I’m not going to dispute that there are serious flaws to the plot. However, I’m sticking with this kdrama because I can still make some sort of sense of the writer’s intent with the romance.
This isn’t meant to be a realistic story in the same way an Impressionist painting isn’t meant to depict people, landscape and still life in stasis. A painting by Renoir, Matisse or Monet focuses the viewers’ attention on something that is temporary, fleeting and ephemeral so the viewers can appreciate the beauty of an image before it disappears out of sight. Hence an impression.
Like an Impressionist painter, MaSung knows that his memory of GgiBbeum is temporary, fleeting and ephemeral. The mornings bring a new slate — or canvas — on which he can appreciate her unique beauty. But at midnight , sleep erases this memory.
But oddly enough, he doesn’t write down detailed reports of his interaction with GgiBbeum. He keeps a diary but he’s not impelled to write copious notes, to take a snapshot, keep a memento or record every minutiae of their encounter in order to preserve her in his memory for the following day. Instead, he’s content with keeping only his impressions of her, like “The Strange Person Who Causes a Fuss” or the drawing of a girl walking away.
But I think there’s a point there.
If you’d seen the movie “Fifty First Dates”, you’d remember that the guy had to make the girl fall in love with him every single day. In this romcom, however, MaSung is the one falling in love with GgiBbeum each and every day…on his own accord, without encouragement from her.
He doesn’t need a lot of reminders to feel the attraction to her. Unconsciously, he’s repeating his same response to her antics, her mishaps, her quirkiness.
His very first impressions of her have survived his amnesia.
Take for instance how he messes with her. From the start, her gullibility amused him.
In the first episode, he teased her about the gangsters chasing them.
GB: Have we been caught by any chance?
MS: I think there are even more guys around us now. What do we do?
After the amnesia, he’s still falling for her gullibility.
In Episode 2, he lured her to his house with his bulk order. He made her go through great lengths to deliver his garments.
In Episode 3, he began messing around with her hospital bill in order to arrange a meeting with her.
In Episode 4, he pretended to throw out her things so that she would come over running over to him.
Aside from her gullibility, their first and final goodbye in Hainan must have also made a lasting impression on him. Unconsciously he remembered this scene.
That’s why this scene of her leaving him again made such an impact on him.
So much so that he couldn’t forget it. He drew this picture of her.
In both times, he watched her leave him. Her departures impinged on his memory although he couldn’t remember them.
And that’s why unconscious/subconsciously, he makes HER RUN BACK TO HIM.😆 He messes around with her to come after him — for a change — because she left him before in a previous world, in previous times.
So there you go. My insight on this drama.
Although the plot of this kdrama is certainly the lamest of all the dramas on my current list, I’m not abandoning it just yet. I want to see where the writer is going with this romance.