The premise was uniquely interesting, and had the potential to be an epic Romantic Fantasy. Loved some of the characters...ML is an awesome actor (seen him before in "The Smile has Left your Eyes", "Hello Monster", and "Master's Sun". I've never seen the FL before but I was very impressed with her acting skill...very appealing and likable. I even liked some of the supporting characters.... particularly "God" and the Team Leader. Despite all its got going for it...this dramedy kinda fell short.
It's not a horrible show, but it just doesn't quite cut it.
The problem to my mind was not the acting...but the Story/plotting. There simply wasn't enough going on. Its like the only essential happenings and dialogue took place in the first 5min and the last 5 minutes of each episode...and the middle 40 - 45 min was just filler. There was long stretching of dialogue and multiple scenes in every episode wherein NOTHING happens. The ML and FL just wonder around and ramble on about nothing. We get multiple flashbacks of scenes that just happened in the current time frame which we really don't need to be reminded of. Other random flashbacks that don't tell the viewer any new information. Repeat scenes where we're literally just watching people walking and think with music montages in the background. Also, there were too many pointless characters:
1. Kevin, the aunt's husband. He's married to a Korean woman and he doesn't speak Korean and the Aunt, nor anyone else in the family speak English. There are whole scenes/conversations where he's speaking English and the other person is speaking Korean...and neither can understand the other..WTF?!
2. The CEO/Boss of the Publishing company and pretty much all the office staff...except the Team leader, he was interesting. The rest are literally just filler. They add nothing to the story. Their actions don't advance the plot. They don't provide much conflict or motivation. And its not believable that after FL finds out she's dying in 100 days, she decides to make a bold new commitment to a job she herself admits that she hates with a Boss who's an insensitive jerk. But the writer's had to fill her time with something.
3. The Team Leader's Father. What does he add to the story? Nothing but running time.
4. The Writers/authors...none of them added much of anything either. They seemed more like plot devices than characters
Why not just shorten the running time/Episode count and make a better drama? Why is *16* the magic number? This could have easily been cut down to 10-12 episodes and told a more concise, tightly woven tale of Doomed Love. Instead, we get a meandering mess that losing some of its magic along the way.
It's not a horrible show, but it just doesn't quite cut it.
The problem to my mind was not the acting...but the Story/plotting. There simply wasn't enough going on. Its like the only essential happenings and dialogue took place in the first 5min and the last 5 minutes of each episode...and the middle 40 - 45 min was just filler. There was long stretching of dialogue and multiple scenes in every episode wherein NOTHING happens. The ML and FL just wonder around and ramble on about nothing. We get multiple flashbacks of scenes that just happened in the current time frame which we really don't need to be reminded of. Other random flashbacks that don't tell the viewer any new information. Repeat scenes where we're literally just watching people walking and think with music montages in the background. Also, there were too many pointless characters:
1. Kevin, the aunt's husband. He's married to a Korean woman and he doesn't speak Korean and the Aunt, nor anyone else in the family speak English. There are whole scenes/conversations where he's speaking English and the other person is speaking Korean...and neither can understand the other..WTF?!
2. The CEO/Boss of the Publishing company and pretty much all the office staff...except the Team leader, he was interesting. The rest are literally just filler. They add nothing to the story. Their actions don't advance the plot. They don't provide much conflict or motivation. And its not believable that after FL finds out she's dying in 100 days, she decides to make a bold new commitment to a job she herself admits that she hates with a Boss who's an insensitive jerk. But the writer's had to fill her time with something.
3. The Team Leader's Father. What does he add to the story? Nothing but running time.
4. The Writers/authors...none of them added much of anything either. They seemed more like plot devices than characters
Why not just shorten the running time/Episode count and make a better drama? Why is *16* the magic number? This could have easily been cut down to 10-12 episodes and told a more concise, tightly woven tale of Doomed Love. Instead, we get a meandering mess that losing some of its magic along the way.