I’ll make this quick since I fo realz do not have the time:
This was a decent enough show. I’m beyond glad, however, that it wasn’t as stilted or drop-dead boring as Kim Soo-Hyun’s Moon Embracing the Sun because he is one fine actor and it was sad to see him wasted in that show. Still, MLFAS wasn’t that impressive either.
I watched it on the heels of Strong Woman Do-bong Soon which will forever be unparalleled by any and all so that explains a little why I wasn’t impressed by it a whole lot. But the larger reason is that while entertaining and sometimes funny, MLFAS was not stellar material. Pardon the pun.
I liked the leads. Kim Soo-hyun because he is precious. The lead actress was beautiful and was great as well. She had a comic role but was effortless in serious scenes as well. I was distracted by her lipstick throughout the show. I couldn’t help it. It was so glossy and pink I wanted to wipe it off.
Despite Do Ming-joon being an alien, there was little about his home planet except for a remark here and there. There were some scenes with spaceships and his fellow aliens but the ‘science’ part was non-existent. No Doctor Who this show. It was a romance story as, I’m now beginning to realize, all k-dramas are at their core. And don’t even get me started on the shoddy ending. Wormhole? WHAT? I honestly believed that he would take Cheon Song-yi to his home planet with him.
It was a romantic science-fiction (shady) fantasy and was also a bit of a period piece. I loved the small glimpses into the past. I wish the actress who played the teenage version of Cheon Song-yi was a wee bit older because she looked really young with Kim Soo-hyun who must have been 25 or 26 at the time. Still, I liked those scenes.
I WISH they would stop with the loving-all-past-selves-of-the-same-person thing. It’s in literally every kdrama. To prove that the hero and heroine share an eternal, unbreakable bond, they tell us how they or one of the two loved the other’s past self. BLEH. It is SO annoying. No other love interest can compete with that and it’s grossly unfair.
The supporting cast was a good one. There’s another thing that I hate, I’ve encountered it in more than one drama. It’s that at first, the drama builds up this impressive net of characters where every single one of them is layered, complex, has a unique personality and his/her own struggles. Like Se-mi and Hee-kyung in MLFAS. And when you begin to care about those people, the story takes the leads into such an intense focus that the supporting characters, while not really forgotten, are thoroughly ignored. You don’t matter, is what the plot seems to be saying and I hate that.
Se-mi and Hee-kyung ‘moved on’ but they really did not. They stayed exactly where they were when the show started and underwent no development. Happily ever afters are overrated and unrealistic, I admit that but wasn’t the wormhole-induced angst enough with one couple.
Special shout out to the adorable guy who played Do Min-joon’s lawyer friend and the lady gawking at all the pretty men in the show who was legit me.
This KDrama Review is by Sara
