Early Access: Scripting Your Destiny E3

E3. This little show is proving to be so enjoyable and fun, that I feel like referring to it as a web drama is a bit of an injustice, now. Now I'm starting to be concerned about whether Show will be able to maintain this level of satisfaction, all the way to the end.

There are few macro ideas in force, which I think play against each other in potentially interesting ways. First, the idea that Ho Yoon doesn't understand love. It seems that the other gods don't understand love either, because, despite Myung's big claim that he's suuuper good at love stuff, none of his ideas actually work out for Ho Yoon.

Which brings me to the second thing, which is that, the gods can write whatever they want, and to the detail that they want, but they can't seem to force a human to fall in love. Even when Ho Yoon sets things up as perfectly as he possibly can, for Che Kyung to have a meet-cute with Ba Reum and fall for him, his carefully planned details are no match for Che Kyung, who dismisses each and every opportunity without more than a passing second thought. She's decided that she's not attracted to Ba Reum, somehow, and so she doesn't even think twice about brushing off a seemingly romantic meet-cute.

I also find it interesting that our humans sometimes find themselves in a particular location without seeming to have intended for it, like the way Ba Reum finds himself at the cafe with flowers in hand, when he'd actually asked for the flowers to be delivered. That reminds me of how each scene started for the comic book characters in Extraordinary You.

I'm tickled by the idea that once a god of destiny has put pen to divine paper, it can't be erased, because in our final scene this episode, Ho Yoon's careful writings, designed to have Che Kyung and Ba Reum start dating right away, is promptly deleted by coffee. Ha. So.. coffee is more powerful than the gods of destiny? Too funny. 😆

I find it an intriguing idea, that Ba Reum walks right past Ho Yoon at the hospital, without realizing that this is the god who's writing his destiny. There's a saying about not knowing when you walk among angels, and this feels like that sentiment, but amplified, since this is the god of your destiny, that you're walking past.

..Which makes Che Kyung's interactions with Ho Yoon even more pregnant with intriguing possibilities. The only reason he's even hanging around her, is because she's not cooperating with the perfect narrative that he has in his head, and she has no idea that she's interacting with the very "person" who literally has her destiny in his hands. I'm tickled by the idea that this god of destiny is going to possibly fall in love with the uncooperative human that he's trying to nudge in the direction that he wants. At this point, it's like Ho Yoon's haplessly trying to herd a cat, and I am suitably amused.

Ba Reum does seem quite interested in Che Kyung, however, and seems to be putting his familial connections to good use, in getting Arrogant Sunbae off Che Kyung's show. I also found some satisfaction in how Arrogant Sunbae quickly eats his words and becomes Docile Sunbae, on realizing that the Station Director is Ba Reum's cousin. Ha.

Now that Ho Yoon seems to be determined to be present in person, in Che Kyung's life, so that he can better direct the events in her life, there seem to be lots of opportunities for our god of destiny to learn a thing or two about love, and I am eager to see where this goes.