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49 Days, EPs 1-2
Aw crap! The problem with following currently airing shows is HAVING TO WAIT IMPATIENTLY FOR A WEEK FOR THE NEXT EPISODES TO COME OUT! XD I'm so... not invested, exactly, but interested in this already!
- 49 Days, Episode 1: First question of the drama; are reapers angsty? Did he particularly like to play guitar before he died, or is this something they do on the job to kill time when they haven't got any deaths scheduled? ;)
...Who wears and actual wedding dress to the engagement ceremony? Or is that just a dress for it that isn't really supposed to seem like a wedding dress to the rest of us? ("It's all in your mind!")
On first impression we've got a nervous and silly bride-to-be and her no-nonsense best friend.
OH GOD THEY'RE PLAYING THE SONG 'SHE'. GAG.
Is this a cultural thing, putting the ring on at the ceremony? I suppose it isn't like an engagment party we would have which is just a celebration after the couple have become engaged privately. This seems totally formal.
As if one person walking in would disrupt everything.
Oh god, so basically: "if he went to the same school as Ji-Hyun then his qualifications can't be all that." Don't you just love the way parents are portrayed in Korean dramas? :x She appears to be a rich girl so supposedly her parents haven't expected anything of her anyway. Rich girls are just supposed to marry men who will maintain the family fortune themselves, right?
In-Jung suddenly doesn't seem just like she's harsh with Ji-Hyun to keep her from overreacting to issues; she's annoyed that Ji-Hyun and Min-Ho they didn't mention the marriage date sooner, but they didn't know it was going to be so soon either! XD She's being a little unreasonable?
PIGGYBACK. It just isn't a drama episode without a piggyback, no matter how fleeting it is or whether it's during a flashback.
How sucky to be sitting there so blissfully happy, oblivious to your best friend (In-Jung) who is clearly not happy with the situation, and your fiance's best friend (Han Kang) who is even less able to hide it. Some group of friends, hmm?
Okay that hold-up was suckily done. I think when Yi-Kyung sort of robotically served her customer earlier you got the sense of numbness and just going through the motions, but the hold-up was too rushed and I didn't believe in the threat at all. And how is it a smart idea to have them all sat at a police officer's desk together? THEY HELD HER UP WITH A KNIFE. Normal people would consider them, you know, DANGEROUS. Bad set-up all round. Although the officer callously telling her she should've given up the money to save herself is a nice way to point out to us how she just isn't interested in self-preservation. More subtle is better.
...These guys who are friends with no-one around to impress are competing at how fast they can run on the treadmill? Oh, men, you're so juvenile.
And Han Kang is looking for a mysterious womannnn. I'm thinking he already found her ;)
Ji-Hyun did something to Han Kang in the past? I wonder what it could be that she thinks he's angry over it still, and yet he's probably actually fallen in love with her and is struggling seeing her with his best friend who knows nothing of it other than they were schoolfriends.
In-Jung is being snippy again. I'd understand if Han Kang was the guy she liked and was trying to warn Ji-Hyun off by phrasing it as, "he doesn't like you so trying to be nice to him is only going to get you hurt and make you upset", but I'm pretty sure it's fiance Min-Ho she's angsty over so ideally wouldn't it have been an idea for her to push Ji-Hyun at Kang? Or maybe she thinks that's a total dead-end after all.
(I am so in this for pretty-boy reaper, HURRY UP OMG XD). I've spoilt myself for the first couple of episodes so I know I need to wait just a little bit yet...
Ji-Hyun's dress is pretty! I thought it was one of the bridesmaids dresses and she'd been trying them on (typical ditzy girl XD), but she left still wearing that one so it can't be.
[Actually it is one of the bridesmaids dresses; I didn't pick up on her asking the woman in the store if she could wear it out of there to show her friend! ...Couldn't she just have taken it to In-Jung in a bag?]
YAY PRETTY. Pretty. On a motorcycle. All in black. These things are hot.
I really shouldn't have read all those spoilery things. I vow not to from now on; knowing how all the characters appear to be related to one another so early on kind of sucks, and I'm probably too dense to have figured it out by myself XD Although that motocycle dashing past Yi-Kyung at high speed while she paces slowly (to her fate?) oblivious to it was nicely done. One of those things I know I would've missed completely.
Reapers keep a watch on supposed time of death of people by checking their phones XD Oh this technological age makes everything so easy!
Yi-Kyung lost someone to an accident right where she's stopped. She tries to commit suicide, and a man saves her. And instead a huge pile-up happens! Uhm, pretty-boy-Reaper was not expecting this at all. ("Oh crap, overtime!" XD)
OH SHIT. BYE-BYE JI-HYUN? AND REAPER'S DUDE ISN'T DEAD! Oh wait, heart-attack, he is. lol he just looked like, "that was a lucky escape!" So he has no control over how a person dies? And if they don't when they're supposed to... I wonder if there's a protocol? Won't find that out now anyway since the dude died anyway.
(I hope this drama involves a good amount of explaining how the Scheduler's existence works, since he'll have to go on with his job even though Ji-Hyun will be demanding things of him no doubt.
Uhm, I have to say I didn't really feel the flinging out of the car thing was over the top although I suppose it was, but it would've been better for her to get up out of her own body rather than her spirit was thrown from it because of the impact of the crash once she died... I mean, can her spirit really be subject to earthly force at the moment she dies? (I am overthinking I know!)
Reaper Boy sees her! But he's made his get-away.
(I would like to take this moment to point out how annoying it is when these full grown women CRY FOR DADDY when something happens omg).
