Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (2020)

What a Disaster

I'm really struggling to find the words to describe how I'm feeling. I couldn't understand how such a loving show could have such negative reviews but oh boy does it all make sense now. The show was perfect even flawless. I also did not mind the ending. The ending after the ending now thats messed up. I was so emotionally drained by the time the real ending popped up I couldn't be happy at all. It just left me bitter. I don't know what made me more disappointed. The fact that the ending had no explanations or the fact that they thought it would be acceptable. It was just so bad and poor Mr.Kim. Mr.Kim at the very least deserved a proper send off. I Dont know what to say the ending was a pile of poop.

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I cannot believe the ending!!!

I literally binge-watched this drama in 2 days.
It was that enjoyable until I got to episode 14. All the reviews and comments I'd read before I began watching it did not prepare me for the last three episodes. If Jun was going to come back, why have his mum lie about his death and keep lying to everyone for five years? What if Ra-Ra had married someone else? Who lies about their death like that or their son's death? Only to resurface after 5 years and expect to carry on from where they left off? Utter nonsense!
I cannot believe the ending... did not make sense AT ALL!!! I wish I knew what the writer and director were trying to prove.

Rant over, I loved the actors and their acting, the characters and the story up until episode 13.
I didn't like Go Ara in Hwarang (the only drama of hers I'd seen prior) but she totally nailed this role.
Lee Jaewook was amazing as always. It's so hard to believe that he is so young!
Everyone else did a good job.

The piano pieces were lovely, a bit too long in parts but they were a lovely addition.

Skipped over some of the other side characters' parts but it didn't take away from the drama.

I probably would not watch the whole drama again, but would definitely watch certain parts of it.

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16 hours is not that long, but if you're watching this, it'll feel like 16 days

If wasting your time is what you like, then please do watch this. It’s only good as a background noise.

PLOT

Did someone in the meetings, say to make this drama a bunch of cliches and not even pull it off well? The whole time, i could see cliches upon cliches happening, and just failing to be something. Like a child writing every princess story and including everything from the original stories, making it super cringy and overcooked. Everyone agrees that the ending was not pulled off. They wanted to create a flare near the end, which ratings prove that it sparked SOMETHING, but couldnt pull it off in the end. This drama had no substance, the plot is only good on paper.


ACTING

It was fine, Lee Jae Wook seems to be best, and excel in being a cold and moody character. Im not sure if i like that because there were many parallels between (Sun Woo Joon) and from extraordinary you (Baek Kyung). Maybe similar in characters, but id expect for them to have differences and be able to distinguish, but not the case. This may seem insulting, but Go Ah Ra cant pull off a naive, dumb, rich girl. It just didnt work. It was like watching a older mature woman tryna act cute and innocent and being cringy. It just didnt work and she is a good actress, but this role didnt suit her.


OST

It was okay, i like classical music being incorporated in it, of course its a drama about piano therefore it’ll be classical, nonetheless it was an okay touch. The rest are just mellow, boring songs, and i couldn’t get into any of them. Would not listen on their own.

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Unrated by some

I read most reviews and can’t understand the low rating. I found this drama very appealing and well written. The cast was wonderful and storyline carry a good flow. Perhaps some didn’t like the ending, but it did make some sense of why . Overall it’s a good drama and a good watch.

The two main leads had good chemistry and although they is a age difference between them , they fit well together. The male lead had those unique eyes that made him seemingly surprised in some of his parts. He did an excellent job in his role. The female lead was very charming throughout the drama, as she played a innocent role of her surroundings. due to her father’s in my opinion the lack thereof of to much protection from him.

The other young kids were very cute, although the female was to bossy and always hitting the guy.
The doctor and his ex was a funny add to the drama and really well mixed together.

The piano music was an added pleasure, nice to have this kind of music in our days.

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i loved it,,, until

I don't know where to start. I originally started this drama because I was in the mood for something lightweight, cute and mushy; and that is what I got until things started to go downhill however for now, let's just remember the good things.
Ra Ra - I absolutely adored RaRa. She was so different from the other female leads I had seen, she was just so loveable. After everything she had went through, she was still so bubbly and had a positive outlook on life which was just so adorable. Her personality changed her everyone for the better and she was just a joy to watch as a whole.

Sun Woo Joon - GOD I fell in LOVE with this man. I first watched him in Extraordinary You where his role was the complete opposite so it was kind of odd to see him in this whole new role but he was made for a first-leading male role. His acting was amazing, every time he smiled I felt a little ping in my heart and every time he cried I bawled. I adore male leads like this and it was really nice to see Jaewook in this new light. I really hope to see him in another first-leading male role soon.

