Bubblegum: Episode 15
by Saya
Love makes fools of us all, but happiness makes us dorks. We’re close to the end of the road with our Bubblegum family, but there are still obstacles to overcome and ghosts to put to rest, because only then can they move into their happier tomorrows. I’m optimistic that our suffering, too, is at an end, so from now on…blue skies?
EPISODE 15: “A spell for happiness—thank you”
Suk-joon wakes up Manager Jo, asleep on his couch. He notices that Suk-joon’s pretty much emptied the place out, and filches a pair of boxers. When he fishes an alice-band out from the side of the bed, Suk-joon looks regretful. He remembers a morning of Haeng-ah looking for it, but abandoning it because of his impatience. He tells Jo to just leave it.
Haeng-ah and Ri-hwan decide on guests to invite to an event. She wants to send invitations but Ri-hwan says a group-text will do. Turning to her, he says Mom might forget it right away, like their trip. Haeng-ah smiles and promises not to be disappointed. She reminds him that they decided to live happily a day at a time — if Mom can’t remember one good day, they’ll make another. He likes that.
When she gets up to go — apparently they are shoe-shopping — he nearly cries to find out that they’re going around again. I hear you, brother! Straight-faced, she tells him they may even come back tomorrow — or he can spend the wish he earned by singing for her now, she suggests, rather wickedly. He declines to waste it so trivially.
She pesters him to decide on his wish — is it to dance in public? Ri-hwan is scandalized — that would be for his eyes only! She offers world peace (lol), but he asks for a kiss in public instead. They argue like kids and Haeng-ah tells him hands off. Impish, Ri-hwan says he can kiss without hands — he can do aaaall the things she’s thinking without hands. She walks off laughing.
The team record their radio show, and Se-young advises a listener, who’s upset that she missed a date with a guy she liked, to just admit it was an accident and tell him she likes him. She shakes her head at people breaking up in playgrounds, and Haeng-ah shifts guiltily.
Off-air, Se-young complains about her tiresome popularity (lol). She snags an invitation card on Tae-hee’s desk, and convinced it was meant for her, invites herself along to Haeng-ah and Ri-hwan’s shindig. I honestly don’t know if I find this infuriating or funny, ha.
She explains the addition to Ri-hwan that night, but he pouts when she has to leave. He wishes she could stay on the empty third floor, but they both agree it has sad associations. He opens his arms to hug her, but she warns him not to touch. But…why? He scowls and sulks at her to just go. She worries about people seeing, but he doesn’t care, and she covers his mouth when he talks kisses. He asks her to stay longer, and swears Ji-hoon’s home (to play chaperon).
She’s not too put out to find that it’s a fib. Crashing on the couch, she asks about a scar on his shoulder. He explains that it’s from an accident with Woo-bin years ago. She wonders how she never knew about it, and he says he couldn’t show her an injury like that. They tease each other about what else she saw, and it quickly turns to canoodling.
Ji-hoon arrives and Haeng-ah flings Ri-hwan off. Ji-hoon offers to come back tomorrow, met by simultaneous and opposite reactions from the couple (Ri-hwan: “Thanks, hyung!”). He casually heads up but circles back to tell them he’ll be at their party.
Embarrassed, Haeng-ah flees the scene, Ri-hwan following. In voiceover, he says that not much had changed, except that they made more of an effort.
In a bridal shop, Haeng-ah smiles with tears in her eyes as the attendant pulls back the curtain, revealing Ri-hwan’s mom, beatific in a white dress. Aunt Princess rushes in late, and is overwhelmed by the sight. Mom gets confused a moment when Aunt says it’s better than the last one, and Aunt quickly brings it back to the present. She’s so pretty, she tells her. It’s for her birthday party, Haeng-ah tells Mom.
Ri-hwan’s narration adds that everyone tried to spend special time with Mom, while every day they looked for ways to be happy. Haeng-ah reproaches Aunt for crying, but she’s crying,too. They agree on one minute, and turn away from each other. Wiping their eyes, they turn back and bolster each other with smiles.
