Longing Heart (2018)

Disliked the romance, sort of liked the time travel

This isn't a drama which I would normally start but my sister wanted to watch it. She dropped it two episodes in btw, but because I suffer from never drop disease, I put it on 2x speed as I was determined to finish after it was rotting in my On Hold list for over a year.

I'm not saying that it was a bad drama but it just wasn't for me. The whole teacher-student relationship was weird especially since the FL was just 16-17 year-old while having such a big crush on the teacher, who was 10 years her elder. She was very clingy towards him, even gifting him a shirt on his birthday and when the two of them got trapped together in school overnight, she pretended to not have her phone just so she could stay with him. Welp, at least the teacher wanted to set her up with his younger self. That was basically the plot of the first five episodes, after that it got a bit better since the ML got back to present and his younger self traveled with him too.

Then it got more interesting, I liked how the ML at the end had so many different memories of the past because it was like he lived all of them, but each was different a bit when it came to the terms where he and the FL met. However, I would prefer for the time-travel to be explained a little bit more.

Overall a 7/10 rating, not really memorable and there were some things bugging me.

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Well done show. I really enjoyed it. "Longing Heart" was sweet, cute and innocent time-travel drama. It made me think about the future and how my choices can affect it. Even though is not the best drama I've seen, it was a nice to go back to 2007 were Girl's Generation was just getting started and flip phones were a thing.

Acting / Cast: The actors did well, this isn't an acting masterpiece but it was good. Lee Jung-Shin was the person that stood out the most for me, I really liked his acting and how he portrayed adult Shin-Woo with is the mix between a very adult person who still had something of a child inside. Seo Ji-Hoon also did a great job even though the writers sometimes made his character look like a little kid even though he was almost eighteen. Lee Yeol-Eum was also good, but I found her character a bit lame and annoying at times, but I think that was more about the writing than about the acting. The rest of the cast was also very good and did great supporting the main cast!

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This Drama was badged "OCN Romance", a nice reminder that OCN doesn't really focus on romance Dramas. It kinda showed. The story itself was pleasant, but the strongest moments for the OTP(s) were the sad moments. They were the sceness that made me feel most strongly.

Part of that was the overly-elaborate time travel recursion. I have absolutely no problem with shows that don't bother trying to come up with an explanation for time travel, because there isn't one. As the Doctor said, it's all just "wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey stuff", so Dramas can cook up whatever explanation they like, or none at all, which is how this Drama handled it. But I think the writers got a bit carried away the idea of Inception-style layers upon layers, like a Matryoshka doll version of the Matrix. The intricacies took some of the gloss off the OTP and made it easier to focus on and cheer for the single-timeline stories. The boy who became a celebrity so that his crush could call him Oppa was my favourite of those.

Overall, by no means an awful Drama, and it did have the virtue of being short, total runtime well short of 9 hours. I've definitely sat through much worse.

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She never loved shin woo (student) and still doesn't love him

ji soo never loved shin woo because of the time travel, she fall in love with man that help her jump school wall and it was teacher shin woo, and after that she meet shin woo student one after 10years when he look like her teacher shin woo so , its teacher that she loved not student
Student shin woo never get ji soo love him , in past it was teacher and in future it was also because he look like there teacher

This is best example how he himself destroyed his life now even if he end up with her he would always feel inferior in front of her knowing that she is with him because he look like her teacher that she did not know is same person,
in her heart they are two different person,

most pitiful is student shin woo that never receive love from ji soo

shin woo has first and only love ji soo but she has her first love has teacher shin woo not the student one

and he failed to save his mothers life but was success in saving ji Soo, so mother has already given him birth that she is useless but Ji soo worth....
before time travel she liked shin woo student , he himself changed ji soo first love from himself to a teacher that never existed in reality

And Ji Soo feel love for teacher kang shin woo and guilt toward student Kang shin woo
so she should not end up with any of them.
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