BIG (spoilers ahead!)

Theme: Maturity

My BIG Question: Why didn’t the writers include Yoon Jae’s ending?

Answer:

In the drama, the story mostly revolves around Yoon Jae. It was all about him and his relationship with Gil Da Ran. Even I thought before that the story was going to be about how Yoon Jae and Gil Da Ran’s relationship would strengthen. It was clear to me before that the story would still revolve around Yoon Jae. Just notice: even if Yoon Jae’s character didn’t actually exist after the second episode (except for the flash backs that was so lovely ^^), he was still mentioned- he was the priority even. The story revolves around him. I believed that to be so. However, when Gil Da Ran started to have feelings for Kyung Joon, he was given the spotlight. After that, you would notice that Kyung Joon was the star character after all. However, one wouldn’t notice that because the drama seems to be telling us something. Yoon Jae’s body as Kyung Joon is implying that Yoon Jae is still given priority. It’s just that when Gil Da Ran acknowledged her love for Kyung Joon and vice versa, it is being shown to us that Kyung Joon’s character is given importance; and more importance that is. This is the explanation why I was so disappointed that Yoon Jae didn’t get to have an “ending.” I kept expecting for his character to comeback because I still can’t see the body of Yoon Jae as Kyung Joon himself. I think that’s why in the end, Kyung Joon is still portrayed in the body of Yoon Jae to show to the audience that Kyung Joon is as important as Yoon Jae; that Kyung Joon is not a mere body sleeping for almost all the time in the series and that Kyung Joon was “Yoon Jae” all along. It is to reiterate that Yoon Jae’s body is not just his body. It is the body where Kyung Joon matured after all. He wouldn’t return to the person he was back then. Thus there was not a single scene that Kyung Joon returns to his own body, and that is again because Kyung Joon had already matured.

But this doesn’t mean that Kyung Joon really didn’t return to his own body. This is just an interpretation of the drama. This is a new kind of drama in my opinion. It is not about the characters at all. It shows to the viewers how the theme is being relayed through the medium of art chosen which is a drama series. We are so used to dramas being centered to the characters. This time, the Hong Sisters went to a different direction; that is a new kind of drama. A drama series with a theme to begin with, and that theme is where it all begins.. and ends.

(This is a post to answer a question that got me asking when I saw the ending. However, I still think that the ending didn’t satisfy the goody-fluffy-warm feeling that I felt while watching it from the start until before the end. If I am right that the Hong Sisters were trying to go to a different direction, which is to make a new breed of drama, well it was not a great start. But trying something new doesn’t always mean that we would like it or that we would be satisfied easily. It is to be expected that people would get disappointed at first either because it was the first time of the writers to write in a different way or the people are just not used to those kinds of stories/drama series.)