“We worked harder, not to become more happy, but to feel the happiness we already had,” Ri-hwan finishes.
Dong-hwa welcomes the guests at Secret Garden. She gives Haeng-ah a name tag and takes a joint-selfie because product placement is a necessary evil. Se-young and Joon-soo get a much frostier reception, lol, although everything rolls off Se-young (I wonder how I can be like that…). Ji-hoon and Tae-hee complete the party.
In the light-festooned garden, the party wait for Mom, who’s running late. Aunt gets a little overwhelmed by Joon-soo’s cute, which makes Uncle Gangster sad. The party break into cheers and applause when Mom finally arrives on Ri-hwan’s arm. They sing happy birthday and she blows out the candles on her cake. Ji-hoon breaks open a champagne and they toast, the atmosphere festive and happy.
Everyone gives Mom presents. They’re thoughtful and sweet, Dong-hwa’s a whole box of pencils so she never has to worry about losing them again. Ri-hwan kneels at her feet with a new pair of heels, and tells her that he and Haeng-ah got them together. He puts them onto her feet.
Looking up at Mom, he says that wearing these, the three of them should go to lots of nice places. Mom says it back, in childlike happiness. He hugs her, and I’m as choked up as everyone else.
Mom asks for Haeng-ah, and she comes and hugs Mom, eyes glinting with tears. They step back, and Mom delights over the pretty shoes. Eventually, Aunt takes her in and Uncle serves up cake. Se-young sighs to Joon-soo that she envies Mom — because she’s so slim, even though she’s older. Lol.
He finds out her mom is still in Seoul, and thinks they should talk. Se-young doesn’t think there’s anything to say — he’s young, she’s old, and you can’t change that. Joon-soo, sweet and serious, says they’ll figure it out together.
Behind them, Aunt is starry-eyed at his devotion, to Uncle’s chagrin. Noticing, she mutters about getting swept off her feet because he called her “Princess.”
Looking at the picture wall, Haeng-ah asks Mom if there’s anywhere she wants to go. She reminds her of their happy seaside trip. “I don’t remember,” says Mom. That’s okay, Haeng-ah says, and points out the picture with the four of them in it.
Mom asks if Aunt went, and Haeng-ah tells her Dong-hwa went instead. She tells the story of how Dong-hwa came to be Aunt’s daughter: When she was a kid, she lied about her age to get a job there, so she could eat pasta. When Uncle found out and demanded she bring her parents, she sobbed that she didn’t have any. Aunt took her in, and she eventually became their daughter.
Tae-hee finds Ji-hoon outside and tells him that something seems wrong with Ri-hwan. Ji-hoon says he won’t bother him if he wants to be alone, and after an awkward moment, turns heel. Tae-hee looks after him, remembering her harsh indictments and his confused confession about how much he likes her.
She’s surprised that he returns with hot drinks. She tries to apologize for the day before, but he just tells her not to worry about it. “I’m sorry. Thank you,” she says. With an acknowledging smile, he leaves. Is this the first time I’ve seen her smile? It’s uncertain, but real.
Haeng-ah finds Ri-hwan sitting in the dark, and smiling to see her, he invites her to sit beside him. She wonders if something’s wrong, and he tells her that they were late today because Mom got locked in the bathroom — she couldn’t remember how to unlock it. It scared her, and he wonders what the bathroom door is like here, if she could stay at Secret Garden all day instead.
Haeng-ah notes that Mom seemed fine when she arrived. “Because she already forgot,” says Ri-hwan. She takes his hand. Dong-hwa is disgusted to find them so stuck to each other like wads of gum, and tells them to come down for group photos.
Haeng-ah holds Ri-hwan back a moment, and gives him a kiss on the lips. She tells him to be strong, and Dong-hwa yells up that they’d better not be kissing. They laugh quietly.
After they take the group photos, Ri-hwan waits with Haeng-ah for her bus. When it comes, he holds on to her, and pouting, tells her to get the next one. She sits back down, bobbing happily. She says the party was pretty nice –seeing the people they always see, eating the food they always eat.
