Is there such a thing as too much Kang Ji Hwan? I guess not. The only
reason I re-watched the Exhibition of Fireworks was him and the vague memory
that I liked the drama.
After spending 17 hours (I didn’t use the magic button and really sat
through those 17 episodes) I come to conclusion that the only worthwhile thing about
this drama is Kang Ji Hwan.
I’ve got to see him showing off his assets and then… dancing! Seeing him
shaking those hips is enough to make me forgive myself for wasting 17 hours of
my precious time.
Now, what is this drama about? Simply put: it’s a bunch of clichés we’ve
found in most dramas such as:
1. Brothers in love with the same woman.
2. A heroine who
is dumped by her lover/fiancé after she sacrificed so much for him.
3. A world class bitch.
4. A noble idiot.
I don’t mind clichés and I never demand for originality because I know
how hard it is to be original when the drama land has used almost every plot
available out there.
But to have them all written into a nonsensical story that even I with
my love for Kang Ji Hwan couldn’t bring myself to love his character Na In Jae
is just too much.
I don’t think I get Na In Jae.
Is he a man who falls in love with his sister in law (Park Eun Hye’s Cha
Mi Rae) but then realizes that he falls for another girl (Han Chae Young’s Sin
Na Ra)? Or is it his guilt for his brother’s death that forced him to marry Cha
Mi Rae? Or does he love them both?
I don’t get the cultural context either that it’s such a taboo for him
to marry that world class bitch. She’s not really his sister in law. She was
only engaged to his late brother. That’s all. They weren’t married. And the big
brother was already dead.
Whether she slept with him is beside the point (although judging from
her character, the bitch was probably jumped the poor guy every time she needed
distraction).
And I am dissatisfied with how this drama doesn’t clearly deliver the
message about Na In Jae’s feelings. What? They do? How? That drunken scene where
he murmurs I miss you Na Ra? Meh!
I normally squeal with delight when watching ‘revelation scene’ but when
I watched that scene I was like: ‘Really? That’s all you can do show?’
Am I supposed to take that as a sign that he loves Sin Na Ra and not the
bitch he wants to marry defying his mother, defying all reasons? I refuse to do
so.
Not when he never shows any preference for her over that sister in law
of his. He would do anything for that bitch. All she has to do just ask. I
think even if she asks him to kill Sin Na Ra he will do it just to please her.
No one will be able to convince me that he does that because he feels
guilty for his brother’s death. It’s hard for me to erase the image of his
smile while he waits for Cha Mi Rae to come to their engagement party.
If you insist that he does that out of guilt out of pity. Then all I can
say is that Na In Jae is not the noble idiot. He’s the idiotest male lead in
kdrama land. Ever.
There’s nothing noble in marrying a woman who killed you big brother.
There’s nothing noble in marrying this scary deceitful woman who lies to
everyone who loves her.
There is nothing noble in marrying a bitch who slept around with another
guy then told you that she has your baby. There’s nothing noble in hurting the
woman who you love and has done nothing to deserve you hurting her like that.
How could Kang Ji Hwan end up with this disappointing character is
beyond me. And then there’s Han Chae Young’s Sin Na Ra, our heroine. Sigh.
She’s supposed to have brain. But she ends up being a thirty year old who
fails to fulfill her parents’ dreams – because she’d been slaving away for the
man she loved and being abandoned by that very man.
Then when she falls in love with Na In Jae, he is also stolen by the
same woman who steals her first lover. And what irk me the most is that she
never once slaps that bitch!
I would feel so much better if there was a cat fight or a pulling hair
scene or a swearing session where Sin Na Ra does the pulling or the swearing.
The most hated scenes:
1.
When Kang Ji Hwan’s character Na In Jae waits for Cha
Mi Rae then smiles as he thinks about he’s getting engaged to her in just a few
minutes.
Dude, you just told Sin Na Ra
last night that you love her so how could you attach yourself so readily and
happily to Cha Mi Rae? And how could you still insist on becoming her husband after
the bitch told you that the baby she’s carrying is not even yours? Noble idiot?
Nope. Just idiot.
2.
When Sin Na Ra keeps asking Na In Jae whether he loves
Cha Mi Rae or not.
Girl, you have asked him that
question a million times before! Stop it already! He doesn’t love you. At least
not enough to choose you over that bitch you treat so well.
You should stop making
threats about getting your men back. The only way you’ll get them back is if that
bitch tells them she doesn’t want them any more.
Honestly, you’re the sorriest
heroine I’ve ever seen!
ps: I hereby declare that I don’t like this drama as much as I think I
did before.
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