[Drama 2019] Hotel Del Luna, 호텔 델루나

[berny2]

@lightbringer06 thanks i sent you a direct message 

[Sakurafairy]

Yeyyyy, my ChungMyung is also going with them too.  I thought he wouldnt  bc I did not see him in the wrap up party.

 

 

 

 

 

[Ellander88]

Look at all these fans waiting at the airport! Some perseverance we need there! Fighting everyone!

 

 

 

 

Cr to owners

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Someone doing live here

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sanchez!

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Mina, Ms Choi (I forgot the actress name), Lee Do Hyun, P.O

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Yeo Jin Goo

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IU

 

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Who is that lucky fan!

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[lollyminx]

26 minutes ago, Ellander88 said:

Sanchez!

Yay, Sanchez came. How about Mira and the Grim Reaper, oh and Yeon Woo? 

[Ellander88]

5 minutes ago, lollyminx said:

How about Mira and the Grim Reaper, oh and Yeon Woo? 

 

I don't see them in any of the video. You can click on the tag. All of those fans are making the hashtag trending.

[Ameera Ali]

 

 

 

@lu09 , he not stronge at all 

 

 

 

[Ellander88]

Okay, I've seen them safely arrived.

Gotta take my rest now. 

Anticipating for some photo to be updated the few days they are in BKK from them or any of the staffs. 

 

[Ameera Ali]

 

 

 

@lollyminx , @berny2 now I understand why he end up sleeping next to sexy woman rather than be naughty 

 

 

 

His journey to bed was straggler 

 

[RiceGirl1212]

I guess all of us are like lingering ghosts here   I'm sure most of us will pass on before the 49 days.

 

I have so much to respond too.  I didn't expect the thread to grow so fast again.

 

@lollyminx, @aria26, @charlieblue17, @vangsweetie637 thank you for the compelling discussion regarding the miss opportunities.

 

With the recent release of information from the Hong Sisters about their vision of the series I feel they had something in mind and it just grew to something beyond what maybe they had thought it would ever come to.

 

The romance baiting, obviously they want people to tune in to see ManChan moments.  I mean the director isn't a novice, he could show what we the audience were craving for and I feel like IU and YJG as actors would be up for it.  But the script/writers seemed to have bound the director and the cast to perform in a certain way.  I think that is why I felt that suitcase scene was so weirdly edited in  It felt off for me.  Don't know if that was a last minute addition to just kind of give filler.  They could have done something better if that is the case.  For example the balcony scene where they pinch each other's cheeks.  That was just super cute and well executed.  

 

Now we all know that IU and YJG ad-lib lines in the farewell scene beyond the short 2 sentences in the script.  To me that just shows the Hong Sisters may have lost sight of the relationship between MW and CS.  And IU and YJG seemed to have come to really understand their characters well enough to know that those 2 lines did not do justice to the farewell MW and CS should share.  I understand ultimately the story of Hotel Del Luna was about MW and her journey to peace, forgiveness, and loving again.  That may have been the reason why Hong Sisters may have been strict on the "romance without happy moments".  I guess kudos to them to stand up for their work to make sure their vision is not altered.  But I am starting to feel they let the character of CS down.  If they had allowed CS's break down and have CS and MW "cross that line" I agree with you guys the impact would have been ten fold and I think the show would have been even more appreciated than it already has been. Well, it isn't uncommon to see this happen in dramas.  Generally one of the leads always seem to have better character development while the other one somehow falls short towards the end as they become the all sacrificing perfect partner 

 

But of course maybe this is our culture differences?  Maybe the way the things were shown and ended hit that sweet spot for the Korean audiences?

 

Either way still enjoyed the drama and will forever be fan of the ManChan couple 

 

 

 

 

20 hours ago, lollyminx said:

Oh yes! I can watch them do mukbang. That would be okay. From what I've seen in YJG's 4 Wheeled Restaurant and IU's guesting in a variety show, they both eat well. I hope they also do an interview together post-HDL, and that YJG guest in IU's concert. OMG world, just give us something with these two interacting with one another. 

