K-Drama Flashback Weekly Watch "Boys Over Flowers" EP 5 & 6

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Boys Over Flowers is one of the biggest Korean drama hits of our time, sweeping ratings and awards across Asia in 2009 and 2010. This Korean take on the popular Japanese manga of the same name, tackles complex issues involving outcasts, socio-economic disparity, family, love, and friendship. Jan Di is an average girl whose family owns a dry cleaning store located near the luxurious and well known Shin Hwa High School. After saving a boy from jumping off the roof of Shin Hwa High School, Jan Di is admitted into the school on a swimming scholarship. At school, Jan Di tries to avoid confrontation with the four richest and most spoiled boys known as the F4, because she knows what happens to those that stand against them. However, when Jan Di's friend, Oh Min Ji, accidentally gets ice cream on the leader of the F4's shoes, she's forced to declare war on the leader of the F4, Goo Joon Pyo. What will happen though, when she falls in love with someone from the F4 and Goo Joon Pyo starts feeling something for her too? Will the love triangle disrupt F4 and change their lives forever? Get ready for addictive drama, romance and comedy at it best.






Watch Boys Over Flowers on Hulu & Viki (I guess it was taken off of Netflix this month?). Meet you back here next Tuesday for episodes 7 & 8!



source: Hulu for the synopsis

Comments

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Junpyo would probably write in to AITA and everyone would be all “yes you’re a GODDAMN ASSHOLE stay away from her”, and then after he would edit his post like “I saw the comments and YOU GUYS DON’T UNDERSTAND ME!!!”.

I had to stop episode 5 multiple times. It was so hard to watch. Junpyo has always been a little freakin brat oh my god. And I don’t know if it was makeup, but Minji’s face looked so beat up after those slaps.

WHY DID THOSE GIRLS GET ON THAT PLANE?!? Like what the fuck? Where is the common sense?

For 5 episodes I was hoping that Jihoo and Jandi would suck faces and Junpyo would see it and I am so happy it finally happened lol.

[yakuniku-8.livejournal.com]

I also wondered why they went with them. They are high school students!

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

oh god i can't believe you were waiting for that, i hate it when they kiss cause the show brainwashes me into being sympathetic to gjp and it's actually super cruel to him lol

[yakuniku-8.livejournal.com]

Yeah me too. And I'm waiting for the moment when she will teach him how to swim because it was so sad. I don't understand why I feel bad for him when he's so mean and violent.

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

it's just how the show frames him. he does a lot of awful stuff but it's not presented as as horrific as it really is in the show and instead the focus is on the sweet stuff he does.

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I was waiting for something to happen for him to finally leave her alone, because perm head wasn't getting the point. I would've taken any gesture, really lol. I still don't feel bad for those boys at all. Any time any F4 boys pop up I'm just like "what a dumbass" lol.

[yakuniku-8.livejournal.com]

I want them to make up but it's not gonna happen soon...

I'm sick of Goo Jun Pyo showing off his wealth. The New Caledonia part was too much. Also I couldn't look at the French girls, it was so awkward.

And seriously, how come a strong girl like Jan Di lets him do whatever he wants and say she's his girlfriend ? At that time, there were a lot of tomboy female leads. They were all fighting at the beginning but in the end they were all weak. On that aspect I prefer the main characters now. They are more "average" but they can stand for themselves. Also it seems that male leads are less abusive in recent dramas, even if they are still spoiled kids.

Other than that, Lee Min Ho was so handsome! His face now is more "perfect" but he had so much charisma back then.

I'm already at episode 8.

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

i feel like male leads are also less GRABBY although they still are. and i think there's less punching randos, although maybe this is just the dramas i choose to watch...? idk if it would fly today for gjp to be grabbing jan di by the shirt collar and shaking her around.

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I totally thought she would have put up more of a fight, but she just goes along with him and it's so uuughhhhh. Everytime he calls her his girlfriend she just keeps quiet and it's so frustrating.

And yes to those random French girls lol! I kept wondering why they were there the entire time lol. But I guess it balanced out the guy/girl ratio.

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

somehow i don't have a lot to say about these eps?

honestly i don't wanna be THAT person but jan di really do be leading gjp on.......

"i don't mess around with girls that don't like me" THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!!!

honestly jihoo is a jerk.

and it kills me how she lost the anklet in like 15 minutes.

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Oh God that anklet lol!

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

i know he can afford something better

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

I've been sleeping the whole day so idk if I missed this or not, but I'll comment anyways

My favorite part about this show was the child actors, all of them were super cute. Especially the girl who played Min Ji

Also one of my favorite comedy tropes is when someone opens a door, looks at the person behind it a few seconds, and then closes the door without saying anything. It makes me chuckle pretty much every single time it's used, no matter the context.

The brown-green-dress they bought for Jan Di is hideous.
The girls were just more or less kidnapped to an island holiday abroad but do they even have passports etc? Could they just leave the country with no heads-up?

Ugh the whole "you'll lose something important to you as a woman" part, idk if the fortune teller lady meant Jan Di's "innocence"/virginity but it was definitely strongly implied and that just rubs me the wrong way.

Ep 5 was probably the point where Yi Jung and Ga Eul became my only endgame, I was already completely done with the GJP/GJD/YJH love triangle since it was obvious how it was going to end and the 3 of them were more or less unbearable.
Jun Pyo bailing on his own is such a douchebag move no matter how pissed off he might be. HE was the one who dragged Jan Di and Ga Eul to New Caledonia, what if the other F4 guys wouldn't have gone with them (or what if they were assholes), there would've been no way for them to get back home.

The funniest thing in ep 6 was the random piece of chalk at the staircase, how and why did it end up there? I need a backstory

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I thought that the stick figure junpyo was pretty accurate lol

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

Nailed that perm

[yakuniku-8.livejournal.com]

I'm wainting for Ga Eul-Yi Jung's story as well but it seems more bittersweet for me watching it again.

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

lol who opened the door on someone and then closed it

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

About 17min into ep 5, Jun Pyo goes to Jan Di's house and her brother answers the door.

[mallmouse.livejournal.com]

such a pity it's not on Netflix anymore. All those other illegal sites make it so much harder to fast forward. But it was impossible not to.
The FL is so damn bad. The way it's written and directed too. She only has four expressions: dumb, angry, disgusted, sad, and all to the extreme.
Why did they get on that plane?? Why does she say nothing when he proclaims she's his gf? And, honestly, what does he see in her when she looks so dumb all the time? And is her family literally whoring her out? I used to say not so very good things about Meteor Garden, but after watching BOF I'm appreciating MG so much omg (except the horrific last episodes of course)

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

oh god were these the episodes when gjp gets into a kayak on the fucking ocean with no life vest when HE CAN['T FUCKING SWIM, that shit stressed me out!!!!!!!