Early Access: Scripting Your Destiny E7

E7. Ooh, our story is taking an epic turn that I hadn't seen coming, for some reason. Given that I've watched many dramas where characters are given destined lovelines that involve childhood connections and maybe even a fate that spans millennia, I'm really quite surprised that I somehow didn't sense this show was going to go that route. I guess that's credit to Show, for playing its cards well?

I realize that Show does a good job of planting little seedlings of detail that later actually work to support the larger story. That's pretty cool. Like the way Che Kyung puzzles over Ho Yoon's name, then realizes that she'd heard Myung call out to him before. I thought nothing of that detail, since Myung's always hanging around Ho Yoon, but later, it becomes clear that this memory that Che Kyung has, is a flashback to when she and Ho Yoon had been schoolmates. Dun dun dun. The plot thickens, because Ho Yoon has no memory of ever going to school.

Now it's starting to look like Ho Yoon had once been a god who had been eliminated, which is why he has no memory of ever going to school. And it would seem, by drama logic, that he's the god that Hyun Joon had spoken of to Samshin, who had developed some kind of emotion towards a human and had saved that person, and the person he had saved, was Che Kyung. I'm sure that's also related to the reason she had to change her name.

What this all means, I think, is that Ho Yoon's destined to develop feelings for Che Kyung, even when he has no memory of her. That idea, that your heart remembers even when your head doesn't, is quite a touching one; no wonder it's been the hallmark of more than a few kdramas.

This epic destiny is taking shape nicely for me, I have to say. Even though this is a short format story, the destiny is landing with a nice amount of emotional heft to my eyes, compared to other short format shows that have attempted similar, like Must You Go?.

The telling of the story is working quite nicely for me too. The current day events are generally treated with a light touch, and is mostly at least mildly amusing - like Samshin's little heart flutters with the high school boy who thinks he's her oppa - and then, Show introduces a more epic layer of destiny to mesh together for contrast.

I'm quite intrigued to see where Show is going with this story. Is Ho Yoon going to just keep developing feelings for Che Kyung with every chance he's given to be a god of destiny? Will Che Kyung really die in an accident, now that he's written it in her destiny? Or will he save her again - thus setting off another cycle of elimination.. only to come back and be drawn into seeking a connection with her again?