Since I watched "Queen InHyun's Man" around the same time as "Dr. Jin", I'm not quite sure if this was a good drama, or if it was good in comparison to Dr. Jin", or if it was just good in general.
I'm starting to think it was a little of both. Queen InHyun was an amazing, sweeping depiction of a romance that was born despite a 300 year age gap (I'm starting to wonder if this makes Boong-Do a pedobear like a certain sparkling vampire who must not be named...) and was tested to the limits. This story also had a very interesting concept in comparison to other dramas; that you can control your own fate and not the other way around. That was a refreshing change.
I liked the fact that the writers didn't spend so much time in the denial phase of time travel, as in the writers didn't make it so that the time-traveler refused to accept the fact that he moved through time and instead was dreaming, unconscious, or being tricked by his friends.
Since I cannot watch anything if the quality is bad, or the camerawork is terrible, or if the aesthetics are bad. That being said, the drama would have gotten a seven from me even if the story got run over by a truck. The cinematography here was gorgeous. I loved how the director used lighting and angles to his advantage to convey the story better than just normal full face shots.
As for the music, I honestly can't remember anything about it.
The actors had great chemistry, and you could see them falling in love right in front of your eyes. That was a different experience than what I was used to, but it helped cement my investment in this drama. I was literally glued to my computer the whole time so that i could figure out if they got together or not at the end.
I'm not a huge fan of rewatching things, but for the cuteness alone, I'll probably flip through it when I'm bored. There were a ton of couple scenes in this, so I was glad I didn't have to wait five billion episodes (like other dramas) for the leads to get together.
Overall, it was a nice story and the best of the time traveling dramas of 2012, but I felt like parts of it could have been better. This is a romance drama, and there was little plot other than that. I felt like they could have added a bigger story arc to make it more interesting, but then the story would have been too cramped. Other than that, it was a nice enough story.
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