W two worlds Season 2 sc

Well, on ep6, we got the definitive and official revelation Ki Ho is Bo Geol.

Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad I could share a human experience, and find out I'm not alone with this way to consider fictional content.

6 years ago, I started a project much bigger than anything I'd done before: writing a kdrama script! As I wanted to get the feeling to watch it on TV, I also started to learn screenwriting. My style was already close to that, it was natural.

During this 6 years, my perspective about dramas changed a lot. I could be behind the scene, read kdrama screenplays (translated with google) and understand how much difficult it is to make. In a so competitive world than korean system (much more than western one), only the best of the best writers have a chance to be produced.

I don't like plot-holes and have a high logic. But by creating a complex story, I was amazed at how easely plot-holes come in, in a way the author don't detect! And I could make observations on many other subjects about storytelling. The uncertainty of thousands of decisions to be made for a mountain of content. I became much more tolerant for the content we watch and the korean screenwriters working hard.

I ask myself this question: do ultra-critical people have an unfulfilled creative desire? Listing a series of flaws is often like saying "hey, I could have done better". That wasn't my motivation when I started my kdrama. But the effect has been the same: I've found that doing better turns out to be extremely difficult. Achieving just a convincing result is challenging enough.

Thinking about that, if I would be in such a situation, I wouldn't be scared by loneliness but by the unknow: will I be rescued one day or will I spend my whole life in this island.

Not that much negative. It's just a bit of nitpick about some details.
It's legitimate people ask questions about what they watch.
But I hope they don't destroy their own happyness, because it's a damn well written drama, providing a lot of emotions and optimism.

I couldn't say it better. It's the magic universe of dramaland.

Your point about escapism is credible. Maybe there is a part of it. However, the drama show us the deepness of the situation. First time Mok Ha sees Ran Joo, she's a child. I don't remember what age (let's rewatch the flashback scene). It's when Ran Joo is high-school girl singing for the chorale. So, I think the dominant part is really a desire to be a diva for the love of beautiful singing, and the first singer she saw and hear and amaze her.

Well, it's a problem too. I was disapointed by famous writer Kim Eun Sook about Descendant of the sun, and much more Goblin.

It happens I see scenes and think it could be better. But more, I get the ideas about how I'd made that better, so rewrite the scene in my mind. Here, I should give up when it's a regular case. I clearly waste my time watching. What I like is the feeling to get something I wouldnt think about, or better than I imagine, or even having the certainty I couldn't make.

Also, it happens I like to see something badly made. I watched twice Hospital Playlist because I needed to take note of all the problems it have. So I could check I don't make the same mistakes in my writing (and indeed, I had scenes at risk to correct).

However, the main reasons why I keep or give up are simples. Hooked, strong emotions, not boring. When I get that, I can forgive a lot of flaws.

Oh yeah, you touch a strong point here. And we could say the same about the brother. In front of the camera, more communicative.

Also, a detail jump to my mind:

At the end of the movie "Cast Away", the main character return to his previous life. And as he looks around, see how everything is superficial, fake relationships and empty motivations in people. He becomes alone, castaway in his own life.

But Mok Ha is a kind of reversal of that. After being alone on the island, the life she finds after is more optimistic, looking for building sincere relationships, meet people. And I could say, meet and touch the maximum number of people by singing for them.

It's a more general subject, but since time I read comments, and also see how I react myself: there is often a need for people to get what they want. It can even lead to absurd conclusions. Ex: someone want an healty love relationship, without love triangle, without breakup, without obstacles for lovers, etc... without realizing that if they watched this show, their first reaction would probably be "it's boring".

After some introspection, as years pass, I found I was often frustrated when I want a drama be something. I also found the drama I prefered were also the ones that surprised me while I was not expecting something.

Anyway, I still find other reasons to be frustrated. Often by something I would like not to be in the drama. Not about plot or story but more the tone. Obviously, easy slapstick comedy is a no. Or too many slow boring contemplatives scenes, or other stuff like that.

