Fashion King (2012)

I had been warned about this one but as a fangirl of YAI, reading that he felt this was a character he felt was close to how he sees himself, I decided to try it. I was actually surprised that it wasn’t the worst. In fact, for much of the show I liked it! But… It really fell victim to sloppy writing and maybe either bad acting or directing. Big chunks of the show I felt myself thinking, “I don’t like any of these characters” or "why are they acting like this when it's polar opposite of how they were in the last scene." Then they would suddenly behave in a normal way and be redeemed…for a few episodes at least.

It is a character study (which I enjoy despite them sometimes being difficult) but sadly, the writing was just messy and the characters behaved in ways that became tiresome and confusing. I felt the male leads did a fantastic job. The SFL was more interesting than the MFL but again, could be writing, directing, or just her being a new actress? Not sure. Hard to watch at times. Though, ironically, she’s maybe the most consistent (consistently frustrating in her inability to be upfront and honest..but I digress) character overall until the end. The supporting cast was fabulous. Where’s a show with those ajummas!?

The ending was absolute crap. Seriously stupid and uselessly sad and “what the heck!?”. Overall, when the writers let the characters BE who they seemed to be writing them to be instead of inventing things for them to misunderstand, the show is amazing! Those fleeting moments made watching the other episodes (where I actually face-palmed at the insanity) worth suffering through, mostly, sometimes. Won’t watch the whole thing again but also wouldn’t say it wasn’t worth a watch.

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Fashion King (2012) - this truly has a lot of potential for me, especially at the start. The characters are quite different comparing to the other dramas I have watched and seeing Yuri’s very first drama is also a plus. What makes this drama interesting for me at the start is that both leads are struggling, no "chaebol" or rich between them, which is typical in other dramas. Also, the male main lead Young Gul played by Yoo Ah In is so different, I can't understand his attitude and the leads are not the usual nice with a good personality leads. Both male leads are really great in their respective roles, the acting is great. The female leads I don't have anything against, it terms of acting. The drama just didn’t turn out great, and the ending sucks, I mean, what happened? I find the drama stressful in the long run, the sense of the drama became lost especially on the fashion aspect which was suppose to be what I expected because of the title. I was just sad since the acting is there, I hope they tried to fix the story or writing. Not recommended.

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Par où commencer ??
L'histoire, en elle-même, n'as rien de vraiment nouveau ni d'exceptionnel. Cependant beaucoup de plots sont mal exploités voire abandonnés en cours de route.
Pour ce qui est du casting, rien à reprocher, ils font le boulot avec le scénario qu'on leur donne.
Niveau de l'OST, j'écris la critique après avoir fini la série et honnêtement je ne me souvient déjà plus des sons que j'ai entendu.
La probabilité de revisionner cette série est quasiment nulle car comme dit plus haut, il y a beaucoup d'incohérence et de maladresse au cours de la série, certains personnages n'ont juste aucune contenance, d'autres sont juste mal exploités y compris la FL qui au départ possède tout pour provoquer l'empathie du spectateur mais qui en fin de série devient juste impossible à apprécier tant les scénaristes ont ch*é dans la colle avec le personnage.

Globalement, la série possède un certain potentiel, potentiel gâché par une fin des plus incompréhensible, des personnages ruinés par les scénaristes, etc.Mais possède aussi quelques moments agréables à regarder et des personnages mineurs plutôt attachants. Malgré cela, elle peut, et j'insiste sur le "peut", se laisser regarder et apprécier dans une certaine mesure. Mieux vaut ne pas se fier seulement aux critiques des autres et se trouver un moment pour se faire sa propre opinion.

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Greedy egoists bite other´s throats

The Film portrays assaultive. egocentric, quite narcistic men, and selfobssesed women ... but men treating women as their posessions, aside of the elder arrogant "bitches", Yoon Hyang Sook, Madam Jo and her "stupid" demanding daugther. There is way too much boozing shown and an antediluvian image of and objectifyed women, when it´s coming to the younger women. Mistreating and beaten up employees be their chefs. An abusive father. And generally men who don´t have their emotions in too many situations under control ... and a picture of the 2011 fallen NAZI Galliano in Yeong Gul´s office ...

The use of other people to get the to the goals one want to achieve is unfortunately common ... but this K Drama is toping such misbehavior. Even the bad treated Lee Ga Young who seems innocent, no naive.

Jung Jae Hyuk the chaebol´s son as love blinded, and out of contol character is sometimes portraied quite loveable, especially when getting overdemanding, abusive and playing the tough guy ... in the end as toxic, as his father, and Yeong Gul.

Yeong Gul end in New York is disturbing in 1st sight, but he said min 2 times in the show that he never will end like his father.

But that Lee Ga Young did not hear the bang ... literally or in the meaning of ... while talking a last time with her hate love is significanr for her charakter. She went to Jung Jae Hyuk to stay with him ... does she love him, as Jung Jae Hyuk suggested near the end of the show? The phone call evtl. was prior to the shoting of Yeong Gul who wasn´t bleeding out his head despite the bullet hit him there ...