They laugh about Ji-hoon’s singing, and she ends up not taking the second bus, either. She wonders if she’s ever going to get home. Coming over bashful, he points out that he’s got a bed.
They continue to joke and tease, but she really has to get the third bus because it’s the last. He waves at her, and as it departs, she runs to the back, waving at him with both hands. Ri-hwan is totally giddy. Gah it’s about time you were this happy.
Dong-hwa happily surveys the picture wall, now full of her photos, too. Aunt Princess joins her, and lovingly asks if she feels like a real daughter now. Trying to contain her smile, she asks when she ever wasn’t. She wonders why Ri-hwan’s mom isn’t here yet, though. Aunt tells her to call herself — they’re partners, after all.
Yi-seul admits she’s a little curious what oppa Jung-woo said to Ri-hwan when he met him, and he jokes that he threatened him — with a mosquito-bite between the toes. Next summer. Haha. She laughs. They discuss her blind date (with Clazziquai’s Alex, hehe) and she says it was actually not so bad — their situations are quite similar, and if they keep seeing each other, it’ll keep their respective mothers off their backs.
They have a hearty laugh about the weirdness of another mom like theirs, when said mom whooshes in, crotchety as ever. Alex’s mom sought her out, and impressed Mom so much that she did all this shopping — for Yi-seul.
Between her snippy words and varied complaints, real affection for Yi-seul briefly emerges, and Mom tells her to start afresh, “And don’t suffer this time.” I can’t believe this is making me choke up a little. I’ve never liked her one bit!
At the clinic, Ri-hwan discovers Ji-hoon in the hammock,and it clashes unpleasantly with his lovey dovey memories of Haeng-ah. He forces Ji-hoon out with a hot drink, and then Ji-hoon blows a bubblegum-bubble and asks him to take it. Ri-hwan shudders at the horror, remembering his kiss.
He gets a text from the hospital telling him that his test results are out. He’s in no rush, though, and plans to go after work. Ji-hoon grows solemn, and makes him promise to tell him the result no matter what.
Manager Jo cleans all his personal belongings out of the staff dorm that’s been his home. His resignation letter lies on top of the fridge. With a sigh, he thanks the place for taking him in when he had nowhere to go. Inside, Tae-hee’s kimchi is the only thing he leaves.
A cake is delivered to the studio team, although they can’t figure out who it’s for, when it’s nobody’s birthday. Naturally, Se-young thinks it’s for her, and curses her fearful popularity. Haeng-ah puts her phone away after reading a message, and asks to take just one slice.
Tae-hee follows Haeng-ah into the studio, and Haeng-ah asks if she’s okay since Manager Jo is leaving. Between trying to forget someone you see all the time and someone you can’t see, Tae-hee says it’s the same.
Haeng-ah wants to know how she can help, and Tae-hee tells her to be on standby for sudden calls, when she predicts needing to take out her feelings. She notices Haeng-ah wearing Mom’s bracelet. It was lost but now she’s found it again, Haeng-ah tells her happily.
The message she received earlier reveals Suk-joon as the sender of the cake. He thinks he’ll be busy next year, so he sent her cake early, with birthday wishes. She eats it slowly. A flashback shows that Suk-joon returned the bracelet to her (aside: I really like the way she wears her rings) in an earlier meeting.
Sitting either side of a statue, they talk about the mistakes they made towards each other during their relationship. Haeng-ah admits that it was her fault for saying she was fine all the time and then breaking up with him.
Suk-joon takes his own share of the blame for not understanding what she really meant — that when she said she was fine, it meant she wanted to be fine. She thanks him — for the bracelet, and everything else. “I’m happy,” she tells him.
At the hospital, Ri-hwan opens the envelope with his test results. Back at the clinic, Ji-hoon waits worriedly for word, until Ri-hwan finally calls.
Manager Jo is startled by a knock at his door, but is relieved that it’s only Haeng-ah. She came to say her farewells, and asks if he’d fill in for her on tomorrow’s live show as a favor. He worries something happened at home. She shakes her head and tells him that she grew up listening to his shows, and she’s sad she won’t hear them again.