The dude who saved Yi-Kyung is gone from the hospital now too. Can we talk about this theme of men walking out on women? ;)
OHOH, YI-KYUNG WAS THAT A MOMENT OF SYMPATHY FOR THE FACT THAT YOUR RASH DECISION PROBABLY KILLED ANOTHER PERSON INSTEAD OF YOU? It was fleeting, but if so, very well done. She slipped right back into numbness after realising she was still alive.
Reaper-Boy has changed clothes. How fashion conscious of him.
AH! ANOTHER SLOW-MOTION MOMENT HE WALKS RIGHT PAST YI-KYUNG. Obviously he can see her although she can't see him, but he seems unconcerned so he has no idea who she is? The theory is that he's possibly the man Yi-Kyung lost in that traffic accident, but becoming a Reaper may have wiped his memory of living? Ooooh I wish I hadn't read the theory because it would've probably hit me like a brick when it happened, but yay for the potential of Reaper-Boy questioning his life before he became a Reaper, and maybe developing feelings for this woman all over again? EXCEPT HE'S DEAD. So maybe he will want to help her find love again, and some peace, since I doubt if he loved her he wants her to go on being suicidal. AHEM.
I LOVE HIS ANNOYED FACE. Ah, heart-attack man didn't die right away, he JUST died in hospital. So either Reaper-Boy followed him there because he knew he needed to meet the guy's spirit when he finally died, or he went to be sure the man was going to die (and potentially do something about it if he didn't?). I didn't look closely at the time on the Reaper's clock but I'm guessing it was scheduled for the moment the dude had the heart attack, not just now. So the clock signifies the moment a person experiences the thing that will kill them, and not the actual moment of death? Or I'm reading too much into this for sure. (But I'm right, the clock said five minutes and that had to pass while Hot Reaper-Boy waited beside the traffic for the dude, not between the pile-up and getting the victims to the hospital, NO WAY).
DEATH IS AN ELEVATOR. That's kind of space-agey XD LOL, YOU HIDE JI-HYUN, DON'T TEMPT HIM TO PUT YOU IN THERE TOO.
Oh God he's so impatient with her - I'd say I assume with humans in general except that he was very respectful to the man he was sent to uhm, reap. (Is reap the verb for a reaper in this instance? XD)
LOL I LOVE HIS FACE.
Ahhhhhh, because of the accident the heart attack was actually less effective - perhaps because the pile-up forced the man to stop, and otherwise he would've been driving at the time (and probably crashed himself?) So Reaper-Boy's SCHEDULE got messed up! (How much joy do I get out of calling him Reaper Boy knowing he doesn't like it? XD)
Also, interesting that his schedule for today was just that one man. Considering how many people must die in the world every second there must be a scheduler for each of them if they're doing such slack work! He had all day! (Or you know, had to reschedule with some others because he had to go deal with this heart-attack dude's problem of not dying at the right time ;) )
I think he pulls these faces because he seriously doesn't know how to deal with humans. Every time she opens her mouth his face is like, "there are words coming out and they're words I understand individually but somehow I'm just not making sense of them together at all. Is this a human thing?"
Kang is angsting over being mean to Ji-Hyun and doesn't even know she was in the accident!
Can you blame her for being confused, Reaper boy? She's right! Somehow she's both death and alive :P Hmmm, I wonder if we can make the argument here that being in a coma, brain dead, is equal to this state because her spirit has left her body but the body lives on, yet not in any way that could even function again. In this universe.
SHE SHOULDN'T MEDDLE HERE? DOES THAT MEAN SHE COULD?
Awww, Reaper-Boy is harsh but he has a soft side! ;)
I have to admit sometimes things can feel a little overacted, but I don't know if it's particular to him since I'm sensing a kind of harsh dude stereotype here, like how after I'd watched Legend and thought Sujini was so unique and spunky that I tried to watch the beginning of Boys Over Flowers and saw the exact same character cut-out (the basic idea, although each actress, setting and plot will shape it their own way) and suddenly it wasn't so special anymore.
I like this tears thing, although I don't know that after the explanation that anyone could be crying pure tears. People are complex, those tears would hold a mixture of feelings in reality. Maybe this drama will have to prove it to me. If it does, we'll know it did its job well!
AH! AH! I see the moment Ji-Hyun asks how she and this woman could possibly be connected to one another (since Reaper-Boy insists all things in his line of work are connected and so is this stipulation of using Yi-Kyung's body) and he hesitates and doesn't actually tell her that Yi-Kyung caused the accident that killed her! He did gripe earlier that a 'troublemaker' ruined his schedule, but surely Ji-Hyun has been too shocked to relate that knowledge to herself, and would have no way of knowing why Yi-Kyung had been in the hospital even though they were in beds next to one another initially.
And the moment his face changes to relief that he has successfully deflected her question. Because if she knew, Ji-Hyun might want to take it out on this woman instinctively? "You're the reason I died!" It would definitely influence things.
And AND, is she able to use Yi-Kyung's body only because she took the deal and was specifically assigned her body to use, or could she actually use this ability all the time simply because she's a spirit, and so possess any person's sleeping body?
Oh she (Yi-Kyung) is so much prettier when she smiles.
- 49 Days, Episode 2: Oh no! The rough clothes, the knotty hair! Ji-Hyun, how terrible! You're dead but STILL! YOUR HOST BODY IS SO ROUGH AND UNPOLISHED ;)
Awww, Cinderella. I was about to say clearly she won't break the rule because the drama is CALLED 49 Days, so losing one or more of them would negate that... But really it's the contracted time she is offered in the first place, so I suppose it doesn't have to follow literally. And can writers really resist having her get home late accidentally one time near the end so that her time is cut by a day when time is becoming so sparing? ;) I'll lay my bet down NOW that they can't resist!
