49 Days Review Part 2
(Episodes 7-16)
4 more episodes!!
So, strong start, a little slow around episode 6-10, but then it REALLY picked up these past few episodes! I’m satisfied with the acting overall; very well done. A few characters have plateaued some, but Jung Ilwoo’s acting makes up for all of it! What a performance in episode 16! WOW! Nam Gyuri’s performance is improving as well, although I can’t really say if it’s just that her character is growing so she has a better opportunity to show us her skills. Lee Yowon is also such an amazing and talented actress. I find myself forgetting that this is really just one person performing as two people. It’s so believable that she is inhabited by two different souls! She is such a heartwrenching cryer, but then her happy scenes are so cute!
I love the whole you-know-that-I-know-but-we’re-all-pretending-we-don’t-know-anything thing that is going on with Kang and Yikyung/Jihyun. The scenes itself are just so adorable and heartwarming, but then deeper meaning once you calculate that they knew each other’s knowledge of the situation is just so ironic, funny, and CUTE!!
The storyline is getting really intense! They finally started revealing a lot of answers to some seemingly insignificant questions (and items) from earlier on, which was a total OHHHHH moment (or several moments, for that matter). I love how what seemed to be set rules and boundaries are getting broken and pushed... it’s so confusing, but refreshing because it’s unexpected. I love how the in limbo world is able to interact with the real world people all of a sudden. I wonder, does this happen with other 49 day souls, or is it just these people because of all their intertwining connections....
I love Jung Ilwoo and Jo Hyunjae’s songs for the soundtrack. The lyrics are very fitting for the drama, and I love when the main actors sing for the soundtrack, especially since they both have beautiful voices. Jung Ilwoo’s voice is more on the melancholy side, which fits since they revealed our Scheduler’s rather tragic past. Jo Hyunjae’s is full of love and longing.
I really wonder who will give Jihyun her last two tears. I don’t think it will be Seowoo, even more so because she found out that the guy she likes (Han Kang) is in love with Jihyun, so now she has the whole bitter love taken away thing going on. But also because it seems too simple, too obvious of a plot line. 49 Days is far from simple, so I don’t see why they would make that part simple. I almost feel like Kang Minho will end up crying for Jihyun, which would be in fact the most ironic of all. And perhaps the other person would be Yikyung, the borrowed body. I suspected that may happen earlier, but now that we know Yikyung can hear (and see?!!) Jihyun, I feel it’s almost certain.
Then again, I wonder how likely it is that the writers will kill off Jihyun... Say Jihyun gets all three tears, comes back to life, marries Kang. Say Kang helps her find Yikyung and they become friends (which, by the way, raises another questions... all the people who figured out the 49 days deal, will they forget like Jihyun after it’s all over?), what is Yikyung going to do? Yisoo is dead, and there’s no way around that. I don’t particularly fancy Yikyung marrying the doctor, though we know his wife died a few years ago, so he is available. I guess the writers could leave her love life open ended, though that doesn’t appeal to me much either. Yikyung is such a lonely character, I feel like she needs someone (besides a friend, potentially Kang and Jihyun) to be with her. I almost want to pair her up with Kang, but then that seems rather disrespectful to Jihyun if she dies and somewhere down the road Kang starts dating Yikyung. Of course, I hate when the main character (male or female) is killed off, so let’s try not to think about that.
On a more comical note, the Scheduler’s wardrobe is seriously more complex than many of the female characters’ wardrobes! He easily has at least three or four different outfits per episode. But perhaps we notice the constant change of eccentric colors and dangling accessories because of Jihyun’s lacking wardrobe. Besides getting tired of her same dress, I feel rather bad for the actress. There may be signs of spring in Korea with all the flowers abloom, but it definitely is still too cold for that dress!! But still, the Scheduler’s colorful variety of arrangements are a good balance to Jihyun’s constant pink.
I wonder what happened to the “S love K” rings... wouldn’t the people who cleaned up the accident have picked those up? Why weren’t they given to Yikyung? I wonder if it’s because he’s an orphan and legally they aren’t siblings or even married, so they refused to hand over his belongings... usually the cops in dramas aren’t all too finicky about whose who’s guardian and proof and such... I hope they touch on that... If Yikyung had known about the rings, would she have been more or less depressed? I wonder what is her real reason for living like that for the past five years? I know it has to do with Yisoo, the way they separated, and his death and all that, but what is the real motive... Does she think he was cheating on her? Does she feel regretful that she didn’t trust him and they separated and he died still loving her even though she doubted him? Did she get the rings, so that’s how she knew of his intentions? Oh, and another question.. When Dr. Noh said he felt responsible for Yisoo’s death, what did he mean? Was Yikyung going to the psychiatrist before Yisoo died, showed him the pictures of Yisoo with another girl, and Dr. Noh said Yisoo was definitely cheating on her? (By the way, that accident scene..... That has to be on my top 5 list of most heartwrenching scenes to make me cry ever!)
I love when the antagonists get what they deserve!!!!! I could have use a little more hair tearing when Seowoo started beating up Injung! And when Kang started punching Minho for Jihyun.... beautiful! Not only because Jo Hyunjae looked awesome all angry and punching someone... but also I love when a guy beats up another guy for a girl... hehe. But probably the most satisfying is the fact that Jihyun does to Minho the same thing he did to her... she kind of lead him to believe she was interested him, which she did only for her own gain, and then he finds out that he fell for her but she is indifferent. And then he finds out it was Jihyun all along?!?! Serves him right! But truth be told, Minho kind of scares me.. He’s willing to go to any lengths, use whatever means necessary in order to complete his plans... In a way he has nothing to lose.. Those are the scariest people, because you never know what they will do.
I can’t wait until the finale of 49 Days. I’m quite a bit sad at the idea that it’s coming to an end (no more Scheduler, bipolar Lee Yowon, softy Jo Hyunjae....), but alas, all good things must come to an end. But that’s what DVDs are for... Right?
Until next time.
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