She gets more sad, thinking she won’t see him anymore, but he reveals that Suk-joon moved out and he’s moving in — so they’ll see each other around all the time. That cheers her up, and he promises to come do part of the show. When she leaves, he sighs how grateful he is.
Tae-hee is busy working when a text arrives from Ji-hoon. He’s at the police station again, and asks her to come. She runs out immediately.
Ji-hoon waits at the gates of the police station, not in any evident trouble — oh, is this a test? That’s never a good idea. Her car peels around the corner so fast that he can’t quite catch her before she’s already rushed inside. She rushes back out and sees him.
Worried sick, she asks what’s wrong, and it sounds a little lame when he says he called her just because. He admits he wanted to find out something, and she facepalms. He figured she’d be annoyed. Wrong, Tae-hee says. Looking consideringly at him, she says she’s going for a drink. What about him?
Ri-hwan waits to pick Haeng-ah up from work. She runs to him as soon as she sees him, and they ask about each other’s days. Ri-hwan reveals that he went to the hospital and got his results. “I’m okay,” he tells her. Tears fill her eyes. They wrap each other up in a tight embrace, as snow begins to fall.
“Thank you,” Haeng-ah says, and Ri-hwan replies, “Thank you.”
The epilogue takes us back to Mom’s birthday party. She recognizes Haeng-ah’s bracelet. Haeng-ah tells her that it was a bracelet her father gave to her mother. Mom, in her childlike way, says she lost her bracelet and couldn’t find it. The one Haeng-ah’s wearing, she indicates. Haeng-ah takes it off and puts it on Mom. She beams, “It was here.”
A montage of the past traces the bracelet’s journey, from Mom’s wrist, to Ri-hwan giving it to Dad to give to Haeng-ah, and her childhood misunderstanding that made “a bracelet like Mom’s” into “Mom’s bracelet.” Then when Ri-hwan retrieved it from Suk-joon, but surrendered it back, and Suk-joon finally returned it to Haeng-ah. It’s the story of their relationship.
Things that are meant to meet, will meet somehow, Ri-hwan narrates. Even if they have to take a long and convoluted road, they’ll find their places again. Mom takes the bracelet from her wrist and places it back on Haeng-ah. She tells her not to lose it.
The party wraps up with karaoke, and just about everyone takes a turn at the mic. Ri-hwan reflects that all of them helped each other through their fears, hoping the next day would be happier.
Mom takes the stage last of all. She sings the simplest song of all, a happy birthday to herself. Ri-hwan lets out a whoop, and they all applause furiously, happy.
COMMENTS
And that’s a perfect place to end. With everything wrapped up just enough, I’m worried that the final episode will be overkill or filler. It won’t be bad, because they’re adorable, but I feel like…like I’ve eaten a full-sized meal, but I’m still inexplicably hungry. It didn’t fill me up. Bubblegum seems to have lost its momentum since it got Ri-hwan and Haeng-ah back together.
There’s a dissatisfaction gnawing at me with Bubblegum, maybe more so because the last few episodes have been like the first few — whimsical, reflective, and deeper. They brought a smile to my lips and tears to my eyes, but I resented the tears, because I didn’t feel the characters earned them. It was technically emotive, but felt mechanical and inorganic. When Bubblegum went astray in the middle, it damaged my faith in its story.
Now that it’s coming back on track, that middle is like an ugly black mark that I can’t ignore when I’m looking at my feelings about the show as a whole. In moments, it was enchanting, and went straight to the heart. For example, that scene in the park between Suk-joon and Haeng-ah was a lovely piece of symbolism. Just like the bracelet summed up the story of Ri-hwan and Haeng-ah, that depiction of them of them sitting either side of the statue, together but apart, told the whole story of Suk-joon and Haeng-ah. They always had a barrier between them, and they finally acknowledged it.
And I have to get this off my chest: What is that whole Maeng Woo-bin gag about, really? No, really? I’m beginning to think it’s some kind of in-joke, but it’s not funny. It’s funny in theory, the idea of this invisible character whom everyone talks about but nobody sees, but he served an absolute zero in narrative purpose. It’s got to be an in-joke. Gah. It’s been bugging me since day one! Does anyone have any answers?