LOL, CALL IN UPSTAIRS AND ASK, REAPER BOY. She's such a rich girl! "We can solve this problem, just make a call!" (Throw money at it! At least she hasn't thought of trying to bribe death yet!)
HEHEHEHE, he told her off for breaking the rule and telling him who she was, and then he totally points out that he knows who she is anyway so of course it doesn't count, after leaving it hanging long enough to make her panic and perhaps get a bit serious about this entire situation sometime NOW? ;)
LOL, he lent her money, and he expects it back! FOR WHAT, Reaper-Boy? ;)
Oh dude, what a liar! If Schedulers didn't interfere with human matters then you wouldn't have this whole 49 Days deal, you'd just take the wronged dead soul off to the afterlife anyway! It's pretty much agiven that beings with a job to do and no ties to human life don't need to care about things like 'wronged souls'! So therefore there's totally a sense of right and wrong and justice up in Scheduler-land, we know you're a softie deep inside really, Reaper-Boy :P
Interesting dynamic change here, In-Jung has fallen to pieces because of Ji-Hyun being brain-dead, and Seo-Woo is having to treat her roughly this time instead, to try and snap her out of it for Ji-Hyun's sake. "We should protect her when she's like this". Seo-Woo does have to swallow back tears herself, which suggests not that she's unfeeling, but that maybe In-Jung's tears aren't simply grief, but loaded with other emotions on top of that?
Annnd of course Kang has a keepsake of some kind, jewellery it looks like, that reminds him of Ji-Hyun no doubt!
LOL this whole set-up is ridiculous. Kang is the tallest and beefiest of the lot of this group of boys and he's supposed to be getting bullied? He's a rich transfer student and Ji-Hyun saves the weak from bullies and considers herself a country bumpkin? (Even if her family hadn't made their fortune yet, or did so in the outskirts of Korea and not in the capital, I still don't think she could go from this to the rich princess she has been presented to us as so far in the drama, since high school!) I'll just pretend to suspend my disbelief. Ooooh she's proficient in martial arts! (Okay I'm not suspending my disbelief at all. Or my sarcasm). Although obviously the way she's presents herself to him in their first meeting may not be accurate - how she sees herself, a 'fighter for justice' - one of the boys did say his own father would kill him if he tangled with her (because of who her father is?). So she thinks it's her reputation when it's her fathers that protects the people she helps.
I wonder if Ji-Hyun's 'appetite' is technically sustaining Ji-Hyun's spirit, because otherwise Yi-Kyung is going to be eating twice as often as she needs to, her body being active all 24 hours of the day and never really sleeping, only the soul is XD
By the by, it makes no sense at all that a rich boy like we've just been told Kang is in the flashback, went to college to become an architect and yet miraculously owns a restaurant instead. Surely he wouldn't even really need to work? Or should be in the family business? Or persuing a job that fits his actual qualifications? It's not like he isn't sitting there sketching a building out! He hasn't lost interest in it and decided to be a restauranteur instead! And really, if he's from a rich family they'd have connections. I doubt it's that he's had trouble finding a job as an architect.
Heh, he's swayed by that little nervous habit of hers because it 'reminds' him of Ji-Hyun ;) The rules Reaper-Boy set down never said anything about what happens if someone works out who she is without her telling them.
LOL, you don't need to sleep!
AHAHAHAHA, "Schedulers on their own free time: ROCKING OUT, DUDE." He definitely likes his music, this Reaper-Boy!
Seriously, I love his faces :x He goes from physically tortured by the call until he picks it up to concerned when he realises it's the emergency call, to exasperated when he realises it's Ji-Hyun's voice. I just rewatched it like three times :x
ALSO HE GOT CHANGED. Or like, appeared naturally in smarter clothes because he has to appear professional rather than his clubbingcardigan *snort* wear? EITHER WAY IT'S HILARIOUS HOW THE CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN.
Awww, his PERSONAL TIME. Dude! You 'don't get involved in human affairs', so shouldn't you be off in YOUR world doing whatever it is you're supposed to do on your personal time? ;) Not playing around near/with humans? (I'm guessing no-one at the club he was at could actually see him, after all).
"Is it so hard to understand?"
"No, not now you've explained it."
EXACTLY! Good girl! She's ditzy, rich and clearly going to annoy me, but she may yet have some redeeming qualities! I mean, it is already great how she has no fear of Reaper-Boy; clearly she thinks this three tears thing will be easy (if it were that easy surely it wouldn't take up to 49 days?). Although I don't really see how the 49 days are needed either way - you either have three people willing to cry pure tears for you, and will when they think you're dead, or you don't, and no amount of days you're given will change that.
Awww, see, being a Good Samaritan sucks. You help people who don't want helping, get no thanks and may as well never have bothered! Poor guy.
I did wonder how this soul-in-another-body thing was going to work out between these two actresses. If when Ji-Hyun was in Yi-Kyung's body we were going to see her as she sees herself - Ji-Hyun. But it's not like that. While Ji-Hyun is in Yi-Kyung's body we see Yi-Kyung's actress behaving as Ji-Hyun the entire time. Only when they separate again do we see Ji-Hyun as herself.
...Is Ji-Hyun's dad pushing Min-Ho to go back to work because of the business troubles we suspect that caused him to push the wedding forward so much? Is he balancing not only having a daughter who will basically never wake up (as far as they all know) but isn't dead, but a business teetering on the edge of something bad?
Oooh I thought she was going to forget herself there, but she didn't. Eeek, Kang assumes Min-Ho would only leave the hospital if something terrible had happened. Which speaks to how well he knows his hyung.
KANG WILL BE FIRST TO FIGURE IT OUT, placing my bets NOW! All this wondering why Yi-Kyung (Ji-Hyun) is focused so intently on Min-Ho.
