Reviews

the not so romantic vacation with Oska

This episode is a concentrate of funny lines and the perfect stage for Oska to shine in all his over the top vainglory.

My mom laughs every time he's on screen, and I with her.

She's warming up to all the side characters too, and she keeps on enjoying this drama immensely. She actually clapped at RaIm slapping Joo Won.

"You deserved it, super jerk!", is what she commented. Dear mom.



At that point, I truly wanted to know her opinion on something I ask myself almost every time I watch a k-drama.

- "why do you think we enjoy a love story between a good girl and a cosmic bastard? In real life, we would stay well away from such a man."

- "mmm... because we know he's going to change?"

- "possibly. Do you think the fact that Hyun Bin is like a ton of hormones walking on legs, has anything to do with our leniency?"

- "it sure helps... a little."

- "right, a little."

- "Ha! I know it! The higher he climbs on his mountain of prejudices and arrogance, the louder is his falling thud going to be. I can't wait!"



This being said, she also noticed that Joo Won's the one who kept on watching back in search of RaIm while biking down the mountain, while Oska only thought of winning the race.

Little details are at times louder than any speech.

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Rattlesnake mother appears

You will laugh, but I was a little on edge about watching this episode with my mom. It is one of my favourites, but it also contains the most disturbing scene in the drama for me: Joo Won throwing clothes at RaIm's feet and stating she's not worthy of even being thought of as his toy mistress.

When I saw it the first time, I truly wanted to cause Joo Won physical pain, and until now I can't think of it without shivering.

That same scene, however, is also one of the most sensually charged and revealing, and this is what my mother focused her attention on.

Although condemning Joo Won's behaviour on basically everything he does and says, she agrees with him on one thing only: RaIm's badly dressed.



me: "she's poor. How can he humiliate her for the fact that she can't afford things?"

mom: "it's not a question of money. She could just wear a pair of normal jeans and a white T-shirt, it would be classier. He's not criticizing her poverty, he's blaming her lack of propriety."

I can't contradict her: that's the main point of the episode, mirrored perfectly when Joo Won's mother appears at his house and suggests RaIm is there to collect money for her "services". And not surprisingly, Joo Won's appalled too, now that he hears it from the mouth of somebody else.



Mom laughed out loud at the Kim's family lunch. She commented on how perfectly chosen the two sisters are: Oska's mother is the essence of vanity and shallowness, just like his son. And Joo Won's is a modern Lady Catherine de Bourg, haughty, unreasonable, obnoxious and materialistic.



For those who may have forgotten or overlooked the exchange between the two sisters, here's how it starts:



Oska's mom: What were you talking about?

JW's mom: Does anyone here have a chatty mouth except for you?

Oska's mom: Is it not possible to get plastic surgery on that attitude?



Oska's mom: It's lame without my Woo Young. [...] I just talked to him, he said he's in Jeju island, not in Thailand.

JW's mom: He's like that. Doesn't even know where he is.



Hahahahaha. Oh my. :D

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Youthfulness

This drama makes me feel nostalgic and I'm not even from that era!! I'm right now experiencing my days of youth being the ripe age of 17, but why does this drama make me feel so much older than that? In a way it may be because living in this age, my generation has more knowledge and experience in the areas concerning the opposite sex, but back then it was kind of hush-hush, you learned as you grew. There is this sense of innocence that oozes out of this drama which my generation doesn't seem to have. Maybe in Korea it does, but as for my generation in the Western world it doesn't.

But YoonJae and Shiwon are totally adorable!! I hope they end up together. The scene from 2012 kinda hints that they are but I couldn't help noticing that YoonJae is sitting awfully close to YooJung (I think that's her name, its the girl who switches the guy she likes all the time). I love how this drama is set up like sort of a mystery drama. The watchers get the characters pasts and from that and the scenes from 2012 they have to figure out who is the couple that made it from 1997 to 2012.

I also really like the sheep noises that are randomly put in during funny scenes. I burst out laughing as soon as I hear them.

The only complain I have is that there isn't enough secondary character scenes. Its just a bunch of Shiwon and YoonJae. I'm not complaining because I like their storyline, but the ohter characters are also pretty important to this drama. It's only the second episode so I hope that they get more into the secondary characters.

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Please no more romance and love triangles.

Aw, them working together was so cute. And Doctor's co-workers are horrible. Incredible.



The baby in Peach's ultrasound was way older than 12 weeks by the way. If she had had an abortion at THAT stadium, it would've truly been nothing less than murder.. Glad she kept the baby. Hope she'll stop drinking now. -.-



I still feel bad for doctor, but I really hate the romance part of this drama. It kind of feels embarrassing, no matter if it's Haru oder Doctor confessing. I just don't like it.



Also Linda gets way too less credit. I hope they find out about his boss soon and stop it! Now he has to do that horrible stuff again, he should've just let her try her luck with Nakaji. Nakaji would've declined and maybe figured it out.. :/



Poor Haru's brother, too! They're just using him.. and hurting him. :(

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Tragedies and drama. Wow.

Peach! What's wrong with that girl? Did she really still drink alcohol? She doesn't even deserve to be a mother.



And Linda is great, he's slowly becoming my favorite character. All the things he does for his friends without thinking about himself. He's amazing, too bad he won't get Nakaji. :(



And Nakaji's girlfriend is horrible. She's really becoming the typical female second lead. I hate her. And how can Nakaji be so cold towards Haru and not listen to her, let alone push her down and let her sit there?



And Haru's just as bad, now she's using Doctor to comfort herself. So egoistical.



And the drama won't stop there, so the guy Haru's mom likes is Nakaji's dad AND is obviously sick? This is going to be tragic.



They're testing how many tragedies they can mush together without it becoming a confusing mess.



It may not sound like it, but apart from hating Nakaji's girlfriend and Haru / Doctor couple I still like it. :P

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