So in my previous post last night I wrote about 49 Days. I really didn't expect it to leave a lasting impression like I Remember You, but the story stayed in my mind almost all night and I am still feeling melancholic thinking of the characters, so I will write a bit more about it.
Spoiler alert! Anyone planning to watch the drama should stop reading here.
Stopping?
Not stopping?
You've been warned.
So, the main thing to talk about here is the ending. There is no happy ending in this drama. But to talk about the ending, first we need a little background.
From the beginning, we know that the main girl Shin Ji Hyun's fiancé will not turn out to be her soulmate, and that Han Gang, the guy who quarrels with her, will be the one who really cares for her. Then Song Yi Kyung, the girl who tries to kill herself (and causes Ji Hyun's accident in the first place), has been sad for the past five years after someone she loves died, and it isn't to hard to guess that Ji Hyun's scheduler (the one who helps her understand the rules of her 49 days) is the person Yi Kyung is pining for.
Ji Hyun's soul is allowed to use Yi Kyung's body when Yi Kyung is asleep (she works night shift so Ji Hyun gets to use her body in the daytime), but is not allowed to tell anyone that she is really Ji Hyun. So of course Han Gang, who has been in love with Ji Hyun all the while, manages to figure out that the Yi Kyung that he meets is actually Ji Hyun, due to their similar characteristics. All this is pretty much expected, and the plot twists and turns with Ji Hyun finding out about her fiancé betraying her and her family, and trying to fix it in her 49 days. In the process, of course Ji Hyun starts falling in love with Han Gang.
All this is very much expected, and fortunately the storyline was still told well enough to be enjoyable.
What I didn't like so much was some parts of the ending.
Firstly, Ji Hyun managed to collect her three drops of tears and wake up from the coma. She was supposed not to remember anything from her 49 days as a wandering spirit, but her scheduler told her that she was destined (i.e. scheduled) to die in 6 days, so she was given a choice whether to keep her memory of the last 49 days. She accepted to keep the memory, but (this is where I think it's stupid) she decides to let Han Gang think that she didn't remember anything. It is only when Yi Kyung came to see her, thinking that Ji Hyun would not remember her, that Ji Hyun told Yi Kyung the truth. And lucky for Han Gang, Yi Kyung decided to go against Ji Hyun's wishes not to tell him about her impending death.
What is also stupid about Ji Hyun's decision to stay silent, is that she still decides to go on a picnic with Han Gang, pretending that she just needed a pretend boyfriend for a day. Haih, this is so silly...wouldn't both of you be happier if you could continue where you left off from the past 49 days?
Okay, over with that, there is a second part of the ending that I wasn't happy with. It seemed to me that they wanted to add something unnecessary. When Ji Hyun collects her three drops of tears, we see that Yi Kyung was crying for her. The only knew each other when Ji Hyun was a spirit, so this was a touching moment of how much they had shared with each other during that short time. However, later we discover that *jeng jeng jeng!* (eyeroll here) that Yi Kyung was actually Ji Hyun's real sister who had been kidnapped a a child.
I guess in a way they wanted to give Ji Hyun's parents a way to deal with the loss of their "only" daughter, by finding their other daughter back. And allow Yi Kyung to recover from her past five years of misery by finding a family. But I would have preferred them to keep in contact, without being blood-related, and dealing with the loss of Ji Hyun together. With the ending they chose, it seemed like they were telling us that they couldn't recover without finding family.
Aaaaand, since they wanted to make Yi Kyung Ji Hyun's real sister, and family member's tears were not counted in the 49-days journey, that meant they needed another person's tears to be the third tear. And turned out that the tear came from Ji Hyun's best friend who had betrayed her (her fiancé's girlfriend). I especially didn't like this, because after all the events in the drama I really can't believe that this girl could cry 100% pure tears for Ji Hyun. Even if she had regretted her actions. Shouldn't there be a longer time before her feelings can change from wanting to hurt her friend to being really sad for her?
So, that's it! Really, I could have accepted that they let Ji Hyun die in the end (though I was really sad about that, I wanted to see her properly together with Han Gang!). I just couldn't accept those three points that I mentioned. They could have done better. I have totally no complaints about the whole drama, except the ending.
Edit: By the way, I wasn't the only one who didn't like the real-sister connection. A review I read didn't like it either, but their reason was because the hints were "too subtle". Another review mentioned "Yi Kyung and Ji Hyun's mother's inability to process oxtail soup" as a hint (Ji Hyun loves oxtail soup, and after she ate it in Yi Kyung's body, Yi Kyung threw up). I totally didn't get that hint! Not sure whether my brain would have gotten to it on its own after being stuck on the story for a few days :P
Edit 2: I found an error! lol They made Yi Kyung a year older than Ji Hyun. But Ji Hyun's birthday is 5 May while Yi Kyung's birthday is 8 November. That is not possible for sisters who share the same mother! (Unless if Ji Hyun was born highly premature, which would explain her smaller size compared to her sister :P )
Spoiler alert! Anyone planning to watch the drama should stop reading here.
