The editing is so patchy, like they're axed the amount of episodes in half and had to deal with it blindfolded. Four or five episodes in and I'm feeling I'm missing more scenes than I'm actually seeing. Just non sequitur after wait, when did that happen followed by a flashback to a skipped conversation. Fun stuff for brainwork, I'll give them that for sure.
Rewatching it in 2025 and while I enjoy the zaniness immensely, the romance is way too much of Stockholm syndrom-type not to treat it with morbid curiosity of a car crash unfolding.
This drama relies so much on illness to fix things between people WELP
Yup. I find this particularly insidious how it's used to handicap female characters and show them their proper place in society. The equally absent father of the ML gets almost no flak, but the mother need to be forced to retire from her career (by a man far her senior by his looks) due to signs of dementia. She has to be physically immobilized with her ankle sprained in order for a conciliation scene to happen. There's a theme here, of grounding women and I really don't appreciate it. I'll bet Mo-eun won't reach the Pole neither.
Was it one of those cards that help to identify emotions/states of mind through facial expressions, what caption…
And the best part is, when done properly, the stillness is not a mask or a cover to hide the truth, it's a bare, irrefutable conclusion that cannot be hidden, a one reached despite all odds that are still present and valid.
Was it one of those cards that help to identify emotions/states of mind through facial expressions, what caption would it have? That stare that's neither blank nor conflicted, perfectly still yet turbulent underneath. (Pairs well with life-long supressed feelings unexpressed because ReasonsTM.) Asking for a friend.
Scarlet Heart Ryeo, Rooftop Prince , Live Up To Your Name.
Precisely what I 'm saying. FL in the first one is sent backwards into the past, both MLs in other two are sent forward into the modern times. Which seems like a common pattern when you start noticing it, and I'm looking for an exception.
Is there any other drama where it's the FL that travels forward into modern times? There seems to be a fixed route, every single time FLs are send backwards and MLs forwards. For good reason now that I think about it, but come on? Would that be the first? The only exception to the rule being the one with a chef sent into a princess body, a recent remake. /Edit: ah, Mr. Queen. So the only one is still genderbent, so story-wise it falls into 'she's not like other girls - because she's from a future - and not a she' formula.
meanwhile, it continues to be an absolute treat to rewatch, something I wish I could say more often about kdramas. The hindsight just keeps falling in right places, glaringly there and more witty for it. And the chemistry! The best kind of it. Splendid.
I wish we got Mi Mo's mother POV too. I waited for her story and it never really came. What about that father that killed himself? Why, how, did he actually (I half expected that to be a cover story)? It's that what affected her so much? She seemed bit incoherent to me.
I'll bet Mo-eun won't reach the Pole neither.
Asking for a friend.
The only exception to the rule being the one with a chef sent into a princess body, a recent remake. /Edit: ah, Mr. Queen. So the only one is still genderbent, so story-wise it falls into 'she's not like other girls - because she's from a future - and not a she' formula.