(Yes, wussing out can be planned.) They’re just not my thing, y’know? I am not a fan of horror / ghosts, and make it a general rule to wuss out of watching those kinds of shows. You could have one without the other, but having them together just takes everything to a whole new level. When the drama’s consumed together with the fanfic, though, they go together like strawberries and cream, or peanut butter and jelly, or Kim Woo Bin and Lee Jong Suk, or Song Seung Hun and abs, or. I’m only looking at the drama as it stands on its own. These comments don’t take the fanfic into account. And if like me, you didn’t quite love Master’s Sun, this fanfic might change the game for you, too. If you already love Master’s Sun, you’ll probably love it more as a result.
I’m still going to give a quick overview on my thoughts regarding Master’s Sun as a drama, but really, I highly recommend you check out my review of the fanfic, and consider reading it for yourself. And now that I’ve found a way to enjoy Master’s Sun, all my original thoughts have been, well, sorta over-ruled. Long story short, I’ve now read the fanfic, and that has changed everything for me. Just as I was gathering my thoughts for this review, DDee posted this interview that she did with mywebfoot, who had written a fanfic, not for the drama’s lead characters Joo Joong Won and Tae Gong Sil, but for the drama’s lead actors, So Ji Sub and Gong Hyo Jin. I did think So Ji Sub and Gong Hyo Jin had good onscreen chemistry though.Īnd I was all poised to write a review detailing everything that I liked and didn’t like so much in this drama. There were a number things that I didn’t like so much, and felt could’ve been better. Much as I heard that many viewers enjoyed this a lot (like, really-really-loved-it a lot), I actually only sorta liked it. See, in a nutshell, Master’s Sun didn’t really do it for me, as a drama. So what does that have to do with Master’s Sun? It was context and perspective that totally changed the game, coz now I had something to tickle my fancy beyond the flimsy, almost non-existent story. But I remember with HD clarity the crackling, through-the-roof chemistry those two shared, and the super-hot, ad-libbed kisses they gave us. If you asked me now what the story in Lie To Me was about, I’d be hard-pressed to tell you, beyond the barest of details. I was glued to the chemistry that Kang Ji Hwan and Yoon Eun Hye brought to the screen though. I didn’t bother any more with the story, coz I’d already determined that that wasn’t going to make much sense. I changed my mind about dropping the show, and proceeded to enjoy the rest of the episodes. That put a whole different spin on things. The game-changer for me was the new knowledge that the two of them had basically ad-libbed a good number of the swooniest couple moments on the show.
And yes, I’d noticed that they had excellent onscreen chemistry too. I was on the verge of dropping Lie To Me when I chanced on a whole lot of fandom squee over the chemistry between Kang Ji Hwan and Yoon Eun Hye. One could objectively say that it was a mess of a drama. Like, one moment our male lead Kang Ji Hwan really, really dislikes our female lead Yoon Eun Hye, and the next minute, he’s kissing her.
Character motivations were similarly bemusing and felt almost random. Nothing really made proper sense, and plot points were strung together with the flimsiest of excuses. I remember feeling completely underwhelmed and quite horrified, even, at the lack of cohesion in Lie To Me’s narrative. I know, I totally sound like I’m going off on a crazy tangent. This happened to me once before, when I was watching Lie To Me (2011). Have you ever had one of those experiences where you were feeling pretty meh about a drama, and then something came along that completely changed the game?
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