Oh God, "it will all tun out well," meaning to be so reassuring because she knows she's planning to get those tears and come back to life, but to Kang who knows Min-Ho is upset because his fiancee is comatose and will never wake up, to have a stranger say "it'll all be okay in the end" just seems like a mistakenly horrible thing to say.
Did she just try to get into the car? XD Kang is like "who the eff are you anyway?!"
...And why do guys always fall for these silly princess types anyway? I mean, what has she actually got that appeals to Kang? I'm just wondering at this point, I'll probably see it through the course of the drama.
Ji-Hyun bypassed Kang completely. Mimicking Reaper-Boy and Yi-Kyung? Is this how we're to learn who will be paired up? ;) Perhaps those who haven't had their time to reconcile yet, since they've all (probably) been involved and known one another on some level before this all happened.
(I could do with more Reaper-Boy right now :x)
Min-Ho has made a quick turn-around from the bedside vigil. He was told to go to work and here he is at a hotel!
I'm surprised Ji-Hyun keeps remembering she is in another body and stops herself messing up!
I don't think we had enough time to see Ji-Hyun's actress play her part so that we could contrast whether the character seems herself in the host body, but I do think Yi-Kyung's actress is working the facial expressions well at least.
Hmm, she didn't see anything pass between them, but why else would a man and woman meet in a hotel room?
Ah! Before the accident happened she saw them - Min-Ho and In-Jung - together getting cosy in his car! Now we know everything. It's also partly their fault she was in the accident.
PREVIEW SAYS HOT REAPER IS GOING TO GET TOLD OFF, AND ALSO WATCH OVER JI-HYUN A LITTLE BIT. WE SEE YOUR ICY HEART MELTING A TEENY TINY BIT, REAPER-BOY :P WE LOVE IT.
Potential end pairings speculated on by viewers already:
- Ji-Hyun/Reaper-Boy. (I don't actually see this happening, and don't want to. Mainly because it's clear from the start he isn't really a main character in the way the others are [especially not so prominent as Ji-Hyun to be her equivelent]. He's an outsider completely, and I don't want to think that a 'Scheduler' could so easily be swayed from their destiny [if that is in fact all he is and has ever been] - he already had his allotted life-time, and died at the scheduled time! Won't it mess everything up if that goes out the window and he just lives again somehow to be with Ji-Hyun? I prefer to think Ji-Hyun is just Reaper-Boy's stepping stone to caring about humanity again).
- Ji-Hyun/Kang. (Seems the most obvious to me, and therefore maybe that's why the drama won't go for it? But it makes sense the way they're setting up the drama - so far only Kang outside of Ji-Hyun's family seems capable of shedding those pure tears for her - possibly Seo-Woo too, but she's a much more minor character and we haven't seen much of her yet, so I'm not sure in the same way that I am about Kang. So, Kang and two others cry for her, Ji-Hyun is able to return, and realises Kang is the one who truly cares for her and they get together? Predictable, yeah. Good to watch? I am banking on it!).
- Yi-Kyung/Kang. (This makes no SENSE to me. Obviously Kang has only come into contact with Yi-Kyung so far whilst her body is being inhabited by Ji-Hyun, but if we're talking about pure tears/love here then it isn't Yi-Kyung he would fall for, it's Ji-Hyun in her body. So if Ji-Hyun was to fail to get her three tears she would leave Yi-Kyung's body and Kang would soon realise her personality had totally flipped. Also Yi-Kyung doesn't know Kang, and there would be a hell of a lot unexplained there between the two of them. Once that was settled they may be able to become friends or more as their actual selves, but Ji-Hyun would be long dead by then. I think that kind of misses the entire point of the drama).
- Yi-Kyung/Reaper-Boy. (I know, I know, we barely know the characters yet and yet I want this to happen somehow! Yi-Kyung clearly loved her dead lover/boyfriend/partner/husband/WHATEVER, practically to the point of obsession because she's ceased to function properly without him. And if Reaper-Boy is in fact that guy his memory has been completely wiped in order for him to take on the job as a Scheduler. [In an aside - I wonder why him? Can we speculate that the greater power that's been hinted at wanted to give him the human interaction to see if it sparked any longing in him? Perhaps he died at a time he shouldn't have, took the offer to leave without a fuss, but because Yi-Kyung is suffering without him the greater power is trying to undo his decision? I know it's probably ridiculously complex of me to assume but hehehe I'm enjoying it]. So for them to get together somehow Reaper-Boy would need to recall his life before becoming a Scheduler. I have no idea how that could feasibly happen [which is why the higher power controlling it all makes so much sense! 'It' could puppet it to happen!], and then you have the problem that HE'S DEAD. If he made the choice to take his unscheduled death, can he un-make it? Ooooh what if he was given the 49 Days deal too? Years later, could it even work now? Or could he just be sent staight back? But not into his own body, that's surely long gone, and how could he explain being undead all of a sudden? Ji-Hyun can wake from her coma after all! So, Reaper-Boy comes back into someone else's body? Potential here for one of our other male leads to get offed in order to be the host body for Reaper-Boy's returning soul? (I'm thinking Min-Ho of course, since Kang should end up with Ji-Hyun in my happy scenario). And how might Reaper-Boy's personality change if he gets human emotions back again? Who was he before he got his hardened non-human Scheduler edge? And what a tangled little square it would continue to make in the end, Kang and Ji-Hyun together, and Yi-Kyung and Reaper-Boy [in Min-Ho's body] together.)
FUNNY HOW I CAN JUSTIFY REAPER-BOY COMING BACK WHEN IT'S A PAIRING I *WANT* TO HAPPEN. Ah but it makes much more sense that way (MY way XD). And I always say you can justify pretty much anything. You just need a good imagination and reasons for why things happen the way they do!
