WARNING: Possible verbal diarrhoea in this blog post coupled with some heavy heavy spoilers. Please don't read on if you plan to and have yet to watch Rooftop Prince. Also, if you have no idea what K-drama is, please stop reading here or else this blog post will be wasting about 3 minutes of your life.
You have been warned.
It's been about a good couple of months since I touched Rooftop Prince, I left it at episode 5 before I swanned off to watch some other things and was off K-drama for a good while and I came back to it last week and finally finished it, woohoo. Go me. Anyway, this blog post is probably going to be more of a rant rather than cooing over how cute Chi San's love for omurice is.
Sigh. Where do I begin? I really enjoyed this drama until the very end, yes, the very very end, the last episode, the final moments, the ending that is supposed to make you teary and your heart warm and fuzzy like many K-dramas do. The ending was so cheesy and at so many moments I wanted to be like *vom*, I actually hated how they had to spend 80% of the last episode wrapping things up in Joseon world. Like, nobody gives a fuck about that part of the story no more (well, maybe some of you do) - how could they end episode 19 with the prince leaving and not show what's happened to Bak Ha until an hour later into the final episode?
The Joseon part of the episode was so poorly done as well (IMO), it's like the script writers suddenly realised during episode 19 "oh shit, we haven't wrapped up what happened in Joseon and the crown princess mystery, let's cram it all into 50 minutes". The "mystery" was so predictable - oh poison powder, of course Bu Yong is going to poison herself instead and jump into the pond pretending to be her sister. If you put two and two together from the "future" it's really obvious what happens. The so-called running mystery of the drama no longer becomes a running mystery once you know enough about the characters.
I don't really remember much of the first five episodes since I watched them so long ago but I literally laughed out loud when I saw who the evil mastermind behind the poison plan was - oh duh, it just had to be the Joseon version of Tae Mu. I couldn't stop laughing at his crappy tache and beard more than anything though.
Oh em eff gee. From savvy looking businessman to weird looking ahjussi.
The worst part for me was the fight scene between the weird looking ahjussi up there and the prince. Here's a quote I plucked from another blog that pretty much sums up what my impression of this "final fight scene" encompassed.
"There is an epic battle of lameness, which seriously looked like five years olds pretending to be stunt men."
Anyway, the prince gets shot by our bearded friend and the prince is like "=O" and you guys at home are like "NO!" but surprise surprise, guess what saves him? YES, the necklace that Bak Ha gave him when they got fake married. How a flimsy necklace managed to repel a sharp arrow is completely beyond me, the necklace was the size of a 10p coin at most, he must've been one hella lucky son of a bitch for the arrow to hit the necklace or the bearded guy is just one hella unlucky son of a bitch to have hit the 0.02% of his body that isn't covered by something hard. Fate works in mysterious ways as you would have probably sussed out if you've been watching episodes of this drama continuously. Fate actually seems to defy logic in many periods through this drama but if I spoke about each one, this post would become some sort of series dissection.
Now onto the actual ending scene that lasts about 10 minutes (maybe less), that shows our selfless heroine Bak Ha back in the present time. She goes to the palace and find this note that the prince wrote for her and buried underneath some dirt and 2 rocks. Somehow, the note has survived 300 years and she takes out this crusty yellow letter and begins reading and then when he mentions her juice bar that he built for her, she all depressed like, making juice and doesn't even notice when the real Tae Yong waltzes in and orders some apple juice, and when you guys at home were watching this, holding your breaths, bracing yourself for her shocked expression at meeting the man she loved, the man that disappeared and went back to Joseon on their marriage day - not even once did she look at his face. Surely if she was so in love with this guy, she would've recognised his voice at least right? Baffled.
I digress. The final episode ends when Bak Ha finds a postcard on her shop door of another portrait of her drawn by the real Tae Yong and he asks to meet up with her again (I was secretly hoping he would get abducted and pushed off a cliff so the prince can come back LOL), so of course she meets up with him and the episodes ends with some cheesy shit like "even after 300 years have passed, I will still love you" and she holds hands with the real Tae Yong. The end. I was just wtf-ing because this Tae Yong is not the same as the prince - not the same memories, experiences whatever, I mean this dude here has spent over 3/4 of the series in a coma, bedridden, maybe he liked her from first sight in New York and they were destined or fated to fall in love anyway before the prince came along. To assume that they're the same person and for Bak Ha to look like she openly accepts this guy as the guy she fell in love with is completely nonsensical to me.
Just so I don't end this seeming like a complete hater of Rooftop Prince, I actually loved the part where those 3 idiots were making omurice in Joseon and everyone was queueing up for it and Chi San listening to music on his iPod in Joseon was too funny. Hands down Chi San was the character that made this drama especially enjoyable (minus the last episode).
Got my mum started on Queen In Hyun's man today and she goes to me "why is the main male so ugly?? I want to see dramas with hot guys in them!" Oh Mum...
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