A very cute rom-com that had lots of potential.

The Best Hit/Hit The Top is a cute, romantic comedy with the twist of time travel. While I thoroughly enjoyed this drama and its cast, I do think that this drama had the potential to do better in terms of plot and character development. The synopsis sounded extremely attractive to me-- a popular 90s star time-traveling to the future to see how his 'death' and previous actions have affected others. In other reviews of this show, many noted that the first half of the show is amazing, but the latter half did not maintain the momentum. I have to agree to this because, in all honesty, even with all my biases for Yoon Si Yoon and Cha Tae Hyun, I wanted more from this one.

I feel like the main plot of time-travel and discovering why he was sent to the future was somewhat on the back burner. It focused a loooot on this kinda odd love-triangle between Hyun Jae, his son, and his son's best friend. While the ending tries to say that 1993 HJ and 1994 HJ are "different" although they are the same, and both Ji-Hoon and HJ don't consider themselves to be father-son, it was still weird lol. Even though I did like Woo Seung, I think that the female lead's character should have been a bit more interesting and relevant to the story, not just being a friend of his son who happened to live with him due to circumstance. I did enjoy a lot of their moments together though, but their love felt a bit forced and unnatural at times.

Imo, the romance between Hyun Jae and Bo Hee could have brought out more substance to their respective characters, instead of the 1993 Hyun Jae not even remembering loving her at all. It felt like Bo Hee's character's main purpose was to have a son (even though the romance between her and Gwang-Jae had their moments).

Also, I do think that the romance between Ji-Hoon and Hye-Ri could have been more highlighted because they had great chemistry. I was a bit disappointed when it didn't lead any further. Another comment I saw a lot was that it lacked focus on the other characters, which I do agree with. I think that a lot of the characters could have been more interesting and focused on.

Overall, I felt like the writers could have done more with this plot line. There was many ways they could have went with this story and the time-travel aspect fell short. The whole 1994 HJ versus 1993 HJ was a bit odd as well. It was a bit confusing and felt too unrealistic, and I felt like the mystery behind his 'death' fell flat. While I enjoyed YSY a lot in this role (let's be honest in saying he rooocked that 90s hairstyle), I feel like they could have done something else with the story, especially the 'death' mystery aspect. I think that the writers tried their best to come up with a different concept in terms of time travel, but it ended up being a bit confusing and unnecessary towards the conclusion of the drama in my opinion. The ending was also a bit predictable, which is completely fine if only the lead up was more interesting.

I do think that I'd return eventually to watch this purely because of star-power and the comedy parts in the first half of the series. I do think that generally speaking, this is a good drama that had great potential; however, I wouldn't consider it spectacular. The production and visuals were amazing, but the story lacked a little something something for me to fall completely in love with it. :)

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