Friday, February 25, 2011

My Princess

Hehe...for once I'm fast...I just finished My Princess (MBC, 16 episodes), which just aired its epilogue yesterday in Korea.

My Princess Synopsis: (from DramaWiki)
An ordinary college student, Lee Seol, finds out she's a princess. The grandson of Daehan Group, Park Hae Young, is put in charge of educating Seol on proper etiquette.

Cast:
Song Seung Hun as Park Hae Young
Kim Tae Hee as Lee Seol
Park Ye Jin as Oh Yoon Joo
Ryu Soo Young as Nam Jung Woo
Lee Soon Jae as President Park Dong Jae


My comments:
My Princess is an enjoyable but pretty forgettable drama since I don’t think it will leave a long lasting impression. I watched this drama more for Ryu Soo Young since it’s his comeback after military services. Unfortunately, his character was not the most interesting. I’m not a fan of Song Seung Hun and Kim Tae Hee from their previous works but they were adorable as a couple in My Princess. Since the first episode they were cute together and they remained cute until the end. Whenever they are on screen together, it’s good. But when they’re not, it could be bland.

It was an unconventional love square in this drama. It’s nice to see Jung Woo not having romantic feelings for Lee Seol but still helping her whenever she’s in trouble. Yoon Joo is not your usual clingy secondary female lead where she does evil things just to separate the main couple because the guy doesn’t love her back. Yoon Joo was annoyingly expressionless throughout the drama but I like that her character was honest and frank from the start that she was against the restoration of the monarchy. I quite like her open ending with Jung Woo.

I didn’t care much about the whole voting of the restoration of the monarchy and all the dirty tricks from Yoon Joo to pull down Lee Seol. But, it’s nice to see Yoon Joo getting busted by either Hae Young or Jung Woo whenever she tries to harm Lee Seol. I just felt disappointed how they dealt with Hae Young’s dad. Dad was in the dark for so long as one of the many reasons why our main couple cannot be together and he didn’t even appear and have a chance to clear his name and he just gave up his inheritance like this too. Isn’t it a simplistic resolution?

Song Seung Hun and Kim Tae Hee are very charismatic and likeable in this drama and I would like to see them doing more rom-coms in the future. My surprise of this drama is Kim Tae Hee because everything I saw her previously, she was this glaring beauty with perfect and impeccable make-up and wardrobe but here she had so many embarrassing moments, which I found cute nad endearing. Song Seung Hun must gain a lot of new fans after this drama, portraying the prince charming at the rescue of our clumsy and naive princess.

* Opening credit of the drama

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