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satalasers This was a really cute and fluffy k-drama. I liked that it was two love stories wrapped up in one, and how the two generations shared parallels with each other! The mixing and matching was cute!
- One thing that really stood out was the range between being selfless and being selfish, and how sometimes its not entirely clear cut, and people get hurt regardless. IDK! I liked that people were martyrs a lot, and that added to the overall theme and mood of the show. I felt like it was best reflected in Joon, TBH, but all characters underwent this conflict.
- I think I preferred the first generation better, slightly? There was something so soft and yearning with the original group, and I liked that it was about six friends, who loved each other and also got on each other's nerves. Also the fact that it was set in university was nice! I liked the fashion sense! So cute! I didn't entirely get why the police were after Chang Mo in the fourth episode though?
- At first there was six, and then there was four, and I'm a little bit sad that Hye Rim kind of never quite seemed part of the gang, and the other friend was forgotten about entirely. But the trio of boys were sweet, and I liked that they kept their music and stayed in touch all this time, and a little bit passed through the next generation too.
- The actors in the second generation were amazing! I'd gotten so used to them as the first generation, it was great to see the actors being reused for the second generation and give them completely different personalities! Yoon Hee/Ha Na especially! She was unrecognizable to me to begin with because she felt so different! With In Ha/Joon, I'd seen some of the actor's work (in Beethoven Virus), so his face was more familiar to me.
- Sun Ho was the cutest, truly a ray of sunshine, and I wish there was more of him. I didn't ship Ha Na/Sun Ho but I could have watched way more scenes of their friendship happening, because I did like them interacting. (Him, I did totally prefer than him as Dong Wook, but I liked the casanova Dong Wook too!)
- I liked Jo Won Suk! He was maybe flittering in and out at random, but he made me laugh, as an oblivious person who kind of wasn't there for the drama, but who pieced things together in his own time and lived his own bubble. I also shipped him and Mi Ho together! I know she'd probably never fall for him, but I enjoyed him falling for her regardless. I liked that he annoyed everybody, but was harmless and fun. I thought it was nice that he was Chang Mo's nephew instead of his son.
- Also: 2012 Chang Mo was the best! What a good actor! Adult Hye Rim was also great -- she, for sure, got on my nerves! She was very bitter and spiteful a lot of the times, and I disliked her but then in the last episode, when she was nicer, she still had that grumpy feel to her, which I found amazing, because she was different, but the actress retained her grudging nature, and that impressed me a lot! (Also, Hye Rim and Chang Mo are dating now, right? Right?)
- I liked photography, and it was cool to see the modelling/photo shoots happen. I liked that it was kind of a variation: while In Ha loved painting, his son Joon loved photography; and they eventually bonded over their preferred art style.
- I don't know if I necessarily liked adult In Ha, who acted selfish a lot of the time because I think he had years of being selfless and maybe was fed up of it a little (maybe?). But I... still sort of rooted for him regardless, because I liked how he navigated his relationship with adult Yoon Hee, and I suppose I rooted for them because I liked their past selves version, and if this was the way they had to go with trying to get together 20ish years later, then... at least they got a happy ending.
- I didn't like this love triangle! Usually I don't mind love triangles, and I think -- well, Ha Na/Sun Ho was never treated that seriously, but Joon/Ha Na/Tae Sung was the more central love triangle and dragged out a lot, which I didn't like quite as much as Dong Wook/Yoon Hee/In Ha. It might have helped that the original triangle was only four episodes long, whereas the second one is 16 episodes. Tae Sung kind of... disappeared, at the start, then came back at the end, and I just. I just don't know. I did like Tae Sun! I just think it got added for a bit more drama, since Ha Na and Joon got together pretty quickly?
- They broke up a lot! I'm surprised by how many times they broke up! But they were cute too, and fought for their love quite often. I liked that Ha Na didn't fall for Joon right away, and only started to reciprocate after he became a bit nicer. (It didn't always work, but, c;est la vie!)
