Watching and writing

[maggie33]

I finished my re-watch of The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, and while I was deliberating over which Chinese drama on VIKI to watch next, I decided to start watching a Korean drama on Netflix – Hospital Playlist.

It’s about five friends who met at the medical school 20 years ago, and now work at the same hospital in Seul. I watched 3 episodes for now and I would say it’s mostly a slice of life drama depicting everyday life at the hospital and the friendship between the main characters. It’s very well written and very well acted. And the main characters have very nice friendship chemistry. During those three episodes I laughed a lot and I cried twice. I really like it and I’m glad I started watching.

The drama has 12 episodes and each episode is around 80 – 90 minutes long. And as soon as I’m done with it I want to watch The King: Eternal Monarch (also on Netflix). I stumbled upon a few gifsets on tumblr, and then I read the description, and it sounds right up my alley. Modern-day kingdom, parallel worlds, a loyal Captain devoted to his King and his kingdom – I like it already. :)

Here is the Wikipedia synopsis:

“Lee Gon (Lee Min-ho), a modern-day Emperor of the Kingdom of Corea, attempts to cross the barrier into an alternate reality where the Republic of Korea exists in the Kingdom's stead. He comes across detective Jung Tae-eul (Kim Go-eun), whom he recognizes from an identity card he obtained during the turning-point of his childhood, his father's assassination. Lee Gon's half uncle who assassinated the previous king is in hiding and assembling armies whilst traversing back and forth between the two parallel worlds.”


Also I have 1200 words written of my first The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty fic. Because as soon as I said to myself “it’s time to start writing my RMS assignment then” my brain went “nah, let’s write a pre-threesome fic for The Sleuth instead”. Thanks, brain, thanks a lot. ;)

Comments

[riventhorn]

I'm on ep 33 of Sleuth. My interest waned a bit during the arc dealing with the poisoned arrow and finding the antidote--just didn't like it--but now I feel like it has returned to form. I loved the moment when Sui Zhou is having nightmares and their whole little family comes together to try and offer him solutions. And then when Doctor Pei and Tang Yu confess their love for each other right next to Sui Zhou while he's cooking. Sui Zhou is so patient and gentle with all of them and you can tell he loves them so much in his own way, even if his usual attitude is one of exasperated calm.

[maggie33]

Sui Zhou is so patient and gentle with all of them and you can tell he loves them so much in his own way, even if his usual attitude is one of exasperated calm.

I really love that about him. And I'm glad you're enjoying it again. There is still a lot of good things before you. And a lot of angst, which I loved. :) And the last 4 episodes are all fantastic IMO. I'm very curious what will you think about them.

[rheasilvia]

I have 1200 words written of my first The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty fic

YAY, that is excellent news! I think it's high time the OT3 gets some proper love. :-)

Eternal Monarch has been on my watchlist for a while, too. I keep meaning to check it out!

[maggie33]

Icon twin. :D

I think it's high time the OT3 gets some proper love. :-)

I agree. And since no one besides you was writing it, I had to do it myself. ;)