This was also bothering me. BWS was amazing, don't want to take away credits but it was his first main role. So…
They are co-leads, so one of them will get first billing. It is because he's her senoir, people need to stop reading into it. It's equally as unfair to say he is not a lead, they both worked very hard and carried the show together.
Kim Hye Yoon is clearly the main lead in this drama, it is a story about her running back and forth from past…
They're the co-leads and he's her senior, in Korea seniority (based both on age and on when one entered the industry) is very important, so he would be named first. In dramas where the woman is the senior she is named first if they are co-leads. Did you really just come here to rant without doing any research into it at all? Stop spreading misinformation just to complain about something.
So i am not fan of any of the actors , their acting is mediocre for me. All i can say is that hye yoon is the…
Shit I forgot KHY was there when LJW made such an impression in his very first bit part role that Hyun Bin signed him immediately to his agency. And was there when LJW carried the hugely popular Alchemy series to become an international hit. Oh wait, she wasn't. And she also wasn't the most buzzworthy actor in XU-- that would be LJW who in his second-ever role turned a cliche and very unlikable 2ML into the most popular and memorable character of the entire series. But yes, he's mediocre and owes all his fame to her.
Ik its a faux pas on mdl to criticize 'fun' 'silly romcoms because youre ruining it for everybody or whatever…
I disagree that it was insulting at all, rather I'd call it somewhat poor writing/execution.
A show is allowed to feature disability as a story element/plot device without making it a central theme. Your argument makes more sense if it was a theme, but they never set out to tell a story about disability or the effects of disability on someone, or ableism in society. The themes were about the nature of fate/memory/time and their relationship to love. So the plot naturally focused on that aspect.
I didn't see them at any point show that a disabled person was "less than" but rather they realistically showed the effect of someone losing their ability to walk in their teens and how that would affect life for them. Sol is not somehow a traitor to disability activism for being happy she can walk again. And in fact, when Sol in still in a wheelchair SJ is still just as in love with her, and at no point did they imply he would not love her if she was disabled.
Furthermore, she didn't go back in time in an effort to walk again, she went back to save Sunjae--the disability was IMO a nice way to explore the main themes about time/fate and to drive the interweaving crime plot. Her being able to walk again was a silver lining, and never something implied she needed to be "whole". It was SunJae's love and well being that she needed to be whole and happy, which aligns with the theme.
It would have made for a tighter plot for them to provide more emotional closure to that disability element they introduced, but since it wasn't a main theme the plot just didn't have room for it, especially when it moved more towards the crime story in the second half. That was some poor writing on the part of the show, but again, wasn't insulting or "wrong" in some way. They did show her making a movie with a disabled character at the end, which I thought was a touching way to revisit that element.
So when people say "it wasn't that type of show" they're right-- you're complaining this show didn't have a different central theme, so it does seem like you were looking for a completely different type of show than this set out to be.
I kinda got the impression she went back to the present again re-remembering all the stuff and just lived quietly.…
Yeah and also I don't think she would have been as thrown off by seeing him again and still so so determined to not to spend time with him to the point of pushing him away so aggressively, 15 year is a really really long time.
I've been waiting for his ultimate realization and the montage of all the timelines of him falling in love , such a satisfying moment! It was shot and portrayed so well. There's been so much heartbreak in all these timelines, but he now gets the memories of multiple lifetimes of falling in love with her so it makes it not seem so sad, and as long as the ending is happy it's just made their love deeper for him
sooo in the last time skip (the one after cliff scene) she never wnet back right?she just relived those 15 years.this…
I don't think so, because TS said he's only been feeling weird about her lately, seemingly since she came back to the present. I think she must have lived the few months back then to avoid SJ, became friends with TS, then jumped back to the current time and has been living in that about a year.
This story is essentially a love story version of the 1st law of thermodynamics. Just like energy cannot be created or destroyed, love cannot be created or destroyed, and the fates attached to that love cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed in some way.
Dropping this now it's definitely the biggest disappointment of 2024 so far for me. The drama started out so brilliantly…
I agree that exploring the mental health implications of a suicide would have been SO much more engaging than this flimsy repetitive cabbie driver murder plot.
