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vierran45 Matthew Perryman Jones deserves to be better known. he's had a collection of such amazing songs on One Tree Hill.
here's his debut MV(go subscribe to his youtube channel, he just set it up)
Joey: You gotta learn to read between the banter, Pacey.
dangermousie 's guide to the shippy episodes in East of Eden, I've decided to compile a guide to the Pacey/Joey shippy episodes in Dawson's Creek, so that any who come after me and don't want to have to watch 6 seasons of crap to get the good stuff. Of course I'll miss out on some things as I'm skipping around a good deal, but here goes. Summary:
-Season 1 has 3 worthwhile PJ episodes
-Season 2 I skipped this season completely and I recommend the same for PJ-ers - it's the DJ season full-out all the way through, and very dark times(read: nonexistent) for our couple(read the IMDB episode summaries if you don't believe me)
-Season 3 - the first half showcases the delicious gradual build-up of the PJ relationship as friends, then things take off romantically in episode 12(halfway through the season)
-Season 4- it's the PJ season much as season 2 was the DJ season
-Season 5-dark, dark, dark times:( both go through a constant succession of other people whom they're in love with, and apart from a handful of scattered scenes out of the whole season, there's almost no interaction at all, and the finale leads back to the DJ storyline(yech)
-Season 6-first half basically a continuation of the PJ nonexistence/black-out that was season 5, but halfway through it they finally snap back into action in episode 14
Season 1:
Ep 1(so you know what the series is about)
Ep 8
Ep 10
Ep 13-it's mostly Joey/Dawson but there's this one delicious scene where PJ talk
Season 2:
er...
Season 3:
Watch all except for below
skip ep 10-Pacey isn't in it at all
ep 11 has Pacey and Joey individually but not really any Pacey/Joey
Ep 12-oh God, so good-things start heating up around episode 12 and just get great from there
Season 4:
watch all - it's the Pacey/Joey season
Season 5:
Season 5 is a very dark time for PJ shippers, but fortunately for us, their pairing is capable of inspiring enough dedicated fanaticism that a Youtube member went through and posted clips of virtually all the PJ clips in season 5(she has other seasons too but season 5 is the only one that it's necessary to resort solely to clips instead of entire episodes I think).
Eps to watch:
503,504,(509 may look good, but honestly there's like 2 minutes of extremely platonic conversation in the whole episode)
510(see below clips for the best parts)
In the following clip from 510, stop once it gets to them walking home together and skip to the next one, which has slightly more content.
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511-has more PJ scenes than half the season combined, and also re-introduces Chad Michael Murray of One Tree Hill as Joey's love interest
512-see below clip
only good part of ep 513:
517
523(the finale) has only one Pacey/Joey scene and it's well worth watching cause some of their famed chemistry comes back but if you take my advice skip the episode itself, especially the last scene, because it's all DJ in the most sickening manner(most of the time I don't hate them but this one - yuck)
Season 6:
The first half of the season has a few scattered bits of PJ, but overall it's very dark land, with them both being involved with other people and not even interacting as friends. Episodes 611-613 have zero Pacey/Joey interaction(at all), and it's not until episode 614 that PJ snaps back into action in a big way.
No Pacey/Joey interactions in ep 619, either.
Anyone know how to watch stuff on megavideo without having 3 ads pop up and getting sent to that horrible site to watch stuff online that you have to pay for or something?
for the past month or so I get re-driected to it everytime I click play on a MV video.
So, I kind of assumed everyone who could already had got one, but based on
dangermousie 's post just now it appears I was wrong, so here goes-I have
The videos are only available for those who live in North American or have a North America proxy(or something like that) unfortunately:(.
If you want one, leave me a comment(will be screened) with your email and I'll invite you.
It's seriously super cool guys. I finally got around to actually watching one on it - Thank You - the other day, and omg such an easy and pleasant experience.
This is to test whether changing my theme could possibly fix my font problem.
Just read a cheesy Clare Darcy romance novel called Cecily and blogged about it. :) here's my thoughts.
