It’s Past the 9th Inning and 2 are Outs!

I am quite busy this week with many projects and tests conjoining on the same day.  However, a day without any drama show is too depressing to think about.  This week, my main focus was on 9 Ends 2 Outs.

The show grabbed my attention with its odd name.  I later fount out its true meaning: after the 9th inning, 2 outs.  I am not much of a sport fan let alone baseball.  Thus I’ve been brooding about how the show doesn’t show any baseball references at all, but maybe they have and I’ve just been too ignorant to notice?  Anyhow, the first 5 episodes or so were incredibly funny concentrating on the odd friendship between Bae Tae Ha and Nan Hee – a man and a woman in their 30.  Imediately one questions if such a friendship can exist.  The tension created by this thought attracted me to watch further to find out the answer.

Unfortunately, after episode 5, the show suddenly changed direction and began focusing on Nan Hee’s love for her 8-years-younger-than-her boyfriend.  He’s somewhat of a crybaby but is attractive enough to worry Nan Hee; which is what the majority of the episodes are later about.  Truthfully, I thought about abandoning this show because this drag was a bit too long for me to handle.  Thankfully, the show finally reached its climax at around episode 9.

By episode 9, Nan Hee realized that she has feelings for both Bae Tae Ha and Jung Joo (the younger boyfriend).  Who should she go after:  the one who loves her more than anything or the one she loves secretly since the day she met him?  By the title, I was expecting something horrible to happen by episode 9 as each episode is called an “inning.”  But nothing really happen.  The following episodes leading up to 11, the newest one out, is about Jung Joo’s departure for America and the sudden distance between Nan Hee and Tae Ha.  In a sense, I suppose that does reference to the two important person in her life suddenly…”out.”

As of right now.  Tae Ha’s old flame suddenly reappears and will surely sours Nan Hee’s relationship with Tae Ha even more.  To be noted, as Jung Joo is heading for America – the cliche place where all Korean character go and return home incredibly successful.  If this cliche holds true, there will definitely be some awesome twists to the story.  So…I guess I’ll stay with this drama to the end.  I just hope it won’t disappoint me.

Drama…What’s Not to Love? Part II

Firstly, thank you everyone for visiting my blog. The stats are getting higher already and…I hope it’ll keep up. ^_^V To get a little off-topic, my day has been filled with drama today. I had to turn in my 3D art project today at 8am, then take a Japanese translation quiz soon after, then run to Art History to take the first exam in 10 minutes, and then find a printer at school to print out my Graphic Design project. Thankfully, all of that has been completed and here I am relaxing until my next class start. Anyhow, I left out a very important drama that I’m watching right now from my previous post so here’s the addition.

4. 9 Ends 2 Out(s) / (At the) 9th Innings, 2 Outs
This is a relatively new kdrama starring Lee Jung Jin as Bae Tae Ha and Soo Ae as Hong Nan Hee. The supposedly combine baseball and love at 30 together, hence the baseball uniform in all of the promotional poster, but I’m not finding the baseball innuendos very evident. The story is Soo Ae turns 30 and has yet to experience real love. She, however, is dating a baseball player 8 years younger than her. To experience some personal freedom from her parents, whom she’s still rooming with, she decides to move in with her best male friend’s, Bae Tae Ha, apartment. The two have been friend since birth; thus, for 30 years. The question arises from this set-up is will Bae Tae Ha and Hong Nan Hee fall in love with each other with the constant presence of each other instead of the few hours each day? This drama focuses on the issue of friendship and love.  Where does one draw the line between a friend and a lover?  Both people care for you, comfort you, and think about you…but are the thoughts from both…the same?  This question is very interesting to me as some friends of mine eventually find themselves liking each other and that always perplexes me.  Doesn’t it feels like loving your brother/sister?  The drama is this mix of question and a dash of humor.  The actor and actress are very natural toward one another making every scene very believable.  I can’t wait to see the answer to my questions above.