W two worlds Season 2 sc

I'm Ok with this explanation, and overall, this drama gains more from being explained this way, even if it's not an excuse to sweep so much under the rug. Sure, for this scene, we know he has a way to get there. But it's impossible to know that it's only a free pass. Because then, the drama shows us the strange world only accessible from the portal. And for a lot of episodes, this scene remains incomprehensible. And when we have the explanation, unluckily, it is probably not the right one. It wasn't the passage through the portal. It was not a flashback but a real time scene. Which could have been guessed right away, except that... There are the guards on horseback that contradict this. And anyway, we don't see anything about the passage from Lee-Gon's world to this strange dimension. They are a set of logical details that contradict each other.

I'm willing to step into the writer's shoes. Wow! I have a great idea for a dimension in a strange world. When do I introduce that idea and an aesthetically superb scene to show it? That's the whole question. And what do I do to make this scene have a context (surrounding scenes, before/after) and be readable. So that the viewer is captivated and is faced with a mystery. All of this takes preparation and logic. If the scene is thrown randomly like here, it doesn't work.

The people who will understand are those who are addicted to drama and never exercised logic while watching, and they probably won't understand it at first watching. Or if they can, they forget or ignore the inconsistencies around it. Except that a spectator who pays attention to the details is more likely to be lost.

I think this is the great difficulty that a scriptwriter must have, to make the story clearly understood by a maximum of people. And especially to make it understood from the first watching. The very moment the episode is watched. It doesn't mean revealing a mystery, just making sure that everything is clear on the screen and in the narrative continuity. It doesn't mean telling a silly story where the viewer doesn't have to think. But to proceed in layers of depth. And the surface layer should always be clear, no one should be lost in the action, destabilized by logical loopholes or incomprehensible rendering.

There is also another problem, related to the concept: if at a given moment too many unanswered things accumulate (even things that are not confusing), there is a "house of cards" effect. The spectator becomes unable to make sense of and believe in the concept. Therefore, proof of the concept must be provided. And this is all the more valid to do when it is done for elements that do not need to be hidden. If it's not necessary to hide, you might as well be explicit. By having regular proofs of concept, the audience is willing to buy into the fiction because that fiction has a logic. Otherwise, the suspension of disbelief crumbles and disappears.

Often, this can be done through redundancy, an explanation, an additional scene that allows for understanding. This is difficult to do because it can be off-putting. But lots of writers do it perfectly. Just look at Back to the Future 2 for example. One situation has 5 redundant explanations, it's really a lot, but each step is interesting. So these scenes must be exciting in themselves. But often, writers have this tendency or get this feedback: if it has already been said, there is no need to say it again, it's a waste of screen time. The problem is when the way it was said is not detectable. So it's as if nothing was done.

Finally, the writer should not sweep things under the rug. Something happens, but suddenly it disappears. It's never mentioned again, even though it needs an explanation. The most obvious case here is in episode 14 (if I remember). Lee Gon is in the past, and he advances to the future using the strange dimension. Very nice scenes in which he meets Tae Sul younger. Except that there is an important logical element that is never taken into account. There is also the child Lee Gon who grows up normally during this time. So there are in fact two Lee Gon! But by magic, when Lee Gon joins the present time, there is only one Lee Gon. This doesn't make any sense, and the problem is that the scriptwriter acts as if everything is normal without ever giving any explanation. All this is rushed at an incredible speed while the first half of the drama wastes a lot of time for useless things. And even, Tae Sul should not have her memory from before, or it's hard to explain what she's doing there because the time has been rewritten.

If we analyze all this better, it was an element that could have been used for the story by the way. For example: There is a second Lee Gon and he is now a king. This leads to a more logical and acceptable ending, because in the end Lee Gon does not marry Tae Sul and she does not become queen (although he had said he would make her his queen several times). Now he can't be the king anymore, so he becomes a wanderer of time and space with Tae Sul.

Already I don't speak about the initial travel. Previous episode, we see them go into the portal. And the bodyguard comes to greet them. So we know they are in the other world. The problem here is the scene in the "strange in-between world".
#. Suddenly they are in another dimension.
Most of the people wasn't able to get that scene. Even the ones I know and are the best about decyphering kdrama. I mean, at this point when watching the episode. Not after rewatched the whole drama twice. Everyone was "huh?". The writer is unable to make it understandable.

Episode 5, I skip the first two or three scenes.
#. Lee Gon and Tae Sul in the woods. He tells her that he is a king. I quote the scene because the dialogue helps to establish a chronology.
#. The horse gallops down a path on a meadow.
#. Suddenly they are in another dimension.
#. The horse is at the vet's.

