When Does Shi on Meet His Dad Again
Oh my, i totally forgot that i haven't written my final thoughts on the latter half of 18 Again! But then, information technology may not matter much, since my opinions on information technology haven't changed since the start: i still like what i liked and dislike what i didn't.
Family moments remain my favorite — also inarguably the best — part of the testify, especially the flashbacks to the immature parent'southward days, but we get less of that and more of the lovelines instead. Double dear triangles at that: one for the youngsters (Ji-ho/Shi-ah/Ja-sung), one for the 'adults' (Woo-young/Da-jung/Ji-hoon). Neither is that fun to lookout, unfortunately, though i'd say the quondam is underdeveloped while the latter is over the top; naught beats the extraness of Deok-jin'south courting a fellow otaku, the female teacher, though.
The teens are pretty capricious. Gotta appreciate the writers for not making Shi-ah fall for Woo-immature despite his white-knighty moves, but on the flip side, i don't know why they like whom they like. Shi-ah and Ji-ho are babyhood friends, so? The girl said that the latter was just a friend when Woo-young asked her well-nigh it; the boy barely steps his game up when Ja-sung burst onto scene and quickly acts on his feelings. And when he does confess, information technology is at a random timing and scene. The aforementioned goes for Shi-woo's relationship with i of Shi-ah'southward girlfriends; i never recall them talking to each other, but later on bumping into each other at the festival, the sparks fly and they before long become a couple.
Interestingly, Ja-sung who starts off as the almost combative character ends upward the most layered with the near growth. He goes from the school bully to a good teammate to a sympathetic love involvement, and transforms from a juvenile leader who uses his ability to pick on others who witness his weakness to someone who capitalizes on his influence to protect his crush… and eventually lets become of her without much of a fuss. That is quite a evolution, huh.
Despite evading the complications of having a girl liking (the young version of) her dad, however, Show doesn't shy abroad from some other problematic issue of developed/minor relationship. Woo-young is 37 at heart, but the world sees him every bit an 18 twelvemonth old. He hardly carries himself appropriately either. He wants to be there for the kids every bit a friend simply the mode he'south looking out for Shi-ah can give off a wrong signal, which oddly never dawns on him, even if the other boys openly side eye him and blatantly inquire if he likes her. Neither does he ever realize how weird it is for a highschooler to exist interested in a mature woman, despite Ji-hoon's reiterations of it every bit a teenage fantasy, or how ludicrous the fancy dinner date set-up is, amongst others. Yeah, Da-jung is his ex-wife who has stated her regret for getting a divorce on national Idiot box, but he's approaching her as Woo-young and just trying to out himself after kissing her twice.
The 'misunderstanding' is dragged out long enough for her to think of herself as a creep liking a minor. The second osculation is even witnessed by the female person teacher, who'due south naturally appalled. And despite expecting it to blow up, there'due south no follow up to information technology whatsoever. The realization comes from a somewhat random prove too: that Woo-young is gushing almost her to a shop cashier?
Just then, this isn't the only plot point resolved with a silver bullet. Dae-young reverting to his original body is fifty-fifty more so. I thought he'd need to drink the elder's tea again, or at that place was a meaning behind the latter crossing path with Da-jung, but it somewhen becomes a Freaky Fri-ish scene, and Dae-immature just magically transforms dorsum. If it's his love/cede for his family, what more that he needs to testify? If it's him putting them in a higher place his own dream, how many times does he need to practise it? If annihilation, information technology'south actually his family that needs to discover and realize all the love and sacrifice he's had and done for them.
The presence and support Woo-young gives are the living proof of that, likewise bad the kids don't get the chance to know it. Yes, it may be weird to reveal that he is their male parent, but isn't it weirder for him to cut off contact completely — at this time and age — just because he studies overseas, when he's supposedly Deok-jin'south son?
I experience that the twins aren't given comparable handling, every bit the focus and attention are more heavily on Shi-ah since they're babies. And while Shi-ah has that bank book moment of realization, i don't recall Shi-woo having any to change his view on his 'berating' male parent. I also wish that the drama showed more imperfect sides of Dae-young, because the drunken fit is probably the only misstep i tin can pin on him; his other action only paints him every bit a hardworking and self-sacrificing homo, husband, and father, in addition to a filial son-in-law and an unselfish human being, that i tin can't help blaming Da-jung for failing to discover that and hence misunderstanding him.
But ultimately, i wish eighteen Once again were more of a family unit drama than a hodgepodge of different genres that don't always become well together, or that the writing were as compelling equally the family moments as a whole. I noticed that there were three writers for the show, mayhap each was in charge of a sure plot/genre? Interim-wise was decent although majority left a lot to be desired. The directing might be the best element; the transitions between Dae-young and Woo-immature were seamless at times however quite unpredictable, that i wondered why they didn't swap Yoon Sang-hyun in for the more intimate scenes, particularly since Kim Ha-neul looked more than comfy with him.
That said, i like the denouement, that admitting reuniting not long after the divorce, the leads take a couple more than years before remarrying. Even and so, they admit that it ain't a happily-ever-afterwards kind of ending, notwithstanding; they even so need to work on understanding, affectionate, and communicating with each other to make their relationship last. I'm also totally fond of the endmost sequence, which is beautiful… enough to make me forgive a lot of its flaws.
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Rating: 3.5/5
Manager: Ha Byung-hoon
Screenwriter: Kim Exercise-yeon, Ahn Eun-bin, Choi Yi-ryun
Production: JTBC, 2020
Bandage: Lee Do-hyun, Kim Ha-neul, Yoon Sang-hyun, Noh Jeong-eui, Ryeo-un, Kim Mi-kyung, Lee Byung-joon, Wi Ha-jun, Lee Mi-practice, Kim Kang-hyun, Kim Yoo-ri, Choi Bo-min, Hwang In-yeop
Genre: Fantasy, Family, Romance, Comedy, K-drama (16 Episodes)
Source: https://bean5spilled.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/18-again-on-episode-9-16-final-thoughts/
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