kat
hi, hello, and welcome... to the most fun you can have watching a drama if you get down off your movie critic high horse and learn to love yourself. is this drama cliche? yes, most definitely. does that mean it's bad? no, you absolute sticks in the mud.
first things first let me tell you what i'm looking for in a drama and why the heirs is all of those things and more:
-i, personally, cannot stand when girls in dramas are the first to fall in love with the (usually cold and aloof) boys, and then we as viewers have to suffer her trying to win the boy over for numerous episodes and everything sucks. i find this unrealistic since women are queens and i, personally, immediately fall in love with them. thankfully, the heirs has my back, and our main boy tan is in love with eun sang from, like, ep 2 or 3. we stan a king with good taste.
-a realistic love triangle. now, any time a drama is like "here is a rich boy. here is a poor boy. here is a poor girl. poor girl has to pick between them" i'm over here pulling all my hair out because Whomst Is Trying To Marry The Poor Boy; Girl Get That Coin. anyway, the heirs never bothers with all that and gives us a "triangle" with two rich boys. thank you generous queen. (i hesitate to call it a triangle since she never expresses interest in one of the boys; he just likes her... but in kdramas the girl's opinion hardly matters i guess)
-a good beta couple/secondary couple. every review sings the praises of them so i won't harp on it but dear god in heaven they are the best thing ever maybe. love them. amen.
-a happy ending!!!!! who is trying to be sad after investing all that time!!!!! the ending is happy. i love it. so good.
okay now to address the Critics of this masterpiece of a drama:
-a common complaint i see throughout the reviews is that the storyline... goes nowhere? or makes no sense? or something? i loved the storyline, it never bored me, and the point of it all really resonated with me. to me, the story was fundamentally about children who had been broken down by the world/their parents/their circumstances and were just desperately trying to find love or meaning somewhere out there. there's an extended metaphor around this fake drawing of a dead body that keeps being graffitied on the school grounds which i'm just so enraptured by. if you just sit and think about the story for more than the ten seconds between episodes, you can see the meaning and how it maybe affects other children who are stuck in impossible situations or loveless families. anyway that's just my Two Cents.
-another complaint is that there's no chemistry between the leads. unfortunately i cannot give the blind sight. there's chemistry. goodbye.
-'eun sang is boring' or 'eun sang cries too much.' first of all, accusing a girl who works several part time jobs while also attending school, whose sister vanishes to america, whose mom can't hold down good jobs because she's mute, who keeps getting bothered by rich boys who she doesn't want to be bothered by, whose life keeps getting turned inside out at every turn......of crying.....too much.......is a little, hm, Sexist. just saying. anyway, if you think a GIRL (literally....an underaged child) who does all that, gives back sass as good as she gets it, stares down millionaires without fear, and has an incredible capacity for warmth, forgiveness, and love is boring then i literally have no words for you. eun sang deserves the world; i would die for her.
anyway to make a long story short i love the heirs and critics of it can choke. i've seen it maybe ten times by now. I Know What I'm Talking About. thank you for your time. go enjoy your non-cliched terrible dramas while i love this very good one. bye.
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