The show is by far not a picture of the fashion industry ... but the abuse of models is quite common. And its with male and female models. Some are used as horizontal hosts and hostesses ... while others are used as nude display puppets ... or are raped men (like Bratt Pall and others, as from Abercrombie & Fitch, and others) and women, which can be destroyed by their abusers. And its not only by the fashion designers or photographers and their team.

For the fashion designers in this show ... Michael J and Director Kim ... playing obvious gay charakters. Stereotyped? Given to a scene in the elevator with Yeong Gul and Jung Jae Hyuk, hands at their throats; stop it or they think we are dating ... is so typical then more than today the conservative homophobic society of Korea. But that is changing to openess actually, despite an antifeminist and anti equality president.

... rewatch value? NO, not really.
... why did I watch till the bloody end? I just wanted to see the end ... as K Dramas are somehow addictive.

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When i watched this i was like okay at first but then i started crying, she liked him and he basically took advantage of that and used her then went to F2 i was really happy when M2 started liking her because the M1 didn’t deserve her when she left him he finally realized that he liked her and the ending to when he died, i need more info about that. I like rewatching it just for the chemistry between F1 and M2 they deserve each other. And the F2 took advantage of the M2 and cheated on him. Also the way the M1 changed at first i liked him more than the M2 because he was nicer then the M1 became more arrogant and pushed her away. He ran away from her and has the guys to ask her if she wants to come with him. I only like watching this because i like to watch the scenes between the M2 and the F1 they are so sweet together.

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Estou bugada. (Se der pra editar, pode ser que eu venha a fazer isso)

É a primeira vez que eu estou bugada com uma história. Acredito que pelo fato de que a reta final possa ser interpretada mais de uma maneira e por ter ficado algumas questões sem respostas também.

A história parece ser dividida em duas partes: A antes da sonho e pós sonho.
Como assim? - Vocês vão me perguntar. Então, vamos lá.

Na primeira parte somos apresentados aos quatro protagonistas e os QUATRO, tem problemas com afeição, cada um com sua história, mas, no final, TODOS, apenas querem poder confiar em alguém.

A Lee Ga Young depois que toma coragem e se liberta da mulher que a enganou e manipulou a vida toda, encontra Kang Young Gul, que dá o minimo pra ela sobreviver e logo depois patrocina o sonho dela. O Kang Young Gul lembra que conheceu a Lee Ga Young quando criança e por isso decide ajuda-la e cultiva um carinho enorme por ela. No meu ponto de vista eles nunca amaram um ao outro, penso que sempre foi gratidão, principalmente Kang Young Gul, pois ele só passa a cogitar a Lee Ga Young depois que a Choi Anna diz que é perdidamente apaixonada pelo Jung Jae Hyuk.
Falando nele, ele é o que mais é apresentado para nós como alguém que carece de afeto. Ele possui uma mãe SUPER protetora, que não o deixa fazer NADA e um pai sádico, que qualquer erro do filho ta enfiando a porrada. E a Choi Anna que é orfã e foi criada por parentes próximos, algo assim, porque, a história dela é falada de relance, mas ela se deslumbra com um cara rico amando-a. Também acredito que eles nunca se amaram de verdade e foi apenas um refúgio para ambos.

No início eu tive a impressão que a história sempre foi sobre a Lee Ga Young e como ela era feita de marionete pelos caras tentando tirar proveito do seu talento. Era como se ela fosse um prêmio e quem se saisse melhor levava. Torci por ela durante todo o percurso, idependente de quem ela escolhesse.
Na primeira metade senti raiva com mais frequencia do Jung Jae Hyuk, por toda a sua arrogância com o Kang Young Gul, mas conforme os episódios foi passando, percebi que era uma casca pra enfrentar o mundo, por causa do tratamento e imposição do pai. Na outra metade a minha raiva geralmente era direcionada ao Kang Young Gul, que por sua sede de vigança se tornou o arrogante querendo passar por cima de todos que o machucaram e a Lee Ga Young, mas ele não percebeu que quem mais ele machucava era ela.
A diferença entre os dois é que o Jung Jae Hyuk sempre demonstrou não apenas com atitudes, mas também com palavras o quanto amava a Lee Ga Young, enquanto o Kang Young Gul, inumeras vezes disse que tinha que comprar coisa A/B ou C pra ela, porque era ela a responsável pelo sucesso dele, então, mais uma vez eu digo que ali era mais gratidão de ambos os lados.

No final eu acredito que a Lee Ga Young era pra ter ficado mesmo com o Jung Jae Hyuk, e a Choi Anna com o Kang YoungGul, como foi mostrado desde o início, mas que eles se conheceram na hora errada e no momento errado.

