You all realize how excited i used to be for Rooftop Prince, so it’s with a heavy coronary heart that I ought to share my first influence that episode 1 changed into by-product and lackluster. The characterizations had been painted in painfully vast and severe strokes, the narrative become choppy, and the acting became normal quite flat. The tale genuinely rings a bell in my memory of a mash up of The Moon Embraces the sun (destiny!, wrong woman becomes Crown Princess!, Prince is sad the woman he loves dies!) tossed in an reincarnation and time-journey bender. Throw in makjang contemporary drama elements of evil stepsisters and cousins vying for chaebol heir succession, I’m definitely shocked at how all of the previews just cherry picked the adorable scenes which to this point don’t combine collectively to create a compelling broader photograph.
On one hand we've amazing evil sociopathic second leads, and alternatively we’re purported to chuckle over the fish-out-of-water Joseon foursome in contemporary day Seoul. to date the juxtaposition of the two is jarring. The handiest upside is that this drama has nowhere to move but up, and i’ll stayed tuned for a few extra episodes to peer if it settles into something palatable. I desired the drama to be cute and fluffy, but to this point its bizarre and uninteresting. Episode 1 of RP premiered with ABG 9.8% nationwide, even as The King 2 Hearts got here out ahead with sixteen.2%. I sincerely like episode 1 of TK2H a great deal better, and that i’ll write about it later.
after I say episode 1 of RP upset me, I’m taking into consideration even greater than writing, acting, and directing. I concept the units and costumes have been pretty chintzy, mainly when the latest spate of sageuks like Tree with Deep Roots and The Princess’s guy had been simply superb to behold as a visual deal with. In RP, the whole lot feels tinny and slightly second hand. Don’t even get me commenced at the meant “ny town” collection, wherein they didn’t even bother to visit NYC to movie. at least the risible fashion King did, but here i was cringing on the entire collection from tale to set piece.
The musical score up to now is also rather uninspired. not anything jumps out to amp up a scene and heighten the emotion. due to the fact I experience the directing and enhancing is pedestrian and ham-passed, not having a stellar musical score makes it difficult to cover those flaws. I do have to mention that Micky Yoochun delivered a decent overall performance to date, and he’s the most effective fundamental person i like. i might even spend the drama playing the antics of his 3 lackeys who're lovely and amusing to observe. but already Han Ji Min’s individual annoys me together with her pluckiness crossed with unhappy-sack existence story.
As for the 2 second leads, I want to roast them over a hearth already. i wonder why the writers chose to jot down such EVIL and HEARTLESS and egocentric 2nd leads in place of write them as conceivable humans. The adjectives above are written in all-caps because this is exactly how over-the-top they're portrayed as. how the heck can this normal story also be compelling while there appears nothing else to be invested in aside from the primary leads falling in love and getting collectively? I desire writers could write 2nd leads no longer as plot drivers or limitations, but as normal people who generate war in an natural situational way.
sufficient with my critique, study on and spot for yourself.
dark of the night, a cat prowls on a rooftop. ought to portend a terrible omen.
Crown Prince Lee Gak wakes up and unearths he’s by myself. in which is zee wifey?
each time a crying eunuch comes to supply a message, it does no longer bode nicely.
Run, Crown Prince, run!
Oops, Crown Prince, you’re too past due. Zee wifey is floating face down within the middle of a pond in the Palace. We don’t see the lifeless Crown Princess’s face, so honestly a good way to be crucial later on.
but wait, why does the digicam all of sudden cut away to our Crown Prince, wearing modern attire, additionally floating face down in water? Does this suggest something Very vital?
reduce to scene from earlier, in which the King is determining a Crown Princess for his son.
a pair of pretty sisters. Which one will be chosen?
Daddy is sending his younger daughter, tons to the dismay and bitterness of the older one. See her face? this is apparently the face of natural and unadulterated EVIL.
more youthful daughter is adorable, and clearly of the harmless, type, and candy temperament variety, whether in her Joseon or present day era incarnation. in reality she’s too lovable so she ought to suffer (with a capital S) first earlier than she will have her happily ever after together with her prince fascinating.
nowa days, these girls are about to grow to be a mixed circle of relatives, with their parents getting hitched. The older one does not appearance glad inside the slightest. She appears incapable of showing any emotion other than disgruntled scheming petulance.
turns out older sister is sneaky, devious, and sociopathic, always finding methods to set up little sister to get in problem.
in the end older sister just decides “to heck with it” and shall we little sister get carted off in the again of a transport vehicles. Like, significantly? i might ought to beat older sister senseless if I ever get my fingers on her.
but wait, the current incarnation of older sister is sincerely kinder than the Joseon-era one, if that changed into even possible.
The Joseon-technology older sister “accidentally” trips and presses a crimson warm poker iron on little sister’s face. Double whoops. Oh properly, now little sister is facially scarred for lifestyles, and older sister receives to take her vicinity as Crown Princess. Older sister is the Korean drama equal of The awful Seed.