 

 

So they're both going to the reward vacation. Nice! I hope they and the staff post photos together. 

 

I only recently started going back to see some of IU's variety appearances.  Her really old ones back in the day were hilarious.  I keep seeing clips of when she was on Heroes and she was wearing the bunny costume.  She kept falling down   Poor kid had to do all sort of stuff to get her name out there back then.  Well, all her hard work has paid off.  Now, she's being recognized as a multi-entertainer - singer, songwriter, composer, actor.  I'm planning on watching Hyori's Bed and Breakfast with IU soon.

 

Hearing you talk so highly of 4 Wheeled Restaurant, I am going to have to find subs for the YJG's episodes.

 

Like you, I hope there are some nice photos of the cast and crew having fun at the reward vacation.

 

 

15 hours ago, Ellander88 said:

I never knew this drama would have that much effect to me personally. 

I know it's just a drama, but there were a lot of lessons regarding choice, fate, destiny, life and death that somehow change my perception about "the greater love". 

 

Btw, I am guessing that fullmoon.long IG will be deleted after 49 days from final episode as a sign that MW have fully crossed the bridge. But who knows, IU may decide to keep it forever as many wish for her to not delete the account. MW is gone. I don't think it will be updated anymore. 

 

@Ellander88

Thank you for sharing your story with us.

 

I was surprise as well at how this drama affected me so.  I think it really brought to light our own mortality.  I lost someone dear to me a couple of years ago who was like family.  It really puts in perspective the time we have left in our lives with our love ones.

 

 

I have a feeling fullmoon.long IG will just be there without any updates after all MW is gone.  We will probably get the cast and crew reward vacation photos on IU's normal IG account.

 

 

12 hours ago, gilaswan said:

As regards the answer to Chanseong’s question to Mago in why she had chosen him to send ManWeol off — was it as simple as their first meeting in their past lives 1300 years ago? 

 

@gilaswan

It was never really explained that well.  But from what I understood is that MW and CS were actually always fated to meet. And their lives would always cross in some manner.  They are tied together in their past, their current time, and their future.  My theory is that MW and CS were probably suppose to meet again in the past.  But due to circumstances with CM and YW, MW tied herself to the Moon Inn so CS never got to met her.  So after 1300 years MaGo 1 decided to intervene and bring CS to MW to help her cross over.   Pink MaGo let slip that CS and MW are tied together by a thread.  Hence, I still state the future dream of CS is what can be the future and will be the future for our ManChan couple.   The Hotel Del Luna chapter has closed but they will meet again obviously not as MW and CS but as whatever reincarnation.  That is another story.

 

 

12 hours ago, realistic2280a said:

 

@lightbringer06 Yes, definately will be watching Vegabond, will be in the thread when the drama stars, hehe... i have been trying to download some dramas but not sure which ones to watch. i dont want to waste data if the drama is boring, hence reviews are important for, or else i would waste a lot of time watching it, hahha...

 

 

 

@realistic2280a and @lightbringer06 oh, you guys going to watch Vagabond?  That was the next series I was thinking about watching.  I need something different from Hotel Del Luna.  I don't like watching sad dramas and I was hoping Hotel Del Luna was going to end on a happier note then the way it actually did.  

 

 

So Happy that majority of the cast got to go on the reward vacation.  Looking at the videos it seems most of the actors don't have bodyguards.  YJG's popularity is pretty hot right now, so glad IU's bodyguard saw him and came to help him out.  IU's staff are really nice.  I wonder if YJG called a staffer or a cast member when he was in the car and was like has everyone come?  And they were like yes, you're the last one.  And someone decided to tell their staff to help fetch him 

 

 

Edit:

@Ameera Ali

Thanks again for those memes.  It was a hard road for CS to get into bed cause we had some writers trying to stop them 

 

That behind the scenes with YJG trying to carry IU LMFAO  IU wasn't prepared for it and started to move in the wrong direction forcing YJG to put her down but the way he just fell to the floor 

 

@nastyacolors00 Thank you for sharing the Hong Sisters interview

 

@Minoz Ah LeeR Thank you for sharing your video works.