PONTOS QUE TÔ SEM ENTENDER ATÉ AGORA:
1 - Como ela não lembrou do cordão? Se era da mãe dela, porque, ela não lembrou imediatamente? E porque ele não contou a história? Fora que não foi mostrado o motivo dele ter continuado com o colar.
2 - Por que o Jung Jae Hyuk não mostrou a ela a carta? Principalmente depois que ela disse que não o queria ver mais?
3 - Não foi mostrado se passou uma quantidade de tempo entre a chegada da Lee Ga Young a Nova York e a conversa dela com o Kang Young Gul ao telefone. Parecia que ela estava muito feliz saindo da escola de moda pra quem estava chorando a poucos minutos por ter sido abandonada.
4 - Como ela não se abalou ao ouvir o tiro? Ela sabia que alguém iria lá? Ela sabe quem foi que mandou? Ela que mandou mata-lo? Isso também me faz pensar se ela é realmente a Lee Ga Young.
5 - E por que ele morreu? Foi para mostrar a quantidade de inimigos que ele fez no caminho? Pra mostrar que ele acabou sozinho? Por que se tu não tiver poder, você é destruído idependente de onde estiver?

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Before finishing

A story well told. Two very beautiful young female leads, two handsome male leads. A series where you know you are going to watch twenty bitter chapters with up and downs, no more no less. The characters are defined, unidimensional maybe but well defined. Qualification by many, almost 5000 viewers is 5.8 on average and then I think, maybe I have been watching an edited version and not the one they gave on Korean TV because I do not think it is worst than many 8 I have seen. Someone that has lived the real transmission in 2012 must account to all of us ignorants about what happened. What is the reference that punish this series so much? Some months ago I watch Longing for you, and a reference to the Arabs made that an excellent series was punished to be well down from the 8 and a half that deserves. What was the problem with Fashion King? It is not as it has loose donkeys or something, it is an expected vengeance from an abandoned child to a chaebol who lacks the character to dominate as he must, it is a face to face round among the female leads where both of them are talented, one more than the other. And the satellite characters are credible, the story is all credible, then, what did they do in the last two chapters to take an almost eight or so to 5 dot eight. I am eager to watch it!

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Unexpected Ending

I'm on the 18th Episode. Ive heard so much about the ending, im not sure I want to watch it.
I read many reviews and many don't like Ga Young ir Young Gul. They favour Jae Hyuk.
I didn't particularly like her being so wimpy and letting two guys telling her what to do. The woman should say something. Her silence made me frustrated on numerous occasions. One thing I liked about her. She was loyal to Young Gul and loved him. She looked genuinely happy being with him.
She did have a gentle nature men want to protect. Her wishy-washy attitude confused me when the guys were tugging her.
Young Gul was handsome, trendy, had lots of swag, and was the right type of guy that would easily be a player. Obviously, falling for Ga Young was unexpected so no wonder he was afraid to love her back once he revealed more of his background. I wanted them to be together at the end. Episode 16 is my fave when they get together in New York. She wanted Young Gul, the man she first loved not the rich man he had become. He wanted her to have the finer things in life, she wanted a simple life with him, designing clothes.
Jae Hyuk was arrogant, snobby and superficial on the outside. On the inside, a scared little boy trying to please his Dad and avoid his mother's meddlesome and overprotective ways. He didn't love Choi Anna. That's why he dumped her. He pitied her and it showed when she had seen his mother. He confused Anna by giving her so many mixed messages. He didn't know what love is. Then he falls for Ga Young. His feelings for her were clearer and obvious to anyone. His idea of chasing after Ga Young when she conveyed that she loved Young Gul, made him look pathetic and bratty. Rich boy used to getting his way. He sets out to make their lives miserable. Both Jae Hyuk and Anna acted like spoiled brats just because they didn't value themselves they made others suffer.
That's what pissed me off about this drama. The other part was Young Gul and Jae Hyuk fighting over Ga Young.
The drama should have been 16 episodes.
All the cast did a tremendous job. If i watch it again, which i doubt i will, i would go to Episode 16.

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Yeah.... what can I say? What the hell were the directors thinking ending it like that. I couldn't for the life of me bear to watch the last episodes fully, i had to keep skipping around.

Story(4) - Episodes 1- 8 or 9 were great, there was a lot of content and it kept everything really interesting, 10-20 were just complete trash. They just kept dragging out everything and even without watching the entire thing you could tell what would happen. JaeHyuk would do this, get pissed off at YG, lament over SSK and the entire stupid cycle repeats.

Acting(7) - They're great, but i just hated the second half of the series, it was just annoying.

Music(1) - TOO MUCH MUSIC, I muted my speakers everytime the OST came on because it just got to my nerves so much.

Rewatch(1) - do yourself a favor, if you end up watching this drama, stop around episode 10 and just say that it ends there with YG ending up with Shin Se Kyung and Yuri with JaeHyuk, you'll be much better off.

Overall(4) - yeah no, even though the first half was great, the entire second half of the drama was just irritating, cant give it over a 5.

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