I needed a break from the relentless depression of Anna Karenina, so read a Clare Darcy romance novel in 2 hours flat, and God, it was such an adorable confection of fun, charm, and spades of romantic tension. Give me a grey-eyed lord with a tendency for falling in love with the last person he should, a stubborn, impulsive girl who is completely persuaded that he could never fall in love with her, and I am a happy hopeless romantic. Granted, the delight of the ridiculous misunderstandings, witty/sarcastic dialogue and romantic-tension laden interactions of the main couple was somewhat weighed down by the overly flowery language that dogs period romances - Cecily is part of a "Regency" trio - but the delicious bubbly fluff of the alternate universe/romantic scenarios was just what I needed right now. Plus, the dynamic between Cecily and Lord Robert was quite delicious - he's acerbic, reserved, and never shows what he's thinking except when he gets angry(and thus dangerous) while rescuing her from the seemingly dozens of unfortunate situations she manages to get into in the course of the novel(some of them his fault) while she's headstrong, heedless, and impulsive, and certain that in spite of her feelings for him he'd never notice her over the scores of society ladies chasing him. It's cliched, but I don't care; I've been missing Darcy incarnations in my fictional heroes.Mm:)
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Happy birthday
alexandral! I wish you days full of chocolate, books, superb period dramas and amazing Asian dramas for the year ahead, as well as good health and general happiness!! :)A note on my taste:
I tend to like romantic comedies with a healthy underpinning of angst: I stay away from period/historical dramas, weepy angsfests and almost anything with a sad ending(ie many famous kdramas), and anything lacking in romance(ie many jdramas). I don't apologize for it, but it does mean my taste is quite specific and has informed what I have and have not seen. There are many famous kdramas and jdramas which I haven't touched because they just don't seem my cup of tea(not to say I won't eventually get to them however). I've seen 30 or so complete dramas and parts of many others, and these are my favorite of what I've seen.
Andd, we have: 4 Taiwanese dramas, 6 Korean, and a whopping 1 Japanese:)
( whatevs )
(Wow, I totally want to re-watch this now...)
In conclusion-
Drama I marathoned the fastest/most obsessively:Hana Kimi
Drama I've loved the longest and most passionately: Mars
Drama which made me hyperventilate the most but ultimately made me the most bitter perhaps: Partner
Drama that made me worship the ground the writer walks on: Lawyers of Korea
HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Goong, Hana Yori Dango 1&2, Brilliant Legacy, Who Are You?, Corner with Love, My Lucky Star, Silence, and Smiling Pasta. These are all dramas which are well-written, compelling, and hugely enjoyable, which I definitely recommend watching if you haven't seen yet, but just didn't quite have that spark of consistent magic that I require in my top dramas, or just don't have my heart in the definitive way the others do.
check out the awesome Caspian/Susan vid. I'm so sad she's not gonna be in the next one:(
Okay kids - here's my second music video ever made. I have to say - I'm kind of proud of it :) It's not great, but I think it turned out well particularly given that I chose all the clips based on another song which Youtube promptly told me had been copyright-claimed by WGM or something:(
This one has Boys Over Flowers,Alias, Proposal Daisakusen, Full House and Veronica Mars.
Note: LOTS of incredibly spoilerish Prop D from the ending bits so I highly recommend not watching this if you haven't seen it yet(it's an adorable drama and I highly recommend it - the ending more than makes up for the draggy bits in the middle)
*sigh* So last night I went nuts and instead of going to bed at midnight like the good disciplined girl I've been being lately-I stayed up ALL NIGHT. As in, I haven't slept yet and it's almost 7 AM. yes. I'm a fool. Doubly so because it was all for the sake of procrastination-over-paper disguised as obsession with mastering Windows Movie Maker enough to make a music video.
Here it is. sigh. It's not really that great, though I think I did use an unusual collection of clips: there's Roswell, Coffee Prince, Boys Over Flowers, Dark Angel, Alias, and Veronica Mars.
On the one hand, I hadn't realized it was so easy to put together a bunch of clips. On the other hand, I hadn't realized how hard it was to make it turn out good quality.
Anyway. I set up a separate account for myself on Youtube and I have no doubt I'll be making more in future if anyone's interested.
Well kids, it's time to add two more ships to the ever-growing pantheon of my romantic preferences. And they are...(drumroll please):
Jack/Kate from Lost, and Felicity/Noel from Felicity. I've watched the first 3 episodes of each over the past few weeks and my ships are already set. (Ironically enough I just realized both are JJ Abrams shows). Why I ship Jack/Kate: well, to be honest, I knew I'd ship them even before starting the show - Jack is just my kind of guy, and I disliked Sawyer/the actor who plays Sawyer from almost the first moment I set eyes on him. I'm really glad he's there - he's a necessary part of the plot - and I probably won't even mind the parts where Kate gets with him - but overall, I think the Jate ship is really really well done, because even though Jack's a good guy and Kate's a bad girl, Jack has enough strength about him to handle her, and Kate's drawn to him because of that strength, that stability, and also because he represents the opposite of her world, a world of lies and running and deception. Plus, they have great chemistry and (never to be underestimated) they look great together.
