How to Fall in Love: The Dramaland Edition
During a lot of times that I watched a drama I couldn't help but think, "I wish this happened instead of that", or "This person should have ended up with that person".
HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD
To include: 49 Days, 1 Litre of Tears, Hana Kimi, Boys Over Flowers, You're Beautiful, Innocent Man and Last Friends
Shin Ji Hyun, who so earnestly managed to find the tears of three people who loved her truly lived. She deserved her happy ending very much. She didn't deserve to die a second time. If I were the writer, I would be like, "Okay. You did a good job. Now go and live your life happily with Han Kang". Then they would happily ride off into the sunset and the credits would roll. Hell, yeah!
Hana Kimi is supposed to be a "love triangle" but the main female lead never had feelings for Nakatsu. She was Sano's girl from the beginning. Sure, he was a great guy and all but I always felt like Nakatsu was more deserving in the end who loved her unconditionally. In the end, it should have ended with a phone call from Mizuki to Nakatsu, telling him how she realized that she was in love with Nakatsu even if her respect and admiration for Sano would always be there.
If people can get amnesia and then get their memory back so miraculously, they should be allowed to fight any rare disease in the world. Though poor Aya died from Spinocerebellar Degeneration, but upon watching her shed a litre of tears a fairy godmother should have appeared. She would have cured Aya of her brutal disease and made her whole family and people that cared about her happy. She would reunite with Haruto-kun in a romantic rainy sequence. I wish this would have happened in reality too and then the real Aya could have been saved. Alas, these things only happen in fiction. :'( :'(
This drama was unique because the girl had three guys who all loved her equally. It's hard to just say "He didn't deserve her". I believe all three guys did a lot for her in their own ways. However, she fell for one, looked up to one and friend zoned one. If I was the writer I would have made her pick Jeremy over the other two. Not just that it would have been a completely different ending over Tae Kyung vs. Shin Woo, but daring too. Or if I was the director, there would be three different endings filmed and the DVD would contain all three so the viewers could choose to watch what the one they wanted.
As much as I did love the ending of this drama, it was one of the only triangles where I wouldn't have minded the girl picking either of the guys. It was a wonderfully written love triangle and quite understandable. Since Ji Hoo was such a fan favorite, he deserved his own happy ending too. I think it would have been great if there had been an alternate ending filmed for this one too since the love triangle was so popular in all the versions.
Okay, so the characters in this drama had a lot to deal with. A LOT. All they needed in the end was a nice, sweet happy ending instead of a weird 7-year time jump which confused most people rather than satisfying them. This ending even killed it for so many people. It was totally unnecessary. They could have settled with Ma Roo and Eun Gi living a blissful marital life. Oh- and the number of times the characters had amnesia could have been reduced, too.
I truly appreciated the theme of the drama. It deals with realistic issues like abuse and phobias. What bothered me was the bad guy, Sosuke. He pretty much did whatever he wanted in this drama (beating up people, threatening them, raping his own girlfriend). In the end he was let off too easily because he killed himself. The real ending should have been with him getting caught by the police and ending up in a prison for the rest of his life. No one however bothered to report him to the police. All they did was hand him threats and poof! He was there at the doorstep again creating havoc. This part was unbelievable and DEFINITELY needed to be changed (take a note, dear director).
I am sure everyone has their own versions of the dramas too. So sound off in the comments below! :)