...It's very early for me to commit to a preferred ending to this drama, isn't it? XD
- 49 Days, Episode 1: First question of the drama; are reapers angsty? Did he particularly like to play guitar before he died, or is this something they do on the job to kill time when they haven't got any deaths scheduled? ;)
...Who wears and actual wedding dress to the engagement ceremony? Or is that just a dress for it that isn't really supposed to seem like a wedding dress to the rest of us? ("It's all in your mind!")
On first impression we've got a nervous and silly bride-to-be and her no-nonsense best friend.
OH GOD THEY'RE PLAYING THE SONG 'SHE'. GAG.
Is this a cultural thing, putting the ring on at the ceremony? I suppose it isn't like an engagment party we would have which is just a celebration after the couple have become engaged privately. This seems totally formal.
As if one person walking in would disrupt everything.
Oh god, so basically: "if he went to the same school as Ji-Hyun then his qualifications can't be all that." Don't you just love the way parents are portrayed in Korean dramas? :x She appears to be a rich girl so supposedly her parents haven't expected anything of her anyway. Rich girls are just supposed to marry men who will maintain the family fortune themselves, right?
In-Jung suddenly doesn't seem just like she's harsh with Ji-Hyun to keep her from overreacting to issues; she's annoyed that Ji-Hyun and Min-Ho they didn't mention the marriage date sooner, but they didn't know it was going to be so soon either! XD She's being a little unreasonable?
PIGGYBACK. It just isn't a drama episode without a piggyback, no matter how fleeting it is or whether it's during a flashback.
How sucky to be sitting there so blissfully happy, oblivious to your best friend (In-Jung) who is clearly not happy with the situation, and your fiance's best friend (Han Kang) who is even less able to hide it. Some group of friends, hmm?
Okay that hold-up was suckily done. I think when Yi-Kyung sort of robotically served her customer earlier you got the sense of numbness and just going through the motions, but the hold-up was too rushed and I didn't believe in the threat at all. And how is it a smart idea to have them all sat at a police officer's desk together? THEY HELD HER UP WITH A KNIFE. Normal people would consider them, you know, DANGEROUS. Bad set-up all round. Although the officer callously telling her she should've given up the money to save herself is a nice way to point out to us how she just isn't interested in self-preservation. More subtle is better.
...These guys who are friends with no-one around to impress are competing at how fast they can run on the treadmill? Oh, men, you're so juvenile.
And Han Kang is looking for a mysterious womannnn. I'm thinking he already found her ;)
Ji-Hyun did something to Han Kang in the past? I wonder what it could be that she thinks he's angry over it still, and yet he's probably actually fallen in love with her and is struggling seeing her with his best friend who knows nothing of it other than they were schoolfriends.
In-Jung is being snippy again. I'd understand if Han Kang was the guy she liked and was trying to warn Ji-Hyun off by phrasing it as, "he doesn't like you so trying to be nice to him is only going to get you hurt and make you upset", but I'm pretty sure it's fiance Min-Ho she's angsty over so ideally wouldn't it have been an idea for her to push Ji-Hyun at Kang? Or maybe she thinks that's a total dead-end after all.
(I am so in this for pretty-boy reaper, HURRY UP OMG XD). I've spoilt myself for the first couple of episodes so I know I need to wait just a little bit yet...
Ji-Hyun's dress is pretty! I thought it was one of the bridesmaids dresses and she'd been trying them on (typical ditzy girl XD), but she left still wearing that one so it can't be.
[Actually it is one of the bridesmaids dresses; I didn't pick up on her asking the woman in the store if she could wear it out of there to show her friend! ...Couldn't she just have taken it to In-Jung in a bag?]
YAY PRETTY. Pretty. On a motorcycle. All in black. These things are hot.
I really shouldn't have read all those spoilery things. I vow not to from now on; knowing how all the characters appear to be related to one another so early on kind of sucks, and I'm probably too dense to have figured it out by myself XD Although that motocycle dashing past Yi-Kyung at high speed while she paces slowly (to her fate?) oblivious to it was nicely done. One of those things I know I would've missed completely.
Reapers keep a watch on supposed time of death of people by checking their phones XD Oh this technological age makes everything so easy!
Yi-Kyung lost someone to an accident right where she's stopped. She tries to commit suicide, and a man saves her. And instead a huge pile-up happens! Uhm, pretty-boy-Reaper was not expecting this at all. ("Oh crap, overtime!" XD)
OH SHIT. BYE-BYE JI-HYUN? AND REAPER'S DUDE ISN'T DEAD! Oh wait, heart-attack, he is. lol he just looked like, "that was a lucky escape!" So he has no control over how a person dies? And if they don't when they're supposed to... I wonder if there's a protocol? Won't find that out now anyway since the dude died anyway.
(I hope this drama involves a good amount of explaining how the Scheduler's existence works, since he'll have to go on with his job even though Ji-Hyun will be demanding things of him no doubt.
Uhm, I have to say I didn't really feel the flinging out of the car thing was over the top although I suppose it was, but it would've been better for her to get up out of her own body rather than her spirit was thrown from it because of the impact of the crash once she died... I mean, can her spirit really be subject to earthly force at the moment she dies? (I am overthinking I know!)
Reaper Boy sees her! But he's made his get-away.
(I would like to take this moment to point out how annoying it is when these full grown women CRY FOR DADDY when something happens omg).
The dude who saved Yi-Kyung is gone from the hospital now too. Can we talk about this theme of men walking out on women? ;)
OHOH, YI-KYUNG WAS THAT A MOMENT OF SYMPATHY FOR THE FACT THAT YOUR RASH DECISION PROBABLY KILLED ANOTHER PERSON INSTEAD OF YOU? It was fleeting, but if so, very well done. She slipped right back into numbness after realising she was still alive.