Story - Let's start with the good things. The plotline up until about episode 13 was AMAZING, it was a 10-star rating plotline for me. Every single character was written perfectly. Dr Cha kind of creeped me out at the start and I did have the suspicion that he was Do Do Sol Sol La Sol but as the story went on, he grew on me. The salon ladies were so cute and the teenager's crush story was fun to watch. The relationship between Jun and Ra Ra, I don't think I can ever stop talking about it. His love for Ra Ra and the way he could never say no to her was so special, it was really unlike anything I've seen before. The love he felt for Ra Ra was genuine and when the discovery of who Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol happened, it made my heart flutter. Knowing he fell in love with her from first sight and not 'love' but actual love that he felt so worried for her and wanted to keep in touch with her was so precious and romantic. They were really soulmates.
BUT then everything went downhill when the writer decided to switch it up from such a bubbly, cute innocent love story to melodrama. It felt like the writer had changed completely. Jun's character changed completely, he lied about going to the US but actually had blood cancer??? why would you not tell your loved one that AND then his mum came and liked to everyone saying he had died?? I can't tell you how much I cried just to see him come back 5 YEARS LATER and pop up in front of Ra Ra acting as if nothing happened. I understand he didn't want her to see him ill but she thought you were dead!!! for 5 years!! I absolutely despise long time jumps and this one was just stupid. However, the ending was nice to see. Her playing the piano as she used to when she welcomed Jun home for him to run in like he used to do. If only they didn't add that stupid 5 year time jump and overused illness story, this drama would've been 10/10.

However, I can't lie and say I didn't enjoy it. I managed to finish this in 2 days and I would recommend to my friends as long as they beware of the sudden plot change.

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Loving someone sometimes taboo

Except final episode whole drama story was nicely putted . As an Asian this types of situation mostly faces in asian countries rather than europe or other western countries . In here we are stuck with social cultural obstacles that a younger boy can't love or like older girl/ women . Even an older women / girl can't feel or think about younger boy . It is predetermined by society & taboo ! This drama focuses on that issue . I like this part because everyone every aged people rights to love anyone if S/he cares & respect whom s/he is loving . The final episode really disappointing a dead man how come after 5/6 years later !! The writer was either drunken or being fool on that time .. looks like having no common sense . The writer can made the story ML come back after curing disease why made him die ..And why dead man come again .. whatever ! The catchy part of this drama as said earlier in my title loving someone still taboo in society either you show how much respect & love ....nothing can be granted in this society if that person come forward to solve the situation ..In most of cases, in this type of situation pure love rejected because of age issues ..

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The positive: The series was cute and fun to watch. It was upbeat and very warm. It reminds you of the happy welcoming place you go to and feel good. The acting was good. The overall plot was good.

The negative: the plot twist was not very good. Our big reveal in the middle of the series led to nowhere. The threw in another monumental event that altered the whole happy, sweet vibe. After that the manipulated the viewers emotionally and then changed their minds. The ending ruined the entire this. There were some loop wholes. We never find out what happened to finances. Things were just left unresolved.

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Has the feels in spades but...

I started watching Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol as a stop gap in-between Start-Up episodes. Wanted something light hearted to recover from a particular episode. DDSSLLS looked lighthearted and Go Ara's beaming smile was inviting.

Overall this was a delightful series. The love story is charming and the plot intricate enough to keep the pace entertaining and enough twists and turns to keep you on your toes from time to time.

The OST is lovely too with lots of classical music as well as an song by Minnie and Miyeon from (G)I-DLE (the other reason why I started watching this) and a song by the incredible Sondia which blew me away (and made me cry).

All in all, everything is going well except... I'm going to leave you to experience it for yourself. Maybe I was naive and missed something. It's a easy watch, all the characters are lovely - just don't take it too seriously.

