Jeaniessi wrote: They even cheated us out of some sort of resolution between the two "brothers" I mean good god! There was a painting and a freaking book about them saving each other! What in the world happened to this drama?
here is the thing... There is nothing more unforgivable to me in drama land then the writer treating the audience as stupid. I can forgive cliche's, makjang, a silly plot or even an over the top evil antagonist. But being treated as stupid is the WORST.
1) They set up the whole drama as one where due to the soul swap Gil Da Ran began to fall in love with the much younger Kyung Joon. Part of her journey was to reconcile herself to the fact that she was falling for a much younger man and ultimately how she would handle the consequences of that once his soul was back in his younger body. After sticking with this drama for 16 episodes we, the audience, were cheated out of the ultimate end of both of their journeys. WE were treated as if we were stupid and could not handle seeing the older Da Ran with the younger Kyung Joon in his rightful body. I don't know about any of you but as much as I love Gong Yoo....We deserved to be shown this REAL version of their end.
2) We were cheated out of a reunion between these brothers whose parents treated them like chess pieces in their game of "Let's create another human being to serve one purpose...Save Yoon Jae". Why did we get no closure for these two brothers? Not even one real interaction at the end of the day!? How could there not have been one scene between them?
Okay..I shall say no more forever and waste no more time. But these two glaring omissions along with all the other craptacular plot holes (Take the fact that she MARRIED Yoon Jae while Kyung Joon was in his body!!! How would that have messed with Yoon Jae's head upon waking?) make this one of the worst dramas I've ever seen. That is saying something.
That's exactly what I thought when I watched the ending too. I felt it was downright disrespectful to the viewers; basically, I felt the Hong Sisters were saying in the voice of a parent who highly overshelters their children, "I don't think that they are mature enough for this ending. Let's do this, and perhaps they will understand that Da Ran is with Kyung Joon."
On top of that, as you said, there was no reunion with these two brothers that had been hinted at for a while. After all, it looked like Yeon Jae was going to LA in the beginning to find Kyung Joon; wouldn't his quest to do so be that much more important after the accident, body switch, and the big reveal by the parents? Even when we got the underwater universe scenes, we had Yeon Jae interacting with KKJ in Yeon Jae's shell while the real KKJ lay on the bed blinking.
I had really high hopes for this drama at the beginning. I had just finally finished Coffee Prince and was incredibly excited to see Gong Yoo in another role. Though he did a great job, most everything else lacked.
I had just got over my post-Big rantface, and now it's back. The more I think about this drama, the more frustrated I become.
