I LOVED the layered way that worked. Not only was Joo-Won supercute as a *young* cocky guy (I actually preferred him in Kim Sam Soon, not for his acting, which was definitely more shallow, but for seeming like an actual human) but it had an internal logic. If his lack of memory is a big deal in his life, he can't just have it back with no complications.
He fought to have it back, and that may have actually been the most exciting part of the story with him. I got a huge rush when he runs to tell Ra-Im about that more than any of the other times he runs over to bother her, or be nice, either.
Ra-Im was really hot in the beginning, and I wished that she continued moreso, but I can see the balance being hard in that kind of a story--how do you get across that she's also vulnerable? Well, introduce a guy that's always catching her off her stride. She spends most of the story off her stride then, and her awesomeness all happens with Oska and their bantering. (OMG, THEIR BANTERING. Collaborating to provoke Joo-Won is the BEST thing those two have ever done. Even separately.) But it would have been nice to explore more of her motivation and drive. I thought all her scenes training the kohais(hoobaes) were intriguing, and wanted to know more about *that* Ra-Im. But Joo-Won always railroads her into other things...
In Protect the Boss, the scheming ajummas are what these ones could have been, and the earlier parts with that I watched a long time ago. I may be a bit biased...they were pretty cool, but that whole family side-line went by the wayside. Though I DID like how Uncle With Voice gets brought back to be the manager, after some good laying-down-of-the-law.
Hmm. Subversiveness, huh. Neither of them did get a make-over in the kind of people they were (none of them did, actually). They just made it kind of work. (Grandma included.) So that's an interesting choice.
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Date: 2011-12-03 04:02 am (UTC)I LOVED the layered way that worked. Not only was Joo-Won supercute as a *young* cocky guy (I actually preferred him in Kim Sam Soon, not for his acting, which was definitely more shallow, but for seeming like an actual human) but it had an internal logic. If his lack of memory is a big deal in his life, he can't just have it back with no complications.
He fought to have it back, and that may have actually been the most exciting part of the story with him. I got a huge rush when he runs to tell Ra-Im about that more than any of the other times he runs over to bother her, or be nice, either.
Ra-Im was really hot in the beginning, and I wished that she continued moreso, but I can see the balance being hard in that kind of a story--how do you get across that she's also vulnerable? Well, introduce a guy that's always catching her off her stride. She spends most of the story off her stride then, and her awesomeness all happens with Oska and their bantering. (OMG, THEIR BANTERING. Collaborating to provoke Joo-Won is the BEST thing those two have ever done. Even separately.)
But it would have been nice to explore more of her motivation and drive. I thought all her scenes training the kohais(hoobaes) were intriguing, and wanted to know more about *that* Ra-Im. But Joo-Won always railroads her into other things...
In Protect the Boss, the scheming ajummas are what these ones could have been, and the earlier parts with that I watched a long time ago. I may be a bit biased...they were pretty cool, but that whole family side-line went by the wayside. Though I DID like how Uncle With Voice gets brought back to be the manager, after some good laying-down-of-the-law.
Hmm. Subversiveness, huh. Neither of them did get a make-over in the kind of people they were (none of them did, actually). They just made it kind of work. (Grandma included.) So that's an interesting choice.