The description of the characters gives me Wok of Love vibes (Is the trio back?).
"Shin Dong Yup used to be a top star, but he is not anymore" = " Chef Seo Poong, a chef who goes from being a star chef one day to the cook at a failing neighborhood Chinese restaurant the next."
" Jung Sang Hoon works as a loan shark"=Doo Chil Seong is also a loan shark but with a great heart.
"Im Cheong Ah is a Korean-Chinese single mother" = "Dan Sae Woo, meaning “sweet shrimp”, lives a life of privilege and leisure" (okay there is not common point here lol)
One of the most funny drama i ever watch, seriously ! On top of that i find the characters very interesting, not typical and very well acted by the actors if you understand that some moments are exagered consciously (not a melodrama for nothing huh). Please come back Mister is really enjoyable and entertaining and one of the plot twist really surprised me, it is the first time that a plot twist was not a bit predictable for me or did not cross my mind. The only thing that i am dissapointed about is the end (but ends are rarely in my taste though), i understand the end but i just can not figure out why such a choice ?
It's a comedy where the leads are connected together by a past tragedy.
The synopsis can be confusing and the tags will scare away more than one person "Tragic Past, Coma, Trauma, Social Commentary". Add with this the picture which lets think that they are in" heaven " (or at least what i first thought and now when i rewatch it i find myself stupid).
In reality, the drama is very light and funny. The characters are just so sweat and weird at the same time (like anime characters lol).
The interactions with himself are totally funny though ! I look especially this drama for that even if there is…
That is so true ! I was kind of disapointed that the young Shin Woo did not ask more question about how he will end like that in the future and vice versa when Shin Woo adult did not considered his own feelings back then. Rush the love is not the solution, he should have handled this with more delicacy. And actually i was more worried about the mother of the mainlead than the girl. I do not understand why he was so obsessed to get the girl when he knew that his own mother will soon be dead...
Funny, i come with the same thoughts when i watched it. I found that Shin Woo adult was more childish than his younger self... But oddly, i loved that. And frankly i especially watched this drama to see the interactions with himself ! However that the kind of drama that i know will sucks overall but i still like it due to its funny ans sweet moments.
What a shame that the romance go first, time travel remains quite limited I find in Kdramas : to solve a heart problem (Longing heart, Tomorrow with you, Hit the Top, ...and many more) or catch a serial killer/murderer (Tunnel, signal). I just feel that the supernatural / science fiction serves only as a "wallpaper" in the background. Consequences are rarely logical or unpredictable. I love Tunnel and signal because i am more into detective genre but when i rethink about it I feel that something is missing maybe it is just me who expected too much when it is come to a time travel story.
"Back to the Future" was good, why ? Firstly, there were actually reals consequences of what the mains characters did even slim actions would make big differences and appeared when everybody had forgotten that or this action had been done. Secondly, there were conditions for jumping over time (The car and the speed) or that he must not meet himself to avoid temporal flaw. Simple but wise.
"Nine: Nine Times Time Travel " Kdrama and "Will you be there" Kmovie was great because they reunited all the "recipe" for a good travel time story or at least something more believable.
Wanted to leave a comment here that even though this is very well made drama, this is, as a thriller, quite disturbing…
Then i think i will not watch this drama for now... I have just finished "Children of a Lesser God" and it shows already how scary and manipulative a cult could be. Especially that i think this drama is surely more "disturbing" than i thought so I will abstain myself even if OCN's characters are quite charming ! Thanks.
I enjoyed the first episodes but that is all... To a some point i just feel bored due to Soo Chang character who become too childish and ungrateful towards Dong Tak. It is not really a problem in funny moments but when serious matters are involved it is just unbearable for me. I would have liked a more sustained team work between them like Soo Chang possesses Dong Tak WITH HIS COMPLETE AGREEMENT for the talkative side and stop when it was not necessary anymore. Secondly, i saw a lot of comments (not especially here) who talk bad about the acting of Hyeri but i think it is not the problem, it is her character who is annoying and the romantic moments just get in the way of the story. I mean in some drama romance get along with other genres because it well done and useful but here i just do not get the point. What a shame : the actors are good, some characters too (Miss Bong <3) and the first episodes really show that there was a great potential (even if it is cliché but well cliché are not cliché for nothing...).
I am so damn agree with you . I can give 10 for the first EP itself. There was no laag. Directly into the scenario…
So i saw the first 3 episodes but now that i want to see more i can not because the subtitles are mess up... Seriously i understand better without them. I know that some people takes times to make them but please if you do not want to do this, do not. I will try to make new subtitles if a have time because it is very interesting.
