Tonight over dinner Joan and I described Fariha her own Korean drama. It would be epic, of course, a fight between her first love and the best friend that will perpetually only be a friend. Her first love would have come back from studying abroad in America (graduated at the top of his class at a most prestigious business school) after have left her alone for years (but as a bonus he'll come back with glasses!) He won't tell her he's back. She will be eating at a cute cafe with the best friend when she spots him. Intense eye contact will ensue as she pretends not to know him. He will saunter over, self conscious; she was his first love after all (first love is HUGE in Korea, it's a love that will never die). There will be an epic power struggle between the guy you know who's good for her and the one who never stood a chance. And so it goes. But luckily in Fariha's drama there won't be anyone giving his eyeballs to her (or his shaved eyebrows wrapped in a lovely box).
It just got me thinking. Why can't I have my own Asian drama? Well, minus the drama part. I'll take a hot Asian & wickedly cute banter but you can hold the cancer and the messy love triangle (sometimes parallelogram). I am easily lost in the world of drama. Not because their realities (well the realities of those actors paid to make my heart swoon) are anything I would really want to experience but because love in drama comes so easy.
There is the initial attraction, bickering, and mishaps along the way, but after four episodes these characters have found the "one". You take the asshole with the heart of gold give him a good girl and suddenly, like magic, he's reformed.
No drama is complete without the hopeless Jihoo Sunbae (who was willing to fail med school, so he could graduate with the main actress the next year) or the jilted ex-girlfriend (Tennis bitch!) Everything is so cliche. The same formula, reused over and over. Yet I feel like whenever I start a new drama I am going on a completely new journey. I get to experience a perfect love once again without getting my own heart broken.
I have been watching a Korean drama called, You're Beautiful. It is heart wrenching, hilarious and my favorite type of crack. In this scene the girl (who is cross dressing as her twin brother in this popular band) realizes fully she is in love with Tae Kyung (who knows she's a girl). She is being recorded for her solo song except the first attempt at singing it comes off as dry. She has no emotions. She had been apart from Tae Kyung for days and desperately missed him. When he walks in the room the emotions come rushing out of her and she belts it. It's one of my favorite scenes so far in this drama and I wanted to share a portion of their fictional love (forgive me Elysse, indulge me!)
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One day, Alex, there will arrive that person who will remind you of nothing but himself. And, yet, everything after that will remind you of him. It will only consist of all the best elements of Asian drama, but there will be no formula attached. Because it's going to be real. And, it'll help you write your own serial, and you'll be rich and you'll be able to throw classy parties every single day.
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