Reaper-Boy has changed clothes. How fashion conscious of him.
AH! ANOTHER SLOW-MOTION MOMENT HE WALKS RIGHT PAST YI-KYUNG. Obviously he can see her although she can't see him, but he seems unconcerned so he has no idea who she is? The theory is that he's possibly the man Yi-Kyung lost in that traffic accident, but becoming a Reaper may have wiped his memory of living? Ooooh I wish I hadn't read the theory because it would've probably hit me like a brick when it happened, but yay for the potential of Reaper-Boy questioning his life before he became a Reaper, and maybe developing feelings for this woman all over again? EXCEPT HE'S DEAD. So maybe he will want to help her find love again, and some peace, since I doubt if he loved her he wants her to go on being suicidal. AHEM.
I LOVE HIS ANNOYED FACE. Ah, heart-attack man didn't die right away, he JUST died in hospital. So either Reaper-Boy followed him there because he knew he needed to meet the guy's spirit when he finally died, or he went to be sure the man was going to die (and potentially do something about it if he didn't?). I didn't look closely at the time on the Reaper's clock but I'm guessing it was scheduled for the moment the dude had the heart attack, not just now. So the clock signifies the moment a person experiences the thing that will kill them, and not the actual moment of death? Or I'm reading too much into this for sure. (But I'm right, the clock said five minutes and that had to pass while Hot Reaper-Boy waited beside the traffic for the dude, not between the pile-up and getting the victims to the hospital, NO WAY).
DEATH IS AN ELEVATOR. That's kind of space-agey XD LOL, YOU HIDE JI-HYUN, DON'T TEMPT HIM TO PUT YOU IN THERE TOO.
Oh God he's so impatient with her - I'd say I assume with humans in general except that he was very respectful to the man he was sent to uhm, reap. (Is reap the verb for a reaper in this instance? XD)
LOL I LOVE HIS FACE.
Ahhhhhh, because of the accident the heart attack was actually less effective - perhaps because the pile-up forced the man to stop, and otherwise he would've been driving at the time (and probably crashed himself?) So Reaper-Boy's SCHEDULE got messed up! (How much joy do I get out of calling him Reaper Boy knowing he doesn't like it? XD)
Also, interesting that his schedule for today was just that one man. Considering how many people must die in the world every second there must be a scheduler for each of them if they're doing such slack work! He had all day! (Or you know, had to reschedule with some others because he had to go deal with this heart-attack dude's problem of not dying at the right time ;) )
I think he pulls these faces because he seriously doesn't know how to deal with humans. Every time she opens her mouth his face is like, "there are words coming out and they're words I understand individually but somehow I'm just not making sense of them together at all. Is this a human thing?"
Kang is angsting over being mean to Ji-Hyun and doesn't even know she was in the accident!
Can you blame her for being confused, Reaper boy? She's right! Somehow she's both death and alive :P Hmmm, I wonder if we can make the argument here that being in a coma, brain dead, is equal to this state because her spirit has left her body but the body lives on, yet not in any way that could even function again. In this universe.
SHE SHOULDN'T MEDDLE HERE? DOES THAT MEAN SHE COULD?
Awww, Reaper-Boy is harsh but he has a soft side! ;)
I have to admit sometimes things can feel a little overacted, but I don't know if it's particular to him since I'm sensing a kind of harsh dude stereotype here, like how after I'd watched Legend and thought Sujini was so unique and spunky that I tried to watch the beginning of Boys Over Flowers and saw the exact same character cut-out (the basic idea, although each actress, setting and plot will shape it their own way) and suddenly it wasn't so special anymore.
I like this tears thing, although I don't know that after the explanation that anyone could be crying pure tears. People are complex, those tears would hold a mixture of feelings in reality. Maybe this drama will have to prove it to me. If it does, we'll know it did its job well!
AH! AH! I see the moment Ji-Hyun asks how she and this woman could possibly be connected to one another (since Reaper-Boy insists all things in his line of work are connected and so is this stipulation of using Yi-Kyung's body) and he hesitates and doesn't actually tell her that Yi-Kyung caused the accident that killed her! He did gripe earlier that a 'troublemaker' ruined his schedule, but surely Ji-Hyun has been too shocked to relate that knowledge to herself, and would have no way of knowing why Yi-Kyung had been in the hospital even though they were in beds next to one another initially.
And the moment his face changes to relief that he has successfully deflected her question. Because if she knew, Ji-Hyun might want to take it out on this woman instinctively? "You're the reason I died!" It would definitely influence things.
And AND, is she able to use Yi-Kyung's body only because she took the deal and was specifically assigned her body to use, or could she actually use this ability all the time simply because she's a spirit, and so possess any person's sleeping body?
Oh she (Yi-Kyung) is so much prettier when she smiles.
- 49 Days, Episode 2: Oh no! The rough clothes, the knotty hair! Ji-Hyun, how terrible! You're dead but STILL! YOUR HOST BODY IS SO ROUGH AND UNPOLISHED ;)
Awww, Cinderella. I was about to say clearly she won't break the rule because the drama is CALLED 49 Days, so losing one or more of them would negate that... But really it's the contracted time she is offered in the first place, so I suppose it doesn't have to follow literally. And can writers really resist having her get home late accidentally one time near the end so that her time is cut by a day when time is becoming so sparing? ;) I'll lay my bet down NOW that they can't resist!
LOL, CALL IN UPSTAIRS AND ASK, REAPER BOY. She's such a rich girl! "We can solve this problem, just make a call!" (Throw money at it! At least she hasn't thought of trying to bribe death yet!)