The main issue is the murder plot doesn't align well at all with the theme of the story. It's just some random psycho who keeps attacking them and putting them in danger, but their experience with that plotline does not inherently bring out or highlight the story themes of fate vs choice. Any time the characters have to engage with the murder story, they become plot-driven husks. Any time the writer focuses on how one choice reverberates and effects other choices, and how there is no "perfect" future, and how one can never truly know all of the factors that go into shaping a person or their life, the plot is really fun and engaging.
Sol was moving in the right direction of realizing that one of them is always going to have to make a sacrifice in order to offset his death, but then we got 2-3 eps focused on the side murder plot, with the writer mistakingly choosing to use the murder for her major plot points in this section of the story, so Sol became one dimensional and wholly focused on saving him just for the sake of the murder plot, not for the sake of the story theme, so her character growth flatlined so the writer could keep using the murder plot points. And SJ had nothing to do in this case but also flatline.
We have now FINALLY got to the point where she has realized this and the plot is moving forward again in line with some sort of character growth, because Sol did accept that in order to save SJ she had to sacrifice knowing him and accepted that.
unpopular opinion: I liked the plot twist of ep 13, bc there wasn’t other way for both of them to be safe since…
I loved it!! The show. needed to be shaken up a bit. As cute as our couple is, we need tension to keep the show entertaining. We can't just watch them be happy for 3 eps, we'd be bored to tears. This is a perfect way to reset it all.
i don't really like the sol slander either so i try to ignore it and not engage but what ticks me off the most…
Ok but SJ did it once. If he went back in time and chased after him 3 more times alone despite what happened previously, maybe people would be kinda annoyed with him. People weren't annoyed with Sol at first, it's that she keeps doing the same thing over and over, it's just lazy writing tbh
The synopsis got me tho! Looks really fun.
tl;dr--you're delusional.
A show is allowed to feature disability as a story element/plot device without making it a central theme. Your argument makes more sense if it was a theme, but they never set out to tell a story about disability or the effects of disability on someone, or ableism in society. The themes were about the nature of fate/memory/time and their relationship to love. So the plot naturally focused on that aspect.
I didn't see them at any point show that a disabled person was "less than" but rather they realistically showed the effect of someone losing their ability to walk in their teens and how that would affect life for them. Sol is not somehow a traitor to disability activism for being happy she can walk again. And in fact, when Sol in still in a wheelchair SJ is still just as in love with her, and at no point did they imply he would not love her if she was disabled.
Furthermore, she didn't go back in time in an effort to walk again, she went back to save Sunjae--the disability was IMO a nice way to explore the main themes about time/fate and to drive the interweaving crime plot. Her being able to walk again was a silver lining, and never something implied she needed to be "whole". It was SunJae's love and well being that she needed to be whole and happy, which aligns with the theme.
It would have made for a tighter plot for them to provide more emotional closure to that disability element they introduced, but since it wasn't a main theme the plot just didn't have room for it, especially when it moved more towards the crime story in the second half. That was some poor writing on the part of the show, but again, wasn't insulting or "wrong" in some way. They did show her making a movie with a disabled character at the end, which I thought was a touching way to revisit that element.
So when people say "it wasn't that type of show" they're right-- you're complaining this show didn't have a different central theme, so it does seem like you were looking for a completely different type of show than this set out to be.
The main issue is the murder plot doesn't align well at all with the theme of the story. It's just some random psycho who keeps attacking them and putting them in danger, but their experience with that plotline does not inherently bring out or highlight the story themes of fate vs choice. Any time the characters have to engage with the murder story, they become plot-driven husks. Any time the writer focuses on how one choice reverberates and effects other choices, and how there is no "perfect" future, and how one can never truly know all of the factors that go into shaping a person or their life, the plot is really fun and engaging.
Sol was moving in the right direction of realizing that one of them is always going to have to make a sacrifice in order to offset his death, but then we got 2-3 eps focused on the side murder plot, with the writer mistakingly choosing to use the murder for her major plot points in this section of the story, so Sol became one dimensional and wholly focused on saving him just for the sake of the murder plot, not for the sake of the story theme, so her character growth flatlined so the writer could keep using the murder plot points. And SJ had nothing to do in this case but also flatline.
We have now FINALLY got to the point where she has realized this and the plot is moving forward again in line with some sort of character growth, because Sol did accept that in order to save SJ she had to sacrifice knowing him and accepted that.