at the very start when they're in canada, ET says the thing about catching a leaf and being in love w the person you're walking with, and KS catches a leaf and she takes it from him. ET had "love" for him from basically the very start (it wasn't actually love though, more like the desire to be loved or to have something resembling love), which explains why the leaf ends up in her possession. she later laminates the leaf and gives it to him as a gift (there's a running thing in the show of ET asking KS if there's any love in the gifts he gave her, so i guess this is a reflection of that, in some way) and he takes it from her. at the end of the crosswalk scene when he says "it was my first love", a maple leaf falls and lands on the book, and it's not the maple leaf she gave him, meaning now there is some love of his own. later, ET finds the maple leaf she gave him in his notebook with the chinese characters, and we later learn that what he wrote in that book was about his first love (euntak), further reinforcing the idea that the leaf = first love (or their love, specifically). much later, after KS dies and comes back and ET loses her memories, she's in Quebec looking at a fallen maple leaf, and looking at said leaf ultimately brings her memories back; the love shared between them transcended even death, as even though so much time had passed and they had both died in some way (KS literally, ET metaphorically), the love (maple leaf) still persisted, guiding her back to her memories and to him. The maple leaf in the show is significant not only because of the beautiful cinematographical moments it provides, but also because it is the physical embodiment of the main couple's love, and essentially the cornerstone of their relationship. in this essay i will
For people who read the webtoon, is there a love triangle?
kind of but not really? FL had a crush on someone other than ML at the start of the series, but it never went anywhere. Another character also had a crush on the FL for a good chunk of the story, but it also didn't go anywhere nor was he considered much of a "threat" really because he was a student. so, no, not really!
why is mbc gatekeeping this drama so bad 😠literally have been waiting for it since january to hear absolutely nothing for months and when we do finally get news it's that the drama has 14 episodes and will only air once a week. sick to my stomach actually
this drama is literally peak, its such a perfect and faithful adaptation of the webtoon so far but is also fully able to stand on its own two feet seperate from the webtoon. words cannot describe how obsessed i am with this show i can't wait for more
god this entire age gap debate is giving me goblin flashbacks again 😠its literally a fantasy kdrama about reincarnation pls just learn to suspend your disbelief a little it will make life so much easier
banger first episode as expected i cried like 3 times 😠im kind of upset they cut out a couple things from the webtoon but i get why. it seems they're developing some sort of motif surrounding water which is really interesting to see! also the song that played when they saw each other at the hotel was so beautiful omg
im giving this show 10 gold stars already even though its not out yet just because of the promotional posters THEY'RE SO PRETTY??? IM LITERALLY OBSESSED
people who say they look childish just dont like fun or know what camp is i think
Me tooooooooo. But, I think were probably gonna have to wait for a while. Most of the events in the webtoon happens…
omg you're right i didn't even think of that! like the climax of the webtoon at the beach and stuff. ughhh i can't wait though so much anticipation ðŸ˜
the plot sounds like something id absolutely devour but right off the jump the first thing i thought was "this just sounds like goblin" 😠and since goblin is my #1 favorite piece of korean entertainment of all time i feel like if i watch this ill just be comparing it to goblin the entire time which is completely unfair to this show so idk maybe i should just avoid it
for anyone who has watched the show and has also watched/liked goblin, would you say the show is off to a good start?
I can't believe that people are trying to argue that just because Kim Shin is 900 years old any woman would be…
i liked this comment so much that i finally verified my account just to respond to it lmao
this is coming from someone who loves this show more than any other show in the history of entertainment, and someone who genuinely thinks the show is a 10/10 with no flaws whatsoever. yeah, the age gap is really weird ðŸ˜
when i first started watching the show i was immediately put off by the age and maturity difference between the two of them, and i felt more like i was watching a grumpy, tired dad look after his overbearingly energetic daughter. Even now when I rewatch the show I still feel that way in the earlier episodes, especially when they go to Canada for the first time. That being said, I feel like even if Eun Tak was a college student, the difference in maturity between the two of them would still be hugely noticable, solely because I've come to learn that Eun Tak's aegyo-esque, candy girl personality is LITERALLY embedded in her character and would be impossible to change unless you change her entire backstory. since she lost her mom at such a young age and was basically forced to grow up and fend for herself at the age of 9, i dont think its unrealistic to expect that as soon as she's comfortable or happy, she'll regress back to more childlike behavior. its a pretty common coping mechanism, i think. In that light, I feel like Kim Go Eun's portrayal of her character was intentional.
And, I'm not sure if you continued watching the show or how far in you are so I won't spoil anything, but later on in the series, she gradually becomes more grounded and stable, sometimes even coming off as more mature than Kim Shin and the grim reaper ^^
I am a really big fan of the immortal x mortal trope, so perhaps I'm just used to stuff like this, but something that does make watching it more bearable is viewing it solely as what it is intended to be: a fairy tale. The whole show is, in a way, fairy tale-style wish fulfillment. In that vein, its not really meant to be held to the same standards as a normal love story because it really isn't; their love is not only fated, but also transcends time, distance, age, etc. It's really offputting at first, but I promise, if you watch all the way to the end, it turns into a really beautiful love story set in the belief that love is more powerful than any force in the entire world. Sorry for the essay omg but I just really liked your perspective and wanted to share my (completely "unbiased") thoughts on it :)
people who say they look childish just dont like fun or know what camp is i think
for anyone who has watched the show and has also watched/liked goblin, would you say the show is off to a good start?
this is coming from someone who loves this show more than any other show in the history of entertainment, and someone who genuinely thinks the show is a 10/10 with no flaws whatsoever. yeah, the age gap is really weird ðŸ˜
when i first started watching the show i was immediately put off by the age and maturity difference between the two of them, and i felt more like i was watching a grumpy, tired dad look after his overbearingly energetic daughter. Even now when I rewatch the show I still feel that way in the earlier episodes, especially when they go to Canada for the first time. That being said, I feel like even if Eun Tak was a college student, the difference in maturity between the two of them would still be hugely noticable, solely because I've come to learn that Eun Tak's aegyo-esque, candy girl personality is LITERALLY embedded in her character and would be impossible to change unless you change her entire backstory. since she lost her mom at such a young age and was basically forced to grow up and fend for herself at the age of 9, i dont think its unrealistic to expect that as soon as she's comfortable or happy, she'll regress back to more childlike behavior. its a pretty common coping mechanism, i think. In that light, I feel like Kim Go Eun's portrayal of her character was intentional.
And, I'm not sure if you continued watching the show or how far in you are so I won't spoil anything, but later on in the series, she gradually becomes more grounded and stable, sometimes even coming off as more mature than Kim Shin and the grim reaper ^^
I am a really big fan of the immortal x mortal trope, so perhaps I'm just used to stuff like this, but something that does make watching it more bearable is viewing it solely as what it is intended to be: a fairy tale. The whole show is, in a way, fairy tale-style wish fulfillment. In that vein, its not really meant to be held to the same standards as a normal love story because it really isn't; their love is not only fated, but also transcends time, distance, age, etc. It's really offputting at first, but I promise, if you watch all the way to the end, it turns into a really beautiful love story set in the belief that love is more powerful than any force in the entire world. Sorry for the essay omg but I just really liked your perspective and wanted to share my (completely "unbiased") thoughts on it :)