Either the bullet who hit him in the brain damaged a part of it and so he could not feel physical sensation anymore.…
I thought so me too but we saw a flashback in episode 10 and episode 15 were Tae Joo remembers little by little the face of the man who shot him and it was clearly Hyun Seok (i find it weird that it is again the brother but uhm ok). Perhaps what trigger the "new" dream was the voice of his surgeon who told him that Tae Joo will be able to wake up soon. Or (and that is just my interpretation) the 80s dream was not just a dream finally, i am not saying he has traveled in time but perhaps this is another dimension or the after-life world, who knows... I do not know what to think honestly.
Either the bullet who hit him in the brain damaged a part of it and so he could not feel physical sensation anymore.…
Yes but about the fact that Kim hyun Seok is still alive in 2018, isn't it because he was the man who shot him ? So Tae Joo has already seen him so it is not so strange to see the old Hyun Seok. Tae Joo already knew it unconsciously.
But at the end he commits suicide, right? But since he still hears the voices in the imaginary world, it means…
Either the bullet who hit him in the brain damaged a part of it and so he could not feel physical sensation anymore. Then because of that he thought that all was a dream and commit suicide. The fact that his life was now boring and that his friends was dead did not help him.
Or what he saw in 2018 (not the first episode but episodes 13-14) was really just a dream, that why he could not feel anything. He just wakes up in order to save his friends. I do not know what to believe, there are many interpretations and that is the goal of Life on Mars to confuse reality and illusion. The meaning of Life on Mars music is a big clue because it shows how people can easily escape from reality with the entertainment.
To be honest and if my memory do not kidding me, the BBC version ends with the suicide of the main character. Then he lives forever in the "purgatory" for cops (so it is not really a dream, i see it like an another dimension or something like that). But lets not forget that Life on Mars korean version is an adaptation so maybe the ends has not the same meaning. What bothers me is that Han Tae Joo still hears the doctor's voice so that would mean that he is still in coma but i find it hard to believe that he is twice in coma. And in the BBC version he did no need to be alive to stay in the "dream" 80s. So perhaps the optimistic interpretation is the good interpretation, i don't know anymore >_<
My interpretation is that basically when he fell into a coma, it was actually all in his head. The longer he imagined…
There are two possibilities : The pessimistic interpretation and the optimistic interpretation.
- Either Tae joo did well go back in 2018 when he woke up and afterward became depressive. He no longer feels in his place in his own time year and is bored of his actual life especially when he closed the case of Hyun Seok and Min Seok. His condition worsens when he learns that his teammates he dreamed were actually all dead. Then when he noticed that he could not feel the pain, he thought that everything was not real and kill himself without telling his friends/family because he thinks that was all a dream. However in reality, it was just a side effet from the bullet (that he does not feel anymore the pain) and did well commit suicide in order to live in his illusions (or in the purgatory for cops if you saw the BBC version). This is one of the meanings of the music "Life on mars" by David Bowie who denounced those who tend to hide in entertainment to escape reality. Basically, Tae Joo return for the sake of his friends but it is all fake so it is just an excuse created by himself so that his life be more interesting/exciting.
- Or either Tae Joo does not go back in 2018 when he woke up. So when he noticed that he could not feel the physical pain anymore, he realized that he was still in a dream so he jumps from a building. At first, i thought that interpretation was a total nonsense because i am a pessimistic person and because i saw the original version but, but, but that would explained a lot of things actually. That would explained why everyone told him to be happy, his relatives wish him the better and so he hears them due to his actual state (comatose state). That would explained why his ex-girlfriend was not injured at all (ok time has passed but i find it still fishy). Finally the more important fact that he is again in comatose state (we heard the doctor talk to him with the radio) that is rather impossible, twice in a coma is a big huge even for a drama. And lets not forget that it is an adaption indeed but some parts can be different so my hope increased when i saw the open ending. But maybe i am just in denial and do not want to believe the true...^_^
Then, i want to talk about the man who shot Tae Joo. I just do not buy that it was Hyun Seok. I just can not. I find it too simple and i am a bit disapointed with the trick "Oh the brother was not really dead blablabla". I find hard to believe especially there were no reactions from Hyun Seok when he saw Tae Joo. .. Not even an "Oh !? What are you doing here, i thought i killed you ! ". I keep the theory with inspector Cho/Jo (?) who was the real "mastermind": It is him who reports to Tae Joo that his ex-girlfriend is missing in the first episode, it is him who saves miraculously Seo Hyun and he appears a lot i find. Or perhaps i am just too imaginative !
