DOCTORS EP 15 - 20 DISCUSSION POST

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Synopsis:
Yoo Hye Jung was a tough bully in school with a prickly personality and always goes wayward. She had many scars from her childhood and through self-preservation, Hye Jung keeps her heart shut away from other people. However, she changes after meeting her mentor Hong Ji Hong who plays a key role in transforming her life from a helpless gangster to a compassionate doctor.

Cast:
Kim Rae Won as Hong Ji Hong
Park Shin Hye as Yoo Hye Jung
Yoon Kyun Sang as Jung Yoon Do
Lee Sung Kyung as Jin Seo Woo

Director: Oh Choong-Hwan
Writer: Ha Myung-Hee
Network: SBS
Episodes: 20
Release Date: June 20 - August 23, 2016
Runtime: Monday & Tuesday 22:00

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went out with a 21.2% rating

Comments

[ah0000.livejournal.com]

This show was so shitty and got so damn boring but yet I watched all the way through. Yoon Kyun Sang was way underutilized and Lee Sung Kyung was really pretty. Way too fucking much product placement for Subway and Shin Hye's makeup brands. Every time they showed Subway I was like 😒

[lostintheechoes.livejournal.com]

I hated all the subway promotion too. It brought back memories of when i worked there.

[ah0000.livejournal.com]

Ikr I was like...I already put too many hours into watching this show.

[lostintheechoes.livejournal.com]

im glad he got.better. I really liked his character and was sadden by his diagnosis.

[jaeslurpy.livejournal.com]

i haven't finished it yet but i really love this drama. i've been shipping everyone with everyone lol. this, w, and age of youth have been my favorite dramas at the moment.

[amandaplan.livejournal.com]

I loved this drama and the actors. i really liked psh's character development. i never watch medical dramas except if DOTS counted but this one was really good. yes @ those ratings!!!

[jinkiestabi.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I came in watching this show with shallow intentions, so I didn't expect anything.I got Kyunsang, JiSoo and Minsuk like I wanted, but I also got the hot Boss guy from the beginning in the process and was introduced to Kim Raewon so....

Good stuff. Lol.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I went in for Yoon Kyun Sang and Ji Soo but got a surprise crush on Lee Sung Kyung too, seriously that girl would make an absolutely mesmerising lead. Just not the Candy type pls.

and 21.2%? That better be the end of bitter bitches claiming Park Shin Hye is only successful bc of her Hallyu costars or working w star writers lol. Kim Rae Won is great but the show was hers to carry and she did, even tho the story really ran thin for a while there.

(ngl it is killing me that this is the highest rated Big 3 drama this summer, ahead of the much more anticipated/hyped shit)

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

she's gonna be in the weightlifting fairy kim bok joo this fall/winter! apparently she's gonna start gaining weight now that doctors has ended

[winegums.livejournal.com]

..... owwww that's basically going to be ratings cannon fodder against the new Park Ji Eun drama. Tho I'm wondering how LSK even with weight gain, is ever going to pass as any kind of credible weightlifter - nothing about this computes!

But i really do like her and I'm cursing the person who made the comment on db that they'd like to see her w Kim Woobin in a drama - idek i wanted that, and now i do.

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

yeah lee sungkyung and nam joohyuk for the leads against jun jihyun and lee minho? no chance unless park ji eun really fucks it up. i heard that the script is really fun though, so i'm kinda excited.

i mean i saw how db people are offended with lsk playing a role inspired by jang mi ran but if anything i feel like insisting that only people with stature of jang mi ran can be weighlifters is stereotypical in itself, and weightlifting has several weight classes for athletes. i'm just glad they're having her gain weight instead of going the fat suit route - that would have been downright insulting.

anyways, there was no way they would've been able to cast an actual actress who already has the weightlifter body and also has the acting career (i saw db people pushing for ra miran and i'm like um main character is a 20 year old college student) so whatever, lsk is a fine choice for me as long as she's able to gain some muscle in the next two months, although i do scoff at yg being obvious with them pushing lsk and njh both as leads in one drama.

i'm getting generally tired of db, every drama that pops up people are pushing ji soo for lead and he's been absolutely terrible in everything i've seen sans angry mom (which was apparently only drama he managed to be decent) and from what i've seen in moon lovers yikes D:

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I think what really raised eyebrows about LSK casting was that it was this particular sport and that it was inspired by a real-life person who I doubt LSK is going to resemble (build-wise). And lbr here it's not about diversity of body types in the sport, it's about the aesthetics. Ra Miran may be too old but there are def younger actresses who could plausibly work up to the build - not that they'd ever be cast.

I'm not mad at people wanting Ji-soo for lead, people (not just on db) did the exact same thing with Woobin for almost three years before UF was announced and he's no worse than Woobin used to be at the same experience level. Moon Lovers hasn't even premiered yet so unless you've seen something I haven't, idk. I've yet to see comments wanting him for lead on that, no one is that delusional.

