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This is how you do promising rom-coms but fumble the end
This could have been one of my top dramas this year to date but those last two episodes really fumbled the bag. Head over Heels had it all; interesting plot, great execution of the fictional ghost world, great characters, crazy chemistry and good pacing but then in the last two episodes they completely threw over board what they established in the 8 episodes before?? Why?
I didn't understand any of the plot in epsiode 11 and 12 and the way they ended the story with both seongha and gyeonu staying alive didn't make any sense to me. Especially irritating to me was that while Bongsu was in either Gyeonu or Seonghas body in the 2 years after graduation, nobody really seemed to be actively doing something about it because "there was nothing to do". Instead we got a fashion show, a school reunion, a few scenes of Jiho, Gyeonu and Bongsu (in Seonghas body) just hanging out as if Seonghas body just didn't return out of nowhere and gyeonu/ Jiho just along with it knowing Seongha is in danger? And then in the last episode they suddenly do have a way out by sacrificing themselves and Seongha only needing to pray a bit for her powers to come back and find bongsus real name and safe everybody....as if they never bothered to try any of this for two full years and just sat around being sad saying, "theres nothing we can do". Those were some very weak plot progression choices that ended up underwhelming me in the final episode. So 8 stars instead of 10 because they just had to be that extra in the final run :((((
I didn't understand any of the plot in epsiode 11 and 12 and the way they ended the story with both seongha and gyeonu staying alive didn't make any sense to me. Especially irritating to me was that while Bongsu was in either Gyeonu or Seonghas body in the 2 years after graduation, nobody really seemed to be actively doing something about it because "there was nothing to do". Instead we got a fashion show, a school reunion, a few scenes of Jiho, Gyeonu and Bongsu (in Seonghas body) just hanging out as if Seonghas body just didn't return out of nowhere and gyeonu/ Jiho just along with it knowing Seongha is in danger? And then in the last episode they suddenly do have a way out by sacrificing themselves and Seongha only needing to pray a bit for her powers to come back and find bongsus real name and safe everybody....as if they never bothered to try any of this for two full years and just sat around being sad saying, "theres nothing we can do". Those were some very weak plot progression choices that ended up underwhelming me in the final episode. So 8 stars instead of 10 because they just had to be that extra in the final run :((((
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