"Shin Dong Yup used to be a top star, but he is not anymore" = " Chef Seo Poong, a chef who goes from being a star chef one day to the cook at a failing neighborhood Chinese restaurant the next."
" Jung Sang Hoon works as a loan shark"=Doo Chil Seong is also a loan shark but with a great heart.
"Im Cheong Ah is a Korean-Chinese single mother" = "Dan Sae Woo, meaning “sweet shrimp”, lives a life of privilege and leisure" (okay there is not common point here lol)
In reality, the drama is very light and funny. The characters are just so sweat and weird at the same time (like anime characters lol).
What a shame that the romance go first, time travel remains quite limited I find in Kdramas : to solve a heart problem (Longing heart, Tomorrow with you, Hit the Top, ...and many more) or catch a serial killer/murderer (Tunnel, signal). I just feel that the supernatural / science fiction serves only as a "wallpaper" in the background. Consequences are rarely logical or unpredictable. I love Tunnel and signal because i am more into detective genre but when i rethink about it I feel that something is missing maybe it is just me who expected too much when it is come to a time travel story.
"Back to the Future" was good, why ? Firstly, there were actually reals consequences of what the mains characters did even slim actions would make big differences and appeared when everybody had forgotten that or this action had been done. Secondly, there were conditions for jumping over time (The car and the speed) or that he must not meet himself to avoid temporal flaw. Simple but wise.
"Nine: Nine Times Time Travel " Kdrama and "Will you be there" Kmovie was great because they reunited all the "recipe" for a good travel time story or at least something more believable.
Or what he saw in 2018 (not the first episode but episodes 13-14) was really just a dream, that why he could not feel anything. He just wakes up in order to save his friends. I do not know what to believe, there are many interpretations and that is the goal of Life on Mars to confuse reality and illusion. The meaning of Life on Mars music is a big clue because it shows how people can easily escape from reality with the entertainment.
To be honest and if my memory do not kidding me, the BBC version ends with the suicide of the main character. Then he lives forever in the "purgatory" for cops (so it is not really a dream, i see it like an another dimension or something like that).
But lets not forget that Life on Mars korean version is an adaptation so maybe the ends has not the same meaning. What bothers me is that Han Tae Joo still hears the doctor's voice so that would mean that he is still in coma but i find it hard to believe that he is twice in coma. And in the BBC version he did no need to be alive to stay in the "dream" 80s. So perhaps the optimistic interpretation is the good interpretation, i don't know anymore >_<
- Either Tae joo did well go back in 2018 when he woke up and afterward became depressive. He no longer feels in his place in his own time year and is bored of his actual life especially when he closed the case of Hyun Seok and Min Seok. His condition worsens when he learns that his teammates he dreamed were actually all dead. Then when he noticed that he could not feel the pain, he thought that everything was not real and kill himself without telling his friends/family because he thinks that was all a dream. However in reality, it was just a side effet from the bullet (that he does not feel anymore the pain) and did well commit suicide in order to live in his illusions (or in the purgatory for cops if you saw the BBC version). This is one of the meanings of the music "Life on mars" by David Bowie who denounced those who tend to hide in entertainment to escape reality. Basically, Tae Joo return for the sake of his friends but it is all fake so it is just an excuse created by himself so that his life be more interesting/exciting.
- Or either Tae Joo does not go back in 2018 when he woke up. So when he noticed that he could not feel the physical pain anymore, he realized that he was still in a dream so he jumps from a building. At first, i thought that interpretation was a total nonsense because i am a pessimistic person and because i saw the original version but, but, but that would explained a lot of things actually. That would explained why everyone told him to be happy, his relatives wish him the better and so he hears them due to his actual state (comatose state). That would explained why his ex-girlfriend was not injured at all (ok time has passed but i find it still fishy). Finally the more important fact that he is again in comatose state (we heard the doctor talk to him with the radio) that is rather impossible, twice in a coma is a big huge even for a drama. And lets not forget that it is an adaption indeed but some parts can be different so my hope increased when i saw the open ending. But maybe i am just in denial and do not want to believe the true...^_^
Then, i want to talk about the man who shot Tae Joo. I just do not buy that it was Hyun Seok. I just can not. I find it too simple and i am a bit disapointed with the trick "Oh the brother was not really dead blablabla". I find hard to believe especially there were no reactions from Hyun Seok when he saw Tae Joo. .. Not even an "Oh !? What are you doing here, i thought i killed you ! ". I keep the theory with inspector Cho/Jo (?) who was the real "mastermind": It is him who reports to Tae Joo that his ex-girlfriend is missing in the first episode, it is him who saves miraculously Seo Hyun and he appears a lot i find. Or perhaps i am just too imaginative !