One of Bubblegum’s greatest strengths lay in the diversity and richness of its characters, which sadly resulted in a lot of wasted potential. It shows the most in the secondary characters, as if they’re being put to bed now that they’ve served their purpose, without any real existence outside of their interactions with the leads. Yi-seul, at least, deserved better than that.
I think oppa Jung-woo’s character had the potential to be really interesting and quirky — a subversive chaebol to turn all the chaebol-tropes on their head — and it would have been vastly entertaining. IF. There’s such a big if — if it had been introduced early, and fleshed well. As it is, it’s a handful of loosely-connected vignettes and there’s not really even any purpose talking about him, because he was such a non-character. The development of their mom’s character also would have been fun and might even have evoked a little pity, it just came too late for it to matter.
The most interesting characters have been the satellite ones, Tae-hee being my personal favorite. Thankfully, she stays consistent throughout — vivid, strange and thorny on the outside, but a fragile heart within. The last few episodes also made me wish we had more Dong-hwa. We’re finally just getting to know her, and it’s already ending. You could have given us more of this from the beginning, show! And her developing relationship with Mom, her origin story with the Secret Garden family, they were all so compelling. She’s a spicy, fun character, full of untapped story.
Now that I’m at the end of my recapping road with Bubblegum, a lot of things have become clear to me about how they intended to tell this story and what they wanted it to be. I feel like a curmudgeon to say that there’s a noticeable distance between vision and execution that makes me sad for the show it could have been, because it really had a lot of special elements, and it was willing to play at the edges of convention. And as we all know, that’s where the magic happens.
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1 bjharm
December 18, 2015 at 3:09 AM
frankly I stopped watching around ep 6/7 I may give it a run through and finish it one day. There not much drama's on right now that have my full interest. I was going to start Ow My Venus but again never got around to it, maybe my focus is too much on Jang Nara's new drama lol being a fan has it down sides.
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Mary Ann
December 18, 2015 at 7:38 PM
I stopped a little after that. I was disappointed that the female dentist was going to be a throw away character. I liked her and wanted her to team up with the male lead. I never really liked the female lead and found the male lead's romancing of her as an adult childish. Their childhood relationship should have been left in their childhood. I do know some couples who have long term marriages who meet in kindergarten but by high school in the USA they were dating and got married shortly after high school graduations. The current k-drama infatuation with the childhood friends getting together after 13 years of other people I find kind of misguided, especially in a society that encourages marriage,
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2 Jin
December 18, 2015 at 3:34 AM
Yes, bjharm, please do so! :)
I was too sceptical to watch this (at first) but finally gave it a try after reading the recaps (probably the recap for ep. 6, if I'm not wrong).
Anyway, this drama brings new atmosphere. The casts are awesome! Esp the lead.
The emotions are real, complex, honest, flawed, and it's different. (I personally prefer watching Bubblegum way more than the predictable OMV).
So, give it a try asap! ;) you won't feel sorry.
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3 newbie
December 18, 2015 at 3:40 AM
This show started out so unique and special I thought I'd be willing to follow the melo path, but around the middle it became so different and unbearable, I ff-ed my way to the finale and was very disappointed by the last eps. They forgot to tell a story, it became a sequence of scenes with no real message.
I will remember this show as the one giving us charming Ri Hwan and Haeng Ah, the hottest kiss in recent Kdrama history, a cute noona doengsaeng love, questionable DNA testing to ensure one's happiness as if you couldn't be killed in a car accident every day, because life is the residual risk after procreation, and the worst possible reconciliation of an ill-fitting couple, celebrating their reunion with soju, with the guy clearly being an alcoholic trying to stay sober. Cheers!
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fanwho
December 18, 2015 at 4:13 AM
Agreed on show started out so special but the writer forgot to tell a story. Still I am glad I watched it because of Ri-hwan and Haeng-ah pair. They are so sweet together.