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This is a really cute and entertaining drama which was a breath of fresh air for me after watching a bunch of dark dramatic dramas. Piano is one of my passions, so when I heard that this drama would be about a pianist, I was very excited. The two main leads had a good balance of development and personality with Ra Ra being a cheerful, joyful, weird but lovable girl that lost everything and had her world fall apart and Jun being a guy that appears cold but has a very warm heart and is a hopeless romantic that harbors the secret that he is a runaway high school student that is rebelling from his parents. I was worried in the beginning that Jun would just be Ra Ra's superhero and his only purpose would to be there for Ra Ra and nothing more, but he got his own individual spotlight, personality, and backstory. I really enjoyed the actors and they really had a lot of chemistry together. I had just watched Lee Jae Wook in Extraordinary You and I hated his character (not the actor) quite a lot as he managed to make him very unlikeable, so I wasn't sure if he would have a likeable character, but omg I was wrong. I loved his character and his smile just made my heart melt. His character is SO ROMANTIC and sweet even though he tries to appear like he hates everything. When it was revealed how they really first met, how he liked her from their first encounter, and how he was do do sol sol la la sol, everything made sense as to why he was helping her so much. I kind of wish that his reason to run away was more sympathetic or sad rather than his friend died and his parents are being insensitive about it. Maybe I'm just a terrible person, but that doesn't seem like a powerful reason to rebel. Go Ara was also a very great actress and pulled off her character very well. I was almost dying of secondhand embarrassment from the way she was shamelessly seeking Jun's help in the first few episodes, but Jun seemed happy with it and she is a very lovable character that it quickly went away. The supporting actors were also really great and I loved the little squad that grew very close within the drama.

I love everything except for the ending. WHAT KIND OF JERK ACTS DEAD FOR FIVE YEARS AND THEN SUDDENLY COMES BACK TO THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE LIKE "SURPRISE! I DIDN'T ACTUALLY DIE!"????!!!!?!?!?! I love Jun so much but OMG if the writers didn't want him to die then they shouldn't have staged his death in the first place. Leave the resurrections of the dead to the dramatic dramas like Penthouse, and leave the cute and lighthearted ones alone please. If you're dead then you're dead. The "oh I'm actually terminally ill so I'm going to cruelly break up with you so you don't suffer with me" plot line was not the best, very reused, and really just a filler for the rest of the episodes, but it was acceptable. However the last 3 minutes really made me mad and it was really predictable. I wasn't sad when they all though he died bc I knew that he wasn't actually dead. It's a lot like the endings of Abyss and Hotel Del Luna where the main characters, Cha Min and Man Wol both die or fade away and then magically come back for unexplainable reasons just so they can have the Happily Ever After. They couldn't have come up with anything better? Ra Ra can live by herself or marry Cha Eun Seok or start a family or smth. Please make the ending make sense even if that means sacrificing the happily ever after. This is exactly why I think that the last episode of most dramas is quite boring or much worse than the rest of the drama since it's usually just fluff or happily ever afters or cliche unwanted plot twists to help the drama meet the 16 episode mark.

So to sum it up: I love the actors, characters, chemistry between the leads, story and plot line up until the last few episodes where everything falls apart.

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It could be great but the 'Ending' makes it an average drama!!!

Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
ইউনিক একটা নাম। নামের মত ড্রামাটাও ইউনিক।
ড্রামার নামটা যখন প্রথম শুনেছিলাম তখন থেকেই এটার প্রতি আগ্রহ ছিল, এটার এমন অদ্ভুত নামের জন্য। সিনোস্পিসটাও ভাল লেগেছিলো। তাই আশাও ছিলো ভালো কিছুই হবে। শেষের ৫ মিনিটের কথা বাদ দিলে বলা যায় আশাটা মোটামুটি পূর্ণ হয়েছে। এই ৫ মিনিটের কথা পরে বলি।
বড়লোক বাপের বোকাসোকা মেয়ে রা-রা। ড্যাডি'স প্রিন্সেস যাকে বলে, তার একদম পারফেক্ট উদাহরণ হচ্ছে রা-রা, বাস্তব দুনিয়া কিভাবে চলে তার সম্পর্কে কোন ধারণাই যার নেই। বিয়ের দিন তার বাবা হার্ট এটাকে মারা যায়, তাদের কোম্পানি দেউলিয়া ঘোষিত হয়, যার সাথে বিয়ে হবার কথা ছিলো, সে সব দেখে ভেগে যায়। রাজকন্য মূহুর্তেই পথের ভিখারী!! আবার সব নতুন করে শুরু করতে হবে। নতুন একটা জায়গায় নতুন একটা জীবন।
জায়গায় জায়গায় হোঁচট খেয়ে চলতে চলতে স্যোশাল নেটওয়ার্কিং সাইটে একটা কেয়ারিং কমেন্ট দেখে তার সাথে দেখা করতে সিউল ছেড়ে একটা মফস্বল শহরে পাড়ি জমায় রা-রা। আসলে কমেন্টের চেয়ে কমেন্টকারীর নাম তাকে আকৃষ্ট করে বেশি। ‘dodosolsollalasol’ ছিল রা-রা আর তার বাবার মাঝে একটা সিক্রেট কোড। তাই সে হয়ত ভেবেছিলো এই কমেন্টকারী তাদের পরিচিত কেউই হয়ত হবে।
কথায় আছে না? অভাগা যেদিকে চায়, সাগর শুকিয়ে যায়! রা-রার ক্ষেত্রেও তাই হলো। নতুন শহরে ঢোকার আগেই এক্সিডেন্ট করে বসল। গুরুতর আহত হয়ে হাসপাতালে ভর্তি হতে হলো। এদিকে যে Dodosolsollalasol-এর সাথে দেখা করতে এসেছিলো সে, সে এক মাসের জন্য বিজনেস ট্রিপে শহরের বাইরে চলে গেছে। সম্পূর্ণ নতুন একটা শহরে কোনো আপনজন ছাড়া সম্পূর্ণ কর্পদহীন অবস্থায় আহত হয়ে হসপিটালে ভর্তির মাধ্যমে তার নতুন জীবন শুরু হলো!
রা-রার এই নতুন জীবনে আশীর্বাদ হয়ে তার সর্বক্ষণিক সঙ্গী হলো, এক্সিডেন্টে যাকে সে আহত করেছিলো, সেই ‘জুন’। রা-রার সমবয়সী জুন। কঠোর পরিশ্রমী, একরোখা-চুপচাপ-ঘাড়ত্যাড়া, উপরে লোহার মত কঠিন কিন্তু ভেতরে মোমের মত নরম এই ছেলেটি তার প্রতিটি বিপদে তার সাথে ছিলো। তাকে বাঁচিয়েছে সব জায়গায়, সাহায্য করেছে নতুন একটা জীবন শুরু করতে। দুজন মিলে চালু করেছে La La Land নামের পিয়ানো একাডেমি। কার্যত যা হবার তা-ই হলো, প্রেমে পড়লো দুজন।
কিন্তু এই জুন কি আসলেই তা, যেভাবে সে নিজেকে পরিচয় দেয়? কেন তার চারপাশে এত গোপনীয়তা? আর রহস্যময় সে DoDo…Sol ই বা কে, যে রা-রার মোটামুটি সব জানে? এসব নিয়েই ড্রামার কাহিনী এগিয়েছে।
এই ড্রামায় আমার সবচেয়ে যেটা ভালো লেগেছে সেটা হলো, এই ড্রামায় কোন নেগেটিভ চরিত্র নেই। প্রথমে যাদের একটু খারাপ মনে হতে পারে, একটা পর্যায়ে দেখা যাবে তারা সবাই আসলে ভালো, পরিস্থিতিটা ভিন্ন ছিল তখন। Eunpo শহরটা মন কেড়েছে খুব, বিশেষ করে শহরের বাসিন্দারা। এত কেয়ারিং সবাই!!! এমন একটা নেইবারহুডে কে না থাকতে চায়!! সবার অভিনয় ভালো ছিলো। তবে সবচেয়ে ভালো ছিলো রা-রার কুকুর মিমির অভিনয়!!! কুকুরের সিনগুলো ইউটিউবে টেনে টেনে বেশ কয়েকবার দেখেছি আমি!
ড্রামায় খারাপ লাগা বলতে এই একটাই- শেষের ৫ মিনিট!! আসলেই কি ঘটেছিলো এটার ব্যাখ্যা কি কেউ আমাকে দেবেন প্লিজ? মানে যা মন চায়, কিছু একটা দেখায়ে দিলেই হলো? যেটা দেখাচ্ছেন সেটার পেছনে একটা ব্যাখ্যা তো দিবেন নাকি!? হ্যাপি এন্ডিং দেয়াই লাগবে? সেটা জোর করে হলেও? আমার লাইফে আমি আরেকটা ড্রামা দেখেছিলাম, নাম IRIS। সেটার এন্ডিং দেখেও এমন প্রশ্ন জেগেছিলো- কেন কেন কেন? কেন এমন হলো!!! একই প্রশ্ন উদয় হলো এই ড্রামার শেষেও! যদিও দুটোয় দেখেনো হয়েছে ভিন্ন দুইটি পরিস্থিতি! IRIS-এর এন্ডিং IRIS-কে করেছে আনফগেটেবল, DoDo…Sol এর এন্ডিং সুন্দর একটা ড্রামাকে নামিয়ে এনেছে এভারেজের কাতারে! কোনো মানে হয় এসবের?

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