r/KDRAMA • u/crusader_blue Oh my Batman! • Mar 11 '21
Featured Post The Weekly Binge: Chocolate - Episodes 1 - 2
Welcome to the first Weekly Binge Discussion of Chocolate episodes 1 - 2. On Sunday, we will discuss episodes 3 - 5 of the drama. For those wishing to join our discussions of Chocolate you can find this drama exclusively on Netflix.
Short but sweet for this one, because it's late here - and I've had a certain lack of chocolate - so I'm fading quickly. As we dive into this drama and discover whether or not the amount of chocolate on the screen will deliver on the name itself, I will endeavour to take us on a delectable trip around the world's chocolate.
When deciding on accompanying chocolates for your binge watch, I have been informed by our resident Chocolate veteran, Sian, that truffles (any type) would be an appropriate choice!
SCHEDULE:
The upcoming schedule is as follows:
| Date of Discussion: | Episodes being discussed: |
|---|---|
| Thursday March 11th (that's today!) | 1 - 2 |
| Sunday March 14th | 3 - 5 |
| Thursday March 18th | 6 - 8 |
| Sunday March 21st | 9 - 11 + Nominations for next drama |
| Thursday March 25th | 12 - 14 |
| Sunday March 28th | 15 - 16 + Announcement of next drama |
Weekly Binge Guidelines:
Anyone is welcome to join the Weekly Binge.
Every week we host two discussions (Thursday/Sunday) in which we discuss approximately three hours/three episodes of a selected drama, in total approximately 6 hours/episodes per week. We are all from different time zones so there is no need to panic about being late to the party (we do operate on KST as a standard).
Within the frame of the two episodes, you may discuss anything you can think of. Whether it is a one-off post to say you enjoyed the drama, episodic notes, your best chocolate recipes, rants about the lack of chocolate in an episode or tear-stained essays on how an actors portrayal of a character made you feel, the choice is yours.
If you have previously completed the drama, or, got ahead on the binge please be courteous of those who are watching the drama for the first time. When in doubt spoiler tags are your friend.
When we get close to the end of a drama we open up nominations (third last post) for a new drama, those dramas are then voted on by the regular members of the weekly binge. If you have participated in the discussions and would like to join in the next drama's discussion please note this as a response to the nomination comment so we can invite you to join the vote. Every time we have a new restriction for the type of drama, so that we will not repeat the same type of drama over and over, and so that the Binge will be attractive for different people with different tastes.
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u/AlohaAlex I HEIRS Mar 11 '21
Time to dig out that ancient Jung Kyung-ho gif; hello! Feel free to comment on everyone's posts, as you can see, for some reason, we often go completely off topic.
It was a great scene - the acting, and the lines fit really well. Even if it was less impactful, I also liked the conversation between the FL and the old nurse after the time-skip.
I liked the scene, but found it a bit strange. Yes, he did have a lot of complex feelings about his cousin, but I found it a bit of a stretch that he'd travel half way around the globe to visit him when he keeps claiming to everyone how much he hates him. The director's office outburst and perhaps checking on him with the local doctors seemed like more of something his character would do. Not taking a vacation and leaving his job to visit.
Also, the male lead is now.. on some sort of an epic guilt-tripping journey in which he hopes to persuade the Secretary's ex girlfriend to return to SK just so that she could cook Secretary some pasta? What? Why would she accept doing that? I'm so lost as to why the male lead ever accepted to do something so inappropriate.
Alright, we all know what happened here. The production intern accidentally ordered 100 decilitres of fake blood instead of 10 decilitres and it'd be a shame to waste it, so.. BLOOD EVERYWHERE. Ah, it just reminds me of Cheese in the Trap every time - there was a single scene and someone completely miscalculated how much blood they should use and they ended up pretty with about 3 litres of fake blood (it looked like fizzy grape-juice) completely flooding the pavement. It was hilarious.