Rooftop Prince continues to be entertaining when I watch it but I'm not missing it during the day or anything like that. In fact I was so close to reading and finishing Dark Places last night but I was afraid of bad dreams (and Thank God they stopped last night and I don't even remember what I dreamt about but it was not I guess). The novel is very powerful and the language is suprisingly great for a novel of this kind. Things get worse by each page and the construction of the novel allows me to discover new things with each page. Great use of flashback here.
Rooftop on the other hand is sweet and the angst is truly serious (being put in a truck and when you shout for your stepsister - par alliance, no blood relation - she just leaves you in the truck and turns away. The truck has an accident and you lose your memory, becoming an orphan 9 nine year old. Someone from U.S.A adopts you and you only find your father (who was also looking for you all these years) 3 days after he passed away. Your stepmom is not a bad person but she of course would prefer her blood daughter over you and that stepsis is an evil bitch.
You start to have crush on a Joseon Crown Prince who time travelled from yore and he is being very kind to you and you have good chemistry and easy friendship but he used to be married to the evil stepsis 300 years ago and he is still in love with her.
And when your stepmom is run over by car driven by stepsis' evil bf (the cousin of the chaebol who is Crown Prince's reincarnation but was killed by the said Evil Cousin) and you see your Stepsis but instead of coming to help or check whether her mother is OK she just turns away and leaves (because she and evil Cousin are having an affair and they plan on getting married, but evil Cousin thinks her mother is a professor in UK while in reality she sells fish at a wet market). And this trauma brings back your lost memory and the enormity of evil that has been done to you and when you confront Evil Stepsis, she is even more arrogant and shameless then you realise that your Crown Prince gave the bracelet you said every woman would like to your evil Stepsis (btw no one knows their relation, Evil Stepsis never revealed it).
Well if this is not real angst.... On the other hand I like the fish out of water parts of the show and there is a certain bubbly feel to it, like you know "everything is going to be alright" if this show turns 180 degrees on me I'll not be happy.
And still in comparison to Dark Places this one is a happy show.
Rooftop on the other hand is sweet and the angst is truly serious (being put in a truck and when you shout for your stepsister - par alliance, no blood relation - she just leaves you in the truck and turns away. The truck has an accident and you lose your memory, becoming an orphan 9 nine year old. Someone from U.S.A adopts you and you only find your father (who was also looking for you all these years) 3 days after he passed away. Your stepmom is not a bad person but she of course would prefer her blood daughter over you and that stepsis is an evil bitch.
You start to have crush on a Joseon Crown Prince who time travelled from yore and he is being very kind to you and you have good chemistry and easy friendship but he used to be married to the evil stepsis 300 years ago and he is still in love with her.
And when your stepmom is run over by car driven by stepsis' evil bf (the cousin of the chaebol who is Crown Prince's reincarnation but was killed by the said Evil Cousin) and you see your Stepsis but instead of coming to help or check whether her mother is OK she just turns away and leaves (because she and evil Cousin are having an affair and they plan on getting married, but evil Cousin thinks her mother is a professor in UK while in reality she sells fish at a wet market). And this trauma brings back your lost memory and the enormity of evil that has been done to you and when you confront Evil Stepsis, she is even more arrogant and shameless then you realise that your Crown Prince gave the bracelet you said every woman would like to your evil Stepsis (btw no one knows their relation, Evil Stepsis never revealed it).
Well if this is not real angst.... On the other hand I like the fish out of water parts of the show and there is a certain bubbly feel to it, like you know "everything is going to be alright" if this show turns 180 degrees on me I'll not be happy.
And still in comparison to Dark Places this one is a happy show.
Nice review. I already watched all the episode of this great korean drama series
ReplyDeleteand it was worth watching.