The End

[Ken]

I know it's a little early for the post-mortem on this drama, but it's pretty obvious where this one is going - I did peek at one of the other boards and there are no real surprises. It really does end the way you think it will (pretty much)! And it does end, which is a bit of a relief in itself!

While it's true that we've all seen much better K-dramas, I can actually think of a couple nice things to say about this one:
First, some of the plot developments in I Love You, although nonsensical, are the sort of things that make these K-dramas endearing: I mean, who borrows money from a loan shark so they can pretend they got an advance from a publisher? The line between irritating and amusing can be very thin indeed, but a couple (not many, though!) of the plot oddities found their way onto the amusing side for me.

Second, and Joanie pointed this out to me when we were talking about the drama, 16 episodes isn't too bad a length for one of these dramas when it's not that hot and it wasn't bad only having to put up with it one night a week. As bad as it got sometimes, a quick flip of the channels to what most of our fellow Americans are watching and suddenly I Love You doesn't look quite so bad!

There's also another silver lining! Next week, MHz will be starting a 5 episode series called Freeze, which is a story about vampires:
wiki.d-addicts.com/Freeze
I was skeptical at first, but it stars Lee Seo Jin, who starred in Phoenix and Damo and who was just terrific as the king in Yi San! If anyone can pull off playing a vampire, it's him!

So I Love You wasn't great, but at least it's (almost) over, the ending wasn't horrible, and we've got something to look forward to.

[ginnycat5]

Did it end, or not? I looked away from the tv for a second (on the computer, as usual) and there was everybody out playing in the snow at some country house. Huh? Heesoo [?] had had her baby already and it was sitting up in a stroller, I think, but her sister was still pregnant. Chulsoo's book was already published, too. How much time had passed? How old can a baby be, to be safe sitting in an umbrella stroller in the winter, and its aunt is still pregnant? Maybe the baby is 4 or 5 months old? I didn't see it.

I watched carefully until it was over, and "Thank you for watching; The End" never came on, although the voice-over seemed to be a summing up. Didn't the show website say it had 24 eps?

[zorro]

Right after the end of the episode they previewed "Freeze" the next drama and said it started on the 23rd. so "I Love You" has ended.

The title song remains in my head tho, enough to the point where I even came up with my own lyrics.
Sing along if you remember the tune…


Yummy Yummy married to a Rummy Rummy, she's expecting soon,
Needy Needy saddled with a Seedy Seedy, he's a big buffoon.

Drummer Drummer finds out it's a bummer bummer when his wife has lied,
Sonny Sonny helps him get his Honey Honey back by Daddy's side.

If they waited while they dated, they might have a clue,
That stupid is as stupid does is nothing new.

Maybe maybe if they had a baby baby they could see things through,
Happy happy there won't be a sappy sappy sequel to "I Love You". ;D

[soapygrams]

;D Zorro - you are becoming the poet laureate of the K-drama genre -
Good stuff - as usual from you .. thanks for the laughs and the super great summary of this show done so well in a song .l.

[ginnycat5]

;D ;D ;D Thanks for the laugh, Zorro!

[Ken]

Ironically, after posting an early opinion of the end, I missed the last episode when it aired and finally just saw it.

To answer your question, ginnycat, the time jump at the end was about six months. The lawyer's wife had mentioned that the baby they were expecing was conceived the night they found out about Mijoo being taken by her aunt (how about the thoroughness of that orphanage??) and Chulsoo's wife was about 6-7 months along at that point. Zorro, the song was cute, but I was hoping to get that tune out of my head. Aigoo...

The only surprise turned out to be that the irritation level was higher than expected even for a last episode. All three couples communicated poorly and dishonestly right up until the insipid closing piffle. One of the closing lines in particular rubbed me the wrong way, the one about there being no tragedy where there is love. I mean, love is often there when tragedy occurs. That's what sometimes makes a horrible event so tragic. Ask Romeo and Juliet. But it doesn't really matter. The writer clearly has no idea.

The board here turned out to be more fun than the show itself, so thanks to the other four of you who suffered through this for that!

[TheBo]

So, people, do you think you'll watch "Freeze"? Do you want a discussion forum?

[Ken]

Sept 21, 2010 15:01:50 GMT -5 TheBo said:

So, people, do you think you'll watch "Freeze"? Do you want a discussion forum?

I think it would be a good idea because the "On Air" section of the board is the closest thing we've got to a schedule right now and hopefully it'll let a few more people know it's on.

Besides, how often do we get a show about WAMPIRAHS?

[TheBo]

LOL. Okey dokey, I'll put it up.