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The storyline captures with excellent creativity!
Are we all just victims of our fate with no way to comprehend or ever change our predetermined future? Do we really have choices in life, or are we just puppets and robots forced to live out our existence? We grow up believing the world revolves around us, viewing our environment in such a way that we are the center of our own universe, then one day we get a rude awakening that life isn't just about us after all. And none of us really are the masters of our own making. This is the amazing premise of this spellbinding storyline.
On the surface, it appears to be a typical high school drama replete with handsome flower boys called the A3. One finds there are subtle, wry references to other high school dramas so memories of all those I've seen in the past came up for me, especially "Boys Over Flowers/Meteor Garden." On an obvious front is the essential K-drama full of any trope between a male and female lead.
BUT ON THE DEEPER LEVEL EXISTS A WHOLE NEW STORYLINE UNIMAGINED BY VETERAN VIEWERS OF K-DRAMA. And this is where the writing captures with excellent creativity! The girl we come to associate with reaches self-explanatory realization which casts her as an extra in her own world. Trying very hard and determinedly to thwart her predestination and forecast of future events, she keeps encountering the stronger will of her creator, coming against a brick wall of finding herself living out the motions.
The extra has such spunk that she summons everything within herself to desperately fight the arranged engagement for business and money purposes. She does all in her power to prepare against always being the fall guy or scapegoat who simply enables the main couple. Persistently she goes against her stereotypical role of the sickly, weak supporting cast who is only there to serve the will of whatever higher power controls her life script.
Finally one day, hope and illumination arrives in the form of a mysterious stranger. With her usual bravado, she tries everything to discover his identity using her heart, heart monitor and her back. For me, this is where the story really took off, and I was enraptured to view her extraordinary fighting against going-silently-into-the-dark-night of mediocrity and unfulfilled, meaningless existence.
For a fantasy, I think this is among the best of its kind, and the comic book world is reminiscent of "W" yet still in a distinction of its own. This is plenteous with ironic humor, the extra's witty comments being eloquent with tongue-in-cheek references and pointers. Her rising growth in consciousness, as well as the twists and turns of her romance, were fun to watch, if you get the message the writer conveyed. I found I was not simply entertained, but this penetrated my thinking and complacency.
These are only 30-minute episodes so it's just 16 full episodes. Lovely OST, far from average plot, beautiful cast, definitive fantasy, distinguished writing, exhilarating pacing, highly evocative theme, excellent hike in character development, illustrative of high school dramas but taking us where I have never gone before, while spanning emotions from despair and frustration to exultant joy, this romantic comedy deserves merit and its accolades.
On the surface, it appears to be a typical high school drama replete with handsome flower boys called the A3. One finds there are subtle, wry references to other high school dramas so memories of all those I've seen in the past came up for me, especially "Boys Over Flowers/Meteor Garden." On an obvious front is the essential K-drama full of any trope between a male and female lead.
BUT ON THE DEEPER LEVEL EXISTS A WHOLE NEW STORYLINE UNIMAGINED BY VETERAN VIEWERS OF K-DRAMA. And this is where the writing captures with excellent creativity! The girl we come to associate with reaches self-explanatory realization which casts her as an extra in her own world. Trying very hard and determinedly to thwart her predestination and forecast of future events, she keeps encountering the stronger will of her creator, coming against a brick wall of finding herself living out the motions.
The extra has such spunk that she summons everything within herself to desperately fight the arranged engagement for business and money purposes. She does all in her power to prepare against always being the fall guy or scapegoat who simply enables the main couple. Persistently she goes against her stereotypical role of the sickly, weak supporting cast who is only there to serve the will of whatever higher power controls her life script.
Finally one day, hope and illumination arrives in the form of a mysterious stranger. With her usual bravado, she tries everything to discover his identity using her heart, heart monitor and her back. For me, this is where the story really took off, and I was enraptured to view her extraordinary fighting against going-silently-into-the-dark-night of mediocrity and unfulfilled, meaningless existence.
For a fantasy, I think this is among the best of its kind, and the comic book world is reminiscent of "W" yet still in a distinction of its own. This is plenteous with ironic humor, the extra's witty comments being eloquent with tongue-in-cheek references and pointers. Her rising growth in consciousness, as well as the twists and turns of her romance, were fun to watch, if you get the message the writer conveyed. I found I was not simply entertained, but this penetrated my thinking and complacency.
These are only 30-minute episodes so it's just 16 full episodes. Lovely OST, far from average plot, beautiful cast, definitive fantasy, distinguished writing, exhilarating pacing, highly evocative theme, excellent hike in character development, illustrative of high school dramas but taking us where I have never gone before, while spanning emotions from despair and frustration to exultant joy, this romantic comedy deserves merit and its accolades.
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