Little sister, wearing a face veil, cries as she watches the Crown Prince marry her sister. not anything to cry approximately, woman, he doesn’t seem the brightest bulb in the deck up to now.
anyone has grown up now, and little sister nonetheless wears a veil and looks to don't have any lifestyles except for tagging along with the Crown Prince and Crown Princess. The Crown Prince seems to love his spouse very a great deal, so simply her evil best extends to maiming her very own sister.
Crown Prince doesn’t accept as true with his Crown Princess tripped throughout an early morning stroll and drowned inside the pond. He’s going to get to the lowest of this tragedy!
A butterfly of fate hovers over the Crown Prince, and then flies off……… reputedly throughout time and distance, landing in NYC of the 21st century.
cutting-edge incarnation of Crown Prince is a budding artist, who likes sitting in bustling NYC and sketching. His hobby is interested in the smiling, plucky fruit supplier. (critically? She sells fruit? inside the center of what is supposed to be times square? manhattan would possibly have conniptions). The butterfly of destiny, which wandered over to the set of Rooftop Prince from the set of MoonSun, flutters around the OTP. next time I higher see something distinct. like the buffalo of fate, or the tarantula of destiny. Cuz if I see this butterfly one extra time, imma gonna squash it.
A Caucasian and an African-American toddler steals fruit from our plucky Korean fruit-vendor. apparently there have to be a fixed of politically accurate teens gambling fruit thieves. that is additionally hilarious because the kids stole FRUIT. in the States in recent times, you could’t even pay children to consume fruit. Now if she were promoting baggage of Oreos and Doritos, then it'd be greater plausible. Anyhoo, nobody messes with this agasshi. She tosses an apple on the delinquents, which knocks our modern prince over instead.
Plucky fruitseller, named Park Ha, goes to peer if her terrible unintentional apple victim is pleasant. The cousin of said victim additionally arrives to help, his name is Yong Tae Moo.
Cousin and modern version of Prince, named Tae younger, receives along, however cousin is the extreme business guy kind who is wholeheartedly devoted to the own family enterprise, whilst Prince simply desires to draw and live his life as he needs.
Park Ha, who got misplaced after her step-sister left her inside the again of a transport truck, come what may finally ends up in the States. She gets a call that her father has been located again in Korea. She luckily heads returned to her fatherland.
Cousin and Prince move sailing. A own family enterprise name is available in and Prince refuses to take it, insisting he could care less approximately it. Cousin receives dissatisfied with Prince’s entitled attitude and punches him. Prince hits his head after which falls overboard. Cousin is stunned, however turns homicidal but comes to a decision now not to rescue Prince and to cover it up. accurate one, all of sudden evil cousin.
Cousin Tae Moo and Park Ha are on the identical flight again to Korea. Of route they may be, the laws of k-dramas dictate it.
So apparently cousin Tae Moo knows and likes evil older sister Se Na. who is the reincarnation of evil older sister Crown Princess. reputedly evil passes thru generations and reincarnations..
Chairman Grandma is informed that her valuable grandson/inheritor obvious is missing. Tae Moo with no trouble forgets to mention he turned into the cause.
Park Ha returns to Korea to arrive just in time for her daddy’s funeral. Cuz girlfriend can’t have any happiness or proper luck in her lifestyles. She cries, and evil sister Se Na maintains to look unrepentant and loathsome.
returned to sad Joseon we pass, wherein Crown Prince refuses to accept that his wifey died through “accident”. he will move CSI on absolutely everyone and inspect himself!
He begins with the aid of gathering his crack crew. there's first rate scientist pupil track man Bo (cutie pie Lee Min Ho), convicted warrior criminal grew to become bodyguard Woo younger Soo (Jung Suk received), and gender-bending eunuch Do Chi San (Choi Woo Sik). quality to see all of the stereotypes being represented.
With the wind device blowing, the fearless crime-fixing foursome walk to nowhere specially. The visual effect of this scene changed into surely lessened through none of them having manes of glory to whip round their faces all slo-mo like.
throughout a midnight research, they are pursued through unknown assailants and must flee for his or her lives. They emerge as driving their horses to the edge of a cliff and taking a flying bounce, right over the moon. i am hoping no one runs into the cow up there.
anybody is understandably freaked out. See their greater excessive freaked out faces!
especially our intrepid Crown Prince. Betcha he’s wishing he just established the accidental drowning story and left it at that.
So after crying for her lifeless daddy, Park Ha has decided to reunite with her step-mom and step-sister, as though anything precise will come out of it. She’s additionally long gone from selling fruit in big apple to turning into a fishmonger in Seoul. proper to look she’s operating her manner up the grocery chain.
los angeles la la, Park Ha comes home after a tough day’s paintings to her rooftop condominium. Oops, she’s no longer alone! a few crazy dudes sporting Joseon attire is sitting in her living room.
Operation: defend the Crown Prince commences!
It’s a plucky fishmonger female with a frying pan vs. a quartet of Joseon-era time-travelers. Who will emerge positive? handiest episode 2 will tell.
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