- This was a wierd take on incest? I don't... know how to write this: okay, the thing is, I think it was a factor to why they broke up? If In Ha and Yoon Hee got married, then legally, Joon and Ha Na would be step-siblings. So it's... wierd. But I think -- okay, if In Ha had a brother, and Yoon Hee had a sister, and that brother and sister fell in love and got married, that wouldn't be incest. And I think the fact that since Ha Na and Joon had already grown up and gone to college, (and also! fallen in love with each other without the prior knowledge that their parents were in love with each other, once) makes it... less icky for me? But it's still a very wierd situation to be in, and I get why they were kind of like 'this relationship might be a bad idea, right?'
- I mean, let's take Pinocchio, I'm kind of a bit more grossed out in that version? Because, even if the two leads are not blood related, the fact is, one of them was legally her uncle (he was adopted by her grandfather), and even if he spent the last couple of episodes getting emanicipated so he was no longer her uncle, and was her boyfriend it still... doesn't mitigate the ten-odd years where he was her uncle, legally? Or, I suppose an easier example is The Umbrella Academy. Everyone is adopted, but the fact that they were raised as a family, makes Allison/Luther incestuous, because family is more than blood, and they were brother and sister, growing up together, so any kind of variation of the family being romantically shipped is... uh, not great to me?
- I wondered if the 'drama bomb' would happen since it was 20 episodes actually, so I was wondering what might be revealed at the end of episode 18, and it was Yoon Hee losing her eye sight, a nice remix of her being ill in the first part of the series! Honestly, that surprised me, but I also liked it because of parallels.
- Also what a super cute wedding! Joon/Ha Na were cute! They went through a lot! I'm glad they got their happy ending! Even if In Ha and Yoon Hee didn't get married in the end, (and they had a super cute proposal), I'm glad they still got to be together. So: everybody wins.
IDK. This was an interesting drama, I'm not sure I'd rewatch it, but I laughed a lot, I liked the music, generally liked the characters, though it definitely went on longer than it needed to be. But it was cute and fluffy and I liked the daily sort of feel to it.
- One thing that really stood out was the range between being selfless and being selfish, and how sometimes its not entirely clear cut, and people get hurt regardless. IDK! I liked that people were martyrs a lot, and that added to the overall theme and mood of the show. I felt like it was best reflected in Joon, TBH, but all characters underwent this conflict.
- I think I preferred the first generation better, slightly? There was something so soft and yearning with the original group, and I liked that it was about six friends, who loved each other and also got on each other's nerves. Also the fact that it was set in university was nice! I liked the fashion sense! So cute! I didn't entirely get why the police were after Chang Mo in the fourth episode though?
- At first there was six, and then there was four, and I'm a little bit sad that Hye Rim kind of never quite seemed part of the gang, and the other friend was forgotten about entirely. But the trio of boys were sweet, and I liked that they kept their music and stayed in touch all this time, and a little bit passed through the next generation too.
- The actors in the second generation were amazing! I'd gotten so used to them as the first generation, it was great to see the actors being reused for the second generation and give them completely different personalities! Yoon Hee/Ha Na especially! She was unrecognizable to me to begin with because she felt so different! With In Ha/Joon, I'd seen some of the actor's work (in Beethoven Virus), so his face was more familiar to me.
- Sun Ho was the cutest, truly a ray of sunshine, and I wish there was more of him. I didn't ship Ha Na/Sun Ho but I could have watched way more scenes of their friendship happening, because I did like them interacting. (Him, I did totally prefer than him as Dong Wook, but I liked the casanova Dong Wook too!)
- I liked Jo Won Suk! He was maybe flittering in and out at random, but he made me laugh, as an oblivious person who kind of wasn't there for the drama, but who pieced things together in his own time and lived his own bubble. I also shipped him and Mi Ho together! I know she'd probably never fall for him, but I enjoyed him falling for her regardless. I liked that he annoyed everybody, but was harmless and fun. I thought it was nice that he was Chang Mo's nephew instead of his son.
