MSOAN writer, you are insane!

[dangermousie]

So, I just learned on ockoala's blog that the MSOAN replacement writer initially planned to kill Mugyul in ep 15.

!!!!!!!!!!!!

My brain just doesn't process it. MSOAN is no gangster drama or period epic but the fluffiest of all fluffy romcoms. If you tried to fill a thimble with all the angst in it, there would be space left over! In fact, it's so devoid of any credible threat that I am wracking my brain trying to figure out what on earth the cause of death would be - did Mugyul choke on his hair? Trip over his feet while at a knife factory? Suffered a brain aneurism due to insanity of the script? (the last one is most likely).

Not to mention - where would the drama go on from there? I can see some dramas pulling it off - Bad Guy would have been a much better drama if it stuck to its initial plan of killing Kim Nam Gil's character in ep 17 and spending the next 3 eps on the fall-out - but MSOAN isn't exactly BG with its large and very developed cast of characters for whom KNG is merely a catalyst.

Insane.

I have no problems with protagonists keeling over - my favorite drama, The Myth, has a horrifying 'rocks fall everyone dies' ending. But The Myth is a grim period epic which deals with morality, heroism, and choices. During the run, some truly horrifying things happen to the protagonist, another major character gets castrated, the heroine is forced to be a concubine of a monster, the end of secondary OTP made me pause the vids so I could have hysterics so badly that I had to go puke in the bathroom. A rocks-fall ending isn't particularly a shock. But here - lunacy!

I have no idea why she chose to drop it - PD, actors, her own common sense? But the fact that she thought of it in the first place - WTF!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently the actors rebelled. Amusingly, word has it that over in some Korean forums (where I do not venture) they are getting criticized as divas for this - mostly JGS - who probably is a diva but isn't insane, unlike the writers. To which I say - WTF? I mean, had they whacked MG you'd have a) wanted to find out what drugs she'd been taking and b) ducked into the nearest fallout shelter because the (small but rabid) fandom would have gone ape. Had they unleased the 3 stars on the scripts around episode 11, they probably could have come up with aces, since the thing was based on a manga, the main plot was almost prewritten.

[(Anonymous)]

oops - that was me - momosan....I hate that LiveJournal makes me be anonymous...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a divine hint to create a LJ? *pushes subtly* :P

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You are kidding - JGS may be a diva (I bet he is, what star isn't) but I am entirely on his side of the argument - he wasn't messing with a masterpiece due to ego, he was trying to save an already awful script from sheer trainwreck.

I have to say, even though the second half veered into lunacy such as rarely been seen and it sounds like it was a hellish set, I am glad I checked MSOAN out not just because I loved the chemistry between the leads, but because it led me to appreciate and like JGS and MGY, both actors about whom I was not keen before.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe the new writer saw the manhwa, because apparently Mary actually ends up with Jung In. So to get there she decides to kill Mu Gyul instead. LOL

[rectherapyfreak.livejournal.com]

That's cool that they made the drama different than the manga.
I was kinda hoping the Korean BOF would do that...

I have no clue how that would have worked out...I can't believe they thought of doing that...so glad people rebelled...worst idea ever. I was uite pleased with the ending.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OMG, you too? Please tell me you wanted Jandi and Ji Hoo together, so I won't feel as alone.

[rectherapyfreak.livejournal.com]

For the 1st half of the drama and in every other HYD version I always ship Jandi/JunPyo Tsukushi/Tsukasa, but by the 2nd half of the drama I became a Jandi/JiHoo shipper. I didn't really like the ending...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup, that was me. Always shipped D/M before but halfway through this version I swapped ships.

[cwazy-weiven.livejournal.com]

I rabidly shipped Makino with Rui during the first half of Hanadan. But by the second half Matsujun's adorably dorky Domyouji won me over completely straight into the second season, even when he was being a completely asshole.

BOF on the other hand, while Lee Minho and Oguri Shun are far superior actors compared to Kim Hyun Joong--and I say this as a huge KHJ and SS501 fan--but Jihoo was such an utter sweetheart to Jandi throughout the whole series (where Rui turned into a bit of a pushy git in the second season of Hanadan) helping her constantly without expecting anything in return, that I was hoping that Jandi would choose him instead of JunPyo (who should have sashayed arrogantly into the sunset with Jaekyung by his side).

For once a change in OTP where the secondary guy actually gets the girl would have been a welcomed change. And from what I recall, since I haven't seen BOF in a long time, Jandi never actually said to JunPyo that she loved him, so perhaps somewhere off screen she sees the error of her ways and realized that Jihoo is her actual soul mate.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I always always ship D/M - anime, manga, twdrama, jdrama. It's proof of how screwed up BOF ended up being that I switched to Jandi/Ji Hoo

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

She does? Really? Whoa.

I have no objections with a Maeri/JI story (heck, JI is basically a drama hero cliche) but the writing and the emphasis would have to be vastly different - not pulling a bizarre last minute switch.

[rectherapyfreak.livejournal.com]

I agree with this.

insanity

[(Anonymous)]

Are you sure the manhwa has completed? I thought its still ongoing? And how canit ended with JI when in almost every episode of the manhwa has MG/MR making out..in which the 2nd writer ommitted since she took over the scripted..however she still reluctantly include sweet moments between MG/MR becos there's how the manhwa was written..so how cud it be the manhwa ending with MR/JI? That wud make MR live her her love of the life to enjoy love but end up marrying wealth for stability..making MR such a shallow person...dating a hot rocker but end up marrying money...it wud be a different thing if MR has shown interest to JI as much as she is to MG from the beginning...

[cwazy-weiven.livejournal.com]

I read that on ockoala's blog as well. Looking back on the episodes the second writer started doing, it's like she was building Jung In into an actual human being to prepare us for Mugyul's unexpected demise. WTF was she thinking even considering it? I mean I thought Maeri and Mugyul the most adorable couple ever not ending up together is one thing, but it being due to Mugyul's DEATH, seriously I would have preferred if he'd ended up with Seo Joon.

But thankfully neither came to pass. I read someone's reply above where she said that people on K-boards were accusing the cast, especially JGS, of being divas. That isn't happening on the Korean boards only. I was on Omona the other day reading a post about celebs donating stuff to be auctioned for charity and one of the celebs in question happened to be JGS. The comment section consisted of 99% of the people bashing JGS, saying stuff about his being an asshole changing the ending because he was afraid of getting killed off and how much they hated it and blah blah blah like Mugyul had personally offended them and I was there like WTF is going on.

Did the writer actually think it was a good idea to alienate basically the only fanbase it has? Because by the end of the show, I'm sure the only people left watching the mess that is MSOAN are the rabid M&M shippers. What the hell writer?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I have no objection to Maeri/JI if it was written differently but the way it was written, to kill of Mugyul in ep 15 and all of a sudden hook her up wth JI is insane.