[aria26]

 @RiceGirl1212 4 wheeled (season 1) is a gem. I dont watch korean variety/reality, so I have to thank @lollyminx for introducing me to it. I will be starting Hyori's homestay after I post this

[Ameera Ali]

 

@RiceGirl1212 

 

 

Lol the writer play with our feeling , but today when I see Gucci bag , I thought maybe  Gucci lover MW reborn as a one  

 

 

* I see you planning to watch Vagabond I will be watching too & this drama when the camellia blooms 

 

 

[Ameera Ali]

 

 

 

 

[nikki7]

Let’s all appreciate this: IU & YJG being in the same frame at BKK airport

 

 

[aria26]

10 minutes ago, nikki7 said:

Let’s all appreciate this: IU & YJG being in the same frame at BKK airport

 

 Jin Goo, turn around and entertain our shy IU please! Entertain her.

[rocher22]

I just like how happy they are...

 

 

[realistic2280a]

YN wasnt there?... aigoo, maybe he and Mira went for their honeymoon in Hawaii....hehhee

 

@RiceGirl1212... not only Vegabond but also VIP for me

[lollyminx]

2 hours ago, RiceGirl1212 said:

With the recent release of information from the Hong Sisters about their vision of the series I feel they had something in mind and it just grew to something beyond what maybe they had thought it would ever come to.

 

2 hours ago, RiceGirl1212 said:

Now we all know that IU and YJG ad-lib lines in the farewell scene beyond the short 2 sentences in the script.  To me that just shows the Hong Sisters may have lost sight of the relationship between MW and CS.

Yes. To me, it looked like they all had a different vision of the story and the characters. The writers' "Thank you GCS." "Goodby JMW" ending was really... so uninspired. It really makes me think the sisters' may have never been truly, deeply in love in real life. 

 

The conflict among the writers' vision, the actors' vision, and the director's vision may have affected how the story is portrayed because since episode 1, I felt there was something truly lacking, not only physical romance-wise, but how the stories were weaved together. There were times when some scenes were unnecessary, then some important story lines weren't explored well but just briefly shown. I can't explain but the show keeps on trying but then only to quit before they hit the mark, you know what I mean? So it's the first series on my favorite list where I can categorize it as a series that I love, but could have done so much better. 

 

2 hours ago, RiceGirl1212 said:

I'm planning on watching Hyori's Bed and Breakfast with IU soon.

 

Hearing you talk so highly of 4 Wheeled Restaurant, I am going to have to find subs for the YJG's episodes.

 

2 hours ago, aria26 said:

I will be starting Hyori's homestay after I post this

Oooooh Hyori's Bed and Breakfast is good too. It's actually why I got to know about IU and liked her, then from there, I listened to her music. I really like these kinds of variety shows. When HDL came out, I then read about YJG's interests in interviews and I kept going back to IU in Hyori's Bed and Breakfast because you can see how much IU and YJG both like similar things - spacing out, reading books, just staying at home, etc.

