Doctor Stranger Ep2 Review

Another fast paced and jam-packed episode that didn't feel so fast paced. What amazes me the most about this show is its ability to transit from one scene to another so smoothly that before your mind can fully understand and shoot logical bullets at the plot, the show throws another sequence at your brain. It's refreshingly marvelous to be able to feel that in a KDrama :D

Though, I AM going to admit, some instances were too illogical and unrealistic to go un-screened. But at the end, you don't think about any of that and just fervently root for Park Hoon and Jae Hee to find their way back to each other (Seriously, there should be a sane and humane limit to the number of times one can lose their loved ones). Budapest provided a beautiful backdrop for the first half of the episode, and the background music makes the moments magical. Budapest is now officially on my "Places To Visit Before I Die" list :P

I'm not especially slow when it comes to understanding whats going on, but for a few minutes, at about the 2/3rd part of the episode, I was left with a confused frown on my face and my mouth set in the "Uhhh..." mold. What went beyond me was, after the time leap, how and when did Hoon end up in a detention cell exactly? But even more than that, what bugged me senseless almost till the last 5 minutes of the episode was the fact that where exactly was Park Hoon? South Korea? North Korea? It became obvious when Secretary Kim came to check on him that he was in S.Korea but HOW IN THE WORLD DID HE END UP THERE? And Jae Hee, how'd she end up back in the N.Korea camp? Well, more than a logical flaw, I think the show wants to keep this as a mystery. Or that's what I'm telling myself and not going bonkers.

Hopefully these issues will be addressed in the later episodes. For now, I'm content with the knowledge that along with Lee Jong Suk, Park Hae Jin will be scorching my laptop screen *Wipes off drool* I absolutely cannot wait for the next episodes. I was thinking of continuing my other dramas while the next episode came out but I don't think any other drama will be able to live up to the level this drama has set in my mind. Not for a while at least.

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