The "other dimension" scene is certainly very pretty and intriguing, but it is a typical case that generates confusion instead of mystery.
- The problem is that we end up there without knowing how, like all the other times. We never see anyone entering or leaving this place. Not only, there is no "tell", but especially no "show". There will never be a validation of the concept of the whole drama.
- So the audience doesn't spend its time enjoying the scene as it should, but just wondering about the order of the scenes, and the basic meaning. This is a huge problem, because as soon as the scene is over... the brain keeps working. It becomes impossible to concentrate on the next scene(s) because it's cogitating hard to resolve the confusion. And since there are at least 10 more such scenes per episode, it just becomes tedious.
- And tic-tac, all is going fast on the screen, no time for that, we need clarity...
- For example, one wonders... Is there a secret passage to another dimension in the field?
- Probably the scriptwriter simply showed the magic flute in the hero's hand just before, and thought that was enough. But no, the detail is not necessarily captured at that moment, and that doesn't solve anything either. Typically the case of cognitive deficit I was talking about, between what the scriptwriter considers obvious, and which does not reach the viewer. On a first viewing, people don't notice. And even when re-watching it. You have to have seen the whole drama to understand this.
- We also wonder... Is it a flashback or a flashforward? But in this case, why doesn't the director make it obvious? Knowing that afterwards, he will use possible flashbacks without making it clear that it is a flashback.
- Indeed, we could logically think that this moment occurs when they are crossing the portal. This will be confirmed more or less later (even if I repeat it, we never see the people entering or leaving when they are in the other dimension).
- Except that the attitude of the characters rather suggests that it is indeed the continuation of the scene with the previous dialogue, when they are in the wood.
- Moreover, the scene ends so abruptly, they are at the veterinarian's without transition. Impossible to locate the scene, the entrance, the exit.
- Scene logic problem for the scene before. If it's real time and they disapear, there was the bodyguard and 2 guards on horses. So what's happens? They see Lee Gon and Tae Sul vanish in front of them? There will be never any consequence to that (makes think so it could be a dream or a flashback).
- Confused dialogue about mathematical explanations that will never make sense. If this had been explained once afterwards, I would have gone "wow!", but it never was. So it's just a useless spiel to create a false mystery, a false mathematical impression.
- Many episodes later, and without ever having an explanation or validation of the concept, we are going to assume that Lee Gon is able to travel between worlds other than by using the portal, but by going to this dimension in another way.
- So what was the meaning of that scene now? Was it good foreshadowing for this idea? No, because this is the first time we see the other dimension, we are unable to differentiate between arriving in the dimension by the portal or by another way. Moreover, we are very surprised, and very far from being able to anticipate such things.
- And of course, we are already exhausted by many other scenes of the same kind that took place before in the drama. Dissatisfaction and irritation are gaining ground.
- Yet, not much was needed to make it understandable and mysterious. That's the worst! A quick shot on the other dimension and the characters coming out of it to arrive in the forest through the portal. A more obvious transition from the path in the meadow to the return to the dimension. Logic that's help to understand it's not a flashback, the bodyguard ask "where are them?". That we understand quickly that the other world is in the portal, but that we can also access it otherwise. Knowing that there is no interest to hide that when we know the continuation of the drama. It's hiding information for nothing. No benefit to hide, no particular plot-twist preparation.
- On the contrary, it made a good foreshadowing for the moment when Lee Gon took the long way, as much as it helped to understand this future scene... which is also equally incomprehensible at this moment. Which contributes to screwing up the meeting in the woods scene in episode 10 (a sentimental scene good in itself, but unfortunately ruined by the previous confusion).

And it's like that for everything! The drama does everything to push the audience away instead of getting them hooked. Creating confusion instead of creating mysteries. Some things won't make sense because there is never any validation of concepts. A house of cards of speculation. Even if here, for this scene, I manage to make sense (after seeing the drama twice), what I mean mainly is what is the effect of all this mess for the new watcher? Devastating. The writer didn't do a good job, that's all I can say objectively. And I could analyze many other scenes like this, some much worse than this one.

Understand this: I am not attacking the fans of the drama. I understand perfectly that people can love this drama. It has enough markers for that. Some magic and some background music have a strong power (the piano one for example), good acting and love story.

I'm sure that many people would have liked to love this drama too but couldn't do it, because of the mistakes of the script and probably also of the director. Because even if the script contains mistakes, it is the director who has the last word and is in charge of making it better. And most of the comments would not say that it is a mess, that it is boring, etc.

The script fails because of objective problems. This is very easy to demonstrate, just by analyzing the scenes and some of the other concerns. This has been done plenty of times here, and other blog I was going to when I was watching. It's a pity because there was the potential for something exceptional that could not be transmitted. This is a very common flaw in Korean writers when they write Sci-Fi or Fantasy, unfortunately. Even the ones I particularly like, but I can't make any concessions either.

