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Time travel not easy to conceptualize
Not sure if these are spoilers......................................After watching this drama, I have some misgivings about the whole plot. Something is amiss, and the timeline is vague and obscure. It got so ridiculous that they both have 2 past abduction scenes(her wearing school uniform and another scene of her wearing yellow.) and 2 present situations( both of her being able to walk,not a paraplegic anymore. Present MALE LEAD, Ryu, rekindles the relationship and another he who has no memory of imsol at all). Now, imo, both multiverse of the characters being presented in one universe is a bad idea. Characters in this story SHOULD BE in one universe. they can exist in another universe but they should not exist at the same time,imo. This drama does this, and it gets a fatal flaw following that kind of storyline. It gets so messy to the point that many plotholes are bound to happen.
Inconsistencies are here and there.
1) in the earlier episodes, everytime she mentions about the future, " time freezes" and ryu seonjae can't hear what she has just told him nor can see the texts that she has written. Then in the middle episodes, she has successfully told him about his dying," time freeze" was not doing its magic. Lol. overriding what has happened in the prior episodes.
she Is a paraplegic in the past[(2009), maybe caused by her being abducted? The series didn't specifically give the reason why she became paralyzed down].she should remain in that condition in all "present scenes(2022)". I got surprised why she could walk all of a sudden without forewarning in the present ( looks like in episode 7 when she thought she was in ancient goryeo)from the middle and to forward episodes. She was wheelchair bound in 2022 (present)when she watched ryu's concert. She got to see the announcement of his death on the big screen outside the concert venue. So from her hospital stay in 2009 till present 2022 , she can't move from the waist down. It was that long since that way, 13 years to be exact! So how come she can walk again? That beats me!
The plot deals on how she could save her idol, Ryuseonjae, who has inspired her to live her life and not be despondent about her condition,but instead, what the storyline gave us as the past is more on her abduction( why 2 abductions? It should only be 1!) and did not delve on the cause of the suicide of Ryu or murder of Ryu( storyline did not touch this topic at all) so she might have prevented it!
But anyway, the death of Ryu has come to pass and it could never have been prevented because one can't undo a past action. The latter episodes became more ridiculous because Ryu has come alive and totally becomes amnesiac on his relationship with imsol. This is one BIG plothole of the story( done so they can have many romantic thrilling moments together?,lol)
The events that have unfolded is not because of the novel imsol has been drafting. Imsol wrote the novel based on what she has experienced in the last 15 years. It is not the novel dictating the events in imsol's life,imo. And to me, granny has beginning alzheimer's, nothing more to it. She is not a time traveller,imo.
I would like to mention that I don't like Kim hyeyoon's getting her eyes look BIGGER , in surprise, or in anything she does. She is over-acting quite a bit here. Funny how many times I have counted when she is doing THIS facial expression!
So I STILL I cant get it. Were the 2 years( it was mentioned 15 years gap. 2009 is the year of her accident and 2022 is when Ryu committed suicide, so 13 years apart and 2 years as neighbors,2007-2009)of living as neighbors mean they know each other and are a couple?( romantic moments together) or they don't know each other?( imsol blatantly said she doesn't know Ryu and the band Eclipse during a phone in call in her hospital room and when she avoided meeting Ryu during her last time travel so they didn't get to know each other). I'm still at a loss here. The more logical thought would be that they don't know each other and then proceed to get to know each other till they become a couple. But this will NEGATE somehow the" time travel" concept of the storyline. It will make all those earlier episodes wasted! That's why I said that time travel is hard to form as a drama series because it is very abstract and somehow hard to conceptualize. It really needs a good directing and screenplay to pull it off nicely. One title I have in mind is the Chinese drama " shining for you( shown in 2022)" which is done so well!
Some things( surely not the messy plot)rescued this drama. It gave us many comedic relief moments in between, like the competition of the men for imsol's attention, the lottery scene wherein it showed the reason why their win is so low, the condom issue, the brother's "role-as-an-actor scene in the hospital to name a few. I have enjoyed these scenes so much to give a passing 5 score on this drama. ( If it were not for these funny scenes, this drama is a fail in story presentation).
