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Potential lost in a pile of ridiculous plot devices
The story is pretty simple and pretty interesting at first. Kim Dan is an angel, who for helping a human was sent to earth with a mission to make Lee Yeon Seo fall in love. The problem is that Yeon Seo is a bitter ballerina who doesn’t seem to be interested in love. In a weird and very “drama like” turn of events Yeon Seo falls in Kim Dan and that’s a big no no for an angel to fall in love with a human.
So I have a pretty big problem with this drama. It promised a lot but it fall through somewhere in the middle. We didn’t get any more character development and were stuck with a barely mildly interesting ones. The conflicts were not progressing fast enough and basically till the end the action was dragging.
The thing that I can see as a positive was main characters relationship. It seemed mature enough for the most part, so we didn’t get much misunderstandings that could result in dragging the plot even more. All conflicts between them were somehow managed pretty quickly. We don’t have to watch five episodes of understatements only because one of them decided to to share some detail (you know the thing the dramas do). Their love seemed to be pretty haste but considering the circumstances it was understandable.
Being in the middle of the drama I felt pretty underwhelmed with it. The story was barely there, characters painfully simple, their actions repetitive. I kind of liked Ji Kang Woo at first, with the whole idea of him being the fallen age for loving woman who looks like Lee Yeon Seo. But honestly, all he did was to obsess over her. This and him being exaggerated ballet perfectionist was his only character trait.
About actors I can only tell about wasted potential of Shin Hae Sun, who I know is great actress. But here I think she had her wings clipped by poor writing of her character. Kim Myung Soo at first gave me very strong Park Seo Joon vibes with his mannerisms but soon it turns out that he has pretty much the same face for all the emotions so I found his performance average at best.
Background characters including bad guys here were sometimes so uninteresting and one dimensional that even towards the end I had trouble telling who’s who.
So drama that started as a pretty neat idea and story about getting a person from the bottom and helping her finding true love turned out to be this pile of ridiculous plot devices that just seemed to be there just to fill the time somehow.
So I have a pretty big problem with this drama. It promised a lot but it fall through somewhere in the middle. We didn’t get any more character development and were stuck with a barely mildly interesting ones. The conflicts were not progressing fast enough and basically till the end the action was dragging.
The thing that I can see as a positive was main characters relationship. It seemed mature enough for the most part, so we didn’t get much misunderstandings that could result in dragging the plot even more. All conflicts between them were somehow managed pretty quickly. We don’t have to watch five episodes of understatements only because one of them decided to to share some detail (you know the thing the dramas do). Their love seemed to be pretty haste but considering the circumstances it was understandable.
Being in the middle of the drama I felt pretty underwhelmed with it. The story was barely there, characters painfully simple, their actions repetitive. I kind of liked Ji Kang Woo at first, with the whole idea of him being the fallen age for loving woman who looks like Lee Yeon Seo. But honestly, all he did was to obsess over her. This and him being exaggerated ballet perfectionist was his only character trait.
About actors I can only tell about wasted potential of Shin Hae Sun, who I know is great actress. But here I think she had her wings clipped by poor writing of her character. Kim Myung Soo at first gave me very strong Park Seo Joon vibes with his mannerisms but soon it turns out that he has pretty much the same face for all the emotions so I found his performance average at best.
Background characters including bad guys here were sometimes so uninteresting and one dimensional that even towards the end I had trouble telling who’s who.
So drama that started as a pretty neat idea and story about getting a person from the bottom and helping her finding true love turned out to be this pile of ridiculous plot devices that just seemed to be there just to fill the time somehow.
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