This left me a mess for months. Hard to get over because they did such a good job making us fall in love with…
Here I am checking this discussion group two years later. Haha. It is partly because I’m watching A Dream Within A Dream . It’s mostly made by the same team and so good.
Watching ep 20 as I type this it's funny how the script has managed to keep the original story with major changes.…
I’ve mentioned my theory before so here my take: The first NH was as she read it., not a nice guy. Puts his plan before people.
However, At the meeting in ep 1, LYN’s agent complained to the script writer and director how bad the story was. How NH wasn’t fleshed out, not cool, not lovable. How the love triangle scene was not cool. She demanded that they change it: increase his scenes to flesh him out so the audience would fall in love with his character. Let him take on the critical scenes and moments.
So while she’s in the drama, the scriptwriter is making the changes. Other than the iconic moments, a lot has changed or you can say the characters are more human vs 2-d: NH, her sister, NH’s mother, etc. And of course what she thinks she knows is kinda old news. NH’s LSL has fallen for her because of her humanity as well. Maybe he wouldn’t have fallen for the old written character of her. We would never know.
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The first NH was as she read it., not a nice guy. Puts his plan before people.
However, At the meeting in ep 1, LYN’s agent complained to the script writer and director how bad the story was. How NH wasn’t fleshed out, not cool, not lovable. How the love triangle scene was not cool. She demanded that they change it: increase his scenes to flesh him out so the audience would fall in love with his character. Let him take on the critical scenes and moments.
So while she’s in the drama, the scriptwriter is making the changes. Other than the iconic moments, a lot has changed or you can say the characters are more human vs 2-d: NH, her sister, NH’s mother, etc. And of course what she thinks she knows is kinda old news.
NH’s LSL has fallen for her because of her humanity as well. Maybe he wouldn’t have fallen for the old written character of her. We would never know.