 

Connecting all the info from the variety shows they did and interviews made my shipper heart stronger, and look at that, now you can see them in the same frame at BKK airport, so that means they might have come out of the plane at the same time and COULD have been seated close together, or beside each other, and now I'm imagining the room assignment and if they could spend a night each other just talking and developing feelings for one another, and then loving each other, keeping their relationship secret so it's solid and they're happy, and somewhere down the line you'll hear an IU song that talks about a man with a captivating, deep voice who swept her off her feet and everyone will be like, is it about YJG, and she be like so vague about it, until one day they're secure in their relationship enough to admit they're dating and they never break up.  #delusional #butwhatever #iwillshipuntiligetoverit

[aria26]

23 minutes ago, lollyminx said:

and now I'm imagining the room assignment and if they could spend a night each other just talking and developing feelings for one another, and then loving each other, keeping their relationship secret so it's solid and they're happy, and somewhere down the line you'll hear an IU song that talks about a man with a captivating, deep voice who swept her off her feet and everyone will be like, is it about YJG, and she be like so vague about it, until one day they're secure in their relationship enough to admit they're dating and they never break up.  #delusional #butwhatever #iwillshipuntiligetoverit

 

Or Jin Goo could kidnap IU and drive her to the beach, if he still has that international driver's license. dream dream dream

[lightbringer06]

4 hours ago, RiceGirl1212 said:

 

@realistic2280a and @lightbringer06 oh, you guys going to watch Vagabond?  That was the next series I was thinking about watching.  I need something different from Hotel Del Luna.  I don't like watching sad dramas and I was hoping Hotel Del Luna was going to end on a happier note then the way it actually did.  

 

 

So Happy that majority of the cast got to go on the reward vacation.  Looking at the videos it seems most of the actors don't have bodyguards.  YJG's popularity is pretty hot right now, so glad IU's bodyguard saw him and came to help him out.  IU's staff are really nice.  I wonder if YJG called a staffer or a cast member when he was in the car and was like has everyone come?  And they were like yes, you're the last one.  And someone decided to tell their staff to help fetch him 

 

 

Yup! Will be watching that... ha ha.. I have lots of Kdramas to watch this September. I have two sageuks already. There's all in all 5 dramas already just this month. 

 

Yes, it did seem they don't have bodyguards. Well, usually they have their managers and when they arrived in the airport of that certain country, I think their own security guards do the job mostly. But I guess not in their case. Maybe you're right, YJG could probably be the last one who arrived and then perhaps IU asked her own bodyguard? to go to him..ha ha..I wonder how that played out coz I mean, he should stay beside IU, right^^

 

2 hours ago, nikki7 said:

Let’s all appreciate this: IU & YJG being in the same frame at BKK airport

 

Oh yeah~!...ha ha...glad to see them together. That's why I am thinking maybe they also sat together in the plane...lol.. at least they didn't think to walk separately 

 

I'm still sad tho coz my second fave guy person Yeon Woo isn't with them 

 

 

@lollyminx ..ugh, the shipping..ha ha...am trying to restrain myself to shipping them but the chains of my shipping heart are starting to get broken...lol. I ship IU with this certain guy, that's why. Heck, I even ship her with Kim Soo Hyun...ha ha.. but her and YJG, there's just something in them that I like but can't explain what... ha ha..

 

Edit: ..here's a video in order of their arrival at the airport in Korea...some are commenting that IU's manager or assistant also helped Mina. Even in real life, IU is the sajangnim..ha ha.. you can hear how IU's bodyguard tells the people to make way when it was both IU and YJG he's escorting^^.

 

 

Edited September 4, 2019 by lightbringer06

[realistic2280a]

YjG afterall gave an oppa* feel.... protecting the women, no matter how old or young? Hence he walked in the front... they cant be side by side or else, ManChan shippers would go wild.....Hehheee

 

Anyway, im curious... how does tvn decides if a drama gets  a vacation reward* in some but not in others? Is a 10% viewers rating a benchmark? If so, shouldnt YJG's TCC gets a reward vacation as well?

 

Im just curious how tvn just came out of the entertainment scene in the last 10 years and just managed to grab all the good writers/drama plots and make the country's biggest stars to join them? Is the pay higher in tvn compared to kbs and sbs?? It seemed as if tvn appeals to the younger generation with their programmes and less censorship in a way? .... furthernmore kbs n sbs are cutting their drama slots....hmmmm