MySiFeng

I was fully invested in first 5 episodes. how first love theme played and somehow lost each other only to find each other back but fate came in between us.

back then I tried this show because of the writer (she wrote my fav I’m sorry I love you, nice guy and uncontrollably fond), but I found it slow and boring.

however this time I watched 5 episodes at 1 sitting and I was hooked. it wasn’t until the hospice arc started I felt everything started to get diluted.

I don’t really feel much attracted to characters in the hospice. perhaps except for the director’s ex wife. the rest just seems plain? the only one that teared me up was Jiyong.

also the hospital and the family scenes honestly was unnecessary. really.

I felt many things weren’t satisfying. for example towards the end, ML got to know the woman in the rubbles was his mother. I felt that arc was put in too late. Cha young’s mother reappeared and then Cha young decided to disappear for a while, like why?

when Cha young said she’s going to tell a story. it gave me an impression that what if ML self blame himself because all this while she didn’t love Min Seong but him? and he was the reason Min Seong and her broke up? doesn’t she think of this? and ML said let’s pretend there’s no Min Seong and just two of them. hey what?????

now, the characters.
Lee Kang, I feel his character has been consistent. from a cheerful, kind boy, the family transformed him into unhappy, serious, no smile, but he still kind inside. I can feel he’s surviving not living his life. it was until at the hospice he gradually begun to change. soft, subtle but obvious. I’m new to yoon kye sang and I felt he has this natural delivery. I like his depiction of Lee Kang. not too much.

Cha Young.
she’s gullible, easily tricked. kind. high empathy. one thing I don’t like about her was she’s just too kind that her own brother and mother took advantage of her. what I wish is for her to get out of this and live her own life. honestly her brother was annoying but (show not good at painting he’s also suffering). and in the show she got hurt so many times for weird and nonsense reason. go up to up the hill to pick up raspberries, come on. just buy! this is plot convenience. she paid for her mum’s meals at that homestay, I just cannot brain Cha Young. does she hates or yearn her mother?

Lee Jun.
I swear this guy has always feel conflicted since he’s a kid. pitting against Kang. his parents and grandma put him through these. I like his development and when he got to know about his father’s birth origin and how he himself was treated as a tool to agitate Kang, the change in him was not sudden but understandable. Seung Jo has electrifying eyes. whenever something happened, looking at his eyes doesn’t tell only single emotion but many.

overall not a bad show but can be much better, improving on the healing aspect.