But it was fun, because the main character (the girl, at least) was crazy over the top and filled up the screen with her shenanigans and personality. My Love From Another Star had a cool alien time twist… and it was very, very small scale. Why does the plotline seem so small when we’re dealing with someone as cool as Time Travel? If the plotline is going to be small – the characters have to be BIG. They were cutesy and cute but it all felt like a commercial to me.Īnd it was so obviously her dad. Maybe this magically changes somewhere towards the end, but I kinda doubt it. And as their romance was the SOLE FOCUS of this entire show, I felt it should have felt a little more intense. I don’t know… they were pretty and looked pretty together, but they didn’t blow me away. Yet something felt a little disingenuous about this couple. We’ve been fooled by advertising into thinking that is love for so long that our brains automatically process it. Sometimes I am not sure if it’s chemistry or just what happens when two really attractive people get together and smile at each other. Just poof! Apparently in K-World a boyfriend is a cure for alcoholism after all. Though magically her drinking problem disappeared after three or four episodes. I know it’s supposed to paint her as this pitiful damsel in need of saving, but it just took it too far… it was too pitiful… she didn’t need a boyfriend, she needed rehab. I felt like hiding under the blankets, it was so painful to watch. Maybe that’s why every scene where she got hammered made me cringe a bit more than it should have… but Jesus, it did. I can be judgey here because I am an ex-lush and spent the better portion of my youth plastered beyond oblivion and it’s probably a small miracle that I survived it and am sober today. And I don’t care how pretty you are, any man is a fool to tackle that mess without serious reservations. Can’t stop with one drink? Can’t stop until you’re plastered until oblivion? Frequent black outs? Frequent humiliating and embarrassing episodes yet you continue to drink? Hm… check your handbook, sweetie. I think it’s safe to call that alcoholism. I generally find the cute drunken shenanigans in k-dramas adorable. The lead female has a serious, dreadful alcohol problem. I am generally amused and appalled by how this issue is glossed over in k-dramas. Especially if my own parents had died in an accident, I would be trying to prevent further accident deaths all the time. I would also have my hands in the lives of other people. And if you just pick one or two key things – boom. I suppose there is the risk of being investigated for insider information, but you know they could never prove it. And… leave the country more? If you can move back and forth in time, the temptation would be too strong, I think, for anyone to resist. I personally don’t understand why he doesn’t have more fun with it. So, for a time traveling guy, he doesn’t over do his abilities. But Jesus! It’s so tedious! I feel like I’ve been watching it for years already and it’s STILL NOT OVER. Overall Rating – Final Verdict… abandoned to the K-Drama Graveyard. My God, it just dragged on and on for hours… and for what? They recently played very cool characters in other shows I loved (Shin Min-A in Oh My Venus… adorable! and Lee Je-Hoon was cool as cucumbers as the newbie cop in Signal), which only made it worse.įor a show about time travel, I felt like I was stuck in a time hole watching this. Since this drama was so insular – so focused on just two characters – it would have been a LOT BETTER if the two characters had been more interesting and/or more likable. It isn’t until he decides to use his amazing time traveling ability to actually prevent a death that his own life changes – and his life gets further tangled with a beautiful photographer’s whom he decides to marry in an attempt to prevent his own future demise. Normal CEO behavior, I guess, according to K-World. Anyways, using his ability to pop forward and backward in time via the subway, he’s able to make some great investment decisions and manages a successful real estate company… doing little to no work, showing up in ripped jeans, treating the majority of his employees like douchebags, and being generally an ass to everyone. This is a show about a guy who can jump back and forth between his current time line and the future (until his own death, which isn’t too long in the future so he’s got a limited jump frame).
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