I like Felicity/Noel not because Noel is the most amazing hero/romantic lead ever created - although he's slowly but steadily growing on me - but because he has absolutely no competition whatsoever. Ben, at least so far, is one of the most insensitive, shallow, blank, uninteresting, and self-centered losers I've ever had the misfortune to see as a television lead. I don't hate him - he's got good qualities, and his good looks and charm to spare offset the shallowness somewhat, but all that leads to is a lead whom I'm so ambivalent about that I can't even care enough to despise him. He's so, ultimately, inoffensive, or at least that is what it seems like the drama is tryign to write him as(I've no doubt they're attempting to go for "deep", "complex", or "charismatic" but y'know, television writers, you should really check the dictionary definitions of those words. Just maybe). Which leads to apathy apathy apathy slight despisement. Nope. Noel, on the other hand, may not be as good-looking, but he's got ten billion times' Ben's emotional maturity and character depth, and he's got an offbeat, boyish charm that 's very appealing.
Adorable vid-
In other news, I watched North and South for the fourth or fifth time yesterday, and God, I always forget how much I love it, and every single time I appreciate it more. Wrote some thoughts on it that struck me this time here
In other news, I tried out both Lie to Me and Castle, and both are excellent in very different ways. Good acting all around in both, which was a pleasant surprise(I think because they've got older actors - no rookies here). Lie to Me is not too serious but just serious enough, with taut writing and a very nice underpinning of seriousness/character development/angst-tragedy - and best of all all the major characters are very likable, decent people. Castle is a more graphic and faster-paced but in some ways smaller-concept show, but Nathan Fillion and Nina whatshername fill their roles with verve and ease and have good chemistry and witty dialogue with again, the nice underpinnings of serious emotion, so I highly advocate this too.
I have a question: I'm new to capping, and thus far I've only used Media Player Classic to cap, but several of the dramas I'd like to cap aren't full screen in it, so when I cap there's annoying black margins around the caps. How do I get rid of that? Specifically, I'd like to cap Silence but I can only find it in less than full screen. Help?
Drama Do's and Don'ts
Drama First Kisses
Men Who can wear black
Best drama MV makers:
tierradeborinquen
taffy4185 - she's only made two drama mixes thus far but both are fantastic
queencofbrooklyn- again, only 3 drama MVs thus far, but all are amazing. Such a beautiful combo of color and appropriate songs.
yulchaeyang
flower12
NOTE: I judge all the dramas on the basis of their genre; i.e., I don't judge Taiwanese by Korean, Japanese by Taiwanese, etc. - I rate each one according to how good it is as a Taiwanese drama etc.
Currently watching
You're Beautiful - kdrama starring Jang Geun Seuk and Park Shin Hye, airs on Wednesday/Thursdays
Autumn's Concerto (Next Stop Happiness) - twdrama starring Vanness Wu and Ady An, airs on Sundays
Momo Love - twdrama, airs on Sundays, stars Jiro Wang and Cyndi Wang
East of Eden-if you want to check out the shippiness, these are the eps to watch: 6-11, 15-16, 18-20, 22-29, 38-40, 45, 48, 50, 52, 54-56, ala
dangermousie Drama Calendar/Upcoming to see:
Shanghai Sweetheart(Show Luo, Rainie Yang)-Nov 1
Summer's Desire(Barbie Xu, Xiao Ming) -?
Down with Love(Jerry Yan, Ella Chen) - ?