I grade dramas based on the freq uency of plotholes, as well as inconsistencies to the storyline. There should also be " continuation" and free flow of the storyline and character development. Cheesy romantic moments are not what I come for in a drama
Inconsistencies are here and there.
1) in the earlier episodes, everytime she mentions about the future, " time freezes" and ryu seonjae can't hear what she has just told him nor can see the texts that she has written. Then in the middle episodes, she has successfully told him about his dying," time freeze" was not doing its magic. Lol. overriding what has happened in the prior episodes.
she Is a paraplegic in the past[(2009), maybe caused by her being abducted? The series didn't specifically give the reason why she became paralyzed down].she should remain in that condition in all "present scenes(2022)". I got surprised why she could walk all of a sudden without forewarning in the present ( looks like in episode 7 when she thought she was in ancient goryeo)from the middle and to forward episodes. She was wheelchair bound in 2022 (present)when she watched ryu's concert. She got to see the announcement of his death on the big screen outside the concert venue. So from her hospital stay in 2009 till present 2022 , she can't move from the waist down. It was that long since that way, 13 years to be exact! So how come she can walk again? That beats me!
The plot deals on how she could save her idol, Ryuseonjae, who has inspired her to live her life and not be despondent about her condition,but instead, what the storyline gave us as the past is more on her abduction( why 2 abductions? It should only be 1!) and did not delve on the cause of the suicide of Ryu or murder of Ryu( storyline did not touch this topic at all) so she might have prevented it!
But anyway, the death of Ryu has come to pass and it could never have been prevented because one can't undo a past action. The latter episodes became more ridiculous because Ryu has come alive and totally becomes amnesiac on his relationship with imsol. This is one BIG plothole of the story( done so they can have many romantic thrilling moments together?,lol)
The events that have unfolded is not because of the novel imsol has been drafting. Imsol wrote the novel based on what she has experienced in the last 15 years. It is not the novel dictating the events in imsol's life,imo. And to me, granny has beginning alzheimer's, nothing more to it. She is not a time traveller,imo.
I would like to mention that I don't like Kim hyeyoon's getting her eyes look BIGGER , in surprise, or in anything she does. She is over-acting quite a bit here. Funny how many times I have counted when she is doing THIS facial expression!
So I STILL I cant get it. Were the 2 years( it was mentioned 15 years gap. 2009 is the year of her accident and 2022 is when Ryu committed suicide, so 13 years apart and 2 years as neighbors,2007-2009)of living as neighbors mean they know each other and are a couple?( romantic moments together) or they don't know each other?( imsol blatantly said she doesn't know Ryu and the band Eclipse during a phone in call in her hospital room and when she avoided meeting Ryu during her last time travel so they didn't get to know each other). I'm still at a loss here. The more logical thought would be that they don't know each other and then proceed to get to know each other till they become a couple. But this will NEGATE somehow the" time travel" concept of the storyline. It will make all those earlier episodes wasted! That's why I said that time travel is hard to form as a drama series because it is very abstract and somehow hard to conceptualize. It really needs a good directing and screenplay to pull it off nicely. One title I have in mind is the Chinese drama " shining for you( shown in 2022)" which is done so well!
Some things( surely not the messy plot)rescued this drama. It gave us many comedic relief moments in between, like the competition of the men for imsol's attention, the lottery scene wherein it showed the reason why their win is so low, the condom issue, the brother's "role-as-an-actor scene in the hospital to name a few. I have enjoyed these scenes so much to give a passing 5 score on this drama. ( If it were not for these funny scenes, this drama is a fail in story presentation).
I grade dramas based on the freq uency of plotholes, as well as inconsistencies to the storyline. There should also be " continuation" and free flow of the storyline and character development. Cheesy romantic moments are not what I come for in a drama
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