- Also: 2012 Chang Mo was the best! What a good actor! Adult Hye Rim was also great -- she, for sure, got on my nerves! She was very bitter and spiteful a lot of the times, and I disliked her but then in the last episode, when she was nicer, she still had that grumpy feel to her, which I found amazing, because she was different, but the actress retained her grudging nature, and that impressed me a lot! (Also, Hye Rim and Chang Mo are dating now, right? Right?)
- I liked photography, and it was cool to see the modelling/photo shoots happen. I liked that it was kind of a variation: while In Ha loved painting, his son Joon loved photography; and they eventually bonded over their preferred art style.
- I don't know if I necessarily liked adult In Ha, who acted selfish a lot of the time because I think he had years of being selfless and maybe was fed up of it a little (maybe?). But I... still sort of rooted for him regardless, because I liked how he navigated his relationship with adult Yoon Hee, and I suppose I rooted for them because I liked their past selves version, and if this was the way they had to go with trying to get together 20ish years later, then... at least they got a happy ending.
- I didn't like this love triangle! Usually I don't mind love triangles, and I think -- well, Ha Na/Sun Ho was never treated that seriously, but Joon/Ha Na/Tae Sung was the more central love triangle and dragged out a lot, which I didn't like quite as much as Dong Wook/Yoon Hee/In Ha. It might have helped that the original triangle was only four episodes long, whereas the second one is 16 episodes. Tae Sung kind of... disappeared, at the start, then came back at the end, and I just. I just don't know. I did like Tae Sun! I just think it got added for a bit more drama, since Ha Na and Joon got together pretty quickly?
- They broke up a lot! I'm surprised by how many times they broke up! But they were cute too, and fought for their love quite often. I liked that Ha Na didn't fall for Joon right away, and only started to reciprocate after he became a bit nicer. (It didn't always work, but, c;est la vie!)
- This was a wierd take on incest? I don't... know how to write this: okay, the thing is, I think it was a factor to why they broke up? If In Ha and Yoon Hee got married, then legally, Joon and Ha Na would be step-siblings. So it's... wierd. But I think -- okay, if In Ha had a brother, and Yoon Hee had a sister, and that brother and sister fell in love and got married, that wouldn't be incest. And I think the fact that since Ha Na and Joon had already grown up and gone to college, (and also! fallen in love with each other without the prior knowledge that their parents were in love with each other, once) makes it... less icky for me? But it's still a very wierd situation to be in, and I get why they were kind of like 'this relationship might be a bad idea, right?'
- I mean, let's take Pinocchio, I'm kind of a bit more grossed out in that version? Because, even if the two leads are not blood related, the fact is, one of them was legally her uncle (he was adopted by her grandfather), and even if he spent the last couple of episodes getting emanicipated so he was no longer her uncle, and was her boyfriend it still... doesn't mitigate the ten-odd years where he was her uncle, legally? Or, I suppose an easier example is The Umbrella Academy. Everyone is adopted, but the fact that they were raised as a family, makes Allison/Luther incestuous, because family is more than blood, and they were brother and sister, growing up together, so any kind of variation of the family being romantically shipped is... uh, not great to me?
- I wondered if the 'drama bomb' would happen since it was 20 episodes actually, so I was wondering what might be revealed at the end of episode 18, and it was Yoon Hee losing her eye sight, a nice remix of her being ill in the first part of the series! Honestly, that surprised me, but I also liked it because of parallels.
- Also what a super cute wedding! Joon/Ha Na were cute! They went through a lot! I'm glad they got their happy ending! Even if In Ha and Yoon Hee didn't get married in the end, (and they had a super cute proposal), I'm glad they still got to be together. So: everybody wins.
IDK. This was an interesting drama, I'm not sure I'd rewatch it, but I laughed a lot, I liked the music, generally liked the characters, though it definitely went on longer than it needed to be. But it was cute and fluffy and I liked the daily sort of feel to it.
