After finishing watching The Greatest Love within two days, I felt dizzy and needed desperately a good rest. And what else can serve this purpose better than revisiting My Girl?
This is a rather different copy of My Girl from the one I watched nearly half a year ago. To my relief, no more jumps of scenes, and the subtitles are of a completely different league than the previous one.
In my first round of viewing, I thought Lee Dong-wook was too woody and it wasn't until the last three episodes that he seemed to wake up and became more like a man. This time round though, I found him not only one of the most handsome Korean men, but his acting rather subtle and appropriate to his character. Why such change? Not sure if it has anything to do repeated reviewing and his tango dances in Scent of Woman. I continue to find Lee Dahae very charming and versatile, and in comparison, her part in East of Eden not well developed.
Those scenes I used to skip, such as those romance between Lee Dong-wook's character's aunt and his grandfather's caretaker; those between Lee and his first love's relationship, the scenes that evolves around Lee's grandfather, and these of Lee Dahae's character's best friends, no longer feel like fillers. To me, while some of them are drama devices to make the story more convincing, some add fresh sides to the lead couple, and some, are simply there as gags to lift up the tone.
The magic is I caught myself laughing at the jokes all the time.
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