Thanks for the recap!
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Juhina
December 18, 2015 at 9:58 PM
yea i could only last until episode 6 or 7... i gave up after that. Was very disappointed.. this reminded me of Warm and Cozy.. I really wanted to continue and there wasn't anything WRONG with it.. but it was just oh so damn boring :(
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4 ahsaem
December 18, 2015 at 5:13 AM
The middle part was very depressing and I almost dropped the show but stayed for the otp. I looooved the show until 7. It gave us a very, very cute pretend-date and lovely childhood counterparts. I loved their friendship. Too bad I didn't want to watch a "rom-com" with Alzheimer's patients in it and where all our leads did was cry. ugh
The ost was really really good and there were moments where I loved the show so much. But what sticks at the end is, unfortunately, the bad stuff. Can't forget it. I almost recommended this to my friend .
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5 themarchioness
December 18, 2015 at 6:41 AM
The significance of the Woo-bin will finally be explained in the final episode. (It made for a nice chuckle moment.)
In the end, Bubblegum was a sweet drama and a lazy watch (I mean that in a good way). It reminded me in ways of Ex-Girlfriend's Club where the storytelling was engaging but there just wasn't much substance. I remember when that drama got cut, many of its fans were upset and distraught. I, on the other hand, was secretly relieved because I thought it'd make for a tighter story in the end. And I kind of feel like tvN should've done the same with Bubblegum. :P
I may get some flack for saying that, but the thing is there were just so many elements of this drama that went nowhere. For example, in the end, it turned out the whole Yi Seul storyline was rather inconsequential and could've been scrapped entirely. Not really sure what the purpose of the whole Sunbae role was other than to drive Ri-hwan crazy at the beginning. The drama had a lot of characters to play with, but in the end, it was only the handful that mattered.
I liked the drama a lot, but I'm not immune to its flaws.
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kimchikay
December 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM
I love Park Hee Bon (the actress who plays Yi Seul) - she's actually a really great comedy actress and it's interesting to see her in this role but I agree - her story line (esp. with the added chaebol mom and crazy brother) was completely pointless.
I wish they'd incorporated her background/anxieties etc into the existing storyline...she was an interesting character.
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6 jijiji
December 18, 2015 at 7:11 AM
Thanks for recap. Completely disagree with Saya that drama didn't explored it's potential. Maybe it was only yours expectations and your imagination how it should be? Then you should write scripts for the dramas.^^ That's not me critisizing you. It's an advice. It was so obvious from the very beggining that drama will have such development of the story. If just watch to enjoy without imagining how they should do or which characters to focus on, then you'll enjoy this drama...if you're able enjoy such unusual story telling. But if you not, then why critisize drama. Maybe it were only your expectations?
But I know of course that everybody has right on their oppinion.
Personally, I was expecting lesser and just watched it as a typical tvN's romcom, which are quite good, but nothing special. But because of this rather small expectation, I have found myself loving each moment, character, line, song in this show. And I believe that writer was going to tell exactly this story in this way. It's not what brings mass popularity and appreciation. But people like me who couldn't watched kdramas anymore turned into believing that there is light in the end of the tube and kdramaland is able to produce something which will be beyond the typical romcoms and melos they produce.
And try not forget, that everybody have different taste. If you doesn't like this cup of coffee, then maybe the problem is not in coffee itself, but in your personal taste and ability to enjoy, appreciate this particular type of coffee.
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7 princi_86
December 18, 2015 at 9:33 AM
Episode 15 was awesome, filled with Lee Dong Wook and Jung Ryeo Won chemistry. Together with writer and all team they have shown us what is reality and how people are facing difficulties in reality, and in this particular episode they're trying to get used to their new life and it is shown in the best close to reality way for Korean dramas. That's why this drama is something special for me.
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8 princi_86
December 18, 2015 at 9:57 AM
Just have read Comments part from recap and some comments here.
Uhm...and what was the story you are talking about, which was missed or went wrong way? Villains, long time lost child, doppelganger, car crash and amazing survival, new face after surgery, mom suddenly getting rid of Alzheimer or Rihwan apearing to be HA's father's son and she was addopted, strong love triangle to have second male lead syndrome?
