Early Access: Scripting Your Destiny E5

E5. Things are moving along pretty fast, but because this is a short-format show with no room for filler, the development of our story feels warranted and suitably-timed, instead of rushed. I like that.

It's an interesting perspective, that just like every writer has their own "color," so do the gods of destiny, and that accounts for the wide variety of human beings on the earth.

I rather like this idea, that every writer has their own "color" and this also ties in nicely with how Ba Reum makes the connection that Che Kyung is Yang Mi Soon, AND Go'spresso. I like this mirroring, it makes Show feel thematically robust.

This episode, Ho Yoon seems to learn the difference between a great love story as an abstract concept, and as something that you experience. From a distance, he thinks that the tragic ending to the love story that he's written for Ba Reum and Che Kyung is perfect, because not only does it remind him of Shakespearean tragedies, the experience will give Ba Reum experience with a wide range of deep-reaching feelings, that in turn will feed into his desire to be a great director. On paper, it all seems like a good idea - until Ho Yoon suddenly develops what seems to be some kind of attachment to Che Kyung, that is.

I think Show manages the growing mutual awareness between Ho Yoon and Che Kyung quite smartly. For example, we see Che Kyung continually imagining Ho Yoon as the male lead in her drama as she's writing it. That's a super efficient way to to let us know that she can't help thinking about him. And then, we see Ho Yoon's unconscious pleasure at being the first to read her screenplay for Sky Cash; a very simple but clear sign that the privilege means something to him.

Ho Yoon's growing personal investment in the destinies of the humans under his charge is also teased out efficiently, like with the way he seeks out the god of destiny in charge of Ba Reum's problematic sunbae.

The only thing that niggles at me as an inconsistency, is how Myung is able to write in Che Kyung's destiny book, even though that is now under Ho Yoon's care. But, since that kind of puts Ho Yoon in the hapless position of spending more time with Che Kyung, I'm willing to let it pass, and rationalize that perhaps as Che Kyung's original god of destiny, perhaps he has privileges.

It's quite amusing to me, that anytime Ho Yoon wants to create an opportunity to meet Che Kyung, he writes it into her destiny book. This episode, the way he keeps making her go to the store for yogurt is quite amusing to me. This guy - well, god - isn't very creative, is he? First with the love story plagiarism, and then with the recurring yogurt errands. 😆

I actually like that aside from making Che Kyung run out for errands just because he wants to talk to her, Ho Yoon is consistently honest with Che Kyung, even though the truth is outlandish and she therefore doesn't take him seriously. I don't know if there are cosmic rules that Ho Yoon is breaking in doing this, but he's very frank with her about gods of destiny and what they do in relation to humans' lives.

I also like the idea that as they walk together, Ho Yoon inevitably starts to see Che Kyung differently. Suddenly, she's no longer just a convenience love interest for his masterpiece Ba Reum. She becomes a fleshed-out person in his eyes, and I feel like that's why he suddenly realizes that he doesn't want her to die.

Now that he's blurted it out to Che Kyung, though, will she be able to avoid the destiny that he wrote - well, plagiarized, technically - for her? Or will we need another strategic coffee intervention?