Chuno - Dec
Movies to watch:
My Girlfriend is an Agent
Rabbit and Lizard(Jang Hyuk, Sung Yuri) -late Oct
While You were Sleeping/One Shot
SEEN:
Taiwanese:(14)
Corner with Love-3/4 -would be 4/4 but for the abrupt ending
Devil Beside You-4.5/5
Hana Kimi-3.5/5
Love Storm-3/3
Mars-5/5
Meteor Garden-4.5/5
My Lucky Star-4/5
Romantic Princess-2/5
Silence -4.5/5
Smiling Pasta - 3.5/5
Sweet Relationship-3.7/5
ToGetHer-4/5
Wish to See You Again-4/5
Why Why Love-4/5
Korean(14)
9 End 2 Outs-4/5
Boys Before Flowers-2.5/5
Full House-5/5
Goong(Princess Hours)-4.8/5
Last Scandal-4/5
My Girl-4.5/5
Partner-4/5 - would've been higher but for the disappointing ending
Robbers-3/5
Snow White-3.5/5
Soulmate-4.5/5
Thank You-4.9/5
The First Shop of Coffee Prince-5/5
The Lawyers of the Great Republic Korea-4.9/5
Who Are You? - 4/5
Japanese(5)
Hana Yori Dango -4.5/5
Hana Yori Dango 2 - 4/5
Hana Kimi- 5/5
Proposal Daisakusen-4/5
Nodame Cantabile-3/5
Films seen:
100 Days with Mr. Arrogant-2.9/5
A Millionaire's First Love - 5/5
Daddy Long-Legs-2.5/5
Linger-1.5/5
My Sassy Girl-4/5
Secret-5/5
Virgin Snow-3/5
Abandoned:
Snow Queen(too angsty and didn't like main girl. Hyun Bin was hot though)
Fated to Love You(main girl was a dishrag and guy was a selfish bastard - and neither changed the whole course of the drama)
Romantic Princess(story fell completely apart. Also, Wu Zun can't act and it was straight cheese instead of mostly cheese)
My Name is Kim Sam-Soon(loved parts, other parts bored me; eventually, for some reason, I just stopped watching)
The World that They Live In(soulless media masquerading as art)
Kurosagi - no real romance :(
Gourmet-food. UGH. So bored.
Hotelier-meh. just didn't draw me.
1% of Anything-adorable, but just too long
Time Between Dog and Wolf(too angsty/tragic, and none of the leads really appeal to me)
Tazza-I looved some of the earlier episodes of this, but oddly, about halfway through it just stopped appealing to me, I suspect because of the very uneven writing
Marrying a Millionaire - I love Kim Hyun Joo, but the drama seems so mediocre
My Fair Lady-a glossy, disastrous mess that was an entire waste of its cast's beauty and potential
Hot Shot - hit The Slump(the middle of the drama) and couldn't get past it. Plus, the female lead/actress was a blank.
Cain and Abel - so much potential and pretty, but after the first few episodes it was slow-moving and repetitive and overall it just lacked emotional heart somehow.
Heading to the Ground - such a sweet but such an utterly silly(and badly-written) drama. I'll probably come back to it at some point to watch the ending. This and My Fair Lady just go to show that endearing leads do not a good drama make.
Abandoned Temporarily:
The Outsiders(so tragic. not sure I can take it)
Invincible Shan Bao Mei-the subs are sooo slow
To Watch
Korean:
Which Star Are You From?
Crazy for You-Yoon Kye Sang!
Save the Last Dance -tons of awesome OTP shippiness, angst, happy ending according to DM
One Fine Day
Lovers
Phoenix
Legend-rec by miss_dian , sodahands , and dangermousie
Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang
La Dolce Vita
Fight
Lobbyist?
Love Story in Harvard
The Painter of the Wind
Mawang
All In
Dalja's Spring
Stranger than Paradise-rec by timescout, has Lee Sung Jae
Capital Scandal
Someday
Taiwanese:
Say Yes Enterprise
Mysterious Incredible Terminator
Love Scar
My MVP Valentine?
Calling Love?
Magic Ring
Japanese:
Pride
Binbo Danshi
Gokusen
Tatta Hitotsu no Koi
1 Litre of Tears
Itoshi Kimi E
Hana Kimi SP
Love Shuffle
To Avoid:
Tokyo Juliet(lots of bad reviews and it was listed repeatedly as one of the dramas people regret watching)
Lovers in Paris(because of ending)
Miss No Good(such crap)
Insoon is Pretty(apparently first 4 eps are good then plot takes a major turn)
Bull Fighting-flisters killed it
Stained Glass-apparently has a horrible, horrible, traumatizing ending
Powerful Opponents-dreadful ending according to dangermousie and I think Dramabeans slammed it too
Possible, but star actors I don't like:
Prince turns to Frog
Ying ye 3
In Love with a Rich Girl
which of you are fans?
You know who I'd like to see in a drama together? Besides Rainie Yang and Show Luo? Song Hye-Go and Gong Yoo. They're both such expressive actors in their faces.
I admit it. I do want to watch this movie.
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