to listen to

AND THIS

THE CARS
THE TAEYANG
THE TABLO
dancing in the sand
with awesome boots on

when I break 200 followers on my Suitblog, this is so going to be the celebratory video, I don't even care that they're not in suits