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Be a director for one day!

amrita828
I'm quite sure all of us can think of at least one drama which could have been better if only - at least in our opinion.
Be a director for once, pick a drama and improve it to your liking. You can change a character or the entire cast, the finale, the music, the scenes, whatever you want. You can even get your hands and talent on the script, if you feel brave enough.

There are only two rules to follow:

1. Don't just say "I'd change x", without explaining what/whom you'd change it with. If, for instance, you didn't like the finale, write down how yours would look like.
2. The thread can be very spoilery. Always mention the title of the drama in bold and if you consider it necessary, whiten the text. In any case, make the warning clear. Thank you in advance. :)

And... Action!
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NinaJade82
Rita-chan I love this thread because it helps with the creative thinking... okay so... hmmm thinking of a drama that you have seen so that we can discuss my changes hahaha, I warn you, my abilities as lacking a bit :p

Okay here is one I really would have change like about 39% of the plot, 49 Days

I loved the premise of this story, I thought for once I found a story that was different and that the characters were not going to be predictable in their actions. WRONG! My story is in white not to give away some things for the drama fans that have yet to watch this drama. :)

I would have made the two main leads Yi Kyung and Hang Kang meet at night, like they did actually, but have him not figure out what was going on until much later in the story, to give Yi Kyung and Hang Kang a chance to know each other without Ji Hyun. Have them fall in love, and that be one of the purposes for Ji Hyun being in the 49 day period actually. As in bringing two miserable people together and saving them from their own demons. One from her hurt and depression, and the other from his constant devotion to his school love.
Also Mi Ho wouldn't have been a total villain in my story. He would have been one of the tears at the end, realizing he had actually fallen in love with the woman he would no longer be able to hold.
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amrita828
Wow!
First of all: thank you for replying, Twinny. You're a treasure. :D
Second: be assured with your changes I would have appreciated the drama A LOT more than I did. The rest in white:

I too was enthusiastic at the beginning, and I too was disappointed. I found 2 major flaws in it: no chemistry between the characters. Having a man be in love with a spirit who inhabits the body of someone else, it's impossible to create chemistry, because the viewer sees the body, not the spirit! Therefore, your suggestion is perfect, it would have created a bond between those two, no matter if a friendship or a love relationship. This would have helped me understand the meaning behind the trial Ji Hyun goes through a lot better, which is the second major flaw in my opinion. She would have been an actual help to the woman she borrowed the body of, instead of making her live two separate lives never really intertwined as they did.
Great job!!! :D
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NinaJade82
OMG!!!!!!!!!!! yes, yes, yes. Everything you said its exactly what I wanted!!! and the reason why. We think alike on this 100% :D

In white: If she was there really to "fix" things around, then it would have been great to help this lady by giving her the gift of falling in love with someone who also needs it. And actually the fact that you see the body and not the spirit, is another reason why it was a total fail for me to see him figuring out the truth from the start and continuing to be in love with this woman who is actually already dead. On thing the Koreans do a lot and it unnerves me, is the forever love plot. Who would be in love with his high-school friend after so many years still, without even there being a relationship between them as far as high-school buddies? To later know she was about to married, to later know she is dead, who in fact keeps a love like that? Only someone who is constantly holding on to his past which is not healthy at all... so for that reason, I thought helping him find new love in someone who also needed it was a beautiful message to the story, and what I thought would happen, and was expecting to happen for 11 episodes. After that I watched just because I wanted to see how it would end. But darn it... they messed up an otherwise beautiful story.
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amrita828
What can I say: we truly agree on every aspect here. 49 days aside, I totally agree on what you say about the one and only love concept in general. I wish they would stress the idea that we can come out of a heartbreak and love again, instead of pining for decades about something that never was. It would be, as you rightly say, a lot healthier and more respectful of reality. Not to mention the fact that more often than not, the people we fell for in high-school would have revealed themselves completely wrong for us if they had had a future.
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NinaJade82
True... while there are people that fall in love in high-school and then later continue to be as much in love or at least, love each other so much they don't see themselves with anyone else. Its also very true that the majority of couples out there are not high-school sweet hearts. Even more is the fact that love (this is going to sound very corny but yeah... bare with me) love is like a flower, if you don't water it often, it dies. I have seen it with all my friends. They are either single atm, or with someone totally different from their high-school love.
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amrita828
Jeez, now I can't wipe out of my mind the image of my first high-school crush, who lost 1 million points and was forgotten two nanoseconds after he came to me chewing a gum in perfect cow-style and asked me if he could french kiss me. He didn't use such a polite expression, obviously. If love is a flower, he was trying to sell me a cactus. :P Really... duh!!
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NinaJade82
Hahaha cactus!!!! what a nice way of turning such a mushy phrase into a very cool one :p My high-school love is now gay, my best friend, and my cousin. How is that for a drama story? :D
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amrita828
It's perfect! It has all the right elements for the perfect drama: a secret past, a dramatic change and a potential incest.
LOL
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NinaJade82
Haha yes, its perfect. We should co-write it together. Darn it I changed my keyboard to Spanish to figure something out, and now it wont change back to English
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Sleepninja MOD
A drama that I felt needed some serious re-writes was: 1% of Anything The story started of so promising and the acting was great. BUT WHY THE HECK would you suddenly half-way through change the lead actress's personality? To something completely opposite of what she originally was like? Made her so emo and unlovable that I wanted Kang Dong Won to shove her off a cliff and be done with it. Also in Momo Love, they could have finished that drama 3 episodes earlier. Instead they tried to drag it out by suddenly throwing every possible plot twist they could find and suddenly wanting to focus on the side characters' romances that had previously been neglected/nonexistent. The two mains had already wrapped up their issues and were good to go.


Sooo, this brings up my contribution to how to write a good drama script: It's actually one of my lessons from our Art professors. Always remember to K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid! If your script is working just fine already, and it's going to end cleanly DON'T add anything else, because you just end up beating a dead horse. If your character starts off with one personality, and it's working well with the story. Why would you try and complicate things by twisting their personality? These two things lead to a messy, ugly snarl in the threads of your story. Just keep it simple.


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amrita828
Thank you Sleepy! :D
I haven't watched 1% of anything, but I know perfectly well what you mean. I had a similar reaction while watching the tw drama Love Keeps Going. It was all going fine, finer than most tw dramas I've attempted to watch, when suddenly everything became so impossibly complicated I thought I had gone grazy. The writers must never have heard of K.I.S.S., because they put in so many new twists in the last 2 episodes they could have made a new drama.
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