Of course it's all happening in your head, Byung Gun, but why should that mean it isn't real?
So I finished What's Up, and I was going to say something flippant like "BEST DRAMA OF THE YEAR" but... uh... considering that the competition so far has been "Yamapi The Funeral Director" and "My Mom Keeps Getting Hit On By My Friends and It Makes Me Uncomfortable", I think the superiority of What's Up is a given.
My favorite characters by the end:
5: PROFESSOR YANG
4: Jae Hun
3: Soo Bin (it took me ten eps to remember his name BUT HE WAS WORTH IT)
2: Byung Gun (♥___♥)
1: Doo Ri and everything she touched and everything she chose to be
The finale wasn't perfect - was anyone else waiting for that one big performance that kinda never happened? - but I have to give it props for making me cry intermittently for like three hours. Actually, I was pretty much a wreck from ep... 18? onwards, when they're singing fucking Fame about how they're all going to live forever and then the scene cuts to Doo Ri sitting in a hospital chair and breaking down.
That's how you can tell you're watching a kdrama all right - your hero killed someone and half of the cutest OTP dies from cancer.
Do you realize her last words to him were not yet? ;____________________; WHYYYYYYYY???
THIS LINE. My soul went OH GOD and burst into tears.
I think this was one of the most subtly crushing scenes I've ever seen in a kdrama. No dialogue, no dramatic music, just grave looks and growing comprehension that gets passed from person and person. Jae Hun slowly walking in the room. Everyone realizing what happened. Byung Gun trying to comfort Doo Ri BUT HE CAN'T EVEN DO IT BECAUSE HE HAS TO COVER HIS OWN EYES AND CRY. LFKSDHJFKLSDJFSDKLFJSDF BAWLING.
SOBBING AND GIGGLING ALL AT ONCE. YOU DEFINITELY DIDN'T RAISE ANY ART STUDENTS, SUN WOO.
I've decided in my head that this never happens. Sun Woo (and I just typed that as "Sun Woob" which is both hilarious and extremely fitting) wakes up and makes a miraculous recovery by the grace of the kdrama gods, who decide it's too cliche for the funny drunk character to actually die of liver failure. Doo Ri hangs around and becomes the most terrifying nursemaid ever ("eat this, invalid" "I'll follow you into the bathroom if you don't go") and Professor Yang refuses to acknowledge her own relief and instead bills him for missing work. Everyone dances to Grease 2 and no one dies. THE END.
YEAH, CRIED MY WAY THROUGH ALL OF THIS...
...AND THEN BURST OUT LAUGHING. Oh, I wish I could make gifs on this computer, I seriously died when Byung Gun started breaking it down right there in the aisle.
BEST FUNERAL EVER?
My favorite characters by the end:
5: PROFESSOR YANG
4: Jae Hun
3: Soo Bin (it took me ten eps to remember his name BUT HE WAS WORTH IT)
2: Byung Gun (♥___♥)
1: Doo Ri and everything she touched and everything she chose to be
The finale wasn't perfect - was anyone else waiting for that one big performance that kinda never happened? - but I have to give it props for making me cry intermittently for like three hours. Actually, I was pretty much a wreck from ep... 18? onwards, when they're singing fucking Fame about how they're all going to live forever and then the scene cuts to Doo Ri sitting in a hospital chair and breaking down.
That's how you can tell you're watching a kdrama all right - your hero killed someone and half of the cutest OTP dies from cancer.
Do you realize her last words to him were not yet? ;____________________; WHYYYYYYYY???
THIS LINE. My soul went OH GOD and burst into tears.
I think this was one of the most subtly crushing scenes I've ever seen in a kdrama. No dialogue, no dramatic music, just grave looks and growing comprehension that gets passed from person and person. Jae Hun slowly walking in the room. Everyone realizing what happened. Byung Gun trying to comfort Doo Ri BUT HE CAN'T EVEN DO IT BECAUSE HE HAS TO COVER HIS OWN EYES AND CRY. LFKSDHJFKLSDJFSDKLFJSDF BAWLING.
SOBBING AND GIGGLING ALL AT ONCE. YOU DEFINITELY DIDN'T RAISE ANY ART STUDENTS, SUN WOO.
I've decided in my head that this never happens. Sun Woo (and I just typed that as "Sun Woob" which is both hilarious and extremely fitting) wakes up and makes a miraculous recovery by the grace of the kdrama gods, who decide it's too cliche for the funny drunk character to actually die of liver failure. Doo Ri hangs around and becomes the most terrifying nursemaid ever ("eat this, invalid" "I'll follow you into the bathroom if you don't go") and Professor Yang refuses to acknowledge her own relief and instead bills him for missing work. Everyone dances to Grease 2 and no one dies. THE END.
YEAH, CRIED MY WAY THROUGH ALL OF THIS...
...AND THEN BURST OUT LAUGHING. Oh, I wish I could make gifs on this computer, I seriously died when Byung Gun started breaking it down right there in the aisle.
BEST FUNERAL EVER?