You'll find strange to know, but I had a past of kind-of fanatic about rigor and logic of the plot, nitpicking about plot-holes or many stuff like that. Until I gave up on that, over time. Thinking it's not the most important. Now I stick more on how the drama is enjoyable scene per scene, what captivate intention each instant, and the most important: how much emotion it makes me feel.

So, I find no reason to be frustrated by this drama. First I trust the writer (I watched all her dramas, call me a fan), and I'm looking why and how she does this in a way or another. I simply enjoy the quality of her writing and ability to trigger sincere emotions. What's make: I watch each episode like I were eating a gastronomic meal. :-)

It's live. It's said in the description. "outdoor recording".
Then, there is a lot of post-production I guess, with such a sound.

One of the first point I noticed was that: so little time on the island, and no hard time on it. Then, the drama was just starting, and I could see it's slowly speaking about that, with flashback or what tell Wok Ha about her life on the island. With an important moment when she commits suicide, but save herself. Then needing to eat with someone, a seagull. And choose to live, 5 minutes later, 5 minutes, etc.

It's obvious the writer couldn't reuse the same than the movie "Cast Away". And she watched that movie, as there is a reference to it in the drama.
"Cast Away" tell the story of a man with a happy life, and suffering a lot from isolation. Finding also his whole life was fake about many points.

But Castaway Diva has another starting point. We can see the writer/director choose to show the island like a paradise in episode 1. Strange, isn't it? It's because Mok Ha escapes a situation worst than being cast away on an island. And after her father die, she can slowly heals her soul on this island.

I've read a book about survival situations, and I remember vaguely that some people survive while some others not. Many parameters. Of course keep your cool, be calm. But also the psychological strength. And the ability to focus on one thing after the other.

I expect to see other moments of the island in the following episodes, or stories Mok Ha tells. The character have a strong mental ability. She was like that before the island, chasing her dream and positive, even when she endures hard suffering. For sure, the writer didn't go in a drama about survival.

The kiss scenes where damn hot.
Not only the main couple but the one of Yu Ra and Dolphin face too. Before, we could notice another plot-device: when they get a fight with random guys in the night club.

Silly psychiatrist: Yes, an apparent plot device. Not really embarrassing, in fact quite funny.

I use an implausible plot device like that in a scene. This was a correction after the first draft. I needed to add scenes because I'd changed the outline of later episodes. As I had no logical connection with the rest of the plot, I used this. But adding several connections in the scene to compensate.

Dolphin face: ahaha, exactly that. I thought the actor was a bit bland, but in this scene he's great. A beautiful symphony of distorted hateful expressions.

Emotions and psychology are respected.
I'm sure you'd like other makjang dramas from the low-budget slot. It's not a gift I'm giving by recommending a 100-episode drama (for the time), but:
The Promise. Available for free on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3xIO8Ftqg&list=PLMf7VY8La5RG8vDcM8Oe8Fg1MTKZlT8gx
From a psychological angle, the events surrounding the main couple in the first half are strong. Lee Yo Ri as the lead actress, a style specialist. And Park Ha Na, one of my darling who mainly does this type of drama. Here in the role of antagonist. With a mother very similar to the one in Perfect Mariage Revenge. I even wondered if it wasn't the same actress.

Watch her other dramas and find out it's not her formula.

She commits suicide, but according to you, it's not an issue......................

It's supposed to be live. I had a doubt, but at the start, we see she has an earpiece for the musical feedback. Anyway, beautiful clip, could be in the drama.
She doesn't even have a singer experience but does it well.

Before to watch, make sure you have a lot of spicy ramen at home, or you won't survive frustration.
Take kimchi and soju with that, and it's perfect.

I'm in ep9. As you are the last person posting here, with I can share my happyness, heeeyyy... I answer you! The way it goes this drama will end in my fav. Last scene of ep8 was such a shock!

Finished ep8. The drama is even better than previously.
It was good at comedy, but dramatic scenes hit hard too.