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Wonderful Season...

Sunday, April 27, 2014 making-sweetness

Contrary to popular belief, this drama queen has been on hiatus from drama watching till the past couple of weeks, making that almost a year of being free from dramas.

BUT, I've recently started watching Wonderful Season on KBSworld's youtube channel and am loving it! It's a 50-episode family weekend drama about what happens when the 2nd son (Kang Dong Seok) comes back to his hometown as a successful prosecutor after 15 years of not really contacting his family. I know there's some criminal activity/mystery thing involved about the town's bigshot, whom that 2nd son has been sent to investigate...but that's actually the least of my concern. I'm much more interested in the family dynamics and the side stories involving the different family members.

I'm at episode 15 now and here's the bits I love...

1) Youngest son, Kang Dong Hui and his twin children

So he became a father at a young age and the children's mother left the twins to the care of Dong Hui and his family. However, Dong hui's mum registered the children under her name (so as not to ruin Dong Hui's future or something) instead, hence the twins think that their father is their older brother. At this point in the show, Dong Hui is trying hard to control his temper (and fighting) to be a good fatherly example, while the smarter twin has figured out bits of their birth secret and ran away to try to find their 'real parents'. Can't wait to see how this mess is going to get resolved and how the father-children relationship will be restored. While I wish that Dong Hui was played by a better actor than 2pm's Taecyeon, at least he is improving.....slooooooowly....and becoming less painful to watch.

2) Sister, Kang Dong Ok and the new doctor in town

She's got some mental disability following a childhood incident (that hasn't been revealed at this point in the show), but she's the most innocent and sweetest character in this whole drama. =) Love her interactions with the new doctor that has arrived in their town, Min Woo Jin. He seems like a GP-ST from Seoul who wants to do rural GP. Heh.

3) GRANDPAAAAA

Anything with the family's grandpa and his weird comments/actions just brighten up the mood instantly.

4) Teacher Mari

She's teaches children (including Dong Hui's twins) at the local primary school by daytime, but is actually a crazy fangirl by night. The writer has definitely got a great sense of humour as Mari is a major fangirl of "3pm", i.e. the fictional parody of the group "2pm" that Taecyeon (aka the guy who plays Dong Hui) is from. Considering that Mari and Dong Hui are most likely going to be coupled together.....it'll be a "dream come true" for her.

About the future plot developments....there's quite a number of conflicts to resolve and a scoundrel to catch before our main leads can get their happy ending. I'm just hoping that these plot developments come sooner, but without affecting the current character growth. In particular, I'm just hoping the 2 leads will JOIN FORCES earlier to find evidence against the main baddie instead of working alone or sacrifice themselves to "protect the other person". The conflict between the families of the leads is already substantial enough without needing this extra evil baddie killing off people left and right to provide additional tension. And it's not like I care about the whole businessy corruption storyline in this drama anyway. Heh.

That said....writer-nim, please continue to write logical, heart-warming dramas that make sense AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do NOT go the way of Wang's family in terms of craziness. And please give us all a nice happy ending!!! Kthnxbye! ^^

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