The main goal of this drama was to show how friend become lovers and how people are healing. Am I missing something in goals which have been set up into the drama before premiere?
It's not spoilers, since we understand it all in ep15. I will try to skip those which will be covered in 16 and will add to my list.
- RH and HA have turned to lovers - check
- Mom was healed from her permanent depression - check
- JH has stopped to drink every night thus healed- check
- TH has found strenght to let Manager and found healing in giving second chance to JH - check
- YS...healed but let's talk how later to avoid spoilers
- SK healed not completely but he has realized a lot of things and moved forward and maybe he won't do same mistakes in future relationships
- Manager Jo - partly healed, will leave for ep 16
- Noona-dongsaeng couple - personally I think they haven't need healing but it's ep16
- Donghwa - even she was healed, since she has finally discovered that she's part of Secret Garden family.
Have I missed someone from secondary characters? YS mom and brother were 3rd characters without strong lines and Secret Garden couple were ok from the beggining.
It's life drama with indie spirit. What all of you wanted from the storyline? It's not complete cliche drama when you need to have 1-2 break-ups, adorable second male lead to have syndrome, back hug ride after getting drunk, shopping with your bf to become princess or turning from normal girl to meneater for revange or to get the boy, etc & etc. The only cliche moment for me was break-up for someone's sake, but even here I disagree that it's average noble idiocy since the situation is quite different then average break-up reasons.
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mylo
December 18, 2015 at 1:47 PM
i totally agree with you. we should let the story teller tell their story their own way, we should not impose our own idea of what it should be or what formula to follow.otherwise we would lack variations in dramaland
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9 maripaz
December 18, 2015 at 8:05 PM
I don't know. Did anyone else feel like bubblegum felt so magical and different in the beginning and that even though the tone, mood, writing, acting etc. seems the same as it's always been, it somehow is not as magical as it was at first?
I can't put my finger on it. I still love the characters, the "slow" but realistic way of storytelling, and parts of it still brought tears to my eyes in a good way, but the love is kind of diminished. Maybe a bit like a bubblegum that's slowly losing its flavor. : ( I really thought this would end up in my top 5, but I'm not so sure anymore. What happened?
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10 kimchikay
December 18, 2015 at 8:55 PM
I feel like this drama could have ended at 12 episodes...the last few episodes have been pretty redundant and I don't think much more screen time was needed, the plot was stretched needlessly.
That being said, I don't know how I kept up with this drama - I tend to drama these pretty early on, and I did FF through the last few however I still kept coming back to finish this and I did....must be the Lee Dong Wook fan in me lol
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11 teaellipsis
December 18, 2015 at 11:04 PM
It was certainly a happy episode which was nice to see especially since the show took a serious tone for a bit, but I do agree about the bubblegum losing a bit of chewiness to it. Though when I read the recaps and comments, I am pretty happy that I stuck with the show because of Lee Dong Wook and Jung Ryeo Won because they were great. Especially for Lee Dong Wook since he needed this role to get him back into his groove. He's done so well with the role.
Anyway, the show is interesting because it showed characters that we can relate with and it was what drew me in. I do feel bad for the second leads because it looked like they were an afterthought as the show went on (along with the radio station). Honestly, I thought they would have more interactions with the leads ... But I saw less and less of them. I was hoping to see more Lee Jong Hyuk because I thought he has a comedic tone, but I barely saw him. Hope to see him in a comedic role because he can be funny.
Lol, I'm already putting comments like this is the last episode.
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12 yumii
December 19, 2015 at 12:41 PM
Wow.
I can't believe the series got such low rating.
I have been finding it wonderfully satisfying especially the way it treats community.
It just highlight how important community is when dealing with longterm chronic debilitation incurable illness.
loved the series.
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13 Jennifer
December 20, 2015 at 6:15 AM
just having Jung ryeo won in dis drama made it perfect and yes its bubblegum so I actually loved d childishness of it. I loved episode 15 so much.
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