Over-thinker. Easily distracted by shiny things. Oooh. Shiny.
Me personally? No, because I only squee and reblog gifsets here.
As for DB, I doubt it. I’m working on another show and I think most everyone else is, too. Even if they’re not, there are too many intriguing shows premiering next week, and it’s so much easier to start when a show premieres than scramble to get caught up weeks later.
This is my COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL opinion:
I still believe they have the contract, however I think the contract is for a certain amount of dramas, that either DF picks and chooses (which would explain why they would go for the “trendier” ones) or ones that CJ E&M gives them. Viki got the license late on Pied Piper and apparently got the license for Memory – just a few days before premiere. It makes me wonder if DF decided to pass on it for whatever reason because they thought they wouldn’t attract enough viewership and didn’t want to expend the man-hours subbing it, so then it was available to be licensed elsewhere.
Again, this is purely speculation on my part, but I think you’ll generally expect to find most tvN shows on DF for the next couple of years. However, it’s nice to know Viki can indeed be a back-up if DF doesn’t pick up a tvN show.
Actually, scratch my previous message. Pied Pioer is now licensed to Viki as well.
This is the best news to wake up to!
Pied Piper here and Memory here on Viki.
Subs may still be a little slow since Pied Piper doesn’t have a trendy actor/idol, and the subbing team would have to work to get caught up since four episodes have aired already. But at least there’s now even more hope!
No, it’s humans translating. It’s just sometimes the translations are confusing coming from the Chinese (which is where the original subs come from), as they don’t always make sense in English, and so it needs to be cleaned up by people who are perhaps more fluent in English.
Like if you use google translate. You might be able to get the gist but it takes a little brain-work to make sense of the mess. You wouldn’t just use the google translate as an official translation, y’know? That’s why I mentioned it, because if someone was downloading the subs without them being edited, they’ll probably be more confused than watching raw.
It’s worth it to wait until the subs have gone through the QC before downloading.
Ahhhh, perfect timing, Anon, because I’m impatiently waiting for ep 3 to download and literally about five minutes ago did a thorough search and…
…nada.
There’s still hope, again, that Darksmurfsubs will pick it up because the Chinese subs are very prompt. Buuuut it could still take awhile if they do pick it up. There’s still no page on Dramafever (although there is a page for Memory, so for those of you bummed that Memory might not be picked up, have hope!). Nothing new on Viki (not that I was expecting). There are these, but I’m not sure how good they are as I haven’t bothered to test them yet.
So in DSS we shall pin our hope and trust. If anyone is interested in helping sub, even if it’s just to edit the English when *fingers crossed* the Chinese subs are translated, go there and check it out!
Ooooh, and in the time I was typing this up, the ep finished downloading, so I’ll see if the show is as good as the first two eps (the drastic dip in viewer ratings has me mildly concerned, but… Shin Ha Kyun!).
Um… is 11 an option? Because yeah.
I was trying to gush on and on about it, but my paragraphs of meagre words just didn’t seem to do this show justice. I’m fiercely protective of this show, though, because so many people dismissed it on the basic premise of a woman cheating on her husband, but that’s not the whole story, or the important story, or really the one you care about.
To quote myself:
While a one-line summation of the plot could be “a married woman has an affair with a carpenter,” the reality is there was so much more to it than that. In fact, the so-called “affair” was really not the main theme of the drama. This was not about a love triangle: This was about a woman (as portrayed by Lee Shi-young), who was the primary person keeping her family together — a family that didn’t even want her around, but also didn’t know how to survive without her. She humbly accepted all the tasks given her: caretaker of her paralyzed sister-in-law, primary bread-winner, maid, cook, chauffeur, and the general force of good-will and peace throughout her in-laws’ home. Even if it was difficult, she maintained a positive attitude — this was the life she had decided she wanted since she was young, and while it might not be as joy-filled and easy as she thought, it was still her choice and her life. Why be bitter about it?
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In the end, this drama wasn’t about a woman considering having an affair. It was about family — the good, the bad, and the ugly. It was about the toils and tribulations we go through to keep family intact despite disasters and heartache. It was about how no one is perfect and everyone is just trying to get through each day as best they can. Relationships are hard — they’re weird and messy and often there’s no right or wrong answer, just the best answer for that person at that point in time.
I don’t want to spoil you on anything, but I had a lot to say about this show when it was airing, if you care to take a gander at the “Valid Love” tag.
Ahhh, yeah. That was me last year. Between the one-two punch of Misaeng and Valid Love, no other dramas really appealed to me for a very long time.
Breaks are good, though! Helps to clear the palate, and then who knows what bounty will be waiting for you when you finally decide to jump back in.
OMHE definitely isn’t what it could have been, so you’re not really missing out. I’m just too involved with the characters by now and want to see how they end up (especially my girl Dong Mi <3<3<3<3<3).
Neighborhood Hero is definitely a different vibe and I can totally understand someone not being into it, but it’s the kind of languid show with low-key interesting characters that seem to hit a sweet spot with me. It vaguely reminds me of Midnight Diner or Yoona’s Street in that way. Yeah, there’s this whole “spy who burned me” plot, but that’s not really why I’m watching. I like seeing the neighborhood come together to try and defeat the developers. The spy stuff is just there to give me interesting characters and situations (I mean a bar for retired/fired spies is pretty much a delightful conceit to me, especially when the most earnest puppy and worst spy ever is assigned to follow them. So ridiculous yet adorable).
Also I’ve heard rumbles from other people who have been disappointed in this year’s offerings, so you’re not alone if that’s the case for you. But you know what they say: one drama fan’s trash is another drama fan’s treasure. Or something like that. :p
Yeah, they have an exclusive deal with tvn (for a few years, I think?). So it’s weird to me that they don’t even have a place-holder page set-up for Pied Piper. There’s nothing when I search for it. It’s not listed in their “Coming Soon” section (which lists a lot dramas, even ones that won’t air for a couple of months). On the random off-chance they don’t have exclusive rights for this particular drama, I have tried searching for it being subbed elsewhere but nope. There’s only a fanpage on Viki that’s pretty much dead.
So I have no idea why Dramafever is skipping this one, especially since it’s airing right after Cheese in the Trap ended so it’s not like they weren’t expecting it. More’s the pity, too, because I really enjoyed the first ep and knowing this production crew, it’s only going to get more intense.
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