You also confuse the notion of "mystery" and "confusion". Anyone likes to have mysteries in a story. But here we don't have that, we have confusion instead. A mystery allows the audience to become involved in the story and assumes that the understanding of the scene is clear. The audience knows there is a mystery. Confusion, on the other hand, ejects the audience from the story. The audience no longer asks the question of what is going on in the story, but the question of how to decipher the meaning of a scene at a basic level. This generates disastrous cognitive effects.

And we are not in front of a surrealist work, like David Lynch's "Eraserhead", where indeed, it is possible to have nonsense on the screen. No, this is a drama story, so it should be told properly. I don't think that the writers are acting in bad faith, or that they are trying to do something so sophisticated that only a fraction of the audience can get involved. They are aiming at the general public and they had better give it their best shot. But there is a typical problem of the writer which is the deficit between what the writer knows and thinks is obvious, and how they tell it to someone who knows nothing about the story. And it's made worse because on the written version of the script it's easier to understand than on the screen, since only the essential information is included.

Yes it's a mess because the screenwriter made many mistakes I won't recap once more, but one of the bigger one was to makes this uselessly confusing. It's the first time she try to write this kind of complex high-concept fantasy and failed largely, when writers doing that more regularly and successfully already struggle to makes that clear, and miss some points.
Else there is still some nice scenes. It's not everyday we get a white mare in the city. Comedy was also quite good and a lot of aesthetic nice things.

Too bad, it's from episode 10 it becomes a bit more exciting.
It don't mean it's less messy or less confusing. Just there is something moving.

I don't like the OST too. Conventional thing.
"Beautiful life" is unbearable. "Stay with me" makes just a funny "tut tut" at the beginning.
And of course your annoying "love u"... The drama is already deadly boring, and on top we have to endure all those noisy teenager creepy songs.

However, by chance, I found this one I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLWh6G49-A
Fans of the drama should enjoy too, because it's not the standard version but a duo one.

The FL definitely needed to be 899 years old.

As foreshadowing, he wears a red sweat. Hee Woo never meet that guy in his past life and suddenly he appears. I guess he's a spy working for the red lady. Could be a guy dead in Hee Woo time and send back in the past too, as a backup for his mission.

Ah! I can't write private information here. But most of the time, I use google trad or another better translation website. I cheat! When watching a drama, subtitles go too fast. I need to make progress in english.

I'm too slow on english and don't feel confortable. I miss the lines and can't understand. When I read a topic, at least I can use an auto-translator if I don't understand, or use one for translate what I write. It's a bit sad as there is some I would like to watch. Well, they look good on the paper. Some Thai drama looks fun too.
I'm frustrated... T T

Not really that. It's not they don't like, but over the time old dramas notation don't change because newbies only watch new content. I don't care about the rating of the show I like, because as I said first, rating make no sens here, and also I don't need people approbation. Additionnaly, I know that many shows with high rating are bad. I guess you should know that when you watch an overated drama and you are disapointed.

Obviously I made a mistake and should just said korean drama. As I didn't watch a lot of chinese and thai. Not because I don't like it, but it's difficult to get them with subtitles for my language.

Too long to give details.
But it could be nice to watch some olders dramas, of all times.

It's older dramas. Classics. But newbies rate anything anyhow, and mostly recent dramas. Plus a lot of comments showing they don't know what asian dramas are, and maybe they should just watch western series because what they want in the comments is just that.

Not so important when you know rating mean nothing here.
Two dramas among the ones I enjoyed the most are 6,7 and 7,6.

I hope there is one, because it would fit well the story, and make a difference with the manhwa.

Antagonist one. Insanely good. Oh shit, just to think about that again...

More seriously, I remember one point: the red lady (grim reaper) say to him... he will relive to accomplish the mission of arrest the main vilain. Only... she didn't say what will happens next! So, if I was the writer... I would just make an intense love story with one of the girls around (or the actual version of grim reaper before she die, could be the Vilain daughter), and when the drama end... the hero will die, because the mission is done. Tears! Crying!
The audience will be as moved than at the end of "moon lovers", lol!!

Thanks, it will help me to better enjoy dramas based on webtoons.
I had reasons to be suspicious because it tooks me one year and half to just make the structure of a whole drama before to write it. I used to like comics but don't have enough time to read them or webtoon anymore. And I prefer not read Again My Life one, because of the spoiler. I have only read some part of Yumi Cell because I wanted to compare with what have done the screenwriter on this one. I think your opinion will have a good effect on the bad feeling I had before. Thanks again.