We finally have a romcom that fits Jang Dong Yoon to a T.
I like it when Nokdu bragged how handsome he looked, all the while expecting to be rebuffed with a snide comeback. He said, “Why? Am I kind of good-looking? It’s no joke, right?…(crickets)…What? I thought you’d say something back to me.”
This is the kind of relationship — bantering and companionable, a “Come-and-grow-old-with-me” relationship — that I envisioned for his character and his leading lady in “A Poem a Day.” But that director of “A Poem a Day” screwed him over.
As I told @Sansukini, a returning old poster, that director made a big mistake in changing course 3/4th of the way (lol. It wasn’t even half-way). He didn’t go with JDY’s character because he was pressured to please stupid and undiscerning fangirls.
So, his end product? A half-baked show where the beginning and finale didn’t match. The romcom had no rhyme nor reason although the premise of the show centered on a poem per episode.
The director should have placed all his bets on this newbie actor. Instead, he went with that ahjussi actor Lee Joon Hyuk who a) had zero chemistry with the young actress Lee YooBi, and b) looked like he was dating his niece throughout the show. 🤮
“A Poem a Day” started off promising but it ended banal and hackneyed because of its ahjussi lead. It totally missed out on the sweet scenes and coming-of-age romance, like this one —
credit: dangermousie’s tumblr
lol. I’m posting this swing scene as a bookmark. I’ll explain the cinematography tonight. But I’m leaving you a poem for the day.
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
omg, this poem.
I used to know it by heart in high school. It was a school assignment for English.
hahaha.
Maybe you like to explain it to us then? I’m not a lit major and I probably only understood 10% or two lines of it.
A Poem a Day was so disapointing! I love Lee Joon Hyuk but his character was so perfect, it made him bland. When JDY’s character was evolving and becoming better until the writter destroyed all of this >_<
Lee Joon Hyuk’s character is a dud.
What do you mean perfect? hahaha. Didn’t you watch the show? Have you forgotten? He upset his colleagues for not being a teamplayer. He had a horrible temper and had an inflated sense of superiority. He refused to compromise and expected people to bow to him. He was “Mr Right.” I pity his poor wife and child if they didn’t measure up to his expectation. He’d chew them out for not being worthy of him.
He was bland because he was NOT intended to be the main lead of the show. He wasn’t the end game.
But the director went along with the stupid fangirls and he revised the ending with two more weeks to go till the finale. Hence, that cheap motorcycle scene in Episode 11/12…to take out the real hero of the romcom and replace it with the ahjussi.
lol. It’s the kdrama equivalent of a Tonya Harding knee-capping. FYI. Tonya Harding was a US figure skater whose skating rival was clubbed on the knee with a metal stick to eliminate her from the tournament. Tonya won. She denied any knowledge of the attack although her husband was involved. People never accepted her.
The motorcycle accident was the drama version. It was a crude way to take the lead out.
The director had to whitewash Lee Joon Hyuk’s character’s flaws in the last 4 episodes to give the happy ending that the fangirls wanted. The character suddenly had a “change of heart” and turned into Mr. Nice Guy because he fell in love with a young chit of a girl.
But his change of heart looked bogus because there was no build-up to him in the previous 10 episodes. He didn’t “evolve” because there was no trajectory or story arc to his character, from the beginning. He was only meant to be a foil to the JDY’s character.
The director had to settle with the “Oh! He’s a misunderstood guy!” and “He really has a heart of gold!” defense of a very weak character.
I think i slowly fall for nokdu at ep 3 🤩🤩
I hate that stupid writer ! The writer or director even admitted that JDY should be end with female lead 😫 it has potential to be good drama. i hold my self to write how much i dont like that “end game” lead acting lol
hahaha.
That’s why I’m rooting for this “Tale of Nokdu” to succeed. I want that director and writer of “A Poem a Day” to burn. hahaha.
Burn, baby, burn!
Just wanted to drop in and say this since I watch both Nokdu and Extraordinary You.
WHY ARE ALL THESE CUTEST FREAKING DRAMAS AIRING IN FALL THOUGHT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPRING DRAMAS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Just saying, Extraordinary You is seriously Extraordinary lol And of coz Nokdu is super funny too
I know, right? Don’t the kdrama gods coordinate the schedule?
The director went thru the Tsundere route. I really loved the premised of APAD until it was evident the PD is changing the lead. I’m rewatching A cheese in the trap right now and it just reminded me that APAD also happened with ACTT to the original manhwa writer’s and fans disappointment. The PD went with Seo Kang Joon although he wasn’t the ending otp but they completely disregarded the male lead towards the end.