Big Ass Moon
Germany
I dropped this after an episode or two, so this is less of a review and more of a "why I dropped this" type of commentary.
Right off the bat his drama fell into several of my all time most disliked tropes, which is the main reason I didn't bother continuing eventhough I'm really interested in topics of plastic surgery and beauty and I was curious to see Cha Eun Woo act.
I'll number this for your convenience:
1) First of all, the main character was painfully shy and insecure. She could barely talk to her classmates, eventhough they were nothing but encouraging and appreciative of her (so far at least). That's because the main character, Kang Mirae, had been bullied throughout middle and high school because of her looks. So far so good, that makes sense. What doesn't make sense was that she, after a bit of initial hesitation has no problem putting on a dance show in front of her newly minted peers during uni orientation? She was selected as the representative of her group in a talent show and (after a pep talk from her best friend over the phone) just went up there and bodied that assignment. Like??? Just a second ago she could barely look the others in her group in the face. This dance sequence came so out of nowhere for me that I thought it was a dream sequence at first, á la "if I was brave enough this is how I'd impress them..." but it wasn't. It actually happened and then she went back to being shy and insecure. Very jarring.
2) Secondly, there was a lot of talk about beauty and judginess surrounding beauty, esp since Kang Mirae (the MC) has had plastic surgery herself between finishing high school and starting university. She is obsessed with looks and analyzes other women's faces and gives them grades in her head. I thought this was really interesting, it makes a lot of sense for her character, since she is very insecure. What I thought was really over the top was that all her new peers at uni seemed to be just as obsessed with beauty as her. I felt like every second sentence in this show was either "You're so pretty!" or "I'm not pretty enough." or "Have you seen that pretty girl over there?" It just was a bit much for me. I know that SK is a bit more straight forward about expressing their opinion on other ppl's looks, but to me it felt excessive and I was very quickly annoyed by this.
3) Bullying. That's a personal thing, but I just don't really like seeing people get bullied. I know it's a common thing for children and teens to experience and there's nothing wrong with depicting that experience in fiction. I personally just don't like seeing it, bc the bullying is always the same and the characters always react in the same way to it. Directors/writers rarely use this plot point to tell anything unique or interesting. It was the same here.
That's it!
Right off the bat his drama fell into several of my all time most disliked tropes, which is the main reason I didn't bother continuing eventhough I'm really interested in topics of plastic surgery and beauty and I was curious to see Cha Eun Woo act.
I'll number this for your convenience:
1) First of all, the main character was painfully shy and insecure. She could barely talk to her classmates, eventhough they were nothing but encouraging and appreciative of her (so far at least). That's because the main character, Kang Mirae, had been bullied throughout middle and high school because of her looks. So far so good, that makes sense. What doesn't make sense was that she, after a bit of initial hesitation has no problem putting on a dance show in front of her newly minted peers during uni orientation? She was selected as the representative of her group in a talent show and (after a pep talk from her best friend over the phone) just went up there and bodied that assignment. Like??? Just a second ago she could barely look the others in her group in the face. This dance sequence came so out of nowhere for me that I thought it was a dream sequence at first, á la "if I was brave enough this is how I'd impress them..." but it wasn't. It actually happened and then she went back to being shy and insecure. Very jarring.
2) Secondly, there was a lot of talk about beauty and judginess surrounding beauty, esp since Kang Mirae (the MC) has had plastic surgery herself between finishing high school and starting university. She is obsessed with looks and analyzes other women's faces and gives them grades in her head. I thought this was really interesting, it makes a lot of sense for her character, since she is very insecure. What I thought was really over the top was that all her new peers at uni seemed to be just as obsessed with beauty as her. I felt like every second sentence in this show was either "You're so pretty!" or "I'm not pretty enough." or "Have you seen that pretty girl over there?" It just was a bit much for me. I know that SK is a bit more straight forward about expressing their opinion on other ppl's looks, but to me it felt excessive and I was very quickly annoyed by this.
3) Bullying. That's a personal thing, but I just don't really like seeing people get bullied. I know it's a common thing for children and teens to experience and there's nothing wrong with depicting that experience in fiction. I personally just don't like seeing it, bc the bullying is always the same and the characters always react in the same way to it. Directors/writers rarely use this plot point to tell anything unique or interesting. It was the same here.
That's it!
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