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so good and then so bad
Aw, this one pains me really. I had this at a rating of 9.5 until about the 5th, 6th episode. I was glued to the screen, I laughed and cried and laughed again. I loved everything about this drama, the actors, the fantastic soundtrack, the sets with so much love to detail, the touching stories in the beginning, all peaking with the death of the little son which had me in tears.
And then there was a harsh break in this drama. As soon as the older actors took over everything went wrong for me. One thing that bothered me until the very last episode was that the aging of the characters was totally wrong. So the two main characters look pretty much exactly the same in 1983 and in 1999. That's ridiculous. Also the male lead's mother at some later point looks as old as her own son and daughter-in-law. At the same time, they used the same actress to play mother and daughter and she is simply never aging at all. She is born when? in 1968? And she still looks like a 14-year-old in 1999. Also at her wedding there is this very (and I mean VERY ) old couple, who were ancient in the end of the 1960s, when they helped her parents out with food and stuff, and they still show up to her wedding in 1998 looking exactly the same and are still alive? How old are they supposed to be? 120? This really bugged me so much and destroyed lots of the vibes in this drama.
But even more was that harsh break for me when the previously very touching, serious and thoughtful storytelling with tangible tragic and happy events turned into a steady slapstick party most of the episodes from ep. 7 to ep 16.
I started ff-ing the last four episodes because I was so tired of this steady totally over the top screaming and slapsticking, taking out all seriousness and true to life storytelling of this drama.
And the daughter, who looked like the mother because it simply was the same actress? I just didn't like her character at all. Her steady screaming and crying and pitting herself for everything while the whole world is running after her and trying to make everything fluffy for her? Nah, sorry, I don't like such people and she never really had reason to be and act like that.
The five stars are soelely for the first 5 episodes, which were absolutely brilliant and I loved every minute of them. The lacking other five stars are for that mess they made of the rest of this drama.
And then there was a harsh break in this drama. As soon as the older actors took over everything went wrong for me. One thing that bothered me until the very last episode was that the aging of the characters was totally wrong. So the two main characters look pretty much exactly the same in 1983 and in 1999. That's ridiculous. Also the male lead's mother at some later point looks as old as her own son and daughter-in-law. At the same time, they used the same actress to play mother and daughter and she is simply never aging at all. She is born when? in 1968? And she still looks like a 14-year-old in 1999. Also at her wedding there is this very (and I mean VERY ) old couple, who were ancient in the end of the 1960s, when they helped her parents out with food and stuff, and they still show up to her wedding in 1998 looking exactly the same and are still alive? How old are they supposed to be? 120? This really bugged me so much and destroyed lots of the vibes in this drama.
But even more was that harsh break for me when the previously very touching, serious and thoughtful storytelling with tangible tragic and happy events turned into a steady slapstick party most of the episodes from ep. 7 to ep 16.
I started ff-ing the last four episodes because I was so tired of this steady totally over the top screaming and slapsticking, taking out all seriousness and true to life storytelling of this drama.
And the daughter, who looked like the mother because it simply was the same actress? I just didn't like her character at all. Her steady screaming and crying and pitting herself for everything while the whole world is running after her and trying to make everything fluffy for her? Nah, sorry, I don't like such people and she never really had reason to be and act like that.
The five stars are soelely for the first 5 episodes, which were absolutely brilliant and I loved every minute of them. The lacking other five stars are for that mess they made of the rest of this drama.
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