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

eh jang mi ran said she only provided details and background knowledge on the sport but made it clear that the story isn't about her life at all, which was part of the reason why she felt so comfortable helping out. the reporters just made the link since it's the first time weightlifting is used in dramas and jang mi ran is pretty much the only well known weightlifter in korea.

ehh idk i'm definitely biased but woobin was much better with presence and tone even back then than ji soo right now is - but even then i would've been annoyed if people pushed woobin the way jisoo is right now.
i've been following moon lovers and they've released their highlights/teasers/specials/posters and except for this one scene with lee joongi he has been so awkward, it's the way he says the lines that make it feel like it's more a sitcom for kids than an actual drama - i'm thinking it's partially the language barrier because general opinions from korean drama viewers have also been terrible (well at least among people who have heard of him) but ifans just absolutely adore him.

it's dramas like moonlight drawn by clouds and picnic and dramas meant for actors in 20s I've seen db push ji soo for leads, and what confused me the most was when they insisted ji soo should be the lead instead of park bo gum, claiming the age difference with yoojung and i'm like but he and pbg are both the same age??
i do think ji soo, despite the ifan opinions, is doing the right thing right now taking on small roles in a shit ton of dramas. i honestly think he's overrated but with experience he can definitely improve and i do enjoy actors with unconventional looks doing well.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I hope it's less messy than it sound tbqh. I would like to see more of LSK in dramas and it'd be a shame if she was torpedoed by one bad drama choice.

As for Ji Soo.... eh. I'm a Woobin fan myself but I think they're about even on the acting skills front at this same point in their careers (about 3-4 dramas in). I remember people clamouring for him to get lead roles right from the end of School 2013 onwards, and even before that drama he def had a following - to the point where I (when I hadn't yet seen him in anything) wondered what the big deal about him was. I wouldn't be surprised if Ji Soo sucks at sageuk tho - the speech and technical stuff is hard to get down. Thankfully his agency has the right strategy for him in taking smaller roles and lots of them - I've seen more than one person on db with that view, they're far from the mindless Ji-soo fanclub you make them sound like. (or maybe I'm just used to the waves of batshit Lee Min Ho fans who periodically invade drama sites, everyone else's fans seem like fluffy well-behaved bunnies in comparison - I mean, at least the Ji Soo/Woobin/Lee Jongsuk/whoever fans don't go around saying shit like their star is the biggest star in the world outside of Hollywood and trashing other actors, I swear the LMH fans are the worst and borderline racist too, with the way they like to dismiss stars from other non-Hollywood industries)

As for the Park Bo Gum/Ji Soo thing, I wonder where it came from because PBG is p much a universal darling. The only time I've seen anyone question Bogum's casting on the age gap grounds was bc some Taecyeon fans wanted to justify Kim So Hyun being cast with Taecyeon by saying him/Yoojung were also equally wrong despite their age gap being p much half the other, and people p much tore them a new one for that (which I can't hate, it squicks the hell out of me that KSH is so young and they're still going full skinship on it when they didn't let it happen with more age-appropriate costars).

edit: that turned very long, sorry!

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

yeah, we'll just agree to disgree on jisoo/woobin - frankly i can't imagine jisoo being able to act like woobin did in friends 2 right now, but acting ability is a subjective thing i guess.
i think we can all agree that lmh fans can be bat shit insane - although their k fandom has subdued in craziness quite a bit.

i'm not watching tacyeon's drama right now, i thought that the kiss scenes were pretty lighter than people expected? i don't like it either that their age difference is so big but sidus is really determined to push kyj and ksh for lead roles right now and they're not the first actresses who had romantic lead roles in their high school age and kissed actors who were much older... :( like i get it, a lot of top stars who started out very young were playing leads right around ksh/kyj's age and aside from high school dramas (that have lower bar for leads) and non-romance genres (that most of the time needs older actresses in 30s), there aren't a lot of option of kyj and ksh. i do wish the male leads matched their age a bit more but i guess from the broadcasting companies' perspectives they're rather risk a portion of viewers angry and creeped out than to use a nugu :/

the pool for young male actors are terrible, only decent ones seem to be ones in the '93 group plus jingoo. and well, jingoo is like one of the best actors out there already.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i def think Sidus is pushing KSH and KYJ for lead roles really hard rn because they want to establish those two as leads before they age into adulthood and actresses in their age group start competing for lead roles. I can see the business strategy but how it's being done is still shady.

I thought the pool for young actors is actually pretty decent-sized atm, obv no one is perfect and the '93 lot are probably the best, but there's still a bunch of late-80s/early 90s-born actors who have a decent degree of acting ability and some name recognition (LJS, KWB, Seo In Gook, Kim Soo Hyun, Kang Haneul, Ji Chang Wook... plus all the hallyu bait '87ers who I'm really not into personally but they're still big names).

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

No, I mean for actors who are age appropriate with ksh and kyj. there are plenty of actors like you said who are born in the late 80s and 90s, but they're still like, 8 or 9 years older than ksh and kyj. i mean that among actors who can act with ksh and kyj and not look creepy, there's only like two or three that can handle being a lead - and they've already acted with the two.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Ah ok. That makes sense. There's legit no boy actor the same age group as KSH/KYJ who has their level of name recognitio other than Jin Goo and like you said he's been paired w both already.

Tho ime male leads don't start breaking out till their early twenties, the 93 lot got it in the last year or so and hopefully we'll see 97-98ers make it in a couple of years.