Originally Posted by
Akazukin
On the other hand, although Lee Da Hae does some exaggerations on some scenes, I think those exaggerations are natural however. It does fit into the character of YR to exaggerate sometimes. I do distinguish between natural exaggeration (LDH in My Girl) and unnatural exaggeration (Myolie in My Sassy mother-in-law). It's YR's personality that sometimes likes to exaggerate eg. compensation for mental shock, and her precious bag, That's why sometimes GC sneared but laugh about it at the same time. We do exaggerate some stuff in real life too, and those are just the moments. She cracks me up most of the time, and her crying skill definitely wrenches my heart. I don't know, maybe you are still early in the series, that's why it maybe too early to make judgment, but you are entitled to your own opinion. Another thing I like about Lee Da Hae is that she can carry the part of "professionalism" in the career the character she is playing is in. I can see her as being very professional in being good tour guide and swindler (My Girl), office lady who works hard despite not talented (Green Rose), and lawyer (Sweet 18). With SHK though, I cannot say the same. It's fine that Han Ji Eun seems like a talentless writer who ends up writing her own life rather than a creative story. However, both in All In and Autumn Tale, she looks like she never pays attention to her work and she looks blank most of the time when she is working. Especially All In, I thought that's very inappropriate because her character is supposed to do well on her job, she just doesn't convince me.
Sorry to post this long, but sometimes I get annoyed (though I know other people are entitled to their opinion) that they assume LDH to copy SHK or that YR and HJE are similar because I think that's definitely untrue. LDH has more variety of expressions in My Girl than SHK in Full House. How can you copy something which is not there at the first place? About the characters' similarities, it also kind of pisses me off because I love YR as she is smart, witty and strong while I kind of dislike HJE (whether it is the character or SHK's interpretation). YR knows how to not let other people bully her while this is definitely not the case with HJE. Aside from being cute and can make people around them happy, they have almost no similarities. YR is good in being tour guide, HJE was not a good writer and I don't think she was also at the end of the series because she is just writing what she has seen and not "creating" it herself. I even wonder whether she can write another story after that. YR will never let herself be bullied by GC and actually does bully GC sometimes (which reminds me of my all time favourite heroin Wong Yung/Huang Rong) but HJE usually can only cry when she gets bullied by Young Jae. YR is hardworking and clean (she cleans GC's Jeju Villa without being asked to do so), HJE complained and complained for having to clean the house even though it's her house and her house-to-be and house that has special meaning to her. YR never leads JW on, HJE leads the character that's played by Kim Sung Soo on until one point in time. There are still many more differences, but I'm going to spare you guys from me turning this into another YR vs HJE thread.