I said it 1st week itself - this is your typical low quality korean romance. Korean novels usually are above avg.…
It's not just a change from the medium, though. The drama is making a ton of changes so it no longer resembles the same story, it's even undermining the webcomic's message and subversion of certain tropes. The webcomic is very, very good and if they had just kept with its overall story this would be much better imo.
I think you're right to be worried about A Good Day to be a Dog, because there's pictures of cha eunwoo filming…
Ughh... well, if that's the only change they make I won't be too upset. Although it's weird that this drama was okay with gender bending when the other one wasn't. Good point about Min-gi and sexism, I hadn't considered that aspect of it.
There's a lot, but the biggest ones: Seo-ha and Min-gi weren't in her first life, there are no negative consequences to meeting people from your former lives, Do-yun and Cho-won are missing a lot of development, Cho-won isn't a landscaper but works for the entertainment company she'll be inheriting, Do-yun's father wasn't involved in Seo-ha's accident, Ji-eum's father wasn't involved in the accident, Seo-ha's uncle was maternal, there is no stepmother or stepbrother (in the comic his aunt and cousin play a similar antagonistic role but they aren't as prominent), Ji-eum's past lives aren't really featured and most of them are new additions to the drama only, Ae-gyeong didn't raise Ji-eum and has a much smaller role, Seo-ha's dad isn't exactly nice but he isn't an abusive jerk like in the drama
Why even bother adapting the webtoon if you're gonna change things this much? It's not even the same story anymore. The themes and important concepts are totally opposite now. It's like they took out everything that made the webcomic fresh and interesting and replaced it with the same old tired cliches. In the webcomic the relationships are the focus and everything else is background, where now we have all of these new story arcs cluttering up everything. Also they cut out so much of Do-yun and Cho-won, whose relationship was my absolute favorite part of the comic. Some of my favorite scenes with them are now missing.
Honestly I think the drama writer just liked the concept of the webtoon and used it as a jumping off point, which frustrates me because the webcomic had a very well written, tight story that avoided cliches that the drama is falling into. Which is fine, but it's very disappointing to those of us who loved the webcomic. I also feel like the drama is kinda... the best word I can think of is "pretentious." It's really playing up the past lives, which is cool cinematically but I think detracts from the story. And if they were gonna add this much, they should have made it 16 eps to give everything more breathing room. This is just jam packed and feels poorly edited at times, there are things that we should have seen that we didn't and just have to assume happened.
I should have known after Kiss Sixth Sense that webcomic adaptations are incredibly unfaithful to the source material, but I had such high hopes for this adaptation. I don't mind changes in and of themselves, but everything they're doing is so counter to what I loved about the webcomic. Now I'm really worried about A Good Day to be a Dog.
I really want to love this drama but I really hate some of the changes they've made from the webcomic. The webcomic…
Now I'm wondering though if (in the drama) Do-yun is holding back from Cho-won not just for the reasons in the comic, but also because of the role his father played in her sister's death. That would make a bit more sense.
I really want to love this drama but I really hate some of the changes they've made from the webcomic. The webcomic had the perfect story, I don't know why they decided to mess with it. So unnecessary and, since I doubt they're gonna make changes to the ending or major plot points, it's gonna amount to nothing, just take up time and be annoying. And 12 eps, 6 left, at that. I have no idea how it isn't gonna feel bloated and rushed. The main romance has already been suffering from lack of breathing room, imo. Even the second leads had some changes made to their story that I think are gonna negatively impact the romance, which I LOVED in the comic.
Honestly I think the drama writer just liked the concept of the webtoon and used it as a jumping off point, which frustrates me because the webcomic had a very well written, tight story that avoided cliches that the drama is falling into. Which is fine, but it's very disappointing to those of us who loved the webcomic. I also feel like the drama is kinda... the best word I can think of is "pretentious." It's really playing up the past lives, which is cool cinematically but I think detracts from the story. And if they were gonna add this much, they should have made it 16 eps to give everything more breathing room. This is just jam packed and feels poorly edited at times, there are things that we should have seen that we didn't and just have to assume happened.
I should have known after Kiss Sixth Sense that webcomic adaptations are incredibly unfaithful to the source material, but I had such high hopes for this adaptation. I don't mind changes in and of themselves, but everything they're doing is so counter to what I loved about the webcomic. Now I'm really worried about A Good Day to be a Dog.