HEHEHEHE, he told her off for breaking the rule and telling him who she was, and then he totally points out that he knows who she is anyway so of course it doesn't count, after leaving it hanging long enough to make her panic and perhaps get a bit serious about this entire situation sometime NOW? ;)
LOL, he lent her money, and he expects it back! FOR WHAT, Reaper-Boy? ;)
Oh dude, what a liar! If Schedulers didn't interfere with human matters then you wouldn't have this whole 49 Days deal, you'd just take the wronged dead soul off to the afterlife anyway! It's pretty much agiven that beings with a job to do and no ties to human life don't need to care about things like 'wronged souls'! So therefore there's totally a sense of right and wrong and justice up in Scheduler-land, we know you're a softie deep inside really, Reaper-Boy :P
Interesting dynamic change here, In-Jung has fallen to pieces because of Ji-Hyun being brain-dead, and Seo-Woo is having to treat her roughly this time instead, to try and snap her out of it for Ji-Hyun's sake. "We should protect her when she's like this". Seo-Woo does have to swallow back tears herself, which suggests not that she's unfeeling, but that maybe In-Jung's tears aren't simply grief, but loaded with other emotions on top of that?
Annnd of course Kang has a keepsake of some kind, jewellery it looks like, that reminds him of Ji-Hyun no doubt!
LOL this whole set-up is ridiculous. Kang is the tallest and beefiest of the lot of this group of boys and he's supposed to be getting bullied? He's a rich transfer student and Ji-Hyun saves the weak from bullies and considers herself a country bumpkin? (Even if her family hadn't made their fortune yet, or did so in the outskirts of Korea and not in the capital, I still don't think she could go from this to the rich princess she has been presented to us as so far in the drama, since high school!) I'll just pretend to suspend my disbelief. Ooooh she's proficient in martial arts! (Okay I'm not suspending my disbelief at all. Or my sarcasm). Although obviously the way she's presents herself to him in their first meeting may not be accurate - how she sees herself, a 'fighter for justice' - one of the boys did say his own father would kill him if he tangled with her (because of who her father is?). So she thinks it's her reputation when it's her fathers that protects the people she helps.
I wonder if Ji-Hyun's 'appetite' is technically sustaining Ji-Hyun's spirit, because otherwise Yi-Kyung is going to be eating twice as often as she needs to, her body being active all 24 hours of the day and never really sleeping, only the soul is XD
By the by, it makes no sense at all that a rich boy like we've just been told Kang is in the flashback, went to college to become an architect and yet miraculously owns a restaurant instead. Surely he wouldn't even really need to work? Or should be in the family business? Or persuing a job that fits his actual qualifications? It's not like he isn't sitting there sketching a building out! He hasn't lost interest in it and decided to be a restauranteur instead! And really, if he's from a rich family they'd have connections. I doubt it's that he's had trouble finding a job as an architect.
Heh, he's swayed by that little nervous habit of hers because it 'reminds' him of Ji-Hyun ;) The rules Reaper-Boy set down never said anything about what happens if someone works out who she is without her telling them.
LOL, you don't need to sleep!
AHAHAHAHA, "Schedulers on their own free time: ROCKING OUT, DUDE." He definitely likes his music, this Reaper-Boy!
Seriously, I love his faces :x He goes from physically tortured by the call until he picks it up to concerned when he realises it's the emergency call, to exasperated when he realises it's Ji-Hyun's voice. I just rewatched it like three times :x
ALSO HE GOT CHANGED. Or like, appeared naturally in smarter clothes because he has to appear professional rather than his clubbing
Awww, his PERSONAL TIME. Dude! You 'don't get involved in human affairs', so shouldn't you be off in YOUR world doing whatever it is you're supposed to do on your personal time? ;) Not playing around near/with humans? (I'm guessing no-one at the club he was at could actually see him, after all).
"Is it so hard to understand?"
"No, not now you've explained it."
EXACTLY! Good girl! She's ditzy, rich and clearly going to annoy me, but she may yet have some redeeming qualities! I mean, it is already great how she has no fear of Reaper-Boy; clearly she thinks this three tears thing will be easy (if it were that easy surely it wouldn't take up to 49 days?). Although I don't really see how the 49 days are needed either way - you either have three people willing to cry pure tears for you, and will when they think you're dead, or you don't, and no amount of days you're given will change that.
Awww, see, being a Good Samaritan sucks. You help people who don't want helping, get no thanks and may as well never have bothered! Poor guy.
I did wonder how this soul-in-another-body thing was going to work out between these two actresses. If when Ji-Hyun was in Yi-Kyung's body we were going to see her as she sees herself - Ji-Hyun. But it's not like that. While Ji-Hyun is in Yi-Kyung's body we see Yi-Kyung's actress behaving as Ji-Hyun the entire time. Only when they separate again do we see Ji-Hyun as herself.
...Is Ji-Hyun's dad pushing Min-Ho to go back to work because of the business troubles we suspect that caused him to push the wedding forward so much? Is he balancing not only having a daughter who will basically never wake up (as far as they all know) but isn't dead, but a business teetering on the edge of something bad?
Oooh I thought she was going to forget herself there, but she didn't. Eeek, Kang assumes Min-Ho would only leave the hospital if something terrible had happened. Which speaks to how well he knows his hyung.
KANG WILL BE FIRST TO FIGURE IT OUT, placing my bets NOW! All this wondering why Yi-Kyung (Ji-Hyun) is focused so intently on Min-Ho.
Oh God, "it will all tun out well," meaning to be so reassuring because she knows she's planning to get those tears and come back to life, but to Kang who knows Min-Ho is upset because his fiancee is comatose and will never wake up, to have a stranger say "it'll all be okay in the end" just seems like a mistakenly horrible thing to say.