Stopping?
Not stopping?
You've been warned.
So, the main thing to talk about here is the ending. There is no happy ending in this drama. But to talk about the ending, first we need a little background.
From the beginning, we know that the main girl Shin Ji Hyun's fiancé will not turn out to be her soulmate, and that Han Gang, the guy who quarrels with her, will be the one who really cares for her. Then Song Yi Kyung, the girl who tries to kill herself (and causes Ji Hyun's accident in the first place), has been sad for the past five years after someone she loves died, and it isn't to hard to guess that Ji Hyun's scheduler (the one who helps her understand the rules of her 49 days) is the person Yi Kyung is pining for.
Ji Hyun's soul is allowed to use Yi Kyung's body when Yi Kyung is asleep (she works night shift so Ji Hyun gets to use her body in the daytime), but is not allowed to tell anyone that she is really Ji Hyun. So of course Han Gang, who has been in love with Ji Hyun all the while, manages to figure out that the Yi Kyung that he meets is actually Ji Hyun, due to their similar characteristics. All this is pretty much expected, and the plot twists and turns with Ji Hyun finding out about her fiancé betraying her and her family, and trying to fix it in her 49 days. In the process, of course Ji Hyun starts falling in love with Han Gang.
All this is very much expected, and fortunately the storyline was still told well enough to be enjoyable.
What I didn't like so much was some parts of the ending.
Firstly, Ji Hyun managed to collect her three drops of tears and wake up from the coma. She was supposed not to remember anything from her 49 days as a wandering spirit, but her scheduler told her that she was destined (i.e. scheduled) to die in 6 days, so she was given a choice whether to keep her memory of the last 49 days. She accepted to keep the memory, but (this is where I think it's stupid) she decides to let Han Gang think that she didn't remember anything. It is only when Yi Kyung came to see her, thinking that Ji Hyun would not remember her, that Ji Hyun told Yi Kyung the truth. And lucky for Han Gang, Yi Kyung decided to go against Ji Hyun's wishes not to tell him about her impending death.
What is also stupid about Ji Hyun's decision to stay silent, is that she still decides to go on a picnic with Han Gang, pretending that she just needed a pretend boyfriend for a day. Haih, this is so silly...wouldn't both of you be happier if you could continue where you left off from the past 49 days?
Okay, over with that, there is a second part of the ending that I wasn't happy with. It seemed to me that they wanted to add something unnecessary. When Ji Hyun collects her three drops of tears, we see that Yi Kyung was crying for her. The only knew each other when Ji Hyun was a spirit, so this was a touching moment of how much they had shared with each other during that short time. However, later we discover that *jeng jeng jeng!* (eyeroll here) that Yi Kyung was actually Ji Hyun's real sister who had been kidnapped a a child.
I guess in a way they wanted to give Ji Hyun's parents a way to deal with the loss of their "only" daughter, by finding their other daughter back. And allow Yi Kyung to recover from her past five years of misery by finding a family. But I would have preferred them to keep in contact, without being blood-related, and dealing with the loss of Ji Hyun together. With the ending they chose, it seemed like they were telling us that they couldn't recover without finding family.
Aaaaand, since they wanted to make Yi Kyung Ji Hyun's real sister, and family member's tears were not counted in the 49-days journey, that meant they needed another person's tears to be the third tear. And turned out that the tear came from Ji Hyun's best friend who had betrayed her (her fiancé's girlfriend). I especially didn't like this, because after all the events in the drama I really can't believe that this girl could cry 100% pure tears for Ji Hyun. Even if she had regretted her actions. Shouldn't there be a longer time before her feelings can change from wanting to hurt her friend to being really sad for her?
So, that's it! Really, I could have accepted that they let Ji Hyun die in the end (though I was really sad about that, I wanted to see her properly together with Han Gang!). I just couldn't accept those three points that I mentioned. They could have done better. I have totally no complaints about the whole drama, except the ending.
Edit: By the way, I wasn't the only one who didn't like the real-sister connection. A review I read didn't like it either, but their reason was because the hints were "too subtle". Another review mentioned "Yi Kyung and Ji Hyun's mother's inability to process oxtail soup" as a hint (Ji Hyun loves oxtail soup, and after she ate it in Yi Kyung's body, Yi Kyung threw up). I totally didn't get that hint! Not sure whether my brain would have gotten to it on its own after being stuck on the story for a few days :P
Edit 2: I found an error! lol They made Yi Kyung a year older than Ji Hyun. But Ji Hyun's birthday is 5 May while Yi Kyung's birthday is 8 November. That is not possible for sisters who share the same mother! (Unless if Ji Hyun was born highly premature, which would explain her smaller size compared to her sister :P )
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