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A Beautiful Telling of the Complexity of Love
I'm late to the Twenty Five - Twenty One party but I found it at the perfect time. Easily one of the best Kdramas I've watched in a while.
I've read a number of reviews for this series - quite a few viewers feeling disappointed with how the story culminated, some lost interest in how the story progressed. I found this story to be such a beautiful telling of love and care in its most raw, complicated, exciting, delightful, difficult, painful, wonderful way. Love for your passions and the willingness to fight adversity for it, love for your family and the lengths you'll endure to protect and save them, romantic love and the way it can heal and break us and, perhaps the most important to me while watching this series, love for your community and your friends and how they can carry you through both the darkness and the light. With this in mind, how could I not love it?
Hee-do is by far my favourite character in of all time. She's brash, aggressive, so tender and sensitive. And at no point does this characterization get maligned in favour of a more palatable one. I'm grateful to the writers. The love story between her and Yi-jin was also one of my favourites of all time. The love that they share feels deeper than romance. It felt like something far reaching and soulful. It feels down to their spirit and I believe that even as adults, they love each other in a way that is less desperate, more soft and constant.
Yu-rim and Ji-ung are so special to me! Seeing their love story blossom in the ways that it did was incredibly sweet.
I will absolutely be rewatching
I've read a number of reviews for this series - quite a few viewers feeling disappointed with how the story culminated, some lost interest in how the story progressed. I found this story to be such a beautiful telling of love and care in its most raw, complicated, exciting, delightful, difficult, painful, wonderful way. Love for your passions and the willingness to fight adversity for it, love for your family and the lengths you'll endure to protect and save them, romantic love and the way it can heal and break us and, perhaps the most important to me while watching this series, love for your community and your friends and how they can carry you through both the darkness and the light. With this in mind, how could I not love it?
Hee-do is by far my favourite character in of all time. She's brash, aggressive, so tender and sensitive. And at no point does this characterization get maligned in favour of a more palatable one. I'm grateful to the writers. The love story between her and Yi-jin was also one of my favourites of all time. The love that they share feels deeper than romance. It felt like something far reaching and soulful. It feels down to their spirit and I believe that even as adults, they love each other in a way that is less desperate, more soft and constant.
Yu-rim and Ji-ung are so special to me! Seeing their love story blossom in the ways that it did was incredibly sweet.
I will absolutely be rewatching
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