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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Boys over Flowers ~ Episode 1 Review

In the beginning of this episode it is explained to us about the Shinhwa school system. (Don't you just LOVE that name Shinhwa? I wonder if they love having their name all over everything haha) As you will or have seen, it is a VERY prestigious school.

The F4 in this school rule EVERYTHING. They have this red card system where if you get one in your locker, you are the target of the whole school. The first person that we see that gets one is Min Ha. As soon as he opens his locker and sees the card, boys from all over the school jump him. They beat him up prety badly and at one point he throws a few around himself. They end up chasing him to the top of the school building where he is going to jump and end his life. (Now at this part, is it me or does he look like he could be related to Cho Kyuhyun?)

Enter Geum Jan Di, the dry cleaners daughter, on a bike, delivering clothes to who? Yes, Min Ha who is about to jump to his death. She races to the top, clothes in hand to find out what is going on. While he is standing on the ledge, she is trying to negotiate the price of the dry cleaning!! This was pretty funny to me. After a few words back and forth he still decides to jump. When Jan Di sees him jump, she throws the clothes and catches him before he falls.



She is then labeled "Wonder Girl" and is the talk of the country. President Kang (Jun Pyo's mother and the President of the Shinhwa company) decides to save face and give Jan Di a scholarship to the school. Jan Di does not want to go to the school but her mother convinces her. By the way, her mother is so funny and cute in this show!!



*Her little victory dance for her daughter getting into Shinhwa

Jan Di works not only works at her parents Dry Cleaners, but she works at a porridge shop (with her best friend Ga Eul) and she goes to school and has a social life (my daughter might need to read up on her..real or not!)

Speaking of the porridge shop and I know I am about to point out just a tiny insignificant part of this show, but did you see on the window of the porridge shop that it says "Slow food" in contrast to todays "Fast food"? Love that!

So Jan Di finally arrives at school and this place is so big she has to have a map and she still gets lost! She is trying to find the swimming pool (the only real reason she agreed to go to this school) and ends up in what looks like a forest with a sidewalk. Who does she meet in this fairytale walk through the woods? Yep, Ji Hoo. Playing a violin. In the woods. In all white. Uh huh...fairytale! HAHA.



So back to the school we go and all of a sudden there are screams from all these girls announcing that the F4 are here. Do they do this everytime? That would just get annoying! I do not really understand fangirls. These people go completely NUTS over these people (this is in real life also) and sometimes even hurt these kdrama and kpop stars! Why? Why can they just not act normal. Do you think these guys would give you the time of day with you crying and fainting and stomping all over them? (Don't hurt me guys, this is just my opinion) If I ever got to meet one, I would at least try to keep my composure and possibly get to at least talk to one. Speaking of "fangirls" I see that we have a few in this drama. 



Look at the one of the right. Who does she remind you of? I think it looks Shin Hye-Sung.

Back to the F4. They walk into the school and Jun Pyo spots this guy who is wearing the exact same shirt as him and give him 3 seconds to take it of (although the guy does not know what he is talking about). When he just stands there, Jun Pyo takes Woo Bin's juice and pours it down his shirt. This makes Jan Di mad and she goes to what I would guess is this abandoned building and is screaming all kinds of nasty things about the F4 into the air, not knowing that Ji Hoo is asleep under the stairs and hears every word. They exchange a few words and he leaves.

The next day, the F4 walks in again and this time a girl has baked a cake for Jun Pyo and gives it to him. He takes it and then smashes it into her face. Jan Di is standing in the back and sees what has happened and is once again mad. She imagines what she would say to him but when he comes up and asks her if she has anything to say, she just says no and he walks off. Ji Hoo stops for a second and gives Jan Di the sexiest big smile EVER! Oh how I love Ji Hoo and his smile!

It is nice to see that Jan Di makes a friend at this school. I really thought that she might be a complete outcast. One day her and her friend Min Ji go out for ice cream. Min Ji is walking along a narrow curb type thing and falls off. Her ice cream lands on Jun Pyo's shoe. He tells her to lick it off and Jan Di steps forward and finally tells him how she feels. He then tells Jan Di that if she wants him to let Min Ji off the hook, she has to lick it off herself. When she starts to bend down, she quickly shoves her ice cream in his face!! Oh the look on his face was priceless!! 



Jun Pyo decides he is going to get even and gives Jan Di the red card. He has them go easy on her by taking away and hiding her desk and when she finds it, it is covered with all kinds of obscenities. They also at one point throw eggs and her and cover her in flour. Jan Di, being tough as nails, endures it all. She ends up going back to the abandoned building to calm herself down by screaming again and guess who is there? Yep Ji Hoo. He sees the state she is in and tries to help her by taking his handkerchief and wiping away the flour on her face and clothes. He seems like the good guy, why is he in this group??

Jun Pyo waits back at his "clubhouse" for Jan Di to come confront and apologize to him but she never shows. He then has someone dump garbage into the school's pool knowing that she swims there everyday. When even that does not work we see at the end that a few guys grab her and start to take off with her. What has Jun Pyo planned now??

*A few things I would like to add that I did not mention in this blog.
1) Who's heart skipped a beat at 29:09?
2) Ji Yung's English is ADORABLE! ( I told you, perfection! )
3) I love love LOVE Jun Pyo's ringtone. I now have it on my phone!

Soo, that is it for this episode guys. Next blog should be done sometime this week (I hope) If anyone is new to this drama and has only watched the first episode and would like to comment or give your opinions or anything feel free to comment. If you have watched this before, please do not give away anything for our readers and viewers who have not seen it yet, but I would like your comments as well.

Saranghaeyo and thanks for reading!

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