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One thing I like about Ju-a is as little exposure she had, having to divide the screen time with all other great characters, we were able to journey how she had changes so much through the years. Mubi had a quest since young unraveling movie and her father. Hongsi was a music genius, Gyeom had this abnormal love for movies. We can even include Ko Jun and his care for his younger brother and mom for filling the gap of absent father.
But with Ju-a, she had a journey of being a highschool kid navigating what she wanted to do in life, until finally doing screen writing. Then her growth of denying herself for her lover to realizing (this is my opinion) I want to find myself again, doing what I enjoy instead of what he enjoys.
It was the growth, the change, and the glow she had being the "extra character" / the "fangirl." But that made her more relatable. We aspire to also find ourselves, the way she did :) it was a path not to be taken for everyone, but we are glad that she made her choice and she end up where she is supposed to be :) she is still flawed, she was flawed, but she remains kind, honest, and sincere :)

Stories with no villain, only people coping with different circumstances in life :)

Although many will disagree with me in the 2nd fl 🤣

PBY is so pretty, even her crying face is so adorable 😍😭

2nd couple reminds me so much of OBS. Girl and boy met, they loved, broke up and reunited for work. Girl has seemed to move on and is solely their for business. Boy is deeply affected, and is stuck in the past.

I want to think that ju a and hongsi were the alternative end for woong and yoon seo if they had not gotten back :)

Mubi's younger friend and his relationship with the 2 brothers was also very warm to the heart :)

Episode 7 was a tsunami of feels, and I am pointing at all of the characters rather than a specific duo relationship 👏
Kim Jae Wook as Ko Jun 🙌

To have an older brother like him. 🤩

Our beloved summer (writer's previous piece) was like this also. Girl showed up again because she wanted to work with him. She approached her solely for his music. And as a fan of OBS that would also like them to stayed as good friends, it was a closure for me to see what would it be like if 2 people who were great in the past but had a future apart from each other :)
And yes, I wish this would have been a 16 episode format but it would be repetitive if OBS was the case for the 2nd couple :D

I have not watched all of his works but definitely heard of them. Directir-nim, may you keep on being a good storyteller 😁

I would have watched this in a 16 episode format, 2 episodes per week, just like OBS. But nope, this was a 10 run epsiode that had one day drop of release.
I would have wanted to be with them longer. Be in their thoughts longer. Be in their experience longer. Be with their narratives longer.
I discovered 1.5 speed during pandemic, I mostly watch in that speed knowing that this hobby can be very wasteful of my time. But in this series, I wished that it could go slower so as not to end yet.. :(
I don't think I will rewatch this again, but I will remember how it made me feel and wait patiently for the next write of Lee Na Eun :)

Thank you once again to Melo Movie 👏

What I am amazed about this series is because the same theme is explored through the mother and daughter relationship in the last episode. And the couple dynamic somehwere in episode 7, Which was describes as "my way of loving you."
It is as if, we all have unique circumstances but it all intertwines and that is why it is possible to carry each others burdens despite not fully grasping their pain. We love, yet it seems incomplete because we still fall short, but as the bar-ahjussi said, love is already complete. I don't know how to expand more on that, but we work hard for love (serve, give, exhaust ourselves), and at the end of the day, it will be enough even though it feels lacking and guilt creeps in.

I wanna write like her. The first that made me feel this way is from reply series writer. But I know that this is a build up of watching anime and reading mangas since elementary. That is why jdorama are my to go to too. :)

She is basically sculpting my genre and reason why I consume cine. I cannot imagine how people enjoy movies/drama series aside from how she narrates it like in OBS and Melo Movie.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. All the wait was worth it. Really enjoyed Melo Movie after Our Beloved Summer.
May you write more~

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hands down to everyone involved. I enjoyed this very much :)

Park bo young is so pretty even when she cries (last episode)

The OST is still superior. The interaction of this comment section while this was airing was also what made this drama more memorable for me :)

This kind of love, this kind of friendship. This is why I watch romance or "melo" beacuse it let's me appreciate life where in I love others and they love me back. Without reserve, with flaws and sincerity disguised as smug.

Episode 8 answered this question 😅

Writer-nim, how did you spend your life to write like this?? 😭