5 yrs and 3 kids later
Jan. 19th, 2011 10:24 pm
Secret Garden 19-20! Joo-won's personal secretary didn't really stand out as an important character at first, but he turned out to be the 2nd funniest character after Oska. I liked how Joo-won tolerated his very sarcastic ass-kissing attitude. I also enjoyed the rivalry for Oska's love, Oska is of course, very dense. In episode 19, Joo-won regains all of his memories after his mother tries one last evil lie to separate him and Ra-im. Joo-won and Ra-im marry via registration. Even though I like Ra-im and Joo-won, their make-out honeymoon scene was like other kdrama makeout scenes; weirdly unnatural. BUT it was very cute that Ra-im and Joo-won got matching sequined tracksuits.

Episode 20 was a lengthy 'and 5 years later' episode where everyone's dreams basically come true. Joo-won's mother was still ignoring them, but doted on their three kids. Overall, there were some really cute plot drivers in this show, but the show was begging for a good editor. It would have been a great 15 episode series focused on the bodyswitch rather than an awkward 20 episode series with random subplots that didn't mesh well. ~7/10 rating~ 5 points for interesting characters played by great actors, 2 points for the very cool house, minus 3 for sloppy writing and editing.