Did she just try to get into the car? XD Kang is like "who the eff are you anyway?!"
...And why do guys always fall for these silly princess types anyway? I mean, what has she actually got that appeals to Kang? I'm just wondering at this point, I'll probably see it through the course of the drama.
Ji-Hyun bypassed Kang completely. Mimicking Reaper-Boy and Yi-Kyung? Is this how we're to learn who will be paired up? ;) Perhaps those who haven't had their time to reconcile yet, since they've all (probably) been involved and known one another on some level before this all happened.
(I could do with more Reaper-Boy right now :x)
Min-Ho has made a quick turn-around from the bedside vigil. He was told to go to work and here he is at a hotel!
I'm surprised Ji-Hyun keeps remembering she is in another body and stops herself messing up!
I don't think we had enough time to see Ji-Hyun's actress play her part so that we could contrast whether the character seems herself in the host body, but I do think Yi-Kyung's actress is working the facial expressions well at least.
Hmm, she didn't see anything pass between them, but why else would a man and woman meet in a hotel room?
Ah! Before the accident happened she saw them - Min-Ho and In-Jung - together getting cosy in his car! Now we know everything. It's also partly their fault she was in the accident.
PREVIEW SAYS HOT REAPER IS GOING TO GET TOLD OFF, AND ALSO WATCH OVER JI-HYUN A LITTLE BIT. WE SEE YOUR ICY HEART MELTING A TEENY TINY BIT, REAPER-BOY :P WE LOVE IT.
Potential end pairings speculated on by viewers already:
- Ji-Hyun/Reaper-Boy. (I don't actually see this happening, and don't want to. Mainly because it's clear from the start he isn't really a main character in the way the others are [especially not so prominent as Ji-Hyun to be her equivelent]. He's an outsider completely, and I don't want to think that a 'Scheduler' could so easily be swayed from their destiny [if that is in fact all he is and has ever been] - he already had his allotted life-time, and died at the scheduled time! Won't it mess everything up if that goes out the window and he just lives again somehow to be with Ji-Hyun? I prefer to think Ji-Hyun is just Reaper-Boy's stepping stone to caring about humanity again).
- Ji-Hyun/Kang. (Seems the most obvious to me, and therefore maybe that's why the drama won't go for it? But it makes sense the way they're setting up the drama - so far only Kang outside of Ji-Hyun's family seems capable of shedding those pure tears for her - possibly Seo-Woo too, but she's a much more minor character and we haven't seen much of her yet, so I'm not sure in the same way that I am about Kang. So, Kang and two others cry for her, Ji-Hyun is able to return, and realises Kang is the one who truly cares for her and they get together? Predictable, yeah. Good to watch? I am banking on it!).
- Yi-Kyung/Kang. (This makes no SENSE to me. Obviously Kang has only come into contact with Yi-Kyung so far whilst her body is being inhabited by Ji-Hyun, but if we're talking about pure tears/love here then it isn't Yi-Kyung he would fall for, it's Ji-Hyun in her body. So if Ji-Hyun was to fail to get her three tears she would leave Yi-Kyung's body and Kang would soon realise her personality had totally flipped. Also Yi-Kyung doesn't know Kang, and there would be a hell of a lot unexplained there between the two of them. Once that was settled they may be able to become friends or more as their actual selves, but Ji-Hyun would be long dead by then. I think that kind of misses the entire point of the drama).
- Yi-Kyung/Reaper-Boy. (I know, I know, we barely know the characters yet and yet I want this to happen somehow! Yi-Kyung clearly loved her dead lover/boyfriend/partner/husband/WHATEVER, practically to the point of obsession because she's ceased to function properly without him. And if Reaper-Boy is in fact that guy his memory has been completely wiped in order for him to take on the job as a Scheduler. [In an aside - I wonder why him? Can we speculate that the greater power that's been hinted at wanted to give him the human interaction to see if it sparked any longing in him? Perhaps he died at a time he shouldn't have, took the offer to leave without a fuss, but because Yi-Kyung is suffering without him the greater power is trying to undo his decision? I know it's probably ridiculously complex of me to assume but hehehe I'm enjoying it]. So for them to get together somehow Reaper-Boy would need to recall his life before becoming a Scheduler. I have no idea how that could feasibly happen [which is why the higher power controlling it all makes so much sense! 'It' could puppet it to happen!], and then you have the problem that HE'S DEAD. If he made the choice to take his unscheduled death, can he un-make it? Ooooh what if he was given the 49 Days deal too? Years later, could it even work now? Or could he just be sent staight back? But not into his own body, that's surely long gone, and how could he explain being undead all of a sudden? Ji-Hyun can wake from her coma after all! So, Reaper-Boy comes back into someone else's body? Potential here for one of our other male leads to get offed in order to be the host body for Reaper-Boy's returning soul? (I'm thinking Min-Ho of course, since Kang should end up with Ji-Hyun in my happy scenario). And how might Reaper-Boy's personality change if he gets human emotions back again? Who was he before he got his hardened non-human Scheduler edge? And what a tangled little square it would continue to make in the end, Kang and Ji-Hyun together, and Yi-Kyung and Reaper-Boy [in Min-Ho's body] together.)
FUNNY HOW I CAN JUSTIFY REAPER-BOY COMING BACK WHEN IT'S A PAIRING I *WANT* TO HAPPEN. Ah but it makes much more sense that way (MY way XD). And I always say you can justify pretty much anything. You just need a good imagination and reasons for why things happen the way they do!
...It's very early for me to commit to a preferred ending to this drama, isn't it? XD