I thanks the director (or more probably the writer) for the insert at end of episode 6, giving the date of airing…
The thing is both of these songs symbolise a big event. Spring Day was written in the memory of the Sewol Ferry Tragedy which happened in 2014 while the song was released in 2017. And Dynamite was released during pandemic which made them famous world-wide since its their first English lyric song. The show is right now set in 2013. So the tragedy and Pandemic is yet to happen but still they (main leads) know about the song hence they know about the events joined to them i.e. they know the timeline too well.
I was eagerly waiting for the drama after completing the Webtoon few months back. Of course, the one episode per week is big turn off and somewhat made me want to watch the show on 3rd Jan instead but out of excitement I couldn't control and ended up watching the 2 episodes.
I liked the simple tones and light hearted comedy elements of the story but what felt odd while watching the show was the start and character introduction. Watching it didn't feel like I was watching the first episode of a show instead, felt more like I was watching some mid-way episodes of a show. Reason being the character introduction and the past life montages.
Hae-na, Bo-Gyeom, Hae-na's sister and Vet friend had a good build up when were first being introduced in the story but for Seo-won's character he was introduced very randomly as if a side character (even they have better intros) or extra. It was abrupt, sudden and had zero conclusion to his character.
The past life montages: Again the introduction of the past life in the story was too abrupt, I feel somewhere the makers didn't go for the pauses in between we often see in K-dramas (These pauses are a unique characteristic of Korean Cinema). Because of this the past life montage looks very rough and out of the place for me. Taking away the feel of first episode from it.
Other than that I am a big fan of the cast and I love studying adaptations (books and Webtoons) so I will be continuing this watching one episode per week. Lets see how the characters unfold from here. I really liked the conversations between Hae-na and Seo-won. Glad they didn't kept this for later episodes or it would have been boring.
I liked the simple tones and light hearted comedy elements of the story but what felt odd while watching the show was the start and character introduction. Watching it didn't feel like I was watching the first episode of a show instead, felt more like I was watching some mid-way episodes of a show. Reason being the character introduction and the past life montages.
Hae-na, Bo-Gyeom, Hae-na's sister and Vet friend had a good build up when were first being introduced in the story but for Seo-won's character he was introduced very randomly as if a side character (even they have better intros) or extra. It was abrupt, sudden and had zero conclusion to his character.
The past life montages: Again the introduction of the past life in the story was too abrupt, I feel somewhere the makers didn't go for the pauses in between we often see in K-dramas (These pauses are a unique characteristic of Korean Cinema). Because of this the past life montage looks very rough and out of the place for me. Taking away the feel of first episode from it.
Other than that I am a big fan of the cast and I love studying adaptations (books and Webtoons) so I will be continuing this watching one episode per week. Lets see how the characters unfold from here. I really liked the conversations between Hae-na and Seo-won. Glad they didn't kept this for later episodes or it would have been boring.